News around the globe
The two Görres members Dr Matthias Simperl (Augsburg) and Thomas Müller (Rome) have won prizes. Müller received the Pelkhoven Award from the Munich student association Aenania for his thesis on church history in Munich, while Matthias Simperl received the Albertus Magnus Award from the Diocese of Augsburg for his dissertation.
The exhibition ‘Wrapped in Splendour’ about magnificent vestments in Christian Nubia is running at the Bode Museum in Berlin until 12 April. The medieval Nubian empire with its wall paintings, on the basis of which the robes were reconstructed, was excavated by Polish archaeologists before the ruins were irrevocably destroyed by the Aswan Dam.
The new online platform Communio (Verlag Herder) regularly publishes articles related to Rome (category ‘City of Miracles’), most recently an article by Stefan Heid on the benefits of indulgences for historians.
The lectures given by Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prof Johannes Grohe, Prof Ralph Weimann and Prof Helmut Moll at the Theological Summer Academy 2024 in Augsburg can now be viewed on video.
The Paul Maria Baumgarten Institute for Papal History at the University of Wuppertal is organising a study day on 17 January, which can also be followed online. Federica G. Giordani from the RIGG will be among the speakers.
Before Christmas, Lucas Wiegelmann published an article in the NOZ about the archaeological excavations being carried out by the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology under the direction of RIGG member Prof. Gabriele Castiglia (photo).
The Diocese of Fulda invites you to the anniversary conference 10 Years Gangolf-Schrimpf-Fellowship on 13/14 February 2025 in the Auditorium maximum of the Faculty of Theology. The Fulda monastery goes back to Winfried-Bonifatius and is the nucleus of the mission among the Hessians and far beyond.
The sensational essay by Prof. Dr Christian Hecht in the Ratzinger homage ‘Historische Intuitionen’ (Historical Intuitions) of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society, in which he proves the false liturgical orientation of the Sistine Chapel, has now found its way into the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in abridged form.
On 22 January at 6.15 pm, Prof. Dr Rainald Becker will give his inaugural lecture as full professor at the Chair of European Regional History and Bavarian and Swabian Regional History at the University of Augsburg's Faculty of Phil. on the topic of ‘Endstation Sehnsucht - Bayern in Rom’.
On 24 January at 5 p.m., Prof. Dr Helmut Hoping will give his farewell lecture at the University of Freiburg i.Br. (Kollegiengebäude I, Aula) on the topic of ‘Mind and Universe. The Enigma of Consciousness’. Hoping is a full professor of dogmatics and liturgical science and has taken part in the two RIGG liturgical conferences ‘Operation am lebenden Objekt’ and ‘Kult des Volkes’. He is also known for his work in the Ratzinger Schülerkreis.
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