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The Vatican Specola promotes a scientific conference dedicated to Monsignor Georges Lemaître

Black holes, gravitational waves and space-time singularities

An international scientific conference on “Black holes, gravitational waves and space-time singularities” will be held at Castel Gandolfo from 17 to 21 June to celebrate the legacy of Msgr. Georges Lemaître (1894-1966), the Belgian physicist who developed what is now known as the Big Bang theory. The conference is promoted by the Vatican Observatory, the scientific body of the Governorate, and supported by the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), one of Italy’s most important public research institutes.

Visit of Sister Raffaella Petrini to the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT) in Tucson

Fruitful and continuous dialogue between faith and science

An opportunity to "to appreciate in a very tangible way the complexity of the new technology used by the Vatican Observatory, in collaboration with the Steward Observatory of the University of Arizona, to carry out long-term research programmes in the field of astronomy".  So Sister Raffaella Petrini, Secretary General of the Governorate, during her visit to the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (Vatt) on Mount Graham, in Arizona (USA), Saturday, March 16, 2024.

Inauguration of Library in the Apostolic Palace’s Third Lodge

Restoration works of the Governorate of Vatican City State

On Friday morning, 14 June, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State, blessed and inaugurated the Library of the Third Lodge of the Apostolic Palace after the completion of restoration works carried out by the Governorate’s Directorates for Infrastructure and Services, of Telecommunication and Information Systems and of Museums and Cultural Heritage.

Estate Ragazzi at the Vatican with the knights errant of Don Quixote de la Mancha

A summer initiative for Governorate and Holy See employees

The Knights errant of the literary genius Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra – Don Quixote de la Mancha and Sancho Panza – will be the protagonists of Estate Ragazzi,  2024, the Vatican’s summer camp, promoted by the Governorate of Vatican City State and organized by Father Franco Fontana, Director of the Salesian community in the Vatican and chaplain of the Directorate for Security and Civil Protection and of Vatican Museums. Participating children will explore the characters of the literary masterpiece, “The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha” (original title in Spanish El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha) and will encounter new challenges and heroic adventures focused on the themes of kindness, generosity and courage.