Andrea Tornielli

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Andrea Tornielli

Andrea Tornielli (born in Chioggia on March 19, 1964 ) is an Italian ecclesiastical journalist and writer . He belongs to the Roman Catholic movement Comunione e Liberazione (CL) and has been the papal media director responsible for coordinating the content of all media in the Vatican since the beginning of 2019.

Life

After completing his studies in Ancient Greek Philology at the University of Padua in December 1987, Tornielli became a journalist. He worked for the Catholic weekly newspaper Il Sabato, which was discontinued in 1993, and wrote from 1992 to 1996 for the six-language Catholic monthly magazine 30 Giorni run by Giulio Andreotti . From 1996 to 2011 he was Vatican correspondent for the conservative daily Il Giornale . He has also worked with other Catholic newspapers such as the popular apologetics magazine Il Timone , founded by Gianpaolo Barra in 1999 , and featured a monthly column on Radio Maria .

In March 2011 he became the Vatican correspondent for the Turin newspaper La Stampa . He coordinated their five-language online newspaper Vatican Insider , which deals entirely with issues relating to the Roman Catholic Church and the Holy See and, under Tornielli's direction, has become one of the most influential Roman media for international reporting on the Vatican.

In December 2018 Andrea Tornielli was appointed by Pope Francis as director of all media in the Vatican, who within the dicastery for communication as the publishing director and closest collaborator of the Prefect Paolo Ruffini determines the journalistic line of the Vatican media, including those under the new direction of Andrea Monda continued Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano , the Vatican news portal Vatican News (formerly Radio Vatican ), the television station Vatican Media (formerly Centro Televisivo Vaticano ) and the Vatican publishing house Libreria Editrice Vaticana .

Tornielli has published numerous books, most of which deal with religious and ecclesiastical subjects, and have been translated into various languages. Above all, he wrote biographies and individual reflections on Popes Pius XII. , John XXIII. , John Paul II and Benedict XVI. as well as other personalities of recent church history, as well as apologetic books on popular or controversial topics such as Dan Brown's scandalous thriller The Da Vinci Code , the supposedly blood-weeping Madonna of Civitavecchia or the authenticity of the wounds of the Italian Capuchin Pio of Pietrelcina, who was canonized in 2002 .

Andrea Tornielli is counted together with Stefania Falasca and Lucio Brunelli to the "Roman core" of the CL, whose members all come from the group of employees of the magazine 30 Giorni, which was discontinued in 2017 and who are said to be particularly close to Pope Francis today. Tornielli himself is described as Jorge Bergoglio's close friend.

Tornielli is married and has three children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Intervistati: Andrea Tornielli. In: ilsussidiario.net , June 4, 2008, accessed July 20, 2019 (Italian).
  2. ^ A b c Roland Juchem: Pope Francis is filling important posts. In: Domradio , December 20, 2018, accessed on July 20, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Oliver Meiler: “There is a battle for power going on”. In: Der Bund , December 27, 2018, accessed on July 20, 2019.
  4. ^ Antonio Gaspari: Tra entusiasmo e polemiche esposte le spoglie di padre Pio. In: Zenit , April 24, 2008, accessed on July 20, 2019 (interview with Tornielli about his book Padre Pio: l'ultimo sospetto , Italian).
  5. ^ Sandro Magister: A questo papa CL non piace. Ma con sei eccezioni. In: L'Espresso , March 10, 2015, accessed July 20, 2019 (Italian).
  6. ↑ Catholic combat journalism. In: Die Tagespost , October 18, 2017, accessed on July 20, 2019.

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SURNAME Tornielli, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Chioggia