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The new online platform Communio (Verlag Herder) regularly publishes articles with a Roman connection (category ‘City of Wonders’), most recently an article by Stefan Heid on the Easter origins of archaeology.
Katholisch.de has compiled a list of places where Pope Benedict XVI is commemorated. In addition to the Regensburg Institute, the birthplace in Marktl, and the residence in Pentling, the Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI Study Library at Campo Santo Teutonico, which belongs to the College of Priests but is looked after by the RIGG, is also presented.
The Princely House of Thurn und Taxis, with its ancestral seat at St. Emmeram Palace in Regensburg, has always shown an interest in researching its own history. This is also expressed in the new series of ‘Thurn und Taxis Studien’, edited by Wilhelm Imkamp, Peter Styra and Dieter Weiß and published by the Regensburg publishing house Pustet.
Dr Georg Röwekamp, who has long been an institution in Jerusalem and also works closely with the Görres Society and the Roman Institute, has left his post as director of the pilgrims' house in Tabga on Lake Gennesaret, which he has held since 2020.
Dr Andreas Raub (consultant for History of Art at the RIGG) also appears in the documentary ‘Jesus goes to Holywood’ (2024) about films and images of Christ. He presents the Stations of the Cross, as they can be seen at Campo Santo, for example, as significant forerunners of the cinematic Jesus Passions.
The Benedict XVI Forum is about the ‘sense of the sacred’. The speakers are Cardinal Kurt Koch, Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer, Ralph Weimann, Markus Grabulich, Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger, Stefanos Athanasiou and Andreas Wollbold.
On Wednesday, 16 April, Stefan Heid will give a lecture at 7.30 pm as part of the Dahlem Forum Bernhardinum on the topic: ‘Rome and the Jubilee Years, or: The Keys of Pope Boniface VIII’. Venue: Königin-Luise-Str. 33.
The ‘Raffael of Ratzinger’, the Erfurt painter Michael Triegel, currently has an exhibition entitled ‘Beyond the Visible’ at the Suermondt Ludwig Museum in Aachen. It runs until 15 June. Triegel is one of the most important contemporary artists. He has twice painted portraits of Pope Benedict XVI. The Roman portrait adorns the recently published homage to Benedict XVI by the Roman Institute of the Görres Society.
Deadline: 4 May
A workshop on power structures from the 4th to the 10th century will be held at the University of Bonn from 5 to 7 November 2025. Contributions are invited.
The 5th Interdisciplinary Summer Academy for young people will take place at Ottobeuren Abbey from 6 to 10 August 2025. The theme this time is ‘Perspectives on Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Scientific Methods’. Dr Reinhild E. Bues and Dr Thomas Kieslinger are responsible for the event.
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