"The Greg"
Monday 11th October, sees the beginning of a year of hard work for thousands
of students at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University. It’s the day a solemn celebration
is held for the inauguration of the 2010-2011 Academic Year in the Church of St. Ignatius.
It’s also a good occasion to take a closer look at “The Greg” thanks to the availability
of Professor of Canon Law Father James Conn SJ who spoke to Linda Bordoni about its
history and about how it works… "It was founded by St. Ignatius in 1551, and he established - what he called the Roman College - for a couple of purposes..."
"we have people from 130 or so different countries, spread all over the world... certainly the language of instruction here is Italian, but when I was a student here in the 1980s, classes in canon law were still given in Latin..."
listen...
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