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The 126th General Assembly and Annual Conference of the Görres Society will take place in Regensburg from 27 to 29 September 2024. The general theme is "Creation and Responsibility". The detailed programme is not yet known, but it is important to register online so that your name appears in the printed list of participants.
Mag. theol. Julian Heissenberger (* 1989 in Oberpullendorf in Burgenland) studied theology after attending the Federal Commercial Academy in Vienna and Milan and taught at grammar school and secondary school in Neusiedl am See. He has been studying Canon Law at the Gregoriana since 2021. In addition to his pastoral activities, he is a trained Red Cross paramedic, a lecturer in first aid and speaks Austrian sign language.
The bookshop "La Leoniana" in the immediate vicinity of St Peter's Square has made an agreement with the RIGG whereby all members of the RIGG receive a discount ("sconto") of 10% (no guarantee). The bookshop is international, so it sells books in all languages.
Now in its ninth year, the Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI Study Library is the world's largest specialised library on the German Pope, with 2,300 titles in around 40 languages.
Tim Hager (* 1996, Passau) studied for a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Historical Sciences at the University of Passau from 2018 to 2024. His Master's thesis is about a Catholic priest from Lower Bavaria in his role as a resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Tim Hager is currently spending a semester abroad in Rome in the summer semester of 2024. Following this, he intends to start his doctorate.
Giovanni Howard Muz (* Pordenone, 1998) studied Classical Literature and the Sciences of Antiquity at the University of Udine, dealing, in his three-year thesis, with historical echoes in the tragedy of Euripides and, in his master's thesis, with portraiture with aegis from Alexander the Great to the Antonines. In addition he obtained a second-level master's degree at the Scuola Superiore 'di Toppo Wassermann', Udine. He is currently a fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology (PIAC) in Rome, and intends to carry out doctoral research there.
During the retirement ceremony for Prof Dr Johannes Grohe, he was presented with a comprehensive commemorative publication at the Pontifical University of S. Croce. The following short video offers an insight into the ceremony.
In an academic ceremony in the packed auditorium of the Pontifical University of S. Croce in Piazza Navona on 9 March, Prof. Dr Johannes Grohe, Professor of Church History, was presented with a voluminous commemorative publication, a "true opus of scholarship" (p. X).
The Roman Institute has, at the end of 2023, with 252 members continuously increased its membership share of the entire Görres Society within 13 years from 2.47 % to now 8.78 %, although the membership of the entire Görres Society is growing again (2021: 2.806; 2022: 2.840; 2023: 2.871). The strongest section of the Görres Society in terms of numbers is History. Most of the new members of the Roman Institute also join this section.
Every year around Easter, the Roman Institute of the Görres Society publishes and sends out a detailed, illustrated annual report. However, the report is already available as a PDF and can be viewed and downloaded here:
Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft
