Pope Francis on Thursday appointed Bishop Marcello Semeraro as the new Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints He succeeds Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu He was ordained priest in 1971 and was appointed Bishop of Oria by St He was then transferred to the Suburbicarian Church of Albano on 1 October 2004 He is currently Apostolic Administrator ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of the Exarchic Monastery of S Maria di Grottaferrata and Pontifical Delegate of the Basilian Order of Italy He received his initial formation at the Pontifical Regional Seminary of Puglia he finished his theological studies at the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome where he obtained the academic degrees of Licentiate and Doctorate in Sacred Theology He then began the ministry of teaching Dogmatic Theology at the Pugliese Theological Institute and then Ecclesiology at the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Lateral University articles and dictionary entries on the themes of ecclesiology After the call to the episcopate he published texts on pastoral and priestly spirituality including a book with the "Preface" by Pope Francis He was Special Secretary of the 10th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Bishop: Servant of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the hope of the world He participated in the XIV Ordinary General Assembly on The vocation and mission of the family in the Church and in the contemporary world; in the XV Ordinary General Assembly on Youth faith and vocational discernment and in the Special Assembly for the Panamazzonic Region in 2019 Since 2013 he has been Secretary of the "Council of Cardinals" helping the Holy Father in the government of the Universal Church a role that the Pope has entrusted today to Bishop Marco Mellino Bishop Semeraro has been a member of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints since 2009 He is a member of the Dicastery for Communication and Consultor of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches he is President for the Latium Episcopal Conference of the Regional Commission for the Doctrine of the Faith Member of the CEI Episcopal Commission for the Doctrine of the Faith Announcement and Catechesis and President of the Board of Directors of the newspaper"Avvenire - Nuova Editrice SpA" Bishop Semeraro welcomed Pope Francis on a pastoral visit to Albano Thank you for reading our article. You can keep up-to-date by subscribing to our daily newsletter. Just click here The bulletin Today's Holy See's daily newspaper included the appointment of the hitherto Bishop of Albano A native of Monteroni di Lecce, in Puglia, Msgr. Semeraro was, since 2013 Secretary of the Council of Cardinals. He is also a member of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and of the Dicastery for Communication and Consultor to the Congregation for Oriental Churches Monsignor Mellino will be the new secretary of the Council of Cardinals He received his initial formation at the Pius XI Pius XI Pontifical Regional Pullés Seminary in Molfetta and subsequently perfected his theological studies at the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome where he obtained his Licentiate and Doctorate in Sacred Theology He then began the ministry of teaching dogmatic theology at the Pullés Theological Institute and then also ecclesiology at the Faculty of Theology of the P.U.L.L John Paul II Bishop of Oria and in October 2004 he was assigned to the Suburbicarian Church of Albano He was Special Secretary of the 10th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on The Bishop: Servant of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the Hope of the World Participated as a member by pontifical designation in the XIV Ordinary General Assembly on The vocation and mission of the family in the Church and in the contemporary world; in the XV Ordinary General Assembly on Young People, Faith and Vocational Discernmentl and in the Special Assembly for the Panamazon Region in 2019 Subscribe to Omnes magazine and enjoy exclusive content for subscribers Southern Italy’s Puglia region is known for its baroque architecture and olive oil production—not so much for its outdoor apparel. 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Monteroni di Lecce is the birthplace of Fracap a company that has been handcrafting hiking boots for men and women—in the heel of Italy’s “boot” is in some ways an ode to that brotherly bond The collection came about when the Simons buying team discovered the heritage hiking boot brand on a trip to South Korea After visiting Monteroni to meet with the Cappellos the Canadian department store chain and the Italian footwear company quickly bonded partnering to design two styles of M120 boots for men that released this fall Each is handmade with a core of hardy construction luxuriating beneath deceptively good looks Fracap’s shoemakers use Italian vegetable-tanned calf leather formed around Italian army–designed moulds with military-style stitching and hand-milled outsoles One style is black leather with a white sole; the other is dark brown leather with a beige sole The overall result: boots that look at home strutting down the runways of Milan Never miss a story. Sign up for NUVO’s weekly newsletter Metrics details The feeding biology of deep-sea octocorals remains poorly understood as attention is more often directed to reef building corals The present study focused on two common deep-water octocoral species in the Azores Archipelago aiming at determining their ability to exploit different food sources live zooplankton and dissolved organic matter (DOM) that were artificially enriched with 13C and 15N (C and N tracers) The presence of tracers was subsequently followed in the coral tissue C respiration and particulate organic C and N (POC and PON) release feeding with zooplankton resulted in significantly higher incorporation of tracers in all measured variables highlighting the importance of zooplankton for major physiological processes Our results revealed contrasting metabolic strategies between the two species meteor acquiring higher amounts of prey and allocating higher percentage to respiration and release of POC and PON than V Such metabolic differences can shape species fitness and distributions and have further ecological implications on the ecosystem function of communities formed by different octocoral species (a) Mixed coral garden of the octocorals Viminella flagellum and Dentomuricea aff meteor (b) and its polyps (c); coral fragment of V Tracer C (a) and N (b) incorporation (average ± SD) of the octocoral species Dentomuricea aff meteor and Viminella flagellum upon provision of different food sources enriched with 13C and 15N Axis breaks are used to highlight the large differences of tracer among treatments PHYTO: phytoplankton; Chaetoceros calcitrans; DOM: dissolved organic matter; ZOO: zooplankton Branchionus plicatilis Oxygen consumption (average ± SD) of the octocoral species Dentomuricea aff meteor and Viminella flagellum upon provision of different food sources Coral fragments were fed with the respective food source for four days and oxygen was measured in closed-cell incubations that took place immediately after feeding on day four and lasted for approximately 12-14 h FAST: no food provision; PHYTO: phytoplankton Chaetoceros calcitrans; ZOO: zooplankton Branchionus plicatilis; DOM: dissolved organic matter tracer C release (b) and tracer N release (c) of the octocoral species Dentomuricea aff Numbers below bars represent the number of coral fragments for which positive estimates were obtained (max 7) Axis breaks are used to highlight large differences in scale among some treatments PHYTO: phytoplankton Chaetoceros calcitrans; DOM: dissolved organic matter; ZOO: zooplankton Branchionus plicatilis Tracer utilized by fragments of two octocoral species Dentomuricea aff expressed as a percentage of the provided carbon of different food sources: PHYTO: phytoplankton Chaetoceros calcitrans; DOM: dissolved organic matter; ZOO: zooplankton Branchionus plicatilis Our results provide a direct demonstration of the importance of zooplankton for some deep-sea octocorals and highlight that they might be more selective than previously thought the lower incorporation of phytoplankton was unexpected coral fragments fed additionally on small particles (< 1 μm) that passed the filtration system This could explain the lower DOM and phytoplankton utilization but it further supports the hypothesis that both species can display selective feeding It allows more realistic comparisons compared to dry food as it takes into consideration both the capture and ingestion ability of the study species it includes a considerable error in determining and standardizing provided C quantities since C content can vary among culture batches the available C in the aquaria of the DOM and ZOO treatments was 30–40% higher than in the PHYTO treatment thus a proportionately higher utilization of the DOM and ZOO food sources was expected While this can explain the small differences in tracer C utilization between the PHYTO and DOM treatments it cannot explain the disproportionally larger tracer utilization under the ZOO treatment strongly indicating more efficient feeding on zooplankton but more studies on abiotic conditions and physiological cycles are essential to unravel their ecophysiology The increased POC release under the ZOO treatment showcases how feeding on zooplankton can enhance the contribution of octocoral species to C recycling and highlights their importance for bentho-pelagic coupling flagellum displays an erect growing pattern with bigger polyps and a lower surface to volume ratio that may have lower maintenance costs due to its metabolic strategy presented herein is expected to have an advantage under high food concentration the role of these species to local and global marine biogeochemical cycles should be further investigated Further studies on the ecophysiology of octocoral species under present and future scenarios of climate change are therefore essential to improve our understanding of the distribution and ecological function of deep-sea communities fragments were closely monitored to ensure that they had vibrant colour the absence of additional food (FAST) aimed at measuring the basal metabolic activity of the corals Experimental design of the two feeding experiments with the octocoral species Dentomuricea aff Exp cycle: Experimental cycles; Aq: Aquaria; PHYTO: phytoplankton Chaetoceros calcitrans; ZOO: zooplankton Branchionus plicatilis; DOM: dissolved organic matter; FAST: no food provision Rectangles represent experimental aquaria and black dots represent coral fragments zooplankton and phytoplankton food sources were prepared by adding enhanced levels of the stable isotope tracers 13C and 15N to the respective culture media calcitrans and Nannochloropsis gaditana were cultured using artificial seawater and an F/2 culture medium containing 50% 15N-sodium nitrate (NaNO3 Cambridge Isotopes) and 100% 13C-bicarbonate (NaHCO4 cultures were harvested by filtering with membrane filters (0.2 μm) rinsed with filtered SW (0.2 μm) and re-suspended in artificial SW Rotifer starter cultures (concentration: 45 rotifers ml−1) were inoculated in filtered seawater (1 μm) and continuously fed with 13C15N-enriched N Rotifer cultures were harvested by filtering (nylon filters rinsed and re-suspended in artificial seawater Preliminary analysis was performed to ensure that harvesting procedures did not affect cell concentration significantly An algal-derived product of dissolved amino-acids (Cambridge Isotopes Prey was provided to a target carbon (C) concentration of 10 μmol L−1 similar to POM concentrations previously recorded in mixed gardens of the two species (A Cultures were scheduled to reach the desired prey concentration corresponding to the desired target C concentration on the day of delivery and were harvested a few hours before provision To monitor the experimental food concentrations aliquots of the provided food were taken before provision and analyzed a posteriori for DW and carbon content each experimental cycle consisted of five days fragments were positioned in the aquaria one next to the other Once per day a predefined quantity of food was provided to reach a concentration of 10 μmol C L−1 Flow of 4 cm s−1 was established for one hour and water renewal was paused just before supplying aquaria with food This flow speed was selected as it allowed both species to capture live prey (Rakka et al. unpublished data) and kept prey in suspension for 12 h without affecting its concentration water renewal was reestablished and all remaining food was cleaned by siphoning In the last day of each experimental cycle and immediately after the end of feeding closed cell incubations were performed to measure oxygen consumption Seven coral fragments from each food treatment were transferred to 450 ml glass chambers with pre-filtered seawater (0.7 μm) and glass-coated magnetic stirrers All chambers were placed in a water bath keeping temperature at 14 ± 0.5 °C Another two chambers were left without coral fragments and served as controls Respiration rates were derived from depletion of dissolved O2 during the incubation measured by a single channel oxygen meter (Fibox4) with a PSt3 sensor (PreSens The chamber with the larger fragment was continuously connected to the sensor to monitor oxygen saturation levels during the incubations Each incubation lasted for approximately 14 h in which oxygen saturation never dropped below 80% Oxygen consumption was standardized to the tissue organic carbon content (OC) without taking into account the main skeletal axis These values were adjusted for rates recorded in chambers without coral fragments to account for microbial respiration Water samples were taken before and after each incubation to determine the concentration of DIC and 13C-DIC Samples were kept in 10 mL headspace vials with 10 μL of a saturated mercury chloride solution and stored at 4 °C until analysis the remaining water (300 ml) from each chamber after the end of the incubation was filtered through precombusted Filters were freeze-dried and kept at room temperature until analysis Upon completion of each experimental cycle fragments were freeze-dried and stored at -80 ºC Fragments were dissected to separate the tissue from the skeleton The tissue was ground by mortar and pestle and a subsample was analyzed for total C and N content and isotopic ratios using an elemental analyzer (Thermo Electron Flash 1112) coupled to an isotope ratio mass spectrometer (EA‐IRMS A second subsample was acidified stepwise with drops of HCl to remove the inorganic C fraction and all remaining material was analyzed on the elemental analyzer for organic C content and isotopic ratio Tissue C and N content of each fragment (i.e without coral skeleton) was standardized to DW 13C: 12C) of each coral fragment (Rsample) was calculated as Rsample = ([δtracerCsample/1000] + 1) × Rref where Rref = 0.0111802 for organic C (OC) and Rref = RN2 = 0.0036782 for organic N (ON) F13 = 13C/[12C + 13C]) was expressed as Ftracer = Rsample/(Rsample + 1) Experimental 13C and 15N enrichment of each coral fragment tissue was expressed in relation to the fractional abundance of the respective fasting (non-enriched) fragment or average of fasting fragments of the same colony tracer 13C incorporation was calculated by multiplying 13C enrichment with tissue OC content (μmol 13C fragment−1) and tracer 15N incorporation was obtained by multiplying 15N enrichment with tissue ON content (μmol 15N fragment−1) The total amount of C or N incorporated into coral tissue from the provided labelled food source (tracer C and N incorporation) was calculated by dividing the tracer C or N incorporation of each fragment with the fractional abundance (F13 or F15) of the respective food source Final tracer C and N incorporation rates were normalized to the OC (mmol) of each coral fragment A final tracer C budget was compiled by estimating tracer C incorporation tracer C respiration and tracer C release for the duration of the 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Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily. For Graziano Pellè, there have been many potential pitfalls. He grew up in Monteroni di Lecce in the heel of Italy where young boys can have their heads turned the wrong way and never find a way back he could easily have chosen ballroom dancing as his profession after becoming national under-12s champion in partnership with his sister Had he not booked a holiday to Ibiza, where by chance he met a friend of Ronald Koeman’s son, leading to a move to Feyenoord his promising yet fluctuating career might never have taken off This season he has scored six Premier League goals for the surprise high-fliers Southampton was named the league’s player of the month for September and made his debut for Italy It is fair to say Pellè has been the revelation of the season so far On Sunday he and his team face their toughest test yet of a hitherto superb season when the league champions The entire family Pellè lived together in a concrete villa in Monteroni built by Graziano’s grandfather Graziano played football in the house with his nephew Alessandro but it was his grandfather who was his footballing influence from a broken heart following the death of his wife “I’m so sorry he can’t see my current success,” his grandson says Pellè has his family to thank for everything In his district boys can easily choose a different path but he did not care about materialistic things He would rather sit next to his grandfather in the car would display a true Italian temper if his son stayed too long at the wrong place which could easily be at an innocent piazza playing calcetto (five-a-side) just like every other Italian kid The family used to go dancing every Saturday night Graziano and his sister were strongly inspired by their mother and they became junior ballroom champions “I think it was my advantage that I was tall I could spin more than the other guys,” he says It helped him with his other hobby: football co-ordination; I think I move easy for a tall striker But it was too hard to combine and the changing from normal shoes to high heels to football boots was killing me His dedication in the youth teams of his home-town club Lecce paid off with his senior debut in January 2004 but it took him two years to find the net He was by then out on loan at Crotone in Serie B I was thinking too much when I was in front of the goal Without it you’ll never get a good grade in the paper.” The tall target man made it to the Italy youth squads and during the European Under-21 Championship in 2007 The Manchester United manager demanded he was bought by AZ Alkmaar where he was building what would prove a championship-winning team In many ways you sense he was born in the wrong decade I saw him nearly kiss an old photograph of one of the Dutch club’s icons He absorbed the stories about the club legends of Feyenoord which a lot of young boys in Rotterdam still sport today “Italians in particular were known for being people with charm style and class,” Pellè told me with eyes that were as bright as his hair The man would always keep the door open for her in a restaurant Now everybody looks at dumb reality soaps or practically lives on social media.” Cult hero: Graziano Pellè was captain of his former club Photograph: Olaf Kraak/AFP/Getty ImagesUnabashedly he reveals how he celebrates the monthly anniversary of his relationship with his girlfriend After the first month he bought her a hundred roses after two months he bought her a cake with their picture on it and after nine months a piece of fruit with a chocolate No9 on top of it “I never forget these kind of things,” he says With a smile he recalls when Viktoria texted him one morning complaining he had forgot about their eight-months anniversary and did not care about her any more The striker replied: ‘Clearly you are still in bed’ In the bathroom mirror he had written a declaration of his love … with her lipstick On Valentine’s Day he took her out to the restaurant of Amsterdam’s fancy Amstel Hotel but sent a friend to get nuggets from McDonalds and let the cook put it on her plate alongside a rose because it was her favourite dish but during his first spell he had trouble making his mark He started his first season late at AZ because he had to play in the Espoirs tournament for young players in Toulon and AZ were already on a roll Pellè was used as a supersub and his dramatic expressions and celebrations irked some influential television pundits because AZ had to get rid of some high-paid players He signed a five-year contract with the Italian club but after only half a season went on loan to Sampdoria “There wasn’t a manager in Italy that really believed in him,” says Pellè’s agent Romualdo Corvino “In Italy they don’t really invest in players without experience In Holland they care more about how you develop and play They give strikers more confidence and more chances When he returned to Holland in 2012 his popularity went to another level after he scored the equaliser for Feyenoord against their rivals Ajax screamed and flexed his muscles like a bodybuilder The picture was on the front of every newspaper Feyenoord was a turning point that would never have taken place if Pellè had not met a friend of Koeman’s son who was taking a holiday at the same resort in Ibiza The talkative Italian spoke highly about Dutch football and Koeman The coach and the striker got in touch and their mutual desire to win at all costs culminated in Pellè moving back to Holland and even becoming captain at De Kuip whose playing career never rose higher than Serie C “My father is very superstitious,” Pellè told the Dutch football writer Renate Verhoofstad “If he watches a match at home and my mother goes to the toilet and the opponent scores she’s not allowed to go to the toilet again during the match Once I took home two romper suits for my nephews with Feyenoord on them Next week I scored twice and now my nephews are obliged to wear the rompers every game.” Pellè grew larger than life in Rotterdam, hosting Feyenoord’s ladies day and acting in a commercial for the television channel Eredivisie Live At Feyenoord’s training ground he was famous for being “over-emotional” if team-mates did not put in enough effort (“my Italian 10 minutes” he calls these flashes of temper) He also told them not to mopeabout for too long when things did not go their way And Pellè went mad when the title was out of reach last season. He kicked at a dugout and some TV cameras after a late goal from FC Twente and told an interviewer that he had “an Ajax-face” He was suspended for four matches and stripped of the captaincy Still the Feyenoord fans loved him but a divorce was inevitable When Koeman went to Southampton it was logical Pellè would follow him to England He was not afraid of failing in the Premier League while hoping to fulfil his grandfather’s biggest wish The call came from Antonio Conte in October and Pellè scored the winner against Malta Life is good for Pellé and could become even better with a match-winning performance against City paraphrasing a famous writer: “I live my life not to lose something but to win something.” This is the archive of The Observer up until 21/04/2025 The Observer is now owned and operated by Tortoise Media A 29-year-old man has been arrested in Italy after he was caught in possession of a fake driving licence purportedly issued in Malta Italian media reported that the man was stopped in San Floriano in Treviso during routine checks by the police officers in Castelfranco who noticed some anomalies in the document The man confessed to the police that he had bought the licence for €1,200 In a statement the local police said that for a moment the officers thought it was a genuine document and it was only upon a closer look using specialised equipment that it emerged that the document had been forged The vehicle was impounded and the document was seized and the case was referred to the competent authorities We use cookies to ensure users are given the best experience on our website We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze how you use this website and provide the content and advertisements that are relevant to you These cookies will only be stored in your browser with your prior consent You can choose to enable or disable some or all of these cookies but disabling some of them may affect your browsing experience Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the various categories Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms The _cf_bm cookie is used by OneSignal to facilitate the delivery of web push notifications on this website Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors This cookie is installed by Marfeel Solutions Registers data on visitors' website-behaviour This is used for internal analysis and website optimization This cookie is installed by Facebook and identifies browsers for the purposes of providing advertising and site analytics services This cookie is installed by Google Analytics Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns The OAID cookie is set by our Adserver to deliver targeted ads on the  website It tracks user interactions with ads (e.g. impressions) to optimize ad delivery without collecting personally identifiable information This helps provide relevant ads based on browsing activity Other cookies are those that are being identified and have not been classified into any category as yet