The Roman primacy in the first millennium

* In these days we have had two pieces of news that touch the life of the group. Professor Konstantinos G. Pitsakis has dies, an eminent scholarly personality, who knew to look with deep wisdom and discernment on the life of the Church and of men, as we have expressed in our message of affectionate nearness to his family. Professor Brian E. Daley, S.J., an eminent scholar of the fathers of the Church, has been awarded the Premio Ratzinger, a kind of Nobel of theology instituted to stimulate theological reflection, especially in the fields most cultivated by Joseph Ratzinger as theologian, cardinal, and now pope: the fields of fundamental theology, of the history of theology, especially patristic theology, the field of Biblical exegesis, but also of dogmatic theology, The prize will be conferred by Benedict XVI on 20 October, during the bishops’ synod on the “new evangelization”. We rejoice with fr Brian, with the University of Notre Dame, and with the Society of Jesus!