i guess next on d, w making rary to read. if there is any erotic events between them, you'd have to find it between the lines d w literature. 100 german must reads. ah, ah, ah, ah, even 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, how the cover up of these crimes is even more monstrous, so 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 is that it stop the abuse of power. stop the stop, the cover up and stop is self serve. any church leadership along the say, hey, the women of the maria, $2.00 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 mulky finances, and especially against the treatment of women in the catholic church.

over the centuries, the church is 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 of let them 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 that his patron, saint ursula. the legend states that she lived in the 4th century when the 1st christians arrived in what is now western germany. extraordinary women have always

played an important role in the church, but i 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? yachting all st. 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 rome 1st and then think about this marriage at nothing. then it give the thief that's yeah, i 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 of on one here. they make their way to rome,

where they meet pope leo who abandons the papal throne because his so convinced to the power of these future saints and wants to travel within our hiding rush, bent on hiding it, does emit calmed and spot award even though st. ursula has already had a vision that she will suffer martyrdom in cologne high for come that the in kind in matthew at ward alliance, little incursions over immediately getting 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 mod it and put her ashlock had. 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's 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 is alina convent, school and cologne for 3 years. and that was when i 1st came into contact with a regular um, 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, what isn't, isn't build at sucrose at cleared it by then. i was child when i heard that st. ursula was long old from the universal calendar with the catholic church mission

because she's actually a legendary person dear, whose existence is, isn't historically proven. i 5 the skip and 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, the older law, the number, the name ursula, i only appears again in the 10th century. that's a garnish to 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 . that's the version in the lives of the saints, which then became widespread for biking 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 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 you in the golden chamber are the result of numerous excavation conducted on the 12th or 13th centuries. i discovered back then not i find in when you have to learn through a new fortifications was built in the 13th century. the church of saint sheila already existed, of the builders discovered

a large roman burial ground here. and christians connected with the call to saint sheila from them of whom it was known that she died in the company of 11 sound virgin islands. i'm being taught full of course disappeared to confirm religion that this was where the 11000 virtual and st. ursula were martyred modern ones, and more and more bones were discovered and they were gradually connected to the church. and ursula joined the middle ages because it must have been quite a frightening size. coffee design. that is the basic design of the golden chamber down here. i live, you have to say, you really query boston, the beautiful virgin you goodbye and above the bones were discovered in the room and burial ground for

duncan, his 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, 20, you know out from here the really but also the really corey bosses which will produce in the cologne studios was shipped all over the low on hits in her late middle luncheon are in the middle 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 was so many bones, not these suck off a guy. for instance, a still full of them that we could continue the trade to day. melodic law, who nominal,

they took the bones and then made them into ornaments. now turn around, you see the 4th line from the bottom, st. 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. that's what is meant for instance, by the cologne. smile, another to watch both. kind. what a cologne prosper a 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 wholly irish, yet as for highlighted, the in canonized as a married woman was and still is not so easy, which perhaps indicates often that the church has a certain problem with the issue of the sexuality,

probably mat ah, i mean all the credibility and against deception. yeah, it can't go on like this have i think. 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? vicki litigant 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's a special need for women to participate more on the line with you about. 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 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, diminished, to make a memorial cobblestone to commemorate each time if there are many memorial cobblestones include, 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 they're stopped here for an hour to pray to our lady of peace or the that's the name of our church,

the highs. but 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 live 1011 it each time was born into a jewish family, converted to catholicism, aged, 31, 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, which had i been invited to did the 1st reading elisa from the book of esther had has standing a little high route in saint peter's square. i had a wonderful view of all the people. thousands of people differ mention 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 system and wish west african vague. 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 thomas short shine 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'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 warped. 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. the summa cum, louder also corresponds to her personality at the time, which was very clear, very disciplined, very strict, very intellectually oriented. were all scholarship that then each time 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, sobbed 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 discovery or she suffered repeated psychological criteria when understood. and as a student, she suffered from severe depression and they were clearly in crisis in her life. however, this makes her not only a complex personality, but also a very distinct person. bush on a proposal in the pool, fear, sister and silla believes that it's normal to experience ruptures, crises and tensions on the road to holiness. in k d, i think the saints are with us in life, amid orange of the beaks, his end is up cool. they are not aloof from

a human existence and then got up playing very deeply in the light in this, in the dark, clear on it each time it had shine as has something of alarm in her presence. shadoan irish, long as the hebrew word nibbling somebody once told me them, it's a compound of fire and i saw also ice with the cd opposites. we cannot reconcile between millions this world is only a contract. after failing to gain admission to the post doctoral program, edith stein 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 church in 1922. her conversion was difficult for her family to accept. i mean, when i entered the carmelite order,

i met several faced as who had known her and in man infinity and my feeling is that edith became more human. i mention mention of art i human being and deeply rooted to 9 the mystery of being human and c, 9 happ cornish damage. 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 theresa bennett dictor of the cross. in 1938, she took her final vows. when the nazis required religious orders in germany to reveal the ethnic city of their members, each dine superiors arranged for her to flee the country and to enter

a common light monastery in holland. when her lunch bits desist villanueva 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. and holland. d over you to show here could fall on enough to you at one, also do send in schoolstore 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 escape, but she preferred she said, to die with her people via

element, 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 as for god is present in the heart of every human mentioned. is god giving 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 jew. however, her arrest and deportation to our schmidt's, we're in direct 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 t a door 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. with angela, this is angela. nanette boykin on v told you that i someone at the airport and now you've missed your flight.

that's racism. that's really, really, really with them. got them a vis. look, it was there, but he sang 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 minded miss kennedy. i want the congregation to get to know me does. that's why i think it's important for women who do these job to have a place in the liturgy as well. the little hobbins in the midst of the one they don't have to beg for. but as this to choose and feisty marianna onto the co founder of the maria, $2.00 movement, she wants women's ministry in charge to be even more effective and visible. ok.

be still in that you can just call in your home country. no, i haven't been to school. hello. hello. this is mariana on from the catholic church in thinks turn the tune back is up. ha ha. i need your help urgently. who wouldn't flutullo? sure. our church must become a different church and it must become a church. shared power of power expressed in serve and in math, in the history of new and the 2.0 were not striving for leadership. and for the priest told 9 the priest, the priesthood. god continue as it is now so called miss miss. i'm who does 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 how we should help nichol fornia. i probably take this ukrainian family side and the mob you have mine. okay. let me follow her fund. i also need to all the passports vote and so by he'll yeah. ok. good. then our very from women had rights worldwide and the catholic church gave women older rights. i'm a good to, i'm one vote. it would have an effect on peace in the world on that. but the church leadership doesn't dare to do. those lights are nice because they themselves are scared. the happened. why is the pope afraid for why the bishops afraid? 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 today know what they can do in the world, and no longer bow to traditional images of women. ah, ah, with

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