Signals to the vatican

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Controversial Chilean bishop Juan Barros has welcomed the announced recent visit of a Vatican delegation. The diocese is available for cooperation, the newspaper "La Tercera" quoted from a communication from Barros.

The lay organization of his Osorno diocese reacted cautiously. The visit could delay necessary personnel changes, a spokesman criticized.

Pope again sends special envoys

Thursday, the Vatican had said the pope would again send two special envoys in light of the Catholic Church's abuse scandal in Chile. Former Vatican chief prosecutor for sexual offenses and Maltese Archbishop Charles Scicluna and canon lawyer Jordi Bertomeu from the disciplinary department of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith are to travel to Osorno in the next few days.

The purpose of the visit was to advance the "process of reparation and healing" for the victims of abuse, explained Greg Burke, head of the press office.

Barros accused by victims

Barros' person ignited the recent debate on sexual abuse by clerics. He comes from a circle around the charismatic cleric Fernando Karadima, who was convicted by the Vatican in 2011 of sexual offenses against minors. Barros is accused by victims of having witnessed the acts but protected his spiritual mentor.

Scicluna and Bertomeu had already undertaken investigations into the handling of abuse cases in Chile on behalf of the Pope in February. Your 2.300-page report led to the summoning of all Chilean bishops to the Vatican. After the three-day meeting in mid-May, 29 of 31 bishops offered their resignations.

bmw’s theater screen for the new 7 series amazon’s car cinema on the road in the luxury class

Rear-seat passengers in the new BMW 7 Series can enjoy the drive-in cinema as soon as they arrive: on a huge 8K touch display with amazon content.

The CES is actually about classic consumer electronics like smartphones, televisions or robotic vacuum cleaners. For some years now, however, car manufacturers have also discovered the trade show in las vegas for themselves and present their electronic gadgets there. In keeping with this, this year BMW is offering exclusive glimpses of its luxury-class flagship, which is not due to be launched until the end of the year.

Although those responsible are trying hard to deny that the new 7 Series has a technical basis, it’s clear by the time we take a seat in the completely camouflaged car that this is what it must be, the new 7 Series.

8-K touch display from above

The special thing about the ix1, apart from the ample space and the very comfortable seats, is the rear-seat-entertainment called theater-screen. While rear-seat passengers have usually had a small screen in front of their noses, the BMW luxury class will in future have a large screen that can be extended out of the (roof) sky, or more precisely a 31-inch 8K touchscreen in 32:9 format with 5G connection, HD webcam, 128 GB memory, bluetooth headphones and smartphone-sized touch remote controls in the door, which can also be used to operate the theater screen in a relaxed reclining position.

Who now thinks that work is to be done there, is wrong. Instead of integrating calendar, e-mail or even excel and powerpoint, BMW has brought in tech giant amazon to provide entertainment. The future 7 Series will have everything on board that the amazon fire tv stick offers for the TV at home: the prime video platform, DAZN sports streaming and a whole host of games from the amazon app store. More than 30 loudspeakers are also to provide a cinema experience. Two of them are housed in the rear seats and are supposed to generate so-called 4D sound with their basses, thus enhancing the cinema feeling.

No view to the rear

Speaking of feelings: how the driver feels when the Oscar winners are flickering across the screen in the back is a moot point. Because apart from the sound, it has nothing to offer from the cinema experience. In addition, the display completely blocks the view through the rearview mirror. Although the driver is supposed to be able to retract the screen quickly at the touch of a button, it is doubtful that this will be fast enough in everyday use.

But the size of the display may not only cause problems for the driver. To prevent distraction or dazzling of traffic behind, BMW has woven the rear window visor even more tightly. As soon as the monitor extends, it rolls out automatically.

Conclusion

With more than just a video call function, the theater screen is unlikely to enrich everyday working life in the back seat of the new 7 series. Perhaps that is also a good thing. Because the mobile screen will not comply with the data protection guidelines of most companies anyway.

How it is about the faith firmness of the Spanish youth, experts see differently. Alfredo Rodriguez Sedano, a sociology professor at the Pontifical Opus Dei University of Navarre, agrees: "The fact that up to a million young people are taking part in World Youth Day shows the importance of faith for today's young people."Recent surveys by the Spanish Youth Institute, however, contradict this thesis.

The number of practicing Catholics among Spain's young people dropped from 30 to 10 percent in the past decade. Conversely, the number of those who say they are atheists increased from 10 to 30 percent. But Rodriguez Sedano insists. A slight majority of Spanish young people still describe themselves as Catholic. Religion plays an increasingly important role in their lives, especially during the economic crisis, when 44 percent of young people can't find work, he said. Many young people discovered in faith something that society and politics could not offer them – security and a sense of life. This view of the sociologist is confirmed by a survey of the Spanish newspaper "La Razon": According to this, many young people feel protected by their religion against the uncertainties and difficulties of life. Around 70 percent of those surveyed said they were convinced that their faith helped them to face up to the major challenges they faced.

The Catholic Church also wants World Youth Days to provide guidance in the face of unemployment, temptations like drugs or dangers like AIDS. Past large-scale meetings have shown that many participants subsequently chose priesthood, religious life or Christian marriage, Rodriguez Sedano said. Madrid's Archbishop Antonio Maria Rouco Varela is certain that the next few days will have a similar effect: "A new generation of Catholic young people emerges from each World Youth Day, and although they are only a minority in Europe and Spain, they are a large minority."

Role of the medi
Rouco Varela does not yet give up on Catholic Spain. "Perhaps many no longer have that attachment to the Church and faith as previous generations, but they are very responsive to the great questions of life and the proclamation of faith."According to the cardinal, when young people turn away from the faith, it is often neither the fault of the young people nor of the church: he sees the blame rather in the Spanish education system, in the media, which convey a negative impression of the church, and in the families, which pass on Christian values to the children less and less often.

Evaristo Villar, on the other hand, points to the influence of the secular reform policy under Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. He is a priest and spokesman for "Redes Cristianas," a network of Catholic reform movements that advocate, among other things, more democracy in the church, equal rights for women and better recognition of homosexuals. The introduction of same-sex marriage or the liberalization of abortion has reinforced to young people that the church is not right, Villar says. Conversely, this policy has bound devout young people even more strongly to the church. They had "radicalized themselves in a society that was increasingly hostile to them," the priest said.

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