“We will implement the measures”

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"Listening to those affected – preventing abuse" is the name of the abuse reappraisal project in the Limburg diocese. 70 experts discussed consequences of the 2018 bishops' conference abuse study in it.

The diocese of Limburg presented the results of the "Listen to those affected – prevent abuse" reappraisal project in Frankfurt's Paulskirche on Saturday. The principals, Bishop Georg Batzing and Ingeborg Schillai, president of the diocesan assembly, jointly presented a copy of the 415-page final report to Martin Schmitz, representing those affected, with a promise to do everything possible to ensure that nothing like this could ever happen again.

"We will implement the measures," promised Batzing. "We owe this to the people affected."

Facing up to responsibility together

On behalf of the diocese, since September 70 experts had discussed consequences of the abuse study of the Catholic German Bishops' Conference from 2018. They listened to those affected, examined personnel files and worked out a total of 61 measures
against sexual violence and abuse of power. "The results of the study cry out for us to finally take effective action against sexual abuse in the church and against its cover-up," Schillai said.

In the diocese of Limburg, clergy and laity shared this responsibility due to the synodal structure of the diocese. For the time being, this includes an independent diocesan commission for three years. An appointee of the bishop will be appointed to coordinate the activities.

Schlingensief ride on MTV subway

Halleluja, the moderator-based Christoph Schlingensiefs is apparently imminent. First signs of this threatening transformation from the control provoker to the TV quassel head was now on MTV to see, in a show titled "U 3000", which the 40-year-old has staged in a subway rolling through Berlin. And continued on its own mesh with enthusiasts of the unusual way; Among other things, with the decision-making genocode of Rudolf Scharping.

Where the word staging on the actual TV show does not quite true. Because the power of facts proved to be strong in the double sense: on the final TV catch, on the one hand, the transmitter MTV decides solely, which then cut the recorded material to more than half the half. And on the other, the drain developed so chaotic that even the sling sister costumed and stormy Halleluja calling as a guru lost the overview and probably horribly horrified the channel changed.

It was played here only with things, as you can see daily on TV. Especially in shows that with the cumbers of the occurring candidates Bose. Motto: When cried is that only good for the quota. And because that’s the case, Schlingensief now set a top of it, for example with an allegedly real live circuit to the dying bed of a man who then got Hellwig by the Stargast Margot and Maria Hellwig, that it is worthwhile to continue.

Without a doubt perverse, but still a provocation that meets because it is consistently blosing the methods and thinking of the cynical TV makers. But also a dangerous gaming for Schlingensief, whose handling of the invited and difficult-to-fate Berlin family itself sometimes had a cynical. And if this impression should be created in accordance with the shortfang shown by MTV, then this was Schlingensief’s parole law that the system was the mistake. But who goes to the TV system, which is known to be around – or will stop moderator. Halleluja!

The Irish primate, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, says the church's ability to communicate has been undermined by the global abuse scandals: "There are those who believe they can no longer trust our message".

Martin said this as a keynote speaker at the World Meeting of Families in Dublin; "perhaps because they have been directly hurt and betrayed in their families by their experience of the Church – or because the revelations of such heinous crimes have shaken them to the core," The Tablet newspaper quoted from Martin's speech.

Church undermined

Child abuse scandals have also undermined the church's ability to spread its message about marriage and family, the primate acknowledged. Martin replaced Washington's Cardinal Donald Wuerl as the meeting's keynote speaker. The latter had withdrawn his participation after being criticized in an extensive abuse report by a grand jury in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania over his time as bishop of Pittsburgh.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Dublin's Archbishop Diarmuid Martin had described as "immense" the number of people sexually abused by clergy and abused in church institutions in Ireland. At the same time, he said, the number of those who have come forward is only part of the actual number of victims. "Many people still carry the grief of the abuse in their hearts," Diarmuid Martin said.

Challenge for the Church

In his address, Primate Eamon Martin said the church is challenged to find new ways and learn to "re-communicate our sincerely held perspectives" on marriage and family and other ies.

To the thousands gathered in the open-air arena in Dublin, he said, "Into this complicated world with its twisted minds, we have the joy and challenge of communicating a clear and positive vision of family and marriage, the good news that human life is sacred, that every person comes from God (…); that we are wanted by God, who loves each of us."

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