The Secretariat for Communications is a dicastery of the Roman Curia with authority over all communications offices of the Holy See and the Vatican City State, including the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, the Holy See Press Office, the Vatican Internet Service (VIS), Vatican Radio, the Vatican Television Center, the Osservatore Romano, the Vatican Typography, the Photograph Service and the Vatican Publishing House. As a Secretariat, it ranks, along with the Vatican Secretariat of State, the Secretariat for the Economy, the three Vatican-based appellate tribunals, and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, above all other Vatican dicasteries (departments).