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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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On Thursday, 23 June, Dr Ignacio García will talk about "El Archivo del Camposanto Teutónico, una venta a una minoría en el Vaticano en la Historia Moderna y Contemporánea". The online lecture at 16.20-17.00 will take place as part of the symposium "Los archivos eclesiásticos en la construcción de la Memoria del Mundo" (UNESCO - Comité Mex. Memoria del Mundo/Centro de Conocimiento de Memoria del Mundo Vizcaínas/ Centro de Estudios de Historia de México, Fundación Carlos Slim). The opening lecture will be followed by two sessions dealing in particular with Mexican church archives (diocesan but also religious archives). Those interested may This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.directly.

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In Hildesheim, several university and church institutions have joined forces to offer a promising, even brilliant conference with a whole series of highlights to the interested public. The occasion is: 1000 years of the consecration of the monk Godehard as bishop of Hildesheim. Jörg Bölling (University), Monika Suchan (Cathedral Library) and Thomas Scharf-Wrede (Diocesan Archives) are in charge. The conference offers a compact introduction to the Middle Ages with lectures on art, history, manuscripts, liturgy, music, monastic culture, etc., as well as church services and visits to exhibitions.

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Dr. Britta Kägler, Professor of Bavarian Regional History and European Regional History, will give her inaugural lecture at the University of Passau - delayed by Corona - on the topic of "Rethinking Education Bavaria's Education Offensive and the Founding of the University of Passau in the Educational Policy Context of the 1960s and 1970s". The lecture fits in with the 400th anniversary of the University. 

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On 4 June at 7.30 pm Stefan Heid will give a public lecture on "The beginnings of pilgrimages to Jerusalem" in the conference room of the Marienhaus of St Walburg Abbey in Eichstätt. Those interested are welcome.

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Prof. Dr. Christoph Markschies (Berlin) has been the new President of the Union of Eight German Academies of Sciences and Humanities since May, and thus sits at a key point in German science policy with an annual volume of 70 million euros from the federal and state governments.

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As is well known, the Nazis tried to instrumentalise ongoing encyclopaedia companies. The best-known example is the "Handwörterbuch des deutschen Aberglaubens" (Hand Dictionary of German Superstition) (1927-1942), which was ransacked in the 1930s and is nevertheless in every library because of its wealth of material. The Paderborn priest Theodor Klauser, who was at the Campo Santo Teutonico from 1925-1927 and 1931-1934, was commissioned as early as 1935 by his Bonn teacher Franz-Joseph Dölger to compile a dictionary of antiquity and Christianity.

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Datum: 2022-09-23

Ort: Aachen

Finally, a normal General Assembly of the Görres Society is to take place again, this time in Aachen. On Saturday evening, the informal "Römertreffen" will take place again (if you are interested, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).  To participate in the General Assembly, please register here, so that your name will also appear in the printed list of participants. From Rome, flights with Ryanair to Cologne are probably the cheapest (or possibly Eurowings).

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The private initiative "fideliter intellegens" of Catholic doctoral students is offering a summer academy on the topic of "Man and Technology" at Ottobeuren Abbey (24-28 August).

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The Archive of the Catholic Military Bishop is organising a conference at the Catholic Military Bishop's Office in Berlin from 29 September to 1 October 2022 on the history of Catholic military chaplaincy in the Bundeswehr after its foundation in 1956. The deadline for registration is 30 June. The programme includes interesting lectures on Franz Jägerstätter, Manfred Graf von Pourtalès, the Wehrmacht, conscientious objection and ecumenism, among others.

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