Wednesday, February 01, 2017

Staff distressed by cost-cutting changes at Vatican Radio

Image result for Vatican RadioVatican Radio employees have been shocked by abrupt changes in the broadcast schedule, the French daily La Croix reports. 

Vatican Radio is no longer an independent agency; it has been absorbed into the new Secretariat for Communications. 

And the budget for radio broadcasts has been cut back severely, with a great deal of programming eliminated already and other programs facing the budgetary axe. 

“What shocks us is the brutality with which these decisions are made,” said a French radio staffer. 

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