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The lectures of the RIGG conference "Cult of the People: The People in Liturgical Movements and Reforms - An Ecumenical Revision" has been published by the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft and is now available. The editors are Markus Schmidt and Stefan Heid. The volume contains essays by Dieter Böhler, Harm Klueting, Andreas Bieringer, Dominik Burkard, Martin Wallraff, Uwe Michael Lang, Johannes Nebel, Alexander Deeg, Peter Zimmerling, Benjamin Leven and Helmut Hoping, among others.

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Hardly any pope was as pessimistic and at the same time as active as Gregory the Great (590-604). He saw the southern world - i.e. Italy - doomed by the storm of the Goths, but the Lombards, Franks and Spanish Visigoths turned to Roman Christianity. The shepherds - read: bishops - as Gregory imagined them were not politicians and humanists, but servants of the faithful people. He wrote his so-called Regula Pastoralis - Pastoral Rule - about this. It is now presented in a new german translation (with latin text) by the Trier patrologist Michael Fiedrowicz..

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The Order of St. John faced many challenges in the fifteenth century: its position in the Western Schism, the expansionist efforts of the Mamluks and the Ottomans, the real (physical) threat to the Order's seat in Rhodes and the consequent financial shortfall, as well as the ever-present threat to its internal constitution from disciplinary problems.

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Recently, a competent Vatican employee said that of the 100 new church buildings in Rome from the last decades that he knew of, only one was liturgically and artistically acceptable. Almost always, however, the architects were given free rein to create buildings according to their taste and "in the spirit of the Council". Of course, this is not how it should be. All the more important is a Spanish study by the Roman liturgy professor Fernando López-Arias, who corrects some misconceptions about the Council and brings it back down to earth with verifiable facts.

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