
Corporate Communications
Montse Alvarado: Vatican Communications Prefect From Nov 1
Montse Alvarado becomes Vatican communications prefect on Nov 1, 2026. Who she is, what the Dicastery controls, and what changes under Pope Leo XIV.

Montse Alvarado becomes Vatican communications prefect on Nov 1, 2026. Who she is, what the Dicastery controls, and what changes under Pope Leo XIV.

A 25-year case study in institutional crisis communications: how the Vatican handled, and mishandled, the global clergy sexual abuse crisis from Boston 2002 through Pope Francis.

The Vatican has been running a continuous communications operation for nearly 2,000 years. Freud Communications has been running one in London since 1985. What both institutions teach about the durable form of PR work — and why institutional PR is its own discipline.