Vatican’s newspaper L'Osservatore Romano launches new web site
(April 20, 2011) The Vatican's semi-official daily launched a new Web site on
Tuesday, marking the anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI's election in 2005. L'Osservatore
Romano is posted in its various weekly or monthly language editions, as well as the
Italian daily. Subscriptions to the weekly/monthly editions are already available.
The daily will be available for free until Aug. 31st, with subscriptions beginning
Sept. 1st. The daily will be posted in the afternoon of Rome time, its traditional
publishing hour. Translations into other languages, beginning with English, will be
forthcoming. L'Osservatore Romano has been publishing since 1861. Pope Leo XIII in
1885 made it an organ of information for the Holy See.