Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft
The President of the Görres-Gesellschaft, Prof Dr Bernd Engler, has appointed Dr Ignacio Lascurain Bernstorff to the Board of Directors of the Roman Institute of the Görres-Gesellschaft.
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The President of the Görres-Gesellschaft, Prof. Dr Bernd Engler, has appointed Dr Johan Ickx as Vice Director of the Roman Institute of the Görres-Gesellschaft. Ickx succeeds Prof. Dr Johannes Grohe, who has returned to Germany.
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On 8 September 2024, the house community of Campo Santo Teutonico celebrated the 25th anniversary of profession of Father Augustinus Sander OSB, Benedictine monk of Maria Laach Abbey.
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The 126th General Assembly of the Görres-Gesellschaft in Regensburg ended successfully with over 300 registrations and marked a stabilising stage on the way to its former greatness after the unfortunate Corona years.
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The Roman Quarterly (Römische Quartalschrift), published by the Roman Institute of the Görres Society and the College of Campo Santo Teutonico, is now available digitised from the first volume 1887 to the volume 2009. These 103 volumes are now available online free of charge on the Index Theologicus platform of the University of Tübingen.
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Since September 2024, Dr Florian Pichler has been studying at the Pontifical Lateran University for a degree in both law. In December 2023, he completed his doctorate in Vienna on clerical confidentiality and the secrecy of the confessional in canon law and in Austrian and German religious law.
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Since 1 September, Sebastian Grünbaum has been the new RIGG scholarship holder for the Martin Chemnitz Scholarship. In his doctoral thesis, he is focussing on the reception of the Council of Trent (1545-1563).
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Joseph Ratzinger had been a member of the Görres Society - a catholic association of accademics, founded in 1876 - since 1957 and a member of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society since his move from Munich to Rome in 1982, i.e. for 40 years until his death in 2022. The desire has therefore arisen to honour the German Pope with a tribute. 37 former active members of the Roman Institute took part.
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In the 136th year of its existence, the RIGG is once again offering a series of lectures for the academic year 2024/25: by Christian Hecht, Stefan Rebenich, Sible de Blaauw, Ruth Slenczka, Arnd Uhle and Gabriel Steinschulte. As usual, the lectures will take place at the Campo Santo Teutonico. As a rule, the lectures will be transmitted via zoom.
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Constantin Felber (* 2003 in Munich) began studying law at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg after graduating from high school in Munich, specialising in commercial criminal law. He is currently in his 6th semester and is a scholarship holder of the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation and spokesman of the HSS-Hochschulgruppe Leipzig. He is very interested in canon law and is completing an internship at the Vatican Dicastery for Legislative Texts.
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