VATICAN CITY
Dublin Live
14 JUL 2016
BY BARRY ARNOLD
Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin as one of 16 Members of the newly-established Vatican Secretariat for Communications.
The body consists of six cardinals, seven bishops and three laypersons.
Its aim is to oversee the coordination and streamlining the Holy See’s multiple communications outlets.
When Pope Francis began his reform of the Roman Curia in 2013 with the help of an advisory council of nine cardinals, one of the areas that received immediate attention was the Vatican communications operation.
Pope Francis commissioned a study and recommendations from the global management-consulting firm McKinsey & Co.
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