Putting people at the center

On January 15–16, 2026, Davide Giordano from the Internet Provider Service of the Vatican City’s Directorate of Telecommunications and Information Systems and a member of the Governorate’s Commission on Artificial Intelligence, took part in the conference “AI as Catalyst – Reimagining Medical Education and Workforce Development,” held at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Boston.

La Delegación internacional “Journey to Redemption 2033 (J2R2033)”, encabezada por monseñor Mikel Garciandía Goñi, Obispo de Palencia (España), ha permanecido una semana en Roma para mantener encuentros operativos destinados a definir el itinerario de preparación del Jubileo extraordinario de 2033.

The international delegation “Journey to Redemption 2033 (J2R2033)” led by Monsignor Mikel Garciandía Goñi, Bishop of Palencia in Spain, spent a week in Rome for operational meetings aimed at defining the preparatory pathway for the Extraordinary Jubilee of 2033.

The President of the Governorate of the Vatican City State, Sr. Raffaella Petrini, was invited to deliver a lecture at the Carabinieri Officers’ Academy in Rome. The meeting took place on Saturday morning, 17 January, in the Institute’s Aula Magna, the principal training center of the Carabinieri Corps.

The latest bulletin of the IAU (International Astronomical Union) Working Group for Small Body Nomenclature contains some exciting news for scientists at the Vatican Observatory. Several asteroids co-discovered by Vatican astronomer Fr. Richard P. Boyle, SJ, together with his longtime collaborator K. Černis (of Vilnius, Lithuania), using the Vatican Observatory’s VATT telescope on Mount Graham, have received official names.

Twenty-Five Years of Collaboration

Nearly twenty-five years after the first technical internship inside the Vatican carried out with students from Villanova University in Pennsylvania, a delegation from the Directorate of Telecommunications and Information Systems of the Governorate of Vatican City State visited the campus of the American university, which had been previously attended by Pope Leo XIV.

The operations to dismantle the Nativity Scene and remove the Christmas tree set up in St. Peter’s Square for Christmas have been completed. As announced, starting on Monday, January 12, after the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord, the dismantling and relocation activities began. These were carried out by staff from the Directorate of Infrastructure and Services of the Governorate, together with the organizers of the Nativity.

On Monday, November 17th, the Yale Divinity School, on behalf of Dean Greg Sterling, hosted Sister Raffaella Petrini, President of the Governorate, in a Q+A session with the YDS Roman Catholic Fellowship and YDS community.

On December 5^th, Sr. Raffaella Petrini, FSE visited the Ohio Chapter of the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums in Cleveland, Ohio. At the gala dinner with over 250 persons, the President thanked the Ohio Patrons for their twenty years of selfless generosity in their dedication to restoration of various artistic works of the Vatican Museums.