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The vatican does not publish magazines but only one newspaper: the "Osservatore Romano" title that can be translated into " Roman Observatory".
Where you can find the newspaper of the vatican in Rome?
Well, you are not supposed to find it in all the newspapers' kiosks of Rome but only in the main news stands around the vatican, like the one located on one side of Bernini Colonnade, in front of Porta Angelica.
The paper is firstly published in Italian but the papal texts are published in the original language, the latin, and then if needed be translated into Italian.
It includes six weekly editions : English on Monday, French on Tuesday, Italian on Thursday, Spanish and german on Friday, Portuguese on Saturday, and a monthly edition in Polish.
The column on the firs page, with the descriptive heading " Our news" is drawn up by the Secretary of State and it provides a list of papal audiences and appointments together with communiquees relating to the activities of the pope and the Holy See.
As you can see in this picture, the newspaper provides informations about the new pope's election.
In addition, the newspaper publishes, immediately and in full, papal texts and informations on the Holy see and the catholic Church throughout the world; it also provides international news from a very broad perspective and publishes articles of cultural interest.
Today the vatican newspaper is printed in around one hundred thousand copies and it is delivered to the foreign embassies that have diplomatical relationships with the vatican city.
It's no accident that the paper began its life just when the temporal power of the pope was declining. This was in fact the period when the first newspapers in the modern sense of term, especially the Catholic newspapers, were multiplying throughout Europe in a climate of lively confrontation with violently anticlerical publications.
L' Osservatore Romano was born on the initiative of a Forli' lawyer, Nicola Zanchini and a Bologna journalist, Giuseppe Bastia, who had settled in Rome after the annexation of a major part of the papal states to the kingdom of Italy.
The two refugees were able to realize their idea because it accorded with a project of the papal government to found a political newspaper parallel to the anticlerical "Giornale di Roma": and because the founders were able to obtain private financing. Accordingly, the 1st July 1861 saw the first edition of l' Osservatore Romano, which the papal government had first thought of calling "L' amico della verita'" ( the friend of the truth ).