L'Osservatore Romano

L'Osservatore Romano is a newspaper in Vatican City, Vatican City covering the Christian religion.

L'Osservatore Romano is the official newspaper of the Vatican. It was first published in 1861.

This newspaper is owned by Roman Catholic Church.

The web site is presented in the German, English, French, and Italian languages.

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Giovanni Maria Vian is the editor in chief of the L'Osservatore Romano.

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Eric Kallgren Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 11:09pm on Monday, October 13th, 2008

On October 13, 2008, The Wall Street Journal reported that L'Osservatore Romano is getting a makeover at the behest of Pope Benedict XVI.

Stacy Meichtry wrote that "In its 147 years as the Vatican's newspaper of record, L'Osservatore Romano has rarely chased advertisers, or even news. Hard to find beyond the world's smallest state, the Vatican's daily paper largely dedicated its pages to theological monologues with headlines like "The Leprosy of Sin." Those days are over. Now, the Vatican mouthpiece has orders to carry hard-hitting news, international stories and more articles by women."

"There was a really precise request from the paper's publisher," Giovanni Maria Vian, the paper's new editor in chief, said in a recent interview at his office within the medieval walls of Vatican City. "In this case, the publisher just happened to be the pope."

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