L'Osservatore Romano
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The 7 February 2008 Italian-language
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| Type | Daily newspaper in Italian Weekly newspaper in other languages |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | The Holy See |
| Editor | Giovanni Maria Vian |
| Founded | July 1, 1861 (155 years old) |
| Political alignment | Roman Catholic Church |
| Headquarters | Tipografia Vaticana Vatican City
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| ISSN | 0391-688X |
| Website | osservatoreromano.va |
L'Osservatore Romano (pronounced [losservaˈtoːre roˈmaːno]; Italian for "The Roman Observer") is the daily newspaper of Vatican City State which carries the Pope’s discourses and reports on the activities of the Holy See, reports on events taking place in the Church and the world, and many cultural articles. It is classified as a semi-official newspaper of the Holy See, but is not an official newspaper. The publication prints two Latin mottoes under the masthead of each edition: Unicuique suum ("To each his own") and Non praevalebunt ("[The gates of Hell] shall not prevail"). The current editor-in-chief is Giovanni Maria Vian.
Today, the paper takes a more objective and subdued stance than at the time of its foundation, priding itself in "presenting the genuine face of the church and the ideals of freedom", following the statement by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone in an October 2006 speech inaugurating a new exhibit dedicated to the founding and history of the newspaper. He further described the publication as "an instrument for spreading the teachings of the successor of Peter and for information about church events".
On Saturday, June 27, 2015, Pope Francis, in a motu proprio ("on his own initiative") apostolic letter, stated that, eventually, L'Osservatore Romano would be incorporated into a newly established Secretariat for Communications in the Roman Curia.
L'Osservatore Romano is published in nine different languages (listed by date of first publication):
The daily Italian edition of L'Osservatore Romano is published in the afternoon, but with a cover date of the following day, a convention that sometimes results in confusion. The weekly English edition is distributed in more than 129 countries, including both English-speaking countries and locales where English is used as the general means of communication.
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