ah ah ah thank you for coming to cologne today. we are standing here in front of cologne cathedral because we have been saying, and we have been saying this for 3 years, stop the abuse of power and stop the cover up the acts of sexual abuse or monstrous. well, the cover up of these crimes is even more monstrous. these that upgrade,

we will no longer allow a small clerical elite to betray the message of jesus that is important to us. the one they seek had to stop the abuse of power. stop the cover up and stop a self serve. any church leadership along the women of the maria to point 0 movement have had enough. they have lost patience with the archbishop of cologne, called an old. okay. they are protesting against sexual abuse in the charge against murky finances, and especially against the treatment of women in the catholic church. over the centuries, the churches declared many women to be saints, but who were those women? and can they still be role models today? the area behind cologne cathedral and the city's main train station may not look very remarkable. it steeped in history, romans frank's orange dolphin,

and french have left their mark here. the archdiocese of cologne is one of the oldest and richest local churches north of the alps with almost 2000000 members. the power and wealth of the cologne archdiocese is linked in a curious way to the legend of a woman believe to have lived many centuries ago. one of the cities famous romanesque churches, is dedicated to her and she was declared to sit his patron saint ursula. the legend states that she lived in the 4th century when the 1st christians arrived in what is now west and germany. extraordinary. women have always played an important role in the charge, but they have often been restricted by the ro, the male clergy allotted to them. they were expected to be demure and subservient. so who exactly was sent ursula, and how did her legend come about? yeah, i think it was. and ursula is a british princess all kings georgia. and it's time for her to get married. if i

father agrees to him marrying a young man named a t s t of use these act and that's it. but she says she wants to go on a pilgrimage to rome 1st and then think about this marriage at nothing. then i get the thief death. yeah, it turns out that i live in virginia. i to accompany her on this journey into her game vans honors, i've been lighten up over the centuries the famous arithmetical era crept in, and the 11th became 11000 galvan. and here they make their way to rome, where they meet pope leo who abandons the papal throne because he is so convinced to the power of these future saints and wants to travel with them at hiding rush, bent on, hiding it does emit calmed in spite of what he, even though saint ursula has already had

a vision that she will suffer martyrdom in cologne. pie for com that the in kind of matthew at ward alliance, little incursions over immediately candidacy, done in colona has always been the legend that she met in the hands here who brutally murdered her. and her companions done and modest and full childish long ha! ah, the legend became widespread and was highly popular in the high middle ages. ursula was venerated as a christian martyr. saints are often associated with granting specific favors. and ursula is not only the patron of cologne, she is also the patron saint of children. she arranges good marriages and protects her devotees in times of need and war. she also stands by them in the hour of their

death. even today, she has her followers, but she was never actually canonized by the charge. even her existence is not a proven fact to a man of high attended the is alina convent, school and cologne for 3 years. and that was when i 1st came into contact with ursula hm. later i taught at the school myself the other than and had many students to the church of st. ursula. and when they enrolled at the school site and explain this picture cycle to them. but in a decent build at sucrose cleared is bad. and i was shocked when i heard that st. ursula was long old from the universal calendar of the catholic church. and she because she's actually a legendary person dear, whose existence is, isn't historically proven. i 5 the skip an inch lift. it is an inscription in the church of saint ursula the which states that a certain muslim medius, a roman senator from the earliest dog rebuild the church dedicated to the holy

virgin, murderous over young fallen ver. but then you don't hear anything about this ursula, for centuries i was allowed the name of the name. ursula, i only appears again in the 10th century. litzy garnished none before that she's not mentioned at all. so and a gift and to be good. then the story was written down in the 12th or 13th century english women. that's the version in the lives of the saints, which then became widespread for by tongue before the veneration of saint ursula became increasingly popular after hundreds of human remains were found around the charge which had been built over a roman graveyard or the bones were collected. and distributed worldwide, a sacred relics. the diocesan curator dr. honor pavlik, opens the room for us, known locally as the chamber of horrors. this is where the bones have been

exhibited since the 17th century peak and skulls you see here in the golden chamber other resulted numerous excavations conducted on the 12th or 13th centuries. i discovered back then, not i find in when you have to learn through when you fortifications fulfilled. in the 13th century, the church in san angelo already destroyed. the builders discovered a large roman burial ground here, and cushions connected with the coach to send from them of whom it was known that she died in the company of 11 sound virgin islands. i'm being taught for horse this a p t infernal legend, that this was where the 11000 virtual st ursula were martyred. modern ones and

more and more bones were discovered and they were gradually connected to the church . i actually joined the middle ages because it must have been quite a frightening size. i could be design. that's what i'm, that's the basic design. it's a golden chamber down here i live or you have to say you really query boston, the beautiful virgin. goodbye and above the bones were discovered in the room and burial ground for funding laws, then the sale of the relics began everybody wanted one and a huge re development, especially in the 12th century. so that's about this. so to speak, main relic warehouse. 20, you know, out from here, the reli photo says reliford boss which will produce, i'm in the cologne studios,

was shipped all over the world that hits her late middle age in our, in the cielo relics, while one of the city's main sources of income and a magnet for pilgrims. they still draw visitors from all over the world and at the chamber was decorated lavishly when there was so many bones. these coffee guy, for instance, still full of them that we could continue to trade today will not be, cannot nominate. they took the bones and then made them into ornaments. now turn around, you see the 4th line from the bottom, said ursula, pray for us feel ones shall have. you can tell this lady whatever you choose. i bought, but she thinks you don't say i have my own views on that fire. that's what is meant . for instance, by the colon. smile,

colonel issue to watch bill coldwater cologne, prosper little bout and the cathedral bells indeed. and these relics were exported everywhere and along with the cult of the virgin loot the cult of virginity as an ideal at the church. his ideal for women, hal, this is how one could become wholly irish v. as for high hearted lean, canonized as a married woman was and still is not so easy, which perhaps indicates offenders that the church has a certain problem with the issue of sexuality probably mat ah, i mean i go

to quite ability and against deception. yeah. it can't go on like this, have i. ringback women's associations have acted courageously. maria, 2.0, always alongside the german catholic women's association. i ask you ro, trout to take the floor with manipulating, lowering the church can only be a blessing when it is shared lens, limited and controlled. that this excludes an absolutist exercise of power. there's a special need for women to participate more on the line with you about it. and we want women to have an equal, say,

in financial and legal transactions in questions of art and events in the cathedral . and also in the election of bishop. thank miss wood in the exclusive meal club. the carmelite monastery, maria font sladen, or our lady of peace, is situated in cologne's old town. but the discounts carmelite sir, a contemplative order. they live here behind monastery was isolated from the outside world. each time who has been canonized by the catholic church entered the cologne carmel in 1933, one of the last stages of her life before she was put to death in the outfits birkenau death camp sister and cilla has been a carmelite for 60 years. she has no nuns who knew it each time,

personally for sisters commissioned the artist, gunter damnation to make a memorial cobblestone to commemorate each time if there are many memorial cobblestones in clerk village including many that commemorate edith stein . it's birthday. however, this stone, as specialist our it commemorates the fact that edith stein before she traveled to carmelite community in holland, in 1938, to thinking that she would be safe from him to their last top tier for an hour to pray to our lady of peace or the that's the name of our church, the highs over again. this is where she said good bye to germany of she and it's what this cobblestone commemorate. beside this guy was he you have to been down, at least you have to search a bit for what is there a you have to bow your head to what this person suffered and went through in her

life had a leap tag that it each time was born into a jewish family, converted to catholicism, aged, $31.00, and was put to death in the gas chambers of outfits. in 1942 pope john paul. the 2nd beatified her in cologne in 1987 and declared her a saint. in 1998, he felt that i was present at the canonization had i been invited to did the 1st reading elisa from the book of esther had has standing a little higher up in saint peter's square. i had a wonderful view of all the people. thousands of people differ mentioned on my food and i felt something very profound if, if he mentioned dish that the people i could see were of many different colors languages, nations and that's yawned her out. i had the very strong feeling happy that they were being given aided as their sister, amish west african v. who was this extraordinary woman? edith stein was born in bressler present. dave route's,

wife in 1891. she was the 11th child of a jewish family of wood, merchants, an unconventional child. she stood out from her peers because of her intelligence. after graduating from high school, she studied german history and philosophy. later in her memoirs, she would write. i lived with a conviction that something momentous was in store for me. at the carmelite monastery in cologne, the edict stein archive is managed by historian, tom assured stein, an atheist for a number of years, sort answers to her ethical questions in humanist philosophy. women's rights, while one of her major preoccupations, she wrote, there is no job that can't be done by a woman. after all, no woman is just a woman. each woman has her individual characteristics and disposition, just as a man does this well. and she was one of the 1st women to receive a doctorate in philosophy. the fact that she chose philosophy and then also

completed this degree very successfully and acquired her doctorate with the highest grade comb louder also corresponds to her personality at the time, which was very clear, very disciplined, very strict, very intellectually oriented. all school is that then aided stein had a crisis. she tried 4 times to be admitted to the post doctoral program that could lead to a university teaching career. but it was in vain. as a woman and a jew, a chair in philosophy was close to her in the germany of the 1920s. she wrote an experience that exceeded my strength, sapped my spiritual vitality, and made all activity impossible. until in anti semitism at german universities didn't 1st emerge in 1933 and it certainly had an impact on her self image of sustenance. also got discovered she

suffered repeated psychological crisis ran to school. and as the students, she suffered from severe depression and there were clearly crises in her life. however, this makes her not only a complex personality, but also a very distinct person, which on, on a brazil my poor fear. sister anne silla believes that its normal to experience ruptures. crises and tensions on the road to holiness is dinky. he, i think the saints are with us in life. meet or end of the beaks is in a mis apple. they are not aloof from a human existence and then get it placed very deeply in the light in this and in the dark, clear on it each time it had shine. it as one has something of shalom. in her presence shalom, i wish my shannon was a hebrew word. i knew blake and somebody once told me them, it's

a compound of fire and ice toyota ice lesser is he, these are opposites. we cannot reconciling. but we experienced this world only as contrast. after failing to gain admission to the post doctoral program, each time worked as a school teacher, lecturer and translator. her encounter with christianity helped her to deal with professional frustration and rejection. each dine was received into the catholic church in 1922. her conversion was difficult for her family to accept. i beginning when i entered the carmelite order, i met several sisters who had known her and in man infinity and my feeling is that edith became more human. a man cher mention of a human being and deeply rooted to name the mystery of being human and c, 9 fath corded damage. when the nazis came to power each time lost her teaching

position. that same year, she decided to become a carmelite, none. when she took the veil, she received the name theresa bennett dictor of the cross. in 1938, she took a final vows. when the nazis required religious orders in germany to reveal the ethnic city of their members, each time superiors arranged for her to flee the country and to enter a carmelite monastery in holland. when her lunch bits desist eli, however, in holland her situation became critical. when the catholic bishop wrote a pastoral letter condemning the nazis persecution of the jews thus when metal reprisals,

b s. s. arrested old jewish catholics in holland and hold on you to show he could fall on enough tier one as a decent inst cloister, and with dss forced their way into the monastery and arrested edith and her sister rosa, who had also converted to catholicism. the transport lasted several days and ended on the 9th of august schmid source of fritz. and that there is evidence that she might have been able to escape, but she preferred she said to die with her people via ellem, all humans must become holy or otherwise human life is not worth living with me. and i believe with all my heart that every human has that ability and i got it for god is present in the heart of every human. even mention is got bad dish.

everything is one entered shine. would also certainly say group portrait of a saint is the name of this bronze monument to each time it stands on cologne, stock exchange square. her canonization was controversial because as jewish authorities rightly pointed out, she was murdered because she was a jeer. however, her arrest and deportation to arch fits were indirect response to the dutch bishops condemning the nazis racial doctrine. in other words, she was also murdered because of the catholic church, his moral teaching. and that makes her a christian martyr. in thinks a flash point, district in cologne, the pastor and parish of saint theodore are committed to establishing equality and

solidarity. the focus is on working with families, young people and refugees, especially for the lay theologian, marianna, aunt, who is the pastoral assistant here. her door is open to refugees whose problems she tries to resolve. this is emily, non pointing on very touchy that someone at the airport. and now you've missed your flight. that's racism. that's really, really, really ovens with them. got them a vis. look at was everything. then i'd say maybe you could do something about easter ramadan. yeah. that's a good idea of and will go upstairs. okay,

she got arbiten in recent years. i've said to myself that i want to take an active part in the liturgy and not really stay in the background and my the kennel. i want the congregation to get to know me does. that's why i think it's important for women who do these jobs to have a place in the liturgy as well. the little you haven't missed a b one. they don't have to beg for. but if they have to choose and feisty marianna onto the co founder of the maria, $2.00 movement, she wants women's ministry in the church to be even more effective and visible. ok . be still in the you can just call in your home country. sure. no, i haven't been to school. hello. hello. this is mariana on from the catholic church

in thinks turn berg. tune back up. ha ha. i need your help urgently. early his 3rd, one for coolish. our church must become a different church and it must become a church, shared power of power expressed in serve and in the history of new and the 2.0. we're not striving for leadership for the priest. 9, the priest, the, the priesthood. god continue. is it is now so called miss miss ion. who does the church belong to? not the cardinal, nor the crazy done. it belongs to every luncheon. you write it and give it to her to take. now let's see who we should help. nichol fornia. i probably take this ukrainian family side in the house of mine. okay. let me follow her fund. i also need all their passports votes up by he'll

yes. okay. good fun than how and very if women had rights worldwide. and the catholic church gave women older rights. i'm a vista, i'm the one that it would have an effect on peace in the world on thus. but the church leadership doesn't dare to do that. life increased by the cause they themselves, the scared, performed. why, why asked the pope afraid for why the bishop's afraid. and as if you have the gospel in your pocket, you don't need to be afraid. marianna aunt says the church shies away from releasing the creative power of women in its institutions and from embracing fundamental change. but this is exactly where the opportunity for renewal lies. women today know what they can do in the world, and no longer bow to traditional images of women.

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