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by Sandro Magister
ROME, July 21, 2015 – Rather than a streamlining of the curia, what is happening inside the Vatican walls is the opposite. It is a continual addition of new organisms to the existing ones.
The latest to be born, on June 27, was a secretariat for communication set up to oversee the pontifical council for social communications, the press office of the Holy See, the Vatican internet service, Vatican Radio, the Vatican Television Center, L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican print shop, the photographic service, the Libreria Editrice Vaticana.
As prefect of the newly created secretariat, Pope Francis appointed one of his closest collaborators and confidants, Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, who also remains director of the Vatican television channel.
Viganò’s first sortie in his new garb, in “L’Osservatore Romano” of July 15, was a panegyric on the communicative “orality” of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, taking as an example one of his speeches in Paraguay:
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