“Many are looking for support”

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On Wednesday at noon, Chancellor Angela Merkel was a guest of the Cardinal Hoffner Circle of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Kaisersaal of the Parliamentary Society. In October 2003, she visited the association, founded in 1993 by Catholic members of parliament, for the first time; now she is once again answering questions in front of an audience of almost 80 from the parliamentary group and the surrounding area. Christoph Strack was there.

One rarely experiences Angela Merkel so personally. The Chancellor speaks of joyfulness in faith, of singing and praying together, of the incentive to "make politics with so much joy" out of Christian faith. Rather amused than irritated, the East German pastor's daughter says that "various books are now being written about her, as I am a Christian" – an allusion to the recent publications, sometimes critical, sometimes benevolent, about Merkel and the "C" in the CDU. The 54-year-old describes everyday school life in the GDR, the decision "Christian teaching yes or no" in front of classmates. "For me, faith is something very personal, very individual." "Dear Angela," says chairman Georg Brunnhuber (61), "Schorsch" she replies. Here, no one explicitly asks anymore about the Pope's criticism, which the head of government had voiced in February to the annoyance of some Catholics in connection with the traditionalist controversy. One or the other member of the circle has already given her his opinion on this on occasion. The questions now revolve around factual ies, bioethics and abortion, family images and social justice. Her expectation of the Bundestag election falls in theNebensatz: "We want to be yes people's party, want 40-and-more percent."Merkel is not concerned with the details in the circle of Union Catholics. The CDU chairwoman repeatedly reminds the deputies to face the social reality in Germany. She promotes the CDU's new family concept, which focuses on early childcare and thus makes it possible for both parents to work. At the same time, however, she says how irreplaceable parental time and attention is for the children. It criticizes the party-internal handling of single parents, "who is different, must justify itself with us first times…"She reports on her conversation with the lesbians and gays in the CDU, "tough as nails": "Incredibly nice people", to whom she was then able to explain that they were not allowed to marry the same sex. And Merkel describes disputes with Berlin's Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky on the subject of asylum. "That would put me relatively far to the left in the CDU, if not intolerable at all…."When the church moves on such ies, it is a reminder to the CDU to "move a little". Some statements from party circles, she says, definitely hurt her… This is how Merkel appeals to the worldview of her conservative caucus colleagues – and then takes them to task again. The chancellor refers to the result of the Berlin referendum on religious education: "sobering. Even I did not expect that.For this reason, Christians in the Union would also have to "do a lot more preliminary work" and "be missionary in a certain way". There are many who are looking for support."If so many in eastern Germany are still reporting for youth initiation ceremonies, it also shows "that we are not managing to pick them up"". The Protestant CDU leader, who was also once the federal chairwoman of the Protestant Working Group of the CDU/CSU, describes her Protestant credo to the Catholic deputies: not to give up ideals – for example, in marriage and family – and yet to find a way to live responsibly with them. In all this, she speaks of Pope Benedict XVI. and John Paul II. with a lot of respect, when looking at the Pole, it almost lets you feel emotion as well. She is very much in favor of coherent dogmatics. Because it is important "that fundamental claims are still formulated at all". And especially on the current topic of the social market economy, she would finally like to see contributions from the Catholic Church that shape a debate or advance it qualitatively.

The "Independent Investigation into the Handling of Sexualized Violence in the Archdiocese of Cologne" meets with a high international response. In the USA, for example, the New York Times and the Washington Post reported on the Gercke report.

The publication of the independent investigation also attracted widespread interest from renowned media in other countries, such as the United Kingdom and Ireland (a.a. Independent, Daily Maily, Irish Times), France (u.a. Le Figaro, La Croix, Liberation, Le Parisien), Italy (u.a. La Repubblica, La Stampa, Corriere della Sera), Canada (National Post), Spain (u.a. El PaIs, El Mundo, ABC, Público).

In addition to international Catholic media such as Vatican News and Catholic World Report, individual newspapers in South America, Asia and Africa also reported.

Report to be translated

The "Gercke report" is noticed far beyond the borders of Germany and Europe. The law firm Gercke Wollschlager itself received several inquiries from affected persons and affected persons' organizations from other countries (Brazil, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Slovakia).

For this reason, Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki decided to have the report translated: "Sexualized violence and its cover-up is a crime that does not only happen here in Germany. Clarification and reappraisal have a high priority for the Church in Germany, but also worldwide, even if the German dioceses and the various countries are at different stages here. If with our Cologne report we can contribute a little bit to the progress of the church, then I am very happy about that."

Cologne criminal law experts Prof. Dr. Bjorn Gercke and Dr. Kerstin Stirner had on 18. The study, commissioned by the Archbishop of Cologne, was presented at a press conference on March 2021. On 23. March, Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki and his vicar general, Dr. Markus Hofmann announced the first concrete consequences and measures that will take place in the Archdiocese of Cologne on the basis of the study.

Establishment of an independent investigation commission

These consequences include, for example, the establishment of an independent processing commission in accordance with the agreement of the German Bishops' Conference with the Independent Commissioner for Questions of Sexual Child Abuse of the Federal Government, Johannes Wilhelm Rorig.

Other reforms include improved record keeping, strengthening of intervention in terms of personnel and organization, evaluation and further development of prevention, regular monitoring of accused clergy and laity, and changes in priestly training. Likewise, additional funds should be made available for increased recognition services for those affected by the crime.

All pictures: Rockstar.

Claus Jahnel moved to Los Santos

Finally: After years of promo gait, GTA 5 has been published at least for the current consoles of Microsoft and Sony (a Fang ported for the PC is contaminated) and already sets the expected fantastic liaries. Now you have been too easy to make the GTA series considered a pure hype product. In particular, the 3er and 4 series – three individual parts have been published – have shown that this is one of the few brands of pop culture, which couples effective advertising campaigns with an obvious creative brilliance, which creates it again and again, to integrate all important developments in the game industry and to unite with its own innovations for the absolute state of things.

The question was only: What could come to GTA 4? For this game, Rockstar had already a completely popular and passable image of New York named Liberty City created, which had set new mabs as a city simulation. Mabstabe, which were so high that the production studio in the pleasant location was reflected, only to have to be overnight.

So, bags packed and pulled to Los Santos. Aha, I’m a gangster from the hood. Friends and relatives seem to be and special on Crystal Meth, so first set into the car to race a bit through the city.

Of course one is once more impressed. The replica of Los Angeles works virtually as Liberty City. On the other hand, in graphically, the expected leap forward was taken forward – the tree and skyscraper flicker for faster ride or camera movement still a little. However, that does not really surprise that GTA5 has to work with the same graphics processors as the process, but depict a significantly coarse city.

Then it gets dark. My goodness. Now the game is so that one liked as a lover of ambitious video game art almost crying. The lights and neon signs go on and you are pushed. The chronicler was so grabbed that he was a crime to crime and drove directly to the Vinewood lettering in the Vinewood Hills.

You just go over dirt roads, but then he stands like the real in Hollywood. In original gravity, with headlamps, graffiti and all the trimmings. Before that a breathtaking view over the nighty Moloch. You can see the skyline and wine: you can drive to each of these buildings, by no loading times and intermediate screens of it separated. You are here, and the city is it too. To come to a place, it takes as long as you need to go.

The game world is still tagging when you start exploring the hinterland. Here, the experiences that Rockstar has made the Western epic Red Dead Redemption have been drawn to the true innovation leap.

Ultimately, the high standard in terms of simulation was coarse-athstatic drifting quality and graphically refined in details. For this (and that’s more interesting than a few pixels more), it has been possible to extend this standard flat-maby tremendous, so this time not only the city itself, but also the associated district is displayed. The forecast that once GTA 12 will simulate the complete globe at a season of 5000 hours, does not seem to be overperated.

While you arrive in Liberty City as a Mittellot Serb in New York, works out from the little man Fur-Grobe to the boss and the city is slowly leaving, landing here before the bias in a bank collapse with heavy sliding. According to stated heading, you have to race immediately like a credential by the City and is already persecuted by the COPS before a conviction is aware of a crime at all.

The atmospheric beginning of GTA 4, who immediately consciously makes that something rough starts, finds no correspondence here. Soon, however, it shows that the idea of using them three instead of a major character (the player can control three different characters whose destinies are more and more interwoven in the context of history) beneficial to the long-term motivation.

That "More" on flat, especially but also on diverse Schauplatzen – Mountains, Schrottstreiche, Ohlbohrarlachen, Militar complexes, trailer park settlements and many more -, let’s think a little to a mafiose variant of the rather revolutionary just-break series, mimic But especially the story to go new ways, which has been unthinkable at GTA 4.

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