Raimondo Manzini (18 February 1901, Lodi, Lombardy – 14 January 1988, Rome) was a veteran Catholic journalist and former Christian Democratic member of Italy's Parliament, who was director of L'Osservatore Romano from 1960 to 1978.
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He had previously worked as an editor of the Italian Roman Catholic daily Avvenire and served three terms as a member of the Chamber of Deputies.
He was appointed as director of L'Osservatore by Pope John XXIII. Under his leadership, the paper made a few changes in style. Stories about papal pronouncements read "the Pontiff said" rather than "as was heard from the august lips of the illuminated Holy Father".[1]
He also sought to give more space to photographs and cultural news, before retiring in 1978. He died at the age of 86 in 1988.[2]