Sergio Mattarella, the Italian president, recently emphasized the importance of keeping scientific research insulated from international tensions, highlighting its role as an “instrument of peace."
Researchers have unearthed an ancient Roman mosaic in a luxury seaside villa at Posillipo that once furnished the living room of a horrendous human who fed slaves to parasitic worms!
By Giada Aquilino
“Father, you take care of souls”. This is the phrase that Father Rosario Lo Bello has heard repeatedly since 2009 when he became pastor of the Saint Paul the Apostle Parish in Syracuse and began to carry out his pastoral and social ministry of what he calls a “reaffirmation of the public spaces” of the city, through raising awareness, empowerment and studying the landscape. Supporting him are a thousand parishioners from the Graziella neighborhood on the island of Ortigia. Only fishermen once frequented this island. Now it is shrouded in poverty, degradation and drug dealing. It is a raging river, Father Rosario tells Vatican News, while recounting his own dedication renewed each day, in defense of its panoramic, environmental and natural rights. Betraying a sense of relief, he confesses that in recent years he has found a type of “legitimization” in