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DICASTERY FOR COMMUNICATION
Dicasterium pro Communicatione
On 27 June 2015 Pope Francis established the Secretariat for Communication in
his
Apostolic Letter issued Motu Proprio on the current context of
communications. The new Dicastery of the Roman Curia has the task of the overall
restructuring, reorganization and consolidation of "all of the realities which,
in various ways up to the present have dealt with communications" in order to
"respond ever better to the needs of the mission of the Church". In this light
the Holy See's communications system is being reevaluated.
Through this restructuring the Apostolic See can refer to the Secretariat as the
single point of reference for communication, which has become increasingly
complex and interdependent, reflecting the current media reality.
The entities involved include the:
- Vatican Television Center
- Vatican Publishing House
- L'Osservatore Romano
- Pontifical Council for Social Communications
- Vatican Radio
- Holy See Press Office
- Photographic Service
- Vatican Internet Service
- Vatican Printing Press
The entities above will be merged according to an established calendar and, in
the meantime, continue to carry out their own activities now under the
direction of the Secretariat for Communication.
In his
Motu Proprio, the Holy Father also noted that, in agreement with the
Secretariat of State, the new Dicastery assumes responsibility for the Holy
See’s institutional website: www.vatican.va, and the Twitter service of the
Supreme Pontiff: @pontifex.
(Annuario Pontificio 2016)
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Following the release on 27 June 2015 of his Apostolic Letter issued
Motu Proprio on "The current context of communications" in which he established the Secretariat for Communication, the Holy Father
made the following appointments (published in the Holy See Press Bulletins of
27 June 2015,
9 February 2016,
21 December 2015,
11 July 2016,
13 July 2016,
12 April 2017 and
21
March 2018):
Members of the Secretariat for Communication
- Cardinal Béchara Boutros Raï, Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Lebanon;
- Cardinal John Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi, Kenya;
- Cardinal Chibly Langlios, Bishop of Les Cayes, Haiti;
- Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar;
- Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches;
- Cardinal Beniamino Stella, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy;
- Cardinal Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda, Archbishop of Osaka (Japan);
- Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, Ireland;
- Archbishop Gintaras Grušas of Vilnius, Lithuania;
- Bishop Marcello Semeraro of Albano, Italy;
- Bishop Stanislas Lalanne of Pontoise, France;
- Bishop Pierre Nguyên Văn Kham of My Tho, Vietnam;
- Bishop Ginés Ramón García Beltrán of Guadix, Spain;
- Bishop Nuno Brás da Silva Martins, Auxiliary of Lisbon, Portugal;
- Dr. Kim Daniels, Advisor to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on
the Ad Hoc Commission on Religious Freedom;
- Dr. Markus Schächter, Professor of Ethics in Mass Media and Society at the
Munich School of Philosophy (Jesuit university) in Munich, Germany;
- and Dr. Leticia Soberón Mainero, psychologist and expert in communication,
formerly a Consultor to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications (Mexico
and Spain).
Superiors of the Secretariat for Communication
- Prefect, Dr. Paolo Ruffini
- Secretary, Msgr. Lucio Adrian Ruiz
- Assessor, Msgr. Dario
Edoardo Viganò
- Director General, Dr. Paolo Nusiner
- Vice Director General, Dr. Giacomo Ghisani
- Editorial Office, Dr. Andrea Tornielli
- Director, Holy See Press Office, ad interim Dr.
Alessandro Gisotti
- Vice Director, Holy See Press Office, ...
- Director, Technological Department, Dr. Francesco Masci
- Director, Theological-Pastoral Department, Prof. Nataša Govekar
Consulters of the Secretariat for
Communication The Holy Father
has
appointed as Consulters of the Secretariat for
Communication the Rev. Fr. Ivan Maffeis,
under-secretary for the Italian Episcopal
Conference; Fr. José María La Porte, dean of the
Faculty of Institutional Social Communication of
the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross; Dr.
Peter Gonsalves, S.D.B., dean of the Faculty of
Social Communication Sciences of the Pontifical
Salesian University; Fr. Eric Salobir, O.P.,
Promoter General for social communications for
the Order of Preachers; Fr. James Martin, S.J.,
Jesuit Magazine America; Fr. Jacquineau Azétsop,
S.J., dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of
the Pontifical Gregorian University; and Dr.
Paolo Peverini, lecturer in Semiotics at the
LUISS “Guido Carli”; Dr. Fernando Giménez
Barriocanal, president and delegator advisor of
Radio Popolar Cadena COPE; Dr. Ann Carter, Rasky
Baerlein Strategic Communications; Mr. Graham
Ellis, deputy director of BBC Radio; Dr. Michael
P. Warsaw, Chairman of the Board and Chief
Executive Officer of EWTN Global Catholic
Network; Dr. Dino Cataldo Dell'Accio, Chief ICT
Auditor at the United Nations; and Dr. Michael
Paul Unland, executive director of the Catholic
Media Council (CA.ME.CO.).
Secretariat for Communication Via della Conciliazione, 5
00120 Città del Vaticano
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