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The Dicastery for Communication (Latin: Dicasterium pro Communicatione, Italian: Dicastero per la Comunicazione) is a department (dicastery) of the Roman Curia with authority over all communication offices of the Holy See and the Vatican City State. Its various offices can be accessed through its website.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

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The Dicastery for Communication (Latin: Dicasterium pro Communicatione, Italian: Dicastero per la Comunicazione) is a department (dicastery) of the Roman Curia with authority over all communication offices of the Holy See and the Vatican City State. Its various offices can be accessed through its website. These are the Pope's website and other offices such as Vatican News on the internet (including the former Vatican Media Center that distributes segments for television), the Holy See Press Office, L'Osservatore Romano newspaper, the Photograph Service, Vatican Radio, Vatican Press, and the Vatican Publishing House. The Pontifical Council for Social Communications has been subsumed into this new dicastery.2

The story

Pope Francis established the Secretariat for Communication in June 2015, with Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, former director of the Vatican Television Center, as its first prefect. Viganò resigned on 21 March 2018, "a week after his mishandling of a letter from retired Pope Benedict XVI provoked a global outcry".

On 23 June 2018, the secretariat was renamed as the Dicastery for Communication, and on 5 July 2018, Pope Francis appointed award-winning lay journalist Paolo Ruffini as prefect. He was the first layman named to head a Vatican dicastery. Ruffini also chairs the Commission for Information of the Sixteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.

Monsignor Lucio Adrian Ruiz, former head of the Vatican Internet Service, is Secretary of the Dicastery and Paul Nusiner, former General Manager of Avvenire, is Director General.

On 2 June 2026, Pope Leo XIV appointed Montse Alvarado, President and COO of EWTN News, as Prefect effective 1 November 2026. This made her the first woman to be the head of this Dicastery, and the first non-religious woman appointed Prefect of any dicastery of the Holy See.

From Wikipedia’s article on Vatican Press, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

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