{"id":45741,"date":"2015-06-16T09:12:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T13:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=45741"},"modified":"2015-06-16T10:06:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T14:06:57","slug":"holy-see-pulls-press-credentials-for-prominent-vatican-journalist-over-encyclical-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2015\/06\/holy-see-pulls-press-credentials-for-prominent-vatican-journalist-over-encyclical-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy See pulls press credentials for prominent Vatican journalist over encyclical leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>This news broke this morning on Twitter, following yesterday\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kathyschiffer\/2015\/06\/hot-times-at-the-vatican-as-popes-climate-change-encyclical-is-leaked-to-the-media-four-days-early\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">leak of a draft <\/a><\/strong>of the new encyclical:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sandro Magister of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espressonline\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@espressonline<\/a> loses his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HolySeePress\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@HolySeePress<\/a> credentials for disclosing embargoed draft of Encyclical. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/gcaINTv5eh\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/gcaINTv5eh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fr. Manuel Dorantes (@TweetingPriest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TweetingPriest\/status\/610760258366087168\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 16, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infovaticana.com\/2015\/06\/16\/el-vaticano-retira-la-acreditacion-de-prensa-a-sandro-magister\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Details (roughly translated):<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a press release, Federico Lombardi reported that he was withdrawing the press accreditation of Sandro Magister to access the Press Room of the Vatican for \u201cpublishing a draft encyclical the Pope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lombardi has argued that the draft was under embargo and publication damages the image of the journalistic profession.\u00a0Sandro Magister received the text as a leak and decided to go public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Magister is a prominent and widely-read observer of the Vatican scene. From his <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sandro_Magister\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wikipedia <\/a><\/strong>entry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #252525;\">Sandro Magister is an Italian journalist who writes for the magazine \u201c<\/span><a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" title=\"L'espresso\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L%27espresso\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">L\u2019espresso<\/a><span style=\"color: #252525;\">\u201c. He specializes in religious news, in particular on the\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" title=\"Catholic Church\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catholic_Church\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Catholic Church<\/a><span style=\"color: #252525;\">\u00a0and the\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" title=\"Holy See\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holy_See\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Vatican<\/a><span style=\"color: #252525;\">. He has written two books and has taught courses about political history of the Italian episcopate\u00a0: \u201cItalian Church: Vatican \u201cPolitics and Italy 1943-1978\u201d and \u201cExtraparliamentary Church: The Triumph of the Pulpit\u201d. He also manages the website\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"color: #252525;\">Chiesa<\/i><span style=\"color: #252525;\">\u00a0on the topic of modern ecclesiastical affairs.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This action by the Holy See seems to me both necessary and appropriate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> John Allen has some context <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruxnow.com\/church\/2015\/06\/16\/why-we-wrote-about-the-encyclical\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">This is hardly the first time a major Vatican document has leaked out prior to publication, and the dynamics are virtually always the same \u2014 Church officials decry the leak and demand that everyone cool their jets until the official version is released.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_container_wrapper\" style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0Exacerbating things this time around, however, is that the scoop appeared in the widely read Italian news magazine \u201cl\u2019Espresso\u201d under the byline of veteran Vatican commentator Sandro Magister, whom many see as a conservative voice hostile to Pope Francis.<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">(Magister told The Associated Press that his editor, not he, obtained the document and decided to publish it. Magister said he just wrote the brief introduction.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">Picking up on Magister\u2019s report thus seemed ethically problematic in two senses: First, does it mean violating the trust of a source, in this case the Vatican? Second, does it make anyone who does so complicit in someone else\u2019s political agenda?<\/p>\n<p>Magister said he came by his copy of the encyclical through an anonymous source in the Roman Curia. Only he can speak to whether that source imposed any conditions on use of the information, but in any event, it\u2019s no violation of an official embargo if your material doesn\u2019t come through official channels.<\/p>\n<p>(That\u2019s clearly not how the Vatican sees things, however. On Tuesday, the director of the Holy See Press Office, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, posted a copy of a brief letter to Magister in the hall calling publication of the encyclical a \u201csource of strong discomfort for many journalistic colleagues and grave disturbance to the good service of this press office,\u201d and informing him that his accreditation has been suspended.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruxnow.com\/church\/2015\/06\/16\/why-we-wrote-about-the-encyclical\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read more.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This news broke this morning on Twitter, following yesterday\u2019s leak of a draft of the new encyclical: Sandro Magister of @espressonline loses his @HolySeePress credentials for disclosing embargoed draft of Encyclical. pic.twitter.com\/gcaINTv5eh \u2014 Fr. Manuel Dorantes (@TweetingPriest) June 16, 2015 Details (roughly translated): In a press release, Federico Lombardi reported that he was withdrawing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":45742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journalism","category-pope"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Holy See pulls press credentials for prominent Vatican journalist over encyclical leak<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This news broke this morning on Twitter, following yesterday&#039;s leak of a draft of the new encyclical: Sandro Magister of @espressonline loses his\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, 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