“Women's revolt” in the church

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About "a women's revolt" in the Catholic Church wants to discuss the federal assembly of the lay organization "We are Church" this weekend, said the member of the federal team of the initiative, Sigrid Grabmeier.

"We are considering this weekend what a women's revolt might look like, imagination is needed. We women can do quite a lot. But we always ask the priest first. "This should stop," said the member of the federal team of the initiative, Sigrid Grabmeier, in an interview with the "Suddeutsche Zeitung" (online) on Friday. For example, women could celebrate their own services in women's groups and not ask if the pastor will join them. You could also have a service with wine and bread. "And the service then leads a normal woman. We might even find a form that is closer to the people and more honest."

Bishops should get a move on

Grabmeier emphasized that the hierarchical system of the church, supported solely by men, has outlived its usefulness. "We need commissioned, well-trained men and women who can preside over a service or lead the congregation." The assertion that only a man can be a priest is so untenable. "The bishops should slowly get their act together and look at the state of research," said Grabmeier. In the history of the church, ordination, i.e. the mission for the spiritual office, has also existed for women, for example for the head of a monastery. "And in the early church, women were church leaders. Bishops need to take note and get serious about women's ordination."

Grabmeier appealed to the bishops that "equality be implemented at least in those posts for which church law already allows it". The church must become more feminine – also to prevent abuse, he says. "If you don't open yourself up to the subject of sexuality and think you have to work everything out in the men's circle, something like this is more likely to happen."

AIDS became known 30 years ago; since then, more than 30 million people have died from the immunodeficiency disease. Nevertheless, the rich industrialized countries continue to do too little – criticized not only by church aid organizations before the UN summit in New York. The meeting could be groundbreaking.

The Catholic relief organization Misereor and the Protestant development service criticized on Monday (06.06.2011) the balance of the past ten years. More than ten million people still do not receive the necessary treatment; in 2009 alone, 1.8 million people died of the immune deficiency disease because drugs were not available or were too expensive, said Misereor Executive Director Martin Brockelmann-Simon in Aachen.

In addition to state and government representatives, the United Nations will meet from Wednesday to Friday (10.06.2011) in New York included delegations from churches and other religious communities. It is to define the strategy for the next decade. The focus is on scaling up therapy. On 5. June marked the 30th anniversary of the. First scientific mention of HIV/AIDS in the newsletter of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

Around 34 million with the AIDS virus
Some 30 million people have died from the immunodeficiency disease AIDS in the past three decades, according to the United Nations. The number of deaths related to HIV/AIDS in poor countries was particularly high. At the end of 2010, around 34 million people worldwide were infected with the HIV virus.

Around two thirds of those infected live in sub-Saharan Africa. "Thirty years after the outbreak of the epidemic in 1981, we are at a crossroads," said UNAIDS Strategy Director Bernhard Schwartlander. According to the aid program, in 2010 the amount of money available internationally to fight HIV/AIDS decreased for the first time in a decade; however, UNAIDS did not give concrete figures.

By 2015, the international community would need $22 billion annually to stop the further spread of HIV/AIDS. According to UNAIDS, large sums of money are lacking to provide life-prolonging antiretroviral therapy to needy people in developing countries. It currently benefits 6.6 million people in poor countries. Around nine million people currently in need of antiretroviral treatment did not receive.

UNAIDS also complains that 30 years after the first AIDS cases were reported, people living with HIV still face government harassment in many countries. Travel and residence restrictions for infected people existed in 47 countries worldwide. In many countries, the transmission of HIV is considered a criminal offense.

Vatican opposes exclusion of AIDS patients
An international conference on immunodeficiency diseases was held in Rome at the end of May. Also the Vatican turned here against a social stigmatization of AIDS patients. In its worldwide fight against the immunodeficiency disease, the Catholic Church is also concerned with overcoming prejudices that lead to the exclusion of this group from the family and society, said Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone. A further spread of the disease must be contained by effective preventive measures, which aim to teach a responsible and morally stable approach to sexuality.

At the meeting, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe called recent remarks by Benedict XVI. To the use of condoms in exceptional cases "as very important" for cooperation with the Catholic Church. It opens "a new space for dialogue," Sidibe said Saturday morning.

In an interview book with journalist Peter Seewald published in November, the pope had spoken of "justified individual cases" in which the use of a condom could be "a first step toward moralization" and "a first piece of responsibility" with regard to a risk of infection by an HIV-infected person. This applies, for example, in the case of prostitution. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had stated in an explanatory note that the Pope's statement referred exclusively to the case of prostitution.

For the information technology of the 21. Century

The American Viceprasident Al Gore has been explored to invest another 366 million US dollars in IT research as part of the budget for the symbolent year. This is an increase of 28 percent. This intritiative was also given a name: "Information technology for the 21. century" or who this is too long, "It2". 60 percent of this budget should lead to the universities, the rest in the research claim of the National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Defense, NASA or the National Institutes of Health.

In the past, so Gore, the government demanded research with the Internet, the first graphic browsers or faster microprocessors helped to secure the company’s leading position in information technology. This sector is now already responsible for a third of American economic growth and employed 7.4 million people who relate 60 percent higher salary compared to the American average salary. Information technology changes our entire life. Further progress allows for better education, a better life for disabled, better health care through telemedicine – and are considerably crucial for the safety of the country. Only recently, Bill Clinton had demanded more money for the CyberTerrorism’s evasion.

It was totally to this initiative by the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, which had criticized the government to invest too little money in long-term IT research, as it is not required by the private sector. So you follow the advice and wants to put more money into basic research. Al Gore, who has been discreetly known in the press release, announced twenty years ago the concept of information superhighway and the Americans "An exciting vision of the potential of information technology" also offered, also formulates what he was wan as a result of investment in research.

Computers should be built who speak, horns and understand human language and can put a language into the other. Intelligent agents should finally remove the work, in the "huge data zoom" to take care of information. Simulations running on supercomputers to which all scientists of the United States have access to new scientific and technical discoveries. The infrastructure of networks should be created with which "Hundreds of billions" Connect computers and other devices. Several thousand times faster computers than today’s supercomputers, probably quantum or organic computers, better analyzes and predictions of complex processes such as climate change should be measured. And last but not least, a more complex but still easier to handle software are produced, with whom you can operate with coarse security the central systems of the infrastructure.

But the currently surviving Fullhorn should also ensure that people will be able to keep up with the information society. Without the old cultural techniques reading and writing, you are still lost, so much sometimes mine that images usually replace the font. Therefore, Al Gore proposes to invest another 128 million US dollars so that the children learn to read better. "In an increasingly factory of information and technology economy, read and the ability to learn strategic skills. We have to help all our children learn to master and read the basics so they in the 21. Century can be successful."

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