{"id":24035,"date":"2008-10-14T20:15:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T00:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/10\/new-life-in-a-old-paper-losser\/"},"modified":"2008-10-14T20:15:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T00:15:45","slug":"new-life-in-a-old-paper-losser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/10\/new-life-in-a-old-paper-losser\/","title":{"rendered":"New life in a old paper, L&#8217;Osservatore Romano broadens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><font size=\"2\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/LOsservatore%20Romano.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 20px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" height=\"120\" alt=\"LOsservatore Romano.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/LOsservatore%20Romano-thumb-400x120.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\">VATICAN CITY &#8212; The newspaper industry might be on the ropes, but one staid broadsheet is getting a makeover at the behest of a lofty patron: Pope Benedict XVI.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><o:p><font color=\"#000000\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\">In its 147 years as the Vatican&#8217;s newspaper of record, L&#8217;Osservatore Romano has rarely chased advertisers, or even news. Hard to find beyond the world&#8217;s smallest state, the Vatican&#8217;s daily paper largely dedicated its pages to theological monologues with headlines like &#8220;The Leprosy of Sin.&#8221;<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\">Those days are over. 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Hard to find beyond the world&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/10\/new-life-in-a-old-paper-losser\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New life in a old paper, L&#8217;Osservatore Romano broadens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}