L Osservatore Romano

Vatican newspaper: Shakespeare was Catholic

By Dakota O'Leary • November 21, 2011

The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano says there are "few doubts" that Shakespeare was Catholic, revisiting a debate that has gone on about Shakespeare ever

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Catholic scholar says governments that promote sex education are only fooling themselves

By JohnThomas Didymus • September 1, 2011

According to Catholic scholar, Lucetta Scaraffia, writing on the front page of the Catholic publication L'Osservatore Romano, governments that promote sex education in schools

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Conservative pro-life campaign alleges plot by progressives to impose eugenics as state religion

By JohnThomas Didymus • July 22, 2011

Conservative religious and pro-life campaigners have recently intensified an old anti-abortion and anti-population control campaign theme which claims that secular progressives are leading Western

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Vatican digitizing more than 7 million photo negatives

By D. Beeksma • January 3, 2011

For years, the Vatican newspaper has been capturing snapshots from public and private moments of popes. The priest Giuseppe Colombara is director of photographic

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