{"id":62972,"date":"2026-07-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/?p=62972"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:25:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:25:45","slug":"the-holy-sees-new-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/actualidad\/la-nueva-voz-de-la-santa-sede\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holy See's New Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found out about the appointment through a WhatsApp group, which is the channel through which news from the Holy See reaches us here in Rome immediately. <em>\u201cA woman, Mexican, under forty, and a leading expert in church communications\u201d<\/em>, ,\u201c the emissary summarized. Starting in November, Montserrat Alvarado will head the Dicastery for Communication: the first layperson to lead a Vatican \u201dministry\u201d and the youngest prefect to date. I recalled that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/news\/interview-navarro-valls\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"31365\">Joaqu\u00edn Navarro-Valls<\/a> At the time, he proposed being replaced by a laywoman.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He himself recounted that, in 1993, a British journalist reported that John Paul II had, at most, four years left to live. The spokesperson stepped in and said, with that fencer\u2019s elegance of his: \u201c<em>\u201dSometimes news stories are published that reflect the writer's wishes more than they do reality.\"<\/em>. And reality\u2014which is never short on irony\u2014decreed that the prophet would die two years later, while the terminally ill man would live on for twelve more years. That, too, is what communicating the faith is all about: reconciling hopes with reality\u2014and always with a smile.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now Navarro-Valls's wish is coming true <em>fact<\/em>. The Vatican has entrusted its voice to a layperson, born in Mexico and bearing a Catalan Marian name. To me, she seems to be an extraordinary embodiment of Catholicism. The Church is not seeking propaganda; it seeks a simultaneous translation of the Gospel, and for that, it needs someone who, in addition to speaking several languages, speaks the language that allows people to hear its message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rest is revealed by etymology, which is the theology of the humble: \u201ccommunication\u201d belongs to the family of \u201ccommunion.\u201d When the latter is missing, the former becomes mere noise. Alvarado\u2019s challenge is formidable, but the task remains the same as always: that the best news in history continues to arrive at the right time\u2014even in a WhatsApp group. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me enter\u00e9 del nombramiento a trav\u00e9s de un grupo de WhatsApp, que es el canal por el que aqu\u00ed, en Roma, llegan las noticias de la Santa Sede de inmediato. \u201cMujer, mexicana, de menos de cuarenta y gran experta en comunicaci\u00f3n eclesial\u201d, resum\u00eda el emisario. Montserrat Alvarado dirigir\u00e1 a partir de noviembre el Dicasterio para [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2425,"featured_media":62973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[36,51],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-62972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-vaticano","tag-roma"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>La nueva voz de la Santa Sede<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"El nombramiento de Montserrat Alvarado al frente del Dicasterio para la Comunicaci\u00f3n marca un hito hist\u00f3rico para la Santa Sede.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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