Romeo Panciroli, 82, Papal Spokesman
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Archbishop Romeo Panciroli, spokesman for three popes before becoming a Vatican diplomat in Liberia and Iran, died Thursday. He was 82.
Panciroli was appointed the Vatican’s chief spokesman by Pope Paul VI in 1976, and kept the post through the early years of John Paul II. He was then made a diplomat and an archbishop.
Panciroli was a particularly tightlipped spokesman in the Vatican tradition, known to the media corps as “Padre Non Mi Risulta,” which roughly translates as “Father I Don’t Have Anything on That.”
