Tornielli Andrea

Andrea Tornielli was born in Chioggia (Venice) on March 19, 1964. He attended classical high school and then the University of Padua, where he graduated in History of the Greek Language.
He worked at the Padua editorial office of the daily newspaper Il Gazzettino and from 1992 to 1996 he was editor and Vatican correspondent for the international monthly magazine 30Giorni, based in Rome.
From 1996 to 2011 he worked for the daily newspaper Il Giornale, first as an editor and then, from 2001, as a special correspondent and Vatican correspondent, following the travels of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, and the activity of the Holy See.
In April 2011 he moved to La Stampa, where he is a Vatican correspondent, editor-in-chief and coordinator of the five-language web channel «Vatican Insider» that the Turin daily newspaper put online in June 2011: a team of international Vatican correspondents works there and it has become a point of reference for religious and Vatican information, with more than half of the accesses coming from abroad and daily articles in Arabic and Chinese.
He is the author of over fifty books on the history of the Church and the historicity of the Gospels, many of which have also been translated abroad.
He has already dedicated three books to Pope Francis: a biography (Francesco. Insieme, Piemme 2013), a collection of anecdotes (I Fioretti di Papa Francesco, Piemme 2013) and Pope Francis. This Economy Kills (Piemme 2015).
In January 2016, his book-interview with Pope Bergoglio (The Name of God is Mercy) was published, a conversation entirely dedicated to the main theme of the Extraordinary Jubilee. The book was released simultaneously in 89 countries around the world, translated into 26 languages.
Since 2007, Tornielli has been the owner of the blog: “Sacri Palazzi”

Since December 2018, he has been the editorial director of the Dicastery for Communication of the Holy See.
He lives between Milan and Rome. He is married and the father of three children.