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The History Society of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart is organising a study day with a general meeting in the magnificent former monastery of Zwiefalten (near Tübingen) on 22 October. Auxiliary Bishop Dr Gerhard Schneider, once a collegiate at Campo Santo Teutonico, will be there.
The highly recommendable journal ACADEMIA (4/2022) of the Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen (Cartel Association of Catholic German Student Fraternities) presents the large volume by Klaus Herbers and Matthias Simperl (picture) on the medieval papal chronicle "Liber Pontificalis" on a full two pages. The volume emerged from a RIGG conference four years ago. In the same ACADEMIA issue, Dr Martin Barth also presents the Görres Society (here, pp. 50-51).
review in academia liber pontificalis
The "Domladen" in Altenberg near Cologne is pleased with the good sales of "Altar und Kirche. Prinzipien christlicher Liturgie" (2nd ed. 2019). Mr Waizner, who worked for many years in the Kösel bookshop near Cologne Cathedral, is now working in Altenberg. He took the proof photo and is happy to receive your order.
The active history association of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart is organising a thematically very appealing and rich conference on "Monasteries, Spiritual Women's Communities and Church Foundations from the 19th Century to the Present" from 22 to 24 September in Weingarten Monastery. Special focus is on the former Cistercian Abbey of Heggbach. The general theme is the massive ups and downs of the orders within two centuries: from the arduous revival of the orders after secularisation to the culmination of expansion before the First World War to the still unstopped rapid decline since the 1960s.
Father Helmut Rakowski, who had been working at the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelisation since 2013, joined the RIGG in 2017 (in the Political Science Section of the Görres Society). Just one year later, he moved to Munich as spiritual director of the Catholic School of Journalism. Now he was elected Provincial of the German Capuchin Province in Münster. May the Capuchin Order blossom again!
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.
Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft
