Vatican : L’Osservatore Romano launches its new Internet site

On the occasion of the 6th anniversary of Benedict XVI’s pontificate, L’Osservatore Romano has inaugurated a new Internet site (www.osservatoreromano.va). The Saint-Siege journal will also now be available in its different editions. The electronic version of the entire daily newspaper will be available by the evening before the paper format will be dispersed. It can be accessed for free until this next August 31st. After this date, access will be only by subscription. It will be possible to look up the weekly editions in Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and the monthly edition in Polish. The daily archives of the Vatican after 1861 will also be available for consultation online. (Sources : apic/imedia- DICI #235 of 28/05/11)