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NOTES AND COMMENTS Conferences, Symposia, and Lectures On May 26-28, 1999, in Vicenza, the Istituto per Ie Ricerche di Storia Sociale e Religiosa held an international conference on "I percorsi del Papato dal mondo mediterráneo all'Europa médiévale nella diversità degli spazi e délie eredità culturali e religiose." The papers ranged from the fourth century to the beginning of the sixteenth. Copies may be obtained from the headquarters of the Istituto at Contra Mure S. Rocco, 28, 36100 Vicenza, Italy; telephone: 0444 544350; fax: 0444 326236. The eighteenth annual meeting of the Holy Cross History Association was held at Loyola University, New Orleans, on June 18-20, 1999. The theme was the sesquicentennial of the Holy Cross congregations of men and women in Louisiana. In addition to papers on the Holy Cross foundations in that state, there were papers on the Holy Cross mission in Ghana, the Sisters of the Holy Cross at St.Joseph's Orphanage inWashington, D.C., and the Marianite Sisters of Holy Cross at the French Hospital in New York City. Sister M. Campion Kuhn, C.S.C, assumed the presidency of the Association, andJames Connelly, C.S.C, of the University of Portland, was elected vice-president. The next meeting will take place at St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, onJune 9-11, 2000. A German-Italian symposium on "Rezeptionsmodelle des IL Vatikanischen Konzils"was conducted by the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität in Münster on June 19. On the previous day an honorary doctorate was conferred on Giuseppe Alberigo of the University of Bologna, who then delivered a lecture entitled "Fedeltà e creatività nella ricezione del Concilio Vaticano II: Criteri ermeneutici." Sponsored by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, a round table was held at the Palazzo Corsini in Rome on June 24 and 25 on the theme "L'Inquisizione e gli storici: Un cantiere aperto." The archivist of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,Alejandro Cifres Giménez, presented the opening paper on "Lo stato attuale dell'archivio del S. Uffizio." Seventeen other scholars treated various aspects of the activity of the Holy Office from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, and John Tedeschi moderated a concluding discussion of "Le domande degli storici." The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Rivista di Storia delta Chiesa in Italia was commemorated in a conference held at the Pontificio Seminario Lombardo in Rome on September 8-10, 1999. The complete program and 684 NOTES AND COMMENTS685 copies ofindividual papers may be requested ofthe secretary,Dott.ssa Elena Girardi , at her fax number: 02.72.34.26.44. JohnJay Hughes of St. Louis has been invited to deliver the Archbishop Peter L. Gerety Lecture at Seton Hall University on October 14. His topic will be "A Mass Murderer Repents: The Case of Rudolf Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz." Among the 143 sessions scheduled for this year's Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, which will take place in St. Louis on October 28-31, will be three on the Ratio Studiorum of 1599; in the first Michael W Mäher, S.J., of St. Louis University will read a paper entitled "AYear of Some Significance: Important Organizational Directives Published by Superior General Claudio Aquaviva in 1599"; in the second John Padberg, SJ., of the Institute of Jesuit Sources will speak on "History, Geography, and One Wide World"; Mark Lewis, S.J., of the Jesuit Historical Institute, Rome, on "Evaluating the Ratio Studiorum.The Letters from Naples"; and Dan Schlafly of St. Louis University on "The Ratio in Russia"; in the third Dennis L. Durst of St. Louis University will speak on "Prince Federico Cesi and the Accademia dei Lincei:An Early Modern Challenge to the Ratio Studiorum" "Radical Conservatives: Roman Catholic Resistance to the English Reformation" is the title of another session, in which papers will be presented by Ethan H. Shagan of the Harvard Society of Fellows, "Schismatics Be No Plain Heretics: Debating the Royal Supremacy over the Church of England; by Richard Rex of the University of Cambridge, "WhyWere There No Catholic Martyrs under Henry VIII?"; and...