Vatican Media: What Has Changed?

Sandro Magister points out (December 3) that Pope Francis’ recent changes in Vatican Communications shifts power from Cardinal Parolin’s Secretary of State to Francis' personal entourage.

The changes regard the sudden resignation of the two Vatican press speakers, the replacement of Giovanni Maria Vian as editor of L’Osservatore Romano and the appointment of Andrea Tornielli as editorial director of the Communications dicastery.

Vian and the press speakers were working under the close control of the Secretary of State.

Vian’s successor, Andrea Monda, is a partisan of Father Antonio Spadaro, Francis' spin doctor. Spadaro and Tornielli are blind defenders of whatever Francis does and says.

Vatican communications are now more firmly than ever in the hands of Francis’ "stalwarts", Magister adds.

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