The Vatican press operates in the technological and productive sector, taking forward carrying out all the activities related to the printing and the packaging of the Pontifical documents, Official and the official documents of the various dicasteries, and Ooffices of the Holy See and the Vatican City State. In addition, it also prints the to all these, is also the printing of the Vatican Newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, and it takes care of other editorial products publications of the entities connected to the Holy See.
It should be also noted that a valuable manual handicrafts production of high quality is made for the Holy Father and for the Secretariat of the State.It should also be noted that it offers a high level of skilled workmanship to the Holy Father and the Secretariat of State
It carries out publishing work To these activities, there could be added another important editorial activity on behalf of the LEV (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, the Vatican PublicationPublishing House) for the Congregations, and for the Bambin Gesù Pediatric Hospital, and produces the artistic publications for the Vatican Museums and for the Vatican Apostolic Library.
The Vatican Press prints the newspaper L’Osservatore Romano: the daily and five weekly editions (Italian, French, English, Spanish and Portuguese). The Polish edition is printed monthly in a magazine format. In addition, the monthly magazine "Women Church World" is also printed, and distributed as an supplement to the Italian editions of the L’Osservatore Romano.
The Press also provides various “commercial” products: To complete the activities of the press, we have thus the various «Commercial» works: business cards, invitations, leaflets, posters, printed envelopes, letterheads, badges, stamps, Mass booklets, greeting cards, printed folders, forms, calendars, and diaries.
The Vatican Press: a unique press in the world.