THE cardinalsalso called purple, are high prelates appointed by the Pope. From the first centuries of Christianity, but their role has changed significantly over time. Today the cardinals are 252, but only 135 of them participate in the election of the Pope: In fact, those who are more than 80 years old are excluded from the vote. Most of the ...
A strong shock of earthquake of magnitude 6.2 He hit Western Turkey and in particular Istanbul today 23 April 2025 at 12:49 rooms (11:49 Italians), with an epicenter in Marmara sea Near the city of Silivri and about 80 km from the city on the Bosphorus. The shock – with a rather modest depth of 10 km – was followed ...
Technology is everywhere, even on the occasion of conclave which in the next few days will be held in Vatican. After the departure of Pope Franciswe already think about the election of his successor with others conclavea term that has always evoked secrecy and confidentiality. It is no coincidence that the word “conclave” is borrowed from Latin cum claveor closed ...
Credit: Google Earth The last weekly bulletin of the Vesuvian Observatory of the Ingv on the monitoring data of Campi Flegreireferring to the week from 14 to 20 April, confirms that the soil in the area continues to rise due to bradisism with a speed of 20 millimeters per month approximately, stable after the seismic event of 13 March of ...
THE’fisherman ring It is one of the signs of Pope: it is worn (to the ring finger of the right hand) on some liturgical occasions, and generally it is made of gold or golden silver. Today has a only symbolic value (represents the papal power), but in the past it was used as seal to authenticate the documents. The ring ...
When you navigate up Internetyours browser automatically stores a series of temporary files associated with the websites you visit. This system, known as “Cache”allows you to speed up the loading of the pages you visit frequently, avoiding to download the same data each time. In some situations, this function may cause display problems or malfunctions on certain sites. When this ...
It is a behavior so known that it is proverbial: the dog that bites the tail is synonymous with a futile and seamless feat. In dogs this behavior is quite common, especially in puppies who are learning about their body and who have not yet realized that the tail is part of it. But what does this gesture mean? In ...
Almost all religions recognize figures who, for their wisdom and their culture, act as Guide of the community of the faithfullocally or nationally: among them the Orthodox patriarchsThe Imam Muslimi rabbis head of the Jewish communities, i guru Hindu and, for the Tibetan Buddhists, the Dalai Lama. The roles and attributions of these figures are very different but in no ...
There are novels so long as to look like encyclopedias: they are books for courageous readers, heavy to the point of making us cramps on the wrists, which intimidate for their length but often give surprising scenarios. Behind the amount of pages that engages us for weeks, sometimes months, a masterpiece often hides: here’s 10 “giants” of narrative That – ...
As strange as it may seem, in Singapore it is prohibited import, produce and sell chewing tires. The ban was introduced to keep the roads clean and for safety reasons. Do you think that transgressors can be punished with fines up to 20 thousand dollars and a detention up to 2 years. But why? The Call for chewing tires The ...