I think you’re slipping and sliding.
The Vatican seems to like to have it’s cake and eat it too.
When it wants the faithful to pay attention and know something but doesn’t want the full weight of a bureaucratic and Papal wax seal on it . . .
then it goes into Vatican owned, managed, supervised publications but not the more formal heavy weight encyclicals.
Cute dodge, that.
I guess one man’s “OFFICIAL”
is another man’s “out.”
What a slick structure and arrangement. The RELIGIOUS rulers of Jesus’ dusty pathed days would have been in envious awe.
No, sorry, I’m not slipping and sliding, you just haven’t done your homework on this. The Osservatore Romano is a newspaper. It only dates to the 1860s. It ain’t part of the teaching office of the Church. Period.