Single Issue: $1.00 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40030139 CATHOLIC JOURNAL Vol. 94 No. 2 May 25, 2016 Endowed chair Synod commences in Winnipeg St. Thomas More College at the University of By James Buchok Saskatchewan has established an endowed chair WINNIPEG — Under the ban - in Indigenous Spirituality ner of “Disciples: Established, and Reconciliation, the first Anointed, and Sent in Christ,” the in Canadian history in a Archdiocese of Winnipeg em - Catholic institution. barked on the first synod in its — page 3 100-year history with solemn Foster care evening prayer May 15, Pentecost Sunday, at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The foster care system in “We ask the Holy Spirit to Saskatchewan is badly guide and protect this local broken, according to parent church over these next two years Lynn Chotowetz. “People and beyond,” said Archbishop have run out of words to Richard Gagnon. explain how bad it is.” A Synod Office and Prepara tory — page 6 Commission have been established for the initial task of convening up R. Arsenault Mental health to a dozen Listen ing Sessions to SYNOD COMMENCES — The Archdiocese of Winnipeg Synod Preparatory Commission meets with take place in the fall to gather Archbishop Richard Gagnon. “One in three people across thoughts and opinions from all Canada will have a mental who are a part of the archdiocese. next winter; General Sessions from November 2017 to April 2018. The ship during these current and very health issue The Listening Sessions will be fol - April to November 2017, and an synod will close on Pentecost challenging times? I have often at some lowed by Focus Commissions over Implementation Commission from Sunday, May 20, 2018. asked myself, what would it be like point in Gagnon, who had been a partic - if every Catholic looked at them - their life - First-graders grow treasure ipant in a synod in the Arch diocese selves as disciples of Jesus rather time,” says of Vancouver, said the question than as members of the church? Donna in unique lenten project that the Winnipeg synod is being There is a world of difference Bowyer of called to answer is discipleship: between the idea of membership the Mental “How are we to be disciples and Health CHICAGO (CNS) — More were rewarded for making their how are we to live out our disciple - — DISCIPLE , page 5 Association of than 100 first-graders, teachers treasure grow — each first-grader Saskatchewan. “There and proud parents packed the had been given $1 and the chal - Anglicans and Catholics isn’t anyone cafeteria at a Catholic elementary lenge to make it grow for a who goes untouched.” school in Chicago to present their Catholic Extension-funded min - hammer out difficulties — page 7 unique lenten project gift to istry during Lent. Catholic Extension, a national This is the ninth year that the Money game fundraising organization that sup - school’s first-graders have support - By Michael Swan months, said Moxon. The An - ports the work and ministries of ed a Catholic Extension project, The Catholic Register glican representative to the Holy The intense debate over the U.S. mission dioceses. and this year the first-graders chose See in Rome is currently in nego - role of money in America’s During an afternoon ceremony Cajun Camp, a two-week summer TORONTO (CCN) — After tiations with publishers to bring troubled at Frances Xavier Warde School camp for deaf and deaf-blind chil - nearly 50 years of discourse out “Towards a Church Fully democracy May 6, the first-graders handed dren organized by the Office of between the Catholic and Angli - Reconciled,” a series of essays is the Catholic Extension’s president, Persons with Disabili ties of the can communions, the official dia - that “will tackle the tough diffi - subject of Rev. Jack Wall, a handmade over - Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana. logue body wants to fine-tune culties,” Moxon said. Jodie sized cheque for $11,025.11. Upon receiving the cheque, how it studies the differences and ARCIC has looked at its work Foster’s Inspired by the parable of the Wall expressed his gratitude and similarities between two churches since the Second Vatican Council new movie gold coins from St. Luke’s Gospel which both call themselves and divided the issues into three Money — in which the king’s servants — CHILDREN , page 15 Catholic. categories — areas of agreement, Monster, also in a documen - “ARCIC III hasn’t proved it self issues on which the churches are tary, and in the book Dark yet,” Sir David Moxon, Anglican still seeking agreement and areas Money by Jane Mayer. co-chair of the Anglican-Roman of disagreement. Gerald Schmitz reviews. Catholic International Commis - Despite 80 per cent agreement — page 9 sion, told The Catholic Register on such questions as church struc - following an ecumenical even - ture, eucharist, liturgy and ethics, Media firestorm song on Pentecost Sunday. disagreements on ordination of This third stage of the dia - women to the priesthood and as When Pope Francis agreed, logue has been meeting since bishops, ordination of openly gay during a recent off-the-cuff 2011, but has yet to publish a bishops, blessings of same-sex chat with nuns gathered in major document. It is currently relationships and moves in some Rome, to explore the idea of studying how the church arrives parts of the Anglican communion ordaining women as at moral teaching. to redefine marriage to include deacons, he touched off The official dialogue spon - same-sex unions have derailed or what has by now become a sored by the Vatican and the slowed talks over the past decade. typical Francis-like media Archbishop of Canterbury met in The current topic of discussion storm, writes David Gibson. Toronto until May 18, when a at ARCIC is meant to meet these — page 11 concluding communiqué was controversies head-on, said Lived wisdom expected from the meeting of 22 Canadian Anglican Bishop Linda bishops, theologians and support Nicholls. For most families, wisdom staff. It is the first time the body “If we’ve come to so much and support is more readily has met in Canada and, to the agreement in ARCIC I and found among family and knowledge of the participants, the ARCIC II, why is it we’ve arrived first time in 50 years that ARCIC friends and in the love in such different places (on sexual has met during Pentecost, when between families, writes CNS/Kathryn Eardley, Catholic Extension equality and sexual ethics)?” the Holy Spirit first revealed the Isabella Moyer. “We learn GENEROUS STUDENTS RAISE MONEY — Rev. Jack Wall, presi - asked Nicholls, summing up the dent of Catholic Extension, holds an oversized cheque for $11,025.11 global unity of the Christian mes - current work of the commission. more from personal stories sage expressed in the diversity of than doctrinal diatribes.” given to him May 6 by the first-graders of Frances Xavier Warde “We’re almost so close that the languages from around the world. last little bit is so hard.” — page 12 School in Chicago. For nine years in a row, first-graders there have participated in a fundraiser inspired by the Gospel parable about 10 ARCIC III expects to publish gold coins and making one’s treasure grow to help others. its first book within the next four — DISAGREEMENTS , page 4 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS May 25, 2016 Mexican bishop defends farmers who grow poppies By David Agren juana and opium poppies to put food on the table. Rangel made MEXICO CITY (CNS) — A his comments as violence con - Catholic bishop in the southern sumed the state of Guerrero, Mexican state of Guerrero has which lies south of Mexico City called for compassion toward the and includes some of the coun - impoverished populations har - try’s most marginalized munici - vesting opium poppies out of palities. necessity, saying such people are The state is still reeling from not sinners and are neglected by the attack on 43 students by the government. police in 2014 as they comman - He asked the army to stop deered buses to travel to protest fumigating small farmers’ poppy in Mexico City. One of the buses fields “until there are other may have been transporting options for opium poppy grow - opium paste, provoking the ers” and said the practice was attack. Experts from the Inter- “taking food out of their mouths American Commission on (and) starving them to death.” Human Rights, who reviewed the “People who grow opium pop - case, called on Mexican investi - CNS/Watan Yar, EPA pies are the most marginalized gators to probe that angle. POVERTY DRIVES OPIUM POPPIES — Afghan farmers extract opium to be processed into heroin in people in the state and the coun - For decades, Guerrero has Helmand province, Afghanistan. A Catholic bishop in southern Mexican has called for compassion toward try. It’s campesinos (peasant been coveted as a trafficking cor - the impoverished populations harvesting opium poppies out of necessity, saying such people are not sinners farmers) who plant the flower, ridor and a site for planting and and are neglected by the government. not narcotics traffickers,” Bishop harvesting opium poppies. In - Salvador Rangel Mendoza of creased heroin use in the United “The problem is not the buying and processing opium pop - nalization idea, but said he want - Chilpancingo-Chilapa told the States is believed to be driving a growing of opium poppies,” pies. ed to see more alternatives newspaper El Universal . “Those demand for opium poppies pro - Campos said. “The problem is Antonio Mazzitelli, the UN offered to farmers. that plant (opium poppies) are duced in Mexico, which are unemployment.