{{short description|Italian journalist (born 1943)}} {{BLP sources|date=June 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = Sandro Magister | image = | caption = | birth_name = Alessandro Magiste | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|10|2|df=y}} | birth_place = Busto Arsizio, Italy | occupation = {{hlist|Journalist|author}} | years_active = | alma_mater = Theological Faculty of Milan and at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, theology, philosophy, and history | employer = L'espresso | spouse = Anna | relatives = Two daughters | website =[http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/category/in-english/ http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it] <!-- | notable_work = ''ITV News''<br/>''ITV News London''{{fact|date=June 2017}} --> }}
'''Sandro Magister''' (born 2 October 1943) is an Italian journalist who writes for the magazine ''L'espresso''.<ref>{{cite web | author = Sandro Magister | url = http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/7779bdc4.html?eng=y | title = Collection of the Magister's articles published by "L'Espresso" | website = chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it | language = en,it |archive-url = https://archive.today/20190712120331/http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/7779bdc4.html?eng=y | archive-date = July 12, 2019 | url-status = live}}</ref>
Magister specializes in religious news, in particular on the Catholic Church and the Vatican. He has written two books on the political history of the Italian episcopate: "''Italian Church: Vatican Politics and Italy 1943-1978''" and "''Extraparliamentary Church: The Triumph of the Pulpit''". He also manages the website ''Chiesa'' on the topic of modern ecclesiastical affairs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it |title=Notizie, analisi, documenti sulla Chiesa cattolica, a cura di Sandro Magister |website=Chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it |date= |accessdate=2017-06-13}}</ref>
Some days before its official publication on 18 June 2015,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/06/16/fr_lombardi%E2%80%99s_statement_on_encyclical_leak/1151778 |title=Fr Lombardi’s statement on Encyclical leak - Vatican Radio |website=En.radiovaticana.va |date=2015-06-16 |accessdate=2017-06-13}}</ref> Sandro Magister was accused of violating an embargo by publishing parts of the encyclical ''Laudato si'', and was deprived of accreditation to the Vatican press room as a result, on 16 June 2015. Magister's response was that the document was an early draft not covered by the embargo, obtained by his editor who made the decision to publish; he had written merely an introduction.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/06/16/whodunnit-playing-out-as-vatican-reels-from-encyclical-leak|title=Pope Francis' Encyclical Leaked, Now Fallout Begins|website=Usnews.com\accessdate=2017-06-13}}</ref>
He, his wife Anna, and their two daughters live in Rome.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}
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==External links== {{Wikiquote}} * [http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/chi_siamo?eng=y Biography] * [http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/category/in-english/ Magister's blog (English version)]
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