Single Issue: $1.00 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40030139 CATHOLIC JOURNAL Vol. 95 No. 19 October 25, 2017 Schools open in Holy Land for 800 years St. Nicholas Catholic School, the 18th and final By Carol Glatz brothers and sisters of different sacred Scripture and the faith’s whole People of God, who have school to officially open as cultures, ethnicities and religions, archeological heritage; support always supported you generously, part of a provincial joint-use VATICAN CITY (CNS) — “sowing peace, fraternity and local church communities; help in particular through the traditional schools project, was opened The Franciscans assisting the respect,” he said. the poorest and weakest; and Good Friday collection” for the Oct. 19 in Saskatoon. In Christian minority and caring for The pope encouraged the teach young people, “who often Holy Land and through the Vati - Regina, meanwhile, the churches and shrines in the Franciscans to continue to: be at risk losing hope in a situation still can’s Congregation for Oriental Archbishop Donald Bolen Holy Land are “ambassadors” of the service of the many pilgrims without peace.” Churches, which is currently mark - was kept busy through much all the People of God, Pope visiting the holy places; study “You are ambassadors of the ing the centenary of its foundation. of September opening and Francis said. blessing three new Catholic Marking the 800th anniversary schools in that city. of the order’s presence at the — pages 6 and 7 places where Jesus was born, Benedictines pass lived and died, the pope sent a letter to the Franciscan Custody The community of St. Peter’s of the Holy Land, an administra - Abbey in Muenster, Sask., is tively autonomous province of mourning the loss of two of the Franciscan order. The custody keeps “the Chris- its long-serving members. tian witness alive, studying Rev. Rudolph Novecosky, Scripture and welcoming pil - OSB, a teacher and pastor, grims,” he said in the letter, dated succumbed to cancer on Oct. 17, and addressed to Fran - Thanksgiving Monday. ciscan Father Francesco Patton, He had joined the monastic the official custodian, or custos, community in 1955 and of the Holy Land. was ordained in 1962. The pope recalled how St. Br. Wolfgang Thiem, OSB, Francis of Assisi sent members of who at 93 was the oldest his recently founded order out on monk at the abbey, died from mission in 1217 to all nations on complications due to organ earth as witnesses of “faith, fra - failure a week after breaking ternity and peace.” his right femur in a fall on This broadened horizon of Oct. 9. Both monks spent evangelization “was the beginning their lives in service to the of an extraordinary adventure,” church and their community. which brought the first Franciscans CNS/Debbie Hill — page 7 to the Holy Land 800 years ago. HOLY LAND ANNIVERSARY — U.S. Franciscan Father Michael Perry, minister general of the order, Religious doubts Today, the congregation is centre, leads the ceremony for the opening of the celebrations of the anniversary of 800 years of Franciscan dedicated to living alongside presence in the Holy Land Oct. 16 at the Church of St. Saviour in Jerusalem’s Old City. Mark Twain, a.k.a. Samuel Clemens, Interventions can be ordinary or extra-ordinary didn’t have much of By Kiply Lukan Yaworski anything role of conscience, before CCC #1776 states, “Deep with - avoid evil, sounds in his heart at addressing some specific scenar - in his conscience man discovers a the right moment,” Deutscher good to say SASKATOON — Making dif - ios related to artificial nutrition law which he has not laid upon quoted. “His conscience is man’s about reli - ficult health care decisions and hydration. himself but which he must obey. most secret core and his sanctuary. gion, at involves the same process we use Deutscher led the crowd in Its voice, ever calling him to love least the to make other difficult decisions, brainstorming steps to take when and to do what is good and to — CONSCIENCE , page 6 organized making any difficult decision, kind. But a new PBS docu - listing such things as gathering Canadian theologian mentary centres on Twain’s information and facts, determin - trip to Jerusalem in 1867, ing the effects on others, prayer, Gregory Baum dies at 94 and the impact it had on his consultation with family and views about religion. experts, weighing pros and cons, — page 8 doing a “gut check” to see how By Michael Swan Evolution of taste you are feeling, checking your The Catholic Register conscience, and taking a step Our tastes evolve, whether back to reflect (as well as trying TORONTO (CNS) — Gregory with pears or one’s prefer - to make the decision when not Baum, one of Canada’s most ence in books, writes Edna under extreme stress). influential and controversial the - Froese. “In the ripeness of All these decision-making ologians and a participant in the time, the despised can strategies are helpful, but each , died Oct. become the necessary person would have favourites, 18. He was 94. and even the beautiful.” Deutscher noted, adding that the Baum was the author of the — page 11 Catholic term we often use for first draft of , the this process is discernment. Vatican II declaration that Fright King Describing conscience as deter - addressed the relations of the Tim Yaworski mining “what is it that God wants with non- October, the month of Mary Deutscher me to want,” Deutscher asked Christian religions. Halloween, is a good time to those present to discuss what con - After being admitted to St. get in touch with our fears ethicist Mary Deutscher said at a science means to them: such as Mary’s Hospital in Montreal Oct. and create new ones. To recent diocesan “Foundations: determining right from wrong, 8, he told a friend, “I’m disap - that end, Tom Saretsky Exploring Our Faith Together” empathy for others, being at peace pearing inside.” He decided not to has revisited his favourite program hosted by Holy Spirit with something, listening to God’s continue the dialysis treatment CNS/Francois Gloutnay, Presence Stephen King novels, in Parish in Saskatoon. will, and seeking a guiding light. that had kept him alive for the last CANADIAN THEOLOGIAN particular, The Shining . The ethicist for St. Paul’s Deutscher then presented two four years. DIES — Renowned Canadian the - — page 13 Hospital and the Catholic Health excerpts from the Catechism of As a young theologian, then- ologian Gregory Baum, 94, author Association of Saskatchewan the Catholic Church to prompt Father Baum shot to prominence of the first draft of the Second engaged her listeners in a reflec - discussion about what conscience Vatican Council’s Nostra Aetate , tion on making decisions and the means. — BAUM , page 5 died Oct. 18 in a Montreal hospital. 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS October 25, 2017 Groups settle lawsuit against contraceptive mandate

By Carol Zimmermann for, said he was grateful for the tions were extremely helpful but nent exemption from an onerous The school’s statement said settlement, which he described as that the “settlement of the Zubik federal directive — and any simi - according to the terms of the set - WASHINGTON (CNS) — an “agreement with the govern - litigation adds a leavening of cer - lar future directive — that would tlement, the government concedes Dozens of Catholic groups that ment that secures and reaffirms tainty moving forward. It removes require us to compromise our that the contraceptive mandate challenged the contraceptive the constitutional right of reli - doubt where it might otherwise fundamental beliefs.” “imposes a substantial burden” on mandate of the Affordable Care gious freedom.” exist as it closes those cases.” “This is an extraordinary out - the plaintiffs’ exercise of religion Act have reached a settlement In an Oct. 17 statement, the “The settlement adds additional come for Thomas Aquinas College and “cannot be legally enforced” with the U.S. Justice Department, bishop said the diocese’s five- assurances,” he added, “that we and for the cause of religious free - under the Religious Freedom they announced late Oct. 16. year-long challenge to the man - will not be subject to enforcement dom,” he added. Restoration Act. The groups, including the date “has been resolved success - or imposition of similar regulations Archdiocese of Washington and fully” allowing Catholic Charities imposing such morally un accepta - the Pennsylvania dioceses of in the diocese and other religious ble mandates moving forward.” Greensburg, Pittsburgh and Erie, organizations of different denom - The cardinal thanked the Jones were represented by the Cleve - inations to be exempt from “in - Day law firm for its legal repre - land-based law firm Jones Day. sur ance coverage or practices that sentation in the case and thanked Washington Cardinal Donald are morally unacceptable.” Catholics for their prayers and W. Wuerl wrote an Oct. 16 letter He said the settlement follows support for the petitioners in the to archdiocesan priests saying the the recent release of new federal long legal fight. “binding agreement” ends the liti - regulations that provide religious Thomas Aquinas College of gation challenging the Health and organizations with a full exemp - Santa Paula, California, one of Human Services’ mandate and tion from covering items that vio - the groups that fell under the provides a “level of assurance as late their core beliefs. Washington archdiocese’s chal - we move into the future.” On Oct. 6, the Trump adminis - lenge of the HHS mandate to the The Washington archdiocese tration issued interim rules ex - Supreme Court, similarly thanked was one of dozens of groups chal - panding the exemption to the the law firm Jones Day for repre - lenging the mandate, which went contraceptive mandate to include senting the school pro bono. to the Supreme Court last year in religious employers who object The school’s president, the consolidated case of Zubik v. on moral grounds to covering Michael McLean, said in an Oct. Burwell. Although it was most contraceptive and abortion-induc - 16 statement that as part of the often described as the Little ing drugs and devices in their settlement, the government will Sisters of the Poor fighting employee health insurance. The pay a portion of the legal costs against the federal government, same day, the U.S. Department of and fees incurred by the law firm. the case before the court involved Justice issued guidance to all He said the college welcomed seven plaintiffs and each of these administrative agencies and exec - the broadening of the exemption combined cases represented a utive de partments regarding reli - from the HHS mandate by the group of schools, churches or gious liberty protections in feder - Trump administration in early CNS/Aaron P. Bernstein, Reuters church-sponsored organizations. al law. October but he similarly said the AFFORDABLE CARE ACT PROTEST — Activists participate in a Pittsburgh Bishop David A. Wuerl said in his letter to priests settlement of the case provides rally in late September to protect the Affordable Care Act outside the Zubik, whom the case is named that the new guidelines and regula - “something even better: a perma - U.S. Capitol in Washington. Dozens of Catholic groups that challenged the contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act have reached a Death is a wide-open passage to new life settlement with the U.S. Justice Department. Ukrainian bishop sees ‘real By Junno Arocho Esteves Square in the popemobile, stop - inescapable reality that forced man ping frequently to greet pilgrims to live for something absolute.” VATICAN CITY (CNS) — and kiss babies. Death “shows us that our acts chance of peace’ in country Christians can find hope even at Making sure one child was of pride, anger and hatred were the hour of death, which faith kept warm, the pope pulled up the vanity: pure vanity,” the pope By Jonathan Luxmoore demanding their leaders do some - teaches is not a closed door but a hood of the baby’s jacket before said. “We realize with regret that thing to end this terrible bloodshed. wide-open passage to a new life he was taken back to his parents. we have not loved enough and did WARSAW, Poland (CNS) — Peace will come sooner or later, with Christ, Pope Francis said. Continuing his series of talks not look for what was essential.” The Catholic bishop responsible from below if not from above.” While all men and women are on Christian hope, Pope Francis Before raising Lazarus from for eastern Ukraine has backed Ukrainian church leaders have “small and helpless in front of the reflected on death, which is “a the dead, Jesus’ mourns his calls for the deployment of inter - accused western governments of mystery of death,” Jesus’ victory reality that our modern civiliza - friend’s death, the pope noted. national peacekeepers and praised ignoring continued suffering in over death assures Christians of tion tends to eradicate” so com - Christ’s behaviour shows that “pressure from below” to end the their country, where war has left the joy of the resurrection, the pletely that “when death comes to despite hope in the resurrection, nearly four-year war. more than 10,000 dead. pope said Oct. 18 during his us or those around us, we are Christians can “feel sorrowful With the Ukrainian government Ukraine’s armed forces have weekly general audience. unprepared.” when a dear person passes away.” ready to establish conditions for a been substantially rebuilt with $857 Despite chilly temperatures in Past civilizations, however, “Christian hope draws from peacekeeping force, “there are now million in “non-lethal” western mili - Rome, thousands gathered in St. “had the courage to look death in the approach that Jesus takes good signs this could happen,” said tary aid. Gen. Viktor Muzhenko, Peter’s Square to greet the pope the face,” he said, and viewed against human death: if this Bishop Stanislav Szyrokoradiuk of chief of the military’s general staff, who rode around St. Peter’s death not with fear but as “an (death) is present in creation, it is Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, whose diocese predicted in mid-October he could nevertheless a gash that disfigures includes rebel-held Donetsk and recapture Donetsk and Luhansk God’s plan of love, and the sav - Luhansk. from the separatists with defensive iour wants to heal us of it,” the “Although some politicians still weaponry requested from the U.S., pope said. hope to use this conflict for their but only at a heavy cost in lives. In another instance, he contin - own power interests, pressure for Szyrokoradiuk said his church’s ued, Jesus comforts Jairus after reconciliation is spreading up from Caritas-Spes charity was helping his daughter’s death because “he below among the people who’ve needy Ukrainians on both sides of knew that man was tempted to had enough of it. This is a positive the conflict. react with anger and desperation.” change, and it brings a real chance However, he added, more than Jesus’ invitation to “not be of peace,” he told Catholic News 100,000 displaced people, a fifth of afraid,” he said, is a call for all Service Oct. 18. them children, were living in indus - Christians to guard the “small Peacekeeping proposals were trial containers, abandoned barracks flame” of faith within that keeps being debated by European Union and railway sheds in Kharkiv alone them from falling into “the and UN officials in mid-October to as winter approached. Effective precipice of fear” that comes at end the conflict between the humanitarian aid would be essential the moment of death. Ukrainian government and Russia- to any peace process, he said. Departing from his prepared backed separatists. “Ukraine cannot stand alone. It remarks, Pope Francis asked pil - Szyrokoradiuk said he has needs support, and we’re grateful grims to close their eyes and been in continual contact with to people of goodwill in Europe “think about our own death and people on both sides who believe and the U.S. who are engaging imagine the moment that will pressure from the U.S. and west - and showing solidarity with us,” come when Jesus will take us by ern governments would induce the bishop said. the hand and say, ‘Come, come Russian President Vladimir Putin “The feeling we’re not aban - with me, get up.’ ’’ to “talk and reach agreements.” doned has been very important for “There hope will end and it will “Those whose decisions led to unifying Ukraine during this war. be a reality, the reality of life,” this war, and who saw it as a way of Although opinion was once divided CNS/Paul Haring Pope Francis said. “Jesus himself making dirty money, will naturally between pro-Russian and pro-west - POPE GREETS VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE — Pope Francis will come to each of us and take stand by policies they’ve staked ern groups, no one now doubts our greets visually impaired people, accompanied by their dogs, during his us by the hand with his tenderness, their reputations on,” Szyro ko ra - salvation lies in moving closer to general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 18. his meekness, his love.” diuk said. “But people at large are the European Union,” he said. October 25, 2017 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 3 Schools mount plans with indigenous communities

By Michael Swan Turcotte hopes the report will the Sisters of St. Ann, Saint Paul is the university, according to the Michael Hankard. Ontario’s high The Catholic Register inspire more partnerships with partnering with St. Mark’s College . school curriculum has been paying indigenous communities and link - in Vancouver, First Nations Uni - “To be up front and to say, ‘Yes, attention to indigenous history and Every Catholic college and uni - ages between Catholic institutions versity of Canada in Regina and we have been part of the problem in social issues since 1999. High versity in Canada has wakened up Nipissing University in North Bay, the past,’ ” is the first step, Beauvais school graduates arrive on campus to the call for truth and reconcilia - Ont., to equip native communities told The Catholic Register. “Maybe looking for more. tion between indigenous Cana- to deal with trauma and tragedy. there are ways of doing things at the “Students are pretty much dians and the rest of us. Saint Paul’s is putting its 42- moment that continue to be part of knocking down our doors,” said “I don’t really see that a univer - year-old program in counselling, the problem. But now we are gen - Hankard, who lives on the Serpent sity or a place of learning has a psychotherapy and spirituality to uinely looking for ways to be inclu - River First Nation. valid claim to the pursuit of truth work in partnership with Abo- sive in a real way.” Indigenous students are looking and reason if it isn’t looking at all riginal communities, helping to It isn’t just the 94 “Calls to for an open and frank acknowl - these factors that really have tex - train people in their communities Action” from the Truth and edgment of spiritual realities. tured our society, both good and and building a network of support Reconciliation Commission of “There is a particular urgency bad. . . . It would be self-evident to that can deal with suicides or Canada that has universities and poignancy to Catholic organi - say that reconciliation is one of the addiction. retooling their curricula and zations recognizing and working calls of our times,” said Asso- “For us it’s about expanding rethinking their relationships with maybe a little bit harder (on recon- ciation of Catholic Colleges and something that’s already there, native people, said University of Universities of Canada chair Gerry making it more relevant to indige - Sudbury indigenous studies chair — COLLEGES page 4 Turcotte. “There are very deep and nous communities,” said Saint hurtful legacies via the Catholic Paul rector Chantal Beauvais. “It’s Church, but also other political exciting in a way that we are doing and even religious organizations. our best to create these spaces How do you move forward if you where people can feel whole and don’t acknowledge those tensions, human.” those wounds?” Saint Paul’s believes it can find Turcotte has recently compiled Dr. Gerry Turcotte ways to honour and use the tradi - a 22-page report on Catholic col - tional cultural knowledge of elders, leges and their efforts to learn searching for ways to address who are often called on when com - about and teach Canada’s Abo - Canada’s Aboriginal reality. munities are in crisis. Links riginal heritage in partnership with “It’s an incentivizing, creative between the university and indige - Aboriginal people. The college document about what more is pos - nous community colleges can help presidents launched Turcotte’s sible,” Turcotte said. equip teachers, social workers, report, “Dialogue Together With In a long list of projects big and nurses and others in remote com - Action: Canada’s Catholic Col - small, the one Saint Paul Uni- munities, said Beauvais. leges & Universities & the Road versity in Ottawa is shepherding is “It’s a new road for all of us at to Reconciliation,” Oct. 24 in among the most ambitious. With universities,” she said. Ottawa. the help of an $800,000 gift from It’s a process of decolonizing Exercise demonstrates loss of land Russel Weber By Frank Flegel with their own social, commercial, bureaucrats of the day. ST. THOMAS MORE MEDAL — President Terrence Downey of St. Thomas More College presented the St. Thomas More Medal to the cultural, and government struc - Blanket Exercise participants staff of the Prairie Messenger at the annual corporation banquet in REGINA — Grade 7 and 8 stu - tures. place blankets on the floor rough - Saskatoon Oct. 21. The medal was established to recognize and honour dents at St. Dominic Savio School Joanna Landry, Regina Cath - ly in the shape of Turtle Island, an persons, groups, and organizations who have combined personal quali - expressed surprise at how quickly olic School Division co-ordinator example of which was shown on ties of care, integrity and faith with significant contributions to commu - life on the prairies changed for the of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit a video. With the floor complete - nity and public life. The medal was presented to the Prairie Messenger indigenous people after the Euro- Education (FNMI), aided by resi - ly covered, they were asked to “in recognition of a century of reflecting for the church on the Prairies peans arrived. They participated in dential school survivor Susan stand on the blankets, each of the whole reality of the pilgrim People of God.” Accepting the medal on a Blanket Exercise accompanied Beaudin, described how laws were which was removed as Landry behalf of the PM were, from left, associate editors Donald Ward and by a couple of short videos that passed that took away their land, and Beaudin described the laws Maureen Weber and Abbot Peter Novecosky, OSB. Missing from the said an estimated 20 million peo - language, and culture in an effort and practices that took away the photo are layout artist Lucille Stewart, circulation and advertising ple lived on what they called to solve the “Indian problem,” as it land, until participants were all manager Gail Kleefeld, and pressman Randy Weber. Turtle Island (North America), was described by politicians and standing on small patches of the remaining land that represented University of Alberta the reserves on which indigenous peoples were once confined; they could not leave without the Indian pro-life group plans appeal Agent’s approval. In a series of narratives by By Jean Ko Din to exist on campus, all they have Landry and Beaudin, students The Catholic Register to do is break the rules and make heard about residential schools, it too expensive for people to the “60s Scoop” and the impor - EDMONTON (CCN) — The express their views on campus.” tance of the Truth and Recon - University of Alberta pro-life stu - The university first imposed ciliation Commission (TRC). One dent group is planning to appeal the security fee as a condition for of the videos featured Justice after a provincial court ruled in the student club to host a public Murray Sinclair, chair of the favour of the university’s right to demonstration on campus grounds TRC, describing the report as charge $17,500 in security fees as in February 2016. The students pointing the way toward reconcil - a condition to host a public event were planning to set up a series of iation and healing. on campus. displays that “showed the conse - Frank Flegel The students, along with The decision, which was filed quences of abortion.” STANDING ON TURTLE ISLAND — In an exercise designed to illus - Landry and Beaudin, gathered in Oct. 11, ruled that as a registered Eleven days before the sched - trate the rapid loss of land, language, and culture experienced by First a talking circle to discuss their student group, UAlberta Pro-Life uled event, the student group Nations following the arrival of Europeans on Turtle Island (the feelings about the exercise, what remains subject to the university’s received an email from the indigenous term for North America), students at St. Dominic Savio they had learned from it, and to rules and policies. University of Alberta Protective School in Regina took part in a Blanket Exercise. They were asked to ask questions. Those who spoke “It is unfortunate that the judge Services (UAPS) with a security stand on blankets which had been placed on the floor, and once the said the rapid loss of land as didn’t seem to recognize a lot of assessment and a $17,500 bill. floor was completely covered, the blankets were removed one by one — experienced during the exercise the problems with this situation,” According to the email, the costs each representing an indigenous law, custom, or cultural practice — was what struck them the most. UAlberta Pro-Life past president were to cover the UAPS officers until participants were left occupying small patches of land, represent - Beaudin, who had described her Amberlee Nicol said. “We’re not on special duty and Edmonton ing the reserves on which indigenous peoples were soon confined. residential school experience, was taking it lying down.” police, as well as a double-perime - asked if she had learned to for - Nicol said she and her fellow ter fence “ensuring that sidewalks give. She said taking part in the club members are consulting remain unobstructed.” Are you Moving? Blanket Exercise is part of her their lawyers to discuss the next Unable to afford these fees, the Please let us know a month in advance. healing journey. steps. group cancelled the event. Write to: Landry told media that the “I think that if this precedent is These security measures were Circulation Dept., Prairie Messenger blanket exercise was modified to allowed to stand, it’s rather a scary drafted in consideration of a simi - Box 190, Muenster, Sask. S0K 2Y0 be age-appropriate for the stu - precedent,” said Nicol. “It means lar event that took place the previ - [email protected] dents at different grade levels. It that essentially any large enough ous year, which the student group Undeliverable papers cost twice as much to return. will eventually be taken to all group of students, if they decide claimed to have been violently schools in the division. they don’t want a certain opinion shut down by pro-choice students. 4 Prairie Messenger CANADIAN NEWS October 25, 2017 Progress made combating human trafficking

By Deborah Gyapong not going away,” said the founder McConaghy said. He urged peo - people they thought were their trade and trapped, the documen - of the Ratanak International and ple to “step into the deep end” and friends or boyfriends. tary showed. OTTAWA (CCN) — While former RCMP forensic expert “seek to support First Nations” in Simone Bell, a recovered traf - “I can’t think of an investiga - some progress has been made Brian McConaghy, who partici - finding a solution to this crisis. ficking victim with Voicefound, a tion that hasn’t had a social media combating human trafficking in pated in the documentary and the NPD MP Irene Mathyssen, charitable agency to help victims component,” said Constable Canada more needs to be done, panel discussion. Traffickers who co-sponsored the screening of sexual exploitation, told the Owen Carroll of the Ottawa especially in educating the public make between $240,000 and with Conservative MP Arnold panel discussion after the docu - police’s human trafficking unit. says former MP Joy Smith. $260,000 per victim, per year, the Viersen, Liberal MP Robert- mentary traffickers are using “Monitoring your kids’ social “There is human trafficking in documentary said. Falcon Ouellette and Conserva - social media such as Facebook to media is crucial.” Canada and it happens a block While many distinguish be - tive Senator Betty Unger, told the lure victims. They target “vulner - “The system is broken,” said away from where you are sitting,” tween trafficking and legal prosti - audience she had not been aware able” young women through their Ouellette, an indigenous MP who Smith told more than 150 people tution, McConaghy told the panel of Canada’s homegrown traffick - online profiles, she said, and represents the Winnipeg Centre attending the screening of the fea - that when the entry level for pros - ing problem until she participated “make them think they’re in riding, one of the poorest in ture-length documentary Human titution is 12 - 13 years old, in a 2006 study of the issue by the love,” and can have “a good life.” Canada. He told of finding young Trafficking: Canada’s Secret “there’s an artificial distinction” Status of Women Committee. “Kids are being fed makeup indigenous girls “crying by the Shame produced by the Joy Smith between child and adult prostitu - Mathyssen said she thought it videos,” she warned, noting they roadside,” desperate to get away Foundation. Smith hopes to get tion and how voluntary participa - was a problem elsewhere, per - feature mascara costing $35 to from their traffickers, but because the documentary shown in tion in the sex trade really is. haps tied to the fall of the Soviet $40. These videos entice the girls of addiction issues, not finding it schools and at police departments McConaghy became aware of Union. But when she went home to think they need these expensive easy to find a place that will take across the country. the trafficking problem in Canada to her London, Ont., riding and items to look good, and this them in on short notice. “The sys - Most human trafficking in working on piecing together the consulted with local police, she makes them vulnerable. “What we tem has a lots of cracks and peo - Canada involves Canadian wom - remains of serial killer Robert discovered trafficking was “in my are teaching these kids is causing ple fall through them.” en and girls, and the problem dis - Pickton’s many victims who were neighbourhood.” them to be trafficked,” she said. “Traffickers know where the proportionately affects indige - lured to his pig farm from Van - “All along the 401 corridor, When a trafficker posing as a shelters are,” Carroll said. “All it nous communities, panelists said couver’s Lower East Side. The young women and some young boyfriend tells a young girl she is could take is ‘the look’ to get following the presentation. In Ratanak Foundation fights traf - men are being trafficked and vic - beautiful and buys her expensive them back. They will re-associate addition to luring girls at schools, ficking in Cambodia, a society timized,” she said. things, she is lured into the sex themselves with all that control.” shopping centres and venues traumatized by genocide, thus The documentary featured tes - where they hang out, traffickers making it more vulnerable to traf - timony from two young women are increasingly using social fickers, McConaghy said. who described how they were Youth prepare for synod media to target and lure their vic - Yet First Nations communities groomed and lured by traffickers tims, they said. in Canada exhibit many of the into sex slavery. They both de - By Jean Ko Din with focus groups in local parishes. “It’s a growth industry and it’s same characteristics of trauma, scribed events that began with The Catholic Register Hamilton young people, Mines said, named many concerns about TORONTO (CCN) — Cana - secular issues and “tensions of dian bishops heard it loud and faith.” She said the youth have a clear. Young people are looking desire to be more educated about for accompaniment as the Cana - what the church teaches in issues dian Catholic Church prepares for about the sanctity of life, human the 2018 Synod on Young People. rights for LGBT people and re- Diocesan youth offices across specting the dignity of Aboriginal the country are submitting final people. reports based on months of con - Many dioceses approached con - sultation for the 15th ordinary sultations in a combination of one general assembly of the synod of or all three methods: online sur - bishops — titled “Young People, veys based on the Vatican’s synod the Faith and Vocational Dis cern- questionnaire, consultations with ment” — to take place in October key groups and open town-hall next year. meetings for the general public. In a Catholic Register survey “Specifically talking about the of six dioceses across the country town hall, that was something that — Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, as we were running it, Michelle Hamilton, Regina and St. Boni - (Braden) and I kind of looked at face, Man. — the message from each other and said, ‘Why haven’t the consultations was clear: young we done this before,’ ” said Braden people are demanding more pas - Kuntz, one half of the youth leader - toral presence from their church. ship team in the Archdiocese of “They are just coming of age Regina. “The town halls are some - Photo courtesy Mount Saint Vincent University and bumping into what would be thing that we want to continue ABORIGINAL HERITAGE — A drum circle is just one of the many activities at Mount Saint Vincent the external Google search of the doing, not just in youth ministry, but University in Halifax that focuses on Aboriginal heritage. church,” said Rev. Frank Portelli, really in all aspects of the diocese.” director of Toronto’s Office of Many of the concerns raised, Catholic Youth. “So what I would like fewer people considering reli - Colleges work hard to build relationships think the bishops are encountering gious vocations, are nothing new, is how do we make the informa - said Kuntz. But in every consulta - Continued from page 3 but I think psychologically. It’s adviser to the president on tion more accessible and . . . when tion, he said, young people con - just a good thing to be doing.” Aboriginal affairs. you Google Catholic Church, who sistently reminded leaders “don’t ciliation) — saying this is not set New courses • University of Sudbury, Ont.: is controlling that message?” give up on us.” in stone; change can happen,” said A new $140,000 sacred fire arbour Portelli, who authored the In most diocesan consultations, Turcotte, who is president of St. Canada’s 22 Catholic colleges that operates as an outdoor class - synod report for the archdiocese, youth directors are finding most of Mary’s University in Calgary. and universities are reaching out to room and a focal point for Abo - said many points raised in the lis - their respondents within the Turcotte and the St. Mary’s indigenous Canadians with new riginal ceremonies. tening sessions so far have been Catholic community. Al though administration has worked hard to courses, new student services and • Regis College, Ontario: A concerns that the archdiocese’s Pope Francis has commissioned build relationships with Alberta new community partnerships. graduate course in Injustices in youth office has heard for many dioceses to consult “the entire Aboriginal communities, earning Some examples: Canada Today; year-round consul - years. Cardinal Thomas Collins, People of God,” Canada’s youth the right to carry a teepee which • St. Thomas More College, tation with an elder. along with his four auxiliary bish - directors still find it difficult to reach can be erected several times per Saskatoon: A new course on the • St. Mark’s College, Van cou- ops, heard young people’s con - people who are not in the pews. year on campus and host teaching relationship between Catholicism ver: Two courses in First Nations cerns with building youth-friendly Clayton Imoo, from the Arch- by native elders. and indigenous peoples; an en - Studies, Social Justice and Peace parish communities and more diocese of Vancouver, said finding From Métis sash graduation cer - dowed chair in Indigenous Spiri - Studies. education in Catholic teaching. non-Catholic respondents meant emonies to nights spent on campus tuality and Reconciliation. • King’s University College, “I think one of the biggest that someone from the Catholic in the teepee, which must never be • St. Mary’s University, Cal - London, Ont.: A course in contem - pieces of learning that came from community sent them a link to the left unoccupied, Aboriginal stu - gary: A full-time director of in- porary First Nations issues; the the young people was that every - online survey. And so, he said, dents at St. Mary’s are the first to digenous initiatives; a teepee on Gaudium et Spes Award scholarship one was talking about the spirit of examining the “entry point” in feel the effects of their university’s campus where elders teach tradi - for First Nations, Inuit and Métis accompaniment,” said Christina which these non-Catholics were efforts at reconciliation. tional knowledge. students established with a $25,000 Mines, youth ministry director in reached might become the key to “We had many Catholic First • Campion College, Regina: An gift from the Diocese of London. the Hamilton diocese in Ontario. their evangelization. Nations students for whom this advisory circle on indigenous rela - • St. Joseph College, Ed mon- Mines spearheaded information “With a lot of (non-Catholics), was a healing of great conse - tions in collaboration with First ton: A course entitled “Interaction gathering for Hamilton. In April there’s definitely a lot of intrigue quence — to see this kind of dia - Nations University of Canada. between indigenous spiritual tradi - she launched a streamlined version about Pope Francis, in just how logue on campus,” Turcotte said. • Mount Saint Vincent Uni - tions and Christianity” taught by of the Vatican’s synod question - “It does matter, not just morally versity, Nova Scotia: A special Métis scholar Sharon Pasula. naire. She also organized forums — YOUTH, page 5 October 25, 2017 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 5 Moral leadership of Laudato Si’ now more evident

By Michael Swan Paris climate accord — a key goal The 40 institutions pulled their looking at a The Catholic Register of Pope Francis when Laudato Si’ money out of climate-warming curve that was released. entities in response to Pope goes down,” TORONTO (CCN) — As “I’m not Catholic, but I think Francis’ call in Laudato Si’ to be she said. more than 40 Catholic institutions the huge value-add of the pope is proactive to protect the environ - While announced they would no longer that he — obviously, he’s the ment and make investments that China invest in fossil fuel companies, a head of the Catholic Church — promote a carbon-neutral envi - makes mas - former United Nations chief cli - but he also uses his moral voice, ronment. sive invest - mate negotiator said the pope’s which goes above any religion. “Church institution divest - ments in environmental vision laid out in He speaks directly to that moral ments are very important,” solar, wind Laudato Si’ is becoming even responsibility we all have as Figueres said. “They don’t add up and nuclear more relevant. human beings,” said the Costa to trillions, but they have a very power, “There’s always a need for Rican diplomat. important exemplary role. They western moral leadership,” said Christiana Figueres was in Toronto just take moral responsibility to the countries, Figueres. “If anything I think the days after the “Season of Crea - next level. You can’t have moral including need and the urgency for moral tion,” a month-long movement to responsibility that is just abstract. Canada, are leadership has actually increased.” pray and care for the environment There has to be a consequence to subsidizing Figueres is the former execu - endorsed by Pope Francis, came that moral responsibility.” fossil fuel tive secretary of the United Na- to a conclusion on the feast of St. Figueres gave a speech to the exploration tions Framework Convention on Francis with the largest-ever Canadian Council for Public- and delivery Catholic Register/Michael Swan Climate Change. She was respon - Catholic divestment announce - Private Partnerships about the to the tune MORAL LEADERSHIP — Christiana Figueres, for - sible for getting the world’s coun - ment in St. Francis’ hometown of need for new, more robust infra - of $5.3 tril - mer executive secretary of the UN Framework tries to sign the December 2015 Assisi. structure to withstand more fre - lion per year Convention on Climate Change. quent and violent hurricanes, tor - — six per nadoes and other effects of cli - cent of global GDP — said The moral argument about cli - Youth seek change in church mate change. She swept into Figueres. Canada is part of a 35- mate change is not about abstract, Toronto in the wake of four mas - nation group at the United academic theorizing, said Continued from page 4 then, we’re also faced with the sive hurricanes which displaced Nations looking for co-ordinated Figueres. This year’s hurricane reality of the lack of resources,” 100,000 people and caused $400 ways to cut fossil fuel subsidies. season in the Caribbean is only a approachable and responsive he said Isabel Correa, director of the billion in damage in the United “We as humanity, we have to small taste of what will happen if seems,” he said. Montreal archdiocese’s Mission States alone. know we are facing a crossroads. . . . the carbon content in the Earth’s “There’s also intrigue I think Jeunesse office. “All of this is actually interre - Sometimes we just have to stand atmosphere does not decline, she about how or if the church is A position was recently cut lated and it all ends up in incredi - up to reality,” Figueres said. said. going to change its teachings on from the Jeunesse office’s four- ble suffering for which we will different issues.” person team. Correa said the con - never have a number,” Figueres However, like in many other dio - sultations and the synod itself is told her audience of bankers, Baum attended Vatican II ceses across the country, re sources an opportunity to keep these engineers and insurance execu - for youth offices are limited. issues on the mind of the Cana - tives. “It’s irrelevant if you Continued from page 1 Second Vatican Council. Baum In the Vancouver archdiocese, dian church. believe in climate change, just as had already begun publishing in Imoo is the former youth director. “That’s been brought up in the it is irrelevant whether you in the early days of Vatican II. He academic journals about Catholic- His title recently changed to asso - synods a lot, the scarcity of our believe in gravity.” was mentored by Cardinal Jewish relations. ciate director of Ministries and multipliers,” said Correa. “The Redirecting investment away , then-president of Baum attended all three ses - Out reach office after an amalga - busyness of people who work from carbon and toward sustain - the Pontifical Council for sions of the council as a peritus, mation of ministry offices. Imoo with young people and their lack able energy and infrastructure Promoting Christian Unity. An or theological expert, consulting assured that all youth programs of time to just be present. . . . It will be key to actually meeting ally of St. John XXIII, Bea went on Nostra Aetate ; the Decree on and youth office staff have been keeps it on the dialogue table.” the Paris accord goals, including looking for credible Catholic ; and the Declaration retained, but their duties now also All Canadian dioceses’ reports, net year-over-year declines in experts on Catholic-Jewish rela - on Religious Freedom. include family ministry and gen - along with reports from around greenhouse gases, she said. tions and found his man in Baum. After the council, Baum taught eral outreach. the world, will contribute to the “By 2020 we need to com - Gregory Baum was born to a theology and ethics at the Uni - “Everybody keeps saying we Vatican’s preparatory document to pletely reverse the trajectory of Jewish mother and Protestant versity of St. Michael’s College in want training and formation. And be published early 2018. greenhouse gases. We need to be father in Berlin in 1923. At 17, in the University of Toronto. He left 1940, he came to Canada as a war the priesthood in 1974 and mar - refugee after a brief stay in ried. He studied sociology at the England. Among the many Jewish New School for Social Theory in refugees in camps in Quebec were New York and, in the 1980s, young intellectuals who set up taught in the religious studies classes for the younger refugees, department at McGill University which Baum attended. in Montreal. He became a Catholic during Baum was a frequent target of the war years and joined the conservative campaigners in Augustinian order in 1947. He English Canada and the United was ordained a priest in 1954. He States. Msgr. Vincent Foy, a studied theology at the University Canadian theologian, published of Fribourg in Switzerland and frequent articles condemning published That They May Be One , Baum as a “Marxist . . . ex-priest.” an influential book about Catholic Foy popularized a theory that ecumenism, in 1958. Baum had excommunicated him - His involvement in the Second self by marrying before his lai - Vatican Council began even cization was formally recognized before the world’s bishops met in by the Vatican. Baum’s opinions Rome, as Vatican officials were on ordination of women and gay planning the church’s first truly marriage drew frequent criticism. global meeting. Baum’s critics were further “I remember the first session I incensed when he published his attended was in November 1960,” 2016 autobiography, The Oil Has Baum told The Catholic Register Not Run Dry , in which he spoke in 2012. “I was at the first session of his first homosexual experi - of the secretariat in Rome. We had ence, at the age of 40. the first meeting with Cardinal The author of more than 20 Bea and Msgr. (later Cardinal books, Baum said he was never Johannes) Willebrands, and this worried by the criticism. was all about ecumenism. At the “I live in a dream world in end of the meeting Cardinal Bea Quebec,” he told The Catholic said, ‘I just saw the pope and he Register. “I still belong to a wide said to us, he said that he wants network of progressive Catholics. the secretariat to prepare a state - I never meet any conservatives.” ment to rethink the church’s rela - He was founder and editor of tionship to the Jews.’ ” the influential journal The St. John XXIII’s concern about Ecumenist from 1962 to 2004. the six million Jews killed in the The journal highlighted connec - heart of Europe during the Second tions between theology and soci - World War largely drove the ology, politics and culture. 6 Prairie Messenger LOCAL NEWS October 25, 2017 St. Nicholas Catholic School opens

SASKATOON — Students and Boyko also spoke at the opening. staff in Saskatoon’s Ever green “We’re proud that the people of community joined the pro vincial Saskatoon, and all of Saskatch - education minister, Greater Saska - ewan, want Catholic education toon Catholic Schools (GSCS) for their children,” Boyko said. leaders, and Cathedral of the Holy “We’re humbled that parents Family parish representatives to entrust us with the task of educat - officially open St. Nicholas Cath - ing their children and building olic School Oct. 19. faithful disciples of Christ.” This is the 18th and final St. Nicholas Catholic School school to officially open as part can accommodate some 600 stu - of a provincial joint-use schools dents from Kindergarten to Grade project. 8 at full capacity. Derrick Kunz “Our government is proud to “St. Nicholas is right in the ST. NICHOLAS SCHOOL OPENS — A ribbon was cut Oct. 19 to officially open St. Nicholas Catholic join with the students and staff of heart of Evergreen, which is appro - School in the Evergreen neighbourhood of Saskatoon — the last of 18 new schools officially opened this St. Nicholas Catholic School to priate since the building will be the year as part of a provincial joint-use schools project. celebrate the grand opening of heart of this unique and vibrant this beautiful new school and offi - community,” principal Rick the community. It is part of the P3 in the Stonebridge neighbourhood, throughout common areas, tablets, cially mark the completion of the Garman said. “The staff are excit - Joint-Use Schools Project that St. Lorenzo Ruiz Cath o lic School smart boards and LCD screens. largest school-building project in ed to help shape a strong, faith- includes 18 publicly owned ele - in the Hampton Village neighbour - These devices provide students Saskatchewan history,” education filled school community with our mentary schools built on nine hood, and St. Thérèse of Lisieux with the tools that will help them minister Bronwyn Eyre said. students and families. It’s really a joint-use sites in Saska toon, Catholic School in the Rosewood learn and grow in the 21st century. “The growth in northeast once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” Martensville, Warman and Regina. neighbourhood. Since 2007, the Government of Saskatoon has increased over the St. Nicholas Catholic School is The other new GSCS schools One of the many innovative Saskatchewan has committed past decade, and as with the other one half of a joint-use facility that are Holy Trinity Catholic School in features integrated into the joint- approximately $1.5 billion toward 18 schools we’ve opened, St. shares space with Sylvia Fedoruk Warman, École Holy Mary use schools is technology such as 67 major school capital projects Nicholas responds to that growth Public School. The joint-use facili - Catholic School in Martensville, interactive touch-screen televisions and numerous smaller projects such and future development.” ty also contains a 90-space child - and three Saskatoon schools: St. that allow students to learn about as portable classrooms and preven - GSCS board chair Diane care centre and space available to Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic School energy consumption, data ports tative maintenance and renewal. Conscience not just something that makes you feel guilty

Continued from page 1 referred to as a “feeding tube” — much so that the infirm is able to ordinary care or treatment, but at to have a feeding tube, so after six Deutscher explored decision-mak - take nourishment only with great the same time, “there might be and a half pages of saying why food There he is alone with God whose ing factors that would help deter - trouble and an almost certain tor - circumstances in which food is ordinary, they give some circum - voice echoes in his depths,” states mine whether a treatment is ment, then it can be considered an might make the jump to being stances where food might be con - the catechism. deemed ordinary or beyond-the- impossibility and one is excused something extra-ordinary,” sidered extra-ordinary,” she said. Deutscher described conscience ordinary, a benefit or a burden. from sin . . . especially if there is Deutscher noted. The 2007 Commentary on as a calling: “It is not something Intravenous (IV), Nasal Gastric little or no hope for life.” She then explored the Terry Artificial Nutrition and Hydration that just makes you feel guilty after (NG), Percutaneous Endoscopic The statement recognizes that Schiavo case: a woman with an acknowledged that in remote the fact, but it is a guide.” Gastrostomy (PEG), and Total food ordinarily is a good thing, acquired brain injury who was in places or in situations of extreme The catechism also addresses Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) are and if someone is simply sick and a persistent vegetative state, poverty, the artificial provision of the formation of conscience, stat - among the methods for artificially needs food, we have a moral whose husband argued she would food and water may be physically ing in CCC #1784: “The education providing hydration and nutrition obligation to provide it, said not want to have been kept on impossible, and no one is held to of the conscience is a lifelong task. — and each method has its own Deutscher. “But he also says that prolonged life support, and decid - the impossible. From the earliest years it awakens particular applications, benefits in certain circumstances it might ed to remove her feeding tube. The congregation also wrote: the child to the knowledge and and risks. Some methods are used not be what the person needs.” Schiavo’s parents disputed his “Nor is the possibility excluded practice of the interior law recog - as a short intervention, to assist She also referred to the 1957 decision, and there were seven that, due to emerging complica - nized by conscience. Prudent edu - someone in getting healthier, words of Pope Pius XII about years of legal challenges before tions, a patient may be unable to cation teaches virtue; it prevents or while others are more long-term. ventilators, in which he made a the tube was removed. The focus assimilate food and liquids, so cures fear, selfishness and pride, Making a decision about con - distinction between ordinary and of the case was on who had the that their provision becomes alto - resentment arising from guilt, and tinuing or terminating a particular extra-ordinary measures, putting right to act as her proxy decision- gether useless.” feelings of complacency, born of form of artificial hydration or ventilators into the “extra-ordi - maker, with the courts ultimately For instance, artificial feeding human weakness and faults. The nutrition would involve a similar nary camp” as something that deciding it was her husband. would not be a benefit if a person education of the conscience guar - discernment to other kinds of were good to use if they help a “So on March 18, 2005, Terry is nearing the end of life, and their antees freedom and engenders decisions, said Deutscher. person, but that there was no Schiavo’s feeding tube was re - organs have shut down, and they peace of heart.” She also provided excerpts obligation to keep people on ven - moved. She died on March 31, 13 are not processing anything, The church holds that a person’s from church documents examin - tilators. It is not that the treatment days later. Her parents and her described Deutscher. “Or some - conscience must be formed and ing the provision of food and is “good or bad” but whether it is brother described it as death by star - one who is dying may be swelling educated. It is not always enough to drink to patients, and when it proportionate or disproportionate, vation, and the Catholic Church a lot — that may be a sign that rely on our “gut feeling,” said might be morally acceptable to said Deutscher. agreed,” Deutscher said. “This led their body is retaining that water, Deutscher. Then, in making a deci - withdraw what is usually deemed “When it comes to medical to a lot of confusion for a lot of peo - and if you keep pumping it into sion in conformity with an educat - to be ordinary care. interventions, there are things that ple, and many asked the question, them it is not going to get the job ed conscience, that “peace of heart” As early as the 16th century are ordinary and expected, and ‘Is the church saying that feeding done” and may make their suffer - can be experienced. the question came up as to you also have things that are out - tubes are mandatory now?’ ’’ ing greater. Health care decisions often whether a dying man is commit - side that ‘ordinary’ box that you The bishops of the United Finally, the congregation happen in a whirlwind, in a time ting suicide if he refuses to eat. accept — it doesn’t mean that States wrote the Vatican and addressed the possibility that pro - of stress and confusion, fear or “Many people stop being interest - they (the ‘extra-ordinary’) are asked them to clarify the position viding food might in some cases trauma. “You need to try and take ed in food when they are dying; good or bad, it is just not what on the case and on feeding tubes. be more burdensome than benefi - a step back, and ask for as much they stopped wanting to eat,” you might normally expect.” In the first part of the response, cial, saying, “The possibility is time as you can, to try and find Deutscher said. “They noticed this Medical interventions such as the Congregation for the Doctrine not absolutely excluded that, in that peace of heart, and make an and took the time to seriously ventilators and feeding tubes are of the Faith described food as a some rare cases, artificial nourish - educated and informed decision,” think about it.” not good or evil in themselves, basic requirement of life. ment and hydration may be exces - said Deutscher. One theologian, Francisco de they are tools, she said. “It’s like “In the case of Terry Schiavo, sively burdensome for the patient It was noted that thinking Vitoria (1483 - 1546), maintained asking if a hammer is good or she wasn’t dying — she was still or may cause significant physical about such decisions beforehand that, if a dying person refused evil,” she said. “It depends on the processing food, food was still discomfort, for example resulting — such as in an advanced care food and drink ,“it was because he circumstances, and how you use a doing its designed end, keeping from complications in the use of directive — means discernment was now focusing on non-earthly tool that makes it good or bad.” her alive. It really didn’t matter the means employed.” happens apart from the pressures things, and should not be consid - The group then discussed what how brain damaged or not that she Deutscher then led the gather - of being in the midst of a health ered suicidal,” Deutscher related. treatments in our society are con - was — she was still a human ing in a discussion of three sce - care crisis. The Catholic Health De Vitoria wrote: “If a sick sidered ordinary and which might being and had a fundamental right narios involving artificial nutri - Association of Saskatchewan person is able to take nourish - be deemed extra-ordinary. For to receive food,” Deutscher sum - tion and hydration, weighing the (CHAS) has published “A Faith- ment, the hope of life, he has an instance, a cast is ordinary treat - marized. burdens and the benefits to deter - Based Advance Directive For obligation to take it, just as he ment in this time and place. How - “But it didn’t stop there. They mine if the care would be consid - Health Care” as a tool to assist must be given it, if he is not able ever, something like chemotherapy (the Congregation for the Doctrine ered ordinary or extra-ordinary, with such discernment. to do so himself. However, if the might go into either category, of Faith) did not want people to and whether artificial nutrition Using the example of artificial decline of the spirit is so great, depending on circumstances. simply think that feeding tubes and hydration might be morally nutrition and hydration — often and the alteration of appetite is so Food is usually concerned were mandatory, that everyone has and ethically withdrawn. October 25, 2017 LOCAL NEWS Prairie Messenger 7 Archbishop blesses three new Regina schools

By Frank Flegel students that St. Kateri had a diffi - Gospel, and related those teach - cult life. “Her parents died when ings to what they mean to them REGINA — Archbishop she was very young and she suf - as students and to their school Donald Bolen was kept busy in fered from smallpox that disfig - community. He then blessed an September blessing three new ured her face. When she became a icon of the saint whose name the schools that officially opened for Christian, she wasn’t wholly in her school bears, followed by the the 2017 - 2018 school year. indigenous community and not blessing of the school cross and St. Kateri Tekakwitha School wholly in the mission community, building. was blessed Sept. 19, St. Eliza - so she lived in two worlds and that May Desnomie, a Cree elder, beth School Sept. 20 and St. was not easy. So, St. Kateri knows was introduced and she said a Nicholas School Sept. 22. Each what it is to have a bad day.” prayer in her native language. of these new Catholic schools is Bolen advised the students that if Bolen related her presence to the partnered with a public school as they have a bad day, St. Kateri is a Truth and Reconciliation Com - part of the Saskatch e wan good person to pray to because she mission and gave a brief explana - Government’s joint-use schools understands. tion of the TRC and its impor - dictum that saw 18 new schools “As an indigenous person, St. tance. built throughout the province — Kateri teaches us about reconcili - The priests in attendance at in Regina, Saska toon, Warman ation; she teaches us how to live Frank Flegel each school were then invited by and Martensville. All were built together,” said Bolen. “She teach - SCHOOL BLESSING — Regina Archbishop Donald Bolen blesses one Bolen to join him on stage, as under the Public-Private es us a new way to live together, of three schools recently opened in the Archdiocese of Regina. well as school board trustees who Partnership (P3) model. to love each other.” were present for the blessing. The archbishop spoke briefly St. Kateri is a dual-track learned that, while St. Elizabeth about St. Nicholas. Students Together, they extended their at each school prior to the bless - school, teaching in both English is a common name among arch - quickly identified him as Santa right hands in the blessing of the ing, giving a bit of history of the and French, and is located in the diocesan schools and churches, Claus; Bolen replied that St. school. saint each school is named for. Harbour Landing neighbourhood most are named after St. Eliza- Nicholas was certainly connected As part of his visit to each The ceremony began with stu - of southwest Regina. The arch - beth of Hungary. to Santa Claus, but was not Santa. school, the archbishop visited and dents processing into the gymna - bishop used both languages in his “Your school is named after Bolen said he liked Nicholas blessed the administration offices sium with the school’s cross, pre-blessing talk and his opening St. Elizabeth, who had a special because he was a great bishop, and each classroom, briefly en - which they placed in front of the prayer for the school. relationship with Jesus; they were and Nicholas was the first name gaging the students as he went podium. Then the archbishop and St. Elizabeth is a French im - cousins.” of the archbishop’s grandfather. along. He was accompanied by Deacon Joe Lang began the bless - mersion school in the newly He related the story of how He went on: “Nicholas is about Lang, who assisted the archbish - ing ceremony. developed east side of the city, Mary, pregnant with Jesus, went giving, sharing the gifts that he op at all three schools. At St. Kateri Tekakwitha and the archbishop’s initial to visit Elizabeth. “Mary was not has been given. He is a helper in An official opening for each School, the archbishop told the remarks were in French. Students married and her community his community and you, too, can school took place separately, on wasn’t so sure about that.” But be helpers, sharing the gifts God another day and time from the Elizabeth welcomed Mary and has given you and helping in the blessing. The official opening was made her feel at home. community.” an opportunity for politicians, the “So Elizabeth is a person who The format was similar at mayor and city delegates, school welcomes, she welcomes every - each school: the archbishop board officials, and interested citi - one,” said Bolen, but she also rec - began by briefly explaining what zens to take part in the opening ognizes that Jesus is present in Jesus is teaching in the day’s and a tour of the school. Mary. “When we build communi - ty, we do well to try to be nice to Oldest monk at St. Peter’s people, but also recognize that Jesus is present in every person we meet.” Abbey dies at 93 It was at St. Elizabeth that the archbishop first introduced MUENSTER, Sask. — For Maurille Hammond and his wife, more than three decades, the Alice. Hammond hand-sculpted monks and guests at St. Peter’s three crosses, each from a single Abbey looked forward to savour - John Lahey-Wiggs block of wood, each about one ing the greenhouse tomatoes CHEW ON THIS — As part of a national “Chew On This!” campaign metre high, featuring the risen grown by Br. Wolfgang Thiem calling for a Canadian poverty reduction strategy, members of the Christ. He donated a cross to each each spring. He planted them early Justice and Peace Committee at St. Anne’s Parish in Saskatoon hand - new school. At St. Nicholas in his monastic room and then ed out materials after every mass on the weekend of Oct. 14 - 15, at the school, Bolen showed off the bish - start of Poverty Awareness Week. The “Chew On This!” bags con - transferred them to the greenhouse op’s staff, also crafted by he had built. It is a tradition that tained an apple, a fridge magnet and a postcard addressed to MP Jean- Hammond and given as a gift. Yves Duclos, Minister of Children, Families and Social Development, will be sorely missed. calling for a federal action plan to reduce poverty. Citizens for Public St. Nicholas is a single-track Thiem was born on April 28, Justices and Canada Without Poverty organize the cross-country event English-language school located 1924 in Schwab Gmund, southcen - in conjunction with World Food Day Oct. 17. It’s one part of the in the northwest area of Regina. tral Germany. The Second World Dignity for All campaign for a poverty-free Canada. For more infor - Here the archbishop engaged the War was devastating Europe when mation see http://dignityforall.ca students about what they thought he graduated from high school. At the age of 18 he was draft - Benedictine pastor will be missed ed into the air force and then transferred to an antiaircraft unit OSB in Germany. He attended a dri - Br. Wolfgang Thiem, OSB MUENSTER, Sask — After Abbey in Collegeville, Minn., he sports, Novecosky served as sports ving school, learning the mechan - spending 21 years as parish priest was ordained on June 9, 1962. He director at St. Peter’s. ics and function of motorcycles, work at the abbey. He soon entered at Annaheim, the parishioners taught at St. Peter’s College High In 1972, he began doing pas - cars, trucks and tractors. Thiem the novitiate, making his profes - gave Rev. Rudolph Novecosky, School from 1963 until 1972, toral work in St. Gregor and was taken prisoner by the sion of vows on March 21, 1973. OSB, a farewell plaque which when it closed. Having a love for Muenster. Starting in 1987 he be - Americans on Christmas Eve, Thiem served many roles at the read: “Fr. Rudolph, thanks for came pastor, residing in Annaheim 1945. He had served two-and-a- abbey. His talents kept him busy in being the pillar of morality in our for 21 years and serving the neigh - half years in the military and was carpentry, masonry, gardening, and community from 1987 to 2008. bouring parishes of St. Gregor and to spend another three-and-a-half as a cantor at Divine Office. We thank you and we will miss Naicam. He was always support - years as a pris oner of war on a During his final years, he grew you.” ive of church and community farm in France. sunflowers and harvested the seeds It was fitting, then, that the for - events. While serving as pastor he Thiem came to Canada in 1953 to feed the chickadees in the win - mer pastor died on Thanksgiving developed an expertise in wine and joined Voluntas Dei , a secular ter. He enjoyed listening to inter - Monday in St. Paul’s Hospital, making. He retired to the abbey in institute founded by an Oblate national news and reading about Saskatoon. He died due to organ 2008, where he served as prior, priest in Trois-Rivières, Que. He news events on his computer. His failure resulting from cancer of the treasurer and novice master. worked as a bricklayer in the sum - favourite winter recreation was bladder. The community was In 2008 he published Homilies mer, and in the winter he did car - cross-country skiing. thankful that he was finally freed for Everyday Life , a collection of pentry work. On Oct. 9 he fell outside his of pain and also thankful for the his homilies over the years. The In 1971, Thiem spent a few room and broke his right femur. many gifts he brought to the com - book was well received. months at the Trappist monastery He was taken to Royal University munity. Novecosky suffered a life- in Manitoba. That summer he Hospital in Saskatoon for an oper - Born to Joseph and Anne changing accident on Nov. 3, decided to visit St. Peter’s Abbey, ation and died a week later from Novecosky of Burr, Sask., on Oct. 1977, when he was injured in his which he had read about in the complications due to failure of his 27, 1936, he joined the monastic back by his own shotgun while Prairie Messenger . He had helped heart, lungs and kidneys. community of St. Peter’s Abbey in OSB hunting ducks. He spent the rest of the Trappists with haying and At 93, he was the oldest monk 1955. After studies at St. John’s Rev. Rudolph Novecosky, OSB his life in a wheelchair. found himself doing the same at St. Peter’s Abbey. 8 Prairie Messenger ARTS & CULTURE October 25, 2017 Film on Mark Twain highlights his religious doubts

By Kimberly Winston can make a man happy when he is The five-month trip was a dis - steeped in the bare bones approach uinely affected him. The last stop ©2017 Religion News Service out of luck.” appointment to Twain from the of Cal vinism, was also scandal - in the Holy Sepulchre is the site But it was a trip to the Holy start. In Europe, he lamented the ized by the amount of decoration where the crucifixion is supposed Mark Twain, a.k.a. Samuel Land in 1867 that launched him fatness of the priests and the — crosses, candlesticks, mosaics, to have taken place. Clemens, didn’t have much of from local journalist to interna - scrawniness of the poor, mar - statues, etc. — found in Jerusalem. “I could not believe the three anything good to say about reli - tional satirist with Innocents velled at the shabbiness of reli - “He sees it as a kind of theme holes in the top of the rock were gion, at least the organized kind. Abroad: Or, the New Pilgrim’s gious attractions like DaVinci’s park,” Powers says. the actual ones the crosses stood Progress , a book based on “The Last Supper” and wondered He is especially critical of the in,” he wrote. “But I felt satisfied the journey. That pivotal at the dullness of the locals. Holy Sepulchre, a fourth-century that those crosses had stood so trip, and its impact on He found the religious pilgrims site that is supposed to contain near the place now occupied by Twain’s views on religion, he travelled with — men and the “tombs” of both Adam and them that the few feet of possible are the subject of “Mark wom en from small-town America Jesus. difference were a matter of no Twain’s Journey to who had never been abroad before “How touching it was, here in consequence.” Jerusalem: Dreamland,” — narrow-minded and hypocriti - a land of strangers,” Twain wrote Laura Skandera Trombley, for - which begins airing this cal. They held nightly prayer meet - of Adam’s tomb, “thus to discov - mer president of the Huntington month on PBS stations. ings on-board the ship but ig nored er the grave of a blood relation. Library, hones in on this moment. “Samuel Clemens had the suffering they saw among the True a distant one, but still a rela - “The experience Twain has at the a constant, lifelong sort of poor everywhere they went. tion.” site of the crucifixion is really jilted love affair with the None of that changed when the But Twain had at least one ex - Bible,” Twain biographer travellers entered the Holy Land, perience that seems to have gen - — SKEPTICISM , page 9 and historian Ron Powers the last stop on their says in the introduction to 12,000-kilometre journey. the hourlong film. “He The pilgrims cry crocodile wanted to believe, but he tears at the supposed site of couldn’t believe.” the crucifixion, they chisel Twain’s journey to off souvenirs from the Jerusalem started with a walls of temples, they hag - demand. “Send me $1,200 gle with impoverished at once,” he telegraphed locals charging a few dol - his editors at the Alta for a boat ride on the California, a San Francisco Sea of Galilee, where Jesus newspaper. “I want to go is supposed to have walked TWAIN PORTRAIT — This portrait of abroad.” on water. Mark Twain was taken in Istanbul in Amazingly, the editors “What fascinates Mark 1867, during his historic trip. did and Twain booked Twain most as he enters the passage on The Quaker Holy Land is not so much “I have a religion — but you City, America’s first cruise ship. the Holy Land itself, and its will call it blasphemy,” he wrote The other passengers were reli - various relics and temples,” in a letter in 1865. “It is that there gious pilgrims and rich young Ann M. Ryan, a Twain is a God for the rich man but none men looking to acquire a little scholar, says in the film, for the poor. . . . Perhaps your reli - sophistication before settling “but the hugely artificial gion will sustain you, will feed down. Twain embedded himself response of the pilgrims he you — I place no dependence in in both groups and began sending is travelling with . . . he PBS mine. Our religions are alike, back to the paper what would be sees it as a desecration.” JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM — Actor Jeffrey Weissman portrays Mark though, in one respect — neither more than 50 “dispatches.” Twain, a Presbyterian Twain in “Mark Twain’s Journey to Jerusalem: Dreamland.” Hashtag campaign reveals how widespread sexual harassment really is

By Caitlin Ward one-off incident in the street or at the specifics that things become Smith must be guilty of some - redeeming ourselves and of being a bar. It might have been an ongo - sticky. It’s when you point the thing. I chose it because it’s a redeemed by Christ. We must It’s something that’s been ing problem with a colleague, a finger at a particular person who pretty normal song that has a also be willing to recognize that going around social media this boss, or a fellow student. It might has done a particular thing to you questionable undercurrent in it. every sinner, re gardless of the sin, week in the wake of the revela - have been a friend. Or a boy - that it becomes hard to discuss. As many songs do. can be redeemed. tion that movie mogul Harvey friend. A husband. An uncle. Or In the case of someone like Ultimately, we need to Weinstein is a serial abuser. in my case, several of those Weinstein, it became easy to come to terms with the fact You lift my heart up Primarily women, but also some things, at different times, in differ - point the finger at him and call that people who are gener - When the rest of me is down men, have been posting that hash - ent situations, with different men. him a monster after the dam ally good can do horrible You, you enchant me tag, or that simple statement, on broke. Dozens of people have things. And what’s more, Even when you’re not around Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Latch come forward with allegations. we need to recognize that If there are boundaries The idea is this: we need to let But I do wonder how helpful it is people are not only the bad Sam Smith I will try to knock them down people know how widespread this to point at him when we’re dis - things they’ve done. We problem is. People need to know cussing the broader issue. I worry need to make space for I’m latching on, babe how many women, and also men, But I chose not to write “me, it reinforces the idea that harass - remorse and reconciliation, Now I know what I have found have been sexually harassed or too.” It’s not because I thought it ment and assault are only perpe - and dig deep to the heart of I feel we’re close enough sexually assaulted. We need to be was a bad idea. I saw a number of trated by a handful of monstrous where these toxic attitudes I wanna lock in your love able to speak openly about what women and men on my Facebook people. and behaviours come from I think we’re close enough has happened to us, and we need who posted it. I thought it was If the #metoo hashtag teaches so we can change hearts Could I lock in your love, baby? to feel supported when we do. We brave to disclose that, and in a us anything, it’s that the issue is and minds. In some ways it need to have a conversation about certain way I thought it was kind, far too widespread only to be at doesn’t seem fair, I know, Now I’ve got you in my space this. as well. They were willing to the hands of a few heinous indi - but it is near impossible to I won’t let go of you I didn’t write “me, too” on reveal that about themselves so viduals. Rapists are not creatures admit fault if you know Got you shackled in my embrace Twitter or Facebook or Insta - others would know this is an from the black lagoon. We live in you will be completely os- I’m latching on to you gram. But it’s not because I issue that needs to be addressed. a culture that tacitly accepts, and tracized if you do. It’s hard haven’t had that experience. It allows us to start and also con - often even romanticizes this kind to come to terms with the I’m so enraptured I don’t know if the problem is tinue conversations that need to of behaviour. The words we use fact that someone might Got me wrapped up in your touch as widespread as social media happen in various ways and with to describe love and the words have done some of these Feel so enamoured sites would have us believe, but various people. we use to describe obsession or things if it means that that Hold me tight within your clutch then I also don’t know many But still. I chose not to write ownership of a person are fright - person is irredeemably hor - How do you do it? women over the age of 12 who “me, too.” I don’t want to say it eningly close, sometimes. The rible for having done so. haven’t been sexually assaulted or without getting into the specifics journey from objectifying I think it’s important to You got me losing every breath harassed. It might have been a of what has happened to me. I’m women on the street to denying note, too, that I say this not What did you give me not far enough away from the their autonomy on a date is short - as someone who doesn’t To make my heart beat out my chest? circumstances or the people in - er and more slippery than many un derstand the trauma that I feel we’re close enough volved to be able to do so with - of us realize. Things that seem results from this behaviour, Ward is a Saskatoon- I wanna lock in your love out being at the very least ner - cute in romantic comedies would but as someone who under - based freelance writer who I think we’re close enough vous, and possibly even scared. be terrifying in real life. stands it intimately. But I spends her days (and most Could I lock in your love, baby? nights) working at a small The trouble with any of these I chose “Latch” by Sam Smith al so un derstand that as conversations is that we can talk for this column not because I Cath olics, we have to be Catholic college. Her less elo - #metoo about it in the abstract with rela - thought it was particularly bad or will ing to recognize that quent thoughts can be found at Or, “me, too.” www.twitter.com/newsetofstrings tive ease. It’s when we get into creepy or because I think Sam we are sinners capable of October 25, 2017 ARTS & CULTURE Prairie Messenger 9 Focus on doc highlights from Toronto festival

appraisal, but an attempt to peer behind the curtain at how at the highest level a responsible global Screenings superpower formulates interna - tional policy and conducts diplo - & Meanings macy. In that respect it succeeds admirably. There were many losers and Gerald Schmitz victims in the 2007 - 2008 finan - cial meltdown, but also conditions Although documentaries have Obama administration internal that provided opportunities for not been TIFF’s strongest suit, the debates over international issues gain by financial tricksters and 2017 slate delivered some high- during its last year in office. brazen opportunists as explored in quality features that bear noting “There was going to be this friend - documentaries like Inside Job, even if I didn’t manage to see ly handoff of power,” says Barker Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Faces, Places (Villages, Visages ) of the intention as filming started, Room , and fictional dramas like by renowned French veteran “and then we’d see more of the Margin Call and The Big Short . Agnès Varda, which took the audi - accomplishments solidified.” Well Director Jed Rothstein exposes ence award for documentary, run - we know what happened with the another layer of financial manipu - ner-up Long Time Running about result that, as the Los Angeles lation and malfeasance in The the iconic last tour of the Canadian Times puts it, the finished film China Hustle , which draws on rock band The Tragically Hip, or “offers an urgent ideological information put together by a several other Canadian docs on rebuttal to Trump’s presidency.” financial participant observer, Dan indigenous themes — master film - Barker’s candid camera fol - David, vice-president of Geo maker Alanis Obomsawin’s Our lows three figures in particular: Investing based in the small town People Will Be Healed and Alan Ambassador to the United Nations of Skippack, Pennsylvania. David, Gerald Schmitz Zweig’s There is a House Here . Samantha Power, a former scholar who was present at the world pre - CHINA HUSTLE — China Hustle director Jed Rothstein, executive and human rights activist; Secre - miere, candidly admits: “There producer Alex Gibney, and Dan David, financial whistleblower, speak The Final Year (U.S.) tary of State John Kerry; and are no good guys in this story, after the Sept. 9 premiere of the film at the Toronto International Film The China Hustle Deputy National Security Adviser including me.” Festival. (U.S.) and go-to speech writer Ben David’s firm specializes in Makala (France) Rhodes, whom National Security short selling, which the film de- collapsed. What is perhaps most do with any companion of Tarzan. Jane Adviser Susan Rice describes as scribes in a neat animated worrying are the warnings from a The Jane of the title is of course (U.S.) being in a “mind meld” with sequence “the short on shorts.” range of experts interviewed Jane Goodall who was a 26-year- Obama. One of his best lines: Dan Glassman’s review in POV about the vulnerabilities that per - old secretary with no academic sci - One year ago Hillary Clinton, “The last thing the world needs is magazine gives a succinct de - sist in the financial system. As ence credentials when in 1957 Dr. President Obama’s former Secre- more walls.” Rhodes shunned the scription of how it’s done: “in - expressed by Alex Gibney, who Louis Leakey chose her to accom - tary of State, was still the odds-on spotlight and was uncomfortable vestors figure out that stocks are directed Enron and is an executive pany him on groundbreaking field favourite to win the White House. when a lengthy profile of him ran overvalued: they borrow shares in producer: “The biggest lie on Wall research in the Gombe region of No one in the foreign-policy eche - in the New York Times Magazine . the company in question, sell Street is, this time it’s different.” British-controlled Tanganyika lons wanted to imagine how a We follow these principals as them at the current rate, release a The China Hustle sounds a timely (renamed Tanzania in 1964 after repulsive renegade Trump regime they accompany the president on report showing that the company alarm given Trump’s promises of achieving independence in 1964). would go about dismantling the major foreign travels, often in- is overvalued, watch as the com - financial deregulation that can What Goodall had was a passion Obama legacy and wrecking what volving difficult contexts and sen - pany’s value plummets, and pay only make matters worse. for animals, a sense of adventure remains of America’s reputation sitivities as in Vietnam, Hiro shima, for the shares they’d borrowed at Emmanuel Gras’ Makala , and a determined spirit. She would abroad. (More on what lies be hind and Cuba; engaging on complex the newly tanked cost, pocketing which received the Critics’ Week also go on to earn a doctorate from the Trump phenomenon in power contentious issues — climate almost all the money they made Grand Prize at Cannes, depicts the Cambridge in 1966. in my next columns.) That unex - change, terrorism, the refugee cri - in the initial sale as profit.” back-breaking labour and struggle At the time very little was pected turn adds a timely and trou - sis. We go behind closed doors China became the big play for subsistence that is the lot of so known about behaviour bling significance to Greg where the most challenging ques - because it could still be promoted many in the Global South. Ac - in the wild. Her pioneering work Barker’s The Final Year , a reveal - tions are debated, such as how to to investors as an attractive high- companied by a Congo lese jour - with chimpanzees from the early ing behind-the-scenes look at respond to Syria’s escalating civil growth market. Dubious Chinese nalist, Gras’ camera followed 28- 1960s yielded fascinating details war where Power’s argument for year-old Kabwita Kasongo as he on how chimps communicate earlier and stronger action against chops a huge tree into logs to with each other and express emo - Skepticism the Assad dictatorship did not pre - begin an arduous process of mak - tion, on their habits, family and vail over Obama’s and Rhodes’ ing charcoal, an oversized load of community relationships, hierar - lasted a lifetime cautions. which he will then strap to a bicy - chies and sometimes aggressive What impresses is the deep cle and transport day and night clashes. Goodall got closer to Continued from page 8 seriousness and thoughtfulness some 50 kilometres along crowd - them than any other human had, that characterizes these delibera - ed dusty roads to try to sell in the and as empathetic as were these profound for him and meaning - tions. As compelling is the human city. He hopes to earn enough to remarkable interactions — cap - ful,” she says. “He recognizes that side of that diplomacy and the operations were able to get listed support his wife and obtain medi - tured on film by ace photographer this may have happened and gains revealing personal moments — on U.S. stock markets through cine for his sick child. Hugo van Lawick whom she some understanding into why reli - from home to office to in the field. “reverse mergers” with defunct The journey is full of hazards: would marry — their purpose gion is so powerful.” These are people who poured their but still registered U.S. firms, a transport truck that knocks over was rigorously to advance our Twain put all of his disdain and heart and soul into their work and giving them a veneer of legitima - his ramshackle load; police extor - understanding of our closest rela - disappointment — leavened with their palpable dismay over cy and audit oversight. Many of tion to let him pass; customers tives in the animal kingdom; a hearty dose of humour — into Trump’s election last November is these were shell games with com - demanding steep discounts. An nothing Disneyfied about it. The Innocents Abroad . It was the understandable as they contem - panies boasting huge dollar eval - exhausted Kasongo finds brief Goodall’s work became world most successful of his works dur - plate years of effort being under - uations that were discovered by respite at a sister-in-law’s place renowned, but not without her ing his lifetime. mined or undone. on-site investigations in China to and seeks another kind of relief at share of professional and personal Twain’s skepticism about reli - At the TIFF world premiere be corporate frauds. To project a makeshift evangelical service at trials. She and Hugo had a son, gion lasted all of his life. He had a where Rhodes and Power re ceived respectability, such companies which he prays: “Father, come Grub, born in 1967. In 1971 the personal faith — he said he be- a standing ovation, she said what might recruit figurehead VIPs to rescue me.” Discussing the film, couple separated, but remained lieved in God, attended church and she found most distressing was the their boards (for example, in the the images from which are as close until Hugo’s death in 2002. donated money for the construc - uncaring and careless ap proach of film the case of high-ranking for - agonizing as they are astonishing Morgan’s film became possible tion of a church. But he skewered the new administration. The dedi - mer army general and presidential and deeply moving, Gras empha - when over 100 hours of historical religious hypocrisy wherever he cated officials who re main must try aspirant Wesley Clark, who reacts sized the deep religious faith of footage thought lost was recov - found it. to hold on as best they can. with obvious unease and cha - the Congolese people notwith - ered in 2014. He has mined it for “Man is without any doubt the That’s not to say that Obama’s grin). While the Chinese govern - standing the daily ordeal many rare insights enriched by contem - most interesting fool there is,” he foreign policies were without ment turned a blind eye, in the face. The contract with Kasongo porary interviews with his subject. wrote in “Letters from the Earth,” flaws and weak spots in articula - U.S. ratings agencies and regula - to allow such an intimate filming I found the swelling score by the a commentary on Bible stories tion and execution. There’s noth - tory bodies dropped the ball. was to help him build a house. In maestro Philip Glass over-loud, written in 1909, one year before ing on the ramping up of drone David proves a compelling showing a poor man’s reality so but that is a minor quibble. With his death. warfare, the aggressive prosecu - witness as he spills the goods on starkly, beyond the value of so many species threatened, “Also the most eccentric,” tion of whistle blowers, the fail - the short sellers, brokers, lawyers empathetic awareness, it’s good there’s never been a better time to Twain added. ure to close Guantanamo and the and other market dealers profiting to know that the subject of it has draw attention to Goodall’s contri - “He hasn’t a single written law, like; nothing indeed on Hillary from the transactions related to benefited directly. bution that in cludes her globetrot - in his Bible or out of it, which has Clinton’s tenure at the State De - these scams in which unwitting The National Geographic ting advocacy as a UN Messenger any but just one purpose and partment or stances on foreign buyers would be enticed by rising Studio’s production of Jane , di - of Peace and the work of the In - intention — to limit or defeat the affairs during her ill-fated cam - share prices only to be taken for rected by Brett Morgen, goes into stitute (http://www.janegoodall. law of God.” paign. The film is not a critical suckers when the house of cards deepest Africa, but has nothing to org/) that bears her name. 10 Prairie Messenger DEEPENING OUR FAITH October 25, 2017 Faith in action should lift burdens, not add to them

do not practise what they teach, and place heavy burdens News and being as gentle as a nurse caring for her chil - on the shoulders of others. A burden on my shoulder con - dren is in sharp contrast to a heavy burden being placed on jures up memories of deep muscle pain — not an image of our shoulders. St. Paul acknowledges that being a follower Liturgy “good news.” of Christ has demands, yet God does not want us to be As I reflected on the Scripture for this Sunday, the burdened. and Life image of a heavy burden caught my attention and imagina - As I prepared to write this reflection, my days were tion. Jesus is cautioning us against leaders who do not shaped by the rhythm of hospital time as I was with a fami - practise what they teach. He is condemning the scribes ly member recovering from surgery. It was easy for me to Catherine Ecker and Pharisees who place burdens on others by what they let the burden of illness, surgery, waiting for doctors, anxi - teach, but are not inclined to live by those directives them - ety and fear to take hold of my thoughts. It was the words of selves. Psalm 131 that challenged me to let them go: “In you, Lord, As we begin the month of November a more barren It is easy to point a finger at leaders and excuse our I have found my peace.” As I prayed the words I was landscape reminds us the days of summer have gone and own actions. As a wife, parent, grandmother and catechist, reminded of Jesus’ words in St. Matthew’s Gospel, “My the colours of autumn are beginning to fade. We are in the I wonder what burdens I place on those I share life with yoke is easy and my burden is light.” When we learn to rely final weeks of the liturgical year and this month begins and those I am called to serve. In my own pastoral setting, on God, we may be surprised at how our burden is eased. with the celebration of the solemnity of All Saints and All place of work, classroom or home, do I place expectations We have a tendency to let the difficulties of daily life Souls day. For many, this month is filled with memories of shape our thoughts. St. Paul reminds us that we are called family and friends who have died within the last year, or Malachi 1:14 — 2:2, 8 -10 to accept the Word of God and to live in a way that the Thirty-first Sunday in years gone by. More than any other month, November Psalm 131 Good News shapes our lives. We become a reflection of in Ordinary Time can be filled with sadness and grief. It is a month that 1 Thessalonians 2:7-9,13 the Good News when we allow our lives to be a reflection November 5, 2017 yearns for sunshine and good news. Matthew 23:1-12 of what we believe. Amidst this backdrop we gather to celebrate the On Sundays we gather to hear God’s Word. In our Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time and hear the prophet on others and neglect to assist them? Each of us can reflect assembly, the diversity of experiences, circumstances and Malachai condemning behaviour that has led us away on what we teach, and determine if our lives reflect what family constellations are evident. Often the Word we hear from God. In the Gospel Jesus warns against leaders who we ask others to do. Years ago my son taught me that my proclaimed is markedly different from the messages we words, my facial expressions and my actions need to may hear at home, school or work. As we listen, may we match for my message to be credible. If our words and ask the Spirit to open our hearts so we may be nourished, Catherine Ecker, a parish catechist and freelance actions do not match, we risk placing burdens upon others free to surrender our burdens to God. writer, speaker and facilitator lives in Barrie, Ont. For or proclaiming Good News we have not yet embraced. May God’s Word lead us to give praise and thanks for over 35 years she has presented and led times of formation Jesus reminds his disciples and us that we are to be all that we have been given and to be open to the gift of on catechetical and liturgical topics throughout Canada. students of Christ and we are to serve others. The words of dining together at the Lord’s table where we become more She is married, a parent and grandparent. Reach her at Jesus are echoed in the letter of St. Paul to the fully who we are: the Body of Christ for the life of the [email protected] Thessalonians. St. Paul’s image of proclaiming the Good world. Our mission as disciples of Jesus is to close the distance, not the gate

votion that shamed those who con - number of times in the gospels tice, set ourselves up as gatekeep - sidered themselves true believers. where those around Jesus block ers, as guardians of our churches, In For the so-called sinners, all that others from having access to him, through whom others must pass in stood between them and entry into as is the case in that colourful order to have access to God. We the kingdom was a genuine invita - story where some people are try - need to more clearly remember Exile tion. ing to bring a paralytic to Jesus that Christ is the gatekeeper, and Why aren’t you practising a but are blocked by the crowds the only gatekeeper, and we need faith? No one has invited us! surrounding him, and consequent - to refresh ourselves on what that Ron Rolheiser, OMI Just in my own, admittedly ly have to make a hole in the roof means by looking at why Jesus limited, pastoral experience, I in order to lower the paralytic chased the moneychangers out of have seen a number of individu - into Jesus’ presence. the temple in John’s Gospel. Nobel Prizing-winning author take Morrison’s challenge, to close als who from childhood to early Too frequently, unknowingly, They, the moneychangers, had set Toni Morrison, assessing the the distance rather than close the or late mid-life were indifferent sincerely, but blindly, we are that themselves up as a medium times, asks this question: “Why gate, to our churches: Are we in - to, and even somewhat paranoid crowd around Jesus, blocking through which people had to pass should we want to know a stranger viting in the stranger? Or, are we about, religion and church. 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By Edna Froese rassment then to discover, after my son persuaded me to try his pear Anyone who has ever publicly gingerbread cake, that I liked it. confessed to enjoying books can Since I was regularly baking anticipate the next question: “so scones for a small market, I tried what do you like to read?” The pear cranberry scones — delicious! usual assumption is that, of course, Pears now often appear in our fruit we read stories, whether they be bowl, reminding me that tastes westerns, mysteries, fantasy, histor - evolve; I should pay attention. ical fiction, literary novels, or In the past two years, I’ve romance. Some might add memoirs begun reading memoirs, a genre I to the list. Still others prefer poetry, once disliked almost on principle, history, philosophy, theology, or thanks to propagandistic mission - political and cultural analysis, with - ary stories urged on me when I out necessarily understanding that wasn’t old enough to protest safe - those genres, too, tell stories. ly; I resented the pious pressure to My reading life certainly be inspired. With a fine irony, I began with stories, although I was was eventually drawn in by stories taught, from the cradle on, to of the opposite experience — the revere the Bible. Of course, what departure from an inherited faith. I heard from my Sunday school First it was Karen Armstrong’s teachers were stories: the exit from the convent, then other Creation, the Flood, the Exodus, accounts of disillusionment and Daniel in the lions’ den, Jesus drastic changes in worldview. Yet healing sick children or walking these people still found life worth Edna Froese on water. So stories it was, and I living and often became voices for read whatever I could find. The sole exception was devo - were evolving into a demand for author(s) who selects the facts to change, their faith changed but not Besides wanting to find out tional reading. Childhood training greater scientific literacy and more be discussed, who assumes a nar - diminished. what happened next, I delighted had born its fruit, and I read mysticism in theology, and for hon - rative voice for particular purpos - The memoirs I read turned out in the voice of the storyteller. books and books about what est engagement with human issues es, and who shapes that material to be personal accounts of what I From Thornton Burgess’ talking being a Christian meant. Thus my in fiction — for literature offers into a beginning, a middle, and a had been reading about in non-fic - animal stories and the Black faith competed with story for my truth at a deeper level than facts do. conclusion. So it does, in the end, tion analysis. Barack Obama’s Stallion books to the teen Beany attention. Or did it? I don’t re - Just how much I had changed I come down to story. I’m just Dreams from My Father , Brian Malone series, the familiar char - member just when I understood didn’t grasp until retirement choosing different ones more often Stevenson’s Just Mercy , and acters seemed like friends. But I that theology was also story, with removed me from academic pres - than I used to. Malcolm X’s autobiography in- also grew to appreciate individual God as the main character. As sures to stay current in my field. I Perhaps an analogy from literal creased my understanding of race authors’ views of the world, even Frederick Buechner observed, the rejoiced that I now had the time, tastes can be instructive. These relations in the U.S., just after I Thomas Hardy’s astonishingly grand narrative of Christianity finally, to read as many novels as autumn days I’ve been enjoying the had read A Colony in a Nation by bleak outlook on life. No surprise can be read as comedy, tragedy, I wanted to, never mind the liter - bounty of food at the Farm ers’ Chris Hayes. And Hillbilly Elegy then, that I eventually found my or fairy tale, each genre lens ary quality. Expecting to return to Market. I love the fruit stands — all by J.D. Vance gave me a more way into a career of reading nov - yielding truth to live by. former habits of happy escapist those varieties of apples, available nuanced perspective on the paral - els and talking about them. While Actually, my reading choices reading, I was quite unprepared only briefly. They’re not “keepers,” lels between working class people I also taught drama, poetry, and were not as unchanging as I have for what did happen. but oh, the taste of Sunrise apples is and people of colour. All of the essays, novels remained my cho - so far implied. In both fiction and I’ve read far fewer novels. redolent with the mature warmth of above made it harder to make sen bedtime reading. theology, I became impatient with Instead, I’ve bought poetry books the end of summer. superficial pronouncements about predictability and easy answers. for bedtime reading, and ignored For most of my life, I ignored recent political developments in The pleasures of formulaic stories collected novels while reading the similar bounty of pears. When I U.S. politics, and easier to show Froese taught English litera - are limited, because they rely on magazines like The Atlantic and was a child, my palate had un - empathy to those whose views ture at St. Thomas More College superficial otherness (exotic set - Harpers and books on culture and equivocally rejected both flavour might once have offended me. in Saskatoon for many years until tings, improbable plot lines), while religion and politics in Canada and and texture. Fruit lover that I nor - Books do come to hand when her retirement. She currently reinforcing a simplistic distinction the U.S. That doesn’t mean I’ve mally was, I could not abide pears. the reader is ready. In the ripeness works part time as academic edi - between goodness and badness exchanged fiction for facts. After So I did not eat pears, did not buy of time, the despised can become tor while relishing the freedom to through cardboard characters and all, “non-fiction” is probably a pears, did not offer our children the necessary and even the beau - read and write for pleasure. too-easy happy endings. My tastes misnomer; there is always an pears. Imagine my recent embar - tiful. Praying with Grandpa, and the notion of purgatory transformed

By Joseph Foy hundreds and hundreds of years. you and your dad go to?” Dad told of the Middle East did not buy that ing with the saints,” which got All your ancestors. They are saints me he went to St. Alphonsus, “but idea. Their idea of purgatory was me thinking about Grandpa again. When I was a seventh grader in too, you know. From all over the my dad didn’t go to church. He different: when someone dies, and Maybe I should be praying with St. Ann’s School, Msgr. Sprenke world. All united together in heav - always encouraged me to go, but it is time for them to be ushered Grandpa. Think about it. Suppose often came to teach our religion en. We call this The Great Com - he never went himself.” into the presence of God, they say, you are visiting someone very class. He was friendly and let us munion of Saints. AND — he A grandfather who never went ‘Wait! I’m not ready for this. I sick. You might ask, “Would you pepper him with questions. looked at us for a long time — you to mass on Sunday? Grandpa Foy have been selfish, greedy, mean; like to pray for a moment togeth - Just before Halloween, he gave and I are spiritually connected to was not with God in heaven? I I’ve hurt too many people, too er?” I have done that, and mostly us a talk: “The first day after those people; all of us; we are all figured he must be stuck in pur - many times.’ ” folks say yes. Halloween, we will celebrate one part of that great Communion of gatory. “So the angel says, ‘That’s OK, There is something comforting of the three greatest feasts of the Saints. That is one of the greatest Then, to our teacher Sister you don’t have to go in until about praying to our God of year: there’s Christmas, there’s teachings of our church. It’s right Mary Gertrude’s stunned surprise, you’re ready. Go over into that gar - mercy along with someone else. Easter, and there’s All Saints’ in the Apostles Creed.” finished up by saying: den and rest for awhile.’ And they So now, on both All Saints’ Day Day.” He went on: “The next day, the “On All Souls’ Day, whenever you do. And then, to their surprise, and All Souls’ Day, I quietly say, Really? There is something else one after All Saints’ Day, is called are finished with an assignment, Jesus walks into the garden! He “Grand pa, let’s pray together.” It that ranks up there with Christmas All Souls’ Day, and it is also very you can go next door to the church begins to teach them how not to be feels right, because I believe in and Easter? important. On that day we all pray and pray for one of your ancestors. selfish, not to be greedy, not to be the Apostles Creed, which teaches A hand shot up: “Monsignor, as hard as we can for all the poor Say a rosary and God will let them mean, not to hurt people. In short, the Communion of Saints. And how many saints are there?” I souls still in purgatory, to help out of purgatory sooner.” how to love. And then, when they that means Great-grandma Kelly remember his answer to this day: them get out.” (I still remember For years I said the rosary on feel ready, he takes their hand and and Grandma Alice and Dad and “Millions,” he said, “Millions and that phrase: the “poor souls.”) All Souls’ Day for Grandpa Foy, they go out of the garden and into Mom and my brother Dan and millions! That’s what All Saints’ We knew about purgatory from to help him get out of purgatory. the loving embrace of their forgiv - Uncle Eddie and Aunt Marie and Day is about. It’s not a feast for our Catechism: after you died, a Flash forward a dozen years ing Father.” all sorts of ancestors are all linked the saints who have their own spe - few very, very good people went and I am taking early church histo - I was thunderstruck. The fire together — and they are all pray - cial days, like St. Ann and St. directly to heaven, but everybody ry at a papal university from Pro f. pit had just turned into a garden. ing right along with Grandpa and Joseph and St. Peter. It’s a day set else went to purgatory to receive Johannes Quasten, a world ex pert. The garden had a regular visitor me. aside to honour ALL the holy peo - the punishment they deserved for A question came up: “Where did named Jesus. I have no way of knowing ple who are now with God in their many sins. Not a nice place, the idea come from that purgatory I didn’t get much sleep that whether Grandpa is now in the heaven. Like your grandparents, purgatory. It was just like hell, a is a fire pit?” night. And, after that, I stopped presence of God, or still getting and their parents, right on back, fire pit, but with one big differ - “The fire pit image of purgato - going to church on All Souls’ ready. No matter, because I ence: you eventually got out. ry is very common in our western Day. I figured, no need to; Grand - believe he is in good hands. We The monsignor had just created church,” said Quasten, “but there pa was in good hands. are both part of the Mystical Joe Foy writes from Hantsport, for me a big problem. I had once is an alternative.” Now I was real - Some years later a Sunday ser - Body of Christ, embraced by the Nova Scotia. asked my dad, “What church did ly listening. “The ancient churches mon mentioned the idea of “pray - Holy Spirit. 12 Prairie Messenger FEATURE October 25, 2017 Baum worked toward a society that was more just

By Jean-Claude Ravet ple who loved him did not have church from the perspective of the the opportunity to offer their last poor, of the excluded, of those The following editorial will farewells. Even if the oil truly ran without power, and so to condemn appear in the November- dry on Oct. 18, his light will not all forms of domination, oppres - December issue of Relations. It is quickly go out. sion and alienation as Jesus had reprinted with permission. Like Augustine of Hippo, done. The fact that only a minority whose works marked him deeply, followed this path did not disturb Few among us who were notably his Confessions , whose him. “The creative renewal begins familiar with Gregory Baum reading, in 1946, led him to con - on the margins of society; it is would have thought, just recently, vert to Catholicism, Gregory was there that Jesus is to be found,” he that he was going to leave us so always grateful for grace offered liked to say. Knowing he was car - quickly. He seemed to be in good him as a free gift of God. It was a ried along by a force that was larg - shape, in spite of his 94 years and gift he welcomed as a debt to pay er than himself, he was not only his period of dialysis three days back by placing himself resolute - confident of the multiple move - each week. Even more so because ly at the service of life — placing ments of resistance that rose up he still had writing plans to fol - compassion against exclusion, http://saltandlighttv.org/witness from the grassroots, but he was low his intellectual autobiogra - justice against oppression — and MAJOR FIGURE OF SOCIAL CHRISTIANITY — Gregory Baum also open to the unforeseen. He phy, The Oil Has Not Run Dry in showing himself in solidarity from a Witness interview with Rev. Thomas Rosica, CSB, on Salt + thus saw the arrival of Pope (McGill-Queen’s University Press with the excluded whose multiple Light. Baum died Oct. 18. Francis as a source of comfort and 2016), published last year and faces he had learned to recognize. joy in the final years of his life. recently translated into French. Did he not already share their destiny of millions of European Council, to establish fraternal He pursued this commitment The years caught up with him condition when he was 15 years Jews. Just to listen to him speak links with the Christian churches, as a Catholic thinker on the Left suddenly and without warning. old, leaving Germany for of the three years spent in an then with Judaism and finally in Quebec, when, in 1986, he Old age was transformed into England in 1939 because of the internment camp for German with other religions. These became professor at McGill death so quickly that many peo - Nazi menace? Coming from a nationals in Farnham, Quebec, bridges were also built afterward University after a career of 27 family whose origins were where he was transferred at the with non-believers, in the name years, beginning in 1959, at the Jewish, though assimilated into beginning of the war, was to of a transcendent God, immanent University of Toronto. Ravet is editor-in-chief of in the 19th century, understand his prodigious capaci - to history, a “divine accomplice” From the time of his arrival, he Relations. he narrowly escaped the tragic ty for resilience. in the fight for justice and dignity. joined the editorial board of It is in a similar climate of Various events favoured the Relations, where he remained for interior serenity that Gregory discovery of the political dimen - 30 years. Baum, always ready to explore sion of the faith he lived as a true His thought took a new turn new paths that life opened to him, conversion in the 1970s. One through contact with Quebec built up an inspiring and strong such moment we can point to is society and culture that he grew theological body of works that the declaration of the assembly of to know, even embracing the pro - was in constant evolution. First of Latin American bishops gathered ject of independence — and all, as an Augustinian priest in a at Medellin in 1968, calling, in doing so in spite of his negative monastic community which he the name of the Gospel, for soli - experience of German national - entered in 1947 and then as a darity with the oppressed and ism — in the name of a more just member of the laity — after hav - their struggle for justice; another and open project for society. ing renounced the priesthood and the blossoming of liberation the - Gregory Baum is a major fig - religious life, in 1974, because of ology; or again his meeting with ure of a social Christianity in his disagreement with the sexual the theologian Rosemary Ruether, which social issues such as jus - ethic promoted by the Vatican, a socialist, while he was studying tice and the common good are as notably on homosexuality — sociology at the New School for central as the interior life, prayer along with his partner, Shirley Social Research in New York. and liturgy. So, he will continue Flynn, who died in 2007. Opening his eyes to structural to accompany and inspire those So it was that he worked, dur - inequality and various forms of who have bound themselves to ing the 1950s and 1960s, as an oppression, he became aware that the long march toward “a society expert theologian on ecumenical following the Gospel required of that is more just, fraternal and questions at the Second Vatican him to look at society and the authentically human.”

October 25, 2017 CHURCH AT HOME Prairie Messenger 13 Don’t overlook God’s shining presence in our lives

early 1980s interview King said he used to sleep with the lights on. And in this excerpt Soul from an interview: “At night when I go to Searching bed, I still am at pains to be sure that my legs are under the blankets Tom Saretsky after the lights go out. I’m not a child any - A couple years ago when my wood is more to blame for that. more but . . . I don’t kids and I were shopping at the In my estimation, Halloween like to sleep with one Indigo book store, we saw a dis - is a festival of fun and make- leg sticking out. play featuring Stephen King’s believe, but it is also part of a day Because if a cool hand newest novel at the time, Doctor that commemorates the dead. ever reached out from Sleep . This book is a sequel to his Horror novels tend to go a bit fur - under the bed and famous novel The Shining. You ther and Stephen King is the most grasped my ankle, I might remember the Stanley famous in that genre. might scream . . .” He, Kubrick movie adaptation of the King is author of some of too, has become a novel starring Jack Nicholson. these classics: Salem’s Lot, Pet casualty of his own Warner Bros. imagination. Classic film. Sematary, Carrie. It (a weighty THE SHINING — Danny Lloyd is pictured here in his role as “Danny” in the 1980 For the month of October I tome among King’s many long That night in film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining . October is a good month to con - delve into the world of horror novels) is a particular favourite. Indigo, the Doctor front our fears, and create new ones. novel reading. It is thematic in a However, my enjoyment of Sleep display piqued way, because October is the Stephen King pales in compari - my interest in reacquainting impossible during the winter. The mind, despite what seem to be month of spooks, thrills, scares son to my brother Gerard, whom myself with King. hotel hires a live-in caretaker to impossible odds. Through Danny and Halloween. I love Halloween, I consider to be an expert on the Doctor Sleep follows the adult look after it. The caretaker must we see that the human spirit is a but unfortunately it tends to be “Master of the Macabre.” life of the young boy from The heat parts of the hotel, checking powerful and indomitable force. “demonized” in many circles Gerard has read all of King’s Shining , Danny Torrance. After the old boilers, fixing things, pro - Danny will not be consumed. because of its depictions and sup - material multiple times. He’s reading Doctor Sleep I was com - tecting it so it can open again for When tested to the extremes, the posed celebration of evil. Holly - even had the pleasure of visiting pelled to reread The Shining — the spring and summer seasons. spirit will not be destroyed. Stephen King’s home in Bangor, the novel where it all began. When the snow arrives, the fami - Life always has the final say. Maine! Danny, a five-year-old at the ly looking after the hotel is cut off Yet, our own personal terrors and Saretsky is a teacher and chap - I credit my brother with getting time, has an extraordinary gift — from the rest of civilization. frights are no laughing matter, lain at Holy Cross High School in me into Stephen King, but for a the gift to be able to read peo - There are no roads in or out, and and they are not works of fiction, Saskatoon. He and his wife, while I had trouble reading his ple’s thoughts. To feel their emo - the only communication is either. The struggles we all expe - Norma, have two children, Nathan stuff. The content is disturbing, tions. To prophesy, in a way, through a CB radio. rience are real and sometimes and Jenna. but not just to his readers. 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Welcoming new parishioners Madison’s diocesan newspaper. “Right now, we’re Speece will give the standard welcome, offer the just getting started and we kind of want to feel our pie and bulletin, and “we just got into conversations Parishes seeking to improve their “best prac - way through these houses (in Monona).” from there.” tices” programs could learn from the example of From there, she assigns which of the dozen He added religion topics didn’t come up unless Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Monon, Wis. ambassadors — ranging in age from their 30s to 60s the new neighbours would talk about it. A story from Catholic News Service illustrates — is to make the visit, typically close to their own “It was more a friendly visit,” he said, but added how parishioners go out to welcome newcomers. residences. that he’s hoping to see them at church soon. “Hello, we’re from Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish The visits are typically done in pairs and usually He reiterated the fact that ambassadors meet a in Monona. We understand that you recently moved on Saturdays when people are likely to be home. variety of people while making the visits, saying con - into the area. We just wanted to welcome you to the Parishioners’ children sometimes go along, too. versations typically last between five and 15 minutes. neighbourhood.” Coffey said she hopes the ambassadors will Those he met included a business owner who That greeting — along with an apple pie, a bul - make a connection and a friendship, “and maybe it told his success story, a woman from Africa who letin and a smile — are what the parish’s “Apple Pie will grow into something.” came to the U.S. to help her daughter who is expect - Ambassadors” have given out nearly 50 times since “We’re coming in contact with all different kinds ing her first child, and even some people he had pre - May. of people,” she added, including people of varying viously met at a neighbourhood block party and were Earlier this year, the Immaculate Heart of Mary ages, marital status, and religion. looking for a church. parish council came up with the idea for the ambas - If no one is home, the ambassadors will try again sadors to serve as a “welcome wagon” for people on later dates before leaving a door hanger with a Some have been Catholic, but not active mass- who recently moved into the area, both Catholics and greeting from the pastor, Rev. Chad Droessler, and goers. otherwise. information about the parish. “Evangelization takes place by building relation - They are invited to check out the parish, which is Along with meeting new neighbours, the ambas - ships first,” Speece said. in the Diocese of Madison, and they are also sadors “get to know different people in the parish “I hope it continues for the long term . . . eventually informed of some of the bigger events that have a too” through making the visits together, Coffey said. every person that moves into Monona gets a visit from presence in the neighbourhood such as the parish fes - Parishioner Christopher Speece is one of the IHM,” he said, and he hopes to meet a parishioner in tival and fish fries. ambassadors. He’ll typically make the visits with his the future for whom the first person he or she met upon An Immaculate Heart of Mary parishioner who is daughters, Clare and Monica. moving to Monona was an Apple Pie Ambassador. a realtor sends program leader Sharon Coffey a list of “The initial conversations have been much more As Catholics are encouraged to be the new homes sold in Monona every month. positive than I thought they would be,” Speece said, and reach out to people on the peripheries, a free “We’d eventually like to get to the whole parish expecting negative reactions or door slamming in his apple pie may just be the ice breaker that is needed. boundaries,” Coffey told the Catholic Herald , face, but “that really hasn’t happened.” — PWN A responds to the faith and spiritual hunger of people

Life In Canadian Arctic

Jon Hansen, CSsR

The last couple of articles I After that experience, as often have written for the Prairie as I could I would volunteer to Messenger have been informa - spend time, at Christmas and tive, but this time I thought I Easter, in small communities where would get a little more personal a priest was seldom available. Over and share some of the reasons time my desire to do this as a full- why I have come to be a mission - time ministry grew and I began to ary in the Canadian Arctic and make inquiries about where that what it is that I hope I can do could be done. Canada’s northern Jon Hansen while I am here. dioceses seemed a likely place. NORTHERN CHURCHES — Holy Name of Mary Church at Tsiigehtchic, left, and Our Lady of Lourdes I belong to a missionary order To make a long story short, Church at Paulatuk. and one of the things we do and after much prayerful discernment are known for is parish missions. and discussion with the local bish - of his Father’s love for us all. He into a simple message of love for understand and appreciate. As a Redemptorist I was formed op and my own Redemptorist took the laws and the stories of God and for neighbour to share a by the stories of St. Alphonsus community, I now find myself as the scriptures and distilled them message that everyone could — NEW IMAGE , page 15 Liguori and our early founders the pastor of a region in Canada’s who would seek out the places in North where I can live out my their world where the Gospel had Redemptorist and priestly voca - Pope’s pro-life challenge: respect all life not been heard or where people tion in a way that fills my heart just did not have access to the life with joy. But what does a mission - By Cindy Wooden “There is evidence of a grow - theologians recognized it as a of the church in a way that most ary do? ing public opposition to the death “development” of church teaching. of us take for granted. Saving souls and bringing peo - VATICAN CITY (CNS) — penalty, even when such a penalty Death penalty opponents also I guess it is only natural then ple to Christ was the old battle cry Pope Francis’ recent statement is seen as a kind of ‘legitimate welcomed Pope Francis’ even that when I received an invitation of the missionary, but I think that that the death penalty is incom - defence’ on the part of society. stronger position against capital to come to a re mote village on the our approach needs to be very dif - patible with the Gospel focused Modern society, in fact, has the punishment, but his words set off a east coast of Can ada to celebrate ferent today. I do believe that less on a government’s role in means of effectively suppressing debate between those who saw his the Easter Triduum, I jumped at Jesus offers plentiful redemption protecting its people and more on crime by rendering criminals position as a further development of the chance. Here was an opportu - (our Redemptorist motto), but as a the need to defend the sacredness harmless without definitively church teaching and those who saw nity to be a true Redemp torist missionary I am only human. and dignity of every human life. denying them the chance to it as a “change” that contradicted missionary. It was during this There has been a great deal of At least from the time of reform,” he wrote. both the Bible and the traditional journey, my first real experience hurt caused by over-zealous evan - Blessed Paul VI in the 1960s, the Two years later, Pope John position of the Catholic Church. of working with Aboriginal peo - gelization and to believe that I am Catholic Church has been in - Paul had the Catechism of the Edward Feser, a professor of ple, that I received the most amaz - the one bringing salvation would creasingly critical of the use of Catholic Church revised to philosophy at California’s Pasa - ing blessing to my own priest - be arrogance on my part. capital punishment, even while strengthen its anti-death penalty dena City College and author of hood. In seeing the devout faith Rather, I see the role of the acknowledging centuries of posture. The text now says that, By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: and spiritual hunger of so many missionary as a presence that church teaching that a state has a “given the means at the state’s A Catholic Defense of Capital people, who rarely had a chance helps bring awareness to what right to punish offenders, includ - disposal to effectively repress Punishment , told Catholic News to celebrate the eucharist, my God is already doing. In my hom - ing with the death penalty. crime by rendering inoffensive Service that St. John Paul’s teach - heart was touched by a desire to ilies and pastoral outreach, I point St. John Paul II, in his 1995 the one who has committed it, ing was “a non-binding prudential explore this type of ministry in a out the goodness that is present encyclical letter, “The Gospel of without depriving him definitive - judgment,” which was in line with deeper way. and, where there is suffering, I Life,” wrote of his alarm at “the ly of the possibility of redeeming centuries of church teaching rec - remind people that they are not extraordinary increase and gravi - himself, cases of absolute neces - ognizing the right of states to alone, that God is with us always. ty of threats to the life of individ - sity for suppression of the offend - impose the death penalty. Hansen is a Redemptorist That might seem rather sim - uals and peoples,” but said one er ‘today . . . are very rare, if not And, writing in Britain’s priest and pastor of Our Lady of plistic but if we look to the scrip - sign of hope was the increasing practically non-existent.’ ’’ Catholic Herald Oct. 15, Feser Victory Parish, Inuvik. See his tures I believe we find that this is opposition around the world to Opponents of the death penalty website: www.jonhansenccsr.com the way Jesus shared the message capital punishment. cheered St. John Paul’s move, and —DEATH PENALTY, page 15 October 25, 2017 LETTERS Prairie Messenger 15

Church teaches fear of punishment for sins

The Editor: Secular guardians the Gospel is that God, incarnate, haven’t done the mathematics, it are increasingly vigilant in warn - loves us so much he suffered and doesn’t surprise me that a fellow ing about the temporal conse - died to save us from sin. But reader claims a third of Christ’s quences of illegal activities. Jesus repeatedly warns us that to sayings entail threats. Should sacred guardians not be receive his saving grace we must As for dreading punishment, equally vigilant in warning about repent and amend our lives. isn’t that what the church asks us the eternal consequences of Otherwise, we risk damnation. to do when we go to confession immoral activities? Are the eter - I know, because I regularly and say the Act of Contrition? — nal less fearful than the temporal? read the Gospels. Although I Joe Campbell, Saskatoon In his column on fear of God (PM, Oct. 11), Rev. Ron Rolheiser PM was a weekly welcomed guest says, “It’s healthy to be afraid of violating any goodness, truth or The Editor: I want to thank What articles will start the many beauty.” But “To preach hellfire . . . you for the most informative, discussions in our Stang-Zerr is wrong in terms of the Gospel.” inspiring paper that has ever come clan? You have been our teacher, He recognizes that reverence, awe into my life for more years than I our voice, our conscience and our and respect are a form of fear. care to remember. guide. I will miss the anticipated Marissa Alarcon However, “it is not to be confused Now, who will give us up-to- Friday treasure in my mailbox. with . . . dreading some kind of date information on the life of our My best wishes to all of your Moments with You punishment.” church, the worldwide view ex - staff — Kay Zerr, Macklin, True, the central message of pressed in so many traditions? Sask. In the busyness of the day In the weariness of the night In the coldness of the winter Church insists on limits to death penalty In the heat of the summer There You are calming my restless heart. Continued from page 14 toward its perfection.” priest of Opus Dei and a profes - “What is accomplished with sor of ethics at Rome’s Pontifical In the silence of the morning said that if Pope Francis “is say - the death penalty?” the Slovakian University of the Holy Cross, said In the breaking of the dawn ing that capital punishment is Jesuit asked. “Do you obtain the Pope Francis “continues the In the freshness of the morning dew always and intrinsically immoral, true repentance of criminals? Do recent development of doctrine In the brightness of the stars at night then he would be effectively say - you offer them the possibility of regarding the centrality of mercy There You are embracing my joyful heart. ing — whether consciously or correcting their ways, of asking for the Christian faith and the unconsciously — that previous for forgiveness?” urgency to promote a culture of Your love for the world is incomprehensible popes, fathers and doctors of the “No,” he said. “With the execu - life in today’s throwaway cul - Your mercy is beyond compare church, and even divinely in- tion, the death, you irreversibly ture,” where abortion and eutha - Your grace is always sufficient spired Scripture are in error.” cancel the entire dynamic of hope” nasia are widely accepted. Your praise and glory is forever. But Jesuit Father Jan Dacok, a for repentance, conversion and at “Pope Francis wants the By Marissa Alarcon professor of moral theology and least some attempt at reparation. church to offer a radical example theologian at the Apostolic Peni - “Obviously, Pope Francis can - of the defence of all human life,” tentiary, a Vatican court, said the not change the laws of individual Gahl said. And “without con - www.prairiemessenger.ca church always insisted there were countries, because that’s the com - demning all past practices, he limits to the conditions un der petence of legislators,” Dacok said. vigorously demands the elimina - which a state could legitimately “But he can continually en courage tion of the death penalty.” impose the death penalty. St. John respect for the sacredness of every The priest noted the church’s New image of missionary Paul, he said, emphasized those human life, because the death historic concern for the impact of limits to the point of saying that penalty truly is not necessary.” the death penalty not just on the now that it is easier to keep a Because security and justice criminal, but also on judges and Continued from page 14 I am truly grateful for my murderer in jail for life, the nec - can be served without capital executioners. vocation and for my call to be a essary conditions for legitimacy punishment, he said, the urgent In fact, the 1917 Code of For me this approach also missionary priest in Canada’s are “practically non-existent.” matter today is to demonstrate Canon Law, which was in effect changes the idea of who can be a North. People often ask, “What Pope Francis took a further respect for the sacredness of until 1983, listed as those gener - missionary. We might picture a are the biggest problems you step forward, Dacok said. The every human life, “even the life ally barred from priestly ordina - missionary as a robed priest in face?” I don’t see problems but, pope “did not change church of public criminals responsible tion “a judge who passed a sen - some exotic, foreign land but rather, challenges and opportuni - teaching, but places it on a higher for the death of others.” tence of death” and “those who really, we are all called by our ties. level and points out the path Rev. Robert A. Gahl Jr., a take up the task of (execution) baptism to be emissaries of Christ Others will say that they can’t and their immediate and volun - as priests, prophets and kings, imagine what it must be like to tary assistants in the execution of bringing the Good News to all live in such an isolated place. To a capital sentence.” those we meet. We don’t have to that I respond that Jesus told his On the question of whether go to some remote location to disciples to bring the Gospel to A gift for Pope Francis’ statement marks a find people who are spiritually the ends of the earth, but I don’t “development” or a “change,” hungry when so many around us see where I am as earth’s end but RCIA candidates Gahl said the pope probably are longing to discover the mean - as the centre of the world for the intended to “shake up theologians ing in life that comes from know - people who live here and at the newlywed couples and to force us to reconsider tra - ing God. centre, God already is. ditional formulations of perma - Pastors, parish councils, or CWL and KC councils: nent teaching in light of this new and authoritative development of Letters to the editor Give the newlywed couples or RCIA candidates of mercy and human dignity.” your parish a gift they will cherish all year. 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DENVER (CNS) — It would based organization are helping to pursue lives of service.” founder of Nazareth Home for is providing health care to impov - have been impossible to walk women and girls escape extreme The prize is awarded annually God’s Children in Ghana. It cares erished people living on the away from a downtown Denver poverty through educational, eco - to an individual or organization of for children born with physical, streets of Oakland, California. hotel where this year’s Opus nomic and empowerment oppor - any religious background, any - mental or behavioural disabili - “Your work truly restores hope Prize was announced Oct. 12 and tunities. where in the world. Recipients ties. and ignites the possibilities for not feel that urge to “go forth and Jesuit-run Regis University must demonstrate a pioneering The other $100,000 prize went those who live at the margins,” set the world on fire.” played host to the 2017 Opus approach to solving the root to Drs. Jason Reinking and Noha Fitzgibbons said, addressing all In front of an audience of stu - Prize, one of the world’s largest cause of social problems in their Aboelata, whose work through three finalists. “We are inspired dents, alumni, faculty, staff and faith-based awards for social community. Roots Community Health Centre and moved by your example.” members of the greater Denver entrepreneurship. “I felt called by God to help community, Jesuit Father John P. The Opus Prize Foundation these women and girls who are Fitzgibbons, president of Regis funds the $1-million award suffering,” Lacey commented. “In University, named Mercy Sister and also awards two finalist serving others, we can find a con - Marilyn Lacey and her non-profit prizes of $100,000 each in nectedness, a kinship that leads to organization, Mercy Beyond recognition of social entrepre - binding joy.” Borders, as this year’s $1-million neurship. The foundation part - One finalist prize went to Opus winner. ners with a university or col - Sister Stan Terese Mumuni, a Working in Haiti and South lege to present the honour and member of the Marian Sisters of Sudan, Lacey and her California- “to inspire the next generation Eucharistic Love, who is the In letter pope gives correction to cardinal

By Cindy Wooden translations. The changes were said the changes to canon law or dered in the pope’s document, take precedence, and “one can no VATICAN CITY (CNS) — “Magnum Principium ” (“The longer hold that translations must The Vatican is not to “impose” a Great Principle”), which was pub - conform in every point to the specific liturgical translation on lished Sept. 9 and went into effect norms of ‘ Liturgiam Authenti- bishops’ conferences, but rather is Oct. 1. cam ’ as was done in the past.” called to recognize the bishops’ Pope Francis, saying he want - The texts for mass and other authority and expertise in deter - ed to “avoid any misunderstand - liturgies must receive a confirma - mining the best way to faithfully ing,” insisted the commentary tion from the Congregation for translate Latin texts into their could give an erroneous impres - Divine Worship and the Sacra - CNS/Chris Schneider local languages, Pope Francis sion that the level of involvement ments, the pope said, but this “no SISTER RECEIVES OPUS PRIZE — Mercy Sister Marilyn Lacey of said in a letter to Cardinal Robert of the congregation remained un - longer supposes a detailed, word Burlingame, Calif., accepts the 2017 Opus Prize at Denver’s Regis Sarah. changed. by word examination, except in University Oct. 11. As Opus Prize Laureate, she receives a $1-million In the letter, released by the However, while in the past “the obvious cases that can be present - award as part of the honour. Vatican Oct. 22, Pope Francis judgment regarding the fidelity to ed to the bishops for further said he wanted to correct several the Latin and the eventual correc - reflection.” Interviews a ‘pastoral risk’ points made in a “commentary,” tions necessary was the task of the Pope Francis also wrote to the which Sarah sent him and which congregation,” the pope said, cardinal that the “fidelity” called the pope is willing to take was published on several web - “now the norm concedes to epis - for in translations has three lay - sites in a variety of languages. copal conferences the faculty of ers: “first, to the original text; to Sarah is prefect of the Con - judging the worth and coherence the particular language into which By Cindy Wooden morning mass each day. gre gation for Divine Worship of one or another term in transla - it is being translated; and, finally, The chapel of the Domus and the Sacraments. The pope’s tions from the original, even if in to the intelligibility of the text” VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Sanctae Marthae , where he lives, letter noted that most of the dialogue with the Holy See.” by the people. Replying to questions and giving “is, let’s say, my parish. I need websites “erroneously” cited The commentary attributed to The new process, the pope interviews are a “pastoral risk” that communication with people.” Sarah as the author of the com - Sarah insisted on the ongoing said, should not lead “to a spirit Pope Francis said he is prepared And, in interviews, the journal - mentary. validity of the norms for transla - of ‘imposition’ on the episcopal to take, because it is the best way ists often ask the questions that The commentary looked at tion contained in “ Liturgiam conferences of a translation done to know and respond to people’s are on the minds of the faithful, changes Pope Francis made to the Authenticam ,” the congregation’s by the congregation,” but should real concerns. he said. Code of Canon Law in the pro - 2001 instruction on translations. promote co-operation and dia - “I know this can make me vul - The most regular appointment cess for approving liturgical But Pope Francis, in his letter, logue. nerable, but it is a risk I want to he has for responding to questions take,” the pope wrote in the intro - is on the flights back to Rome duction to a new book collecting from his foreign trips when he New app teaches deaf children how to pray transcripts of question-and-answer holds a news conference with the sessions he has held all over the journalists who travel with him. By Carol Glatz or relative recites the words for with the ability” to foster prayer world. “There, too, on those trips, I grace before meals, asks for in the home and bond with each The collection in Italian, like to look people in the eye and VATICAN CITY (CNS) — blessings or requests guidance or other and with God as they pray “Adesso Fate le Vostre Domande ” respond to their questions sincere - When Sister Kathleen Schipani protection, the Sister of the in ASL, she said. It also will help (“Now, Ask Your Questions”), ly,” he wrote. “I know that I have Imma cu late Heart of Mary told teachers who want to teach ele - was edited by Jesuit Father to be prudent, and I hope I am. I Catholic News Service in Rome. mentary school students how to Antonio Spadaro and scheduled always pray to the Holy Spirit But when a child is born deaf pray using sign language. for release Oct. 19. The pope’s before I start listening to the ques - into a hearing family, those kids “Deaf people have deep expe - introduction was published Oct. tions and responding.” shouldn’t have to miss out on riences of prayer,” she said, par - 17 in the Italian newspaper La His favourite interviews, he said, learning Catholic prayers or reli - ticularly because it involves pray - Repubblica . are with small, neighbourhood gious terms as they learn Ameri can ing with “their whole body” with “I want a church that knows newspapers and magazines. “There Sign Language, she said Oct. 20. signing and visualization. how to enter into people’s conver - I feel even more at ease,” the pope Schipani, who is director of the “Deaf people have never heard sations, that knows how to dia - said. “In fact, in those cases I really office for persons with disabilities the language that we speak so logue,” Pope Francis wrote. am listening to the questions and and the deaf apostolate at the they are not hearing the little The model is the Gospel concerns of common people. I try Archdiocese of Philadelphia, was voice in their head like we are,” account of the risen Lord’s meet - to respond spontaneously, in a con - in Rome as part of a conference she said. Instead some people say ing with the disciples on the road versation I hope is understandable, dedicated to sharing best practices they pray visually with beautiful to Emmaus. “The Lord ‘inter - and not with rigid formulas.” in engaging and catechizing per - imagery or with seeing hands views’ the disciples who are “For me,” he said, “interviews sons living with disabilities. signing in their head. walking discouraged,” he said. are a dialogue, not a lesson.” Lots of apps exist for learning “A lot of deaf people have not “For me, the interview is part of Even when the questions are ASL, she said, but there is noth - been catechized because there was this conversation the church is submitted in advance, the pope ing dedicated to religious terms, no one to sign to them, and that having with men and women said he does not prepare his daily devotions or prayers of really is what the sad thing is — today.” answers. Watching the person ask blessing, love, thanks and praise. when there is no opportunity for The interviews and Q&A ses - the question and responding CNS/Paul Haring The app meant to fill that gap is deaf people to know religious lan - sions “always have a pastoral directly is important. Sister Kathleen Schipani called, “Religious Signs for guage and have an experience of value,” Pope Francis said, and “Yes, I am afraid of being mis - Families,” and was to be avail - someone teaching them,” she said. are an important part of his min - interpreted,” he said. “But, I found out she was usually the able from the iTunes App Store Schipani said the beautiful istry, just like inviting a small repeat, I want to run this pastoral very first person to teach deaf and Google Play in early thing about sign language is the group of people to his early risk.” children to pray, she decided November. signs are often “iconic,” reflect - there had to be an app to fix that. “The locus of learning your ing what the thing is and, there - Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? Learning to pray usually hap - faith starts in the family, so this fore, they can convey the theolo - — Jack Kornfield pens in the family, when a parent app is really to provide families gy be hind the concept.