Aprender Roma is the name of the training initiative for Spanish priests hosted by the University in the week from July 22 to 27, 2019. In addition to sessions held by professors of the School of Church Communications, the participants meet several journalists who deal with religious information in Rome and representatives of the Roman Curia, including the Prefect of the Papal Household, Georg Gäenswein.
Present, among others, the Bishop of Getafe and President of the Episcopal Commission of Media of Spain, Ginés Beltrán.
Organized by Polis Institute of Jerusalem, on July there will be Intensive Courses of Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Classes are conducted directly in Latin, Greek or Hebrew.
The Polis Institute employs the most cutting-edge techniques for living languages. We present the richness of Classical Latin, Ancient Greek and biblical Hebrew through reading, writing, speaking and listening that follows a natural progression.
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Also in this month of June 2019, the University welcomes a group of American seminarians for the Roman stage of The Rome Experience, the formative itinerary that takes place since 2009.
The initiative foresees for this edition courses on the New Evangelization and human virtues beyond, pilgrimages to the Marian Shrines, the Major Basilicas and the Roman catacombs, as well as a spiritual retreat.
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On Friday, May 24, 2019 (3.30 pm, Aula Bendetto XVI), on the occasion of World Africa Day, the University hosts the Start Up Africa reflection meeting, promoted by the Harambee Africa International Association.
The winner of the "Harambee Award for Micro-Entrepreneurship", Wycliffe Nyabade Guguni, Kenyan, co-founder of a community cooperative dedicated to the disposal of solid waste in the Kibra slum in Nairobi will also be awarded.
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On May 18 and 19, 2019 (Bonus Pastor Convention Center - Via Aurelia 208) the 11th Workshop of our SISRI School was held on the topic of Tests of the future: scientific progress and human progress 50 years after the descent of man on the moon.
On Saturday morning, the conference of prof. Giancarlo Genta, Professor of Mechanical Design and Machine Construction at the Polytechnic of Turin was held on "The role of space in human progress between imagination and reality".
In the afternoon, the round table
On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 (8.45 am, Aula Álvaro del Portillo), on the initiative of the School of Philosophy, the Day of Study on Niels Steensen (1638-1686), Science, Philosophy and Religion took place
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In view of the Beatification - on May 18, 2019 - of the Venerable Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri, the first faithful lay person of Opus Dei to be raised to the altars, on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 (4:00 pm, Aula Magna "John Paul II") the University hosted a reflection on lay holiness.
In the presence of the Prelate of Opus Dei and Grand Chancellor of the University, Msgr. Fernando Ocáriz, in addition to the Spanish Venerable, the figures of Chiara Luce Badano, Carlo Acutis, Enrique Shaw, Chiara Corbella, Marta Obregón and Angelica Tiraboschi was investigated.
From April 18 to 22, 2019, due to Easter festivities, the Palazzo of Apollinare and the Library will be closed to the public. Regular activity will re-begin Tuesday, April 23.
The academic community of Santa Croce extends to each warm greetings for a Holy Easter.
