"He is a Jesuit before he is the papal spokesman." During my four years with Vatican Radio's English Programme, I had the privilege of seeing Fr Federico Lombardi SJ almost on a daily basis. At the time, he was the Programme Director of Vatican Radio and the Director of Vatican Television and the Vatican Press Office. He also regularly celebrated the early morning Mass for a small multinational, multilingual congregation in the quiet intimacy of Vatican Radio's chapel, a liturgy broadcast live in Latin to the world. He regularly contributed to the broadcasts of the Italian Programme and, far from using his "free" time for a few minutes of well-earned relaxation, was also chaplain to Italy's Boy Scouts.