How we checked Radio Vaticana Deutsch
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. Nothing needed correcting. We also found 3 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
This is Vatican Radio's German desk, made inside Vatican City for listeners who are almost all somewhere else, outside its borders. Its centrepiece is Treffpunkt Weltkirche, a compact news magazine on what the Pope did and what is happening in the wider Church, put together by the newsroom rather than fronted by a personality, and it turns up several times a day so you can catch it morning, late afternoon, early evening or last thing at night. Around those bulletins the channel it shares carries the Latin liturgy of the hours, lauds in the morning, vespers in the late afternoon and compline before midnight, which gives the day an oddly steadying shape. Alongside the daily news there are longer documentary strands, including reported series from Ukraine and Sweden and a run of conversations about how humans understand time. There is no German shortwave transmission any more, so in practice you reach it through the live stream and the podcasts.
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Vatican News Deutsch | 2026 |
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Contact route
The German service's own Kontakt page under its language path gives three email routes stated in German: one to reach the editorial team, one to report a technical problem, and one for general portal contact. The German service also announced a dedicated listener-feedback email address in its own article, signed by its editor for the whole German team, set up expressly for listeners' wishes, suggestions and criticism, with a stated promise that every message is read and answered where possible.
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Vatican News (Radio Vatikan deutsch) | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/kontakt.html
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Vatican News (Radio Vatikan deutsch) | 2026 |
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Music
Religious news, church affairs, documentary talk and liturgy
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Vatican News Deutsch | 2026 |
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Language
German, on a Vatican Radio channel that also carries Latin liturgy and Italian live programming
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Vatican News Deutsch | 2026 |
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Kind
Talk, news bulletins, documentary series and liturgy
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Vatican News Deutsch | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
Unlike most of Vatican Radio's language services, this one never goes out on shortwave. German is absent from the shortwave tables altogether, so the German service exists only as a stream and as podcasts.
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Vatican News | 2026 |
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Where
Vatican City, with Vatican Radio's transmitter site at Santa Maria di Galeria; no German shortwave frequency is listed, delivery is stream and podcast
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Vatican News Deutsch | 2026 |
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Programmes
Treffpunkt Weltkirche news magazine 16.00 and 18.00; Nachrichten-Magazin 07.00 and 23.00; Menschen und die Zeit; Spurensuche Ukraine; Spurensuche Schweden
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Vatican News Deutsch | 2026 |
What we corrected
Nothing. This station's entry matched what its own site says, which is worth recording: a clean check is a result, not an absence of one.
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| The editors Andrea Tornielli, Massimiliano Menichetti and others named on the about page. | They run the whole Vatican News operation across every language, not this German channel. The German service's own magazine page says plainly that it is put together by the editorial team and names nobody, so nobody was named.
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| Four email addresses | Never copying actual emails into this file; they are additionally Cloudflare-obfuscated in the markup.
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| The portal serves more than forty language services from the same domain | Only the German service's own Kontakt page and its own German-language feedback announcement were taken, not the portal's other language routes.
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: Radio Vaticana Deutsch — listed via Radio Browser · https://www.vaticannews.va/de.html