Twenty-three students from Spain, studying for the 2025 Master's Degree, organized by the Cadena de Ondas Populares Españolas, better known as Radio COPE, met with Sr. Raffaella Petrini, Secretary General of the Governorate on Friday morning, 24 January, at the Palace of the Governorate.

An international conference, titled “Sharing hope – Horizons for Cultural Heritage”, will be held in the Conference Hall of the Vatican Museums at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, 15 February. Promoted by the Dicastery for Culture and Education and the Governorate of Vatican City State’s Directorate of Museums and Cultural Heritage, the conference is part of events that have been organized for the Jubilee of Artists and the World of Culture.

“Witnesses of Hope”

The Directorate of Telecommunications and Information Systems’ Post and Philately Service has launched a series of initiatives in preparation for Jubilee 2025, including the issue of four stamps dedicated to people whose exemplary lives and message of faith, have made them stand out as “witnesses of hope”, the opening of a new post office in Saint Peter’s Square and an increase in the number of current staff involved in the creation of new stamps. We spoke with Father Felice Bruno, Office Manager of the Post and Philately Service, about these news developments, in the following interview with www.vaticanstate.va.

The restoration of tunic, a treasure of the Sancta Sanctorum

A generous new contribution from the Illinois Chapter of the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums has permitted the restoration of a tunic of the Sancta Sanctorum, which held the most ‘sacred’ relics of Christianity.

Father Sabino Maffeo, SJ, died peacefully on 21 January in the Jesuit Saint Peter Canisius Residence, in Rome’s Via dei Penitenziari, at the age of 102. He spent 87 of those as a member of the Society of Jesus.