Apply what has been agreed

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The German government's commissioner for abuse, Johannes-Wilhelm Rorig, praises the churches for their commitment to preventing child abuse. "What matters now is that what has been agreed is actually applied," Rorig stressed on our site-interview. He announces a survey of 1500 church congregations on how they deal with sexualized violence.

The church shows great commitment to preventing abuse, he praised. What specifically do you estimate?

The Catholic Church, the German Bishops' Conference, and also the German Conference of Superiors of Religious Orders have committed themselves to me to agree on and support the introduction of protection concepts, i.e. concepts for the prevention of sexual violence, in their structures. This is a very important step, which builds on what the German Bishops' Conference already decided in September 2010 with the framework regulation for the prevention of sexual abuse of minors. This means that the German Bishops' Conference and the abuse commissioner, Bishop Ackermann, will intensify their involvement even further. That is to be emphasized positively.
What do the church, charities and sports federations still need to work on in their prevention efforts??

Now it is important that what has been agreed is actually applied on the ground in the facilities where the children and young people spend their daily lives. This is a very complicated and strenuous path for all those who bear responsibility, but it is a path that must be taken. In the future, protection and action concepts for the protection of children from sexual violence must be introduced in facilities, i.e. also in church communities, in sports clubs, in schools and daycare centers.
With the corresponding agreements, the churches have also agreed to support the Federal Government Commissioner for Abuse, i.e. you, in conducting two nationwide surveys in their church structures this year and next year. What are these surveys?

Yes, I am very pleased that we were able to reach an agreement on this. We will ask the management of the facilities whether prevention concepts are already being applied in their facilities or not. for when the introduction or further development of such protection concepts is planned. We need to gain an overview and concretely identify the need for action. For example, in the area of the Catholic Church, that is our intention, we will survey 1500 parishes on this complex of ies, whether they have already switched on protective measures for children and young people against sexualized violence.
The first survey started in June. The results are to be presented at the balance meeting of the round table at the end of the year. What is particularly important to you??

I hope, of course, that positive results will emerge. I will make sure that the results are presented transparently and comprehensibly. I hope that I have a lot of positive things to report, but aming that it should turn out in one area or another that nothing is being done to implement the recommendations of the Round Table, then I would of course also mention this.
You have announced a new campaign on protection against abuse for the coming year. What is the goal of this campaign?

The campaign is intended to support facility management, but also parents and professionals in the introduction of protection concepts. I would like to facilitate communication between parents and professionals, i.e. teachers, pastors and trainers, and those responsible in daycare centers, for example, to talk about the topic of sexual violence, and I would like to activate parents so that they also ask for and demand protection concepts on site in the facilities. One thing is very important to me to emphasize: I want the professionals, i.e. teachers, educators, coaches and pastors, to be sensitized and to be available as trustworthy contact persons for children and young people. We must always keep in mind: Most cases of sexual abuse take place in the family and in the social environment, and also between children and young people among themselves. It is important that the persons of trust in the facilities are actually trustworthy contact persons for the children and adolescents and that they are really helped.

The interview was conducted by Monika Weib (our site)

The Federal Government Commissioner for Abuse, Johannes-Wilhelm Rorig, spoke at a conference on protection against sexual violence against children in Berlin on Tuesday. As with the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOS) and the welfare associations, there is a great willingness to intervene in cases of suspected abuse and to improve local prevention, Rorig explained. In June, the churches had signed agreements on the protection of children and young people from sexual violence in Berlin.

According to the Abuse Commissioner, the aim of the agreement is to implement the recommendations of the Round Table against Child Abuse set up by the German government. The DOS, the Workers' Welfare Association, the Paritatische Gesamtverband, the municipal umbrella organizations and the German Federal Youth Ring have also signed the catalog of measures.

With the agreements, the churches also agree to support the federal government's abuse commissioner in conducting two nationwide surveys in their church structures this year and next year. According to Rorig, dioceses, regional churches and parishes should provide information on which concepts for prevention and intervention in cases of sexualized violence have been developed and which are planned. The first survey, which will also take place in daycare centers, boarding schools, homes, children's hospitals, sports and youth associations, as well as with the providers of children's and youth travel, and presumably also in schools, began in June. The results are to be presented at the balance meeting of the round table at the end of the year. A second survey is to take place next spring.

Bishop Vitus Huonder of Chur © CBA

The Swiss diocese of Chur is always good for headlines – or rather its bishop. On Friday, Vitus Huonder, who is still very fit, will reach the age of 75. The personnel merry-go-round is circling – but what will be?

This is not really how you want church to be: counting down the clock tower for years until finally the bishop reaches the age limit. But that's exactly how many in the Swiss diocese of Chur feel. They hope that soon after Friday the hands there will be back to zero: Because Vitus Huonder, who is still very fit, will turn 75 and must offer the pope his resignation from office. According to his critics, the conservative shepherd is one who likes to dismiss liberal requests of his flock with the attitude: Here I stand – I can't help it.

In the cantons of Graubunden, Schwyz and Zurich, there has long been a climate of ecclesiastical friction. Large differences in opinion and mentality collide in a small space. Like his predecessor Bishop Wolfgang Haas (1988/90-1997), Huonder has polarized his flock, which includes not only the rural cantons but also the financially strong Catholics of the metropolis of Zurich.

Discussion about conservative positions

Across the country, the bishop of Chur also acts as a loudspeaker for the conservative wing of the church – while his fellow bishops in the Swiss Bishops' Conference often have to struggle to recapture Huonder's verbal thrusts on sexuality, church interdiction or the protection of life. The Swiss gay umbrella organization even unsuccessfully filed criminal charges against the bishop in 2015: for publicly inciting violence against homosexuals.

Huonder, in office since 2007, insists on the letter of the Catholic, and he never shies away from demanding it as binding. Sometimes there were disputes about abortion funding, sometimes about how to deal with homosexuality, about marriage and the family or the leadership of the seminary. Dissatisfied people marched to the seat of the bishops' conference president in 2014 to demonstrate for Huonder's ouster. They complained: "We have had enough of disciplinarian attitudes, of hard-hearted theology and pessimistic bishops who distrust the faithful."

Huonder's supporters defend themselves against criticism

But it is also true that the Swiss are grassroots democrats. This is tradition since the legendary Rutli oath in the Middle Ages. And Swiss state church law also grants the laity more co-determination than many bishops would like – and than is provided for in general church law. This applies, for example, to the episcopal financial administration and to experimentation in church services.

Huonder's supporters, on the other hand, have always maintained that the bishop is acting in accordance with church doctrine and church law. It was the doctrine, not the person, that the critics disliked, he said. The critics, on the other hand, see this as Huonder's conflict strategy: to rush ahead and then to take one's own person out of the game by referring to the official doctrine.

Who follows?

Successors for the bishop's chair in Chur have been traded for some time already. A request was also sent to Rome to appoint an administrator instead of a new bishop on a transitional basis. Above all, many Catholics want a bit of peace for the quarreling diocese. Martin Kopp, Vicar General for the Urschweiz, formulates drastically: "If someone is simply elected from the camp that currently determines the course in Chur, and there is no new beginning, the diocese is dead."

Candidates for 2017 have included Fribourg Auxiliary Bishop Alain de Remy (58), formerly chaplain of the Swiss Guard, articulate and conservative; Chur Auxiliary Bishop Marian Eleganti (62) as a possible compromise candidate; Andreas Rellstab (50), once vicar general but now a parish priest in self-imposed exile in Zurich; and Capuchin Minister General Mauro Johri (69).

Also named were the two abbots of Einsiedeln: the former, "Twitter abbot" Martin Werlen (55), a liberal and explicit candidate of the "left" in the diocese, and his incumbent young successor Urban Federer (48). Both, however, are said to lack ambition for the difficult post in Chur. Huonder's shadow and vicar general Martin Grichting (49) is quite different, but his polemics have left a lot of scorched earth in the diocese. For whom the bell tolls, the bells of Chur will toll.

The comic foil "Wanted" paid by professionalists, religious fuhrers and the fate themselves – and how to manipulate all this

It is only the self-contempt, after which one was owned by the director Timur Bekmambetov has to change his anti-hero Wesley first, so that it recognizes his destiny. The result: Emancipation from the previous duckmouse life and embrace of private anarchism Mundet in reflected individualism. "Wanted" Even presents itself as a wholly individual action film bar.

There is a fight sequence in "Wanted", The pistol-reinforced Wesley against the knife specialists "Butcher", And she makes pretty clear what Bekmbetov fascinates: firearms, as a parapet of the body. The fight with them as a physical experience, the departure from the disperse firefight to a full-contact spectacle.

The method to realize this is well known: extreme time magnifiers and "Bullet Time"-Effects melt the speed difference of humans and balls together, give the audience overview of the events that can only be in the cinema. "matrix" and impensy epigones made it, "Wanted" it only does it.

The firearms in this movie are no longer a longer, they are stylized to melee weapons with just rough range, at least if a killer of the brotherhood meets a flat opponent. Then, by name, they are even suitable for direct exchange: balls will not be dodged anymore, as Keanu Reeves still did, they will now be parped, with their own, well-targeted bullet.

The fetishization of firearms, which is the goal, ultimately to a similar "honorable" Army genus How to raise the knight’s sword can already be found in "matrix" and "Equilibrium" (Kurt Wimmer, 2002). The sword fight is a symbol of a violent-related, but due to its personality and physical involvement significantly legitimate form of conflict resolution.

The search for methods to bread firearms equailed, drove their bleeding in video and computer games – from the shot beat combinations of one "Devil May Cry" About the gunblade of "Final fantasy"-line. "Wanted" Only one thing inherently rejoices, and simultaneously removes from this physique and near the confrontation when he finding the ball of a killer with a huge armor gun from many miles away her destination.

These two sniper sequences are it which in the static-celebrated body of the action scenes in "Wanted" a little like foreign corporation act. At the same time, however, they also mark a failure of the blob of crafts of a braidingly operational mandatory contractor opposite the craftsmanship and list of a prudent from a safe distance acting opponents.

It is noteworthy that Bekmbetov is structured his film partly as a classic sports film, especially the exempt training sequence in the first film half jumping here. Murder, power "Wanted" Unmistly clear, is always sport, and accordingly, the teachers of the "Fraternity" Killer Guild also to Works: That’s how said "Butcher" Wesley contributes the fight with the knife who "Repairman" On the other hand, it ensures that the Profikikiller in PES is also hard in taking in – with a regular costume Vugel for the trainee. Of the "Gunsmith" Finally, the connection to the technicality of the firearms, he shows Wesley, as this can fly with a flying movement of the wrist the pistol balls also fly around curves and corners.

Only tactics and calculus does not get from the professors of this "Fraternity"-Academy conveys, but instead studies the attention of his father on his own initiative (who himself killer in the "Fraternity" was). The killer-physis is completely perfect when perfectly designed – but always a little tumber – violence is still the reason, the reflection. His father, "Cross", At the beginning of the film, even completely emancipated by the porousness of his profession by significant by his quasi-counterpart, significant "Mr. X" named, Pressing.

Balance here "Wanted" ideological: the brotherhood, a sectahnal community, the "it has been available since about 1000 years", is located in a former monastery in any American coal town – and in a monastery in "Eastern Arabia" (Even if the venue looks more like Central Europe), the cult took his beginning.

The code is always right

In a jacking cover we see a handful of shaping in monk cute, bent over a loom. They discovered a code in the textiles, put out randomly small irregularities of tie in binary code and these in letters, and found them name. The names of your murder victims. "Sloan" the reigning boss exeget is called "Fraternity", and his trends are obedient soldiers. "Fox" – Chef instructor Angelina Jolie – Wesley is once explosive why she believes so unconditionally to the fateful loom code: so a man of the brotherhood should fall to the victim, but survived and died then Fox’s father.

"We Do not Know How Far The Ripples of Our Decisions Go. We Kill One, And Maybe Save A Thousand. That’s the code of the fraternity. That’s what we believe in, and that’s why we do it."

However, it is by no means so that in "Wanted" Faith in the loom code, the loom prophecies ultimately turns out as an air number – on the contrary: it is finally Sloan, who, as once his name appeared in the tie, began to interpret the code after his own will and thus the Death hundreds (says Z.B. a full-occupied train to create a ravine).

The code is always right, there is no doubt, and it is completely irrelevant, whether one is now as analogy on the Bible, the Koran or the Torah. "Wanted" is not an anti-reliant film, but he is definitely guessing against church institutions, opposite the artists and exegetes of the relevant writings. In short: against all those who send people under religious pretext into a fight.

"Wanted" but by no means negotiates this discourse only on a religious level. So Wesley at the beginning of the film is a frustrated and inconspicuous Buroknecht, as well as the nameless protagonist in David Finchers "Fight Club". Only the contact to the brotherhood arouses his dormant talents as a hipsrage, and allows him a sham emancipation from his drug and very satisfactory everyday life.

Only between the lines becomes clear that even this step for Wesley is just a placebo that the sudden self-realization in cynical private anchor is only another facade. So he can not resist it, for example, a murder victim wide grinning "Sorry" call behind – just that word, whose surprised use Fox has still kept the notorious duckmauser at its first encounter. The conscious ironic refraction with the old life reveals that also Wesley’s sudden exploitation is only of artistic nature. The step towards the actual self-design of his fate succeeds the protagonist only through honest and self-reflection, not by attachment to one or more standard.

Bekmambetov uses for this deconstruction of deterministic thinking above all the image of the weaving machine: so it is Wesley’s final examination task of his training, to catch the swept and outgoing boat of the loom with a blob from the machine – and thus spellfully his fate in his own hands too to take. Also, from the once carefully in Reihr und Link’s thread of the weaving machine according to an explosion and Wesley’s completely completed emancipation nothing more abundant. Instead, the impenetrable tangle of individual thread in Sloans is like a former "reading"-Rooms highly still a destructed spider web.

"Wanted" Does not crank on a lack of subtly negotiated discourses. The overld hip staging and the undamaged cynicism can balance Bekmambetov’s movie with his clever script. But: He’s lacking the will to tell you. Bekmambetov seems to have no interest in the emergencies of his pictures, for him apparently only pays what is going on in the center. Details like the incontinent collateral victims of the professional lilids degenerate to background noise, and confer such physically presumptuous film the taste of a little thoughtful and dry theory.

At the same time, Bekmbetov is much too fascinated by superflatable (and no new) special-effect sightsee values than that the story could ever really penetrate the foreground of the film. A coil does the density, the protagonist Wesley in Best "Fight Club"-Manier to reflect in voice-over comments on his life. For the sly and thoughtful movie, to which "Wanted" Actually had developed, the result is far too loud. For a loud movie, however, he is too soulless and empty.

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