(15/10/26) On 3 November, Saint Mary’s University in Minnesota will host the international symposium “Beauty will Save Us: Wonder and Hope in the Works of Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI”. The event is organised by the university’s “Benedict XVI Chair”, in collaboration with the Vatican Foundation Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI, and forms part of the programme of celebrations marking the centenary of the Pope’s birth. Participants will include, amongst others, Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, Monsignor Robert Barron, Bishop of Winona-Rochester, Father James Burns, President of Saint Mary’s University, Father Roberto Regoli, President of the Ratzinger Foundation, Professor John C. Cavadini, Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana), to whom Pope Leo XIV will present the 2026 Ratzinger Prize at the Vatican on 19 December, and Professor Tracey Rowland, recipient of the Ratzinger Prize in 2020.
The Symposium will begin with a Mass celebrated on the morning of 3rd by Monsignor Bernard Anthony Hebda, Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, whilst on the evening of 2 November, Cardinal Koch will preside over a Solemn Requiem Mass.