Vatican Radio

Vatican News to launch news program, podcast in Latin
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- Jun 6, 2019
A weekly news program about the pope and the Vatican will now be offered in Latin, the official language of the Holy See.
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How to know if reform in the Vatican Press Office is real
- News Analysis
- Jan 12, 2019
Simply shuffling personnel in and out of the Vatican Press Office doesn’t herald real reform in how the Vatican engages the media.
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Global outcry saves Latin news show broadcast from Finland
- Associated Press, Global Church
- Dec 29, 2017
By broadcasting radio news in Latin, “Finland has done something that had earlier been experimented with only in the Vatican in the 1930s,” wrote Latin professors Christian Laes from the University of Antwerp and Dirk Sacre from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium in an op-ed article published recently in Finland’s leading daily, Helsingin Sanomat.
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For new Catholic radio in Kenya, ‘evangelization’ covers a lot of ground
- Crux in Kenya, Global Church
- Dec 7, 2017
A new Catholic radio station in Mombasa, Kenya, often a hot-spot for Muslim/Christian conflict, has an expansive understanding of “evangelization.” Its audacious aim is nothing less than changing the world, or at least their piece of it.
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New Vatican communications portal due by end of year
- Vatican
- Aug 15, 2017
Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, Prefect of the Secretariat for Communication, says a new web portal bringing together all the different media offices of the Vatican will be focused on “communicating the pope, his magisterium, his gestures, [and] the work of the Roman dicasteries to the Church around the world.”
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Why it may take “a little violence” to fix Vatican communications
- Commentary, Vatican
- May 5, 2017
Pope Francis is calling on the new Vatican communications office to form a “great team” to respond better to the new challenges of communication that today’s culture poses. Yet the reform of Vatican media is going slower than planned, and is being found more difficult to pull off than expected.
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