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Since 2022, Ca' Foscari University in Venice has been publishing a new online journal of church history with open access, the Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity. Valentina Ciciliot, Giovanni Vian and Claus Arnold are responsible for the journal.
For those who wish to continue publishing both in a printed journal and with online access, please refer to the Römische Quartalschrift, which pays young authors an honorarium.
The best years of Maria Laach's liturgical movement was certainly not characterised by experiments, as one imagines liturgical movement today, but by solid historical research and monastic spirituality. We find ourselves after the First World War in the then booming and spiritually active abbey on Lake Laach.
The University of Vienna under the aegis of Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Feulner and Dr. Florian Wegscheider has established a new liturgy journal under the title Ex Fonte, which is only published online in open access (i.e. for free).
Church historian Christian Handschuh and Bavarian regional historian Britta Kägler explain what their university has to offer.
The new newsletter of the Görres Society, published by the office in Bonn, informs about the most important events from the first half of 2022 and about plans for the second half of the year. The RIGG is represented several times, once in the article about the study trip of the Young Forum to Rome, further about the new departmental structure, finally with the announcement of a Görres webinar on the history of the Roman Institute on 13 December.
On 24 September, a public symposium of the Ratzinger Circle of Students will take place in Rome (at the Augustinianum, 3 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.). The topic is: "Binding truth and further development of the Church's teaching". The speakers will be Cardinal Kurt Koch, Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer, Markus Graulich, Uwe Michael Lang and Helmut Moll.
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A conference on "Hubert Jedin (1900-1980): Storico del Concilio, cittadino di Trento" will be held in Trento on 13-14 October. Stefan Heid will speak about Jedin and his relationship to the Campo Santo Teutonico. Jedin remained closely connected to the German College of Priests from 1926 until his death. He experienced and knew six rectors, up to Erwin Gatz (+ 2011), who was even a student of Jedin's, insofar as he had attended his church history seminars in Bonn.
The International Circle of Priests will hold its 53rd meeting in Cologne from 2 to 4 August. The theme: "The Church today. Between Reform and Eternal Life". Speakers include Markus Enders, Manuel Schlögl, Peter Bruns, Berthold Wald and Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz.
After two years of Corona-related abstinence, Florian Rösch and Britta Kägler (Passau) invite all Görres members in the Munich area and interested parties to a first Munich Görres meeting - initially without a lecture. The intention is to resume lectures on a regular basis. The meeting will take place on Tuesday, 28 June, at 7 pm in the garden of the "Atzinger", in the immediate vicinity of the University. The exact information will come in time before 28 June. Registration with
The Regensburg Joseph Ratzinger Institute, in cooperation with the german Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI Foundation, organised a matinée on 18 June to mark the 95th birthday of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in the Hubertus Hall of Nymphenburg Palace in Munich. Outstanding addresses and speeches were given by Achim Buckenmaier, Christian Schaller, Nuncio Eterovic, Georg Gänswein and Marianne Schlosser (keynote speech), while Gudrun Sailer led through the programme. Thus three members of the RIGG alone were involved. The festive celebration can now be seen on KathTube.
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