71 Names erased

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U.S. Bishop Robert Gainer draws conclusions from abuse scandal. He has published a list of 71 abusers from his diocese of Harrisburg and has all names removed from church buildings.

The Bishop of Harrisburg in the state of Pennsylvania, Robert Gainer, has drawn conclusions from the abuse scandal within the Catholic Church in the USA. Names of former dignitaries and priests suspected of abuse are to be removed from all churches and other buildings in the diocese, effective immediately.

More than 300 priests and numerous bishops

This was Gainer's reaction, according to media reports (Thursday local time), even before the publication of a report by an investigative commission in Pennsylvania on sexual abuse in its own ranks. The report could name more than 300 priests and numerous bishops as abusers of the past seven decades.

Harrisburg is among six dioceses in a heavily Catholic region of Pennsylvania pushing for the release of the grand jury report. Last year, the Harrisburg diocese, along with the Greensburg diocese, was still trying to end the grand jury investigation, according to a report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

"Long overdue"

Now Bishop Gainer released a list of names of 71 clergy, seminarians and church personnel accused of sexual abuse since the 1940s and ordered their names removed from all church buildings.

Joe Grace, a spokesman for Attorney General Josh Shapiro, called the release of the names "long overdue". Although the jury report has been ready for weeks, its release has been delayed by objections from people identified in it. The Supreme Court recently decided to allow publication in a redacted Fang. The report examines allegations from the dioceses of Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton.

Bishops' Conference in November

The president of the U.S. bishops' conference, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, stressed Wednesday that the abuse allegations would be pursued with the "full authority" of the church. The ie is expected to be at the top of the agenda at the annual meeting of the bishops' conference in November.

John Woos New Film "Paycheck" Based on a Philip K. Dick-novel

The hype "Paycheck" is coarse: The Second Coming of Philip K. Dick titled about wired and draws attention to the submission of the film. To "Blade Runner" (1982), "Totally recall" (1990), "Screamers" (1996), "Impostor" (2002) and "Minority Report" (2002), So now the sixth cinema evaluation of a novel of the Sci-Fi cult ass, which promises a very special treat: Finally, John Woo did directed, one "Master of visual art", How Ben Affleck, the main actor of the film, refers to Schwarmerisch.

In "Paycheck" to Ben Affleck’s side: uma thurmann. Image: Paramount Pictures

The place of action for the adaptation of the story written in the 1950s is Seattle. the "Space Needle", The landmark of the North American city, is the only recognizable feature, otherwise the locations look pretty interchangeable (turned in Vancouver): Modern Hochhauser, U-Betriebschaft, superfilled traffic straws, etc. All precise photographed, in bright, kuhl-luminous colors. Although Futuristic machines are primarily the prominent markers of the future (handguns, natural and climate foreignrogates, 3-D avatars and last but not least the pivot and pivot of the film: the Fortune Telling Apparatus), this usual-everyday is falling into Weight, which found Woo in the present and staged with its special handwriting. On the representation, it seems, Woo seems to tell us here. On light modifications of the existing one to make the realitat appear in another light.

"He changed something" is the first sentence that brings the viewer to the track of a case, which the Rhetrik Group keeps secret at any price and the FBI, "of national security" talking and working under high prere, clarify. The key figure is the computer specialist Jennings (Ben Afflek), who has developed a mysterious wonder weapon for Rhetrik, but can not remember anything because he has been lit his thought after the order. Only a few useless objects remain with him: a munze, a clock, string, etc., To pull his head out of the sling, which seem to pull the FBI and Rhetrik narrower with each elongating minute. When Jennings starts the race against time, apparently cheerful sky from a hobbyist is a super agent. Even his former colleagues can only shake his head. But a movie historical quote from WOO helps on the sponge.

Jennings Look became Cary Grants clothing in Alfred Hitchcocks "North by Northwest" (1959) modeled. Grant plays the Schnoden Werber Thornhill, who one day is confused with George Kaplan. Since the latter is a agent of the US intelligence services, which exists only on the paper and in the presentation of the counterparties, Thornhill initially ames the role of Kaplan veryly to save his skin – a comparable role exchange takes place later at Michelangelo Antonioni in "The reporter" (1973) and makes a journalist (Jack Nicholson) to a weapon handler.

The identity change that makes Jennings best describe as reality hopping: when he gradually begins to recognize the meaning of the supposedly meaningless objects, for Jennings, one of John Woo rapidly stalled in scene between the past, present, presence and future, in the course of which turns out that Jennings fulfills an already prescribed role here. Comparable is this reality hopping with Dean Parisot "Galaxy Quest" (1999), in which aged stars of a Sci-Fi series become suddenly universal wares because a civilization of another solar system had taken the series for Bare Munze, while fans who had scientifically worked up the plot in Yps manner, the actresses save in your life-time mission in all radio contact.

This burr migration, which will be home to the figures in several worlds at the same time, equips them with something that could be called Omni visibility. A visual quality that Jennings shares over wide parts of the film with you and some other figures of film history. About the protagonists of "VideoDrome" (1982), "Nick of Time" (1995) and "Sixth Sense" (1999), which undergo a neutralization process towards the non-identity in the course of the film production between the levels.

All these are motifs with which the contemporary cinema, on the threshold of Cyberspace, thinks about himself (cf. Arnie and his double). Motifs have already been introduced in their cinematic self-reflexivitat earlier in woos. With "Paycheck" Bully bullying the director born in China to the cinematic identity disks of its success films (such as "Face / off" and mission impossible 2).

These films had the border with mainstream-kitsch might already have crossed a bit too far. But they can also be found in a tradition of the Hollywood cinema, which are formally addressed the merger of the old medium film with digital media-based entertainment formats. For example, this is the non-identity of the protagonist borrowed to the computer game in "Paycheck" inscribed between the pictures. Woos film was probably a bit more than another Philip K. Dick filming with big choreographed action be.

How catholic will the new eu commission be??

Brexit, climate crisis and an outdated asylum system: there are plenty of challenges for the new EU Commission chief. On Monday, she approved the list of candidates for her team – including some Catholics.

The summer break is over. Ursula von der Leyen had no time for beaches or mountains. She tinkered with the structure for her new EU Commission. How many vice presidents should there be? Which portfolio fits which commission candidate? Are women and men equally represented? Is there a balance between Eastern and Western Europeans?

The list of criteria for the new Commission is long. Almost every member state had expressed wishes or preferences. Now the puzzle is complete.

Religion plays no role in filling positions. Decisions are made based on arguments, facts and sometimes values. Ursula von der Leyen is Protestant. She is familiar with Christian values. Older people in Brussels still remember how von der Leyen visited the German Protestant congregation on Sundays when she was young.

Some professing Christians

Among the candidates for the commission are also some professing Christians. Italy's ex-prime minister Paolo Gentiloni (64) attended a Montessori school and enjoyed a Catholic education with the catechist Agnese Moro, daughter of politician Aldo Moro. Danish pastor's daughter Margrethe Vestager (51) grew up in a Protestant parsonage household. Competition commissioner under Jean-Claude Juncker since 2014, she is to be given a vice president role in the new commission. This means a little more impact than a simple commissioner.

In the European elections, Vestager, like the Dutch Social Democrat Frans Timmermans (58), was the top candidate for her party family. Timmermans is a Catholic; Christian values are important to him to this day – even though he was a victim of sexual abuse as a 13-year-old in the Boy Scouts in Rome. His relationship with religion was shaken by this event, but it did not break it. Timmermans is committed to leading exchanges with religious representatives in the EU Commission.

Third vice president is to be the Spaniard Josep Borell (72). From 2004 to 2007 he was already president of the EU Parliament. In new commission, he takes office as EU foreign affairs envoy.

"Not at a loss for biblical quotations"

France sends Catholic Sylvie Goulard (54) into the race. The current vice president of the French central bank is also familiar with the Brussels stage. The graduate of the elite ENA university advised former Commission President Romano Prodi and was an MEP from 2009 to 2017. Von der Leyen already knows the Liberal Democrat from her brief time as defense minister in 2017 and holds her in high regard. Goulard does not hide her Catholic identity – and is not at a loss for biblical quotations.

Austria's commission candidate Johannes Hahn (61) is said to have a loose relationship with the church. According to media reports he should have already left once. Because of cancer, he had lost the faith; but 16 years later he reentered it.

Luxembourg sends Catholic Nicolas Schmit to Brussels. The former labor minister has already served as Luxembourg's EU ambassador in Brussels. Hungary has proposed ex-justice minister Laszlo Trocsanyi (63), Poland former EU deputy Jusz Wojciechowski (64). Croatia sends EU deputy Dubravka Suica (62). From Cyprus comes the deputy Stella Kyriakides (63).

Hollerich: hope for 50 percent women

Sweden sends labor minister Ylva Johansson (55). The president of the EU bishops' commission, Luxembourg's Archbishop Jean-Claude Hollerich, said he would be pleased if von der Leyen succeeded in putting together a commission that is truly half women. "In this way, it could show that the EU is not a club where you talk a lot, but where action is also taken," Hollerich said.

There were 9 women and 19 men in the Juncker Commission. Von der Leyen confirmed a list of twelve women on Monday. So, with herself, women would have almost reached 50 percent of the congregation.

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