Pope Francis gets his fanzine

Rome: A magazine entitled My Pope (Il mio papa) — billed as the “first weekly in the world dedicated to Pope Francis” — was launched on Wednesday by Silvio Berlusconi’s publishing group Mondadori.

The 60-page gossip-style magazine boasts tantalising details on the Holy Father’s week and is stuffed full of photographs of the 77-year-old Argentine at work, capturing instants such as the moment his skullcap flew off in the wind or he was hugged by a child who climbed on his papal chair.

The Vatican has not commented on the new publication which has gone viral since its release.