Along with helping the Holy See to elucidate its message more effectively, one of the tasks facing the committee appointed to oversee Vatican communications is to make savings. Indeed, Cardinal George Pell, prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, has already hinted that cuts might be made at Vatican Radio, which produces programmes in 45 languages. The president of the committee is Lord Patten of Barnes, whose chairmanship of the BBC coincided with government cuts to the World Service budget. But Cardinal Pell would be mistaken if he thinks Lord Patten will be happy to slash the Holy See’s equivalent. The funding for the BBC World Service was cut by the Foreign Office last year by more than £2 million, a move that Lord Patten called “disappointing”. Less diplom