Single Issue: $1.00 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40030139 CATHOLIC JOURNAL Vol. 94 No. 39 March 22, 2017 Living simply Religious and First Nations seek dialogue Christopher Hrynkow reflected on Christian eco - By Philippe Vaillancourt the lifestyle and values of the nature, community life, family ized by the Canadian Religious logical ethics and the call Huron-Wendat Nation. life: The group composed mainly Conference March 10. The confer - to battle our “addiction to WENDAKE, Que. (CNS) — The wooden structure once of nuns and religious listened ence hopes to foster closer ties stuff” at a recent workshop Inside the traditional Huron long - housed several families. On the respectfully to the guide. between Catholic religious com - at St. Thomas More College house, faint glimmerings cast light ground, small grids with plastic After all, they came to meet munities and First Nations peoples. on the attendees’ faces. Standing fish stood above hearths and native peoples. It was the first time a Cana dian in Saskatoon. on a stool, Simon Perusse, dressed recalled the smoking that was About 50 of them enlisted for Religious Conference activity took — page 6 in his traditional costume, told of practised there. Relationship with this unprecedented activity organ - place on a reserve, at the traditional Catholic education Huron ONHOUA CHETEK8E site in Wendake, outside Quebec City. “This is a challenging Nicole O’Bomsawin, an an- moment for Catholic educa - thropologist and member of the Abenaki tribe, was pleased with tion,” said Msgr. James P. the initiative. Shea in a March 10 public “Ten years ago, we were not lecture at Campion College there. But now this is another step. in Regina, “but it is also a It pleases me to see this new com - promising time.” mitment,” she said. — page 6 O’Bomsawin, 60, involved in dialogue initiatives between First Fresh produce Nations and Catholics for many years, is particularly interested in The Regina Food Bank has forging links between traditional begun grow - native spirituality and Catholi cism. ing fresh This is what she did at the begin - produce ning of the traditional meal that onsite to was offered to the attendees, sing- augment ing a prayer song as a blessing. donated food Rev. Richard Bonetto, Presby - terian pastor and founder of the items. “The Wampum Centre, spoke of his interest in the project has experience of dialogue in the cen - been incredible,” says Food tre he founded in 1994. Bank CEO Steve Compton. “There’s hope,” he says during — page 7 CNS/Philippe Vaillancourt, Presence the meal. “We are increasingly FOSTERING CLOSER TIES — Huron-Wendat guide Simon Perusse explains how his nation prepared A juxtaposition food during a March 10 meeting with members of the Canadian Religious Conference in Wendake, Que. — CRC , page 11 The church had an unlikely presence at the convergence Highlights of Pope Francis’ four years of service of interactive, film, and music industries at the By Beth Griffin to the peripheries of sin, pain, sacrament of penance during this 500th anniversary of Lutheranism. recent South By Southwest injustice and misery to reach peo - papacy because Pope Francis “We’ve had the idea that Luther is Festival in Austin, Texas. NEW YORK (CNS) — Evan - ple. He warned that when the identifies himself as a sinner and the enemy,” the nuncio said. But — page 8 gelization, mercy, encounter and church does not come out of her - is seen going to confession, Pierre Pope Francis had an encounter accompaniment are the hallmarks self to evangelize, she becomes said. “Many had abandoned the with Lutheran leaders there and Indigenous voices of the first four years of Pope self-referential and sick. He wrote, sacrament of reconciliation, but Francis’ papacy, Archbishop “The evils that, over time, happen have rediscovered the necessity of — dIALOGuE , page 4 Canadians are being chal - Christophe Pierre, apostolic nun - in ecclesiastical institutions have receiving the for - lenged to come to terms cio to the United States, said their root in self-reference and a giveness of God and with historical wrongs aris - March 15. kind of theological narcissism.” giving it to others,” ing from the subjugation of “First and foremost, Pope Bergoglio said the next pope, he said. Francis is committed to the work “must be a man who, from the con - When the pope Aboriginal peoples, as in the of evangelization. The main role templation and adoration of Jesus speaks of mercy, it is TRC’s report on the “cultur - of the church is to evangelize — Christ, helps the church go out to not only a human al genocide” perpetrated by to receive the gospel and offer it to the existential peripheries, that virtue, but a gift from residential schools, writes the world,” he said in a conversa - helps her be the fruitful mother, God, and people are Gerald Schmitz. Indigenous tion in New York with Jesuit who gains life from the sweet and the first target of peoples are determined to Father Matthew F. Malone, presi - comforting joy of evangelizing.” God’s mercy, Pierre tell their own stories dent and editor-in-chief of Amer - “The church is a continuation said. “Our church is a through documentary films. ica Media. of Christ in the world,” Pierre merciful church. We — page 9 “The raison d’etre of the said. And the pope continues to present truth in a church is evangelization. It’s not a insist it is time not to rest, but to respectful way. Pen pals business, it’s not an organization go to the many peripheries to be Mercy means dia - or an association for the defence God’s presence to the people who logue and walking and prisoners of Jesus, but a group called to suffer, he said. along the path of the announce God’s presence to He expanded on the pope’s other,” he said. When Angela Saldanha humanity,” Pierre said. familiar description of the church “I’m impressed to signed up with Human At a meeting of cardinals as a field hospital. “It’s very sim - see the ca pacity Pope Writes, an organization based before the conclave that elected ple. It’s a tent where you attend Francis has to meet in England that organizes let - him pope, then-Cardinal Jorge people. Be there. Don’t waste people,” Pierre said. ter-writing to American Mario Bergoglio reflected on the time. That’s where you meet “Politicians want to death-row inmates, she knew challenges Pope Benedict’s suc - wounded people.” see the pope, not just she had found a calling. And cessor should address. Pierre said Malone said Jesus, the source for the photo, but for the encounter. I have CNS/Paul Haring there are other organizations Pope Francis’ handwritten notes of joy in the Gospels, is the med - from his talk were a blueprint for ication in the field hospital. Pope seen politicians POPE’S ANNIVERSARY — Pope Francis that give support to the his papacy. Francis pictures himself as a transformed.” waves as he arrives to lead his general audience incarcerated. In them, Pope Francis under - patient in the hospital, not the doc - He recounted the in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican March 15. — pages 10-11 scored the importance of evangel - tor, he said. pope’s visit to He celebrated the fourth year of his election as izing with apostolic zeal and going People have rediscovered the Sweden to mark the pope on March 13. 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS March 22, 2017 Lent provides opportunity to focus on homeless

By Chaz Muth sponsored by Catholic Charities reported a three per cent drop in ‘I’m going to help this one indi - homeless, complete with a meal each Wednes day evening. the national homeless rate from vidual,’ ’’ Enzler said, “and say program, laundry and shower facil - WASHINGTON (CNS) — Van Bellen took time to greet 2015 to 2016 and a 12 per cent ‘it’s my job to help just that one ities, as well as job counsellors, Almsgiving is a lenten tradition each man and woman who went drop in the last five years. person get a job and get a place to case managers and social workers. and Washington resident Ron Van through the food line before they HUD reported the 2016 nation - stay and stay with them. Mentor It’s an idea that is still percolat - Bellen says his volunteer work made their way along the down - al homeless population to be near - them through that process.’ ’’ ing with no commitments yet real - feeding the homeless honours his town Washington sidewalk to eat ly 550,000. He has been encouraging vol - ized, Enzler said. Catholic faith as he prepares for their dinner. However, the homeless rate unteers in his Catholic Charities’ It’s also an idea that Able Putu, Easter. “Every time I volunteer I rose from 2015 to 2016 in the programs to make the homeless a 37-year-old homeless Washing - reflect on how my District of Columbia and a few their focal point during Lent. tonian who uses a wheelchair, day went and how it states, including Alabama, Cali - Pope Francis has long urged would like to see come to fruition. related to my rela - fornia, Colorado, Hawaii, Okla ho - governments and Christians to Putu said the library closure tionship with God,” ma and Washington. recognize the dignity of the home - left him without a place to rest, he told Cath olic With more than a half million less and help ease their suffering. use the lavatory and made him News Service. “It people still considered homeless, Homelessness became more more vulnerable to being robbed does relate to Lent. it’s an issue that all U.S. cities complicated in the nation’s capital during the daytime hours. We have to sacrifice confront and there are varying this lenten season, since the “I know a lot of people think and serve our broth - solutions being employed to raise Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial the homeless are scum and aren’t ers and sisters.” money necessary to address it in a Library shut down March 4 for a worthy of anyone’s help, and Van Bellen’s ex - consequential way, Enzler said. three-year, multimillion-dollar maybe that’s true about some of ample of helping the “There doesn’t seem to be a renovation. them,” Putu said, “but it’s not true homeless during Lent secret sauce, if you will, about how Many D.C. homeless men and about most of us.” is a Catholic value to completely eradicate home - women used that library branch as Van Bellen said he had been one that Washington’s lessness,” Enzler said. “But, it a day resource centre, a place to of those people with a negative Catholic Charities seems to me that we just don’t have get out of the elements during the opinion of the homeless before he president and CEO, enough case workers and social daytime hours, to use the comput - started his volunteer work. Msgr. John Enzler, workers.” er lab to look for work and to use “I found out that those were mis - would like to see He believes more people need the public restrooms, Enzler said. perceptions,” he said. “What I’ve spread across the to serve as navigators, mentors or That closure inspired him to discovered is the homeless people U.S. coaches for individual homeless explore a partnership between the I’ve encountered here are sweet and It’s clear in the men and women. District of Columbia and other definitely misunderstood. I would - Scriptures that fast - “We don’t have enough people charitable groups to fund an offi - n’t have figured that out if I hadn’t ing and penance goes who can really step in and say, cial day resource centre for the exposed myself to them.” beyond not eating meat on Fridays and giving something up Shady business deals a sin, pope says during Lent, Enzler told CNS. “It’s about By Junno Arocho Esteves quarters to Milan. pope stooped down to help him making someone According to Italian newspaper up. The child he carried also else’s life better with VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Corriere della Sera , Sky Italia bowed respectfully. your service and Employers who make business claimed the move was due to rising Another Chinese pilgrim ap - your commitment.” deals that threaten people’s liveli - costs and an outdated digital infra - proached the pope on her knees The homeless are hood commit a sin that robs men, structure in Rome. Local workers’ while the pope, visibly moved, among the world’s women and their families of their unions have criticized the compa - tried to raise her up. He also greet - most vulnerable dignity, Pope Francis said. ny’s decision that will force 300 ed the other pilgrims, who were CNS/Chaz Muth people and provid - “Whoever — because of eco - workers to transfer from the capital waving Chinese flags and holding HOMELESS FEd — Volunteers with Catholic ing service to them nomic manoeuvring and business while an estimated 200 employees a statue of Our Lady of Fatima, Charities’ St. Maria’s meals program in during Lent is an dealings that are not all clear — will be left without a job. which he blessed. Washington serve dinner March 8 to the home - ideal way for Cath - closes factories and businesses Before the audience began, the In his main audience talk, part and takes work away from men pope circled St. Peter’s Square in less. They personally greeted each person who olics to live out their of a series on Christian hope, Pope faith in a way that and women commits a grave sin,” the popemobile, stopping along went through the food line before they were Francis reflected on St. Paul’s call will make a real dif - the pope said March 15 before the way to kiss babies and wave to served. in his Letter to the Romans for ference, he said. concluding his weekly general the thousands of pilgrims present. Christians to be “joyful in hope” The real estate agent and Concerted efforts by religious audience. Stepping out of his popemo - and sincere in their love. parishioner at Holy Trinity Catho - and governmental organizations The pope was speaking to a bile, the pope also greeted several A Christian’s “highest voca - lic Church in Georgetown was one to address the U.S. homeless situ - group of employees from Italy’s Chinese pilgrims from the Tanjin tion” is the call to love and chari - of several volunteers dishing up ation appear to be making a differ - Sky television; several hundred Meng Fu Lu Chang group. ty. However, the pope said, St. dinner for homeless men and ence. employees risk losing their jobs One pilgrim holding a child Paul also warns of “the risk that women lined up March 8 for the The U.S. Department of Hous - after the company announced couldn’t contain his emotions, our charity can become hypocriti - weekly St. Maria’s meals program ing and Urban Development plans to move their Rome head - kneeling and prostrating while the cal.” “Hypocrisy can infiltrate any - where, even in our way of lov - Catholic bishops ask Trump to support humanitarian aid ing,” he said, especially when acts of love or charity are done “to put By dennis Sadowski president’s proposal includes a were serving God. “would set us back decades.” ourselves on display or so that we $54-billion increase in discre - “As people of faith, we cannot In a statement, O’Keefe said feel fulfilled.” WASHINGTON (CNS) — tionary spending for the military turn our back on those in desper - human lives depend on such assis - Christians, he added, must ask Five Catholic prelates were with corresponding cuts in discre - ate need,” the letter said. “We are tance. themselves if their love is sincere among 106 faith leaders who tionary spending on non-military grateful for America’s global de - “And our country’s future de - and “not that of a soap opera.” shared their support for U.S. programs. velopment and diplomacy pro - pends on it as well,” he said. “We “There is a false, misleading spending on international humani - The budget proposes a 28 per grams that have been instrumental can either help the poor and vul - idea behind all this: namely that if tarian aid in a letter to congres - cent cut in the programs addressed in saving lives, safeguarding reli - nerable develop and govern them - we love, it is because we are good, sional leaders. in the religious leaders’ letter. gious liberties and keeping Amer - selves — as we have been doing as if charity was a creation of Dated March 16, the letter Smaller increases were included ica safe and secure.” successfully — or we will be man, a product of our heart,” the cited the importance of maintain - for homeland security — particular - The message reminded Trump forced to confront these problems pope said. ing support for the humanitarian ly $2.6 billion for building the bor - that humanitarian and development when they arrive on our shores, Charity and love, he continued, and development programs der wall between the U.S. and assistance comprises one per cent whether in the form of disease, are a grace that is meant to shine through the Department of State Mexico and implementing border of the federal budget and that it has violence or migration.” forth what “the Lord gives us and “that enable countless people to security technology — and $1.4 bil - helped reduce extreme pov erty CRS president Sean Callahan what we freely receive.” pull themselves out of poverty and lion for school choice alternatives. worldwide by half, stopped the said the world’s humanitarian cri - St. Paul’s warning, the pope live life with dignity.” Signers of the letter included spread of infectious disease, includ - sis will increase if investments in explained, is “not so much a The letter was sent hours after Maronite Bishop Gregory J. ing AIDS and Ebola, and has pro - education, water and sanitation, reproach but rather an encourage - the White House released a simpli - Mansour of Brooklyn, New York, tected the religious freedom of mil - and sustainable agriculture end. ment to revive hope in us.” fied version of its fiscal year 2018 who is chair of the board of Cath - lions of people around the world. The agency pointed to the “We need the Lord to continu - budget that proposed deep cuts in olic Relief Services, and Cardinal CRS officials also opposed the growing need of humanitarian ally renew this gift in our hearts federal spending on discretionary Timothy M. Dolan of New York, proposed cuts in humanitarian and assistance as more people are be- through the experience of his programs in the departments of who offered a prayer during development assistance. ing forced from their homes by mercy,” Pope Francis said. “In State, Health and Human Services, Trump’s inaugural ceremony. Bill O’Keefe, vice-president climate change, poverty and war. this way, we will be able to appre - and Housing and Urban Develop- The letter cites the 25th chapter for government relations and Overall, an estimated 65 million ciate the little, simple and ordi - ment as well as in the Envi - of the Gospel of Matthew, which advocacy for the U.S. bishops’ people have been forcibly dis - nary things again, and we will be ronmental Protection Agency. instructs the faithful to serve poor overseas relief and development placed, including four million in able to love others as God loves Called the “skinny budget,” the and marginalized people as if they agency, said such deep cuts in aid Syria, the agency said. them.” March 22, 2017 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 3 National survey on vocations first of its kind

By Jean Ko din its American counterpart, NAVFD The Catholic Register is working in partnership with CARA to run a similar survey on TORONTO (CCN) — The Canadian religious congregations. National Association of Vocation Rowell anticipates that many and Formation Directors (NAVFD) of the results will likely reflect the is launching a national survey that results that their American coun - has never been done before in terparts have been seeing over the Canada. years. Still, it is important to cre - Starting March 17, NAVFD is ate a database that also speaks to sending out questionnaires to all the unique diversity found in major superiors and provincial Canadian religious institutions. superiors of religious congrega - “From what I hear informally of tions operating in Canada. In- new members here in Canada, I formation gathered from this sur - would say that we will have a lot of vey will lay the foundations of a similarities with the United States,” research study on the state of reli - said Rowell. “But it’s important that gious vocations in the Canadian we’re able to base it on our own Church. research so that our strategic plan is “We hope to have a compre - very much geared to Canada.” hensive look at where are people NAVFD’s national conference, coming to religious life today Photo courtesy of NAVFD which happens every two years, is from across Canada,” said VOCATIONS SuRVEY — CCCB President Bishop douglas Crosby, NAVFd president Sister Mary Rowell a unique opportunity for directors NAVFD executive director Sister and executive director Sister Nancy Sullivan discuss how the survey’s results will enhance NAVFd’s 2018 to share knowledge and best prac - Nancy Sullivan. conference in Hamilton, Ont. tices with each other. “Not just where they’re com - Rowell said that NAVFD and ing from, but who they are, what been a lightning rod for discussion congregations. multitude of ways, it’s enabled CRC have collected demographics attracted them, how did they find within the church worldwide. In The idea for a Canadian study them to develop materials, training and other numerical information out about their congregation. You an interview published March 8, came from a similar study con - programs, education (and) confer - from its members for many years. know, just all kinds because there Pope Francis said the lack of ducted in the United States by the ences to address these very things.” However, not all religious con - has never been anything like this priests is a “serious problem” that Center for Applied Research in The 2009 study, titled “Recent gregations are members of NAVFD that’s been Canada-wide with this the church must solve. the Apostolate (CARA) for the Vocations to Religious Life,” and CRC. Rowell said the informa - level of research.” In Canada, the number of voca - National Religious Vocation Con - found that although religious are tion is limited and it doesn’t give Sullivan and NAVFD president tions to religious life (priests, ference (NRVC) in August 2009. an aging population (75 per cent vocation directors and formation Sister Mary Rowell, both from the brothers and sisters) has been on a “We work very closely with of men and 91 per cent of women directors “a full picture.” Congregation of the Sisters of St. steady decline. The total has (NRVC),” said Rowell. “(The are 60 and over), there are a few “I think (the study) is going to Joseph Toronto, have been talking dropped from 22,471 in 2004 to study) really has enhanced their congregations experiencing sig - be very helpful, not only for the about a research study like this for 13,890 in 2015, according to the abilities to reach right across the nificant growth. vocation directors, but for religious almost three years. Canadian Religious Conference United States and to assist their The study surveyed new reli - communities generally,” said Vocations in religious life have (CRC), which monitors about 200 members in vocation ministry. In a gious members and found that nine Hamilton Bishop Douglas Crosby, in 10 were raised Catholic and 73 general secretary of the Canadian per cent attended a Catholic school Conference of Catholic Bishops. “I Euthanasia reveals ‘massive shift’ in society for part of their education. hope it will be a beneficial study Men were more likely than for the church in Canada.” By Josh Tng have to look at, answer, deal with, icalized suicides and homicides women to report they first en - The research study is made The B.C. Catholic and in some cases, delay these with the now-familiar euphemisms countered their religious institute possible through a $90,000 re - changes. In all cases, we have to about ‘medical aid in dying,’ the in a school or another institution search grant from Conrad N. NORTH VANCOUVER (CCN) try to understand not to deal out uninvolved public will be reassured where the members served, while Hilton Foundation, a family foun - — Legalized euthanasia is just one more harm than good in response that nothing has gone wrong.” women were more likely than dation committed to supporting of many changes ahead as society to these things.” Johnston stressed the euthana - men to learn about their institution projects for Catholic sisters, Cath - contends with increased liberalism Legalized assisted suicide offers sia debate “didn’t drop out of the through a friend or adviser. olic education, homelessness and a quick but per - sky,” but rather had “been cooking With the recommendation of many other initiatives. manent solu - for a century” due to modern lib - tion to individ - eralism and radical autonomy. uals who are Society has followed a specific Order to mark 400 years suicidal or pattern, said Johnston. “A victim heavily group will be defined. Anyone who depressed, he raises a question about how the vic - By Josh Tng of St. Basil the Great,” wrote Rev. said. “What the tim group is being helped will be The B.C. Catholic Genesio Viomar, OSBM, the Canadian law defined as an oppressor, as some - order’s present general superior, has done is one who is backwards and needs to VANCOUVER (CCN) — via email to The B.C. Catholic. make it legal be shut down, whose rights of free Ukrainian Catholics in Vancouver “This celebration is to be a for a doctor or speech can easily be suppressed are about to celebrate a historic spiritual renewal for each member, nurse practi - because, after all, they’re evil!” occasion — the 400th anniversary to go forward in faith and trust in tioner to be He cited examples of business - of one of the oldest Ukrainian the Lord as did the members of kind of a walk - es wiped out for not co-operating Catholic monastic orders. those first monasteries that joined ing, talking, with a same-sex wedding, to the “This anniversary is a special to form one order.” high-risk area popularity of transgenderism, time for all members of the Order of The Basilians’ 400th celebration for depressed despite “the number of people St. Basil the Great of St. Josaphat. coincides with two other anniver - people to come who are truly transgendered being (It’s) the 400th anniversary of the saries in the Ukrainian Catholic B.C. Catholic/Josh Tng near. When rather tiny.” founding of our order in Ukraine,” Church: the 380th anniversary of depressed peo - “Unless there is some kind of said Rev. Joseph Pidskalny, OSBM, the passing of Metropolitan Willard Johnston ple come into pushback caused by some kind of pastor at St. Mary’s Ukrainian Rutsky, and the 150th anniversary contact with general unhappiness in society, Catholic Parish in Vancouver. of the canonization of St. Josaphat. and an emphasis on radical autono - one of these euthanasia providers, this model will continue to march It was in 1617 when the future “This anniversary is for us a time my, says Dr. Willard Johnston. who think of themselves as angels through society,” Johnston said. saint, Bishop Josaphat Kuncevic, of reflection on what St. Josaphat “We are dealing with a massive of mercy, they are suddenly at high “This isn’t just about doctors together with Metropolitan Joseph and Metropolitan Rutsky were able shift in our civilization and the risk of being killed.” killing people. There’s a lot more Veliamin Rutsky, made substantial to accomplish, bringing unity to our euthanasia issue is simply a symp - Another issue Johnston is con - going on.” reforms to the monastic life of that order,” said Pidskalny. “It is to be a tom of the shift,” said Johnston, cerned about is “medically facili - North Shore Pro-Life president time, said Pidskalny. time of personal introspection . . . speaking to the North Shore Pro- tated elder abuse by greedy rela - Ross Labrie commended Johnston’s Together, the two clerics organ - each of us being once again grateful Life Society meeting at St. tives” who can potentially give vigilance in illustrating assisted sui - ized five independent monasteries, for our monastic vocation.” Thomas Aquinas Secondary. consent for the ailing senior. cide abuses in Europe and other combining them into a single Pidskalny also took the moment Johnston, a general practitioner He warns that it will be five parts of the world. “He has been monastic order under one general to thank God for calling him to in Vancouver who is known for years before the new law will be especially alert in showing how superior. The Order of St. Basil the Vancouver “to serve him first and his pro-life work, gave a talk, assessed, ample time for neglect assisted suicide has historically been Great of St. Josaphat was formed, foremost as a member of the order. “Why Assisted Suicide is not a from the medical profession to take permitted even when patients are not though the name is commonly short - “Our order has had a long and good idea,” March 8. hold. “The mandatory report is terminally ill, and indeed when they ened to read the Basilian Fathers. beautiful history of working Euthanasia is “just one out of going to be full of bland and self- are afflicted with depression and “We are always reminded to be together with the parishioners of scores of changes coming to our justifying statistics presented by the other forms of mental illness, which ever thankful for the spiritual treas - St. Mary’s,” he said. “We look for - society within the next genera - very doctors who have done the the providers of assisted suicide ures that have been bestowed upon ward to many more years of work - tion,” he said. “We’re going to killing. By sanitizing these med - have often not properly treated.” each of us as members of the Order ing together.” 4 Prairie Messenger CANADIAN NEWS March 22, 2017 Motherhood, not womanhood, barrier to employment

By deborah Gyapong was assumed she could not make experience is it hasn’t been a bar - on your desk, but not as some - cess markers they have set for it to the “7 a.m. issues meeting.” rier at all.” thing we have to accommodate,” themselves have miserable lives,” OTTAWA (CCN) — Mother - While she said it probably The survey also asked, “Is Bergeron said. she said. hood, not simply being a woman, would have been difficult to make motherhood/are mothers valued Van Pelt said she “stopped the The Cardus survey asked is the greatest barrier to advance - that meeting, “Can I be the judge highly enough in Canada today?” juggling and decided to stay of that?” she asked. Only 34 per cent of women home” and immerse herself in Bergeron was one of four said “Yes.” Again there was a dis - motherhood while her three chil - women on the panel moderated by connect with the answer from dren were small. She said she was Tasha Kheiriddin, a writer, broad - men. Forty-seven per cent of men grateful for the flexibility that caster and political analyst based said, “Yes.” For Canadians over - allowed them to live on her hus - in Toronto. all, 40 per cent said “Yes.” band’s limited income. When they “Having children is the biggest “We value the idea of mother - lost their youngest son at the age divide,” Kheiriddin said. hood but when the rubber hits the of 15 in an accident, she was all “Being a woman has always road, we don’t,” said Bergeron, the more grateful she was able to helped me,” said Helen Reimer, who holds a degree in civil law spend that time with him while he who started out in sales for from the University of Ottawa and was growing up. She reminded Proctor and Gamble, then worked a master’s degree in law from panelists motherhood is “only a for Christians Against Poverty McGill University. She had four short phase.” (CAP) in the U.K., and helped children by the time she finished Reimer, however warned launch CAP in Canada in 2013. law school. against going from the extreme of Recently married at age 35, “Oh, you have nine children! finding fulfilment in one’s career Reimer is hoping to have children. That’s amazing,” she said. “But and outward success to the “oppo - The panel addressed some of we won’t give you a job.” site extreme that only family and the questions raised in Celebrating Children can be “nice pictures marriage are the way to be ful - Women, based on a survey by the filled.” CCN/D. Gyapong CCN/D. Gyapong Angus Reid Forum for Cardus. Shannon Joseph, a civil engi - FuLFILMENT — Shannon OBSTACLES — Veronique To the question: “Are women neer, municipal sustainability Joseph said a health scare Bergeron, who has two law held back today because they are expert, and recreational opera prompted her to stop trying to degrees and is a mother of nine, women?” 57 per cent of women singer, said she felt she “experi - equate success with breaking the said the biggest obstacle in the said “Yes,” while only 31 per cent enced an educational system try - glass ceiling, and learn more workplace was not being female, of men say “Yes.” For Canadians ing to right the wrongs of the about herself, and where she finds it was motherhood. overall, 44 per cent said “Yes,” the past.” fulfilment. survey showed. “There might be a disconnect ment in the workplace, a mother Panelist Deani Neven Van Pelt, on how we define success,” she whether any one organization of nine with two law degrees told a former high school math said. “You are not the only defin - speaks on behalf of Canadian a panel sponsored by Cardus here teacher, mother of three, home - er of success.” women. Sixty per cent of March 8. schooler who has a doctorate and Oriented toward high achieve - Canadians said “No.” That figure “I have not faced barriers now works for a think-tank, said ment since childhood, Joseph said rose to 75 per cent among univer - because I am a woman, but perhaps the barriers women expe - a health scare convinced her to sity-educated women. because I am a mother, yes,” rience are more invisible and start exploring “Who is Shannon” The survey asked if equal rep - Veronique Bergeron told a gather - that’s why there is a disconnect and what she is really interested in resentation in Parliament and in ing of about 100 on International between the perception of men and incorporating those ideas into the federal cabinet is important to Women’s Day that coincided with and women. her model of success so it is more you. Only 45 per cent of women the release of a Cardus study on As a math teacher, she often about what fulfils her than about said it didn’t matter; while 69 per women called “Celebrating found herself the only female in a breaking the glass ceiling. cent of men and 57 per cent of Women.” faculty of men. Now, at an eco - CCN/D. Gyapong For Bergeron, who works as a Canadians in general said it didn’t Bergeron, who got pregnant nomic think-tank, she said, “Here OPTIONS — Helen Reimer said technical writer, success for her matter. None of the March 8 pan - during her first year of law school, I am again, just Deani and the that while she wants children, she family has involved making sure elists said it mattered to her. said she faced interviewers from boys. I find it pretty shocking I’m does not want to go to the opposite they have choices. For her family, The survey also asked, “Can law firms who asked her, “Are still finding that.” extreme and say the only fulfil - that has meant moving to take you be a feminist and pro-life?” you going to get pregnant?” “Am I being patronized? Are ment for a woman is in marriage advantage of new opportunities; Fifty-seven per cent of women say Because she has children, it there barriers?” she asked. “My and family. and flexibility. “We are not “Yes,” while 52 per cent of wealthy, but consider ourselves Canadians overall do. Forty-seven successful because we have a lot per cent of men say “Yes,” while Investment means less for other projects of choices,” Bergeron said. 30 per cent answer they are “I see people married to suc - “unsure.” By deborah Gyapong MaterCare International is ductive health rights by protecting working in northern Kenya, which and promoting the sexual and Dialogue is an important OTTAWA (CCN) — The has the highest maternal mortality reproductive health of women and Liberal government’s $650-mil - rate in all of Kenya and possibly adolescent girls,” he said. ingredient of public life: pope lion investment to provide sexual in all of East Africa, he said. On Bibeau told journalists March health initiatives including abor - top of that, Kenya and neighbour - 8 she was unable to tell how much tion and other services in the ing countries like Somalia, money would be spent on abortion Continued from page 1 the editing committee for the doc - developing world has been met Ethiopia and South Sudan are of the $650 million. Abortion is ument. A document intended for not only with outrage but also experiencing a massive drought. illegal in most countries in Africa. said Luther is part of the history of the Latin American bishops with a lament on how the money According to a spokesperson Walley said his organization the Catholic Church. The pope “became the patrimony of the could be better spent. for International Development has not received government speaks with his actions, Pierre said. whole church,” Pierre said. Canada needs to commit to Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, funding even through the Harper The nuncio said Pope Francis He said Pope Francis’ experi - providing women overseas with the $650-million commitment Maternal natal and child health approaches dialogue as an impor - ence living in a “peripheral” coun - the same standard of pre-natal, over three years is not new money, initiative. “We survived,” he said. tant ingredient of public life. try helped him elaborate a differ - birth and post-natal care women but “unallocated funds in Global “We intend to make it a centre of People who dialogue successfully ent kind of option for the poor get here, said Dr. Robert Walley, Affairs Canada’s existing aid excellence. What we are offering must be rooted in their own con - than the one envisioned three founder and executive director of budget.” is what women want and what victions and faith. In this way, dia - decades earlier at the Medellin, MaterCare International, a world - “Addressing the gaps in sexual African mothers want.” logue is “two rooted persons look - Colombia, meeting of the Latin wide organization of Catholic and reproductive health and rights Obianuju Ekeocha founder and ing for the truth,” he said. American bishops. “The reality is obstetricians and gynecologists is a clearly articulated priority for director of Culture of Life Africa The pope is hard on bishops the people had been evangelized that helps women safely deliver the Government of Canada,” the has decried “the cultural imperial - and priests because he wants them so deeply that the culture was children in the developing world. spokesperson said. ism” and “dictatorship of the to be masters of discernment and filled with the Gospel,” he said. Walley said world leaders like The commitment is in addition wealthy donor” in videos shared help people develop the capacity Because the church does not Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and to the $3.5 billion over five years on social media. “What we are to choose between good and bad, play the same role in people’s wealthy philanthropists like the committed by Prime Minister looking for and asking for is your Pierre said. It is not enough to lives it once did, the church today Bill and Melinda Gates Stephen Harper in 2014 when he support for the safe delivery of identify right from wrong, he said. is challenged to help people en - Foundation “don’t realize that renewed his 2010 Maternal and African babies,” she has said. If the understanding is not applied counter Christ and rediscover the mothers are women, too.” Child Health Initiative. Walley, who appeared last year to personal actions, life will be a presence of God in their own lives. “So, they are discriminating “Canada committed to invest - with Ekeocha at an event at the dichotomy. It must be missionary and not self- against an enormous number of ing $ 3.5 billion between 2015 and United Nations co-sponsored by Pierre said Pope Francis’ apos - referential, the nuncio said. women who are dying in pregnan - 2020, to improve maternal, new - the Holy See, said she testified tolic exhortation Evangelii In his introductory remarks, cy,” he said. Instead of addressing born, and child health (MNCH), that in her mother tongue there is Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel) Archbishop Bernardito Auza, apos - needs for clean water, and basic and this commitment will be no word for abortion and it is hard is based on the closing document tolic nuncio to the United Nations, obstetrical care, they say, “If you respected,” Bibeau’s spokesper - for most African women to even of the 2007 meeting of the Latin said Pierre is an “intrepid adventur - don’t want to die in pregnancy, the son said. “The recently announced conceive of killing an unborn American bishops’ council in er who “enfleshes Pope Francis’ best thing to do is kill your baby.” funds will address gaps in repro - child. Aparecida, Brazil. Bergoglio led desire to go to the peripheries.” March 22, 2017 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 5 Lawyers debate conscience rights in Ottawa

By deborah Gyapong conscientious grounds is not a ures by the College to limit physi - form of discrimination in the same cians’ conscience rights fail the OTTAWA (CCN) — Legal way a female Muslim doctor’s Oakes Test because there is “no experts squared off on physicians’ refusing to treat male patients or a pressing and substantial reason” conscience rights March 16 in a physician’s refusing to treat gay for the policy. debate hosted by the University of patients would be, he said. “(Smalling) cannot point you to Ottawa’s law school. Queen’s University Senior one case prior to this policy where Albertos Polizogopoulos, who Con tracts Negotiator Ricardo somebody’s access to a particular is representing five Ontario doctors Smalling argued physicians’ con - procedure was impeded,” he said. challenging the College of Physi- science rights must be balanced Smalling, however, argued the cians and Surgeons of Ontario’s with the rights of patients who are College must consider the rights policies requiring effective referral “seeking care” in their “weakest” of all the parties that will be on procedures such as abortion and moments. affected. euthanasia, argued for conscience Highlighting the “subjective na - The rights of the physicians are rights, saying they are protected ture of conscience,” Smalling said minimally impaired, because he under Section 2(a) of the Canadian eliminating conscientious ob jection or she “has the right to all their Charter of Rights and Freedoms. “is the only way to en sure there is a beliefs; they can go to church and Referrals should not be re - predictable framework that guaran - CCN/D. Gyapong manifest their beliefs,” he said. quired and the law supports his tees a patient’s health care.” dEBATE — Constitutional lawyer Albertos Polizogopoulos (left) All that’s being asked is “for those stance, he said. Physicians have a right to their defended physicians’ conscience rights in a debate at university of hours when you are at work, you The Charter protects the con - religious beliefs but they should Ottawa’s law school March 16. Queen’s university senior contract don’t manifest them. To me, that’s science rights of the physicians know that if abortion or “medical negotiator Ricardo Smalling thinks physicians should not be allowed to minimum impairment.” but there is no Charter right to aid in dying” is legal, they “may exercise conscience rights while providing health care services. It’s “not saying to the physi - receive a particular drug or proce - be required by the state to do these cian, ‘you don’t have the right to dure from a particular doctor, services,” he said. but those changes “do not affect the Both legal experts referred to hold those views — I’m not forc - Polizogopoulos said. “If you join and then decide, ‘I ability to hold beliefs,” he said. the Oakes Test as a way of exam - ing you — I’m going to give you The Carter decision did not will not do it,’ that is unreasonable Physicians refusing to provide ining whether a limit to a Charter a choice do it, or change your spe - “create a right” to euthanasia or and should not be accommodat - care on conscience grounds means right is “reasonably and demon - cialty or leave the profession.’ ” assisted suicide, it “merely struck ed,” Smalling said. He acknowl - “patients are not getting the care strably justified.” The Charter exists to protect down” the law against assisted sui - edged there might be an argument they are also entitled to under (the The Oakes Test, from a 1986 people from coercion, from being cide in the Criminal Code, he said. to grandfather in those who were Charter’s) Section 2(a) rights” and Supreme Court Case R vs. Oakes, compelled to take a course of “The Charter is binding on the licensed before euthanasia and “now have the views of the physi - says the limit must be “fair and not action, Polizogopoulos said, noting College and it protects physi - assisted suicide were made legal. cian imposed on them.” arbitrary” and “rationally connected he does not do family law, criminal cians,” he said. Physicians “willingly join the In any job environment, an to that objective”; limit the impair - law or real estate. He said he has no Refusal to do certain proce - profession” and “know the physi - employee doesn’t “tell the boss, ment as much as possible; and be moral objections to them, but dures or prescribe certain drugs on cians’ college can change its code,” ‘Sorry, I’m not doing this today,’ ” proportional to the objective. should he be forced to practise real Foy, longest-serving priest Smalling said. Polizogopoulos said the meas - estate law? in Toronto, dies at 101 Miehm’s first love is pastoral service By deborah Gyapong our own tickets in the church.” Less than a year with St. By Michael Swan years in diocesan priestly ministry. He obtained a licentiate in Benedict’s, however, “I was The Catholic Register “Msgr. Foy inspired us by his OTTAWA (CCN) — Bishop- canon law in 1996 from the plucked out of that” and made fidelity and personal witness, serv - elect Daniel J. Miehm, who will Pontifical University of Saint auxiliary bishop in Hamilton in TORONTO (CCN) — The old - ing the Lord and all those he be installed as the new Bishop of Thomas Aquinas in Rome. February 2013. est and longest-serving priest in encountered most generously,” said Peterborough on April 19, may be He considers his two years in Miehm said he knew auxiliary the history of the Archdiocese of Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins. a canon lawyer by training, but his Rome as a “tremendous opportu - bishops in Ontario would be under Toronto has died. In his 78th year “As a prayerful shepherd, champi - first love is pastoral service. nity,” and subsequently served consideration for Peterborough of priesthood, 101-year-old Msgr. on of life issues and witness of lov - “If I’m putting together my “happily and probably capably” Vincent Foy was proud of his ing service to others, may his lega - resumé, I start with the 15 years I doing marriage tribunal work as a longevity, his loyalty and his cy live on for years to come.” was a pastor,” said Miehm, who Judge and Defender of the Bond defence of Catholic teaching. Foy served as a eucharistic min - has served as Auxiliary Bishop of for the Hamilton diocese’s Office In a Catholic Register article ister at two papal funerals, those of Hamilton since 2013. “That I of the Toronto Regional Tribunal last December, Foy, who died Pope Paul VI in 1978 and Pope think was most formative for me from 1996 to 2012. March 13, wrote about being John Paul I later that same year. He in the way I will be a bishop.” Miehm credits his vocation to “perched on the precipice of eterni - also served at the first mass of “As a pastor, you have the care the priesthood to growing up in a ty” as he recounted his long career. Pope John Paul II. of souls,” he said. “As a bishop strong Catholic family. His par - When Foy was ordained by you have the care of souls. That’s ents met through the Legion of Cardinal James McGuigan June 3, the most relevant job experience, I Mary, which helped pair up young 1939, he fulfilled a promise he had think.” Catholic men and women long made as a seven-year-old boy. In As a pastor, Miehm said he will before “Catholic Singles” and 1922 his mother was close to death work out his priorities “in dia - “Christian Mingle,” he joked. and young Foy promised God that logue with the priests, religious Another influence on his voca - if she survived he would do all he and lay people of the diocese.” tion was his aunt, who was a could to become a priest. She lived. But first he will build relation - School Sister of Notre Dame, and Doing all he could became ships with his priests. through her “seeing religious life Foy’s lifelong touchstone. “A bishop has to be a brother was productive and happy and After graduating from St. and father to his priests,” he said. “I really doing good work.” CCN/D. Gyapong Augustine’s Seminary in 1939, he think that’s so very important. They But perhaps the strongest influ - Bishop-elect daniel J. Miehm was sent to study canon law at are my closest collaborators.” ence in his youth was Msgr. Bill Laval University. Armed with a “I think it’s important I get to O’Brien, the founding pastor of doctorate in canon law, he was know them and that they get to his parish in Kitchener. “He was a when Bishop McGrattan was immediately useful to the archdio - know me and trust me as a broth - man of considerable energy and a named to Calgary, “but I didn’t cese as vice-chancellor and secre - er and father and we join together very strong, forceful presence,” he think my number was quite up, so I tary to the Toronto Archdiocesan pastorally and collegially in pas - said. “I had the privilege of being was surprised at the nuncio’s call.” Matrimonial Tribunal. When the tri - toring the diocese,” he said. the celebrant of his funeral mass “I was certainly heartened and bunal became the Toronto Regional He also intends to visit the 40 last year and reflecting on his gladdened and ready to accept it,” Catholic Register Marriage Tribunal he became parishes plus missions to get to life.” he said. Msgr. Vincent Foy defender of the bond and judge. meet the people of the diocese. In his 15 years as a pastor Though Miehm recalls vaca - In 1957, at the age of 42, Pope Born in Kitchener, Ont., in 1960 Miehm served at Our Lady of tioning with his parents and three In addition to being the longest Pius XII named Foy a Prelate of and ordained to the priesthood in Lourdes in Hamilton, St. Ann’s siblings in the northern part of the ordained and the oldest diocesan Honour, earning him the title of May 1989 for the Hamilton diocese, Parish in Ancaster, and “then a Peterborough diocese, he admitted priest in the history of the Arch - monsignor. Miehm studied at St. Jerome’s brief stint as founding pastor of St. he did not know the city of diocese of Toronto, he found that When Cardinal Paul-Emile College of the University of Water - Benedict’s Parish in Milton.” Peterborough well. But he sees only one other diocesan priest in Leger convoked the first meeting of loo, St. Aug ustine’s Seminary in “I found that very exciting similarities between it and Canadian history had served longer, the Canadian Canon Law Society in Toronto, and at Saint Paul Univer - work, pioneering work, saying Kitchener, where he grew up in the a Rev. Roger Duval of Quebec City 1965, Foy was among the founders. sity in Ottawa. He studied canon mass in a school gym,” he said, 1960s and ’70s, describing both as who served 78.5 years. He retired in 1979, but in 38 law at the request of his bishop. describing it as similar to what communities of “solid working, Worldwide, his research found years of retirement Foy was never “Is it the first thing I would “my great mentor Msgr. Bill middle-class people, with a manu - only four priests, two of whom were idle. His dedication to the pro-life have chosen to study? Maybe O’Brien had done with our parish facturing base but a changing still living, who spent more than 78 movement was constant. not,” he said. “But we don’t write 50 years earlier.” economy.” 6 Prairie Messenger LOCAL NEWS March 22, 2017 Living Simply workshop held in Saskatoon

By Kiply Lukan Yaworski for Christians who struggle to put tion through a type of green sim - co-living, respect, tolerance and their heads above the torrent of plicity that frequently activates communality, and bring “the joy SASKATOON — The local excess consumption that seeks to the potential for joy among ‘deep and health benefits that come Saskatoon group Churches for drown them, even if it is just long greens’ of both the secular and from simple living.” Environmental Action hosted a enough to hear the voice of the religious variety,” he said. Pope Francis’ encyclical Laud - workshop March 4 at Mayfair prophets calling us back to more A vision of something better ato Si’ firmly connects the vision of United Church, highlighting the nourishing relationships with than what the advertising industry simple, responsible living to peace. call to live simply. God, our self, our neighbour and offers will drive transformative “This is a choice against both dom - “Drowning? Ways to Live the rest of creation.” action, Hrynkow suggested, say - ination and consumerist orientation, Simply” included a theological Hrynkow noted that the market ing that such a vision could em - in favour of growth understood in introduction, a presentation from model of endless consumption is brace the virtues of hospitality, terms of the growth of positive rela - a city councillor about the vision neither sustainable nor fulfilling. tionships,” Hrynkow said. “ Lau da - and challenges around environ - “We suffocate ourselves in the to Si’ offers a specific antidote to a mental action at the civic level, service of broken story; we drown ‘prosperity gospel’ that equates and workshops offering practical in the stuff we own and hoard.” God’s favour with spiritual, physi - tips and ideas for action. He pointed to a growing Chris - cal and financial mastery.” Christopher Hrynkow of St. tian understanding that the dignity As Pope Francis writes, “Chris- Thomas More College opened the of the human person and the tian spirituality proposes a growth afternoon event, reflecting on Kiply Yaworski integrity of the natural world are marked by moderation and the Christian ecological ethics and the Christopher Hrynkow inextricably linked. capacity to be happy with little. It call to battle our “addiction to “For instance, the World Coun- is a return to that simplicity which stuff” as a way to care for the product — stuff — is worshipped, cil of Churches and several Roman allows us to stop and appreciate the earth and to live justly with those simple living is too often dis - Catholic orders seek to have small things, to be grateful for the in poverty and on the margins. placed,” Hrynkow said. ‘Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of opportunities which life affords us, “When the market and its chief “There are alternatives on offer Creation’ (JPIC) as a mutual set of to be spiritually de tached from commitments or a covenant under - what we possess, and not to suc - Challenging moment for lying all their programming.” cumb to sadness for what we lack. Embracing simple living is a This implies avoiding the dynamic prime path of action in this regard. of dominion and the mere accumu - Catholic education “This need not be an overly aus - lation of pleasures.” tere asceticism, but there remains Kiply Yaworski By Frank Flegel through education,” he said. an imperative to limit consump - Mairin Loewen — GOALS , page 7 “That’s really world-altering and REGINA — This is a challeng - life-changing stuff.” ing moment for Catholic education, He listed six “wounds” in Minister Wyant meets with Just Youth but it is also a promising time. today’s society and offered seven Catholic education is of great im - “salves” to heal those wounds. By Caitlin Ward inmates set up phone accounts is cussing the need to pursue restora - portance in our time for all of socie - The first wound he described was: needlessly complicated, and cor - tive justice initiatives in the prov- ty, said Msgr. James P. Shea in a religion, or faith, has become a SASKATOON — St. Thomas rections officers are often not ade - ince generally, as well as the par - March 10 public lecture in Campion matter of opinion and feeling More College student leaders met quately trained to assist inmates; ticular recommendations made in College’s Riffel Auditorium. rather than truth and knowledge. with Saskatchewan’s Minister of prisoners find themselves increas - the community coalition’s report. The second wound was the loss of Justice Gordon Wyant and Deputy ingly isolated from family and These changes would not only the sacramental version of the cre - Minister J. Glen Gardner on March community while they serve out improve the lives of inmates and ated world — no designer, no 10 to discuss issues around phone their sentences. their families, they said, but also design. Third was a return to the access in provincial prisons. The Combating this sense of isola - help address important economic subject as the source of truth. His meeting featured members of tion is a benefit not only for the and security concerns. fourth wound described the loss of STM’s Just Youth Group, as well inmate and that person’s family, Equally significant to Wyant unity of life; fifth, selective moral as students involved with Canadian but for the larger community as and Gardner, though, was the relativity; and the sixth was what Roots Exchange, a national organi - well. According to a report sub - desire to lower crime rates by he called increasing social frag - zation dedicated to improving set - mitted to the ministry by a coali - identifying and addressing issues mentation which arises partly out tler-indigenous relations through tion of community-based organi - around why people enter the jus - of an increasingly technologized grassroots reconciliation initia - zations led by CLASSIC (Com - tice system in the first place. The society. tives. mu nity Legal Assistance Services deputy minister noted that the jus - The first salve to address these Wyant and Gardner sat with the for Saskatoon Inner City Inc.), tice system in the province some - wounds is a duty for Catholic edu - students for an hour and a half, regular contact with family and times lags behind other ministries cation to form responsible citi - discussing systemic problems in friends allows inmates to integrate in terms of its ability to develop zens, but the second and most the province’s corrections system, back into society much more easi - evidence-based policy, as histori - important is to get people ready speaking to the students’ concerns ly upon release. cally the ministry has not closely for heaven, preparing them for about phone access for inmates in The coalition found in their re - tracked how people enter and exit Frank Flegel eternal life with God. Saskatchewan’s correctional facil - search that this connection to the justice system. Both relatively Msgr. James P. Shea Archbishop Donald Bolen ities. community helps reduce recidi - new to the Ministry of Justice, thanked Shea for his address and Students expressed some con - vism rates by between 13 and 25 Wyant and Gardner hope to begin Shea, president of the Bismark, focused his remarks on Shea’s cern about the government’s use per cent. Moreover, children with to address some of these issues. North Dakota, Catholic University presentation of the third salve. The of a privatized phone system in incarcerated parents are less likely This meeting with the minister of Mary, told the almost sold-out third salve is a sacramental ver - Saskatchewan prisons, but their to act out or follow their parent serves as a followup action for crowd that society has changed. A sion of the world, that life is an main focus was in the human cost into a life of criminality if they are STM’s Just Youth Group, who co- society based largely on Christian adventure, the world is an en - of practically depriving inmates of allowed to maintain regular con - hosted a panel on the issue of principles and Gospel values is no chanted place, and God is present. contact with their families. As tact with that parent. phone access in provincial prisons longer the norm. The fourth salve is an en count - phone calls can be prohibitively Members of the ministry took with STM’s Engaged Learning “This is a radical change in er with God and the realization that expensive, the system by which these concerns seriously, dis - Office in February. society and this presents us as faith and reason are the way to Catholic educators with great truth, the education of the whole challenges. We need to pay atten - person. Fifth is intellectual charity. tion to the signs of the times and He said, “Our work as Catholic respond accordingly.” educators is to ensure our schools He then went on to speak about are places of love, and that we are Catholic education in terms of a training our students to love be - wounded society and the “salves cause at the end of our lives we Catholic education offers for those will be asked, ‘How did you love wounds.” Shea spoke with the with what you have been given?’ ” Prairie Messenger a few days The sixth salve offered was ini - after his lecture. tiation into the life of the church ”As Catholic educators we and, lastly, the promotion of the have a tremendous amount we can common good. contribute to the common good by “Catholic education in a very being who we are, and by doing particular way, a way that is Catholic education in an authentic unique, is able to carry a more and uncompromising way,” he adequate, more satisfying, more told his audience. “The message holistic vision of the human per - Cooper Muirhead that we carry to the world and that son through its work of education. JuST YOuTH — Members of St. Thomas More College’s Just Youth Group in Saskatoon recently met with we give as a sacred trust to our Because, more than anything, edu - justice officials from the provincial government. From left: deputy Minister of Justice J. Glen Gardner, students is communicated to them cation is a search for truth.” Jessica Froehlich, Minister Gordon Wyant, Ana Meckelborg, and Angela Couture. March 22, 2017 LOCAL NEWS Prairie Messenger 7 Fresh produce available for food bank clients

By Frank Flegel been used as a storage facility and more diversified population,” lished for two reasons: “We were there is also an outreach program for some training programs. Compton continued. getting requests for culturally sen - with different community part - REGINA — “There’s a contin - Inside there are 48 “growing The plants are harvested about sitive foods and spices, and from ners. Individuals or groups can uous food supply that goes towers,” each containing 70 grow - every five weeks. Close records people with allergies. It allows us claim one or more towers to plant through here, so we’re not tied to ing pods peeking out the side of a are kept to determine the amount to supplement what is needed, and and tend their own produce and the summer season,” said Regina circular multi-tiered structure. An of food that can be grown, but it’s we can provide training and edu - there is expert help and advice Food Bank CEO Steve Compton. irrigation system is connected to still too early to estimate how cation for people to grow food in available. each tower. much food the system is capable their apartment, community cen - Federated Co-op Community “Plants of producing. tres and community schools,” Services provided the food bank are watered We are standing in an empty Compton said. “You take owner - with a $100,000 grant. The funds for one space that Compton says will soon ship of that food security continu - were used to set up the natural gas minute contain a series of raised garden um beyond the charitable offer - heating system, special lights to every day, platforms handling deeper-rooted ing.” replicate some elements of sun - so it’s very vegetables such as potatoes, beets The interest in the project has light, and the irrigation system. efficient,” and corn. been incredible, he said. Compton says natural light panels said The greenhouse was estab - Besides food bank clients, will eventually be installed. Compton. “The centre of each Members blessed by belonging to CWL tower is a compost, By Terri Scott with worms that convert WINNIPEG — The Manitoba food scraps Catholic Women’s League Pro vin - into nutri - cial Day of Celebration is a day set ents, so it is aside once a year for CWL mem - Frank Flegel self-sus - bers to rejuvenate themselves, to taining.” FRESH GREENS — Regina Food Bank CEO Steve learn about the league, and to Most study various issues. In February Compton stands with some of the produce now being spaces are grown onsite for clients of the food bank and others. this year, the largest gathering growing since its inception in 1999, 125 He was speaking with the Prairie various types of lettuce, but members met at St. Peter’s Church Messenger in what was a storage Compton said they have successful - for this very reason. shed and is now called the Four ly grown and harvested beans and Faith Anderson, provincial pres - Seasons Agriculture Centre. are still ex perimenting with other ident, opened the gathering by It was -15 C on March 8, but vegetables. Ra dishes, carrots, cab - quoting Alice Makodonski, the Terri Scott warm and humid inside the well- bage, and broccoli are currently provincial president who initiated MANITOBA CWL MEETS — From left: Margaret Ann Jacobs, insulated hard shell building that being grown, as well as some herbs this tradition, by saying, “Just being national president; Faith Anderson, provincial president; donna resembles a circus tent. Compton not usually seen in North American together is a celebration by itself.” Candelaria, St. Peter’s Council president. explained that the building was diets. National president Margaret Ann onsite when the food bank moved “We are seeing a change in Jacobs delved into the na tional shell, this is what Jacobs said she cluded suggestions of how to bring to its present location and had what clients are requesting with a theme, “Inspired by the Spirit: wants members to take away from peace, patience, kindness, good - Women Respond to God’s Call,” the day. ness, gentleness and self-control in for the workshop, which was bro - We need to love, even though our relationships. Youth learn about liturgy ken into three sections: 1) Un - some people are not loveable. A The second part of the day conditional love of God 2) Em - discussion on how we show love to included a discussion with five By Kiply Lukan Yaworski Catholic Schools Foundation, and powered by the Gifts of the Spirit, another elicited responses of hugs, life members which was a parody led by Rachele Ng of GSCS Reli - and 3) Inspired by the Fruits of the listening, and giving en cour - of a well-known TV show, The SASKATOON — Youth from gious Education Services. Spirit. agement. Comments that we are View . Life members are the elders three Greater Saskatoon Catholic Held at local Catholic parishes, Jacobs said that in our lives the blessed to belong to the CWL, hav - who are the holders of the wis - Schools recently gathered for four the project included an introduction greatest gifts we have ever received ing a common faith, and having a dom. Interesting questions from half-day training sessions, learn - to liturgy Feb. 16 at St. Francis Xav - remain unopened. Open the gifts of safe place to fail, were just a few the floor enlightened new mem - ing about liturgy and how to plan ier Parish, a session on liturgy and the Holy Spirit as they remain in suggestions to explain how we are bers of what a life member is and liturgical celebrations in their ele - sacraments March 2 at St. John Bos - the wrapping of the Lord. She blessed by belonging to the league. what they do, which led to many mentary school settings. co Parish, presentations on mu sic in recalled a quotation she had read Eight other topics discussed in- laughable and teachable moments. Teams of Grade 6 students liturgy and on First Nations spiritu - some time ago which said, “It is the from Bishop Roborecki, Mother ality March 9 at St. Mary’s Par ish, wrapper, rather than the receiver ‘We don’t lack for goals’ Teresa and Georges Vanier schools and on Byzantine spirituality and who gets the gift.” The gifts we took part in this year’s Youth and Scripture March 16 at Dormi tion of have are not the same gifts others Liturgy Project, learning more the Blessed Mother of God Church. have. Every Christian receives Continued from page 6 energy-efficient practices in city about prayer, Scripture, the eu - “The best part of this program some of the gifts, but no Christian buildings, transportation and oper - charist, the liturgical year, liturgi - for me are the questions the stu - receives all of them. Everything Hrynkow concluded by en - ations, and eliminating the need cal symbols, music and different dents ask about our Catholic faith you see has been given to the world couraging his listeners to take up for a new landfill through the Catholic traditions. — why do we do what we do? As through God. the imperative to both support diversion of waste through recy - Teachers Jana Lalach, Janine we explore these questions togeth - “I hope that the women go Justice, Peace and the Integrity of cling and composting programs. Baier and Nicole Gursky accom - er, we grow in our love for Jesus away appreciating the power of Creation and to save themselves “We don’t lack for goals,” she panied youth for the program and in our understanding of the the Spirit in their lives and that we from drowning in stuff. “Right here, said, adding that the challenge is funded by the Greater Saskatoon gift of our faith,” said Ng. are called to respond.” In a nut - right now, we can build the founda - to marshal resources to meet those tions we need to incarnate the goals, with a lot of competition for virtues for another possible world, the same resources. characterized by JPIC and deeply After the two presentations, four satisfying positive relationships.” practical workshops were offered Saskatoon City Councillor on the topics of community gar - Mairin Loewen, a member of the dens, green kitchens, organizing an city’s standing policy committees environmental block party, and on transportation and environ - determining “what goes where” ment, utilities, and corporate serv - when it comes to household waste. ices, spoke about local initiatives Myron Rogal of the Justice and and challenges related to environ - Peace Office for the Roman mental action. Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon also Ten-year goals set by the city in shared information about the 2013 include improving the quali - Citizens for Public Justice lenten ty of storm water runoff, increas - initiative entitled “Give it up for the ing new sources of green energy Earth!” The campaign is centred on and renewables, reducing green a postcard that includes a pledge to house gasses, soil improvement, individual climate action, and a call improving access to green space, for more far-reaching national cli - Kiply Yaworski and cold climate energy efficien - mate policy. The aims are to raise YOuTH ANd LITuRGY — Teachers Jana Lalach, Janine Baier and Nicole Gursky accompanied cy, Loewen listed. Other shorter- awareness about climate change Saskatoon youth as they gathered for four half-day training sessions, learning about liturgy, prayer, term goals include developing and collect signatures as a demon - Scripture, the eucharist, liturgical symbols, music, Catholic traditions, and how to plan liturgical celebra - strategies to deal with extreme stration of support for increased tions in their elementary school settings. weather events, implementing federal government action. 8 Prairie Messenger ARTS & CULTURE March 22, 2017 Church is present at heart of Austin arts festival

By Matt Palmer tially longer relationship with the featured former vice-president Joe Catholic Church. He dreams that Biden, billionaire and tech leader AUSTIN, Texas (CNS) — The one day Pope Francis might Mark Cuban, and other celebrities, juxtaposition was striking. Skype with an audience at SXSW. being such a topic of discussion During the early evening of “This pope and the current was no small feat. March 11, 59-year-old Bishop Paul Vatican is embracing technology,” Questions from attendees of the Tighe worked his way through the Forrest said. “It makes sense to panel ranged from whether the hallways of the Austin Convention connect with this crowd. They are Catholic Church should position Center, weaving his way through in a sense embracing disruption itself as a brand and how the church thousands of young people who very significantly. I think the pope can use digital media for good. were in town attending the South has a leadership role few other For several decades, SXSW has by Southwest Festival, more com - people have. We like to showcase been a constantly evolving festival. monly known as SXSW. innovative, creative leaders.” Now, it could be known as a place This year’s festival began March The first start was Tighe, who for fertile faith discussions. 10 and will conclude March 19. was born in Navan, County “It’s an event that brings “On one level, it’s kind of Meath, in Ireland, and is a former together very, very creative peo - strange because you’re wandering director of public affairs for the ple and helps those creative peo - around the place,” said Tighe, who Archdiocese of Dublin. He is ple make connections and discov - is currently adjunct secretary of the largely known for his eight years er new things,” Forrest said. Pontifical Council for Culture. as secretary of the Pontifical A sizable crowd attended the “You’re certainly the only one in a CNS/Matt Palmer Council for Social Communica - session inside a ballroom at the collar and you’re possibly the only FILM FESTIVAL — Irish Bishop Paul Tighe, adjunct secretary of the tions. The Catholic Church’s pres - Hyatt Regency. The session was one with white hair.” Pontifical Council for Culture, speaks March 10 during the South by ence in digital media increased the result of years of discussions When Tighe walked the conven - Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. At right is Helen Osman, a commu - heavily during that time. between Osman and Forrest. tion floor, many of the attendees nication adviser. In 2012, Pope Benedict XVI Osman, who lives in Austin and had recently emerged from panels launched a massively popular served the U.S. bishops from 2005 hosted by tech giants, comedians, company displays, the Catholic touching people’s hearts.” Twitter account, which was later to 2015, led the panel discussion. actors, politicians and more. Church certainly stuck out. A faith session at SXSW is still transferred to Pope Francis. A “Hopefully the conversation As they passed by Tighe, no “People might be surprised a relatively new concept, said the pope app for mobile devices also will continue,” Osman told atten - one seemed to realize they had there’s a church presence, but interactive festival’s director, debuted in recent years. Then- dees at the end of the panel. just encountered one of the Vati - there’s so many places where the Hugh Forrest. Forrest said he likes Msgr. Tighe was named adjunct “South by Southwest has been can’s most influential communi - church is not invited any longer panels that take attendees out of secretary of the Pontifical Council very encouraging of us to talk cators during the last decade. that it’s important to respond pos - their comfort zones. for Culture in late 2015 and con - about coming back in 2018.” Tighe was at the festival to be itively to invitation,” Tighe told “I think it is an outlier, but I secrated a bishop Feb. 27, 2016. Tighe said young people are at part of a panel called “Com - Catholic News Service. “Even if it think the outliers here are what Despite his official move out the heart of the festival, which passionate Disruption,” which looks a bit different or not like our makes ‘the thing’ so interesting,” of Vatican communications, Tighe boasts thousands of ambitious was hosted March 12 at the Hyatt usual gatherings.” Forrest told CNS. “A faith-based maintains a deep interest in the techies attempting to launch start- Regency. Tighe was joined on the Tighe is no stranger to speak - session at a technology event topic. up Web platforms. For some, it is panel by Helen Osman, former ing at unconventional festivals. that’s focused on startups? That’s The day before the “Compas - the opportunity to get the attention chief communications officer for He once spoke in front of 12,000 really neat. I love that we have the sionate Disruption” panel, Forrest of investors. It’s a high-pressure the U.S. Conference of Catholic people at the Burning Man arts capacity to host sessions like that acknowledged it was a gamble and situation for many. Bishops and Michael Hertl and festival in Europe. which attract people with strong that he didn’t know what kind of “The compassionate disruption Christoph Krachten, who are digi - He added: “Despite all the faiths. I hope it attracts people crowd would show. The bet is to say,” Tighe added, “funda - tal media innovators for the sophistication, coolness, sarcasm maybe who don’t, but are interest - appears to have paid off for the fes - mentally, you’re a person of value, Catholic Church in Germany. and the irony at an event like this, ed in this stuff.” tival. During one point at the festi - a person of dignity and worth. God At a festival known for its music I think if you speak with authen - Forrest said he sees the Tighe val, #GODatSXSW was Twitter’s loves you and cares for you concerts, movie premieres and tech ticity, there’s still a possibility of appearance as the start of a poten - No. 1 trend in Austin. On a day that whether you pitch well or not.” Love is present in all things, and our expressions of that are unique

By Caitlin Ward point, Caitlin, in what you’re try - about it. And so when certain unhelpful for everyone involved. gone terribly wrong. Recently ing to do? You can’t fix it, so friends sent the article to me, I The underpinning of that anxiety I’ve taken up mindfulness medi - A few weeks ago there was an don’t bother trying. knew it was a gentle reminder that can easily be a kind of self-obses - tation as a type of centring prayer. article about “conscious con - That particular line of reason - I don’t need to sweat blood over sion: wanting to make all the right I do it every morning. I suck at it. sumerism” making the rounds ing is actually considered a logi - everything. I am lucky enough to decisions yourself, irrespective of I’ve learned about St. Ignatius’ among my friends and acquain - cal fallacy, mind you: if you can’t work in an environment where a the general consequences. It spiritual exercises. I’ve never tances. I know this because it was make it perfect, there’s no point fundamental part of my job is spikes anxiety levels, irritates done them. I don’t spend enough sent to me several times via email, in doing anything at all. It’s working toward educating people loads of people, and doesn’t actu - time praying — and not in the Facebook, and also mentioned in called the Nirvana Fallacy — about these unjust systems, and ally help those who are suffering sense that no one can ever spend person. The article, written by a heaven, or muck. Hero, or vil - teaching different ways of chal - — which, ostensibly, is the point. enough time praying. Literally, I lain. Nothing in-between. lenging them. You’re trying, these I know I’ve reached that con - spend, like, no time praying. Heroes I think the discomfort around friends were telling me. They were clusion many times. I’ve probably The fact of the matter is that, pointing out the ethical quan - also telling me to calm down, but reached that conclusion in the for a devout Catholic, I’m kind of David Bowie daries in purchasing practices in a way that was meant kindly. pages of this paper many times. terrible at being spiritual in any goes back to the idea of being And I know those friends are But I’ve been thinking about St. conventional sense. I’m a physi - woman who had dedicated her life inconvenient. I’ve been ruminat - right. Tying oneself up in knots Ignatius’ spiritual exercises today, cally engaged person and I have and work to studying and practis - ing on this recently. It’s something over these things is ultimately and I realized something about wicked ADHD. Contemplation ing ethical purchasing practices, the article touched upon as well: myself that push - has never been my strong suit. spoke about how, ultimately, con - the strength of these convictions I, I wish you could swim es all of this a But really, that’s sort of the scious consumerism is not partic - tests the relationships around you. Like the dolphins step further. point. Because what I’ve realized ularly useful when it comes to Many people joke about how hav - Like dolphins can swim You see, I’m in all this is that, for me, the act effecting real world change. The ing a vegan at the party is no fun. Though nothing, nothing will keep us together not a particularly of “calming down” about con - individual’s decision not to partic - What most people don’t realize is We can beat them, forever and ever contemplative scious consumerism and personal ipate in an unjust system does not that it is probably the least fun for Oh, we can be heroes just for one day person. I re - choices is not to care less about dismantle that unjust system, so it the vegan, who’s usually either member a time these things. Each of these things is perhaps better to put our energy taken a very defensive stance, or I, I will be King on retreat where is an ethical choice, and one that into trying to dismantle it. an apologetic one. And you, you will we were sup - carries weight even if the act of Now, the reasoning behind Navigating your way between be Queen posed to have an trying to make those ethical people sending me this article staying true to your feelings on Though nothing will drive them away hour of silent choices ultimately doesn’t dis - varies from person to person, and these matters and not alienating We can be heroes just for one day prayer and I mantle those unethical systems. some of their motivations were the people around you can be a We can be us just for one day ended up eating If I accept that God is in all not entirely pure — what’s the struggle. It’s hard to hold onto popcorn in my things, and that love is in all convictions without coming off I, I can remember room with my things, then my choices should as judgmental of the decisions of Standing by the wall sister and one of rightly take into account God and Ward is a Saskatoon-based free - others. And the guns, shot above our heads our friends, love in all things. This concern, lance writer who spends her days But I also know that I’m candid And we kissed, as though nothing could fall instead. I say the this care, this sometimes sweat - (and most nights) working at a about how concerned I am with And the shame, was on the other side rosary . . . never. ing blood over seemingly minor small Catholic college. Her less how my personal decisions (con - Oh, we can beat them, forever and ever Well, rarely. things — like whether or not to eloquent thoughts can be found at sumerist or otherwise) affect the Then we could be heroes just for one day Mostly when buy a Mexican avocado. I real - www.twitter.com/newsetofstrings wider world. I easily get neurotic something’s ized today this is how I pray. March 22, 2017 ARTS & CULTURE Prairie Messenger 9 Empowering indigenous people’s voices on screen

the violence against women that is a symptom of the intergenera - tional trauma suffered by many Screenings indigenous peoples. A healing process is needed that connects & Meanings both. When I interviewed Ms. Latimer at Sundance she also Gerald Schmitz spoke about how a movement that is truly multi-generational is galva - The right to prior and informed consent should always prevail. Only nizing solidarity networks across then is it possible to guarantee peaceful co-operation between govern - borders. It will not be bought off ing authorities and indigenous peoples, overcoming confrontation and by divide-and-rule tactics such as conflict. . . . For governments, this means recognizing that indigenous the promise of economic benefits communities are a part of the population to be appreciated and consult - to communities suffering high ed, and whose full participation should be promoted at the local and rates of poverty and unemploy - national level. ment. Such promises have proved — Statement of Pope Francis, Feb. 15, 2017 to be empty and short-lived. All citizens can help to advance this Courtesy of Sundance Institute Canadians are being challenged block the route of the Dakota movement by standing with it. RuMBLE FILM — Buffy Sainte-Marie appears in RUMBLE: The to come to terms with historical Access Pipeline from risking con - That includes not supporting the Indians Who Rocked The World by Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso wrongs arising from the subjuga - tamination of the Missouri River corporations and politicians behind Maiorana, an official selection of the World Cinema documentary tion of Aboriginal peoples, as in as well as disrupting sacred sites developments that fail to respect Competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. the Truth and Reconciliation Com - and burial grounds. Their cause the rights of indigenous people. mission’s report on the “cultural has attracted international atten - Director Melinda Janko’s 100 Canada’s residential schools). lines. Watching the enormous genocide” perpetrated by residen - tion and large numbers of protest - Years: One Woman’s Fight for This sorry history finally pro - transmission towers being put in tial schools. The “Idle No More” ers. With representatives of some Justic e (https://www.100yearsthe - voked a series of legal actions, place by helicopter gives a sense of movement has spurred a renewed 200 tribes in solidarity, it became movie.com) is a penetrating in - notably the class action launched the transformation. indigenous activism demanding the largest indigenous gathering vestigation into over a century of by Cobell and others in 1996 Koneline comes from a Tahltan redress. First Nations are centrally on American soil in a century. It is gross mistreatment of Indian seeking damages of $27.5 billion. word combining beauty of the involved in many sites of protest, also the latest “war story” in a his - reserve lands by the U.S. govern - Along with pressure through the land and the mind. Their language notably concerning large-scale tory of violations of native rights ment. It is also a stirring profile of courts, the mismanagement of encompassing this magnificent resource development projects that includes Wounded Knee. A Montana Blackfeet elder Elouise funds also attracted attention in wilderness had needed no word Cobell who was the driving force Congress. There were setbacks for “wild.” Wildlife was so abun - Rise in seeking redress through the and stalling tactics by the George dant that the region has been (Canada, 2017 Viceland TV series) largest class action suit in U.S. W. Bush White House. But in called the “Serengeti of the 100 Years: One Woman’s Fight for Justice (U.S. 2016) history on behalf of some 300,000 2009 - 2010 under the Obama ad - north.” But big changes are hap - Native Americans. ministration a settlement was pening while some remain deter - Koneline: Our Land Beautifu l (Canada 2016) The native peoples who, as one finally approved, albeit for the mined to preserve their language Rumble: The Indians that Rocked the World says, “could not imagine that one much smaller amount of $3.4 bil - and cultural traditions along with day Earth Mother would be real lion. A measure of justice had the lifestyles dependent on the (Canada 2017) estate,” had their lands broken up. been achieved thanks to the tire - land. The promise of economic Their territories were reduced to less efforts of women like Cobell benefits from large-scale develop - defined scattered reservations and who died of cancer in 2011. Her ment can create divisions within within their traditional territories. victory for people power over cor - they were also reduced to a state legacy was recognized by the indigenous communities as well Peoples long cast aside by the porate interests was celebrated in of dependency and control. The posthumous awarding of the pres - as with other residents. Wild’s forces of “progress” are reclaim - December 2016 when the U.S. millions of acres of reserve land idential medal of freedom by stunning cinematography makes ing their place. Army Corps of Engineers revoked was henceforth to be managed for Obama in 2016. the land itself a character in this In finding their voice, indige - a necessary permit. However, the them by an Indian Trust Fund Director Nettie Wild’s KONE - ongoing drama, which raises the nous peoples are also increasingly Trump administration strongly responsible for revenues from LINE: Our Land Beautiful question of how to preserve the determined to tell their own stories. backs the project and new ap - resource development (oil and (https://www.canadawildproduc - land’s natural beauty and integrity That is evident in the impressive provals have been granted to com - gas, mining, timber, etc.) on these tions.com/film/koneline/), award - in the face of increased commer - Canadian-produced eight-part doc- plete the pipeline. The Sioux lands. What actually happened ed best Canadian feature at the cial activities. Wild worries about u series entitled appropriately Rise . won’t give up the fight however was that much of this accrued 2016 HotDocs festival, captures different viewpoints growing far - It began airing in late January on hard it becomes. wealth was stolen while many indelible images of what is hap - ther apart. What does responsible Viceland, the television arm of What these episodes reveal is a Native Americans lived in de- pening in the mountains of north - development mean in this con - VICE Canada. The other broadcast deeply spiritual aspect of the plorable conditions. They were western British Columbia. This text? It’s clear that an adequate partners are the Aboriginal Peoples struggles that are connecting the effectively defrauded of what was unceded traditional territory of The inclusive process is still lacking to Television Network and Rogers elders to a new generation of ac - rightly theirs at the same time as Tahltan First Nation is increasingly resolve outstanding issues in a Media. Supported by the Sundance tivists often led by dynamic young they faced other forms of depriva - being impacted by mining opera - way that truly respects the land Institute’s indigenous voices pro - indigenous women. A parallel can tion, loss of culture and respect. tions for copper and gold along and its people. gram, the first three episodes had be made between the violence (The youth were sent to boarding with major infrastructure projects Rumble: The Indians that their premiere showing during the being done to mother earth and schools for assimilation similar to such as roads and electrical power Rocked the World is a Canadian 2017 Sundance Film Festival, production of Montreal-based including a post-screening discus - Rezolution Pictures (makers of the sion with many of the featured documentary Reel Injun ). Co- indigenous activists. The series is directed by founder Catherine directed by Toronto-based film - Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana, maker Michelle Latimer, who is of it received a Sundance special jury Métis-Algonquin ancestry. The award for “masterful storytelling” narrator host is Sarain Carson-Fox, in bringing to light the little- a dancer and choreographer with known indigenous contribution to Anishinaabe roots who travels popular music. She observes that with a camera crew to the front - “native American music — born lines of contemporary indigenous of this land — was violently sup - resistance. pressed for many years as both The first episode, “Apache American and Canadian govern - Stronghold,” observes the genera - ments outlawed native ceremonies tional struggles of the Apache and rituals in a deliberate attempt people suppressed by the armed to break the people. As a result, the might of the U.S. government music was forced underground leading up to the current flash - and found its expression in alter - point at Oak Flat, Arizona, where native ways.” the Apache are fighting to save a As the Sundance press notes protected sacred site from en - state, “the early pioneers of the croachment by Rio Tinto’s cop - blues had native as well as African per-mining operations. American roots, and one of the The second and third episodes, first and most influential jazz “Sacred Water” and “Red Power,” singers’ voices, was trained on are devoted to the fight of the Courtesy of Sundance Institute/Michelle Latimer native American songs. As the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation RISE — Ladonna Bravebull Allard appears in Rise by Michelle Latimer, an official selection of the Special in North and South Dakota to Events program at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. — MOVEMENT , page 15 10 Prairie Messenger March 22, 2017 Letters reach out to the c

By Angela Saldanha thoughts. I joined the local chap - spondence comes to you from an Catholic Register Special ter of Amnesty International (in inmate.” I tore it open so fast I Italy) and for years wrote letters nearly ripped the letter. Sipping my morning espresso, on behalf of prisoners to princes, Peter was delighted to have a I often envision Donnie making presidents and ministers of justice pen pal. He was intrigued by my coffee. around the world. I pleaded for background. “Wow! So many dif - “So how do you make hot cof - stays of execution, for access to ferent countries! Sounds like a fee,” I asked, “when you’ve got legal or medical assistance, for United Nations roll call!” he said. no means of heating water?” ending torture. He asked me what it had been “Like this,” Donnie wrote. “I Then one day I learned about like, living in all these places. have this thing we call a stinger. an American prison chaplain who I asked him what it was like on Two wires, connected to one-inch had spoken about the terrible death row. But I did not then, or screws, separated by a piece of loneliness of prisoners. Worse ever, ask him about his crime. plastic. The screws go into a cup than harsh living conditions, poor From the start, I did not want to of water, the other end into an food and ill-treatment by guards, know any of those details. What - electric socket. You throw some was a prisoner’s sense of aban - ever it was, I reasoned, it con - salt in the water and the screws donment. Prisoners were rejected cerned him, his victim(s) and get hot and the water boils.” often by family and friends. Some God. Judge and jury too, I guess. “Sounds highly dangerous,” I prisoners went months, even But it wasn’t my business. wrote. “Does it really work?” years, without a visitor, or even a But he told me he’d been “Oh yeah. I get my hot coffee. phone call or letter. A lucky few arrested at age 21 and had been on Well — sometimes I just cause a had a pen pal. The chaplain said death row for nearly 10 years. In minor explosion.” other men wished they had one the years that followed, I learned a When I think about Donnie’s too. lot about Peter and his life on coffee making, I wonder what it I’ve always enjoyed writing death row. He found it frustrating must be like to live the way he letters. I’d honed my skills writing that inmates on The Row were not does, locked up, in prison, without to our four kids who were study - allowed to work like other prison - freedom — like Peter and other ing in Canada while my husband ers. He was lonely. His dad and inmates I’ve let into my life. and I worked in Italy. So I asked stepmom lived in another state I was put in touch with Donnie for the name of a prisoner. I was and rarely visited. He had a cell to after signing up with Human sent Peter. In Illinois. On death himself — usually — but was Writes, an organization based in row. I think the year was 1999. moved frequently and sometimes England that organizes letter-writ - The first letter wasn’t easy. had a cellmate. With each move, ing to American death-row in - What could I say to a condemned guards would go through his mates. I signed up and was put in man? Knowing he was on death belongings, discarding things as touch with Donnie. He was being row, I assumed, correctly it turned they saw fit. Once “they confis - held in the notorious H Unit at a out, that he must be guilty of mur - cated my address book because it correction centre in Oklahoma. Catholic Register/Jim O’Leary der — at least one. Would he was a homemade one,” he said. Donnie was overjoyed to have A GIFT — Angela Saldanha shows a painting she received as a gift from know that I knew? How would he He likes to paint (whenever he can a pen pal. He wrote frequently, a prison pen pal. The artwork adorns the walls of her Brechin, Ont., feel about that? What would he afford art supplies from the prison sometimes two letters in a week, home. think of me, a strange woman, commissary) and several of his but told me I should not feel com - writing to him? “masterpieces” adorn our home. pelled to write back that often. “God heard my prayer.” with interest. Someone had come With Christmas approaching, I He practises yoga and has led “Even if you don’t write much, I’m not sure when it happened, up with the idea of teaching in - sent him a card, and a brief letter yoga classes for fellow inmates. it’s enough to know that you but I know exactly what sparked my mates basic gardening skills. The to explain how I’d heard about Peter had been nominally Cath - care,” he said. “When they first interest in prisoners. Flipping results of the experiment were re - him and asking if he’d like to cor - olic but converted to Buddhism in brought me to this place I felt so through National Geographic many markable. Most prisoners became respond. I told him a bit about prison. We compared notes on terribly, desperately alone. I years ago my attention was caught less violent, more compliant, even myself (born in England, raised in meditation; mine, Christian, his, begged God to send angels to be by a picture of a man holding a docile — changed men. India, a dozen years in Montreal, a Buddhist. He explained Metta to with me. And then this letter seedling. But this wasn’t just anoth - I couldn’t stop thinking about year in Switzerland, then living in me — the practice by which he came, a letter from a stranger — er article about plants — it was this wonderful idea. The image of Italy). I mailed my letter and would think about people in his signed Angela! about planting by prison inmates. hardened criminals tenderly han - began to worry. What had I got life and send them positive I’d never given more than a dling baby plants was embedded myself into? thoughts of love, peace, well- passing thought to prisoners, but in my mind, like a seed, where it I didn’t have to worry long. An being. He started with loved ones Saldanha is a writer who lives I’ve loved gardening since I could germinated. Prisoners, and their envelope arrived, stamped in red in Brechin, Ont. toddle and so I read the article unhappy lives, were often in my ink with the words “This corre - — Continued on next page

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T se Is Ga a 08 k and London ame thing as the kind of ,” he said. ate t aim ur- igan la C e G he rael za. m ‘virtuous circle’ ’’ spread, while children l hold he w is day Ma urea ypr aza boa ’s It w ’d like to give a to the of ive u t P living simply poverty experienc with- Solidarity, not a weap soc ome to Sh visit guire te s Oc Mo , par from as th b ulitzer and fightin ed by millions out basic necess ons sys- — iety t n w e arr to th dur a da t. 28 vem t of the e sec le g poverty, the pope said of ities and millions tem, is pa oge ho ived e G ing y l and ent, rea Fre ond s Prize- the world’s people, he said. the key to protecting ge 3 ther. in G aza fr ater doc lef ch e Ga suc ’ Jan. 1 as he celebrated of families struggle to find f ” aza Strip om Is with ked a t s the za M h bo Yes gift subscription mass for ood, human I as . ra o t G in P o at w “There is a kind of poverty, an t dignity and ensuring nt part el. ut in aza ce Au ales veme fro inning the feast of Mary Mother of he pope said, “the unacceptable erc of a Earli terfe gust tinian nt to m G God peace, the pope said. ord w er, Is rence “I w . te s aza. stage hit and World Peace D ia ould rael h G ante rritor ea an “I de ay. not ad w aza d to s y d br cide Duri allow arne for ee th to he eak t d to Doubt ng the mass in St. Peter’s the d tha lutel myse e sit lp ch he s come A boat t it y sho lf an uatio com allen iege. by makes an Basilica and reciting the Angelus n to re suff cked d I n in mun ge th I wa I’d like to begin a new subscription to the ach erin an am a ity e i nte afterward wi in s g is d ap abso bout abo ntern d equally th people gathered in terna aid in eno palle - what ut t ation St. P tion an O rmou d. T Sh is ha heir al engrossing movie eter’s Square, Pope Benedict outr al ct. 3 s,” M he e sa ppen silen Yes, ea 1 G id i c focu ch pho agui aza the ng in e experien sed on the 2009 World Peace pro ne in re was “ Israe Gaz ce, and one that — gram tervi Is colle li cl a.” Day theme, Fighting Poverty c is ew rael ctive osure despite the reminder of a to hang mos instit pun of Build Peace. ing t t a y uted ishm dark cha lives he cal ear a the c ent.” pter in the church’s But he also St of ation go f losu called for an end to . Tho stu att of ollow re al- recent history — should the “m i mas dent acks Pale ing a assive violence” in the n Sa Mor s at T into stini n es resonate with G skato e Co he d Israe an m - Catholic aza Strip and offered special — p on. llege re ense li bo issil age gion ly p rder e viewers, says reviewer prayers for “the small, but fe 8 a was opula town rvent O n in alrea ted s. 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CHILDREN BRING UP Wh n ne nd h not re Pope Ben GIFTS — Children bring up the oev equ cessa ospit ach celebrated with expressions edict prayed for mass for the eucharistic gifts as Pope Benedict p er w ipme ry pa als c $37.00. feast XVI c a n r a peace th of Mary M$1ot.h0e0r of God and Worl elebrates resid kes u $1.00 stru t or ts to nnot of gratitude, affec roughout the Middle East, ingle Issue: d Peace Day Jan. 1 in St. Peter’s B ent-e p as sue: ctio com fix b tion and a S 1 asilica at the Vatican St le e Is 09541 n o p rok accep tion No. 0954 . ate ct o ngl n No. f ne lete en ted the offertory gifts 39 Registra s t f t PO Si istratio Sa w th doxology. . . .” from a nt No. 400301 oda he LI Reg nit sec e Mail Agreeme w y w Un TI 0139 w ary tio con group of ch Publication T ith il ite M CA . 4003 9 er c ns, - ildr w l d o 0 e o s en f o 9 s L N rom C 00 o h i t 0 n h Leba a c n a e non na, 2 m a C e 2 d d h m — 1 i v e i s a e “ page 1 n e e . 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SONCEian D mels ion a thef Sthe s the LuthSe Sas c ecu energ s due he began bu , a Nagy n La J oal lcah, aCritable organizationy remove the Nutt, fou the S nually by s t internation g ple thcea tionw s co ior t hance umeAR Che r to boecctoo hsan o aska elica lg rou katc ourag muecnliear no street e dthuireinvge rtyhe program. Maria es Clinic i cience ma CNS/Catholic Pressn Fdileer Photo askatchewa tories,” an al sim re f a ne of m ic o cO CLE nt zenjes rs el Bo tudy vantcghe p a h- ingnst n cal y had me to includ nique crea tZalesak when shei nr estutermne dc etlol s n Council fo other wrote. T to the At or Ca aothreo l uehlloeps NmUixe thaant citi cts O Danifor f t haen Ed wan ppoi to er agai chur g thgerou t omeless- that ca drugs. It reakthrough Canada. 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At one t le the new te Canada er as “a mess - that give f alues p d on th e esta e m ianr tso iffer Angl m th “W gy ptr. enw sf aco l- sc sed ut th eon a nne goafti whose cash for a ho cist Bridge Whi in that it . It’s easier to enger of faith ocus to my lif age 7 decide mmitte rani- “HPal he U of theent f at eneer be the n vouornse to socia sion,o nb e na ennd the c y in 2006. $63,000 ’s most flags. e lesser evil get a messenger and a An e.” — p aul the co tudy u eopleWilsonnited rom g indiscu hliaeivred in resp of decl iand csoiltoivges ergy publi ath in Calgar on the RCMP pion sees red represent th xual rifle than cle of justice,” other writer c to P w that nt to s ht- Kerr- kee Stat meettihne wshsioo c ther,e said pre- a srpei rpo ical, t morepoli- de time he was the Cam of therapeu- product of se an water. Murphy P ommended th g up sa ernme erweig p say atione s. nesdus n if tihshops has hat the Ptihtezere itual nd wan econ was one of e in the realm es not use the — pa rairie Messen e chin he gov as “ov s Associnig, outli tainabr the b ere i stio nto tbe ” av l sai to it aconsi omic — page 8 nted list and “Are w earcher do er natural or ge 9 ger for not “du Cat up by t ment w ntative clear s‘pOefe cch ewp fo le en ’s qsu teo b watiudre. oid ttachedd the derat ,om- wa anada. asked the res uction (wheth Russi mb- aught velop represe Nu all’s oursdevelo an,” eporetregry e “ ap rjem e a d a emot gro ionys . rec d eared men in C tic cloning?” io- reprod material, an Or sn’t c um de nium ity for nto. W ent to e S a sraid pcohl icwas ust ane a stannd c ut. ional upth awt an er ment an most f in prison an Catholic B dish) as a raw Fr thodo rch ha g to th ura portun Toro n’s int ewanas’ska ’ sB sepree y in Snot tak d oimnpin lyi ticcal ants ly aft Develop his last stint th the Canadi in a petrie w the ayed revo x patr he chu cordin d” wi ittle op . chewa skatch tchmewier t Pitps did askat pro-n g ta cirs cr hargeade o nto During a fre- wi sultant for the ries about ho lution iarch T yet, ac e was l heard Saskat for Sa uding an c bisho zel, K ch- uclea “I oss a be md w n with d a volunteer, nstitute and con Campion wor ed re . Paul SU. d there c to be the value” , incl Theo-ord AIR ly fo r. “Wtions s bein ultoartdiso ce he encountere ethics I r Life and commercializ ceive to St eitz, O an l publi leased added eposits lean inato OS r the mendae wa cgo nasn ” said Pea e prison. rganization fo nique will be Director s gift Kamb ong genera was re er “ ium d sibly c r. tut princ onpt teon ti-v ionrce, nt visitor to th Catholic O en we tech ulting stem Steven Soderb from eresita irly str the ment Premi t uran nd pos kti ull iapnleds be ipso pro ease que eClerc re- lags go up wh ether the res tw ergh’s Vatica T ave fa e state ewan vas ining a nu — f oef jouf th sitive he rel ents were ated him,” L Family. “Red f n and wh nterrupt- o-part marath n G still h rich Th askatch ake a ng, ref I HE peopl stice read t- Winnipeg stud “I h over to ls reverted to a represent an i on Che By Cindy W LOBAL CIT “We tween fore S led to m mini nto ARIthe , who, peac NEW Subscriber t to come like ‘cel ls might ooden IZEN — Yaworski s be e.” be edu an i ants NG rson ep, s. urged to ge ed. “I got him say things cel erwise could Glob Abbot Pete nction femal day as sch anadi ed by gr alSm, ap bisho ac- Name ( ): ______l c a r C t H e o cal d him every e.’ ” ess which oth oncentrates sian Orthod l Citizen Awa Novecosky, disti le and Wall w the sla aided nd agfe of th ared t ved in l and I calle embryonic stat to ed proc ox can impro c rd on behalf o OSB, accept r, ma Brad ech to an s been cese a behal 3 prep the invol Flegel my cel d he potential an being. on VATIC relat ve their eremony h f the Prair s the poo spe tr n ha e dio on re we ing think of an cells hold the esult in a hum the man AN CITY ionship. eld in Humbo ie Messenger and ynote y licatio tes, th hat a er read ial justice me I could Stem inson’s, r Pope (CNS) — Murph ldt Feb. 1. Pr at an evening e 8 ke urg the Obla anada. “W ed aft ed at soc na y be right.’ ” seases as Park behind Benedict XV “It is my y, provincial esenting the a — pag ry lit e of om the s in C t is he ask it look LA ded, ‘You ma cure such di eak the I gave a chali earnest hope n animator for ward was Mi inist as nguag e fr ission tamen ept?” s want en- issues as rge LeClerc, M respon d him. He others that br TE, page 6 to the new pat ce will cont that we ated the new Development chael n m h he la in th holic M w Tes e c . “We vironm Se said it stumpe tic fibrosis and — DEBA myth, riarch of the R inue to co-ope spaper for and Peace, wh en i op itut, t olics Cat re Ne t as ar ement al, en Dudek, LeClerc cys the body. Orthodox ussian ing rate in find- Saskatche the award p ich nomi- om ish Inukt Cath ocese. e enti uktitu stat nomic Jason inals, but he tire systems in portr Church and ways to foste wan Council f resented an W n B Inuit y Di Th in In ament an eco oint.” abilitate crim down en ayed by his h expressed r and strength or Internation nually by th men i ,000 on Ba per- ailable d Test from viewp director of to reh essary. , page 8 ope that Cath communion i en al Co-operati e for wo 8 -Huds have ow av he Ol ary. social s they are nec FLECTION omen Benicio De olics and Ru n the Body of on. etreat ant rgan ter urchill ouleau la- n ts of t ection al and able still believe come — RE y of w l s- in fidelity Christ In a r articip len A Repor Ch oes R trans se par in the L ed t Address: ______account o have be gnit to our sa ne p hat By G olic nly d those tho ded blish ge 9 he people wh full di Toro in a viour’s prayer Bis istry, o ngth t n Cath Not o prove ooks e inclu as pu ES, pa lopment “T timize soci- qual, perform th hop c min he stre ester es- to ap those b that ar mnal w HOIC deve cudas that vic sses e ance that earne at all may be hallen ered “t ristian W leau do ission e sent one first hy — C the barra nd con- e stre on,” he said. th d him one ges ta discov the Ch ld Rou m m ly if h l, no The 7 ent and Peace, be captured a Pop ole promoti e Cannes best so that the rsand ring to e Reyna val fro ns, like prova page for Developm ety need to s to e for the wh -actor prize, world By G s men b sion w ishop r appro d tio for ap hem. IONS, d , “and it need d an exampl says Ge may be len Argan wo he pas B ait fo ks use ome stand t n BRAT ve through olled,” he said Go exercise of page 5 rald Schmitz. lieve,” the W and t ned ve to w al boo to R under ulatio ELE mo led them tr Wooden through her OPINION, — pope estern Catho and the ge church ing tur n’t ha liturgic ocese. would w-pop — C re out D&P’s eaningful.” By Cindy world of human — page 11 said. lic Reporter neral public w ite be ts or the his di there ung, lo rn tip se’ workshop ab be m ber of the d her service cessiv hose ex- er desp ur gif ome f es in far-fl northe au r- a rc, now a mem charity an Pope Bened e consumer off iving o R parish elf. The es the toba cl usly fo s in Africa. LeCle , spent Y (CNS) — ict’s ST. P dri ist lifestyle from g much most hims ary includ Mani ce previo activitie n legislature ATICAN CIT Priest sh message t AUL (CCN) — ves the deman away h has by es them ection ocese of hes ien at had efiting Saskatchewa he V arked Inter- ortage o Patri- basc The Atha- d for oil.” churc t approv the L n di stretc nsc ions th m ben page 8 n prison before nedict XVI m arch Ki a oilsands are While B ly. The accep He ecause ts are i and h o regulat aid fro — out 21 years i Pope Be rch 8 by rill of Mos- i sacrificing th ouchard’s let ful ails to at’s b ramen Nort ‘C oreign rtion. ab d. He was the men’s Day Ma Why d cow ntegrity of Go e strongly ter is if it f Th the sac to the dden f ide abo lth- energy d his life aroun national Wo all oes the Rom was delivere d’s creation fo worded in p to lose fer.” es for vering ger bi at prov s hea enewable turne nds on the e dignity of an b d sake of econ r the takes laces, he can of and rit ole co w Ber ities th allow r- R aker at a Frie raying that th Catholic Chu y a high-leve omic gain, say a measured ap at we P Nu- atthe ent ral law rom pe guest spe r held p ecognized and rch in North l Va- Luc Bou s Bishop ing proach to list- wh st of By M — The S fede stain f - draising dinne en would be r Amer tican deleg chard in a pas the failings o ge 9 mo RNS) U s to ab S regu ter and sun Outside fun irie wom ica recruit pri ation at- “ toral letter. f oilsands dev — pa t. TON ( nced ovider he HH Wind, wa oke to the Pra . ests from tending The proposed opment and el- t navu 2, HING annou care pr ons. T s in- n enough arch 5. He sp respected tion of regions of th his en- m future develop outlining po Len ce 191 WAS tration ula- aborti ear wa vide more tha M g his talk. ding the recita e world in fa thro ent of the oi - solutions. ssible ering Sin - dminis d reg rming last y pro- pro ergy enger followin After lea ld a more r nement liturg lsands constitu Ent mis ama a rescin k- fo tituted tional to meet our en Mess ood unless er, the pope to desperate nee i y serious m tes a He el our blate Ob ans to re wor ion ins ct addi a- resources h laws are no g e Angelus pray d, when n Moscow Fe oral problem also applauds s to fe O have 27 pl althca lat prote e oper ts at a “Toug ce that th St. Peter’s there are pe b. 1. Boucha ,” said an “the hard work ites u l- naries Feb. low he orming eted to chang l ds, participan amming in pla gathered in ople here at The po rd, the bishop d dedication” nt “inv our vu sio slat- hat al perf terpr e sex as wel nee on we put progr e,” crowd ce honour- hom pe also east of the north- of the people Le o feel tran tions t from ect to s, lik icide, m in Saskato form of chang at the observan e who are wil sent Ki ern Alberta Dio Fort McMur of ness, t fears been the abstain ey obj cedure sted su s and recent foru ll allow some Square th lect on ling and rill a chalice cese of St. Pau ray and congr small el our rs to ures th d assi ination e available, wi when people nvites us to ref able to serv as a which includes l, Suncor an atulates y, to fe p to ing s e roced ions an n vacc inis- e told; they ar id, “so that ing women “i re- e, writes sign of his hop Fort McMurra d Syncrude fo rabilit lves u ’s rite dical p . u- t ly eve a adm wer he sa ransitional women and to Rev. t e “The pr y. labour r excellent ne ourse church me rounds tion a possib Obam g- mpetitive and son there are t e condition of Richard McB hat the Catholi esent pace and relations polic o open rt so French oral g inistra - as nning. Washin reliable, co leave pri .” th o ensuring that rien. c and develop scale of ies. and t e dese om on m h adm re leav ily pla d The is r than place for them commitment t — page 14 Orthodox ment in the A Nevertheless, s of th the fr yllab- e Bus ly befo fam ials tol rule Address: ______ately cheape programs in hat new a re every churches san thabasca oil- he lists 10 e chao y give the s Th short arily n offic ve the ultim ll aware of w nd everywhe soon w ds cannot be m tions that mu ac- th finall ,” into of he rule er, prim tratio belie wom- nd more LeClerc is we always a nstrate ill be in full orally justified st be taken to e can ed us form hored t ecemb s or st they revent the dirtier a product of a ive and demo Vatica com The letter i .” the envir protect that w e to fe ic th t last D eligiou on Po ould p they can do. The woman can l ng n II’s lega munion w s titled The In onment, forei chanc MI. tut wi office with r It t and c care dous forms prisons what he ilities, obtaini cy ith of Creatio tegrity and gn workers gels a iser, O Inukti f ing those ortion. broad g the il- hazar was born in y her own ab each other, the n and the Atha First Nations an Rolhe lp o hield to ab e too eceivin possib oduction. rape, he . His full nity.” Fi Vati- sands. basca Oil- b treaty right s Ron e he to s sition nnot b from r en the of energy pr ndoned shack pect for her dig fty years ago can said F efore future o s write th nsult- oppo ers ca en held op ation. ed an aba full res ents ers Pope John eb. 2. ilsands pl 3 co oral work sing hey egul call ral Toronto church docum CNS/Reut XX In it, the approv ants are age 1 Inuit e m hcare r refu eed. T rrow r the — page 9 oved to cent While recent III unleashed Kirill, 62, 59-year-old S ed. — p Thos healt inst fo o- n ore na icy at mother m ears of ity of women a wave of was scholar cripture f ants. said ed aga able pr of a m in pol an m e first eight y the equal dign ter at a change in elected and former se The bishop al ge o now in iminat ection t ity ersal Hum ti-Semitis where, for th ee- stress rtance of Women bar the still — so patriarch tor a minary rec- so lists five ar gua tes are discr in obj did no he rev lth and ‘New’ an had a lot of fr and the impo MARKET — en’s w me Jan. 27 dded his voic of concern r eas Lan ri gen- icipate that T f Hea rt from life, LeClerc and men ciety, AT STREET ational Wom ould say stag after serving e to that of en aised by oilsa es fourth o part cilities ob- ment o suppo his rked at vari- hurch and so N BARTER arch 8, Intern nant — alm ronmental or vi- velopm nds de- iliti the of t and fa es with epart strong who n of his mother wo omen in the c f WOME rince, Haiti, M e global eco- waters ost 20 years ganizations o ent: ssib n dures, ploye ng. D drew cates, City/Town:______Prov:_____ P.C.:______celebratio dom as age w witness o Port-au-P ed that th of the Rom as the ra pposing po . . ratio ce e em undi ices advo This year’s port them. At said that the eet market in und has warn tries an chair of pid pace of o — Destru are “. e tion. modat deral f Serv rights faith s jobs to sup the pope peaks str al Monetary F and 22 coun Catholic the Russian ilsands develo ction of the uples nsla accom lose fe rtion- uctive in the Jewish ou t shoplifting ntly women s e Internation oorest nations Church when Ort ment. p- forest ec boreal rch co tra ies could al abo reprod Purim e was caugh he lives of sai Day. Th the world’s p year to cope c he hodox Churc osystem. terchu elop a ionar ctions sever hite e 5 ew wave of eight, h tion. His t has shifted to l funding this alled for a w h’s The le — In to dev Miss r- je ne of w W , pag lls amidst a n t to an institu more loudly. nomic crisis n in additiona orldwide department tter was relea Potential da pting speaks eno t is o the ne n IOUS fa d was sen even resa of $25 billio co for ecu- t sed Jan. 25 mage to th ttem ich Argan ade I res rn. I LIG ys an fit, “and I other Te s much as uncil of b he feast o , basca e Atha- a . wh WCR/ m to easu vertu RE mitism, sa eclared un age had M ay need a ishops to CNS/R menical re f the Con River wat e . . forts ed m to o — anti-Se mother was d “Our ghter of m t reform PATRIAR euters lations. In Pa version of St. ershed. nguag our ous ef relat king hanged udin. le.” humble dau he downturn. heir ancient i CH KIRILL that p ul. — The e la day in ald m ative is see ation c abbi James R called incurab Calcutta; the of with t nstitution. — R ELECTED IN osition, he had normous prod ing to for Reyn rn N House inistr R was way. After by the grace — pa ussian Orthod MOSCOW m It is ind greenh uction of of liv unity ishop he lea and the adm 6 came a runa ania became ge 15 ox Patriarch- et Pope Ben eed a conver ouse gases. s the en — B ays t ages uary, — page 1 He be ad his Alb service in Mo elect Kirill lea edict Bouch sion that rriage ed, ev NARY displ langu - Jan ings — he h scow’s Christ ds a three time ard seeks, no — Heavy co ma t pray CTIO Bay nities of pub umerous beat after be the Saviour C s over the w t from those nsumption of Chris ins T LE udson Solem he cost n ing chosen as athedral past ho work in F ral gas in natu- which rema TITU hill-H ys and t Ru head of the four years. ort McMurra oilsands minin t unity es INUK Churc Sunda . ssian Orthod Moscow-based from “oil y, but — g. le tha ” writ of ed for navut ox Church Jan company exe The creation whi aking, ouleau ary us t of Nu . 27. 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Continued from previous page cause, writing my address in a I write a letter and mail it, I have bars, during which he came to But outside of immediate family, hurry, I’d put A instead of Angela no way of knowing if it will be know Christ, changed his life for - few people know what I do. When I and moved through a list until he before my surname. Initials are received. ever. told one woman what I was doing, got to those he positively hated. not allowed either. Men who have survived a stint In a small way, the “seed” she was taken aback. She said she’d “I’ve finally got to the point where Some months ago he told me in prison have testified to the great sowed in my mind by that National been reading about serial killers there’s nobody left on my hate that a little bird had been flying joy of receiving a letter from a Geographic article has changed who, apparently, have whole fan list!” he wrote jubilantly. around The Row, unable to find its stranger. The guards often tell my life. Maybe not changed, but clubs of adoring women writing to One day we learned that an out - way out. On one hand he felt sorry prisoners that they are forgotten given it an added dimension. I them. Writing love letters! going Illinois governor was plan - for it being trapped, on the other I by the world and that their god has devote a good amount of time to She realized immediately that ning to commute some death sen - know he was glad to see it. abandoned them. The arrival of a prisoners, writing to them or read - my letter writing is entirely differ - tences to life without parole. As I recalled Byron’s poem “The letter speaks to the contrary and ing about them. ent. But following that reaction the discussion about this dragged Prisoner of Chillon” about seven becomes a huge source of encour - Thankfully, my husband and I’ve been wary of talking about on for months, Peter became jit - brothers imprisoned for their faith agement. children have always accepted this to anyone else. tery with the uncertainty. in the dungeon below Lac Leman. Prison Fellowship is another and supported my letter writing. Consequently, few of my friends “I wish they’d just kill me now After seeing his sixth brother die, organization that supports the They’ve never been unduly con - know what I do. That’s fine with and be done with it,” he wrote. “I the surviving one was alone in incarcerated. The founder, Charles cerned that mom corresponds with me. Donnie and Peter and Victoria don’t want to think of spending utter misery and despair. But then: Colson, understands the needs of condemned men. In fact, my old - May know. That’s what matters. the next 30 or 40 years in jail any - “A light broke in upon my brain; it prisoners, having been locked up est daughter was so taken with the And Christ knows. As he said way.” was the carol of a bird.” for a few months for his part in idea that she now has a prison pen quite clearly: “I was in prison, and I scolded him. “Life is not A recent letter from Donnie Watergate. His experience behind pal. you visited me.” lived in chunks of 10 or 20 years, told me, “Bird is getting thin. He but one day at a time.” don’t sing much anymore.” He wrote back: “Thanks for Donnie has faith in God and he reminding me — that’s one of the remains surprisingly upbeat and basic tenets of Buddhism!” hopeful. A born-again Christian, A few weeks later another let - he was baptized in a water trough ter came. Peter had been given in the prison yard and never fails life. to end his letters with some uplift - Unlike Peter, who admits he is ing Bible verse. a murderer, Donnie claims to be The organization Human Writes innocent. I believe him. But so publishes a quarterly magazine that many things have gone wrong in showcases sketches, paintings and his case there seems little likeli - poems of those on The Row. hood he’ll walk free any time Reading the magazine, I think soon. I suspect being black does - there is good — much good — in n’t help. Nor his limited educa - even the worst of us. Many of these tion. people are guilty of terrible acts of “I made it to Grade 12 and I’m violence, but that does not mean the most educated person in my they are devoid of any finer feel - family,” he told me. ings. I am often awed by the depths He writes a lot about life on of love and tenderness revealed in The Row. Everything is drab, grey some of their writings. cement — walls and floor. The My newest pen pal is awaiting cell has two beds, separated by a trial in the Vanier Centre for combination sink/toilet. A naked Women in Milton, Ont. I’ll call her bulb provides the only light. Food Victoria May. Also in Vanier is comes through a slit in the door Mary Wagner, with whom I corre - known as the beanhole, “because spond. She and fellow pro-life Catholic Register/Jim O’Leary beans, in one form or another, is activist Linda Gibbons have spent REACHING OuT — Angela Saldanha reads a letter from one of the death row inmates. what we get most often.” By the years behind bars, on and off, for time food gets to him “it’s not their defence of the pre-born. Like even warm.” Donnie, who once asked me to CRC to organize more events Last Christmas Donnie was send him a photo of the grass in my moved temporarily to another jail. backyard because he’d “almost Continued from page 1 event to be more delicate. In a Abitibi’s Lac-Simon, Pikogan and There “they gave me the first hot forgotten what grass looks like,” context where many groups Kitcisakik communities. meal I’d had in two years,” he Victoria May has requested a photo conscientious about First Nation demand more outspoken apolo - “I’ve been in Abitibi for seven wrote. of flowers to brighten up her room. heritage. And more respectful gies from Pope Francis to the First years, and I learn every day. An Communication with the guy I also send letters to prisoners I too.” Nations, and in which Catholic event like today, it’s important for in the next cell is by an elaborate learn about through Voice of the He believes that the residential religious communities played an meeting people,” she said, noting system of knocks on the wall. Martyrs (VOM), a non-profit, schools and the Truth and Rec- important role in the administra - that it took her decades to change “Last night I got some awe - international organization that onciliation Commission have had tion of residential schools, she her outlook on the First Nations. some happy knocks,” he wrote. supports persecuted Christians a sensitizing effect. wondered for a moment whether “I had no interest in them. Then I He doesn’t say much about the worldwide. Many men and women Stephanie Gravel, associate the Canadian Religious Confer - gradually changed. Today, I see guards but I gather they’re not who risk their lives to spread the director of regional programming ence would prefer not to venture how good they are.” hired for their kind-heartedness. Good News have been tortured and leadership support, was in too much into these issues. Of all the religious partici - They returned the first letter I and imprisoned. VOM publishes charge of the initiative. “To avoid this, I wanted to pants, only one person was of wrote because it had an address lists of those it can verify are in “It’s really the first official make a festive gathering. We go to native descent. Lina Dubois sticker. Stickers aren’t allowed. prison and asks people to write let - meeting to talk with the natives,” meet natives, eat native meals, works at the Har’el Bible Centre Another letter was returned be - ters to encourage them. But when she said. “It is truly an official call discuss, pray,” she said. “It allows in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, to action of Canada’s Truth and first steps to inspire. We did not Que. Although she has Abenaki Reconciliation Commission, which want to delve into guilt.” roots, she said that was not neces - Advertise calls for awareness and conscience She said the Canadian Reli - sarily what motivated her to travel raising, and mutual understanding gious Conference eventually will to Wendake. in the meetings to begin the dialogue.” try to organize activities in which “Every time I come here, I feel In 2015, the commission de - more First Nations members will good, as if it were my house or my Easter Issue tailed the treatment of Aboriginal participate. roots. I wanted to know more of the children in residential schools In the meantime, dozens of about the native life, especially supported by the Canadian gov - nuns and religious, as well as the Huron-Wendat Nation,” she ernment but administered by reli - some laypeople, devoted March explained. “It is a place where it is Prairie Messenger gious organizations, including the 10 to meeting indigenous people. possible to exchange, to under - Catholic Church. The commission Several of them already work side stand one another. The neighbour described what happened to the by side with First Nation peoples, is not dangerous, he is rather April 5, 2017 children and their communities as whether in pastoral care, educa - rewarding. But it is not easy to let “cultural genocide.” tion or health. oneself be displaced and ques - Deadline for ads: March 27, 2017 Gravel said she expected the Every year Sister Renelle tioned by the other.” Lasalle, a member of the Sisters of The Canadian Religious Con - Ph: 306-682-1772 Fax: 306-682-5285 the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and ference will hold a similar event at email: [email protected] Vaillancourt is editor-in-chief of Mary, takes 40 teenagers from the Wabano Centre in Ottawa Presence info based in Montreal. Granby, Que., to meet members of April 1. 12 Prairie Messenger DEEPENING OUR FAITH March 22, 2017 Once we know, we can’t go back to blissful ignorance

Breaking Open the Ordinary

Sandy Prather

“I’m surprised at you, a woman, what he was talking about. Critical not using inclusive language.” The Scripture study revealed the ancient comment, scrawled in red ink on world to operate under the social my term paper, took me by surprise. system of patriarchy, the absolute What, I wondered, was my priest- and unaccountable power of the professor talking about? As a first- male over wives, children, and year theology student, woefully property. The rights and roles of ignorant of theological jargon and men and women both were defined church lingo in general, I had no by this system and the various laws, clue what he meant. What theologi - mores and language reflected it. As cal faux pas had I committed? well, the texts were shown to be When questioned, he explained that inescapably androcentric, meaning the exclusive use of masculine pro - that they were male-centred in sub - nouns was exclusionary of women ject matter, authorship and perspec - Design Pics and reflective of a patriarchal and tive. The focus on the masculine is MALE-CENTREd PERSPECTIVE — Biblical texts are inescapably androcentric, meaning that they are androcentric bias. I thought he was disclosed by these numbers alone: male-centred in subject matter, authorship and perspective, writes Sandy Prather. “The focus on the mas - joking. It seemed an overly sensi - in the Old Testament, there are culine is disclosed by these numbers alone: in the Old Testament, there are 1,426 personal names given; 1,315 tive reaction to the embarrassingly 1,426 personal names given; 1,315 of these are men; only 111 women are named. That’s less than 10 per cent. Is it that women had no stories loud feminist critique that was pop - of these are men; only 111 women of God’s action in their lives, or is it that their stories were not considered important?” ular at the time, and one I didn’t are named. That’s less than 10 per buy. Why should I change my lan - cent. Is it that women had no stories such a system, I couldn’t go back. support unfair hiring practices and to blissful ignorance. guage simply because some women of God’s action in their lives, or is it Once I knew, I couldn’t not know. unequal pay in too many countries And so it is with all of us with felt excluded? that their stories were not consid - For many, including my profes - and women are voiceless and too many issues. What is it that we I laugh at my reaction now, and ered important? sor, it was the consciousness-raising refused positions of power in too don’t we know? To what injus - am grateful for that first step of Or consider this bias: the Tenth of the feminist movement of the many places. Patriarchal systems tices are we insensitive because “consciousness-raising.” It took commandment reads, “Thou shalt 1960s and 1970s that awoke them still victimize women, treating them we have never seriously consid - several more years of theological not covet thy neighbour’s wife.” At to the hidden, pervasive and as chattels and as the property of ered them or because they are out - study before I truly understood face value, that commandment destructive effects of a male-domi - fathers or husbands, unable to side our everyday reality? First doesn’t apply to half the population. nated world. With an awakened attend school, given away in Nations people have persistently Women have to edit it to make it fit consciousness, the discriminatory arranged marriages or sold into called a privileged white culture Prather, BEd, MTh, is a teacher — and we do, for the most part sub - and prejudicial attitudes toward slavery. Sex selection that favours to acknowledge the systemic and facilitator in the areas of faith consciously and automatically. As I women that kept them as second- males, the aborting of female fetus - oppression and racism that has and spirituality. She was executive studied not only Scripture, but class citizens became obvious. That es and female infanticide are com - tainted our history, still affects our director at Star of the North church history and our faith tradi - women had to fight for the right to mon in certain parts of the world. present and is shaping our future. Retreat Centre in St. Albert, Alta., tion with newly critical eyes, I saw vote or own property seems ludi - “I am surprised that you, a Our LGBTQ brothers and sisters for 21 years and resides in the same patriarchal bias embedded crous to us now, but that’s because woman do not use inclusive lan - have decried the prejudice and Sherwood Park with her husband, in the culture that surrounded me. our consciousness has been raised. guage.” Once you know, you can’t hate that condones violence and Bob. They are blessed with four Newly awakened to the negative Such awareness is not the norm, not know. Once started on the path permits discrimination against children and 10 grandchildren. consequences that flowed from however. Discriminatory laws still to awareness, one cannot go back them. Voices are raised on behalf of our beautiful earth pointing to the devastation we are inflicting Turn focus of Passion to redemption through life upon it as we ignore climate change and pollution. Pope By Joe Foy gus tine disagreed, and mounted a An alternative understanding his teaching would lead. But he Francis and others are decrying powerful counter argument: If God might unfold in this way: the persevered. I can believe he knew the plight of refugees and immi - As Lent moves toward Holy was that angry, God would not Creat ing God loves all creation, he would be crucified if he stayed grants as they wander unwelcome Week, the Passion of Jesus looms have sent Jesus in the first place! including all of us. God’s sadness the course. And that his Father and abandoned. And we go about larger in our liturgy and our reflec - However, in spite of Augustine’s at our human infidelities and fail - knew he would be crucified, and our lives oblivious. tions. Most Roman Catholic great influence, the idea of a divine ures, while real, is always over - wept to see it happen, just as we But once you know, you can’t churches have Stations of the debt did not disappear. come by that overwhelming love do. But I do not believe that God not know. Once you start to hear, Cross prominently displayed, and In the 1100s, it emerged again in (see the Parable of the Forgiving planned Jesus’ crucifixion, or once you become aware of the our traditional Good Friday servic - the western church (actually, Eng - Father, sometimes misleadingly wanted it, or was pleased by it, or injustice, feel the pain, and experi - es are centred on Jesus’ suffering land), as a full-blown theory that called the Parable of the Prodigal was appeased by it, or that divine ence the wrong, you can’t go back. and death. Many are moved by that the death of God’s divine son was Son). His love is unconditional and anger or justice required it . What Your consciousness has been raised cruel ending to his life. And many the price required by God to satisfy abiding, and induced the Divine kind of a God would that be? and now you know. Casual racial have asked themselves, at one time his justice, and that Jesus’ painful Word to become human to signal In our parish we used to sing slurs become shocking epithets; or another, “Why on earth did God death on the cross is the means of the depth and breadth of that love. during lenten services: Jesus, “by homophobic jokes are offensive allow that to happen?” that appeasement. It was articulated Jesus’ mission was to show us a thy holy cross thou has redeemed and crude; wasting water and leav - Last year I heard a sermon pro - by St. Anselm of Canterbury, an new, better Way (see Acts 9, where the world.” Now I sing, instead, ing lights on are unjust acts; exclu - posing that God allowed it to hap - influential theologian of the early his early disciples are called “fol - Jesus “by your brave and generous sionary policies are unchristian. pen because God’s justice re quired Middle Ages. This theory is, at root, lowers of the Way”). life you have redeemed the world.” Such awakening changes us: repayment, some restitution, for all a legal theory: if a crime has been After a rather short life, Jesus Dying was a part of that living, of consciousness informs conscience. the sins we and our ancestors have committed, there must be retribu - died. In itself, this should be no course. As will mine be for me, and An awakened consciousness sensi - committed. And only God’s divine tion for wrongs committed, and surprise: death is an integral part yours be for you. But let’s not em - tizes us and we see the sin we did - son could adequately repay that restitution in kind. Therefore, an of being human. From the mo - phasize that dying at the expense of n’t know was there. We see our divine debt. The Incarnation was, offended Divinity cannot accept ment of his birth, the Son was his living. Instead, I prefer to own part in perpetuating that sin therefore, to this purpose, and it less than divine restitution for the dying, as are we all. Jesus, whom believe that it was Jesus’ dedica - and we feel the call to conversion. was precisely Jesus’ cruel death on offences committed. Centuries we profess to be truly human, had tion, fidelity, and compassion; his Lent is about both conversion the cross that achieved it. I find this later, Anselm’s view was strongly to die because all humans die. honesty and bravery; his stories, his and transformation. We can get view to be widespread among reinforced by some leaders of the However, Jesus did not just die; teachings, and his example; his pretty comfortable with the sins we Cath olics and Protestants alike Reformation. And today it is still he was murdered most cruelly as a friendships, leadership and loyalty; live with, the everyday petty trans - and, in a sense, it is an ecumenical reflected in many of our lenten and consequence of his faithfulness to his love of his God, of his people gressions which we readily and understanding of Redemption. Holy Week prayers, reflections and his determination to preach a new and of his fellow humans; his regularly confess. Perhaps it’s time The idea that God required the hymns. Way. Now, the world God has creat - refusal to capitulate in the face of to ask for something new — a con - death of (the divine) Jesus to It seems to me, however, to ed for us is a world in which actions rejection by his own peoples’ lead - sciousness-raising that allows us to appease God’s divine anger and embody a dark view of our God, have consequences. If you speak ers, and his determination to carry see where we are blind and know satisfy God’s divine justice sur - one increasingly unattractive to truth to power, you will pay for it. If on in spite of the danger that clear - the sin we are impervious to. Per- faced in the early church. St. Au - Christians and non-Christians you upset the established order, you ly generated. In sum, it was his liv - haps this Lent, we might pray for alike. It certainly seems to clash will pay for it. And in a Roman ing and how he did that living (and, the grace to see what we need to with Pope Francis’ repeated claim world, you would be crucified for it. yes, including his dying) that know, and then, knowing, can’t not Foy lives in Hantsport, N.S. that “Mercy is the name of God.” Surely Jesus could see where redeemed us. know. March 22, 2017 DEEPENING OUR FAITH Prairie Messenger 13 Jesus has the power to call us out of our tombs

The second command is a command issued to the reflect on your experiences of times of crisis when some - believing community. We are to unbind others and set them one has been there for you, even in times of grief when free. Now, at the precipice of the passion, death and resurrec - another has stood by your side and wept with you. Or on Liturgy tion of Jesus, let us consider metaphorically how these mysteries play out in our own lives. and Life Part of the human condition is to find ourselves stuck in a tomb, a grave, a dead-end street. Here we are first meant to identify those mysteries of sin, Deacon Bob Williston addiction, slavery, self-centredness, anti-life forces that bring us to a place where we are spiritually “dead.” In the midst of that, we are called to listen to There is one central theme to the Lazarus story: Jesus is the voice of the only one who has the power to save the light and life of the world. John announces at the beginning us. Jesus calls us out of that tomb. “Mary, Fred, Patti, of the story that Lazarus’ death was yet another one of the Harry, Lazarus, come out!” “signs” for God’s glory to shine through Jesus. The all-impor - If we can somehow respond to this invitation, there tant thing to remember is that John is preparing us to hear and is a community of faith that can complete the transfor - understand the meaning of Jesus’ passion and death. The mation by unbinding us. (Have you ever felt bound up church places this reading at the end of Lent just before we and tied up in knots emotionally or spiritually?) hear the reading of the passion on Palm/Passion Sunday. Following this path leads us then to the part of In John’s Gospel, the Lazarus story is the longest narra - the unbinding of others and setting them free. Each of these the positive side, when you have felt nourished, chal - tive next to the passion event itself. Both stories have one “places” can be found in our life. We are at times in the lenged, or healed through another person. St. Paul in the who is dead for three days. Both have bereaving loved ones tomb. We feel dead inside. No options, unfree, bound up second reading calls this the Spirit of life. Even though we confused and mourning their loss. Both come back to life. tight as a coil. We have been called out of that tomb by the run up against the wall of our and other’s mortality, we The difference is that Lazarus’ recovery is a resuscitation one whose voice is calling us into new life. This can be a have within us a spirit of life, which is the life of Jesus. called forth by Jesus. Lazarus will once again enter the door - We also have found ourselves in the role of the believ - way to death at life’s end. On the other hand, the recovery of Ezekiel 37:12-14 ing community of faith when we have loved in a way that Fifth Sunday of Lent Jesus is through resurrection, life after death. Still, both are Psalm 130 unbinds others and sets them free. The journey from death accomplished by the power of the Spirit of God from within. Romans 8:8-11 to new life is difficult to understand. Sometimes it requires April 2, 2017 In the Lazarus story there are two powerful moments John 11:1-45 of us a leap of faith or an act of heroic surrender to some - of healing and life. The first is heeding the voice of Jesus thing greater than our minds and hearts can get around. In when he commands: “Lazarus, come out!” As Lazarus challenge because there is something comfortable and the end, we are left with this one act of faith: “I believe in comes out from the tomb, Jesus issues another command: familiar about the tombs we’ve created for ourselves. As the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.” “Unbind him and set him free!” This is John’s way of painful as these tombs are, they feel comfortable, pre - At the end of my life, I want to hear that gentle, loving describing the role of Jesus in a person’s faith and the role dictable, and safe. We might see the world outside of the voice of Jesus calling me to that great “something more.” of the believing community. Jesus is fulfilling the promise tomb as hostile, uncontrollable and fear bids us stay where You see, part of understanding the mystery of Jesus’ death of God made by Ezekiel in the first reading: “I will open we are even though it is a painful and deathly place. means the willingness to wrestle with our own death and your graves and bring you up from your graves.” However, if we trust the call of Jesus and venture out the death of those we love and cherish. into that world outside the tomb, we take the chance that This deep and mysterious story is John’s way of prepar - the community of faith will respond to their call by Jesus to ing us for the central story of the gospels, Jesus’ passion, Williston gives parish missions and is a former mission - unbind us and through them we may experience healing, death and resurrection. As we are able to face sin and death ary with the Redemptorists. He is also a song writer and new life and a new freedom. The community of faith is and hear Jesus’ voice calling us out from our dark night, we recording artist. meant to be there for us when we need them. You might will then be able to walk with him through Holy Week. Everything we have is a gift: nothing is ever really ours

resentful because he had to ask our culture and against some of don’t provide for ourselves and permission of his abbot if he want - our strongest inclinations. Both nothing is ours by right. In ed anything: “I used to think it was from without and from within, we When I was in the Oblate silly, me, a grown man, supposedly hear voices telling us: If you can - novitiate, our novice master tried an adult, having to ask a superior if not take what you desire then to impress upon us the meaning Exile I wanted something. If I wanted a you’re weak, and weak in a double of religious poverty by making us new shirt, I would have to ask the way: First, you’re a weak person, write inside of every book that Ron Rolheiser, OMI abbot for permission to buy it. I too timid to fully claim what’s was given us the Latin words: ad thought it was ridiculous that a yours. Second, you’ve been weak - usum . Latin for: for use . The idea grown man was reduced to being ened by religious and moral scru - was that, although this book was like a child.” ples so as to be incapable of seiz - given to you for your personal Everything is gift. That’s a prin - us aware of that. Nothing comes to But there came a day when he ing the day. To not claim what is use, you ultimately did not own ciple that ultimately undergirds all us by right. felt differently: “I am not sure of yours, to not claim ownership, is it. It was just yours temporarily. spirituality, all morality, and every This isn’t something we auto - all the reasons, but one day I came not a virtue but a fault. We were then told this was true commandment. Every thing is gift. matically know. During a class to realize that there was a purpose It was those kinds of voices that of everything else given us for Nothing can be ultimately claimed some years ago a monk shared and wisdom in having to ask per - this monk was hearing during his our personal use, from our tooth - as our own. Genuine moral and with me how, for all the early years mission for everything. I came to younger years and because of them brushes to the shirts on our religio us sensitivi ty should mak e of his religious life, he had been realize that nothing is ours by right he felt resentful and immature. backs. They were not really ours, and nothing may be taken as But Jesus wouldn’t echo these but merely given us for our use. owned. Everything’s a gift. Every- voices. The gospels make it pretty One of the young men in that thing needs to be asked for. We clear that Jesus would not look on novitiate eventually left the order need to be grateful to the universe so much that is assertive, aggres - and became a medical doctor. He A gift for and to God just for giving us a lit - sive, and accumulative within our remains a close friend and he tle space. Now, when I ask permis - society, despite the praise and envy once shared with me how even RCIA candidates sion from the abbot because I need it receives, and see this as today, as a doctor, he still writes something, I no longer feel like a admirable, as healthily seizing the those words, ad usum , inside all newlywed couples child. Rather, I feel like I’m prop - day. I doubt too that Jesus would his books: “I don’t belong to a erly in tune with the way things share our admiration of the rich and religious order and don’t have the should be, in a gift-oriented uni - famous who claim, as by right, vow of poverty, but that principle Pastors, parish councils, or CWL and KC councils: verse within which none of us has their excessive wealth and status. our novice master taught us is Give the newlywed couples or RCIA candidates of a right to ultimately claim anything When Jesus states that it is harder just as valid for me in the world your parish a gift they will cherish all year. Give them a as one’s own. for a rich person to go to heaven as it is for any professed reli - gift subscription to the Prairie Messenger. This is moral and religious wis - than for a camel to pass through the gious. Ultimately we don’t own dom, but it’s a wisdom that goes eye of a needle, he might have mit - anything. Those books aren’t It costs only $13.00 against the dominant ethos within igated this by adding: “Unless, of mine, really. They’ve been given prepaid tax included course, the rich person, childlike, me, temporarily, for my use. asks permission from the universe, Nothing belongs to anybody and Using the Cana Gift Plan, you pay only 1/3 the cost and we pay Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, from the community, and from it’s good never to forget that!” the rest. and award-winning author, is God, every time he buys a shirt!” It’s not a bad thing as an adult to Send for Cana Gift Order Forms now: president of the Oblate School of When Jesus tells us that children have to ask permission to buy a Cana Gifts, Prairie Messenger, Theology in San Antonio, Texas. and the poor go to heaven more new shirt. It reminds us that the Box 190, Muenster, SK S0K 2Y0 He can be contacted through his easily he is not idolizing either their universe belongs to everyone and Phone: (306) 682-1772 Fax: (306) 682-5285 website: www.ronrolheiser.com. innocence or poverty. He’s idoliz - that all of us should be deeply e-mail: [email protected] Now on Facebook: www.face - ing the need to recognize and admit grateful that it gives us even a little book.com/ronrolheiser our dependence. Ultimately we space. 14 Prairie Messenger FEATURE March 22, 2017 Call for end to poverty: unite all Canadians’ voices

Journey to Justice

Joe Gunn

OK, how would you respond? seems to decrease. . . . You’ve just been asked for advice Your children, now saddled on how to end poverty in your com - with debts from their college stud - munity. What can you suggest? ies, are having trouble finding a You realize that more and more decent job. Earning minimum folks are struggling financially, wage at the local coffee shop helps, and you’ve read in the Prairie but there are no benefits and every - Messenger that up to 4.9 million thing seems to be spent well before people live in poverty in this, one the next payday. Young adults of the world’s wealthiest coun - might as well put off planning for tries. You’ve heard on the news the future — housing prices are so that over 850,000 Canadians used high in the city that they may never a food bank every month in 2016. be able to purchase a home. Your church collects bread and Yet, at the same time, you real - canned goods for the local soup ize things could be worse. kitchen during the weekly Sunday Canadian poverty is more persist - offertory — but when you stop to ent among certain populations. A think about it, this has been done third of all newcomers to Canada CPJ for years. The need just never live below the poverty line. Abo - dIGNITY FOR ALL — Since 2009, Citizens for Public Justice has co-led the Dignity for All campaign, along riginal poverty is shockingly high with Canada Without Poverty, a national organization of people with lived experiences of poverty. Over (69 per cent of First Nations chil - 11,000 individuals and 665 groups (including the bishops, the CWL and many religious congregations) have Gunn is the Ottawa-based dren living on reserves in Sas- supported Dignity for All’s call for a national anti-poverty plan. executive director of Citizens for katchewan, and 76 per cent in Public Justice, www.cpj.ca, a Manitoba, live in poverty). Youth comprise other vulnerable groups. strategy and has begun a national daylong workshops for faith com - member-driven, faith-based public not in school, children who live in So it is remarkable that, for the consultation process. This is some - munities, updating them on the policy organization focused on lone-parent families (45 per cent), first time in our nation’s history, the thing the Catholic bishops and other federal government’s plans for ecological justice, refugee rights unattached older individuals (28.8 federal government is now ready to churches have joined anti-poverty consultation, how they can give and poverty elimination. per cent) and disabled people develop a federal poverty reduction groups in demanding for years! A input, and how they can have historic opportunity now presents impact. Members of Christian, itself — but what specifically will Jewish and Muslim groups were Culture is embedded in victimhood our faith communities propose? invited to share their anti-poverty On Oct. 17, 1996, Canadians advocacy work, and strategize turned on their evening newscast to about how we could all move for - noia of a broken heart not needing hear CBC anchor Peter Mansbridge ward to ensure that the federal to mend itself with defences set begin, “Good evening. A blistering plan is strong, accountable and off a lady who joined the online attack on governments across the promotes the dignity of all people. Outlooks from conversation “shouting” in caps: country today, from Canada’s Over a five-year period, we “WHAT UTTER DRIVEL . . . Roman Catholic bishops. The issue gathered expert researchers to de - the Inner Life WE ARE MASTERS OF OUR - is poverty. The bishops accuse gov - sign the best possible poverty re - SELVES . . . UNIQUE BEINGS ernments of using the most vulner - duction plan. Recommendations WHO THINK . . . GOD HAS able people in society as human were developed in six policy Cedric Speyer GIVEN US FREEDOM OF fodder in the battle against deficits. areas, including income security, CHOICE — NOT TO FORCE And the bishops weren’t the only housing, health, food security, jobs OUR HEARTS INTO SUBMIS - ones speaking out. . . .” Their pas - and early childhood education and “God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays SION . . . WAKE UP . . . YOU toral letter, entitled, “The Struggle care. Dignity for All’s model anti- open.” HAVE A CHOICE . . . IT’S Against Poverty: A Sign of Hope poverty plan can be read at — Hazrat Inayat Khan YOUR CALL NOT GOD’S . . . I for Our World,” explained the https://dignityforall.ca/our-plan/ DON’T BLAME MY HEART - issues and recommended action. Some among us might find it That quote by the founder of the punishment, invoking Heming - BREAKS ON GOD.” Similar resolve from all faith too daunting to get involved at the Sufi Order in the West (see his book way’s famous perspective: “Life Given all these projections di- communities is needed in 2017. policy level, telling government The Art of Being and Becoming ) breaks everyone, and afterward rected at God, for better or for Since 2009, Citizens for Public what they could or should do to was posted on LinkedIn of all plac - some are strong at the broken worse, we can see why all of it has Justice has co-led the Dignity for reduce the burden of poverty in es and produced some remarkable places.” For a moment in the string to inevitably and necessarily die on All campaign, along with Canada our communities. So CPJ has reactions. Off the top of the com - of comments there was a note of the cross. All the emotional attach - Without Poverty, a national organ - endeavoured to simplify the pro - ments was the charge that it repre - consolation: “I suppose . . . there’s ments of our hearts, as truthful as ization of people with lived expe - cess, making it easier for you to sented a “very old testament, venge - a payoff — a larger self, a more those might be, still leave us seeing riences of poverty. Over 11,000 share your concerns and ideas ful, jealous God.” The dis cus sion compassionate heart — to which through a glass darkly, through in dividuals and 665 groups (in - with government in just a few which followed revealed how em - we are led by suffering.” veils concealing our spiritual heart, cluding the bishops, the CWL and minutes. You can act, expressing bedded we have become in a culture Yet still no comprehension of which is neither created nor de - many religious congregations) your views online, just by going of victimhood, and how the hard - the way we are loved into fuller stroyed by the passage of time. The have supported Dignity for All’s to www.cpj.ca/CPRS ships of soul growth can make no and deeper being through our per - resurrected heart, the everlasting call for a national anti-poverty No poverty plan will be imme - sense from the ego’s point of view. sonal crucifixions. “It sounds like essence and perfume of our per- plan, based on legislation that can diately perfect, all-encompassing, Comments that ensued: “Re - assault, not suffering! There’s a son hood, is exactly that which ensure robust targets, timelines or successful. But the federal gov - peated abuse masquerading as huge difference between being opens and stays open after all the and publicly reporting on progress ernment must hear from thou - freedom? Please!!!” Someone then assaulted and suffering an injury tragic closures have deeply disap - (or lack thereof) in reducing sands of Canadians before the tried to offset the notion that God and the idea that God would do pointed and disillusioned our poverty. June deadline, that action on would be exercising vengeance or that ‘for our own good’ just does - strategies for happiness. For our part, Citizens for poverty reduction is the highest of n’t strike a resonate chord. Sad we Thank God that God doesn’t Public Justice has organized three moral and political priorities. need to accept pain to cease it. A depend on anyone “getting it” Speyer is a Benedictine Oblate lesson does not need to be deliv - intellectually. Yet it’s “nice to as well as an author, subject mat - ered with pain and suffering.” have” and even LinkedIn debates ter expert for e-therapy, clinical That sent the discussion into a can be broken and opened on consultant and director of long sidebar about the difference another level: “Not God as the InnerView Guidance International between pain and suffering from a punitive parent. God as the source (IGI). He also directs a documen - Buddhist point of view. In sum - of that compassion . . . impossible Advertise in the tary series entitled GuideLives for mary, when we are over-identified to close (the heart) once it’s been the Journey: Ordinary Persons, with the story of our pain, it transformed in this way, surely?” Prairie Messenger Extraordinary Pathfinders. http:// becomes the kind of suffering that Yes, open even unto the last Monday - Friday 8:30 - 5 p.m. www.guidelives.ca/ Connect with reinforces the self tightly contract - licks comment capping off the Ph. 306-682-1772 Fax 306-682-5285 Cedric on https://www.facebook. ed around its own importance. LinkedIn string about the meaning com/cms94 or via cms94@hot - Something about the confusion involved: “THE JURY IS STILL email: [email protected] mail.com between surrendering to the meta - OUT. . . .”

March 22, 2017 FEATURE Prairie Messenger 15 Catholic-Muslim dialogue needs wider public awareness

Saritoprak, a professor and holder their sacred texts, pray, and seek to relate the dialogue’s formal theo - of the Beddiuzaman Said Nursi serve the poor,” said McElroy. logical reflections to the larger chair in Islamic studies at Jesuit- “These parallel pathways are faith communities that the partici - Challenge of run John Carroll University in forged by common in sights.” pants represent. Cleveland, spoke on “An Islamic Nevertheless, he noted, the “How can we broadly convey Theological Approach to the doc trinal elements that separate this deepened level of friendship Ecumenism Essence and Attributes of God.” the two faiths are not minor, and and truth to Catholics and Mus lims He described three categories said there should be four charac - within our nation? It does little pas - Thomas Ryan, CSP for the divine attributes with ex - teristics to their dialogue: toral good for a national dialogue amples for each: the essence of — It must reflect an overriding to focus on theological themes if God (power, almighty); actual sense of friendship among the par - the pastoral life of our members is Regional Catholic-Muslim dia - in Christian Scriptures as well. activities of God (mercy, anger); ticipants. not affected,” McElroy said. “We logues over the past 20 years “have “The beautiful names of attributes related to God’s beauty — It must reflect honesty in will have to create new structures been open and honest, appreciating Father, Son and Holy Spirit,” and kindness (generosity and delineating the differences in the that ensure that the dialogue our commonalities and being hon - noted Griffith, “are the primary compassion). two traditions. responds to the relations between est about our differences,” said names of God that appear in our In a discussion period, Bishop — Participants must keep our followers with each other.” Muzammil Siddiqi of the Islamic Christian holy Scriptures. And the Gregory J. Mansour of the Maro - before them a sense of awe at the He added: “The future of the Shura Council of Southern Cali- theological formulas that have nite Eparchy in Brooklyn, New depth and beauty of expression of world depends on peace between fornia. evolved over the centuries in York, and chair of Catholic Relief key elements in their faiths and Muslims and Christians. It de - “We have to bring it to the church councils represent our Services, expressed his conviction practice. pends on love of the one God and wider public in this era of fear and efforts to understand these names that the time has come to turn the — There must be a concern to love of neighbour.” mistrust,” he added. of God.” bilateral process of dialogue into a He made the comments as Griffith said that talking about trilateral process involving Jews, Catholic and Muslim leaders and God’s names and attributes can be Christians and Muslims together. scholars met March 7 - 8 for the an occasion for Christians to say, “The once-thought ‘impossi - National Catholic-Muslim Dia - “You think we Christians go too ble’ real collaboration between logue at the Catholic Theological far, but we don’t think you Mus- Jews, Christians and Muslims is Union in Chicago. The dialogue is lims go far enough. However, if now very doable,” he said. co-sponsored by the Committee our differences cannot find a reso - Chicago Cardinal Blase J. on Ecumenical and Inter-religious lution, they can at least find a bet - Cupich is the Catholic co-chair of Affairs of the U.S. Conference of ter understanding of how we come the national dialogue. The Muslim Catholic Bishops. to what we believe.” co-chair is Sayyid Syeed, director The 33 participants took on the In his response to Griffith’s of the Islamic Society of North complex topic of the names of presentation, Irfan Omar, an asso - America’s Office of Interfaith and God that are used in both reli - ciate professor of theology at Community Alliances. gions. The dialogue itself was not Jesuit-run Marquette University The USCCB’s Committee on open to the public, but a public in Milwaukee, reflected that what Ecumenical and Inter-religious session was held March 8. is of most importance is that all Affairs has co-sponsored three During the dialogue, the pre - the divine names used by Muslims regional Catholic-Muslim dia - senter on the Catholic side, Rev. and Christians honour the one logues for over two decades — Sidney Griffith of The Catholic God of all creation, the God of mid-Atlantic, Midwest and West University of America in Wash - Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Moses Coast. In February 2016, the com - ington, noted how the 99 names of and Mary. mittee announced the launch of a God which Muslims draw from Pim Valkenberg, a professor of national dialogue. their Scriptures and honour in religion and culture at The Catho- Addressing the session open to praying with beads call Christians lic University of America, made the public were San Diego Bishop to examine their own Scriptures the point that, for Christians, talk - Robert W. McElroy, co-chair of more deeply to see where these ing about the Trinity is a question the USCCB West Coast Catholic- names for God find representation of who Jesus Christ is. “Jesus Muslim Dialogue, and Sherman influenced the ideas that Christians Jackson, a professor of religion have about God,” he said. “For and American studies and ethnici - CNS/Karen Callaway Tom Ryan, CSP, directs the Christians, in God there is relation - ty at the University of Southern Paulist North American Office ality. 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Barefoot and Preaching

Leah Perrault

I have been wading barefoot acle in our car. And people got up into silence for the last several and went to work and drove past me weeks, not having adequate words on the road just the same now, for the weight of things. Just days oblivious to the death of a miracle. after writing about carrying each Her birth was every bit as holy other, our world crashed into as those of my three living chil - silence with the delivery of our dren: anticipated, aching, and real. baby at just 10 weeks. We held her The thing I love about birthing is tiny body and cried. Held by the the way I cannot be anywhere silence. Early in the morning, else, the way that giving birth before the sun rose and our kids takes me over completely. And filled our home with rising this time, I was overtaken by sounds, we named her Claire. death instead of life, a death that Leah Perrault Time seemed to stop with her passed through my body, which I The sun rises, and the neighbourhood greets the day, oblivious to miracles of life and death. heart, but the sun rose anyway. It cannot leave behind. took my breath away that the world There are no adequate words for and friends that will be born this ferent way of feeling God will claim the way of things, that death could be so beautiful without her in the pain of losing a child, no expla - summer and fall. Silence will fill make sense later. Family and follows living, that I am not in it. Without her inside me. When our nation that removes the suffering. the space that would have been her friends have wrapped us in care control of either. Nothing I have oldest was born and we drove her In just 10 short weeks, half of voice crying for us in the night or that we knew but did not know. touched or held, longed for or lost home from the hospital, I remember which we had only hoped for her, fighting with her siblings. Food and help with the laundry, has ever been mine. Everything is being overwhelmed that the whole she had already changed our whole God has been so close in this cards and emails, prayers and a gift for a season. world didn’t stop to notice the mir - world. We imagined the places in season of silence, in colour and thoughts, all of it carrying us for - In simply living her own the house she would occupy, the feelings, shadows and touch. The ward into a future without her in growth, Claire has given us so rearrangement of seating in the car usual words and images that con - our arms, but nonetheless many gifts. Growth in our mar - Perrault is a wife and mom, a and at the kitchen table, the adjust - nect me with the Creator have changed by her. riage around the invitation to love grateful employee of Emmanuel ment of summer vacation plans. fallen away, at least for now. I Six surviving flowers sit on the her. Deep joy at the knowledge of Care, and a speaker, writer and con - Our hearts had already loved her am held in an unfamiliar but kitchen counter from the bouquets her existence. A changed picture sultant at www.leahperrault.com into the sandbox with the cousins wonderful way. Perhaps this dif - that slowly die after her. They pro - of our future and family. An invi - tation to sit with the silence of the mystery we cannot understand. A Globally, women are the heart of change reminder that I need not do any - thing in order to change the world. be long-term.” have been speaking in select The love poured out in response to Globally, there are numerous communities across Canada her life and her death. They are not organizations at work to improve about the status of women in the gifts I would have chosen, but the lives of women and girls. their region. They talk about the they are gifts of this silence that Everyday Plan International Canada is work being done to overcome follows her. doing extensive work globally to discrimination, abuse and pover - And so I whisper into this Theology promote the rights of millions of ty, as well as the important role Silence holding the miracle and girls in developing countries. that international aid plays in misery and mystery of it all: hold Louise McEwan Education is a key component of advancing the human rights of me here in the holiness and rever - the program. “When girls are edu - women and girls. ence of living and dying, and help cated, healthy and empowered, Across the globe, individuals, me to receive the grace of what is Women are at the heart of lors, the project identified a signif - they can lift themselves and every - institutions and organizations are even while we feel the pain of change around the globe. icant gap in opportunities for wom- one around them out of poverty” seeking ways to empower women. what could have been. Locally, a group of socially en who were exploring access to (Plan International website). Even though gender analysis is conscious women designed and education as a means of getting out Development and Peace the impetus for action, the chang - im plemented a project called of poverty. With generous contri - (D&P), the official international es wrought in the lives of women “Women Creating Change: Work - butions from a number of organi - development arm of the Canadian benefit everyone. Are you ing Together for Economic zations, WCC created the Stepping Catholic Church, is working with These collective and collabora - Oppor tunity” (WCC). The pur - Out Bursary to help with funding partner organizations in countries tive efforts illustrate the need and Moving? pose of the project, funded by the gaps. Recipients of the bursary worldwide to secure the rights of the desire for more equity and jus - Please let us know a month Status of Women, was to “deter - work with an employment coun - women. D&P is highlighting the tice at home and abroad. “Funda - in advance. mine and address barriers to wom - sellor to identify goals, learn about work of women in overcoming mentally, we are still struggling to Write to: en achieving economic security the range of services and funding injustice in this year’s Share Lent respect the dignity of the human Circulation Dept. Prairie Messenger and stability.” The project’s re- available, and determine where a campaign, Women at the Heart of person,” said Ann Godderis, from Box 190 search identified low wages, ac - the WCC project. bursary would fill in im portant Change. Muenster, Sask. S0K 2Y0 cess to education, childcare, trans - gaps. Jan Morton, director of the Mike Bouchier, a Development From one small village to the [email protected] portation and housing as barriers Greater Trails Skill Centre and a and Peace parish representative, next, women are at the heart of Undeliverable papers cost twice to economic and social well-being member of the project team, explains this year’s theme. change, shaping a brighter future as much to return. for local women. describes the bursary as “a small “Women at the Heart of Change fVor all pe ople. With the research completed, resource that makes a big differ - conjures up more than just the the project leaders cast about for ence to the women who receive it.” desire to reiterate the centrality of practical solutions to overcome Morton speaks enthusiastically women as an engine of change. It some of the barriers that keep about the project’s Mining and is also to open people’s hearts dur - Prairie Messenger women in poverty. They are mak - Refining for Women (MR4W) ing this season of Lent to the suf - ing strides in education and non- program. Working closely with ferings, injustices and obstacles Vocation Issue traditional areas of employment Teck Metals Trail Operation and faced, every single day, by mil - for women. Bock and Associates, experts in lions of women and girls all over April 26, In consultation with local edu - workplace training, MR4W has the world.” cation and employment counsel - developed and is delivering an Through its annual Share Lent 2017 innovative mentorship program campaigns, D&P seeks to raise that supports the retention and awareness about injustice. It Deadline: April 14 Trail, B.C., resident Louise advancement of women in non- seeks to prod the conscience into McEwan is a freelance writer, reli - traditional roles. a response, to comfort the afflict - Contact advertising gion columnist and catechist. She “The program was designed to ed and afflict the comfortable, as Ph. 306-682-1772 has degrees in English and theolo - support women but also with a someone once said of the Chris - gy and is a former teacher. She view to improving opportunity for tian message. To this end, D&P Fax 306-682-5285 blogs at www.faithcolouredglass - everyone,” said Morton. “Teck has been hosting women from es.blogspot.ca. Reach her at has put a lot of heart — and hard Haiti, Colombia and Syria who [email protected] work — into this. The impact will are agents of change. The women email: [email protected] March 22, 2017 CHURCH AT HOME Prairie Messenger 17 It’s important to be judicious in who deserves trust

couldn’t just send him a wire me they could restore it and hasn’t called back since. transfer without triggering the remove any malware that might No reputable software compa - prohibitive tax he had referred to have been installed. It was a nui - ny will make cold calls to its cus - Around the earlier. Instead, I was to go to the sance, but it was unavoidable, and tomers, the technician at London nearest Wal-Mart and purchase I had backups of my data, so I Drugs told me, and I should never iTunes gift cards to the required hadn’t really lost anything. allow anyone remote access to my Kitchen Table amount, then he would call me The next day I received a call computer. back and I would give him the from a number I recognized. It was a lesson learned: if you Donald Ward codes from the cards, which he “This is David from Microsoft,” are too trusting, or even too curi - could then cash in. said a strongly accented voice. ous, there is a criminal some - That would be a stupid thing to “You tried this yesterday,” I where who will try to take advan - I couldn’t believe the gall of me was normal. He told me to let do, I told him. He protested. said. tage of it. It’s unfortunate, but the man. First he tried to scam me him know when the display “How else are you going to pay “Yes,” he admitted. He was there is evil in the world, and trust for $3,000, and when that didn’t returned. me my money?” I said I was about to say more, but I called him should not be squandered on the work, he tried it again. When it did, I saw a statement going to go to my bank and check a liar and a fraud and hung up. He undeserving. It started with a telephone from my bank listing a recent my account and message. A man with a pro - deposit from Microsoft of $3,000. see if he had, in nounced accent informed me that It looked authentic, but I told fact, deposited his name was David and he was David I didn’t trust him or the anything. He from Microsoft. They wanted to statement, and hung up. became very exer - refund me $249, he said, because He immediately called back, cised at that, and they were recalling some soft - telling me that if I interrupted the warned me against ware that had glitches in it. They process at this point my hard drive it in the strongest were removing the faulty soft - would be wiped clean and I would terms. I hung up ware from all their customers’ not be able to sign on to my com - and turned off my computers and would offer it puter again because I no longer computer. back to us at a discount once it had the correct password. Of course, there had been debugged. “Now you’re threatening me,” was no $3,000 in I had recently purchased a new I accused. my bank account. laptop and, along with it, a bundle “I’m not threatening you, Mr. It was all a scam. I of software from Microsoft. It did Donald. I’m simply telling you got the bank to have a glitch in it — the email the facts.” issue me a new program had mysteriously erased I rebooted my computer, and card, and I itself after being installed — but I sure enough, it wouldn’t let me changed my online had downloaded a different ver - sign in. At this point I saw no password. sion from the Internet and now it option but to proceed. Unfortunately, I was working fine. I erased the Of course, he said, I would still couldn’t get into my computer, phone message and thought no need to pay back the balance of Design Pics more about it. the $3,000 he had deposited into so I had to take it The next day David called my account — he was referring to to London Drugs, SuSPICIONS — unfortunately there will always be those who prey upon people’s again — five times. I recognized it as “my money” now — but I where they assured trust for nefarious purposes. the number. On the sixth attempt I finally answered, as he was obvi - ously not going to give up. He The challenges, sorrows, and joys of a slow goodbye gave me the same spiel, and I must say he was persuasive. By Alma Barkman walking down the driveway into wonderment brimming in his tears of separation. I felt I was It would be a simple procedure, the vicious northwest wind. hazel eyes. As they grew he had abandoning him even though I he assured me. All I had to do was “There she is!” Fearing for his safety, I called the diligently taught each one of them visited him at the hospital twice download a file from an Internet Whatever else dementia had city police, who kindly escorted piano, giving them lessons and a day, always to be greeted by address he would give me, and he stolen from him, my husband, us to the hospital where he was supervising their practices until all those same three words, “There would take it from there. Leo, still recognized me. From his admitted. four were accomplished pianists. she is!” I was suspicious, of course, but wheelchair beside the nursing sta - I knew this day would come, Of late music had been the one At one point a nurse told me his I was curious, too, and I didn’t see tion, he beamed with delight each but the reality was the difference thing that reassured and comfort - vital signs were so stable he could the harm in starting the process time I stepped off the elevator, and between expecting a punch and ed him when he was confronted live for years. Would he have to and seeing where it led. That was the staff smiled knowingly. feeling the blow. After 58 years of by the many imaginary fears gen - linger in this state for that long? my first mistake. Caring for him at home the past marriage, walking out of the hos - erated by dementia. And how could I continue to bear Downloading and opening five years I had regretfully watched pital carrying Leo’s hat and coat I fell into a fitful sleep, only to up under the emotional strain? the file gave him remote access him inch down that slow decline — the fuzzy one he always loved, keep waking because I thought I Ephesians 6:10 came to mind: “Be to my computer. Still, his actions into the abyss of dementia. At first and the tweed hat that suited him heard Leo roaming about the strong in the Lord and in the power seemed logical, and he sounded there was only his confusion as to so well — I had the feeling he house. Come the morning, I set of his might.” And God was good, so reasonable that I didn’t see the days of the week, then occa - would never come home again. the table for one. No more bowl of providing daily support through the harm in it. That was my sec - sional disorientation, then the fail - And I was right. porridge, two slices of toast with the hospital staff, my family, my ond mistake, for he then reboot - ure to recognize familiar people. My son and I drove home in peanut butter, a cup of decaf cof - friends and my faith. ed my computer from his remote He slowly lost initiative in garden - silence, struggling to maintain fee, cream but no sugar — his The day came when I went to location and that meant I had to ing, house upkeep and car repairs composure. I inserted the key into usual breakfast. visit Leo and found him in physi - sign in again. That gave him — things he had always done. He the back door. Leo’s old work I ran the water into the sink cal distress, his breathing access to my password, which could not remember the deaths of shoes were lying there to greet and imagined I heard him shuf - laboured. I stayed with him long he changed. his siblings and grieved for them me, his ragged old sweater in the fling down the hall to dry dishes. into the night and returned early I protested, but he assured me anew each time I had to explain closet. I fell into our son’s arms It’s what he’d done every day the next morning. My son Lyle that it was necessary, and it was they were gone. As time went by he and sobbed. since he had taken early retire - and his wife, Kathy, kept vigil that only temporary; things would be started to dress himself all topsy- Shuffling down the hall, I ment 30 years ago. Next to God, afternoon while I went home to returned to normal once he had turvy — four sweaters, socks over passed Leo’s music room with the family and music, he loved the grab some sleep. finished. shoes, pyjamas under pants, but he star quilt and the orange thermal suburban bungalow we’d built I was just about to lie down That was when things became was compliant when I would help blanket, the Bose radio preset to together 50 years ago, the garden, when Kathy phoned. “You better truly bizarre. He said he was him. classical and sacred music sta - and his car. come, Mom. There’s been a going to transfer the refund to my The last six months, however, tions, his old Bible ragged from He enjoyed road trips because change.” bank account, but because it was his condition degenerated rapidly, use, a pile of hymn books on his they gave him an excuse to update Ten minutes later I was at his from an offshore location he and on a frigid January night he desk. He had been a church music our cars, and there were many. bedside, but too late. Kathy said would have to deposit some decided to go outside to start the conductor, starting at age 16. Now About three months after he’d he had kept reaching up, reaching $3,000 in order to avoid paying a car, wearing no jacket, mitts, hat there would be no more pleasant been admitted to hospital I was up. Then he opened his eyes wide, certain tax that I had never heard or overshoes. In the interest of mornings as he listened to his asked to sign the paper to put exclaimed, “Angels!” and he was of. safety I had long before swapped favourite songs while I quilted, him in line for a nursing home. gone. “This sounds very suspicious,” his real key for a fake one and nobody to admire my handiwork Despite authoring nine books While I was disappointed I had I told him. when his attempts to get the false or check my progress. and publishing hundreds of arti - not been at his bedside, such a “You’re the suspicious one, key into the ignition failed, he Exhausted, I crawled into bed, cles, putting my signature on that unique home-going serves to soft - Mr. Donald,” he responded. “I’m became irritated and angry. De- where for over 50 years I had fall - consent form was the most diffi - en my sorrows and reinforces my just doing what I said I would do.” termined to “go home,” he started en asleep with my head resting in cult line I have ever written. I belief in heaven. I fully expect He proceeded, and by nefari - the crook of my husband’s arm. It doubt if any di vorce papers or when the day comes that the angels ous means gained access to my was here our four children had even death certificates have ever accompany me Home they will online banking information. My Barkman is a freelance writer been joyfully conceived. Leo had been dampened with so many smile knowingly as I step onto that computer screen went blank for from Winnipeg. www.almabark - cradled and comforted each new - kinds of tears — of regret, doubt, eternal shore and Leo exclaims, several minutes, which he assured man.com born in his muscular arms, tears of tears of loss, an guish, betrayal, “There she is!” 18 Prairie Messenger EDITORIALS March 22, 2017

Organ donation dilemma organ transplant may override the freedom of people because they feel an obligation, having set the process who have chosen assisted suicide to change their mind. in motion.” Another wrinkle has been added to the quagmire Ethicists say organ donation could put pressure on At present, it is after people are declared “brain the legalization of assisted suicide in Canada has ini - those who qualify for assisted suicide to choose death, dead” or suffer cardiac death that their organs are tiated. that the terminally ill “may feel they would better serve allowed to be harvested. Patients are removed from It is the close connection between the need for society by dying and saving other people’s lives,” Dr. life supports which have kept their hearts and lungs donated organs and the retrieval of organs from peo - Marie-Chantal Fortin, a transplant nephrologist at the functioning. In the latter case, once the heart stops ple who choose to end their lives. Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal , and beating — and after a five to 10 minute “no-touch” In Canada in 2014, more than 4,500 people were ethicist Julie Allard write in the journal, Clinical Ethics. period — organ procurement can begin. waiting for an organ, and 278 died waiting, according Others are asking, what if people agree to donate, However, death can take several hours and vital to the National Post. but then change their mind about hastening death? organs like the heart and lungs deteriorate. With The March 20 online edition reported that doctors Would they feel compelled to follow through with the assisted dying, organs can be harvested much sooner, have already harvested organs from dozens of act, knowing the chosen recipients are waiting for making it more ideal to harvest healthy body parts. Canadians who underwent medically assisted death, a their organs? Belgium and the Netherlands already allow organ practice supporters say expands the pool of desperate - Jennifer Chandler, a professor in the centre for harvesting after euthanasia. ly needed organs. Ethicists, however, worry this could health law, policy and ethics at the University of While church teaching encourages organ donation, make it harder for euthanasia patients to voice a last- Ottawa, said, “Imagine a situation where the workup an ethical dilemma is raised for a patient to accept minute change of heart. is done — people have gone out and done the medical organs from someone who chose an assisted death. In Ontario, 26 people who died by lethal injection tests and found the recipients and set everything up. While typically the cause of death isn’t disclosed, have donated tissue or organs since the federal law And then you change your mind. including cases of suicide, unless there’s a valid med - decriminalizing medical assistance in dying, or “One wonders if perhaps that might create pres - ical reason to do so, a patient’s ethical dilemma would MAID, came into effect last June, according to infor - sure to continue with the MAID,” she said. “It would be much more serious if the donor had wanted to mation obtained by the Post. This was out of a total of be very important in these scenarios to make it very change his or her mind about dying, but it was ignored. 338 who died by medical assistance. clear to people that they can change their mind at any This is just another crack in the new legal situa - A major ethical concern is that the need for an time — that someone shouldn’t stick with MAID just tion in Canada. — PWN Hate crimes follow decades of fear-mongering, hate speech and lies

These hate crimes follow notion of “social sin” into our The intentional spread of disin - decades of fear-mongering, hate official church teachings in his formation/misinformation, fear- speech and lies intentionally incu - 1991 Centesimus Annus . “Social” mongering, objectification of “the Soul bated in our communities. This when used in this manner means other,” and intolerance are includes our real, digital and faith “co-created by humans.” “weapons” in the arsenal of “low- communities. Anything co-created by intensity warfare.” Mending Remember the 2015 campaign humans can be changed by These were developed through a of the Harper Conservatives? It humans. clever, if disingenuous, application had the same divisive characteris - “Social sin” refers to any situa - of insights gleaned from the social Yvonne A. Zarowny tics as Trump’s — just different tion flowing from our social sciences over the last century. intensity. Two-thirds of us reject - arrangements that denies God’s Edward Bernays in his 1928 “What has happened to you, the Europe of humanism, the champion ed it! Creation life with dignity — such classic Propaganda outlines how of human rights, democracy and freedom — the mother of great men and The 2016 Brexit campaign and as our economy. these insights were used to devel - women who upheld and even sacrificed their lives for the dignity of their what is currently happening in The purpose of social justice is op social scientific techniques to brothers and sisters?” Europe are similar. the removal, with Divine inspira - manipulate “the masses” (that’s — Pope Francis May 6, 2016 These tactics achieve the tion and assistance, of the causes us) in democracies without our desired result of preventing the of social sin while assisting those knowing it is happening. Given the tragic hate crimes need to be asking: Canada, what is much needed systemic change we denied life with dignity. During the 1970s some were committed in Quebec City happening to us? actually know how to do to co- To become effective in stop - morphed by the Americans and Sunday, Jan. 29, resulting in the Please stop blaming Mr. create a variety of authentic cul - ping these tactics corroding our, their allies (us again) into some - deaths of six men at prayer and Trump! He is a symptom — not a tures of life. and our community’s, souls, we thing called “low-intensity war - the wounding of 19 others, we cause. St. John Paul II brought the need to understand who devel - fare.” oped them, why and who benefits As American sociologist and from their use. investigative journalist Christian Costco finds a growing market in Canada Parenti outlines in his 2011 Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the By Sylvain Charlebois year — higher than in any other with much less labour. And there An educator, writer and New Geography of Violence, the country in which the company oper - are no signs, no weekly promotion - engaged citizen living in Qualicum purpose of these tactics is to destroy Unless you’re there on a ates. These are the kind of numbers al specials and no decorations. Beach, B.C., Zarowny is also on “the sinews of community.” Saturday, constantly trying to most retailers would die for and the the leadership team for her avoid collisions with oversized future looks even brighter. — FOOd SALES , page 19 parish’s Justice and Life Ministry. — SOuL , page 19 shopping carts, you probably like The company operates 94 Costco, even though it will cost stores in Canada and will add you more to shop there as of June. seven more by year’s end. This is The basic membership fee is the most stores Costco has opened going up by $5 to $60, while pre - anywhere in the last decade. mium folks will have to pay $120, And Canada will remain a up from $110. growth market for Costco for the Paying to spend is an incredible next several years, largely because business model. With more than it doesn’t have to compete with its 10 million members in Canada and U.S. rival, Walmart-owned Sam’s a renewal rate exceeding 90 per Club, which failed miserably in cent, Costco makes millions Canada a few years ago. before selling a single product. Costco is well-run. It sees itself And with high inventory as a retailer, as well as a portal to a turnover that allows it to pay for vast but often obscure supply chain. merchandise after it’s bought by The membership angle makes cus - customers, Costco looks a lot like tomers feel like elite guests, as a bank. It’s all about cash flow. members get access to special dis - Recent results weren’t bad for counts from manufacturers. Costco worldwide, but Canada Costco is also a logistical mas - has become a beacon of financial terpiece. A typical Costco store car - success for this global player. ries about 5,500 merchandise cate - Same-store sales for Costco in gories, compared to around 150,000 Canada were up eight per cent this in most other stores of similar size. So procurement is much less stress - ful and less costly. More choice can Charlebois is dean of the lead to confusion for customers and Faculty of Management and a pro - potentially fewer sales. Wide aisles fessor in the Faculty of Agriculture for easy movement of pallets allows CNS/Thaier Al-Sudani, Reuters at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Costco to turn over inventory more IRAQ FAMILY LIVES WITH VIOLENCE — A displaced Iraqi family walks near destroyed buildings www.troymedia.com. efficiently than any other retailer, March 4 in Mosul, following a battle between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants. March 22, 2017 LETTERS Prairie Messenger 19

Conservative party candidates have much to offer

The Editor: It has been very Gruending, in his blog (PM, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign difficult to find any forthright or March 15), unfortunately, does the affairs. He has a wealth of informa - in-depth reporting regarding the same. For instance, he states that tion on trade. Con servative party leadership many candidates are unknowns Brad Trost has served our area race. In our local paper, there has and in saying so, infers that they since 2014. He is a social and fis - been nothing but derision nor would have nothing to offer. cal conservative, something worth robot-like opinion either as a fol - I say his article has nothing to opening our minds to if we want lowup to a debate or as a bio on offer, other than confirming what to have a secure future both in the the candidates. we hope everyone knows, that strength of families and jobs for Kevin O’Leary should not be run - everyone. A refreshing change ning and Andrew Scheer is a good Kellie Leitch is being attacked candidate. But these candidates by every reporter. I wonder what The Editor: How refreshing to aren’t unknowns! is wrong with Canadian values? read Mary Deutscher’s tribute to Here is a snapshot of a few Do we not think Freedom of her grandmother (PM, March 15). candidates. Speech, Freedom of Association, I always look forward to Mary’s Lemieux is an engineer, MP Religious Freedom and the Rule column because she is not a “fem - from 2006 - 2015, served in the of Law are good things? Design Pics inist” in the modern version. military for 20 years, became a The Conservative party is not I thank her for having the business owner and then joined in disarray. Just because it is not Orange Insurrection courage to speak out about so politics. He is completely bilin - homogenous does not indicate much of our culture which is defi - gual. He even would like to see an disarray. In fact it is very healthy In the chapel in the city jail, ant to our Catholic faith. end to sex-selective abortion. that so many ideas can be brought Inmates sat in orange clad, I always cringe when Inter - Steven Blaney was Minister of forth in one party. Pondering why they could not make bail — national Women’s Day comes Public Safety, Minister of Veteran There is so much to report on Regretting the past they had. because it is often taken as a day Affairs, and has written numerous and consider during this leader - to promote abortion as Justin books. He is a brilliant man with ship race. Why don’t we talk “Turn to Luke four, verse eighteen and more. Trudeau and Marie-Claude Bibeau great ideas. about what these candidates have ‘He anointed me: proclaim did on March 8. — Rosemary Deepak Obhrai, representing to offer Canadians? — Florence Good news to captives, broken and poor,’ Lalonde, Kelowna, B.C. Paquette, Saskatoon Calgary since 1997, was formerly To release you in Christ’s Name.”

Revolution began in their minds; Soul-corroding tactics started in 1980s Governments of Self collapsed. The Breath of God blew open their blinds— Continued from page 18 It also generates an unprece - Hate speech, fear mongering And in His breeze, they relaxed. dented number of refugees, acceler - and killing hope are weapons in That is, it is a form of “war - ated environmental devastation this war. By Peter C. Venable fare” intentionally designed to (one symptom of which is climate As is “charitable” giving that destroy a community’s capacity to chaos), social chaos, wars, increas - does not address the root causes understand what is happening to it ing personal and sovereign debt, generating the social sins. Costco increases market in a manner that enables it to work and the destruction of our democra - Warren Buffett’s son Peter stat - together for the common good. cies for which many millions died. ed: “As more lives and communi - These stealth soul-corroding tac - These are all preventable social ties are destroyed by the system share in retail food sales tics were turned on us in the 1980s sins generated by our current that creates vast amounts of and their use intensified through social arrangements. wealth for the few,” philanthro - Continued from page 18 While Costco has made an and since the Great Recession to If we can be manipulated into pists were frequently left “search - impressive ascent to the food- divert us from effectively address - blaming Muslims, Christians, ing for the answers with their right But it’s in selling food that retailing elite, it faces a problem ing the multi-faceted existential Jews or immigrants for the wealth hands to problems they created Costco’s strategy has worked best attracting millennials. The model threat both Popes Benedict and and power being increasingly con - with their left.” in recent years. Not only has it doesn’t seem to make sense to this Francis say is a priority. centrated in the hand of a few, we Peter Buffett dubs this the increased its food market share to generation: some surveys suggest The immense financial wealth are inhibited from working effec - “charitable-industrial complex.” 10 per cent versus Walmart’s Costco isn’t even in their top five generated for the few by the struc - tively with others to make the sys - What can we do? seven per cent, it’s selling quality favourite food retailers. tural adjustments made to our temic changes we need and know To begin: products — much to the dismay of It will be interesting to see how economies since the 1970s does how to do. — Pray for the courage to raise Loblaws, Sobeys and Metro. millennials approach Costco as not “trickle down” as we were Who wants to prevent this? good questions to stop this scape - Like other food retailers, they mature in the marketplace. As repeatedly told it would. Jane Mayer in her 2016 Dark goating. Costco partially processes many well, barely three per cent of The 2017 Oxfam Report iden - Money: The Hidden History of the — Pray for the strength to food products in-house and makes Costco’s sales are generated online tified the world’s richest eight Billionaires Behind the Rise of the resist having your soul corrupted this clear to customers. and the company seems content men whose 2016 combined Radical Right identifies a number through fear and hate. Costco also sets up a kind of with that number. However, if the wealth equalled that of Earth’s of Americans and how they have — Counter attempts to corrode treasure hunt, enticing customers market moves further in this direc - poorest 50 per cent. In 2015, it organized their wealth to manipu - your soul and that of your com - to think about food at just the right tion, as are millennials, Costco was nine. In 2010, it was 43. late us. munity with words and actions of time, after having gone through may be in trouble. In 2000, it took one per cent of American multibillionaire and love, compassion, inclusion and pant racks and tool aisles. Service is also an issue. The the richest to equal the wealth of Earth’s third richest man Warren solidarity. Despite the fact that its stores simple functional checkout system the poorest 50 per cent. Buffett stated: “There’s class war - And remember, the Divine is are giant and rather uninspiring at Costco, with no bagging sup - Yes, worshipping at the altar of fare all right. But it’s my class, the always present to us if we but places, Costco welcomes mem - plies or service, can be annoying. the Bronze Bull generates rich, that’s making war, and we’re open to Her. bers by serving food and lots of it. More demanding customers, who unprecedented financial wealth. winning.” Jesus promised! Anybody who comes hungry can don’t mind paying a little extra for walk out of the store feeling full, this service, may end up going Letters to the editor especially kids. The food-sam - elsewhere for groceries. pling-to-purchase conversion rate Charging more to give members is extremely high at Costco com - access won’t actually change much We welcome your response to articles published in the Prairie Messenger. Two-way commu - pared to traditional food retailers. for the company. In fact, those who nication assures everyone of a better exposure to the truth. While tasting stations at Costco see membership fees as a sunk cost generate food sales, other retailers may want to spend more. We cannot publish any letters to the editor unless you give us your full name, your address and spend millions to make their stores And Costco’s success in your telephone number. (It is especially important to remember this if you are sending your com - feel like glamorous labyrinths of Canada will continue to support its ments by email) . flavours and scents. global expansion. Due to limited space we ask you to keep your letters short — 300 to 350 words maximum. The All of this seems counterintu - So the next time the Costco Prairie Messenger reserves the right to edit letters to conform to space requirements and newspaper itive but it’s actually working for associate goes through your style . Costco, and in Canada especially. receipt on your way out, just say, But the picture is not all rosy. “You’re welcome.”

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By Cindy Wooden rule on religious symbols VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A few hours after urging priests to be By Simon Caldwell gion), and shows that the denial of generously available for the sacra - freedom of religion is not a neutral ment of penance, Pope Francis MANCHESTER, England act, contrary to how it might be por - went to confession, then offered (CNS) — Religious leaders have trayed.” the sacrament to seven Catholics. criticized a ruling by the European The ruling was criticized by the Presiding over the annual lenten Union’s highest court that could London-based Conference of Euro- penance service March 17 in St. allow employers to prohibit staff pean Rabbis as a sign that faith Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis was from wearing visible religious communities were “no longer wel - one of 95 priests and bishops lis - symbols in the workplace. come” in Europe, and by the tening to confessions and granting However, British organizations Islamic Human Rights Commis- absolution. set up to defend Christians from sion, also based in London. After the reading of a Gospel harassment in the workplace were “This gives legal cover to what passage, the pope did not give a untroubled by the ruling. is essentially an ongoing hate cam - homily. Instead, he and the thou - The European Court of Justice, paign to make Muslims second- sands of people gathered in the based in Luxembourg, ruled differ - class citizens in Europe,” said Arzu basilica prayed in absolute silence ently on two cases March 14. In one Merali, head of research at the for 10 minutes. case, it said a firm that de manded a Islamic Human Rights Commis- Pope Francis spent about four Muslim employee re moved her sion, in a statement posted on the minutes kneeling before a priest in headscarf was not in breach of an group’s website March 14. one of the wooden confessionals EU employment directive on free - She said: “It will only increase before he walked to one nearby, dom of religion because it banned feelings of marginalization and dis - put on a purple stole and waited for the wearing of “any political, philo - enfranchisement in Muslim com - the first penitent to approach. sophical or religious sign.” munities.” CNS/Paul Haring As people were preparing, con - But Catholic Bishop Philip However, Neil Addison, direc - fessing and praying, the Sistine POPE LEAdS LENTEN PRAYER SERVICE — Priests attend a lenten Egan of Portsmouth, England, told tor of the Liverpool-based Thomas Chapel Choir alternated with the penance service led by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Catholic News Service March 15 More Legal Centre, said: “I am per - organist and a harpist in ensuring Vatican March 17. the ruling was “totalitarian” and fectly happy with it.” an atmosphere of peace. could lead to Christians being He told CNS in a March 15 tele - The pope spent 50 minutes The small service booklets dis - friendship with God, or do I con - forced to remove a crucifix or a St. phone interview the blanket ban on administering the sacrament before tributed to the congregation includ - sider it a burden that I am only Christopher medal. symbols must include non-reli - leading the congregation in prayers ed a guide for an examination of rarely willing to take on?” “It limits the religious expression gious manifestations of belief such of thanksgiving for the experience conscience. The 28 questions be- Other questions involved how of an individual,” said Egan, who as “wearing a gay rights ribbon.” of the “goodness and sweetness of gan with a review of one’s motiva - often one prays, mass attendance, has encouraged the people of his “You can’t ban one without ban - God’s love for us.” tion for going to confession in the keeping the Ten Commandments, diocese to be open about their faith. ning the other,” he said, adding: The Vatican press office said first place: “Do I approach the giving generously to the poor, not “This is a grave infringement of “The starting point is that you are at Pope Francis heard the confessions sacrament of penance out of a sin - gossiping and keeping the lenten human rights,” he said. “It is a dis - work to work and the employer has of three men and four women, all cere desire for purification, conver - practices of prayer, fasting and proportionate application, like crack - a right to determine its image.” laypeople. sion, renewal of life and a closer abstinence and almsgiving. ing a nut with a huge sledgehammer . . . before we know it we are going to have huge restrictions.” Vatican releases bioethical guidelines The court considered the case of Samira Achbita, a receptionist for By Carol Glatz Msgr. Jean-Marie Mupendawatu. at the Vatican Feb. 6. The Vatican the Belgian branch of G4S Secure The monsignor, who is the sec - released the charter in Italian. Solutions, a security company. VATICAN CITY (CNS) — To retary delegate for health care in While the charter does not offer Achbita was fired in 2006 for refus - offer clearly and accurately the the Dicastery for Promoting In- a completely “exhaustive” re sponse ing to take off her Islamic headscarf. Catholic Church’s positions on tegral Human Development, said to all problems and questions facing Asma Bougnaoui, a French design abor tion, contraception, genetic en - the charter “is a valid compendium the medical and heath fields, it does engineer fired from Micropole SA, gineering, fertility treatments, vac - of doctrine and praxis” not only for add many papal, Vatican and bish - an information technology consul - cines, frozen embryos and other life those directly involved in provid - ops’ pronouncements made since tancy firm, was fired when a client issues, the Vatican released an ing medical care, but also for 1994 in an effort to “offer the clear - objected to her wearing a headscarf. expanded and updated guide of the researchers, pharmacists, adminis - est possible guidelines” to many The court found no discrimina - church’s bioethical teachings. trators and policy-makers in the ethical problems facing the world of tion in the first case because The New Charter for Health Care field of health care. health care today, said the charter’s “G4S’s internal rule refers to the Workers is meant to provide a thor - The charter “reaffirms the sanc - preface, written by the late- wearing of visible signs of politi - ough summary of the church’s posi - tity of life” as a gift from God and Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, cal, philosophical or religious tion on affirming the primary, calls on those working in health president of the Pontifical Council beliefs and therefore covers any absolute value of life in the health care to be “servants” and “minis - for Health Care Ministry. The coun - manifestation of such beliefs with - field and address questions arising ters of life” who will love and cil and three others were merged out distinction.” from the many medical and scientif - accompany all human beings from together to create the new dicastery But in the Bougnaoui case, the ic advancements made since the first conception to their natural death, for human development. court concluded that “the willing - charter was published in 1994, said he said during a news conference One issue partially dealt with ness of an employer to take ac count in the new charter is vaccines pro - of the wishes of a customer no duced with “biological material of longer to have the employer’s serv - illicit origin,” that is, made from ices provided by a worker wearing cells from aborted fetuses. an Islamic headscarf cannot be Citing the 2008 instruction considered an occupational re - Dignitas Personae from the Con - quirement that could rule out dis - gregation for the Doctrine of the crimination.” Faith and a 2005 paper from the The Church of England, in a statement posted on its website Pontifical Academy for Life, the CNS/Archdiocese of Oklahoma City charter said everyone has a duty to March 14, said the ruling on Achbita BEATIFICATION — Rev. Stanley voice their disapproval of this “raises significant questions about Rother, a priest of the Oklahoma kind of “biological material” freedom of religion and its free City archdiocese who was brutally being in use and to ask that alter - expression, whether it be Sikhism murdered in 1981 in the Guate - natives be made available. and the wearing of turbans and kara malan village where he ministered Researchers must “distance” through to the wearing of a cross.” to the poor, is pictured in an undat - themselves by refusing to use such Anglican Bishop Nicholas material, even if there is no close Baines of Leeds, England, said: ed photo. The Arch diocese of connection between the researcher “This judgment once again raises Oklahoma City announced the and those doing the illicit proce - vital questions about freedom of North American priest will be dure, and “affirm with clarity the expression (not just freedom of reli - beatified Sept. 23 in Oklahoma. value of human life,” it said. CNS/John E. Kozar, CNEWA However, the charter doesn’t CNEWA ANNIVERSARY — A religious sister is seen comforting a sick specifically address the situation of Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am woman in 2016 at Snehadam Old Age Home in Gurgaon, India. parents who are often obligated to everything. Between these two banks the river of Catholic Near East Welfare Association is celebrating 90 years of serv - consent to vaccines for their chil - my life flows. ice to Eastern Catholic churches and the poor in the Middle East, north - dren that use human cell lines from — Nisargadatta Maharaj east Africa, India and eastern Europe. tissue derived from aborted fetuses.