The Italian state has acquired the celebrated François Tomb from Vulci for €15 million, with the deed of sale signed at the culture ministry in Rome on Friday. In a statement, culture minister Alessandro Giuli descibed the François Tomb as “one of the most important masterpieces of Etruscan and ancient painting”, which will soon be enjoyed by the public. The tomb will be placed on permanent display at the National Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia in Rome from 25 June, when a major exhibition dedicated to the monument will open. The acquisition…
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Palermo residents have taken to the streets in protest over the celebrity wedding celebrations of singer Dua Lipa and British actor Callum Turner, taking place in the Sicilian capital this weekend. Lipa, 30, and Fantastic Beasts star Turner, 36, married in a registry office in London earlier in the week and chose Palermo for their wedding reception. Winner of multiple Grammy Awards, Dua Lipa rose to global superstardom with a string of chart-topping pop hits including Don’t Start Now, Levitating and New Rules. The wedding celebrations in Palermo, estimated to cost around €1.5 million and being…
First ‘internal trouble’ for Leo XIV, who has been calling for unity since the beginning of his pontificate. Indeed, a schism within the Catholic Church is now likely, with the separation of the ‘rib’ of the Lefebvrians, the followers of the late French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. This would be the consequence – despite the Vatican’s call to order – of the ceremony for the consecration of new bishops on 1 July 2026 in Écône in Switzerland, where Lefebvre consecrated new followers within the traditionalist Catholic movement he founded in opposition…
“In this age of artificial intelligence, I encourage everyone to commit themselves to promoting forms of communication that are always respectful of the truth of man to which all technological innovation must be oriented”. So said Pope Leo XIV at the end of the Regina Caeli prayer, after recalling: “Today marks the World Day of Social Communications in various countries, which this year I wanted to dedicate to the theme of preserving human voices and faces”. Yesterday, the Holy See announced the Pope’s go-ahead for the establishment of the Interdicasterial…