REVIEW Nr. 23 3/2002
At the end of the year, as usual, Ackermann-Gemeinde
Nürnberg held their
regular winter workdays (Winterwerkwoche),
tis time it was the second time it was held in the International Center for
Spiritual Recovery (Centrum Internationale
Redintegrationis Spiritualis), founded by the Diocese of
Litoměřice in a former Franciscan monastery in Hejnice. The papers were given
for a group of 14 participants from Germany, and 20 participants from the Czech
Lands, among the others also by some of the members of our Society. PhDr.
Jan Kopřiva, from the Center for German, Norwegian
and Dutch Studies, College of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, gave his paper on
the topic of ‘Franz Kafka: zwischen Schloss und Am‘.
Doc. JUDr. Jiří R. Tretera,
Department of Legal History, College of Law, Charles University, gave a paper
on the topic of ‘Die neue staatskirchenrechtliche
Gesetzgebung in Tschechien und der Vertrag mit dem Apostolischen Stuhl‘.
The one-week work meeting was held under the auspices of another meber of the
Church Law Society, the director of the abovementioned Center, ThDr.
Ing. Miloš Raban, the Secretary of the Plenary Council of
the Catholic Church in the Czech Lands. The overall organization, as usual, was
perfectly carried out by the Nürnberg director Mr Norbert
Barenberg. The symposium was also visited by Mr Lothar
Palsa, the representative of the Ackermann-Gemeinde
Nürnberg central office in Munich.
On Friday, February 14, 2003 an honoration
took place in the dome of the Royal College Chapter of St Peter
and Paul, Vyšehrad, Prague. The honoration
regarded the newly discovered remainings of St Valentine. Our members partook
of a festive afternoon holy mass. We sent a congratulation on his name-day to
the honorary chair of our Society, Prof. JUDr.
Valentinu Urfusovi, who is an author of a breakthrough
publication on the provost of the Chapter of Vyšehrad, Mr Tomáš Berghauer.
A member of our Society, Mag.
Valdas Kužulis, who graduated from the College of
Catholic Theology, Charles University, Prague, and the WWU, Münster, received
priestly ordination on October 10, 2002, in Vilniusu. The ordaining bishop was
cardinal Audrys Juozas Bačkis, the archbishop metropolitan of Vilnius.
The Executive Editor of the Church Law
Review, a long-time member of the Church Law Society Committee, JUDr.
Štěpán Hůlka, on December 9, 2002, upon passing his
Master’s succesfully graduated from the College of Law, Westfalen Wilhelm
Univerzity, Münster, and this way gained the title of LL. M. in the branch of
Public Law.
The Society‘ Secretary, Mgr.
Záboj Horák, succeeded in defending his Doctor’s
disertation on November 7, 2002. The topic of the disertaton was The
Legal Regulation of the Activities of Core and School Intitutions of the
Churches in the USA. On doing so he finished his
post-grade doctor study at the College of Law, Charles University. On December
5, 2002, during a festive graduationin Carolinum, he was granted the scientific
title of the Doctor of the Charles University (Ph.D.).
Our congratulations to all the aforementioned
members and fans of the Church Law Society on their success attained, wishing
luck in developing their further activity.
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On December 7, 2002, Mons.
Prof. Dr. Péter Erdő, the rector of Pázmány University,
Budapest, a Church Law professor and a previous auxiliary bishop to
Székesfehérvár, was appointed the archbishop metropolite to Ostrihom-Budapest
and the primate of Hungary.
The City of Vatican, January 20, 2003
(VIS):
The Holy Father founded a military
ordinariate for Slovakia. Mons. František Rábek was
appointed an auxiliary bishop to Nitra, and the first military ordinary to
Slovakia.
News from the International Consociation
for Canon Study Promotion (Consociatio Internationalis Studio Iuris Canonici
Promovendo), Rome:
January 28, 2003, a new book called ‘Cogitations
on Forum Internum in the General Frame of Church Jurisdiction’
by Guida Saraceni was preseted, by
professors Sandro Gherro,
Joaquin Llobell and Cesare
Mirabelli4 , at the College
of Law, the Potifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome.
March 6, 2003, an academic jubilee called ‘The
Orders’ Integration and the Centrality of Personality between Universality and
Identity – the CIC Promulgation’s Twentieth Anniversary ’
is held at the College of canon Law, the Pontifical Gregorian University. The
following are amongst those partaking: Prof. Gianfranco
Ghirlanda SJ, J.E. Mons. Péter
Erdő, Prof. Cesare Mirabelli,
J.E. Zenon cardinal Grocholewski,
the Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, the Grand Chancellor of
the Pontifical Gregorian University. Prof. Silvio Ferrari (Milano),
and Prof. Giovanni Filoramo are
preparing a meeting at the university of Siena. The meeting is to be held April
2–3, 2003, and the topic stated is La giustizia nei
monoteismi (Justice in Monoteisms). Further
information may be obtained upon request at www.unisi.it/eventi/monoteismi
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