Vitali seems to have neglected some terrestrial fine print regarding Vatican copyrights. But in seeking to transmit the pope’s musings on the divine, Mr. Vitali is aware that he has entered uncharted waters, and he is betting on success with an initial print run of 500,000 copies at an initial price of 50 cents. “It’s not a cult of personality - we want to use the pope as an example” for living a better life, he said. Vitali said that while Francis’ appeal had transcended Roman Catholicism to encompass believers from other denominations as well as nonbelievers, the magazine’s intention was not to “speculate on the popularity of the pope,” merely to act as his megaphone. “My first impression is that it is targeting a broad public that doesn’t have time or the desire to delve very deeply, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t be positive.”
“Certainly, we have to see how the magazine develops,” he added after leafing through an advance copy. And while Catholic periodicals and newspapers abound in Italy, My Pope “is an interesting phenomenon because it doesn’t come from the Catholic world,” said L’Osservatore Romano’s editor in chief, Giovanni Maria Vian. Until now, only L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s daily newspaper, regularly covered the pope, publishing many of his speeches.
“We’re not going to go after any scoops.” “We don’t want gossip or paparazzi,” he said. Vitali said My Pope would not be sensationalistic. The magazine is a change of pace for the Mondadori publishing house, part of the media empire of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, which publishes the popular celebrity gossip weekly Chi.
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Vitali, who is also the editor of Italy’s No. “That’s why we called it My Pope, because everyone has the sensation that Francis speaks to them individually,” said Mr.
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