Darius Labanauskas celebrated Winmau Challenge Tour glory again on Saturday producing a late fightback to triumph for the second time this weekend as Ted Evetts also picked up a title in Hildesheim The year’s second weekend of Challenge Tour action continued with a bumper double-header in Hildesheim as 231 players competed across the course of the day Lithuanian star Labanauskas kicked off Saturday’s play with Event Eight success sealed with a deciding-leg victory over former Grand Slam Champion Scott Waites Labanauskas overturned a 4-1 deficit to win his second Winmau Challenge Tour title of the weekend rattling off four legs on the spin to deny Waites his first Challenge Tour title Labanauskas - who has now won three titles in 2025 - opened his bid with comfortable 5-1 victories over Andrea Micheletti and Ruben Mesters Jurjen van der Velde and Jacques Labre to book his spot in the quarter-finals Labanauskas then swept aside Swiss star Stefan Bellmont in the last eight before claiming the title whitewashing Owen Maiden 5-0 before fending off Waites in the final Waites came agonisingly close to landing a first Challenge Tour title since losing his Tour Card winning seven straight games and averaging over 100 in his semi-final victory over Alexander Merkx Kevin Lankhuizen and Andreas Harrysson in quick succession with the Englishman only dropping eight legs prior to beating Unterbuchner 5-1 Evetts puts himself in fourth spot on the Order of Merit The 2025 Winmau Challenge Tour continues with Event Ten on Sunday with £15,000 in prize money on offer in the final event of the weekend The top two players from the final 2025 Challenge Tour Order of Merit will secure a PDC Tour Card for 2026/27 and a place in the 2025/26 Paddy Power World Darts Championship Powered by Zoocha This article first appeared on Dartsnews.com and was syndicated with permission customized to your favorite sports and teams The Diocese of Hildesheim’s new contact people for queer-sensitive pastoral care we want to be able to give all people a home which is why it is so important that there are these safe spaces for queer people in our churches,” says one German Catholic He and two fellow pastoral workers were recently designated as contact persons for queer-sensitive pastoral care in the Diocese of Hildesheim Announcing these new appointments, the German diocese published a description of the pastoral care the designated ministers will provide (via Google Translate): if a lesbian couple registers their child for baptism a trans person wants to celebrate their transition with a blessing ceremony or parents of a non-binary child are looking for pastoral care Your pastoral care also includes a commitment to building a mindful culture for the life situations in which those being accompanied find themselves the three representatives are available to answer requests from parishes and institutions for queer pastoral services.” In order to build a culture of welcome within the diocese these pastoral workers will also be responsible for equipping other church staff by training them in queer-sensitive pastoral care and responding to questions as they come up “This begins with the way people are addressed and continues with the development of a culture that prevents discrimination,” says the diocesan announcement Members of this new commission come from various ministries and regions within the diocese Michael Hasenauer is a university chaplain in the city of Lüneburg And Linda Menniger is a hospital chaplain in the city of Hannover who commented that the commission’s work “touches on many questions that I am familiar with from my everyday life as a hospital chaplain especially when dealing with transgender and intersex people.” The diocese describes the new commission as a continuation of existing outreach efforts that had been undertaken by a local Dominican priest “The three commissioners are building on the work of the Brunswick Dominican Father Hans-Albert Gunk who was available for many years in the Diocese of Hildesheim as a contact person for pastoral discussions with homosexual people the development of queer-sensitive pastoral care will broaden the view of how to deal with gender diversity The commission is also a continuation of a central demand from the Hildesheim Declaration ‘Blessing for this World’ from March 2021: ‘People are equal parts of the church God’s blessing is for them and their partnerships – because it applies to all loving relationships without exception.'” At the core of the commission’s work is a common impulse which new member Hasenauer described simply: “As a church we want to be a place where all people are welcome.” All loving Relationships are good but the same sex acts and even fornication and adultery by straight people are not blessed by God as they are taught as sinful Love doesn’t always have to include sex I pray that all diocese make the effort to see things in a new way and INCLUSIVE and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Dragutin Horvat and Darius Labanauskas were victorious on Friday in winning Challenge Tour Events Six & Seven respectively as the PDC’s 2nd tier tour weekend commenced at Halle 39 the winner of one previous Challenge Tour title reached the final of Event Six firstly by recording victories against Chas Barstow to set up a clash with Ted Evetts.   The final began with Evetts taking the opener in 16 darts before Horvat hit back-to-back 15 darters to take a 2-1 lead in a race to five Evetts then levelled the tie up in the following leg in 18 darts before winning back-to-back legs in 14 and 15 darts respectively to go 4-2 ahead and within one of victory Horvat then produced a phenomenal comeback by rattling off three successive legs in 13,16 and 15 darts respectively to win the tie in a last leg decider and claim the £2,500 top prize Darius Labanauskas reached the final firstly by recording victories against Marc Vleghert to set up a clash with Keegan Brown.   The final began with back-to-back holds of throw between the pair before Labanauskas rattled off three successive legs in 19,20 and 14 darts respectively to go 4-1 ahead and within one of victory before the Lithuanian sealed the victory in Leg Seven with a 17 darter to claim the £2,500 top prize and a second Challenge Tour title of the season The PDC Winmau Challenge Tour weekend concludes on Saturday with Events Eight & Nine taking place in Hildesheim as all live scores and results can be viewed at tv.dartconnect.com.   Dragutin Horvat 5-1 Michel Unterbuchner  Trevor Burkhill 5-3 Nicolas Thuillier   Darius Labanauskas 5-2 Rowby-John Rodriguez  Darius Labanauskas 5-0 David Pallett  Anderson Retains European Grand Prix Anderson Starts Sindelfingen Defence in Style Van Trijp and Bellmont Bag Challenge Tour Titles King and Van den 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Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors Hildesheim Cathedral has one of the most complete surviving ensembles of church furnishings and treasures in Europe with many masterpieces made between 1000 and 1250 it was designated a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site in 1985 A major renovation of the cathedral provides an opportunity for this extraordinary exhibition of medieval church treasures the exhibition focuses primarily on Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim (960–1022) one of the greatest patrons of the arts in the Middle Ages In addition to the famous monumental bronze doors and the column in Hildesheim Cathedral that cannot travel Bernward commissioned many smaller precious works of art A silver crucifix and candlesticks and numerous illuminated manuscripts (that he is known to have commissioned) and the Golden Madonna (that he is believed to have commissioned) The exhibition also examines the artistic production of Hildesheim in the high Middle Ages including the monumental bronze baptismal font that is a masterpiece of thirteenth-century metalwork "Dazzling"—New York Sun "Today, [Hildesheim's] churches and museums still preserve one of the richest and densest concentrations of 11th-century European religious art anywhere. And the Met show is pure cream skimmed off the top."—New York Times The exhibition is made possible by the Michel David-Weill Fund The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities The catalogue is made possible by The Andrew W FOR the third time event in a row the PDC Pro Tour events produced multiple moments of perfection while Gary Anderson racked up his 30th PDC ranking title with victory at Players Championship Seven in Hildesheim on Monday The perfect legs commenced with Ryan Searle hitting a nine-dart finish in opening leg of his first round game against Joshua Richardson Dirk van Duijvenbode backed it up hit the holt grail in fourth leg of his second round game against Thomas Lovely and William O’Connor hit completed the threesome in sixth leg of his fourth round game against Jimmy van Schie Anderson defeated Adam Lipscombe 8-3 in the final denying Lipscombe a fairytale run to a title in just his eighth event since winning a Tour Card for the first time in January Anderson overcame World Grand Prix champion Mike De Decker in the semi-finals having produced a trio of ton-plus averages earlier in the day as he ended a six-month wait for a PDC title “The last few months has been hard for me,” admitted the two-time World Champion “I’ve been struggling since December so it’s nice to win one “I’m still enjoying playing darts but sometimes my body doesn’t play ball; I’ll keep going I expect him to do well and put a hole in the rankings.” Anderson dropped just seven legs in his opening four matches in wins over Connor Scutt The Scot came through a last-leg decider with Krzysztof Ratajski in the quarter-finals before comfortable wins over De Decker and Lipscombe saw him take the title Lipscombe – a surprise package at Qualifying School in January – took the scalps of Damon Heta Dirk van Duijvenbode and William O’Connor in a sensational run to the final Monday’s action also saw three nine-dart finishes hit in Hildesheim with Ryan Searle hitting perfection in his first leg of the day against Joshua Richardson Dirk van Duijvenbode and William O’Connor also hit nine-darters against Thomas Lovely and Jimmy van Schie respecitvely The PDC ProTour season continues with Players Championship Eight on Tuesday with live coverage from four streaming boards broadcast on PDCTV Full tournament results are listed in the Match Centre.  Click here for match stats through DartConnect.  2025 Players Championship 7Monday March 17Halle 39 Dragutin Horvat celebrated Winmau Challenge Tour glory on Friday producing a late fightback to triumph on home soil as Lithuania’s Darius Labanauskas also picked up a title The year’s second weekend of Challenge Tour action kicked off with a bumper double-header in Hildesheim as 239 players competed across the course of the day German star Horvat kicked off Friday’s play with Event Six success sealed with a deciding-leg victory over former World Youth Champion Ted Evetts Horvat overturned a 4-2 deficit to return to the winner's circle surviving five match darts in the penultimate leg to clinch his second Winmau Challenge Tour crown The 49-year-old opened his title bid with a narrow victory over Chas Barstow before following up a 5-1 demolition of John Davey with a trio of 5-3 wins against James Vanbesien Horvat then swept aside his compatriot Michael Unterbuchner in the quarter-finals and he capped off a terrific campaign with back-to-back 97 averages to topple Graham Usher and Evetts Evetts – a winner of 14 Development Tour titles – came agonisingly close to landing a first Challenge Tour crown since 2018 winning seven straight games and averaging over 100 in his last 16 victory against Jeffrey de Zwaan Labanauskas later claimed the Event Seven crown in the day’s second event running out a 5-2 winner against Keegan Brown to seal his second title of 2025 The 48-year-old followed up a routine victory over Marc Vleghert with whitewash wins against Daniel Klose and Robert Nelson while also accounting for Bailey White and Trevor Burkhill to reach the last eight Labanauskas ran out an emphatic 5-2 winner against two-time World Cup finalist Rowby-John Rodriguez after kicking off the contest with a 160 finish Following a five-leg blitz of David Pallett in the semi-finals Labanauskas sealed the £2,500 top prize by seeing off Brown - a winner of two Players Championship titles The 2025 Winmau Challenge Tour continues with Events Eight and Nine on Saturday with £15,000 in prize money on offer in each event Gary Anderson picked up his first title of the year and a 30th career Players Championship title on Monday after defeating Adam Lipscombe 8-3 in the final of Players Championship Seven on a day that saw three nine-dart legs at Halle 39 who picked up two Players Championship victories and a European Tour title during his 2024 campaign as the Scottish icon reached the final firstly by recording victories against Connor Scutt Nothing separated the pair in the opening stages of the final ending with Anderson breaking Lipscombe’s throw in Leg Five with a 12 darter before following it up with a 17 dart hold of throw to move 4-2 ahead and halfway to victory Lipscombe halved the deficit in the following leg before ‘The Flying Scotsman’ rattled off four successive legs in 18,12 16 and 15 darts respectively to seal an 8-3 victory and pick up a 30th career Players Championship title with only Phil Taylor (45) and Michael Van Gerwen (36) to have won more than the 2x World Champion.   Lipscombe’s landmark run to a first Pro Tour final saw the 32-year-old record victories on the day against Michael Flynn before being denied by Anderson.   there were Quarter Final runs for 2x World Champion Peter Wright and Dutchman Kevin Doets making a third consecutive last eight run on the Pro Tour whilst the likes of 3x World Champion Michael Van Gerwen top seed Dave Chisnall and 5x World Champion Raymond Van Barneveld were amongst the high profile first round casualties the day saw three nine-dart legs hit by Ryan Searle Dirk Van Duijvenbode and William O’Connor.   The PDC Pro Tour double-header concludes on Tuesday with Players Championship Eight taking place in Hildesheim with the 128 players returning to compete for a further £125,000 in prize money with play beginning at 13:00 CET (12:00 GMT) Play will be broadcasted across four streaming boards on PDC.TV and various bookmaker websites worldwide with all live scores and results on tv.dartconnect.com William O’Connor 6-1 Jimmy Van Schie  Adam Lipscombe 6-1 Karel Sedlacek   Dirk Van Duijvenbode 6-4 Niko Springer  Dirk Van Duijvenbode 6-3 Kevin Doets  Gary Anderson 6-5 Krzysztof Ratajski   Adam Lipscombe 7-4 Dirk Van Duijvenbode  Chris Dobey produced a breathtaking display to set up a last 16 showdown against German number one Martin Schindler at the NEO.bet German Darts Championship as reigning champion Ricardo Pietreczko made a winning return in Hildesheim Dobey laid down a marker in his hunt for a maiden European Tour title with his third-highest ever average of 110.64 to defeat birthday boy Mickey Mansell 6-2 at Halle 39 on Saturday The Bedlington star converted six doubles from seven attempts and produced two 11-darters in a stunning display as he bids to follow his recent Players Championship win with another ranking triumph "Mickey is hard to play against but he's a fantastic player so I knew what I had to do and I'm just happy to get that win "I'm in some good form - I've won the last Players Championship and I'm playing well I'm happy and if I can keep playing like that it's going to take someone really good to beat me." Schindler booked his place in Sunday afternoon's third round with a comeback win over Mensur Suljovic winning five of the last six legs to begin his bid for a second European Tour title of 2024 The 28-year-old won three straight legs from 3-1 adrift to seize the initiative and although Suljovic levelled with a clinical 128 kill Schindler responded with a majestic 167 finish in the penultimate leg on his way to a 6-4 victory Defending champion Pietreczko also delighted the home faithful in Hildesheim with a 6-3 success against Simon Whitlock which set the tone for a controlled display Luke Littler was one of Saturday's most impressive performers averaging 101.33 to wrap up a ruthless whitewash win against Ireland's Dylan Slevin as he sets his sights on a third European Tour title of the year Michael van Gerwen ran out a convincing 6-2 winner in his heavyweight second round tussle against James Wade racing into an early 4-0 advantage on his way to opening his challenge for a fourth German Darts Championship title Peter Wright continued his revival with a dramatic last-leg victory against Stephen Bunting pinning six of his 12 attempts at double to defy a 103 average and six maximums from the current Masters champion Krzysztof Ratajski also won through a deciding-leg clash at the expense of Gerwyn Price fending off a late fightback from the 2021 World Champion to celebrate his first big stage success over the Welshman in six years Top seed Dave Chisnall - a German Darts Champion in 2013 -  claimed a comfortable 6-3 win against Dom Taylor kicking off proceedings with a spectacular 160 checkout before sealing his progress with a 95 average Chisnall will play Joe Cullen for a place in the last eight after the former Masters champion halted Max Hopp's European Tour comeback with a battling 6-4 victory checkouts of 132 and 117 helped Gian van Veen pull clear from three-all to seal a 6-3 win over Robert Owen in Saturday's opening tie with the Dutchman impressing with a 102.65 average Danny Noppert wired double 12 for a nine-darter during his narrow 6-4 win over Dirk van Duijvenbode - going within a millimetre of perfection in leg nine as he broke the deadlock in their all-Dutch affair with a 12-darter before closing out victory Nick Kenny survived three missed match darts from Ross Smith in a dramatic decider as the Welshman won through to the final day of a European Tour event for the first time but Kenny pinned the bull in leg ten to send the tie all the way and when the former European Champion missed the bull and two darts at double eight Ryan Searle defied a 158 checkout and a fightback from 4-1 down by Jonny Clayton before he edged to a 6-4 win over the former Premier League champion while Damon Heta reeled off six straight legs from 2-0 down to deny Ritchie Edhouse Heta will now take on former UK Open champion Andrew Gilding who proved too strong for Ryan Joyce with a 6-3 success while Daryl Gurney delivered a brutal 152 checkout on his way to a thumping 6-1 win over Stephen Burton Following Sunday afternoon's last 16 action the German Darts Championship will conclude with the quarter-finals semi-finals and final in a bumper evening session as the destiny of the title is decided in Hildesheim Live coverage of all 2024 European Tour events will be streamed through Viaplay Coverage will also be shown on PDCTV (excluding Germany Austria and Switzerland) and through bookmakers' worldwide Sunday's games played in Draw Bracket order Format - All games up to and including the quarter-finals are the best of 11 legs with the semi-finals the best of 13 legs and the final the best of 15 legs Peter Wright celebrated a stunning return to winning ways on an extraordinary night in Hildesheim defeating a record-breaking Luke Littler 8-5 in Sunday’s NEO.bet German Darts Championship final An emotional Wright defied the odds to topple Littler in one of the most remarkable European Tour finals of all-time having trailed 5-2 in Sunday’s showpiece at Halle 39 Teenage sensation Littler averaged 106.87 and hit ten 180s in a compelling contest as Wright reeled off six successive legs to claim his second German Darts Championship crown Littler had made an ominous start to proceedings 14 and 13 darts to lead 3-0 with a 118 average Wright showed signs of life with a clinical 110 kill in leg six after Littler had squandered two darts for a 5-1 lead only for the 17-year-old to regain his cushion with a 12-dart leg in leg seven a sensational 146 checkout in leg eight turned the tide for Wright as he capitalised on missed opportunities from Littler in three straight legs to establish an unlikely 6-5 lead Littler then missed double 15 for a spectacular 150 checkout in leg 12 as Wright pinned double one to move to the cusp of victory before the Scot capped off a famous triumph with an 11-darter on tops “I just kept believing in myself,” reflected Wright who defied a ten-point gap in the averages to lift his ninth European Tour title – a record only bettered by Michael van Gerwen “Luke is a fantastic dart player and he was blowing me off the board with 180s Luke is distraught because he wants to win and he’ll be back and beating us all again soon!” Wright followed up an opening round win over Niko Springer with a thrilling second round win against Stephen Bunting on Saturday as the Masters champion crashed out with a 103 average The Scot then backed up a gruelling 6-4 success against Gian van Veen with victory over Van Gerwen by the same scoreline in an epic quarter-final averaging 108.90 to overturn a 4-2 deficit This set up a semi-final showdown against top seed Dave Chisnall where Wright maintained his revival by pinning seven of his 12 attempts at double to move through to his first final of 2024 was unable to add to his wins in Wieze and Graz despite crashing in 31 maximums across the weekend – a new European Tour record The Warrington wonderkid kicked off his title bid with a six-leg blitz of Dylan Slevin on Saturday before winning through a scrappy affair against Ryan Searle to reach the last eight The Premier League champion then fought back from 4-1 down to deny Damon Heta in a dramatic quarter-final while he proved too strong for Daryl Gurney in the last four averaging 107 and hitting eight 180s to advance to a meeting with Wright “Peter just wouldn’t go away,” conceded Littler who was eyeing an eighth PDC title of 2024 but maybe the game would have changed if I hit that 150 [checkout] Chisnall defeated Wright to win the German Darts Championship in 2013 although he was unable to repeat the feat as he missed out on back-to-back European Tour titles The 43-year-old opened Sunday’s action with a six-leg whitewash of Joe Cullen before defying a heroic fightback from Martin Schindler in a breathless quarter-final 2019 champion Gurney also impressed in progressing to his first big stage semi-final of 2024 registering back-to-back ton-plus averages in wins over Krzysztof Ratajski and Nick Kenny on Finals Day Kenny ended the hopes of reigning champion Ricardo Pietreczko in reaching his maiden having also dumped out Ross Smith in Saturday’s second round Three-time winner Van Gerwen averaged 102 in his last 16 demolition of World Cup partner Danny Noppert although a 104 average wasn’t enough to topple an inspired Wright in the last eight Heta defeated a spirited Andrew Gilding in his run to the quarter-finals while Schindler secured another big stage victory against Chris Dobey to reach his sixth European Tour quarter-final of the season The PDC European Tour continues next weekend as the inaugural Flanders Darts Trophy (ET10) takes place in Belgium from September 6-8 with live coverage set to be streamed through Viaplay Coverage will also be shown on PDCTV (excluding Germany Austria and Switzerland) and through bookmakers’ worldwide Sunday September 1(Afternoon Session)Third RoundDave Chisnall 6-0 Joe CullenMartin Schindler 6-4 Chris DobeyMichael van Gerwen 6-2 Danny NoppertPeter Wright 6-4 Gian van VeenDaryl Gurney 6-2 Krzysztof RatajskiNick Kenny 6-5 Ricardo PietreczkoDamon Heta 6-4 Andrew GildingLuke Littler 6-2 Ryan Searle Evening SessionQuarter-FinalsDave Chisnall 6-5 Martin SchindlerPeter Wright 6-4 Michael van GerwenDaryl Gurney 6-3 Nick KennyLuke Littler 6-5 Damon Heta Semi-FinalsPeter Wright 7-5 Dave ChisnallLuke Littler 7-2 Daryl Gurney The rise of continental European players was illustrated again yesterday as Martin Schindler picked up a maiden Players Championship title of his career on home soil Germany’s ‘The Wall’ triumphed after a dominant 8-1 victory against Jeffrey De Graaf in the final of Event Eight as the Pro Tour double header concluded beings at Halle 39 Only one of the final four players was from the UK with a Dutchman and a Dutch Swede making up the semi-finalists A majority (5) of the quarterfinalists were also non UK players the day saw a fourth nine dart leg hit across two days in Hildesheim by Germany’s own Lukas Wenig during his first-round defeat to Dom Taylor who picked up two European Tour titles during an impressive 2024 campaign reached the final firstly by recording victories against George Killington to set up a clash with Sweden’s De Graaf.   The final began with Schindler charging into a 5-0 lead before De Graaf picked up his first leg of the tie in Leg Six with a 17 dart hold of throw This ultimately turned out to be the only leg won in the decider for the Swede as Schindler won three successive legs and sealed the victory in Leg Nine with a 22 darter to pick up a third senior PDC title as well as the £15,000 top prize.   De Graaf’s run to a second Pro Tour final of his career saw the 34-year-old record victories on the day against Andy Baetens before being denied by Schindler.   there were Quarter Final runs for PC4 winner Ryan Searle and Dutchman Niels Zonneveld Joe Cullen and Dimitri Van den Bergh were amongst the high profile first-round casualties The PDC Pro Tour returns on March 31st and April 1st in Leicester as Players Championship Nine & Ten takes place with 128 players competing for £125,000 in prize money on each day with all live scores and results on tv.dartconnect.com.  Dom Taylor 6-2 Mario Vandenbogaerde   Martin Schindler 6-3 Mensur Suljovic  Niels Zonneveld 6-5 Raymond Van Barneveld  Patrick Geeraets 6-4 Niels Zonneveld  Martin Schindler 7-6 Patrick Geeraets   Martin Schindler 8-1 Jeffrey De Graaf  Peter Wright is the champion of Hildesheim he defeated Luke Littler 8 – 5 and was crowned the winner of the NEO.bet German Darts Championship  The 54-year-old not only secured his ninth European Tour title ‘He blew me off the board with his 180s in the first phase of the match and I just believed in myself and wanted to keep going somehow But it’s not just about me believing in myself That means so much to me,’ said Peter Wright after his victory Peter Wright makes it past the round of 16 on the European Tour he defeated the ‘Meenzer Bub’ Niko Springer He won the quarter-final against three-time world champion Michael van Gerwen with an outstanding average of 109 points before triumphing 7-5 over Dave Chisnall in the semi-finals It is Wright’s first title on the European Tour since the Czech Darts Open 2023 Luke Littler leaves the stage in defeat for the first time in his third European Tour final The six German participants were steady overall and left Hildesheim with mixed feelings Niko Springer showed a strong performance in the first round but was defeated 6 – 4 by the eventual champion Peter Wright despite an average of 95 points Max Hopp won his first match against Jose de Sousa on his return to the European Tour but was then beaten 6 – 4 by Joe Cullen in the second round Ricardo Pietreczko had focussed in advance on regaining his old form The defending champion won his second round match against Simon Whitlock 6 – 3 and only narrowly lost to Nick Kenny in the decider on Sunday Germany’s number one Martin Schindler won his second round match 6 – 4 against Mensur Suljovic and defeated ‘Hollywood’ Chris Dobey in the round of 16 The match against Dave Chisnall was the last stop The European Tour in Hildesheim was spectacular once again More than 14,000 fans celebrated the best players in the world and helped Peter Wright to victory.From Friday evening onwards every session at Halle 39 was completely sold out – it couldn’t have been more of a darts party 2025 the German Darts Championship will return to Hildesheim and once again provide fans with magical moments and top-class sport The European Tour will now make a stop in Antwerp where fans can look forward to at least as many spectacular moments Tickets are available here This website uses cookies By Meg Woof Max Hopp will make his European Tour return on Friday at the NEO.bet German Darts Championship in Hildesheim where Ricardo Pietreczko will be defending his title at Halle 39 this weekend The PDC European Tour returns following a two-month hiatus with the year's ninth £175,000 tournament Germany's Pietreczko claimed his maiden professional title by defeating Peter Wright in sensational fashion at Halle 39 last year and begins his title defence on Saturday against either Callan Rydz or Simon Whitlock Wright will also return to the Hildesheim stage and is part of Friday's first round as he takes on emerging German ace Niko Springer Popular German Max Hopp - his nation's first European Tour winner back in 2018 - will make his comeback on the big stage against Jose de Sousa on Friday night for a first appearance since April 2022 when he was a quarter-finalist at the German Darts Grand Prix Friday's first round - which will be held across two sessions from 1300 & 1900 local time (1200 & 1900 BST) - also features reigning UK Open champion Dimitri Van den Bergh taking on Mensur Suljovic James Wade is up against Maik Kuivenhoven and former UK Open champion Andrew Gilding plays Johan Engstrom The 16 seeded players enter the action on Saturday at the second round stage with Michael van Gerwen aiming to claim a 37th European Tour success as he plays either Kuivenhoven or Wade Premier League champion Luke Littler opens his challenge for a third European Tour title of 2024 against Dylan Slevin or Steve Beaton Top seed Dave Chisnall's bid to win back-to-back European Tour events sees him meet Van Barneveld or Taylor while International Darts Open winner Martin Schindler plays Suljovic or Van den Bergh Coverage will also be shown on PDCTV (excluding Germany Michael Smith and Nathan Aspinall have withdrawn and are replaced from the Reserve List by Stephen Burton September drei pastorale Mitarbeitende beauftragt neben ihrer Tätigkeit als Ansprechpartner*innen für queersensible Seelsorge zu wirken: Die Klinikseelsorgerin Linda Menniger (Hannover) der Hochschulseelsorger Michael Hasenauer (Lüneburg) und der Referent für Schulpastoral Manuel Rios Juarez (Hannover) werden zum einen queere Menschen seelsorglich begleiten Zum anderen stehen sie als Ansprechpartner*innen den Gemeinden und Einrichtungen des Bistums zur Verfügung um über Fragen der queersensiblen Seelsorge Auskunft zu geben Als Ansprechpartner*innen können Sie beispielsweise unterstützen wenn ein lesbisches Paar sein Kind zur Taufe anmeldet eine Transperson ihre Transition mit einer Segensfeier begehen möchte oder Eltern eines nicht binären Kindes seelsorgliche Begleitung suchen Ihre seelsorgliche Begleitung umfasst auch das Engagement für den Aufbau einer achtsamen Kultur für die Lebenslagen Die drei Beauftragten knüpfen mit ihrer Arbeit an die Tätigkeit des Braunschweiger Dominikanerpaters Hans-Albert Gunk an der im Bistum Hildesheim über viele Jahre als Ansprechpartner für das seelsorgliche Gespräch mit homosexuellen Menschen zur Verfügung stand Gleichzeitig wird mit dem Aufbau einer queersensiblen Seelsorge der Blick auf den Umgang mit geschlechtlicher Vielfalt geweitet insbesondere auf trans- und intergeschlechtliche Menschen Die Beauftragung ist zudem die Fortsetzung einer zentralen Forderung aus der Hildesheimer Erklärung „Segen für diese Welt“ aus dem März 2021: „Menschen sind unabhängig von ihrer sexuellen Identität gleichberechtigter Teil der Kirche Gottes Segen gilt ihnen und ihren partnerschaftlichen Beziehungen – denn er gilt ohne Ausnahme allen liebevollen Beziehungen.“ Konkret bedeutet das in den ersten Schritten das Ermöglichen von „safe(r) spaces“ (sichere Räume) für queere Personen unter dem Dach der Kirche von Hildesheim durch die Hauptamtliche im Bistum Hildesheim mit den Grundlagen einer queersensiblen Pastoral vertraut gemacht werden Vor allem aber stehen die drei Beauftragten für Anfragen von Pfarrgemeinden und Einrichtungen nach queerpastoralen Angeboten zur Verfügung die ich aus meinem Alltag als Klinikseelsorgerin kenne gerade im Umgang mit transidenten und intersexuellen Menschen“ Das fange mit der Anrede an und gehe weiter über den Aufbau einer Kultur offen für die Lebenssituation von queeren Menschen in jedem Alter zu sein und sie bei Wunsch entsprechend geistlich zu begleiten der selbst eine queere Biografie mitbringt braucht es in der Kirche Sensibilität und Haltung: „Als Christ*innen wollen wir allen Menschen eine Heimat geben können diese sicheren Räume für queere Menschen in unseren Kirchen gibt.“ The National Off-Highway Vehicle Conservation Council (NOHVCC) board has selected long-time project manager/program director Marc Hildesheim as the next executive director of the organization “I’m very excited to lead NOHVCC on the next leg of its journey and can’t wait to see what the staff and our partners can achieve,” says Hildesheim Hildesheim and his family have a long history in OHV recreation starting with the Brush Bunch Motorcycle Club of which Hildesheim’s grandfather was a founding member in 1970 He is now a third-generation club member with his brother and father Hildesheim began working on trails as a seasonal trail ranger for the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation and later as a full-time staff member as a trails specialist He later moved to New Mexico to work for the state OHV program first as the OHV education coordinator and then as the OHV program manager “Marc has been a champion with his great work in the OHV community for over 20 years. And the Hildesheim family is a perfect example of what our great sport is all about. NOHVCC’s mission is looking very strong,” says Dan Kleen Hildesheim currently resides in Post Falls and two Australian Shepherds where he rides dirt bikes whenever life will let him He will officially start as the director on June 5 We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings we will not be able to save your preferences This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again This website uses Google Analytics to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site Keeping this cookie enabled helps us to improve our website Please enable Strictly Necessary Cookies first so that we can save your preferences More information about our Cookie Policy on our Privacy Policy Bexon Harrison recently focused full time on swimming after doing that and water polo for much of his high school career Breaststroke specialist Landry Liston has announced her commitment to continue both her academic and athletic careers at George Mason University Lennox is a six-time 4A CHSAA State Champion August 22nd, 2020 College, College Recruiting, NCAA Division I Mid-Major, News Fitter and Faster Swim Camps is the proud sponsor of SwimSwam’s College Recruiting Channel and all commitment news swimming in college is a lifelong dream that is pursued with dedication and determination Fitter and Faster is proud to honor these athletes and those who supported them on their journey has committed to swim for Division I University of California at San Diego Hildesheim will graduate from Mission Hills High School in spring 2021 join the Triton’s class of 2025 Hildesheim currently swims for Rancho San Dieguito where he is a USA Swimming Scholastic All-American he placed 2nd in the 100 breaststroke (56.54) and 3rd in the 200 freestyle (1:42.64) Hildesheim is a Futures and Junior Nationals qualifier as well “I’m excited to announce my verbal commitment to UC San Diego and coaches for their unending support during the recruitment process; and a special thank you to the UCSD team for helping me make one of the best decisions of my life At the MPSF Championships with the Tritons Hildesheim would have placed 15th in the 100 breaststroke (55.43) and 16th in the 200 breaststroke (2:01.99) with his current best times Twenty-eight team members were CSCAA Scholar All-Americans and the team was given a CSCAA Scholar All-American rank If you have a commitment to report, please send an email with a photo (landscape, or horizontal, looks best) and a quote to [email protected] Fitter & Faster Swim Camps feature the most innovative teaching platforms for competitive swimmers of all levels. 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Visit fitterandfaster.com to find or request a swim camp near you Instagram – @fitterandfasterswimtour Facebook – @fitterandfastertour Twitter – @fitterandfaster Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value" More from Bailey DuranSee All Subscribe to our newsletter and receive our latest updates Medieval Church Treasures from Hildesheim Featured in Fall Exhibition at Metropolitan MuseumSeptember 17 Exhibition location: Wrightsman Exhibition Gallery 10:00 a.m.-noonGermany’s Hildesheim Cathedral in Lower Saxony has one of the most complete surviving ensembles of ecclesiastical furnishings and treasures in Europe including many medieval masterpieces made between about 1000 and 1250 The cathedral was designated a UNESCO world cultural heritage site in 1985 Major renovations that are currently underway provide the opportunity for Medieval Treasures from Hildesheim—an extraordinary selection of about 50 medieval church treasures most of which have never been shown outside Europe—to travel to The Metropolitan Museum of Art where they will be on view beginning September 17 The exhibition is made possible by the Michel David-Weill Fund.The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities Exhibition OverviewThe first section of the exhibition will focus primarily on the legacy of Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim (960–1022) Hildesheim was a center for bronze-making and other artistic activities mostly for his Benedictine monastic foundation a pair of richly decorated silver candlesticks all of which will be included in the exhibition The monumental lifesize wood carving known as the Ringelheim crucifix is one of the earliest surviving three-dimensional sculptures of the Middle Ages It will provide a focal point for the gallery which will contain one of the most impressive groups of 11th-century works of art ever seen in North America.The exhibition will also examine the continuing artistic production of Hildesheim in the high Middle Ages as well as reliquaries and portable altars decorated with enamel and ivory will be featured The late-12th-century Saint Oswald reliquary surmounted by a silver-gilt bust of the saint and decorated with finely drawn niello plaques is a highlight as are the three gilt-bronze liturgical fans with openwork decoration and cabochon stones each over 16 inches in diameter.Hildesheim re-emerged as a major center for bronze casting in the early 13th century The cathedral’s monumental bronze baptismal font dating to about 1226—which will be displayed nearby in the Medieval Sculpture Hall— is one of the most important works to survive from the Middle Ages The basin and its lid rest on free-standing kneeling figures of the four Rivers of Paradise and the complete ensemble measures six feet in height the basin depicts the Baptism of Christ and the Virgin Enthroned flanked by scenes from the Hebrew Bible that were understood in the Middle Ages to prefigure the Baptism of Christ The lid has four additional scenes in relief and ancillary figures and lengthy inscriptions further enrich the font Also on view in the exhibition will be other important examples of bronzework from that time: a cast bronze eagle lectern and a crozier (a religious staff of office Publication and Related ProgramsThe exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue written by scholars on the Museum’s staff in collaboration with scholars in France and Germany The first comprehensive overview of the Hildesheim collection in English Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters; and Michael Brandt It is published by the Metropolitan Museum and distributed by Yale University Press and will be available in the Museum’s book shops ($24.95 hardcover).The catalogue is made possible by The Andrew W Mellon Foundation.Among the education programs organized in conjunction with the exhibition will be a series of gallery talks and a How Did They Do That a Sunday at the Met program includes the showing of a film on the creation of a bronze aquamanile followed by a discussion by Peter Dandridge Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation at the Metropolitan Museum renowned metalsmith and 2011 MacArthur Foundation Fellow The conversation will focus on the baptismal font and other major cast works from Hildesheim within the context of medieval metal casting One view within the exhibition will be a slide presentation on the monuments of Hildesheim It will feature images of works that could not travel I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy notice Alan Soutar said people “do not understand” how tough PDC darts is after he defeated Daryl Gurney in the deciding leg to secure a maiden ranking title in the Players Championship 11 in Hildesheim who is the 11th different winner from as many events held in 2024 won out thanks to a series of fine displays as he continued his recovery from a poor 2023 that placed his Tour Card status in jeopardy A landmark victory saw him put in a composed 11-darter to deny Gurney in a last-leg shoot-out amidst high drama to shore up his credentials “To win a ProTour in this room against 127 other players that I respect so much “This is possibly the best thing I’ve done in darts, apart from winning the World Cup with Scotland in the WDF system “Last year was a disaster for me and I’ve been in danger of losing my Tour Card “I don’t think some people understand how hard it is (in the PDC) The 46-year-old made a strong start against Gurney, weighing in with an 11-dart hold, but his opponent from Northern Ireland turned the match on its head with a three-leg spell to go into a 5-3 lead. Soutar quickly made it 5-5 and after the next four legs were shared, he scored back-to-back 180s in the decider before closing out the win with his second 11-darter. “I had a good couple of seasons in my first two years on tour,” said Soutar. “Last year was terrible, but this year has just got a whole load better.” Earlier in the day he had seen off Steve Beaton in his opener, winning out 5-3 despite having falling behind, before accounting for Martin Lukeman and Danny Noppert each by a 6-2 scoreline. Next he shot to a 107.73 average in defeating Ritchie Edhouse before Niels Zonneveld was also dispatched, and there was a similarly impressive 102.15 to eliminate Dirk van Duijvenbode in the semi-finals. Günther Stern) was born in 1922 in Hildesheim he remembers seeing a parade of men in Nazi uniforms marching on the streets below the family’s apartment “Don’t even look out the window,” Guy recalled “At the very tail end of that parade were my classmates.” Guy’s parents managed to send him to the United States where he was supported by an aunt and uncle in St he worked tirelessly to try to secure visas for his parents and brother and sister back in Germany But he was ultimately unable to find them a suitable sponsor and their visas were never granted An American girlfriend suggested he change his name to “Guy” because she felt “Günther” was too difficult to pronounce Army and trained as an intelligence officer served his unit by interrogating captured Germans and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald But it was a skeleton you were talking to,” Guy remembered His family had perished after being deported from the Warsaw Ghetto A toolkit to help viewers to process The U.S which can be used as a companion for viewers after each episode or as a discussion guide after viewing the documentary in its entirety and the Holocaust is a production of Florentine Films and WETA Washington Corporate funding provided by Bank of America Rubenstein; the Park Foundation; the Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation; Gilbert S Darling; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; and by the following members of The Better Angels Society: Jeannie and Jonathan Lavine; Jan and Rick Cohen; Allan and Shelley Holt; the Koret Foundation; David and Susan Kreisman; Jo Carole and Ronald S Lauder; Blavatnik Family Foundation; Crown Family Philanthropies honoring the Crown and Goodman Families; the Fullerton Family Charitable Fund; Dr Leonard Polonsky; The Russell Berrie Foundation; Diane and Hal Brierley; John and Catherine Debs; and Leah Joy Zell and the Joy Foundation Funding was also provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by public television viewers who may still be named prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith recently published a letter stating that “it has become clear that we need significant changes in sexual morality in the Catholic Church.” Shortly before Christmas 2022, it seemed likely that Dr bishop of Hildesheim and a prominent proponent of the German “Synodal Way,” would be named prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in succession to Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer Bishop Wilmer’s statements on a number of doctrinal and moral matters drew the concerned attention of senior churchmen in Rome and elsewhere; these men made their concerns known to Pope Francis; and the announcement of Bishop Wilmer’s appointment which was reportedly planned for December 19 The Wilmer appointment, however, remains a live option, according to Vatican sources. It thus seems appropriate to draw to the attention of all concerned a letter Bishop Wilmer sent to his diocese on March 13 shortly after the Synodal Way adjourned its final assembly after endorsing a new governing structure for the Church in Germany liturgical blessings for same-sex “unions” a reformulation of the Catholic ethic of human love and the reconsideration of the admission of women to Holy Orders Bishop Wilmer acknowledged that the divisions within German Catholicism “seemed to deepen more and more” along the Synodal Way “the factions becoming more intolerant.” Yet the bishop did not comment on the obvious fact that the “gap between the synod members” was a chasm between those who believe that divine revelation is real and its authority binding over time and those who believe the Church has the authority to correct divine revelation according to the more nuanced knowledge of the human condition that contemporary Catholics putatively possess the bishop stated that his “task is to serve unity…in such a mixed situation” – a concept of episcopacy and its relationship to the truth of Catholic faith that would have puzzled St Athanasius during his battle with Arianism Augustine during his contest with the Donatists Charles Borromeo during his heroic efforts to reform the archdiocese of Milan after the Council of Trent John Fisher while confronting the pusillanimity of his episcopal brethren in England at the time of King Henry VIII Can a local bishop who does not understand that his first responsibility is to teach and defend the settled convictions of the Church – what Pope St John XXIII called the “Sacred Deposit of Faith” in opening the Second Vatican Council – adequately serve the universal Church as prefect of the curial office charged with precisely that same responsibility The bishop’s letter also includes a sympathetic narration of the distress felt by some during a September 2022 Synodal Way Assembly when a resolution calling for the radical reconsideration of the Church’s ethic of human love failed to gain the necessary votes: Some just sat mute and petrified at their tables A small group met in the middle of the hall and quickly grew put their arms over their neighbor’s shoulders a young woman collapsed in a corner of the hall She herself is a victim of sexualized violence in the Church; for years she had been abused by a priest Did the Synodal Way fail in these dramatic hours like other local churches throughout the world failed for years to get to grips with the grave sin and crime of clerical sexual abuse is not a subject for rational debate Those failures happened; they inflicted deep and open wounds on the Mystical Body of Christ; transparency is essential about those failures and their causes (which include the collapse of discipline in post-conciliar seminaries and houses of religious formation and the deconstruction of Catholic moral theology in those years) But to weaponize the suffering of the victims of clerical sexual abuse in order to advance an agenda that progressive German Catholicism advocated for decades before the abuse crisis broke into public view is deplorable Yet is that not precisely what Bishop Wilmer does when he states that “it has become clear that we need significant changes in sexual morality in the Catholic Church.” Indeed But the entire context of the bishop’s letter suggests that what he means by “significant changes in sexual morality in the Catholic Church” is not a rebirth of chastity that includes a reaffirmation of the good of sexual love within the bond of marriage but a change in teaching that affirms sexual relations which revelation and reason teach us are not life-giving Thus the bishop wrote that he “welcome[d] the fact that the Synodal Way is in favor of establishing a working group to develop a manual for blessing celebrations for same-sex couples as well as remarried divorcees.” How can a bishop who welcomes this development lead a curial dicastery that recently declared that such blessings were impossible The bishop’s letter contains more curiosities “we have begun to fill pastoral positions with people who have not studied theology or religious education but instead have [matriculated in] cultural studies or architecture.” Given the current state of German theology this may perhaps be considered a blessing for the diocese But it beggars the imagination that a bishop who seemingly demeans the importance of sound theology for effective pastoral work could be appointed the head of the Roman office that is charged with nourishing dynamically orthodox theology throughout the universal Church in his diocese “the core area of private life is no longer subject to legal evaluation;” that this zone of inviolable privacy “includes relationship life…;” and that “we have already made the corresponding changes…in the regulations for the conferral of the Missio Canonica with regard to teachers of religion.” Which is to say that people objectively living in grave sin and thus not in full communion with the Church can receive from Bishop Wilmer a canonical mission to teach as a Catholic religious educator How could such a bishop possibly be considered as prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith Bishop Wilmer urges the Diocese of Hildesheim to be open to “…the Holy Spirit contradict what the Spirit has already taught the Church through divine revelation That would not be a “surprise;” it would be the complete and utter dissolution of the Jewish and Christian concept of God If the appointment of Bishop Wilmer to the position once held by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is made it would not only be a mortal insult to the memory and legacy of Pope Benedict XVI all the cards would be face up on the table and there could be no denying that what is at stake in the next papal transition is the fidelity of the Catholic Church to divine revelation and the apostolic tradition If you value the news and views Catholic World Report provides, please consider donating to support our efforts Your contribution will help us continue to make CWR available to all readers worldwide for free Click here for more information on donating to CWR. Click here to sign up for our newsletter Meet the new Nigerian secretary for the Vatican Dicastery for Evangelization Disney doc features Pope Francis’ talk with Gen Z on LGBTQ issues Pope Francis meets participants in the general chapter of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall Pope Francis prepares to board an ITA Airlines plane for his approximately 10-hour flight from Rome to Edmonton in western Canada on July 24 Did his grace light a candle before “St” judas The people this priest describes as breaking into tears and one passing out sound as though they have significant mental issues and need therapy But that is not a good reason to change church teaching It should be obvious that if such folk find catholic teaching unpalatable there are literally thousands of super liberal churches where “anything goes” But such sexual excess should not be expected to be accepted by the faithful who know that such actions are in fact wrong and sinful.This is an exceedingly slippery slope and I hope I am dead by the time there is a push for acceptance of polygamy and bestiality Some prohibitions are pronounced by the church as wrong and are NOT a matter of conscience to be decided by individuals Bishop Wilmer is lip syncing the false wisdom dropping from the lips of Cardinal Hollerich and from Bishop Bats-sing (who surely has a role in parceling out the state church tax) after having done his business on your front lawn then does a 180 to kick grass over the droppings with the sexual abuse crisis in Germany–turn human sexual morality completely around so as to kick aromatic verbiage over recent history also invert the Vatican reminder that schismatic Germany is betraying the universal Catholic Church the “task is to serve unity…in such a mixed situation.” The barking Wilmer asspires to be the “bark” of Peter Is the Roman Catholic Church serious about following Jesus “Unity” means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING when it means unity with men and women who reject the commandments of Jesus and unity with Bishops who would silently accept unity with apostates for the sake of counting heads It is no surprise that the Church is now under the control of apostates Robert Imbelli in his essay “No Decapitated Body.” the open threat to officially promote and/or allow apostasy is what happens when our Church started ordaining and promoting openly apostate Bishops in the 1970s among these many openly apostate German Bishops who denies the bodily resurrection of Jesus On what possible grounds can our Catholic Church ask to be taken seriously when its pontiffs have promoted and ordained apostate Bishops granting apostolic teaching authority to outlaws who deny the Gospel and the Creed On what grounds can the Church ask to be taken seriously Why would you ever believe that the Catholic Church could deny what She has always taught as if the 1960’s was the beginning of true Catholicism because this is exactly what Catholics have been deceived into believing and contradictions about so many of the dogmas of the faith is its modis operandi and none of this can ever be said about true Catholicism These people are not members of the Catholic Church but members of a counterfeit church with an anti-Catholic religion as its foundation As I recall: The commandments of Jesus are two: Love God above all else and Love your neighbor as yourself Yes and warning your neighbor of sin is loving your neighbor It’s a spiritual work of mercy…recall ‘Go and sin no more.’ what you alluded to is a gloss of “The Greatest Commandment,” which is recounted in the Gospels of Matthew Jesus affirmed (in answering the lawyer) “the greatest and first commandment” is “You shall love God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind and all your strength.” And Jesus said that “the second is like it ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two hang all the law and the prophets.” (Matt 22) And in Mark’s account Jesus ends by saying “There is no commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12) Jesus is saying that these are greater than all of the other commandments and thereby reminding us that there are other commandments Jesus declared “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law and the Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” And then Jesus set about to start adding even more commandments as the law-giver who declared himself “greater than Moses.” And the commandments he gives are recognized to be very demanding Jesus declares: “You have heard that it was said ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” (Matt 5: 27-28) That is a very strict commandment and is what Jesus commands about our sexual behavior And then Jesus adds another very demanding commandment: “You have heard it said: ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you that you may be children of your Father in heaven Do not even tax collectors…and pagans do that as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Jesus doles out a lot of very stern commandments that the Bishop called “His Excellency Wilmer,” and other Bishops like him such as “His Eminence McElroy” and “His Eminence Hollerich,” etc etc etc The evil one’s greatest victory is within reach A fitting end for a church that stood by while more than a billion children were being butchered over the past fifty years forgive us for our fecklessness and our hypocrisy Are you personally involved in any of this “fecklessness and hypocrisy” Then what would you need Jesus to forgive you for Isn’t it the responsibility of those who are involved in this fecklessness and hypocrisy to admit it and vow to sin no more so that then they may ask for Jesus’ forgiveness We’re all involved in one way or another If we lie to ourselves to pretend we’re not then that is one way in which we are involved Bishop Wilmer pens a letter full of apostasy and error Instead of being warned about his beliefs and told to take time off to reconsider his thoughts he will probably be promoted Catholics who hold to the truths of the faith which are pronounced unequivocally in the ancient mass are demonised and persecuted because the church hierarchy no longer holds to its theology This is the chastisement Our Lady warned us about at Fatima but it will come from the hands of Our Lady Simply following the “spirit of Vatican II” and of all of the leaders since then There is no “spirit of Vatican II” they do not include any of what is being promoted by this pontificate The interpretations have been the issue and do not in anyway support Wilhmer Weigel columns these days stems from his failure to take on Francis directly He knows full well of his many outrages and never says anything I read all his books prior to his fantasies about “the next pope,” which seemed to have been written as though a return to stable orthodoxy is a near certainty Criticisms around the edges do not suffice during the most ominous time in Church history “still in the process of learning how to be God,” spread confusion and misery among His creation for thousands of years by instilling in them a natural sense of a coherent family unit upon which a greater society would be built but this Supreme Being was ultimately mistaken interested in torturing His creation with endless moral confusion just for His own amusement who led His creation to where it is impossible to understand right from wrong with the proper ordering of their biological nature willing to sort through God’s shortcomings Germany is a pagan country not least due to most Catholic bishops there having apostacized ‘Conservatives’ – You’re Rad Trads It was within weeks that Bishop McElroy was elevated before he spoke the quiet part out loud regarding the synod on synodality confessing it “gives the liberals in the church the opportunity to complete the revolution they began at Vatican 2” I can’t help but ponder the message given by Our Lord to Sister Marie de St Pierre that due to offenses against the Holy Name of God and the command to keep the Sabbath holy the world would suffer the “chastisement of revolutionary men” Karl Marx published his Communist Manifesto The world has suffered revolutionary men ever since only You have the words of eternal life” Someone recently commented on CWR whether Papa should be asked if he is a homosexual Papa’s silence is thundering on this heretical matter This seems to me to be the same old … same old…pharisees vs Christ: Any new approach based on further knowledge frightens the bejesus out of the old school As the RC church moves forward some will stay behind Don’t old fashioned Jews still go to the Wailing Wall The Tree of Life needs the unchanging trunk but that trunk would die too in the absence of new leaves bringing fresh sunshine chemicals etc from leaf to root so that growth can continue So human beings never delude themselves and call it “new knowledge” How are value judgments a question a “knowledge” in the first place And how can God change His mind about truth And when did Jesus ever contradict received moral truth Don’t confuse morality with ritual now No need for coded speech and vague allusions Genesis,,,And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them I didn’t have time the other day for a longer answer but your understanding of the conflict of visions between Our Lord and the Pharisees is a reversal of Christian reality Yours is a secular belief in inevitable progress based on a faith and trust in elitist superiority who were essentially more like secular progressives in their day than people of authentic faith condemned Our Lord for undermining their dominant capricious rituals by His preaching the eternal Progressives have always sought to reimage Jesus as one of them a non-elitist because He reminded us what is placed in every heart to know is immutable because it comes exclusively from God Our Lord’s preaching is a rebuke to the human vanity that needs to treat truth as fungible for those seeking the prestige of innovation or for those seeking to avoid impeachment from moral truths that never change A devastating laying out of what is at sake here If this man is indeed made head of what we used to call the CDF then all the cards There can be no hiding behind any of the usual fig leaves this time “If this man” is elevated then the cards are face up Only fools have either refused to see them or have pretended they are still face down I agree with the comment above – Weigel and others go to great lengths not to address the real issue explixitly The cards have been face up for longer than 10 years Maybe the Protestants aren’t so crazy after all In the face of all this craziness the only thing we can really trust is the Bible Popes can dismiss previous magisterial teaching and reform the Catechism but God’s Word is forever and unchangeable Besides all the hundreds of opportunistic translations that were made during and after the protestant “reformation” a number of books of the Bible were dropped by the protestants They didn’t think they were “inspired” For “unchanging scriptures” you go to the Vulgate the oldest extant copies in Hebrew and Greek Even if that simplistic apologetical trope was true Surely not the liquid magisterium of the present pontificate Have you ever listened to some apologists endlessly arguing Church documents (watch an old Gerry Matatics debate) It’s mind numbing and soul crushing because at the end of the day one can simply say…the present Pope doesn’t believe or teach that and there you are left standing there with a Church document that has been robbed of its authority by the supreme authority in the Church It’s much harder to do that with the Bible I’d rather stick with the Bible which we know is inspired by the third Person of the Holy Trinity Notice when anyone wants to refute the German Bishops or Francis or question Biden’s reception of Communion they usually go straight to Scripture Because we implicitly know there is something very special about it and that its authority is unparalleled So…when in doubt go to the Bible and in that perhaps the Protestants are on to something Yet protestants changed/change God’s Word Martin Luther wanted to remove God’s Word Protestantism goes back to John 6 when disciples no longer walked with Jesus The German bishops are doing the same thing How you answer the question will determine what is the greater authority in your spiritual life…also notice that in this we know the Bible will never command anything that goes against God Nope the choice is….do I listen to God’s Word Tradition and the teaching Authority of the Catholic Church Or….do I listen to a protestant’s unbiblical word of sola scriptura I think I’m gonna go with God on this But then we have the Pope himself saying that divorced and remarried Catholics can receive Communion in some cases in clear contradiction of Jesus’ own words in the Gospel of Matthew and St Paul’s admonition against receiving Communion unworthily Even the plain language of Scripture is no impediment to those bent on fomenting revolution But notice that you went to Scripture to disprove Francis’ ideas The Protestant bible was deliberately amended to fit Luthers heresy and is continually misinterpreted by Protestants to fit their own ideas which is why there are thousands of Protestant sects I’m certainly not defending this Pope but looking to protestants is not the answer we won’t even be able to trust the Bible It will be interpreted in accordance with the spirit of the age and in a manner that fits with one’s preferences and prejudices it will mean whatever one wants it to mean This seems to me to be the same old … same old…pharisees vs Christ The Pharisees went wrong by placing man-made doctrines ahead of God’s revelation — just like the ‘Synodal Way’ crowd “If the appointment of Bishop Wilmer to the position once held by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is made it would not only be a mortal insult to the memory and legacy of Pope Benedict XVI.” These are *heretics* in conversation with the devil the bishops of the world will grow a spine All comments posted at Catholic World Report are moderated While vigorous debate is welcome and encouraged please note that in the interest of maintaining a civilized and helpful level of discussion comments containing obscene language or personal attacks—or those that are deemed by the editors to be needlessly combative or inflammatory—will not be published Readings: • Wis 9:13-18b • Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14-17 • Phmn 9-10, 12-17 • Lk 14:25-33 I recently read a column by a young Catholic who expressed frustration with the saying, “Love the sinner, […] You can see how this popup was set up in our step-by-step guide: 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in four events at Mount Hood Futures Also competing for Mission Hills High School Hildesheim finished 16th in the 100 breast at the 2018 CIF State Championships The two-time USA Swimming Scholastic All-American is also a four-time CIF San Diego Section Championship finalist Photo Courtesy: Aidan Simpson via CollegeSwimming “I am excited to announce my verbal commitment to swim and study at the University of California San Diego I am so proud and excited to become a Triton and to swim for such an outstanding program at UCSD Also a talented breaststroker like his future training partner Hildesheim Simpson swims year-round with Inland Coastal Aquatic Club and has achieved four Junior National cuts He raced to 10th in the 200m breast at College Station Sectionals and took 22nd in that event at Juniors West He placed 23rd in the 200m breast at Junior Nationals last summer as well A current junior at San Marcos High School the two-time USA Swimming Scholastic All-American finished 14th in 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Commenting signifies that you agree to our Terms of Use You and Ethan will make UCSD a breaststroke power house ' + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.webview_notification_text + ' " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " There are no statistics available for this player Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience Image credit: PHotograPH courtesy of DOM UND DiözesaNMUseUM And yet in an illustrated manuscript dating from the early 11th century that was commissioned by the Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim in the Holy Roman Empire Mar y touches Christ's foot in the noli me tangere scene It's an utter violation of the gospel's command "This image is one of the few that has been studied [and it is] extremely unusual because this scene by definition is about not touching," says Jennifer P the assistant director of Johns Hopkins' interdisciplinary Program in Museums and Society Kingsley explores that question in her debut book and the Episcopate in Medieval Germany (Pennsylvania State University Press The book is a considerable expansion of the research she conducted for her dissertation which focused on Bernward as an arts patron which today is a city of nearly 100,000 people in central Germany was educated at cathedral schools (the prototypes of medieval universities) Hildesheim was a powerful hub in the Holy Roman Empire He founded the Benedictine Monks of Saint Michael's Abbey and started construction on the Church of Saint Michael's today a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site which wasn't completed until after his death in 1022 has a column sculpture depicting 28 scenes from Christ's life and bronze doors that are considered medieval masterpieces and frequently included in art history surveys "I remember that being one of the things people told me when I started my dissertation work: Make sure you choose a topic that can sustain your interest over time because you will be living with it for a while." She found that in the Bernward Gospels not only visually because of the densely layered ornament but also in terms of its subject matter That was the most gratifying aspect of the project because that is to me what distinguishes art history as a discipline: the process of looking in a sustained way and over a long time Posted in Arts+Culture Tagged program in museums and society, religion, medieval germany, christianity, theology The 30th Anniversary of World Pool Masters will be held between April 25th – 28th from Halle39 in Hildesheim in partnership with local organiser Moltke Sports and host broadcaster Sky Sports We’ve put together the below guide with all the information you need to know ahead of the event World Pool Masters sees the top 14 WNT players The top 8 players are set to play the remaining players in a ‘seeded vs unseeded’ opening round Francisco Sanchez Ruiz – 2023 World Pool Champion and WNT #1 Shane Van Boening – Premier League Pool 2024 Champion Jayson Shaw – 2023 Hanoi Open Pool Champion Albin Ouschan – Two-time World Pool Champion David Alcaide – 2023 European Open Pool Champion Mario He – Two-time World Cup of Pool Champion Aloysius Yapp – 2023 International Open 9-Ball Championship Wiktor Zielinski – 2022 Euro Tour Lasko Open Champion Ko Pin Yi – Defending 2023 World Pool Master Max Lechner – 2022 World Pool Championship Quarter-finalist World Pool Masters has a total prize fund of $125,000 with the below breakdown: Spectators will be able to catch the action live from Halle39 throughout the week with weekday tickets available from €15 and weekend/final tickets available from €30 and the chance to meet the stars are available from €150 too World Pool Masters is set to be played from Thursday 25th April to Sunday 28th April (all times are local) The only way to track all matches across the World Pool Masters seeded draws and fixtures at Matchroom events Event coverage begins at the upcoming World Pool Masters held at Halle39 in Hildesheim, Germany between April 25th to April 28th 2024 with fans able to follow the action here. Coverage of World Pool Masters will be live across the following broadcasters All other territories can watch coverage of the table action through Matchroom.live. You can sign up for a monthly pass from 4.99 here The World Nineball Tour’s official Clothing partner Onboard Sportswear will be on hand at World Pool Masters with an exclusive line of merchandise available to spectators From Event Jerseys and Training Jackets to Graphic Tees, shop the full range here You can keep track of all the action as it unfolds across Matchroom Pool’s social media channels. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and X, TikTok and YouTube Matchroom and the World Nineball Tour are proud to partner with the below sponsors for World Pool Masters: The event draw and results are listed in the Match Centre. Click here for match stats through DartConnect. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker The PDC Women’s Series resumes in Germany this weekend with Events 13-16 taking place at Halle 39 in Hildesheim The penultimate weekend of Women’s Series action in 2022 will see players battling it out for £20,000 in prize money from August 27-28 Women’s World Matchplay champion Fallon Sherrock will not feature due to her World Series of Darts commitments although Lisa Ashton headlines a high-quality field in Hildesheim The Lancashire veteran has won seven of this year's 12 tournaments she boasts a £2,300 lead over Sherrock at the top of the Women’s Series Order of Merit The winner of the Women’s Series Order of Merit will feature alongside Sherrock at the Cazoo Grand Slam of Darts while the two highest-ranked players qualify for the 2022/23 Cazoo World Darts Championship The race to qualify for the 2023 Betfred Women’s World Matchplay also begins in Germany this weekend as WDF Women’s Champion Beau Greaves prepares to make her first Women's Series appearance of the year Women’s World Matchplay runner-up Aileen de Graaf will also be in action alongside Event Ten winner Lorraine Winstanley a semi-finalist at last month’s Winter Gardens showpiece Winstanley trails Sherrock by £2,100 on the Order of Merit but she will be bidding to reduce the deficit in the absence of the Milton Keynes star Deta Hedman is another high-profile name making the trip to Germany along with Women’s World Matchplay trio Laura Turner Entry, costing £25 per event, is still available through the PDC Entry System Entries close at 1400 BST on Wednesday August 24 New players must register their details at this link The PDC Women's Series will be streamed through PDCTV with live coverage throughout each event on August 27 & 28 with play from approx 1000 CEST (0900 BST) on each day who had managed the IntercityHotel in Celle since 2011 she will guide the IntercityHotel Hildesheim through its pre-opening phase prior to taking over as Director Borchert also commences her new duties at the start of the month The event draw and results are listed in the Match Centre. Click here match stats & results through DartConnect. a no-caddie "self-round" golf course has been established is optimized for no-caddie rounds for both courses and services and has the appearance of a smart golf course with an autonomous cart system The self-round of golfing without caddies can be said to be a "challenge" in the domestic golf course industry many golfers are already used to golf with help from caddies as the caddy increased to the point where he felt the cost burden seriously demands and desires for a self-round of "no caddy" increased in proportion to that the first golf course in the central region to advocate a no-caddie self-round was created It is a Eumseong Hildesheim Country Club with 27 holes (par 108 9622m long) on 1.02 million square meters of land in Husam-ro Korea's leading women's golf course designer joined forces to create a course that will be called a "revolution" for a domestic golf course which was created with self-rounding in mind since its design has been optimized for no-caddie rounds in all areas it is the birth of a smart golf course equipped with a golf course and an autonomous cart system that will become a new standard for the domestic golf industry Hildesheim first made it possible to operate electric carts comfortably without caddies Safety was secured by minimizing long travel sections as well as steep slopes and sharp turns It also shortens the travel time to the next hole to allow more time to play since it is an autonomous cart that moves only at a constant speed it has solved safety problems caused by inexperienced driving and is convenient because there is no steering wheel All you need to do is press the start and stop buttons It can also be moved by manipulating the remote control spread like a fan around the clubhouse to create a panorama which can be seen from any point in the hall The course design does not cause much inconvenience even if you play the round without a caddy not only was the point where the tee shot ball fell wide and comfortable but he also tried not to make a blind hole as much as possible It is a measure that makes it easy to recognize one's cheeks from a distance The course's up-down was also minimized to reduce the time to find the ball Bunkers were minimally created only with visual beauty or roles to adjust the difficulty level when attacking and functions for the direction of the shot allowing golfers to choose widely according to their skills Green ruled out the slope or bend as much as possible so that the golfer could easily read the putt line by his own judgment the speed of the well-managed greens made it possible to control the putting difficulty The course was created for a comfortable self-round This is because it did not overlook the strategic part so that all 14 clubs could perform well and Irish green par 3 holes (Lake Course 2 and Valley Course 3) are created for each course making it very interesting visually and strategically six of the nine holes are adjacent to Lake four holes are strategically arranged in one large lake The valley course has a hole crossing the valley which is at the highest of the golf course Six artificial ponds have been built in the golf course is a signature hall representing the golf course As soon as the golfer enters the lobby of the clubhouse he is moved by the spectacular scenery in front of him The cool waterfalls that fall vertically from the rock wall across the pond make golfers' hearts flutter ※ This service is provided by machine translation tool The 5-year old Farbenfroh H and the 6-year old . became the winners of the small Bundeschampionate qualifier held at the regional show in Hildesheim Although the Hildesheim show is not officially listed as a Bundeschampionate qualifier on the FN website the score sheets do indicate the classes count for Warendorf qualification Eleven 5-year old horses lined up for the L-level dressage test and three achieved the qualification criterium of 8.0 or higher to make it to the 2016 Bundeschampionate held annually the first week of September in Warendorf Sandra Frieling and the Hanoverian bred Farbenfroh B (by Furst Nymphenburg II x Londonderry) topped the board with a very convincing 8.7 edging out Svenja Bachmann on Baumann's Apollon (by Ampere x Davignon) The first 9.0 score of the season has been awarded to Katja Slupinski on Dr The pair aced the 6-year old M-level division in a small field of seven competitors Esther Maruhn and the mare Bellena (by Belissimo M x Welser) were a strong second with 8.5 Photo © LL-foto Results - 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spät kommt sie Er selbst habe nach seiner Rettung an "Überlebensschuld" gelitten und sich gefragt: "Alle meine Liebsten tot - aber ich darf weiterleben dass ich davonkam." Er habe deshalb - zunächst unbewusst - versucht in seinem beruflichen Leben besonders viel zu erreichen Neben der Stadt Hildesheim informierte der Berliner Aufbau-Verlag über Sterns Tod Dort war die Autobiografie des gebürtigen Hildesheimers ("Wir sind nur noch wenige") auf Deutsch erschienen Stern hatte nach Angaben der Stadt Hildesheim auch die Verbindung zu seiner Geburtsstadt wieder neu aufgebaut Regelmäßig habe er bei Vorträgen und Lesungen dort Einblicke in sein Leben gegeben so Hildesheims Oberbürgermeister Ingo Meyer (parteilos) 2023 Er würdigte den Ehrenbürger der Stadt als "bemerkenswerte Persönlichkeit und einen äußerst liebenswürdigen Menschen" Er habe seine Gesprächspartner "mit umfangreichem Wissen und Zugewandtheit in den Bann gezogen und dabei mit seinem feinen geistreichen Humor überrascht und berührt" Sterns Name sei und bleibe eng mit der Erinnerungskultur und der Geschichtsaufarbeitung in Hildesheim verbunden Die niedersächsische Landtagspräsidentin Hanna Naber unterstrich Sterns "unermüdliches Engagement für Aufklärung für Verständigung und gegen Antisemitismus" Sie erinnerte an seine Rede vor dem Landtag im Jahr 2019: "Trotz schmerzhafter Erinnerungen hat Guy Stern den Kontakt nach Deutschland und nach Niedersachsen immer intensiv gepflegt." Mit Sterns Tod habe ein beeindruckendes und vielfältiges Leben sein Ende gefunden