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{{Roman Curia sidebar}}The Vatican Publishing House (; ; LEV) is a publisher established by the Holy See in 1926. It is responsible for publishing official documents of the Roman Catholic Church, including Papal bulls and encyclicals.JOURNAL, April 2007, Anniversaries and Exhibitions, The Catholic Historical Review, 92, 2, 470–481,weblink 1 May 2008, 10.1353/cat.2007.0153, Project MUSE, The Johns Hopkins University Press,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110608013815weblink">weblink 8 June 2011, 1534-0708, The Catholic University of America Press, On 27 June 2015, Pope Francis decreed that the Vatican Publishing House would eventually be incorporated into a newly established Secretariat for Communications in the Roman Curia.JOURNAL,weblink Lettera Apostolica in forma di 'Motu proprio' del Sommo Pontefice Francesco per l'Istituzione della Segreteria per la Comunicazione, 27 June 2015, 16 September 2019, Sala Stampa della Santa Sede, Vatican.va,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150701100734weblink">weblink 1 July 2015, Francesco P.P., Papa Francesco,

History

In 1926, the library was separated from the printing and transformed into autonomous body that was entrusted with the sale of books that were being made to print by the Holy See.The Apostolic constitution Pastor bonus of Pope John Paul II (28 June 1988) classified the LEV as an institution affiliated with the Holy See.JOURNAL, Article 191. Cetera Curiæ Romanæ Institututa, Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Ioannes Paulus PP. II,weblink Vatican.va, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 16 September 2019,

Description

It has its own constitution and its own rules. The statutes of LEV, Article 2, states: "The Libreria Editrice Vaticana has the fundamental aim of publishing the documents of the Supreme Pontiff and the Holy See."The company owns the copyright to all the writings of the Pope, but did not start enforcing the copyright until the accession of Pope Benedict XVI.NEWS, Vatican 'cashes in' by putting price on the Pope's copyright,weblink The Times, 23 January 2006, 1 May 2008, London, subscription, Richard, Owen, The policy was announced on 31 May 2005.PRESS RELEASE,weblink Copyrights, Vatican Publishing House, 31 May 2005, 6 January 2017, La Stampa was the first to pay royalties to the Vatican publisher, and the Union of Catholic Booksellers and Publishers protested the Vatican policy, which applied to texts no older than fifty years.NEWS, 6 January 2017, The Guardian, London, 22 January 2006, Vatican invokes papal copyright,weblink Barbara, McMahon, The LEV's policy has been summarized as:NEWS,weblink Houston Chronicle, 5 January 2017, 25 February 2006, Frances, D'Emilio, Vatican's demand for copyright fees engenders debate among publishers, Associated Press,

See also

• List of papal bulls
• List of Encyclicals of Pope Pius XI
• List of Encyclicals of Pope Pius XII
• List of Encyclicals of Pope John XXIII
• List of Encyclicals of Pope Paul VI
• List of Encyclicals of Pope John Paul II
• List of Encyclicals of Pope Benedict XVI

References

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External links

• Vatican Publishing House Website
• Information pages on the Vatican website

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