On 8 March at 3 p.m. at the Pontifical College of Santa Croce in Rome there will be a lecture on the topic "Joseph Ratzinger's Elliptical Ecumenism" by Prof. Michael Root from the Catholic University in Washington.

On 24-25 March at the Phil.-Theol. Hochschule Heiligenkreuz there will be a conference on "Das Prophetische in dre Theologie von Papst Benedikt XVI. / Joseph Ratzinger" with Maximilian Heim, Christian Schaller, Jan-Heiner Tück and others.