Today in Rhein-Main: A bishop is ashamed

Good evening,

Jacqueline Vogt

Department head of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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Bloodletting:

"I am ashamed of this church." That's a strong phrase when a churchman says it. The Limburg Bishop Georg Bätzing pronounced it after the new report on sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising became public on Thursday. It also shakes the Catholics in the Rhine-Main region. The report addresses dozens of cases of misconduct by church leaders between 1945 and 2019. We are talking about a total of almost 500 victims and 173 accused priests. The expert report is explosive because of allegations against the retired Pope Benedict XVI, who has been accused of misconduct in four cases and is said to have lied in a written statement. Martin Benninghoff asked around, collected voices in the region and found:Trust in the self-healing powers of the church has been destroyed.

Numbers support the basic assumption of an erosion that has been progressing for years: in the diocese of Limburg alone, more than 9,400 people left the church in 2019, around 1,460 more than in the previous record year 2013. The Frankfurt city dean Johannes zu Eltz, who is also a pastor in of the Frankfurt Cathedral Parish of St. Bartholomew, complains of a "never-ending stream of people leaving the church".

His congregation received between 700 and 800 resignation requests a year, a rate of three percent.

Personnel panel:

CDU and SPD in Hesse are facing difficult personnel decisions. Volker Bouffier, Prime Minister and Chairman of the state CDU, wants to say by February whether he wants to run again in the state elections in autumn 2023 or clear the way for a successor. And the SPD will have to commit to its own candidate. The fact that the chairwoman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament, Ines Claus, was elected to the presidium of the federal party on Saturday does not mean much in this context. The fact that the previous SPD opposition leader in Hesse Nancy Faeser, who was long considered a natural candidate for prime minister, has not yet been able to set any real accents in her new job as federal interior minister, does not mean anything for the future.In politics, a short time can become very long, but so much can also happen in a few months that what was supposedly fixed no longer applies. Ewald Hetrodt analyzes the situation for the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

Return:

The Darmstadt Opera Choir has a new conductor, her name is Ines Kaun and she replaces Sören Eckhoff, who has been in the house since the beginning of 2019.

Kaun knows the Staatstheater Darmstadt well, in 2014 she was deputy choir director there, then in Heidelberg and Bamberg, in the 2019/2020 season she was choir director at the Salzburg Landestheater.

And

on Saturday in a Hanau hotel, a man who had fallen into a supply shaft and was seriously injured had to be rescued by rescuers from the fire brigade +++ 261,624 people are currently studying at the Hessian universities and technical colleges, more than half of them are women + ++ There are currently 210 vacancies at the Hessenforst state office.

Stay healthy and have a good start into the week

Best regards

Jacqueline Vogt

The

for Monday

Cloudy in the morning

and locally foggy, later it clears up in places.

It is mild, the temperatures reach up to 9 degrees in the sunshine on the plain.

traffic

Explosive ordnance probing at Theodor-Stern-Kai: Trams interrupted

Due to explosive ordnance probing at Theodor-Stern-Kai, tram lines 11, 15, 19 and 21 cannot run from Monday, January 24, 5 a.m. to Friday, January 28, midnight.

Line 12 runs between Schwanheim Rheinlandstraße and Triftstraße and between Fechenheim Hugo-Junkers-Straße and Stresemannallee/Gartenstraße.

From there it continues in the direction of Südbahnhof and Offenbach city limits, replacing lines 15 and 19 there. It is interrupted between the stations "Stresemannallee/Gartenstraße" and "Triftstraße".

Line 21 runs between Nied Kirche and Stresemannallee/Gartenstraße on its regular route and from there on to the temporary terminus at Louisa Bahnhof.

There are no journeys between Stresemannallee/Gartenstrasse and the stadium.

Buses replace the trains

A rail replacement bus service will be set up from the Stresemannallee/Gartenstraße stop via Triftstraße to Haardtwaldplatz, as well as between Stresemannallee/Gartenstraße and Oberforsthaus (via Triftstraße).  

Other options for bypassing the closure with public transport: The S-Bahn lines SA7, S8 and S9 create a bridge between the main station and Niederrad station.

Bus lines 61 and 78 create a connection from Südbahnhof to Niederrad and the stadium can also be reached with bus line 61 from Südbahnhof.

have birthday

on

Monday, January 24th

Peter Ripken

, former managing director of the Society for the Promotion of Literature from Africa, Asia and Latin America, Frankfurt (80);

, founder and director of the Kikeriki-Theater, Darmstadt (70);

, from 2016 to December 2021 Germany head of the Swedish bank SEB, Frankfurt (65);

, Managing Director of the financial center initiative Frankfurt Main Finance (62);

, Chairman of the Giersch Foundation, Frankfurt (57);

, Managing Director of the Hessian State Railway, Frankfurt (57);

, Chairwoman of the Management Board of Deutsche Rentenversicherung Hessen, Frankfurt (54);