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In an interview with the FAZ, Ruhr Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck praises our site as "an outstanding media portal that offers users high-quality text, audio and video contributions."

FAZ, 12.4.2010 – A fresh wind has been blowing through the Catholic world from the Ruhr region since Franz-Josef Overbeck, born in 1964, was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Essen last year. Overbeck is an intellectual of our time who has no fear of contact with modern means of communication. Bishop Overbeck, google yourself from time to time? Yes, I do this regularly. And how do you communicate with the Vatican? By SMS and e-mail? For me, it is natural to communicate by SMS and e-mail. Depending on the occasion and the person, I also contact a wide variety of people by letter and telephone. Does the internet, which Pope Benedict XVI. The fact that Myanmar has recently been compared to the "court of the Gentiles" of the Jerusalem Temple represents the last great missionary challenge for the Catholic Church? It is and remains one of the great tasks of the church to show people who do not know God or have forgotten him new ways to find God and to come into the community of the church. The Internet can also be a good help on this path, if used correctly. But for all its importance, it is no substitute for direct encounters and personal life testimony.IBut isn't it also the task of the church to keep a certain distance from this accelerated world and its accelerators?? Going to the people does not mean going along with everything that is bothering people today. In this sense, the discovery of slowness and the search for peace and quiet belongs to the tasks of the church. Therefore, what is important needs a special place, a special encounter and a special relationship. To cultivate this often means to put oneself at a distance from our world, which is undergoing many acceleration processes. So now, Rome wants priests to "make use of the possibilities of the new generation of audiovisual media (photo, video, blog, website)". Is there enough interest, capacity and competence in the priesthood?? In the meantime, there are many priests and other people working in the service of the Church who use the modern media with great naturalness and at the same time with alertness and the ability to differentiate in order to communicate the message of the Gospel to many people. In this context, many, especially among priests, have already discovered the importance of modern media for catechesis and so on, and use them as a matter of course. The interest is high, capacities and competences are gratifyingly many, this belongs to the contemporaneity of the church. Men of God are tasked with "giving a soul to the incessant communication stream of the Internet". What does the Holy Father mean by this? Communication is more than just conveying words, images and a variety of information. Communication has to do with "communio", community, in the literal sense of the word. To cultivate this and to make it serve people from an ethical point of view is one of the things that can touch the soul of man. Isn't the Internet perhaps soulless because it is the medium of absolute doubt? For every truth there is eventually a counter-truth. The problem you mention exists in every form of communication, because it is always medially conditioned. Christianity in particular is aware of this as the religion of logos. Doubt, by the way, is not an enemy of faith, but is part of it. Moreover, under today's conditions, the Christian message always passes through the critical moment of doubt in the sense of a cross-check. But we Christians are convinced that the truth of the Gospel can stand up to any test. However, large parts of the Internet seem not only secular, but decidedly anti-religious. Is it still possible to stand up to it? The world of the Internet offers a clear indication of the complexity and diversity of opinion in which every human being must prove himself today. In the course of its history, the church itself has gone through many phases in which it had to withstand decidedly anti-religious, anti-Christian and anti-church movements and was able to overcome them from within. The church relies on this power of the truth of the gospel, and I rely on it today as a matter of course. After all, there have been attempts to keep up for some time now. Your Essen diocese tweets diligently. The Archdiocese of Cologne has launched the "medien-tube" platform, which is intended to be "a kind of Catholic YouTube". Sermon recordings can be seen, and the number of views is usually not even in triple digits. In contrast, the press conference you gave after your appointment as diocesan bishop has already been viewed thousands of times on Youtube. Is it more important, then, to become involved in existing structures than to build parallel ones? It's a question of media strategy. Ultimately, on the Internet, every offer is just a click away from the next one. It is therefore certainly advisable to use different platforms and not to limit oneself to just one provider. For example, we have also posted videos on the media tube portal of the Archdiocese of Cologne. It is also important to note that even on a portal such as Youtube, the majority of films are only viewed in small numbers. Incidentally, from the point of view not only of the Ruhr bishopric, Cologne Cathedral Radio has developed into an outstanding media portal that offers users high-quality text, audio and video contributions. But doesn't opening up to the new medium also have to mean opening up to a lifeworld that is now firmly connected to that medium? Wouldn't the Catholic Church then have to take new positions in some areas, such as sexuality?? The Catholic Church stands with its proclamation in the midst of life. For good reasons, connected with the Gospel and the tradition of our Church, we take very clear positions on essential ies of life. It is an opportunity to use the media to take positions, especially in the area of sexuality you mentioned, that most serve human dignity in the long run and the good of society and communion of all people. Here it is necessary to enter into an always clear discourse, without blurring the clear positions. Would an ecumenical web offer also be conceivable in the future?? The topics of ecumenism will certainly play a role, as will the important questions of the dialogue between religions. It is good to note the respective points of view. Only in this way can ecumenism as well as the dialogue of religions be meaningful and forward-looking. Incidentally, we are further along than you think. For example, there is a joint platform of the Catholic and Protestant churches that provides information about Christmas and Easter services throughout Germany. Things are moving forward! So when will you start blogging now? I cannot yet give you a concrete date a few weeks after I took office as Ruhr bishop. Blogging just to be there is not my thing anyway. However, I think that you will read from me.The questions were asked by Oliver Jungen.

US Universitat is a physics professor that became a prominent and rider of the 9/11 skeptics with the hypothesis over the additional blasting of the WTC tower

With the physicist Steven Jones, Professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, the skeptics of the official theory had the background and transaction of the connection of the 11.9. a proven scientist won. The Washington Post described him as "The Movement’s De facto Minister of Engineering". His by the "Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the last days", ie the Mormon-Based and operated university, which is religious and has the goal, "to assist individuals in their quest for Perfection and Eternal Life", does not like that and now seems to do it before the anniversary of the terminal conclusion.

The discussion about the conspiracy theories of 11.9. Reaches the academic world

The physicist Steve Jones, who became the scientific bonuses of the conspiracy theorist

The University Has Steve Jones (57), who teaches there since 1985, sent in paid holidays on Thursday and now examine his activities in the context of the termination of the following. "Byu has explained repeatedly," said the university management, "that they do not represent claims that are made by individual Faculty members. However, we are very concerned about the increasingly speculative and accusing exercises of DR. Jones."Previously, the physical faculty and the Collge of Engineering have already distanced:" The Structural Engineering Faculty in The (Byu) Fulton College of Engineering and Technology Do Not Support The Hypotheses of Professor Jones."The physicist who wants to be recently pending the Republicans is co-generous of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth and publishers of the Journal of 9/11 Studies, which is described:" The Journal of 9/11 Studies is a Peer -Reviewed, Open Access, Electronic-Only Journal Covering The Whole of Research Related to 9/11/2001."

Jones became known through his study Why Indeed Did The World Trade Center Buildings Collapse?, he also published on the Institute website. Recently she was in the book "9/11 and American Empire: Intellectual Speak Out" has appeared, which could now lead to the intervention of the universitat. Jones took out his study on Thursday from the website after the University had already built that she had not gone sufficiently through the full-time peer review process. Even now, it is called that the university is distressed because the study was not published in prestigious scientific publications. That’s why the scientific reputation of the University of the question. Now the university administration, the college for physical and mathematical sciences and physical facultants should judge the case. Jones in the 1980s in the Energy Ministry with the Cold Fusion as part of his work in the Energy Ministry and critically uplower the allegedly proof of a facilitated cold merger by Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann at the University of Utah. The creditor Mormon had also written an essay, in which he was looking for by archaological finds to prove that Jesus had visited Latin America after his resurrection.

WE Do not Believe That 19 Hijackers and a Few Others in A Cave in Afghanistan Pulled This Off Acting Alone. WE Challenge This Official Conspiracy Theory and, by God, We’re Going to Get To the Bottom of this.

Steve Jones

Jones does not deny that the two passenger machines are gasty into the WTC tower, but he says, there is enough notes in the existing data, testimonies, videos and photos, but also own experiments for that they are not after physical point of view by the impact the planes and the fire can be toted together as they did this. This is particularly in the case of the third, only hours later, turmoiled tower, the WTC 7, the case. Jones is a scientist enough to develop in all about exemplary speculation, but he favored the hypothesis that crash charges in the building (Controlled Demolition) had caused the collapse in the buildings (Controlled Demolition). A complete, so fast and almost vertical collapse of steel skeleton buildings has never been observed as a result of nest and other causes of causes described by NIST and others, but atomparious purposes by explosions, says Jones. He is on thermite finds in dust and molten steel the WTC places. The substance is used in military explosives.

WTC7 is completely in itself, although not hit by any plane

Although the National Institute of Standards and Technology has published an exemplary and expensive report on the collapse of the building, but just for the WTC7 tower had room that the hypotheses over its collapse are not sufficiently greeted, during the other WTC buildings Destruction caused by the planes, the released kerosene and the abbreviation of the upper built part for an explanation was sufficient. Jones also dealt with these explanations of NIST and tried to refute them. The physicist demanded that all the data had to be published in order to encourage an independent scientific investigation, which also involves the hypothesis of a blasting, which was not made in the official reports.

If, in fact, if the own university is at least his study and subjected to a strict peer reviewing, the credible physicist who passionately advocates a further explanation achieved another success after NIST has already responded directly to his side. Apparently, the conspiracy theorists in the government are now first after the skepticism is widespread in the population. So the US Foreign Office has on 28. August on a website the top conspiracy theories of the 11.9. wanted to refute. In the first place here is the thesis of the explosive.

FSK – film control for 70 years © VDB Photos (shutterstock)

Censorship does not take place in Germany. But protection of minors is widely desired in films. The Voluntary Self-Regulation of the Film Industry provides age restrictions – for 70 years now.

Sex, cannibals and politically unpopular scenes: What are cinemas, television and the Internet allowed to expose viewers to?? There has been censorship since the beginning of the cinema age. Even more so at the time of the Nazi dictatorship. And when Germany lay in ruins in 1945, the victorious powers ensured that denazification was not counteracted by Nazi propaganda.

The Basic Law abolished military censorship. But the protection of youth and the moral order remained an ie. To prevent state intervention, representatives of the federal and state governments, the film industry, religious communities and the Federal Youth Council founded the "Voluntary Self-Regulation of the Film Industry" (FSK) in 1949. Film distributors undertook to present their films there, cinema operators promised to allow access only to persons who had reached the release age.

1951: Discussions about "The Sinner

70 years ago, on 18. July 1949, the FSK screened the first film – "Intimacies" by Paul Martin – at Biebricher Schloss in Wiesbaden. The strip was a so-called defector. Made during the Nazi era, it was banned by the Nazi Film Review Board in 1944. The decision of the FSK: Released from 16 years without cut, not suitable for the quiet holidays.

More than 250.000 films, series and clips have been checked by the FSK reviewers since then. For the vast majority of films, the age classification is unspectacular. A few scandals, however, made the FSK famous. As early as 1951, "The Sinner" with Hildegard Knef caused crisis meetings and demonstrations. A few days before the film's release, the FSK initially refused to release it for adults as well. The film trivialized prostitution, killing on demand, and suicide.

Best publicity for the film. In the end, the film was cleared for 18 years by a vote of 9 to 4. Church representatives temporarily left the FSK in protest. There were riots in some cities, opponents threw stink bombs into movie theaters, police responded with water cannons.

Stable Provisional

The film industry's hope of using the FSK to prevent statutory youth protection regulations was not fulfilled. In 1952, the first youth protection law came into force. After that, the supreme state youth authorities were responsible for film releases. But they concluded an agreement with the film industry on a temporary cooperation with the FSK, but acquired clear rights of co-determination.

The provisional system proved to be stable. Even then, for example, the Ingmar Bergman film "The Silence" was given an 18+ release in 1963 and a large part of the Republic was outraged. The "loose ruling practice" of the FSC occupied the Bundestag. But Interior Minister Hermann Hocherl (CSU) rejected state censorship measures. On the initiative of CDU member of parliament Adolf Susterhenn, the "Aktion saubere Leinwand" (clean canvas campaign) was launched, opposing "fornication in the guise of art".

Radical change

Since the founding of the FSC, the media landscape has changed radically. Cinema and TV were joined by video and DVD. When the first video films hit the market in the early 1980s, parents, teachers and politicians were appalled by the level of violence and explicit sex.

In 1985, the Youth Protection Act was applied to video films; the FSK expanded its jurisdiction. From the beginning, private television was also accused of being too casual about violence and sex. For this reason, the broadcasters founded the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Fernsehen (FSF) (Voluntary Self-Regulation of Television) in 1994, following the FSK's example.

Control in the network difficult

In the meantime, however, the Internet, playback channels such as YouTube or streaming services are radically challenging the protection of minors. Public broadcasters have committed to making films with restricted age ratings available on the network only at certain times. But international providers such as Netflix, Amazon and Co. can hardly be controlled.

Some politicians dream of algorithm-based solutions to check YouTube, Amazon Video or iTunes – but this is hardly politically feasible. It would be conceivable to limit by law to inadmissible content such as pornography, racial hatred, glorification of violence, and to rely more on information and recommendations for the protection of minors.

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