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The Vatican has brought in the Fox News correspondent in Rome to help improve its communications strategy as it tries to cope with years of communications blunders and one of its most serious scandals in decades, The Associated Press learned Saturday.Greg Burke, 52, will leave Fox to become a senior communications adviser in the Vatican?s secretariat of state, the Vatican and Burke told the AP.
?I?m a bit nervous but very excited. Let?s just say it?s a challenge,? Burke said in a phone interview.
He defined his job, which he said he had been offered twice before, as: ?You?re shaping the message, you?re molding the message, and you?re trying to make sure everyone remains on-message. And that?s tough.?
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, confirmed the move to the AP, saying Burke will help integrate communications issues within the Vatican?s top administrative office, the secretariat of state, and will help handle its relations with the Holy See press office and other Vatican communications offices.
Burke, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, is a member of the conservative Opus Dei movement. Pope John Paul II?s longtime spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, was also a member of Opus Dei.
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