Andrea Tornielli

Andrea Tornielli (born 19 March 1964) is an Italian Catholic journalist and religious writer who serves as the editorial manager for the Vatican's Dicastery for Communication.

A graduate in History of the Greek language, at the University of Padua, in December 1987, Tornielli became a Roman Catholic journalist and writer.

He started collaborating at La Stampa, in March 2011, as a Vaticanist, and he is the coordinator of their website Vatican Insider, published in three languages and entirely dedicated to information related to the Vatican and the Catholic Church.

Tornielli has published many books, mostly on religious matters, which have been translated into several languages, including several biographies and on subjects like Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust, the historical Jesus and Padre Pio.

[2] On 18 December 2018, Pope Francis appointed Tornielli manager of the editorial department of the Dicastery for Communication.