Pope appoints 13 consulters to Secretariat for Communications

(Vatican Radio)  Pope Francis on Wednesday appointed 13 new Consulters for the Vatican's Secretariat for Communications.

The appointments were released in a communique from the Holy See Press Office.

These include:

- Rev. Fr. Ivan Maffeis, under-secretary for the Italian Episcopal Conference;

- Fr. José María La Porte, dean of the Faculty of Institutional Social Communication of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross;

- Dr. Peter Gonsalves, S.D.B., dean of the Faculty of Social Communication Sciences of the Pontifical Salesian University;

- Fr. Eric Salobir, O.P., Promoter General for social communications for the Order of Preachers;

- Fr. James Martin, S.J., Jesuit Magazine America;

- Fr. Jacquineau Azétsop, S.J., dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Pontifical Gregorian University;

- Dr. Paolo Peverini, lecturer in Semiotics at the LUISS “Guido Carli”;

- Dr. Fernando Giménez Barriocanal, president and delegator advisor of Radio Popolar Cadena COPE;

- Dr. Ann Carter, Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications;

- Mr. Graham Ellis, deputy director of BBC Radio;

- Dr. Michael P. Warsaw, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of EWTN Global Catholic Network;

- Dr. Dino Cataldo Dell'Accio, Chief ICT Auditor at the United Nations;

- Dr. Michael Paul Unland, executive director of the Catholic Media Council (CA.ME.CO.).