Today Pope Francis has appointed the new heads of the Holy See Press Office. Gregory Joseph Burke, current deputy director of the Vatican Body, will now serve as its director while Paloma García Ovejero will serve as deputy director. The news was released today by the Holy See Press Office together with some biographical details of the two heads: Mr Burke was born in Saint Louis (Missouri) in 1959; he attended one of the Jesuit high schools of the town before graduating in comparative literature from Columbia University in New York in 1982. After specialising in journalism, he worked as a journalist with a New York-based newspaper, and later with “United Press International” in Chicago. From 1988 to 1992, he served as Rome correspondent for the “National Catholic Register” and then for the “Metropolitan Magazine” (1992-1993). From 1994 to 2001, he worked as a Rome-based correspondent for Time Magazine. In 2011, he left the Time and started working on TV, as a Rome-based correspondent for Fox News. He served in that position until July 2012, when he was called to the Vatican to take on the role of Communications Advisor to the Vatican Secretariat of State. Ms García Ovejero was born in Madrid in 1975. She graduated in journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1998. After earning a Master’s Degree in 2001, in 2006 she went on to study Management Strategies and Communication at the New York University. From 1998, she has worked with the Spanish broadcaster COPE, and from 2012, she has served as Rome-based Vatican correspondent. Ms Ovejero has also cooperated with media outlets of different countries: Madrid, New York, Mexico and Buenos Aires.