“Debate on the token level”

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Several abuse victims' organizations critical of planned sexual abuse roundtable. The self-help groups "Tauwetter" and "Wildwasser" accused the federal government of actionism and a "debate on the token level". Child Protection League, which itself wants to participate, is also skeptical.

The roundtable, led by the federal ministers of education, of family affairs and of justice, is scheduled to meet on 23. April to meet for the first time. According to the newspaper, the German Association of Cities, the welfare associations, the Olympic Sports Association, the churches, the feminist network BAG Forsa, a Munich youth counseling center and a child psychiatrist were invited to the event. The organizations "Thaw" for adult male abuse victims and "Wildwater" for women will not be there. Actionism and perhaps three poster campaigns? "Thaw's" trauma consultant, Thomas Schlingmann, reacted with amazement. After all, he said, it was grown men who uncovered the abuse scandal. The fact that the government is foregoing their perspective does not bode well. "It looks as if politics once again wants to get out of the affair with actionism and perhaps three poster campaigns," Schlingmann told the "Frankfurter Rundschau" newspaper.The executive director of "Wildwasser", Iris Holling, also expressed skepticism. It is necessary to finally draw conclusions from the scandal. The first thing that politicians must do is to ensure that victims have access to counseling and help throughout the country. So far, he says, not even what is possible under criminal law has been exploited. Code of conduct feh The head of the victim counseling center "Zartbitter," Ursula Enders, accused the government of not having established a code of conduct for employees of institutions working with children so far. Enders also criticized the federal government's new abuse commissioner, Christine Bergmann (SPD). The former Federal Minister for Family Affairs had spoken of reconciliation and thus put the victims under moral prere.The president of the Child Protection League, Heinz Hilgers, referred to the financial shortage of many counseling centers. He said he would work to ensure that new institutions are not founded out of actionism, "but that the existing ones are first given reasonable resources.

During his visit to eastern Congo, Development Minister Dirk Niebel acknowledged the importance of church-sponsored development work in the crisis region. "The contribution of churches in building civil society in Congo is very important," Niebel said Monday in Goma. From Congo, he then traveled on to Mozambique, the last stop on his week-long trip to Africa.

After a visit to the Congolese Christian development organization "Heal Africa," Niebel explained in the crisis region of North Kivu that church sponsors are "very widespread, especially in the countryside, and thus help to create social networks". "Heal Africa", which is financially supported by several churches, received a pledge from Niebel for 850.000 euros in support. The organization advocates for women who have been victims of sexual violence. Co-founder Lyn Luschi explained that nearly seven years after the official end of the war in Congo, rape and sexual assault are still being used as a tool in the conflict. "Assaults on women happen every day," Luschi said. High number of unreported cases Her organization provides the women with medical care and offers them literacy and education. Since 2005, according to Luschi's data, some 28 sought.000 sexually abused women seek refuge at Heal Africa. The number of unreported cases, however, is far higher. So far, he said, only 700 cases have been legally prosecuted. "Heal Africa" is therefore building a DNA database that will enable the identification of perpetrators. In eastern Congo, it is primarily non-governmental organizations that provide basic social services and thus compensate for the lack of state structures. 70 percent of health care is provided by non-state actors, experts say. The German government supports the Democratic Republic of Congo with about 150 million euros annually. The money will go primarily to the areas of resource protection, water supply and health, as well as to the education and training of the Congolese police and the integration of former child soldiers.

Pope Francis has visited his predecessor Paul VI in Rome. and canonized the murdered Salvadoran Archbishop Romero. In addition to these, five others were added to the list of Catholic saints, including Catherine Kasper.

Francis paid tribute to Paul VI. as a "prophet of a Church that goes out, has foresight and cares for the poor.". His abiding reminder to the Church, he said, was the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), whose "wise helmsman" Paul VI. had been. But his work as pope has also been accompanied by "troubles and by incomprehension," Francis said. Paul VI, who was born Giovanni Battista Montini near Brescia, was especially remembered. especially through his encyclical "Humanae vitae" (1968) on sexual ethics. But his doctrinal letter "Populorum progressio" (1967) on global development and economic ethics ies was also groundbreaking.

Pope Francis praised Romero for his closeness to the poor and to the people. Romero had "renounced worldly protections, even his own security" in order to "lay down his life in accordance with the Gospel". In a similar way, Catherine Kasper and the other saints would have lived "without lukewarmness, without calculation, with the passion to risk something and to let go" in the discipleship of Jesus. Under Paul VI. ended the Second Vatican Council in 1965, during which the church reformed its approach to the modern world.

Archbishop Romero, an important representative of liberation theology, was shot in 1980 after standing up against the Salvadoran military junta. Catherine Kasper founded an association for the care of the sick and elderly in 1845, which later became the Congregation of the Dernbach Sisters. Today it counts about 600 sisters.

Without Pope Benedict XVI.

Numerous high delegations traveled to Rome for the canonization, including the heads of state of El Salvador, Panama and Chile. In honor of the founder of the order, Nazaria Ignazia March Mesa (1889-1943), who came from Spain, Queen Sofia of Spain attended the ceremony.

The Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. stayed away from the celebration. The 91-year-old is no longer as agile as he was a few months ago, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, said ahead of the event. Paul VI. at his last consistory on the 27th. June 1977 Joseph Ratzinger, later to become Benedict XVI., elevated to the rank of cardinal.

Cardinal Angelo Becciu, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in his presentation of the saints, highlighted the commitment of the later Paul VI. for persecuted Jews. Giovanni Battista Montini held a senior position in the Vatican Secretariat of State from 1937 onwards. Becciu praised the assassinated Salvadoran Archbishop Romero for his commitment to the poor amid "social and political oppression". Despite her humble origins, Katharina Kasper of the Westerwald region launched a great work of preaching and promoting social welfare, Becciu said.

Pope: "Jesus is radical. He gives everything and demands everything"

At the service, Pope Francis wore a belt that Romero had worn at the altar at the moment of his assassination. The pope also used a chasuble worn by his predecessor Paul VI. and its chalice. During canonization ceremony, Pope Francis said church must say goodbye to old certainties. She must ask herself whether she is preaching only good commandments or following Jesus in love, they say. She must ask for the grace to let go of wealth and "longing for status and power", he said.

Francis criticized in the Church a ballast that slows down its missionary mission, and secular ties. Without a "progress in love" the life of Christians and the church would sicken from "egocentric complacency". In doing so, one ends up with a life "without momentum, where a little narcissism covers the dreariness of remaining unfinished," the Pope said.

"Jesus is radical. He gives everything and demands everything: he gives total love and demands an undivided heart," the Pope said. Jesus was "not satisfied with a percentage of love: we cannot love him with twenty, fifty or sixty percent. 'It's either all or nothing,' Francis said. Wealth is dangerous because having too much and wanting too much suffocates the heart. "Where money takes center stage, there is no place for God and no place for man," the pope said.

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