Noémi Geng will be the director of the new pastoral office in Zrenjanin

The diocesan synod in the diocese of Zrenjanin ended in May 2021. In point 8 of the post-synodal episcopal exhortation, Bishop László German SVD of Nagybecskerek expressed his intention to establish the diocesan pastoral office on 1 September of this year and to appoint its head to develop the pastoral process of the diocese, to implement the synodal decisions and to renew the diocese in synodal terms. Following a preliminary application, Noémi Geng, a third-year doctoral student of our doctoral school, will be appointed to lead the newly established pastoral office from October 2022.

New doctoral supervisor at our Doctoral School

On 21st July 2022, the University Senate of the UBB approved the application of János Vik, Associate Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology at the UBB, to become a doctoral supervisor. We are happy to welcome him as “founding father” of our doctoral school and as an outstanding expert in fundamental theology, spirituality, logotherapy and existential analysis.

Pope Francis: the family is the first place where we learn to love. The 10th World Meeting of Families in Rome

The World Meeting of Families was held in Rome for the second time since 1994. The theme of this year’s meeting, attended by some 2,000 families, was “Family love: a vocation and a path to holiness”. The event began with the Feast of Families, which Pope Francis celebrated in the in the presence of 4,500 people in the Paul VI Hall. On Saturday evening, a solemn closing Mass was celebrated, at the end of which a missionary sending-out of families was given. During the closing Mass, the Pope reminded the participants of the meaning of Christ’s Passion and of what the Christian logic teaches. Pope Francis recalled that Christ, through his suffering and death, freed us from the slavery of self-centredness and set us free to love others better. 

PhD student from our doctoral school, Ervin Obermájer, was asked about his vocation

In my everyday life I find that the rather long title that appears after my name in official sources is in some ways unknown to ordinary people. The great majority of people know that I am a Roman Catholic priest and that I am engaged in pastoral work, as the classical pastoral way of life would say. This is certainly true, since I also work as an an auxiliary pastor in the parish of St. Augustine in Csíkszereda, but people who do not know me know very less about the other part of my activities.

Catholic Days in Stuttgart: “The sharing of life”

From 25-29 May 2022, Stuttgart hosted the 102nd edition of Catholic Days, a series of events that since 1848 has invited German-speaking believers (but not only) to give thanks, reflect together and witness to the joy of the Gospel. The event was first organised in the 19th century in connection with the lay movement and is still mainly organised today by lay Christian believers (the event is organised by the Zentralkomitee der deutschen Katholiken – ZdK).