Who sits at the round table

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The Round Table on Abuse will meet for the first time on Friday with
61 participants. The spectrum ranges from political representatives from the federal and state governments to lawyers and physicians to representatives of churches, schools and victim counseling, as the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs announced in Berlin on Thursday.

The three Federal Ministers Kristina Schroder, Annette Schavan (both CDU) and Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (FDP) will chair the roundtable, which will be divided into several working groups.They want to present an interim report by the end of the year, which should contain measures for the prevention of sexual abuse and for dealing with the abuse cases.The first meeting of the committee will be attended by the new Federal Commissioner for the Reappraisal of Child Sexual Abuse, Christine Bergma , also the moderator of the Round Table on Home Education, Antje Vollmer , will participate. Eight association staff members are expected to bring victims' perspectives to the roundtable, including Heinz Hilgers of the German Child Protection League , Anne Lutkes from the German Children's Fund, Eva-Maria Nicolai from the Federal Working Group of Feminist Organizations against Sexual Violence against Girls and Women and Jurgen Witt from the White Ring .The Catholic Church is accompanied by her abuse commissioner, Bishop Stephan Ackermann , the Head of the Catholic Office in Berlin, Prelate Karl Justen , and the German head of the Jesuit order, Stefan Dartmann , represent. For the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) will be their Berlin Commissioner Bernhard Felmberg participate.The expertise of various legal associations is sought to clarify legal ies. Among them the German Family Court Day , the German Lawyers Association and the German Association of Judges . Also the President of the Federal Court of Justice, Klaus Tolksdorf , will participate.In addition, seven representatives from family associations, seven from schools and boarding schools, and six physicians are on the list of participants. Also represented are six state ministers, the leading municipal associations through their federal association, and eight members of the Bundestag from all parliamentary groups.

Benedict XVI. Is ready to meet with abuse victims. The Vatican reiterated this on Tuesday. Such an encounter, however, must take place in a "climate of gathering and reflection, not under media prere," he said. Perhaps it already comes to a meeting on the weekend.

Spokesman Federico Lombardi would neither confirm nor deny whether the pope would already personally speak to victims of sexual violence by clergy during his trip to Malta this weekend. The spokesman referred to the dense program of the one-and-a-half-day visit to the Mediterranean republic. If necessary, "the pope's intention to meet will find other expressions". He said whether there would be a meeting with abuse victims in the short term would be left to the free decision of the church leader. Lombardi, however, warned against harboring great expectations of surprises during the Malta trip on Saturday or Sunday.

Abuse on Mal The two diocesan leaders of Malta had last week expressed their regret about the abuse cases, some of which date back to the 1970s, and underlined the will to clarify the matter without reservation. Meanwhile, the bishops announced that since a commission of inquiry was set up in 1999, 45 of the island's 850 priests have been accused of abuse. In 19 cases, the commission, headed by a former judge, found no evidence of wrongdoing, they said. 13 cases are still pending in the commission, in 13 other cases it has pronounced itself in favor of canonical proceedings. They said there have been four convictions by the Vatican so far, three trials are still underway in Rome; four diocesan investigations have only recently been completed and have not yet been transferred to the Curia; two priests have died in the meantime. In cases of sexual offences against minors, the Maltese Church will waive any statute of limitations, the bishops emphasized. The archbishop of Malta, Paul Cremona, had announced Monday that he would meet with 10 abuse victims. The meeting should take place close to the time of the pope's visit. The participation of the responsible church lawyer of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Charles Scicluna, who himself comes from Malta, is also planned. The ten men who were abused by priests when they were boys originally wanted a meeting with Benedict XVI. demanded. At the same time, they condemned attacks and protests against the head of the church, which have become loud in Malta in recent days.

RTL is entering the third season of its nude dating show "Adam sucht Eva" – apparently with success. Media expert Brother Paulus Terwitte states that many people obviously feel entertained. However, he himself finds it "under all sow.

Interviewer: The concept of the dating show "Adam sucht Eva" is simple: people get to know each other naked, are shipped from island to island, and then decide whether they also like each other in clothes. What do you think of this show with naked people??

Brother Paulus Terwitte (Capuchin priest and media expert): There you can see that the people who are looking for and want to make such quotas can't think of much anymore. Apart from the old concept of showing naked skin for a change. In times when the Internet offers so many opportunities to surf for oneself, one is surprised that such shows still work and have ratings. But television legitimizes many things. If it's on TV, then it must be good.
Interviewer: Is it perhaps also the case that the banalization of the creation story, this playing with the image of Adam and Eve, also triggers this??
Terwitte: Yes, I think so, because there is an ancient longing for paradise. And an ancient longing for purity and, above all, an ancient longing to experience something original, pristine, pure, sacred. I don't want to comment on the fact that such a joke is made out of it, but I always find it interesting how all kinds of people of all colors have to come back to the original biblical languages. There is a primal longing for paradise, that an Adam finds his Eve and that then everything will be fine. That is something quite biblical, as I think.
Interviewer: Do people on television actually realize that they are naked??
Terwitte: Above all, the question remains whether the people on television actually realize that one must be ashamed to do this in front of the whole public. Because that's what it's all about in the end. You sell your skin, and at this point you can already say that it can never become a real relationship. The point is that a game is being played, and there one can also ask the question: is it permissible to play with the saint in this way?? But we as Christians are used to that, when people can't think of anything else to say, they start playing with the saint. And at this point the sanctity of the body, the sanctity of sexuality and the sanctity of paradise is played with. People play along with that, and we simply have to take note of it.
Interviewer: Besides the concept of people walking undressed in front of the camera, there are also elements of the jungle camp. So in front of the camera sexist stuff is being said. For example, one man says that "dark-skinned women generally have too fat a box". What does something like that do to people?
Terwitte: This is simply the language of a certain stratum of the population that is watching and being addressed. We have to realize that not all people are opera-goers, but that many people also enjoy themselves in other ways. You look at our site down on the Domplatte, we as the German people also have to take a look at ourselves. What do we actually do with the people, if we let such transmissions run in our country over the airwaves?? Are people, who come from other cultures, in which the bare skin of a woman and also of a man, actually so not to the cultural property belong, there not also wrongly turned on?
Interviewer: The question is also whether eroticism, which we like to show in occidental culture, whether this complete nudity is so much..?
Terwitte: No! There is nothing more boring than a naked human being. Interesting, yes, when he's not completely naked. The great artists have always played with this. Theaters also play with it. It is always a big question, what can be achieved in the end with it? Here money is to be made, here quota is to be made, here attention is to be attracted. In the end, no contribution is made to culture, but people are made fun of, down to the lowest drawer. In this respect, it is all below the belt and therefore beneath contempt!

The interview was conducted by Uta Vorbrodt

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