VATICAN (CNS): The rise of media that call itself Catholic but seem to exist only to judge others is less about criticising Pope Francis and more about the misguided notion that to affirm one’s own orthodoxy, one must find someone to label a heretic, Andrea Tornielli, the new editorial director of the Dicastery for Communication said on January 24.
 
Tornielli was commenting on Pope Francis’ remarks in Panama to the bishops of Central America on January 24, the feast of St. Francis de Sales, patron saint of journalists.
 

VATICAN (CNS): The Vatican Dicastery for Communication, formerly the Secretariat for Communication, has created new roles within the press office of the Holy See as part of its media reform and reorganisation. The new positions announced by the dicastery on January 11 included two new assistants to the director: Sister Bernadette M. Reis, of the Daughters of St. Paul, from the United States (US); and Raul Cabrera Perez, from Peru; as well as an office manager, US-born Thaddeus Jones.