Vatican publishing house: New page, new director, new ideas

Published: 2007-08-03

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With a new director at the helm, the Vatican publishing house is turning a new page. Salesian Father Giuseppe Costa, the recently appointed head of the Libreria Editrice Vaticana, said he wants to beef up the availability of Vatican publications around the world and expand the Vatican's offerings on art and culture. "This publishing house can put out -- must put out (publications) in support of Catholic culture," he said. And the distribution of commercial sales of all its publications "clearly need to be boosted, yet also re-examined" in new ways, he told Catholic News Service July 27. The 61-year-old Italian priest and professor of journalism was appointed after Salesian Father Claudio Rossini's five-year term ended July 1. The Vatican publishing house also "is getting things ready for orders over the Internet," he said. Currently, international orders only can be made by fax, mail or through the private Web site www.paxbook.com.

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