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thank you for coming to cologne to day. 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, how the cover up of these crimes is even more monstrous. so these, that we will no longer allow a small clerical elite to betray the message of jesus. that is important to us. the basic is that it stop the abuse of power. stop the stop the cover up and stop as self serve any church leadership along the same. the women of the maria, 2.0, movement have had enough. they have lost patience with the archbishop of cologne, called an old. okay. they are protesting against sexual abuse in
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a 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, but 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 judges 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 that his patron, saint ursula. the legend states that she lived in the 4th century when the 1st
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christians arrived in what is now western germany. extraordinary women have always played an important role in the charge, but they have often been restricted by the role 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 he does, but she says she wants to go on a pilgrimage to grown 1st and then think about this marriage at nothing. then it give the thief's death. yeah, i turns out that i live in virginia. i to accompany her on this journey into
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a game venzano. i'd be glad helen over the centuries the famous arithmetical era crept in, and the 11th became 11000 of on one here they make their way to rome, where they meet pope leo who abandons the papal throne because he is so convinced of the power of these future saints and wants to travel with them or hiding are spent on hiding. it does emit comment. in spite of warning, even though st. ursula has already had a vision that she will suffer martyrdom in cologne, get tired. the com that the encouraged and matthew i taught allied in kerns all that immediately again, the dusty 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 time shlang had ah,
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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 devote ease 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 i 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 tired 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
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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 with the catholic church. she because she's actually a legendary person. dear, whose existence is, isn't historically proven. i 5 the skip on an inch lift. it is an inscription in the church of saint ursula the which states that a 30 mile medius, a roman senator from the earliest dod rebuild the church dedicated to the holy virgin margarita young fallen ver. but then you don't hear anything about this. ursula, for centuries, the older law, the number, the name ursula only appears again in the 10th century that the garnish can none the for that she's not mentioned at all. so an a good shift and to be good. then the story was written down in the 12th or 13th century hawkish. that's the version in the lives of the saints, which then became widespread for by tongue before the
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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 on the bones were collected. and distributed worldwide, a sacred relics. the diocesan curator doctor arna 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 excavation conducted on the 12th or 13th centuries. i discovered back then, not i find
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in when you learn through when you fortifications fulfilled in the 13th century, the church of saint sheila already destroyed the builders, discovered a large roman burial ground here. and christians connected, it was the call to send from them of whom it was known that she died in the company is 11000 virgin islands. i'm being taught for horse this infernal legend that this was with the 11000 virtual and st. ursula were martyred. modern ones and then more and more bones were discovered and they were gradually connected to the church. i sent ursula during the middle ages because it must have been quite a frightening size and could be design. that's just that's the basic design for golden chamber. down here i live, or you have to say you really corey boss with the beautiful virgin. goodbye and above the bones were discovered in the room and burial ground. for
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duncan as laws, then the sale of the relics began. everybody wanted one and a huge re development, especially in the 12th century. so does this. so to speak, main relic warehouse. when you're out from here, the reli photo says really, corey bosses which were produced in the cologne studios were shipped all over the world. there were hits in her late mid luncheon in miss the acilo relics were one of the city's main sources of income and a magnet for pilgrims. they still draw visitors from all over the world and that the chamber was decorated lavishly. but when there were so many bones,
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not these sac offer guy, for instance, a still full of them that we could continue the trade to day. melodic law, who nominal, they took the binds and then made them into ornaments. now turn around, you see the 4th line from the bottom, said ursula, pray for us fuel once. 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. that's what is meant. for instance, by the cologne, smile, alicia, to wash cleaned what a cologne prosper little bout, and the cathedral bills 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 holy irish v. as for highlighted, the in canonized as a married woman was and still is not so easy,
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which perhaps indicates offenders that the church has a certain problem with the issue of the sexuality probably might. ah, i mean all the credibility and against deception. it can't go on like this. i want the 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
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a gun now in the church can only be a blessing when it is shared and limited and controlled that this excludes an absolutist exercise of power. there is a special need for women to participate more designs on with her 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 slayton, or our lady of peace is situated in cologne's old town. but the discounts carmelite
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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. the sisters commissioned the artist, gunter damnation to make a memorial cobblestone to commemorate each time if there are many memorial cobblestones in clerk, including many that commemorate edith stein for a day. however, this stone, as specialist hour, it commemorates the fact that edith stein before she traveled to a carmelite community in holland, in 1938,
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to thinking that she would be safe from hitler. there stopped here for an hour to pray to our lady of peace or the that's the name of our church the highest. again, this is where she said good bye to germany of she and it's what this cobblestone commemorate. beside this guy murphy, 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 live 1011. 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 if i read i was present at the canonization had i've been invited to did the 1st reading elisa from the book of esther had when he has standing
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a little higher up in saint peter's square, i had a wonderful view of all the people thousands of people differ, mention on my food than i felt something very profound. if, if he mentioned just at the people i could see were of many different colors, languages, nations her and that yawned her out. i had the very strong feeling happy that they were being given. eat it is. this is down. i had an issue with our can v. who was this extraordinary woman? edith stein was born in bressler, present, dave route, suave 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,
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tom assured stein, an atheist for a number of years, sought answers to her ethical questions in humanist philosophy. women's rights were one of her major preoccupations. she wrote, there is no job that can 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. and she was one of the 1st women to receive a doctorate in philosophy, the effect 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 is very strict, very intellectually oriented. all school is 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 korea. but it was in vain. as a woman and a jew,
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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 as of sustenance. also got like discovery or she suffered repeated psychological crisis, went to school. and as a students, she suffered from severe depression and they were clearly crises in her life. however, this makes her not only a complex personality, but also a very distinct person. bush on a proposal and that poor fear. sister anne silla believes that its normal to experience ruptures. crises and tensions on the road to holiness is dinky. he,
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i think the saints are with us in life. meat or involved in beaks is in a this apple. they are not aloof from a human existence. then god placed very deeply in the light in this and in the dark, clear on it each time it had shine it as well as something of shalom in her presence shalom having my shalom as a hebrew word anyway. and somebody once told me them, it's a compound of fire and ice toyota. iceland is he? these are opposites. we cannot reconciling. but we experienced this world only as contrast this 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 time was received into the catholic
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church in 1922. her conversion was difficult for her family to accept. i think when i entered the carmelite order, i met several sisters who had known her and a man, infinity. and my feeling is that edith became more human. a man, she cher, mention of a human being and deeply rooted to name the mystery of being human. and c, 9 fab corn did step inch. when the nazis came to power each time lost her teaching position. that same year she decided to become a calmer like none. when she took the veil, she received the name teresa benedict her of the cross. in 1938, she took her final vows. when the nazis required religious orders in germany to reveal the ethnicity of
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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 deliver in holland, her situation became critical. when the catholic bishops wrote a pastoral letter condemning the nazis persecution of the jews, thus will middle, i'm reprisal, the ss, arrested old jewish catholics in holland, in holland de of a you to show here could fall on enough to you at one i was a decent inst, clause store and with the ss forced their way into the monastery and arrested edith and her sister rosa, who had also converted to catholicism mil at tar. the transport lasted several days and ended on the 9th of august in auschwitz list. oh sure, it's good. there is evidence that she might have been able to
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escape, but she preferred she said to die with her people. yet al, am all humans must become wholly of thought. otherwise human life is not worth living . reach me ma'am. again, i believe with all my heart that every human has that ability it it, as i got it for god is present in the heart of every human. even mention if god giving back everything is one as each time 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 jew. however,
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her arrest and deportation to auschwitz 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 angela. i am very touchy that
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someone at the airport and now you've missed your flight. that's racism. that's really, really, really we're so got them a this look at was everybody sang. then i'd say maybe you could do something about easter ramadan. yeah. that's a good idea. and we'll 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 name is kenneth, i want the congregation to get to know me. does. that's why i think it's important for women who do the job to have a place in the liturgy as well. their little heart disease missed one. they don't have to beg for. but if there is to choose and high state marianna onto the co
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founder of the maria, $2.00 movement, she wants women's ministry in charge to be even more effective and visible. ok. they still in the corner in your home country? 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. for one for cool. sure. our check must become a different church and it must become a church shed. power of power expressed in serve and the man to viciously near the $2.00 when not striving for leadership and for the priest told line the priest that the priest would god continue as it is now so called ms ion
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food is the church, belong to not the cardinal, nor the crazy done. it belongs to every luncheon that i will have you write it and give it to her to take. now let's see who we should hope. nichol fornia. probably take this ukrainian family side and the mob you have of mine. okay, let me follow her fund. i also need all their passports vote and so by he'll yeah. okay, cool. be fun. then our very women had rights worldwide and the catholic church gave women all their rights. i was the iowa and the it would have an effect on peace in the world on that's. but the church leadership doesn't dare to do those lights on me because they themselves, the scared the for happened. why is the pope afraid for the why the bishops afraid?
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and if you have the gospel in your pocket, you don't need to be afraid. marianna and 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 to day know what they can do in the world, and no longer bow to traditional images of women. ah, ah, with
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