Dicastery for Communication

Basic data
Surname:	Dicasterium for Communication (Dicastero per la Communicazione, Dicasterium pro Communicatione)
Seat:	Palazzo Pio Piazza Pia, 3 00120 Città del Vaticano
Prefect:	Paolo Ruffini (since July 5, 2018)
Secretary:	Lucio Adrian Ruiz (since June 27, 2015)
General Director:	Paolo Nusiner (since June 27, 2015)
Vice General Director:	Giacomo Ghisani (since June 27, 2015)

The Dicasterium for Communication ( Italian: Dicastero per la Communicazione ; Latin Dicasterium pro Communicatione ) is a dicastery of the Roman Curia with authority over the entire public relations work of the Holy See and the Vatican City .

history

Pope Francis ordered the establishment as a secretariat on June 27, 2015 with the Motu proprio L'attuale contesto comunicativo . The dicastery is headed by a prefect. The Pope appointed the former head of the Centro Televisivo Vaticano (CTV), Dario Edoardo Viganò, as the first prefect . After the State Secretariat and the Economic Secretariat, the communications secretariat was initially set up as the third authority called the Secretariat .

On March 19, 2018, Prefect Viganò asked the Pope to relinquish his position as Prefect of the Communications Secretariat, which the Pope accepted two days later. This was preceded by severe criticism of Viganò's selective publication of a letter from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. on the occasion of the presentation of a series of books on the theology of his successor.

On June 23, 2018, the decision of the Pope made on February 27, 2018 "after hearing the Cardinal Council" was announced that the secretariat is now called the "Dicastery for Communication". With Paolo Ruffini , the first prefect of a curia authority who is not a priest was installed.

tasks

Dario Viganò, first prefect of the communications secretariat

The tasks and functioning of the Secretariat are described in the statute issued by Pope Francis on September 6, 2016.

The Secretariat coordinates the activities of all the Curia’s institutions that are responsible for public communication and the use of the various media. All these institutions continue to carry out their activities independently, but should coordinate these with one another through the secretariat. The institutions concerned are:

Pontifical Council for Social Communications
Press Office of the Holy See
Vatican Radio
Vatican television center
L'Osservatore Romano
Libreria Editrice Vaticana
Vatican printing house
Holy See Internet Service
Photo service

Members

Like the prefect and the secretary of the communications secretariat, according to the statute, its members are also appointed by the Pope for a five-year term. On July 13, 2016, the Pope appointed the first members of the new dicastery:

Cardinals

Archbishops

Bishops

Lay people

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Nomine nella Segreteria per la Comunicazione. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , June 27, 2015, accessed April 10, 2018 (Italian).
↑ ^a ^b Lettera Apostolica in forma di 'Motu proprio' del Sommo Pontefice Francesco per l'Istituzione della Segreteria per la Comunicazione. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, June 27, 2015, accessed June 28, 2015 (Italian).
↑ Dichiarazione del Direttore della Sala Stampa, Greg Burke. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, March 21, 2018, accessed March 21, 2018 (Italian).
↑ Christine Seuss, Gudrun Sailer: Vatican: Media chief resigns . Ed .: Vatican News. March 21, 2018 ( vaticannews.va [accessed March 21, 2018]).
↑ Rescriptum ex audientia Ss.mi: Rescritto del Santo Padre con il quale ha deciso che la Segreteria per la Comunicazione d'ora si chiami in poi "dicastero per la Comunicazione". In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, June 23, 2018, accessed June 24, 2018 (Italian).
^ The Pope for the first time appoints laypeople to head a curia authority. Catholic Press Agency KATHPRESS, July 7, 2018, accessed July 7, 2018 .
^ ^A ^b Statuto della Segreteria per la Comunicazione. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , September 22, 2016, accessed September 22, 2016 (Italian).
^ Nomina di Membri della Segreteria per la Comunicazione. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, July 13, 2016, accessed July 13, 2016 (Italian).
^ Nuovi Membri dei Dicasteri della Curia Romana. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, October 6, 2018, accessed October 9, 2018 (Italian).

[Sekretariat-1] Nomine nella Segreteria per la Comunicazione. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , June 27, 2015, accessed April 10, 2018 (Italian).

[Motuproprio-2] Lettera Apostolica in forma di 'Motu proprio' del Sommo Pontefice Francesco per l'Istituzione della Segreteria per la Comunicazione. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, June 27, 2015, accessed June 28, 2015 (Italian).

[3] Dichiarazione del Direttore della Sala Stampa, Greg Burke. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, March 21, 2018, accessed March 21, 2018 (Italian).

[4] Christine Seuss, Gudrun Sailer: Vatican: Media chief resigns . Ed .: Vatican News. March 21, 2018 ( vaticannews.va [accessed March 21, 2018]).

[5] Rescriptum ex audientia Ss.mi: Rescritto del Santo Padre con il quale ha deciso che la Segreteria per la Comunicazione d'ora si chiami in poi "dicastero per la Comunicazione". In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, June 23, 2018, accessed June 24, 2018 (Italian).

[6] The Pope for the first time appoints laypeople to head a curia authority. Catholic Press Agency KATHPRESS, July 7, 2018, accessed July 7, 2018 .

[Statut-7] A ^b Statuto della Segreteria per la Comunicazione. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , September 22, 2016, accessed September 22, 2016 (Italian).

[8] Nomina di Membri della Segreteria per la Comunicazione. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, July 13, 2016, accessed July 13, 2016 (Italian).

[9] Nuovi Membri dei Dicasteri della Curia Romana. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, October 6, 2018, accessed October 9, 2018 (Italian).