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Housing project Church’s mission is to The spirit and legacy of the Sisters of St. Elizabeth is reflected in a seniors’ hous - ‘attract’ people: pope ing development planned for the order’s former con - By Junno Arocho Esteves that God is rich in mercy and that vent in Humboldt, Sask. his love is more powerful than — page 3 VATICAN CITY (CNS) — death, than sin and every evil.” Christians are called to follow the In his main audience talk, Pope Learning self-care example of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Francis reflected on his Sept. 30 - who helped draw people to Jesus Oct. 2 visit to Georgia and Southdown Institute contin - by way of attraction, not by pros - Azerbaijan, which, along with his ues its mis - elytizing, Pope Francis said. visit in June to Armenia, fulfilled sion of min - She was a reminder that an his desire to encourage the Catholic istering to authentic witness is proclaimed communities in the Caucasus the mental, through a union with Christ “in region, he said. psychologi - prayer, adoration and in concrete Recalling the Oct. 1 mass in cal and charity, which is serving Jesus, who Tbilisi celebrating the feast of St. spiritual is present in the least of our broth - Thérèse, the patroness of the mis - health of ers and sisters,” he said Oct. 5 dur - sions, the pope said, “This is what the members of the reli - ing his weekly general audience. the religious men and women I CNS/Paul Haring gious community it serves. Among the estimated 25,000 in met in Tbilisi do, as well as in POPE’S GENERAL AUDIENCE — A girl prepares to meet Pope Sister Dorothy Heiderscheit St. Peter’s Square were 33 former Baku: They do it with prayer and Francis during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the is the first and last contact prisoners of the Auschwitz concen - charitable works. I encouraged residents have with Vatican Oct. 5. The following day the Vatican announced that Pope tration camp, whom he greeted after them to be steadfast in the faith Francis chose “Young people, faith and vocational discernment” as the Southdown’s programming. the audience and posed for pictures. with memory, courage and hope.” theme for the 15th general assembly of the Synod of Bishops, which — page 4 Addressing the former prison - Although both countries cele - will be held in October 2018. The theme of young people and their path Language is power ers and Polish pilgrims present, he brated the 25th anniversary of of discernment is a continuation of “what emerged from the recent” said the day’s feast of St. Faustina synod on the family and the pope’s apostolic exhortation Amoris “We need to revisit our cul - Kowalska “reminded the world — CHARITY , page 15 Laetitia on family life, the Vatican said. tural and spiritual and tradi - tional beliefs, and live by Bishops to update policies on abuse prevention them,” says knowledge keep - er Tyrone Tootoosis. “To the oil and gas sector our mother CORNWALL, Ont. (CNS) — Minors, said the new document the Mount Cashel Boys Home sex action against the Redemptorist is not even alive: language is Canada’s bishops are finalizing updates the Canadian bishops’ scandal. Located in St. John’s, Fathers for sexual aggressions power, and land is life.” new policies to better protect 1992 document, “From Pain to Newfoundland, and managed by perpetrated by members of the —page 6 minors against sex abuse. Hope,” and aligns the bishops with members of the Christian Brothers congregation. The court settled a standards put out by the Vatican. congregation, that orphanage was $14-million agreement against the Patient care Bishop Douglas Crosby of the site of one of the worst sex- Redemptorists, on the behalf of Hamilton, president of the Cana dian abuse scandals in Canadian histo - the victims. In February, a settle - Since its inception in 1982, Conference of Catholic Bishops, ry. Nine members and ex-mem - ment was reached between the St. Paul’s Hospital said experience in this area “is so bers of the congregation were con - Viatorians and their victims, for Foundation in Saskatoon much broader now and so much victed of sexual and physical sexual aggressions perpetrated at has raised more than $90 deeper. This will present a lot more aggressions against their students. Montreal’s Institute for the Deaf. million in donor support for information along the lines of In the past two years, the Though the exact number of vic - transformative medical ‘From Pain to Hope,’ but updated.” courts have settled numerous tims is still unknown, Judge Eva advancements. Bishops now have a chance to class-act action suits against reli - Petras of Quebec’s Superior Court — page 7 review the text and send in sug - gious congregations, in the after - has approved a $30-million settle - gestions and corrections. Crosby math of sex-abuse scandals in - ment, a record amount for a sexu - Film festival said he expects that if no major volving priests or men religious. al aggression class-action suit. highlights changes are required, the docu - In August 2015, 111 former Reporters from Presence info ment will be approved in No- students of the Saint-Alphonse in Montreal and Canadian The 41st annual Toronto vember at the next meeting of the Seminary in Sainte-Anne-de- Catholic News in Ottawa con - International Film Festival CCCB’s Permanent Council and Beaupre, Quebec, filed a class-act tributed to this story. showcased published in early 2017. some Mancini said the new document Muslims and Catholics impressive adopts a new perspective: It is movies that designed to implement guidelines share faith perspectives were a hit to protect minors against abuse. That change of tone and language with critics CCN/D. Gyapong and audi - is aligned to “a better understand - By Greg Barrett concern that when terrorist attacks Bishop Douglas Crosby ences, ing of the realities,” he said. are allegedly committed by Islamic writes “It’s not a document against WINNIPEG — Two Winnipeg groups, it gives rise to the notion Gerald Schmitz. At their annual plenary Sept. sex abuse. It a document that sets faith communities — Mary Mother that these actions are motivated by — page 9 26 - 30 in Cornwall, the bishops out the protection of minors as an of the Church Roman Catholic the Muslim religion and have in approved, in principle, a new doc - essential responsibility for the Parish and the Manitoba Islamic turn led to suspicion and mistrust Opportunity for ument on preventing sexual abuse bishops, as church leaders and Association — met recently for two of the Islamic faith community. healing and protecting minors, “Moving witnesses of the Gospel,” he said. sessions of dialogue on the topics of On the evening of Sept. 14 Towards Healing and Renewal — The document includes a sec - “The Name of God is Mercy” and more than 200 people gathered at The 500th anniversary of The Canadian Experience.” The tion on the responsibilities of reli - “The Problem of Suffering.” Mary Mother of the Church. the Protestant Reformation document offers some guidelines gious and their superiors when it The conversations were led by Genger started by stating that “is an unparalleled opportu - to help the dioceses better manage comes to implementing policies Rev. Peter Genger of the Arch - from the Catholic perspective, nity for both church leaders allegations of sex abuse by mem - to protect minors against abuse, diocese of St. Boniface and Dr. mercy is about recognizing that and laity to enter into the bers of the clergy, as well as to the archbishop said. Nazir Khan of the Islamic commu - humanity is wounded and is in process of healing and rec - contribute to the healing of the “We’ve set out recommenda - nity. The purpose of the events was need of compassion. When we onciliation at both juridical victims of abuse by priests or men tions so that the major superiors to offer the two communities an show mercy to others we trans - and grassroots levels,” religious. and the bishops may be able to opportunity to communicate their form ourselves and each other. writes Tom Ryan, CSP. Archbishop Anthony Mancini interact (more effectively) with the truths to each other — not just to Khan shared the Muslim con - — page 13 of Halifax-Yarmouth, N.S., who religious congregations,” he said. learn about each other, but also to cept that the word for mercy is heads the bishops’ Ad Hoc Com - The bishops’ 1992 document learn from each other. mittee on the Protection of was published in the aftermath of The concept was born out of a — MERCY , page 2 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS October 12, 2016 Catholics, Anglicans want concrete signs of unity

By Cindy Wooden Catholic and An gli can parishes are The celebrations, highlighted ness, common study, common can relate to other Christians as simply window dressing. by an ecumenical evening prayer mission, a common ecclesial brothers and sisters. VATICAN CITY (CNS) — If Dozens of Catholic and Angli - service Oct. 5 with Pope Francis life,” said the archbishop, who is The answer, he said, is: Christians are called to live their can bishops and several hundred and Anglican Archbishop Justin about to be installed as head of “Friendship. Walk together, pray faith concretely, then they cannot priests and laity from both commu - Welby of Canterbury, coincided the Archdiocese of Regina. for each other, and do works of leave out concrete signs of the nities gathered in Rome in early with a meeting of a newer body, While sharing the eucharist charity together when you can. unity to which Jesus calls them. October to celebrate the 50th the International Anglican- still is not possible, the IARC - This is ecumenism.” And just because the formal anniversary of the Vatican meeting Roman Catholic Commission for CUM process is designed to en - During a conference Oct. 5 at Anglican-Roman Catholic theolog - of Blessed Paul VI and Anglican Unity and Mission, known as courage Catholic and Anglican the Pontifical Gregorian Uni ver - ical dialogue has been forced to Archbishop Michael Ramsey of IARCCUM. communities to do together sity reviewing the work of both grapple with new church-dividing Canterbury, almost 50 years of for - The commission brought to- everything possible based on the ARCIC and IARCCUM, Bolen attitudes toward issues such as the mal theological dialogue through gether 19 pairs of Anglican and beliefs they share and on the said, “You may say, and many ordination of women and the bless - the Anglican-Roman Catholic Roman Catholic bishops from the conviction that mission and min - have said, there are obstacles — ing of same-sex marriages, it does International Commission (known same country or region to examine istry to a divided world require a including new obstacles — that not mean that common prayer led as ARCIC) and the 50th anniver - how, acting together, they could common Christian witness. separate us,” but those issues by Anglican and Catholic leaders sary of the Anglican centre in witness to the faith and serve those In his homily at the ecumeni - “shouldn’t really derail our ecu - and concrete collaboration by Rome. in need locally and recommend cal evening prayer, Pope Francis menical relations” because the ways for Catholics and Anglicans urged Catholic and Anglican relations are motivated by Jesus’ globally do to the same. bishops, before undertaking any prayer that his followers be one Canadian Archbishop Donald new initiative in their dioceses, to so the world would believe. Bolen, the Catholic co-chair of ask if it is possible to do the pro - Welby told the conference that IARCCUM, said the common ject together with their Catholic 50 years of Catholic-Anglican theological agreements forged by or Anglican neighbours. dialogue means members of the ARCIC and accepted by both As Pope Francis had said Oct. churches know that “we love one churches, were never meant to sit 1 in Georgia when asked about another. And at that point, we on a library shelf, but “to trans - Catholic-Orthodox relations: have to start talking honestly, form our communities.” “Let’s leave it to the theologians more honestly to each other and “Every agreement of faith we to study the things that are ab- not putting out the best china” or register” should translate into stract.” Everyone else in the pretending to be only holy and “common prayer, common wit - church should be asking how they healthy and strong. Philippine drug war has killed thousands

MANILA, Philippines (CNS) syndicates, punctuating the state - statement “revolting.” — The Philippine bishops’ con - ment with “son of a whore!” In a speech at a national festi - ference president has lamented On Sept. 29, Duterte likened val that aired live two days later, “the slow erosion of Filipino val - his pursuit of the country’s three Duterte apologized. ues” as the Southeast Asian archi - million CNS/Paul Haring pelago presses on with its war on drug JOINT ECUMENICAL BLESSING — Pope Francis and Anglican drugs that has killed thousands. addicts to Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, England, spiritual leader of Local media reported Arch - Hitler’s the Anglican communion, deliver a blessing as they conclude a vespers bishop Socrates Villegas of massacre of service at the Church of St. Gregory in Rome Oct. 5. Lingayen-Dagupan put out a mes - six million sage Oct. 2 called “Confused and Jews, say - New compensation program Sad Yet Hopeful.” He said ing he Filipino values of being godly, would be compassionate to others and “happy to for abuse survivors in N.Y. patriotic are being replaced by slaughter” “cuss words, orchestrated lies and the addicts. NEW YORK (CNS) — New Camille Biros. vulgarity never heard before.” The York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan In 2014, Feinberg and Biros led Villegas expressed shame and remarks said Oct. 6 he hopes a new arch - the victim-compensation team set concern over local and interna - sparked diocesan program to provide com - up by automaker General Motors tional news reports on the outrage in pensation to survivors of clergy after a flawed ignition switch in Philippines and the remarks of the the interna - sexual abuse will “help bring a some of its cars led to the deaths of country’s leaders. tional com - measure of peace and healing” to 124 people and injuries for another “I am afraid that our children munity. those victims. 275 people. Feinberg was charged and youth will catch and embrace World He announced the new volun - with compensating the injured and these twisted, upside-down val - Jewish tary Independent Reconciliation the families of those who died. ues,” said the archbishop. “I Con gress and Compensation Program for The New York Archdiocese dread the thought they might President CNS/Mark R. Cristino, EPA those who have survived abuse by said Feinberg and Biros will have carry these errors into the next Ronald PHILIPPINES DRUG WAR — A Philippine police offi - priests or deacons of the archdio - complete autonomy in deciding generation and render tomorrow Lauder cer moves between houses in Manila during an opera - cese. compensation for victim-survivors. bleak and gloomy.” called the tion against illegal drugs Oct. 6. At a news conference, he said Dolan said the archdiocese “will Villegas also expressed sad - that while the Catholic Church, respect and honour any decision ness over the mounting death toll and the New York Archdiocese in they make regarding compensation from the pursuit of drug pushers Mercy refers to mother’s womb particular, “has made great for those who suffered abuse by a and addicts. strides” in addressing abuse, “we member of the clergy of this arch - In the spring, Philippine Continued from page 1 are a part of the human journey, continue to hear from victim-sur - diocese.” President Rodrigo Duterte ran and every time one sees evil one vivors that more needs to be done The archdiocese said it has and won on a platform of elimi - also a word that refers to a moth - also sees an opportunity. to reach out to those who have already begun reaching out to vic - nating criminals and ending cor - er’s womb, and a mother’s love Small group discussions fol - been hurt in the past.” tim-survivors who have previous - ruption, and he enjoined citizens for her child is an example of lowed to talk about the problem Dolan noted that New York ly notified the archdiocese that to also kill criminals. Since he what it means to be compassion - of suffering. Each group was church officials have been work - they had suffered abuse by a was sworn into office June 30, ate. He made it clear that any asked to consider a time of suffer - ing with 10 district attorneys who member of its clergy, and they more than 3,000 people have action that is not compatible with ing, for example dealing with the serve in the area covered by the have been asked to participate in been reportedly killed at the compassion, justice and wisdom death of a close relative. The par - archdiocese, which has dismissed the first phase of the program. hands of police and the public. A is not authentic Islam. ticipants were invited to work on clergy found guilty of abuse and To cover the cost of compen - significant number of the killings On Sept. 21 a gathering was a response to the problem, appoint put in place safe environment pro - sating victims, the archdiocese were of alleged suspects whom held at the Grand Mosque on a spokesperson and report back to grams to prevent abuse. said it will take out a long-term police said resisted arrest. Many Waverley Street in Winnipeg’s the larger group. The new program is “another loan. It “will not use money given have come from the poorest parts south end. All were invited to join The exercise was the highlight step” in efforts “to respond to the by the people of the archdiocese to of the Manila capital region. the Muslim faithful in the sanctu - of the evening as Muslims and past scourge of sexual abuse of support parishes, schools and In a speech Oct. 4 at the Philip - ary for their evening prayer. Catholics actively engaged and minors by clergy,” the archdio - charitable works,” the news pine army headquarters in metro - After prayer, Genger observed spoke to each other, sharing their cese said in a news release. release said. None of the funds to politan Manila, Duterte rallied that while we suffer, we are invit - faith perspectives. It was a pow - The cardinal named Kenneth be paid to victims will be taken troops on their “fight against terror - ed to walk in faith. Suffering is erful moment in interfaith dia - Feinberg, a well-known attorney from the annual stewardship ism” in the country’s restive South not caused by God but arises out logue and, in the end, it was a who specializes in mediation and appeal, a new capital campaign and urged a continued war on drugs of our woundedness. Suffering is public witness that two faith com - alternative-dispute resolution, to called Renew and Rebuild or from in the country of more than 100 to be accepted, not as a defeat but munities were willing to dialogue administer the new program. He any money given by a donor “for million. He reiterated a vehement as a way toward God. with each other honestly and will be assisted by his colleague a specific ministry or apostolate.” warning that he would kill drug Khan said that life’s sufferings respectfully. October 12, 2016 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 3 Sheptytsky Institute to move to Toronto in 2017

By Deborah Gyapong bring healing and hope to a world said. “Their professionalism and University, University of Notre contemporary scholars; and increasingly polarized, fundamen - commitment to solid higher edu - Dame, Loyola Marymount in demographics — many immi - OTTAWA (CCN) — The Met - talized, radicalized and set against cation is exceptional.” California are just some of the grant communities are “coming ropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky ‘the other,’ ’’ he said. “We can only Galadza estimated that “in universities where Eastern Chris - into their own” while “being sup - Institute of Eastern Christian do this by not only talking about general there are 40 times more tian Studies is being significantly plemented by recent immigration Studies is moving from Ottawa to how Eastern and West ern Chris - eastern Catholic Christians” in expanded,” he said. from the former USSR, Eastern University of St. Michael’s Col - tianity need and complete each the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Galadza cites two reasons for Europe and the Middle East.” lege at the University of Toronto. other, but by actually living this.” “I very much look forward to this trend: the “discovery of the The move is expected to be Though the move from Saint “I’m overjoyed,” said the moving to Toronto.” riches of Eastern Christianity by completed in July 2017. Paul University, home to the Institute’s acting director Rev. The Institute will also be taking Sheptytsky Institute since 1992, Peter Galadza in an interview. its library for about 5,000 volumes, has been in the works for five “We will now be in Canada’s pre - but Galadza pointed out Saint Paul years, the official announcement mier university and at a Catholic University has “10 times” that of the move came on Sept. 28 in a college that is firmly committed number in “in the area of Eastern speech at St. Michael’s by Arch - to its Catholic identity.” Christian studies that they them - bishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head “We were blessed with their selves have been collecting.” of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic presence and we are sorry to see Mathieu pointed out Saint Paul Church based in Kyiv. them go,” said Saint Paul Uni - University has one of the best versity’s dean of the faculty of libraries on Eastern Christian theology Rev. Ivan Mathieu. Studies in the world. “It was “We will keep and maintain enriched by that library that was and hopefully expand our ECS given to us by the Sheptytsky (Eastern Christian Studies) pro - Institute.” gram,” Mathieu said. “That At the same time, he stressed: doesn’t mean Ukrainians will “Our library at Saint Paul stop being welcome and continue University is one of the five best to attend Saint Paul University. in North America, with no dis - As a matter of fact, I think the tinction between east and west.” Holy Spirit Seminary will remain “All the ECS programs belong CCCB/CECC in Ottawa next year.” to the faculty of Saint Paul PAPAL HONOUR — Bede Hubbard, who served for nearly 25 years Saint Paul University recently University and will remain and as the assistant general secretary of the Canadian Conference of announced it will offer a Master will flourish because we are in Catholic Bishops, beginning in 1992, received a papal honour of in Theological Studies in Eastern contact with many other Eastern Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory Sept. 26. With Christian Studies (M.T.S.-E.C.S.) Churches, Catholic and Ortho dox,” him is CCCB President Hamilton Bishop Douglas Crosby. Hubbard in addition to its other degree pro - said Mathieu. “This was done in was the editor of the Prairie Messenger from 1976 to 1981. grams. collaboration with the people of Students at the Ukrainian the Sheptytsky Institute.” Jesuits to divest oil, CNS/Paul Haring Greco-Catholic Holy Spirit semi - He noted Saint Paul University Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk nary attend Saint Paul University has an “ambassador for the facul - for their academic formation. ty, Father Maxym Lysack,” an gas and coal holdings “This is one of the leading aca - Whether the seminary will also Orthodox priest “who is in con - demic centres of the world, and in move is a decision the Ukrainian tact with all the Orthodox church - By Michael Swan tions for the International Volun- welcoming the Sheptytsky Institute Catholic eparchs will make. es present in Ottawa.” The Catholic Register tary Service in Italy (FOCSIV), you make it possible for the “We’re committed to maintain - St. Mike’s has offered the the St. Columban Mission aries Institute to complete its mission of ing a partnership with the faculty Institute one of its six 19th-century TORONTO (CCN) — The based in Hong Kong and active in furthering the intellectual life of of theology at Saint Paul Victorian mansions, Windle House Canadian arm of the Jesuits is 14 countries, and the Salesian the church of Kyiv,” Shevchuk University,” said Galadza. Though “rent free” and with “free upkeep selling all its investments in oil, Sisters of Don Bosco — Daugh - said. “At the same time, you also initial talks began five years ago as long as our memorandum of gas and coal. ters of Mary Help of Christians in make it possible for the Institute to with St. Mike’s, “things really understanding lasts,” said Galadza. As part of a global Catholic Milan and Naples. offer other Eastern churches, only began to gel when David The building has almost 30 rooms. campaign to starve big oil and Globally, nearly 600 institu - Orthodox, Pre-Chalcedonian, and Mulroney took over as president In addition, the university is offer - coal of investment funds and redi - tions with investments totalling Catholic, the chance to study, with of St. Michael’s College last July.” ing separate space for a chapel. rect that investment into renew - more than $3.4 trillion have an - pastoral solicitude and academic “Working with President Galadza said welcome by the able energy sources, Canada’s nounced they will divest from car - rigour, all that our ancestors in the Mulroney and Dean James University of Toronto community Jesuits joined with half a dozen bon-producing energy companies. faith have left us.” Ginther of the faculty of theology is “indicative of a general trend in other Catholic institutions from At the start of a month of prayer “They have given us a living at St. Mikes during this past year Eastern Christian studies.” Europe, Asia, the United States for care of creation, Sept. 1, legacy, a legacy that we believe can has been a singular joy,” Galadza “Universities like Fordham and Latin America for the divest - Cardinal Peter Turkson, president ment announcement on the Feast of the Pontifical Council for Justice of St. Francis of Assisi, Oct. 4. and Peace, said fossil fuel divest - Housing project planned for convent “It was a difficult decision for ment can “force businesses to con - us,” Jesuit Father David Shulist sider their environmental footprint By Kiply Lukan Yaworski told The Catholic Register. “If it and patterns of production.” wasn’t, we would have made this “We must examine our con - HUMBOLDT — The spirit decision a lot sooner.” sciences and repent,” said Turkson. and legacy of the Sisters of St. Though Canada’s Jesuits will “I realize that this is not the way Elizabeth is reflected in a seniors’ immediately halt all future invest - we traditionally think about sin. housing development planned for ments in oil, gas and coal, it could These are sins, Pope Francis says, the order’s former convent in take years to gradually shift all that we have not hitherto acknowl - Humboldt, say those who initiat - their investments away from edged and confessed. But we are ed the project as a response to a greenhouse gas-producing forms now called upon to do so.” desperate need. of energy. But it’s important to Walking away from fossil fuels Christened “The Elizabeth,” make a move now, Shulist said. in Canada is going to be difficult, the planned assisted-living facili - In a press release issued by the but it shouldn’t be seen as an attack ty will permit low-income seniors Global Catholic Climate Move - on people who work in oil and gas, to live independently, with meals ment and 350.org, Canadian said Shulist, who sits on the Jesuits’ provided and other supports Jesuit provincial superior Rev. committee for social responsibility available through home care. Peter Bisson said the fate of poor and investment and the order’s For generations, women reli - people in countries vulnerable to social justice commission. gious in the region — the climate change demands action. “Any change is going to mean Franciscan Sisters of St. Elizabeth “Climate change is already having to let go of something to and the Ursulines of Bruno — Cori Norman affecting poor and marginalized be able to take on something responded to the needs around THE ELIZABETH — A public information meeting was held Sept. 15 communities globally, through new,” he said. “In a sense we them, rallying the wider commu - at St. Augustine Parish in Humboldt, Sask., about The Elizabeth, an drought, rising sea levels, famine don’t see this as instantly pulling nity to create facilities, services assisted living seniors’ housing development planned for the former and extreme weather. We are called the plug and everything gets emp - and outreach, points out Agnes convent of the Franciscan Sisters of St. Elizabeth. to take a stand,” Bisson said. tied. The question is, how do we Pratchler, a member of the com - The Canadian Jesuits are move through a process that tries mittee that is planning the con - who lobbied the government to the community is struggling with joined by the Brazilian Diocese of to minimize the impact of unem - vent redevelopment. provide home care nursing, and that void,” says Pratchler. She the Holy Spirit of Umuarama, ployment and that provides new It was the Sisters of St. Eliza - who initiated Meals on Wheels. adds that it is now up to the com - SSM Health in the United States, structures coming into place beth who worked to build and “When the Sisters left Hum - munity to step up and respond to the Presentation Society of Aus - whereby there are new opportuni - operate St. Elizabeth’s Hospital boldt, they left behind a great tralia and Papua New Guinea, the ties for training and to diversify and St. Mary’s Villa in Humboldt, void that has not been closed, and — CARE HOME , page 15 Federation of Christian Organiza - those economies.” 4 Prairie Messenger CANADIAN NEWS October 12, 2016 At Southdown, religious learn to care for themselves

By Jean Ko Din Heiderscheit has seen it all. The may not be perfect enough. . . . life to serving others, they must The Catholic Register most common challenge residents What are people going to think of also take the time to care for their face is slowing down and focus - me if I have to have some help.” own well-being. TORONTO (CCN) — When ing on self-care. Heiderscheit said they often As the institute continues to residents first enter the South down “They’re all ministers. They’re fear how the time away from their celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Institute in the small township of all serving people,” she said. ministry will affect their work staff is working to expand the ser - East Gwillimbury, Ont., north of “Coming here, they have to quiet when they return. And priests often vices provided. Toronto, they are usually lethargic down and take a look at what’s go - worry how their parish community Heiderscheit said the priority and depressed. They are religious ing on inside. They have to reflect will see them after their treatment. right now is to expand the subsi - or clergy who have been sent there of where God is in their life.” “The churches that these indi - dization program. by the leaders of their diocese or There are several prongs that viduals belong to would be no “Our greatest need is to build up their community, to be treated for contribute to a client’s mental, different than the general soci - and sustain a subsidy so we can addictions and mental health issues. psychological and spiritual ety,” said Heiderscheit. “Society assist those who do not have suffi - Sister Dorothy Heiderscheit is health, but many residents also might have an image of if they’re cient funds for residency,” she said. the first and last contact residents share a common problem. my pastor or my mental health “Many of our people come have with Southdown’s program - Heiderscheit said with an counsellor . . . how would they from communities and dioceses in ming. She said there are many aging clergy and religious com - feel safe and secure in coming to mission areas and they provide who don’t like to look her in the munity, they are often spread too them with their problems, if they services in areas and to people eye when they first meet during Sister Dorothy Heiderscheit thin. Their work will often take themselves have problems?” who have limited resources. It is the orientation meeting, but after precedence over their own per - But Heiderscheit said it is costly to provide quality residen - 14 weeks in the program, it’s a serves. Each individual has unique sonal needs. important to remind the religious tial care.” new person she sees. needs, but all treatments and ser - The first obstacle is to confront and clergy that come to South - For information on how to “As they prepare to leave resi - vices must lead to holistic healing. the stigma of mental health care. down that they are human. Al - support Southdown Institute, visit dency, their steps are lighter, they This is the measure she uses to eva - Like the rest of the mental health though they have committed their Southdown.on.ca walk with a sense of freedom or luate the success of the program. care system, new residents of new life, more relaxed, more play - “When people come here, one Southdown must conquer the nega - ful, happier, have found the joy in of the things they’re faced with is tive attitude toward mental illness. their life,” she said. “It is the most the anxiety and the fear of look - “It’s a stigma in society very rewarding part of my job.” ing inward,” said Heiderscheit. definitely and religious and cler - As the Chief Executive Officer “It’s a common human chal - gy minister are no different,” said of Southdown, Heiderscheit said it lenge.” Heiderscheit. is her duty and privilege to create After seven years working at “The additional distress, I personal connections with all the Southdown, beginning as a con - think, is they’re in such high-pro - religious and clergy the institute tinuing care co-ordinator, file positions. To feel that they CCCB to make ad limina visits in 2017

By Deborah Gyapong share the same topics, so that by St. François Laval, Canada’s the time all the bishops have met first bishop, has been declared by OTTAWA (CCN) — In March, with the pope, he’ll have an the conference as the patron for Canada’s Catholic bishops will start overview,” Mancini said. the bishops of Canada. St. their ad limina (meaning “on the The bishops also reviewed the Brother André of Montreal has threshold” of the Apostles) visit to Catholic Organization for De vel - been declared the patron for fami - Art Babych Rome to meet with Pope Francis opment and Peace, which marks its ly caregivers, “those who care for VIGIL HELD ON PARLIAMENT HILL — Young Inuit throat singers and visit various dicasteries or 50th anniversary next year. Crosby the sick at home,” Crosby said. Samantha and Cailyn perform a song dedicated to Inuit artist Annie departments of the Roman Curia. said he, as the CCCB president, St. Kateri Tekakwitha, whom Pootoogook at the vigil on Parliament Hill Oct. 4 honouring missing The last such visits took place in would be issuing a statement Pope Benedict called the “Protec- and murdered indigenous women. Pootoogook was a well-known Inuit 2006, said Bishop Douglas Crosby, “reflecting on the satisfaction of the tress of Canada,” has been given artist whose body was pulled from the Rideau River Sept. 19. Ghislain president of the CCCB. While the bishops for the work accomplished the “liturgical title of the Pro- Picard, Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief for Quebec- bishops will meet with the Holy over the last 50 years and the tectress of Canada,” he said. Labrador, spoke at the vigil, saying her death “is a sad reminder that Father, there is still no word immense amount of good coming “Canadians can pray for her inter - justice is not yet at our doorstep.” Police are investigating the circum - whether Pope Francis will visit out of Develop ment and Peace.” cession for our country.” stances of Pootoogook’s death, but initially ruled out homicide. Canada in the near future to answer The bishops will also review the a request from the TRC’s Calls to mandate of the Catholic Organiz- Action that the pope make an apol - ation for Life and Family (COLF), ogy to indigenous peoples in Cana - which marked its 20th anniversary WELCOME TO CARMEL da for Indian residential schools. this year. COLF’s director Michele Crosby said Apostolic Nuncio Boulva is retiring at the end of Having received a letter of permission from Archbishop Daniel Bohan, (who passed Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi told the 2016, so while a search is under - away in January 2016), I am presently working on this project with the chancery office. bishops during their annual ple - way for her replacement, the bish - nary in Cornwall, Ontario Sept. 26 ops will review the mandate of the A community of Carmelite cloistered nuns is being - 30, that the “invitation is in organization, and whether it will formed in Southern Saskatchewan as a way of Rome” and they are considering it. continue as an au tonomous organi - “It’s going to be a decision of the zation co-sponsored by the CCCB evangelizing through the apostolate of prayer. Holy Father,” said Crosby. “He and the Knights of Columbus If you are a young woman interested in a life dedicated gets lots of invitations to countries Supreme Council. now and he’s going on 80.” Crosby said the bishops have a to prayer in the Carmelite tradition of St. Teresa of The bishops will visit Rome in positive view of COLF. It has Jesus, and her foundations, (as St. Teresa says, “For the regional groups, starting with the “done wonderful work,” and its style of life we aim to follow is not just that of nuns, but Atlantic bishops in March. They many publications on life and fam - of hermits”) and would like to live a monastic way of will be followed by the Quebec ily issues have been “helpful, pas - bishops, then the Ontario bishops, torally timely and appropriate.” life with silence, solitude and a strong community and finally the western bishops, The bishops will be sending in a joined by charity and the spirit and joy of the Gospels, according to Halifax Archbishop questionnaire concerning COLF to contact us at: Anthony Mancini. guide the process, but one issue that The Atlantic bishops will came up in the plenary was how to Monastery of the Transfiguration focus on the “impact and conse - get COLF’s excellent publications quences of sexual abuse, the better known among the grassroots, tel: 306-694-0618 scandal, the crisis of that on the Crosby said. One idea was the email: [email protected] life of the church in the Atlantic establishment of parish groups website: www.carmelitemonasticsisters.org region,” said Mancini. throughout the country similar to Quebec will deal with euthana - those for the Canadian Catholic 1 Way of Perfection 13,6 sia in the “context of a highly sec - Organization for Devel opment and ularized society”; Ontario will Peace, he said. “No decisions have also deal with euthanasia and been taken,” the bishop said. Anyone wishing to donate to the building of a monastery wing in order to provide assisted suicide and on Catholic The Canadian bishops dedicat - for aspirants to this monastic community, please contact the above or donate on schools. The western bishops will ed Canada’s three latest saints to the website contact page. As a registered charity, receipts are available for income discuss the priority of reconcilia - particular causes, as they are tax purposes. tion with Canada’s indigenous allowed to do by the Congre ga - peoples, he said. tion for the Causes of Saints, said The bishops agreed to not all Crosby. October 12, 2016 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 5 Catholic health centres under pressure re euthanasia

By Deborah Gyapong Instead, they will “watch vulnera - Processes are still in develop - Shea argued that publically “End of life can be a very ble people they care for offered mental stages, and health authori - funded health care providers offer challenging and lonely time and OTTAWA (CCN) — An inci - an economically expedient short - ties are adapting, he said. a variety of services to the public, people need institutions and dent involving a man who was cut in the form of a lethal injec - Informal discussions with but no one facility offers every places where they can go where refused assessment for euthanasia tion” and may be “forced to par - patients “who are contemplating possible service. “People are they will feel they are supported at a Catholic hospital in Van cou - ticipate in medically assisted sui - their end-of-life options” and “the transferred every day for different to live out their life and experi - ver has increased pressure on all cide contrary to their ethical prin - formal due care procedural step services,” he said. ence a natural death,” he said. faith-based institutions to violate ciples.” as part of the medical assistance For Larry Worthen, spokes - “People should be able to do that their principles. Catholic Health Association of in dying process” are two differ - person for the Coalition on in the context of their faith, their Last August, Ian Shearer, 84, Canada president Michael Shea ent things, he stressed. “For Health CARE and Conscience, background.” was transferred from St. Paul’s would not comment on the indi - providers who have a conscien - and executive director of the “We should allow organiza - Hospital to another institution vidual circumstances in Van - tious objection to the process Christian Medical and Dental tions to be able to make their own after he made a request for an couver, but said as a national pol - that’s problematic.” Society of Canada, what’s at decisions on this, based on their assisted death. The Catholic hos - icy Catholic institutions will “It’s a matter of principle for stake is a constitutional right organizational and institutional pital refused to participate in the “respond respectfully and com - us,” and part of the foundational under Section 2 of the Charter values,” he said. process of assessing his eligibility passionately to requests for physi - “basic matters” of Catholic health “that allows organizations to be Meanwhile, the Coalition is for the procedure. His family told cian-assisted suicide and try to care, he said. able to operate according to their undertaking a lobbying effort in news media he experienced stay engaged with the persons, to The Vancouver incident values and principles and to be Ontario to “express our concerns extreme pain as he was shuffled find out the nature of the person’s spawned a spate of mainstream able to create a space where peo - about the lack of conscience pro - from hospital to hospital until he request.” media reaction, including an edi - ple can feel safe, where they tection for caregivers, and also to found an institution to complete “Catholic health care is rooted torial in the Ottawa Citizen don’t have the threat of wrongful reinforce the importance of facili - his request. in the sacred dignity of the per - accusing Catholic hospitals of death.” ties to be given the right to deter - This incident prompted the son,” he stressed. “We have had “letting down” terminally ill Worthen rejects the public mine what their policy is going to Fraser Health Authority Board of this long-standing tradition of patients. funding argument for imposing be on medical aid in dying,” he Directors to consider forcing all compassionate care that neither While the Citizen said individ - one standard regarding euthana - said. The Coalition had already palliative care units and hospices prolongs dying nor hastens ual doctors should not be forced sia. “The government raises visited about one quarter of the to provide euthanasia and assisted death.” to euthanize patients, “individual money from a diverse population MPPs in the Ontario legislature, suicide. “I think it’s clear that Catholic choice” of patients is “para - who have very many different he said. In a Sept. 27 letter to the health care will not undertake the mount” and tax-funded Catholic attitudes and perspectives on this He said he encouraged con - board, Vancouver Archbishop J. procedure,” he said. “The ques - institutions must find a physician controversial issue,” he said. “I cerned citizens to go to the Michael Miller warned such a tion is how does it get handled. willing to do so on site. think it is the responsibility of Coalition’s http://www.canadi - move would “undermine the con - That varies from jurisdiction to “Forcing those in pain to leave government to make sure people ansforconscience.ca website to tribution of palliative care at the jurisdiction, depending on how the site in order to obtain even an have facilities that they need and see how to “send a letter to their very time it needs support and health authority has set up end-of-life assessment is simply want for all differing perspec - MPP to support the work we’re development.” processes around the procedure.” inhumane,” the Citizen argued. tives.” doing.” “What a cruel dilemma to offer palliative care patients — compassionate care or death, as Nuit Blanche exhibit brings back memories equally viable options,” he wrote. “Such a decision will also cre - By Evan Boudreau ate a terrible conflict of interest The Catholic Register for palliative care workers who see their departments as sacred TORONTO (CCN) — To shed places to alleviate suffering and light on some of the darkest honour human dignity,” he wrote. moments in the h isto r y of Cath olic education, students from St. Joseph’s College School un veiled OBITUARY their Residential Schools Memorial Wall at the annual Nuit Blanche all-night art festival. Two years in the making, the project consists of 130 talking sticks, decorated staffs used in many Aboriginal cultures to des - ignate the speaker among a group, which were sealed in clear mailing tubes and fixed to the fence outside the school. Each tube — one for each of the residential schools operated LAVIGNE, Marguerite Marie Marcelle across Canada — also contained (Sister Louise) Peacefully on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016, at Foyer Maillard in a light to illuminate the stick Coquitlam, B.C., Sister Marcelle, aged during the 11th edition of the 93 years, went to her true home in overnight contemporary art heaven. Sister Marcelle was born in exhibit in Toronto, held this year Edam, Sask., in 1923 and spent her Oct. 1 - 2, as well as a name of a Catholic Register/Evan Boudreau young life in Saskatchewan. In 1939 she residential school. MEMORIAL WALL — Toronto’s St. Joseph’s College School unveiled its Residential Schools Memorial entered the Sisters of the Child Jesus and “A lot of the residential Wall for the annual Nuit Blanche art festival overnight Oct. 1. The plan is to continue using the exhibit to made her novitiate in North Battleford, schools were actually to assimi - raise awareness of past abuses done to Canada’s First Nations, Inuit and Métis in these schools. Sask. Marcelle spent 37 years of her life teaching in both Saskatchewan and B.C. late the Aboriginal people into the and then she spent 17 years in Gagnoa, Catholic religion and a lot of the nity. Many were abused physical - exhibit, to get people talking (part of history). They really are Ivory Coast, Africa, living the charism of people who ran the schools were ly, mentally and sexually. Some about residential schools and their the ambassadors of this knowl - our foundress Anne-Marie Martel: a Catholics,” said Keelin Lawor, would never see their parents legacy. edge.” presence of love to the Father and her president of the school’s art club. again. “The more people that know And while Sabyan focuses on brothers and sisters for the awakening “So much has happened and such “People who endured it don’t the more people that can become spreading the conversation across and deepening of the faith. She made an impact was felt by these even want to talk about it because connected to the issues and the the Toronto Catholic District Anne-Marie’s prayer her own: “May my they don’t want to have to go more that can be done,” said Paul School Board, Lawor wants peo - only pleasure be to please you.” Remaining schools. We have to recognize to forever cherish her memory are the that a lot of this was done by us through it again,” said the 17- Sabyan, the teacher behind the ple from coast to coast talking Sisters of the Child Jesus, her brother and our forefathers.” year-old Lawor. “(But) it hap - project. about what many have tried to Harvey (Joyce), sister-in-law Marion, Funded by the federal govern - pened and we can’t forget that.” Once removed from the forget. numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, ment, these schools first appeared Kristy Doyle, who visited the school’s fence the project will “As a nation we have to rec - former students and friends, especially in the 19th century. By 1931, the Residential Schools Memorial continue to generate conversation ognize what we have done and the Nare family from Africa. Prayers were peak of the residential school sys - Wall during Nuit Blanche, said about residential schools among we have to stop erasing the fact held Sept. 29, 2016, and the Funeral tem, about 80 schools were in we can’t forget our past. Catholics in Toronto. that this is something that we Mass took place Sept. 30, 2016. Both services were celebrated at Our Lady of operation across Canada. In total “Different cultures have a “My plan is that once this did and we have to make up for Lourdes Catholic Church, Coquitlam. We 130 residential schools existed darker past than others but installation is done tonight to take it. We have to stand up and tell wish to thank all those who have journeyed across Canada. everyone should know the past it apart and send each of the tubes our government that we need to with Marcelle throughout her life for their These schools — the last one so that we can learn from it and to 130 different schools in our respect these people because we prayers, kindness and support. closed in 1996 — were attended have a brighter future in general board with the idea that they’ll are not the ones who were orig - Columbia-Bowell Funeral Chapel by about 150,000 First Nations, for everyone,” said the 25-year- start talking about it,” said inally here, they were. The 604-521-4881 Inuit and Métis children who had old. Sabyan. “It is really important for erasing of these things has to been removed from their commu - And that’s the idea behind the the students to be aware of that stop.” 6 Prairie Messenger LOCAL NEWS October 12, 2016 Language is power, and land is life: elder

By Andréa Ledding those people who create bombs.” culatory system of the lands, pro - sure impact on the land, animals, to spend less time on people Bell asked why it took so long viding life-giving water; and ask - environment and people. when they’re sick and more time SASKATOON — Hundreds to react to the oil spill at Maid - ing the river for forgiveness for “Colonization continues, on spending resources to keep were in attendance at the Kisi s - stone, and why it takes so long returning that generosity with whether it is the clearcutting, the them healthy: food, education, katchewan Water Alliance for people to protect Mother toxins and pollution. murder in Ecuador, the oil spills in clean water and a supportive Network rally for those con - Earth and sacred water. There is no place for the sacred Peru, the mining companies suing environment. cerned about the environmental “Calling down white people in our economy or our politics, my country because peoples He mentioned the community catastrophe on the North Sas - will not solve the problem; we noted Suzuki, which is why the decided not to have mining in El of James Smith and the city of katch e wan River. High-profile have to work with them. The water is treated in such a cavalier Salvador: it’s all colonization and Prince Albert, noting everyplace speakers included David Suzuki. Cowboys and Indians Alliance in fashion. The Kisiskatche wan we need to put a stop to it.” alongside the river is impacted The event was hosted by knowl - (the U.S.) are further ahead than water alliance is coming to gether First Vice-Chief Kimberly detrimentally along with health edge keeper Tyrone Tootoosis. we are,” said Bell. “Water is life: because it is a human crisis. Jonathan observed that the Crea- outcomes. Elder Emil Bell, who had held no water, no life. It’s that simple. “We are at an unprecedented tor and the grandmothers and “Spills like this affect our a fast for the river when the disas - Civil disobedience is our respon - moment in the history of life on grandfathers were guiding all the lives; incidents like these are ter happened, spoke about how sibility: to protect Mother Earth, this planet,” noted Suzuki. “This knowledge being shared, and to drastic and dramatic,” said Meili, young people lose hope and trust to protect the water for future is the age when human beings have gratitude for everything, inviting people to talk about in the adult world when they generations.” have become the dominant force from hurt to joy. today in terms of health. “It’s don’t see a future for themselves. Christi Belcourt called on a affecting the physical, chemical, “I greet you as family because common sense. Nobody can get “The oil companies, the urani - revolution for the water. “We and biological properties of the that’s our teachings, we’re all behind a political decision that is um companies do not care one already know that water is sacred, planet on a geological scale.” here as family. Nobody’s better going to make us sicker. At the iota for grassroots people,” said that water is life. But we need He noted that our legacy will than anyone else or worse than very least, we need stringent reg - Bell. “We have the premier of more people to be of one mind. be recorded in the geological lay - anyone else, nobody deserves to ulations on pipelines, especially Saskatchewan in Korea, China, What the oil companies don’t ers of the earth, should there be starve, nobody deserves not to around bodies of water, and those selling the minerals, uranium, have, and what we have, is that life to see it. have water.” regulations being enforced by from northern Saskatchewan. He we are willing to give our lives Eighty per cent of the forests Dr. Tim Jardine of the Uni - governments because businesses wants to dump the uranium onto for the water.” have been invaded. Ten per cent of versity of Saskatchewan Water have too many conflicts of inter - She noted that “The antidote the last wild areas has disappeared Security Institute and Garry est to be trusted with decisions for greed is giving. We need to be in the past 25 years. We have Carriere from Cumberland House that are that important.” willing to give all that we have, altered the chemistry of the atmos - spoke about the water and posi - Prevention and protection is the way Mother Earth has given phere and spread toxic pollutants tive partnerships. what we need, not cleaning up all that she has, to water, and to across the planet. Human invasion “Things are changing at the after the fact, noted Meili. life.” of the wild is accelerating. university,” noted Jardine. “The “We need to revisit our cultur - Water treatment plants are not Indigenous peoples across the U of S cares a lot about water, al and spiritual and traditional going to solve problems for all world have been on the forefront and most importantly, since I beliefs, and live by them,” said the babies of the plant and animal of movements to protect the plan - moved here five years ago, I’ve Tootoosis. “To the oil and gas world, let alone for humans, et. worked with several communities sector our mother is not even noted Belcourt. “As we know, water doesn’t downstream, including Cumber - alive: language is power, and land “Water exists in every single know boundaries, and neither do land House.” is life.” life form; there is nothing that the decolonized indigenous peo - Carriere spoke about how the Don Kossick closed the event water is not within.” ples,” said Assembly of Manitoba biggest inland delta in North with a call into an independent Belcourt echoed Bell’s kudos Grand Chief Derek Nepinak. America has been his home, and public inquiry into the Husky oil to women. “You can’t place a dollar value on he’s mainly defended it alone. spill as to why it took 14 hours to “Women have power. Don’t water. We’re trading three or four “It was the moose and muskrat move. ever forget it. We are leading this barrels of water for one barrel of capital of the world, 10,000 “North Battleford didn’t have to movement for water. Let us give oil, and it doesn’t make sense.” square km, and most of you don’t lose their water supply, Prince every single thing we have, for Many in leadership are forced know that it exists in this prov - Albert didn’t have to lose their our babies, and for the next gen - to take deals because of enforced ince. I’m here to represent the water supply, that’s what the OSU eration, even if it means giving poverty, noted Nepinak, because delta and let you know our com - inquiry should be about,” said URSULINE DIES — On Sept. 24 our lives,” said Belcourt. corporate oil and gas have offered munity has been crying out to the Kossick. “People should have been Sister Patricia Lockert, OSU, David Suzuki said he was hon - money. government that by putting struc - evacuated from the chemicals that (Prelate) went to meet her God, oured to be there, and thanked the “Our organization in Manitoba tures on the river you’ve altered were released. In fact the premier whom she had loved and served indigenous peoples who took has not accepted a dime,” he said. our way of life.” said pipelines are really good and as an Ursuline religious for over great care of the land for thou - “It’s been very difficult because “We owe it to the land; coming we should build more of them.” 70 years. May she enjoy the peace sands of years, before thanking when the Harper government from the north we still live off the The current and future costs of and blessings of eternal life. the river for being part of the cir - made all the cuts is when the land and depend on the land. We the spill are still uncalculated, and energy companies came in and owe it to the animals; we have to there is no transparency about Santa Maria celebrates tried to buy our support.” be a voice for them. Our delta is pipelines or fracking, noted Ricardo Segovia, a scientist dying.” Kossick. “We need an arms- with E-Tech Independent Con- Carriere said if hearts, minds, length independent watchdog renovation projects sulting, spoke as an indigenous science, and traditional knowl - group; right now we only get it person from El Salvador now liv - edge join together there can be a from them who caused the prob - By Frank Flegel Mahoney. The remaining $60,000 ing in east Vancouver. He noted better future. lem.” came through donations. there is a lot of oil and mining “Water is our first medicine.” Kossick noted there was a REGINA — It took 18 months The foundation has begun money going into universities, Dr. Ryan Meili, who works $2.7-million provincial cutback and about $180,000, but Santa another fundraising project with a which makes people afraid to with Upstream, echoed this senti - on health and safety of pipelines Maria Senior Citizen Home’s old - goal of securing about $400,000 speak out. His company is based ment as a doctor, saying we need just before the Husky spill. est section is now more modern for a major renovation that will in the U.S. and does work for peo - with new furniture and new win - transform Santa Maria from what ple who don’t have access to tech - dows. The windows are not only is now a hospital layout to more nical information, such as Ecua - new and venting they are lower so of a residence. dor and Peru, where it’s often in - residents can see outside while in “It will modernize it to create a digenous people living on the bed or sitting in chairs. more residential feel,” said execu - resources being exploited. They A reception was held in the tive director John Kelly. were called into Saskatchewan. home’s main floor entrance and There are 147 beds in Santa “We did sampling on August gathering area Sept. 14 to cele - Maria, all occupied, and there is a 16 and 17, almost a month after brate the end of the project. lengthy waiting list. The section the spill, and there was still crude Santa Maria was built in 1968 that was renovated contains 90 oil on the riverbanks, along with by the Regina archdiocese with beds. Besides quality care, it chemicals in the sediments,” sponsorship from the Knights of retains its Catholicity with a noted Segovia, adding the chemi - Columbus. The Sisters of St. chapel that provides regular ser - cals on the surface are going to Joseph of Pembroke operated the vices. evaporate and the rest is going to facility until 1985. They continued Ownership was transferred to submerge. “This spill is not over; to live in residence and provided the Catholic Health Ministries of there is a lot submerged under the pastoral care until 1998. The Saskatchewan (now known as surface and in the sediments for Lynda Statchuk Sisters of Our Lady of Missions Emmanuel Care) Nov. 19, 2012. years to come.” CATECHISTS GATHER — Thirteen parish representatives — cate - moved into the residence follow - It operates under the governance In 14 hours, the oil came a long chists, leaders and pastors — gathered Sept. 9 at St. Bruno Parish in ing the departure of the Sisters of of a board of directors with cur - way down the river; the reaction Bruno, Sask., for a discussion about nurturing the faith of children and St. Joseph and continue to help rent chair Joan Pratchler. from Husky was inadequate. families. Led by the diocesan Christian Initiation and Catechetics with pastoral services. Santa Maria is affiliated with Segovia noted communities need (CIC) team, the workshop marked the start of another ministry year. Of the $180,000, $120,000 was and receives its operating funding to take part in the monitoring of CIC is one of the ministries that is building up the church in the raised with the help of the Santa from the Regina Qu’Appelle their own lands, along with tradi - Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon thanks to gifts to the Bishop’s Maria Foundation, with chair Jean Health Region. tional knowledge, to really mea - Annual Appeal. October 12, 2016 LOCAL NEWS Prairie Messenger 7 Smudge walk and vigil held for missing women

By Andréa Ledding about supporting one another on that healing journey. Many of us SASKATOON — Oct. 4 are going through difficult times. began with a neighbourhood We have loved ones who are in smudge walk organized by the hospital, we have loved ones who Federation of Sovereign Indige - are in jail, we have loved ones nous Nations (FSIN), and ended who are on the street, we have the with a Sisters in Spirit walk and missing and murdered indigenous vigil. Over 200 supporters and woman inquiry. Many of us have family members took part in one reasons why we need to take that of 100 national Sisters in Spirit healing journey together.” events. After walking through the Cameron was joined by other streets with signs accompanied by dignitaries, including national drumming and singing, support - chief Perry Bellegarde, MLA ers returned to White Buffalo Jennifer Campeau, upcoming Youth Lodge for soup, a program, Advocate for Children and Youth and a giveaway by organizers Corey O’Soup, and the Lieu- Iskwewuk E-Wichiwitochik tenant Governor of Saskatche - (Women Walking Together). wan, Vaughn Solomon Schofield. Along with musical entertain - Cecile Smith, president of the ment by community member Pleasant Hill Community Asso - Jorgina Sunn, missing and mur - ciation, thanked everyone for dered women’s family members their prayers and leadership as shared their experiences, and their well as attendance and support. hopes for the outcome of the She noted that they had held a national inquiry. Danita Big Eagle Andréa Ledding smaller one the year before, orga - and Patricia Whitebear spoke UNSOLVED HOMICIDES — Jeanette Gamble’s mother has been missing since 1964. “When they took my nized by the community, which about their missing loved ones and mom, they took my life away. They took my language, the skills, the values of everything that a daughter is she described as kind, great, wel - the excruciating pain all of the supposed to learn,” said Gamble. coming, and supportive. families experience in their Smith noted that, although the extended absences. Whitebear, a time coming,” noted Big Eagle, charged and ultimately convicted. mother has been missing since neighbourhood had challenges and survivor of the 60s scoop, encour - adding that it was important the “I would watch through the 1964, when she was five years issues, the people themselves were aged those struggling to reach out families be put first in the process. rain, the snow, and the heat for my old, and her younger sister two. good people and she was proud to for help, sharing the number of a Whitebear added that the process daughter,” noted Wolfe, describing She lost her younger sister three call this area home. The morning national helpline. Hope for was going to require careful, atten - how she carefully picked out the years ago to alcoholism, a loss walk, which began in St. Mary’s Wellness in Ontario — 1-855-242- tive listening to those nearest the casket once her daughter was dis - she says is closely tied to the Community schoolgrounds, circled 3310 — can be called toll-free. issue, and it was important that covered. “I did stand up to her childhood loss of their mother. approximately 100 people through “I understand and pray for all families be the first and foremost killer and told him, ‘You murdered “When they took my mom, several blocks of the Pleasant Hill the other families, to heal which - subject of the inquiry. my daughter.’ ” they took my life away. They and Riversdale neighbourhoods ever way you can,” said White- Carol Wolfe spoke on behalf Wolfe thanked the many sup - took my language, the skills, the before ending at the parish hall bear. “There is a helpline out of her daughter, Karina Bethann porters during and after the trial values, of everything that a where a complimentary barbeque there for anyone, whether you’re Wolfe, whose body was found in process itself, including Iskwewuk daughter is supposed to learn.” lunch was served. residential school or a 60s scoop November 2015 after being miss - E-Wichiwitochik who held a sup - The morning smudge walk The evening walk of over 200 or missing and murdered family ing for five years. per in her honour. was attended by Iskwewuk E- supporters, which took place in members.” “None of us gave up,” said Monica and Faith Bosse spoke Wichiwitochik co-chair Darlene sleeting conditions, travelled She spoke of the difficulty, Wolfe through an interpreter, on behalf of Daleen Bosse Okemaysim-Sicotte, who was one down 20th Street and over to especially during holidays and thanking the many supporters over Muskego’s family, thanking sup - of the speakers at both walks. She 22nd before returning to the family gatherings, when there the years. “It’s been very, very dif - porters for standing by them invited everyone to the evening White Buffalo Youth Lodge on was a notable absence and a sad - ficult — I have a space in my through the trauma of a long miss - vigil, saying that she had come to 20th Street. Soup was served, and ness. MCs Patti Tait and Vern heart now that Karina’s gone.” ing-person case, and the trauma of the smudge walk for healing as the speaking portion of the pro - Linklater introduced the speakers, Wolfe shared memories of the the trial once her body was located well, because of the hard emo - gram took place. with Tait asking questions to the last time she saw her daughter, and a conviction obtained through tional work with murdered and family members to be answered, the emotional process of report - an RCMP sting operation. Monica missing indigenous women and Correction mostly focusing on the upcoming ing her as missing when she is Daleen’s sister-in-law and girls and their families. national inquiry as well as their failed to show up for Wolfe’s Faith’s aunt. Faith was a toddler Chief Bobby Cameron told the individual journeys. birthday, and the harrowing court when her mother went missing, media they were trying to expand In the Archdiocesan Annual “The inquiry has been a long process once the murderer was and is now a young woman. She the healing smudge walks in com - Appeal last year, 35 Regina expressed her gratitude to the munities across the province, at the parishes reached their goal and New technologies many supporters through the long program held in St. Mary’s Parish received rebates of about process, recalling attending the Hall on 20th Street, saying he $60,000, not $16,000 as many marches over the years as believed the walk would grow sig - reported. Denise Walsh is the transform patient care well as memorial runs. nificantly in size from the relative - donor services co-ordinator The final speaker of the night ly small gathering of about 100. for the Archdiocese of Regina. (PM, Sept. 28.) By Sandhya Padmanabh nostic CT technology to provide was Jeanette Gamble, whose “It’s about healing together, it’s advanced imaging, ensuring we SASKATOON — St. Paul’s can diagnose and provide the best Hospital Foundation hosted a and most appropriate treatments for double grand opening Oct. 4 cele - patients.” brating the installation of a med - Advancements to the operating ical imaging SPECT-CT and new theatres include six integrated suites operating theatre technology at St. and state-of-the-art technology that Paul’s Hospital. meets the needs of new and rapidly “With these advancements, our evolving surgical procedures as donors have brought a new level well as dramatically increasing of excellence to our hospital,” operating theatre efficiency, result - said foundation CEO Bruce ing in better patient care and Acton. “We are forever grateful to reduced surgical wait times. all our donors for their support The new facility housing the and their commitment to excel - SPECT-CT will now be called the lence, innovation and advanced David and Karen Holst Family patient care in Saskatchewan.” Foundation SPECT-CT Suite in The opening celebrations recognition of a major gift from included a VIP tour showcasing the the Holsts, along with additional patient impact of the advancements gifts from Jack and Shirley James Riley on the diagnostic imaging and Brodsky, Joe Remai, and the CLASS OF 2017 — The class of 2016 - 17 at the St. Therese School of Faith and Mission at Bruno, Sask., operating theatre environment. Dakota Dunes Community Devel - includes 26 first-year and 12 second-year students who have come from British Columbia, Alberta, “The SPECT-CT is the top-of- opment Corporation. Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia to be formed in their Catholic faith and expe - the-line gamma camera in this Since its inception in 1982, rience the love of God through the guidance of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. Alumni of St. Therese are eligible to city,” said Dr. Sundeep Nijjar, divi - SPH Foundation has raised more transfer credits at: St. Stephen’s University, St. Stephen, N.B.; Redeemer Pacific College at Trinity Western sion head of Nuclear Medicine. “It than $90 million in donor support University, Langley, B.C.; and St. Philip Seminary in Toronto. The nine-month Faith Formation Program combines a nuclear medicine for transformative medical ad - Class of 2017 is pictured here with Jim Anderson, director, and the Student Life Team. For more informa - gamma camera with the latest diag - vancements at St. Paul’s Hospital. tion see www.StTherese.ca 8 Prairie Messenger CHURCH AT HOME October 12, 2016 It’s been said that being a grandparent is different

life force as powerful as the cult as giving ocean. Waves swelled and birth, as dif - crashed inside and gushed outside ficult as dy- Around the my body — each one bringing ing. I was this little one closer to the light of gazing at the Kitchen Table our world where I could finally face of an see her face. ancient one, These were my thoughts as we and see ing Maureen Weber had a glass of wine and waited the “eterni - impatiently for each snippet of ty” of which information on Leigh’s progress my father The day after Thanksgiving on Skype and phone calls. Her time - the night she went into labour. spoke. Oct. 12, 1982, I gave birth to line approximated mine all those Later, in bed, I awoke from a rest - Now Janice, our first-born. When my years ago, and as the light changed less sleep at 3 a.m. to discover she when I am dad saw her for the first time, he with the coming of fall, the memo - was more than halfway. I knew outside, I say said he saw eternity in her eyes. ries of giving birth to my first child what lay ahead. There are no her name I remember nodding and smil - returned in vivid detail. I remem - more fervent prayers than those aloud — ing, but secretly had no clue what ber in particular thinking about this said by a mother for her child. Anissa — he was talking about. wriggling, kicking, hiccupping Four hours later we welcomed and the sky We know life is precious, that being and how she could make her the news of a safely delivered hears the it’s a gift we mustn’t take for presence so felt , yet I could not granddaughter. song of her granted, a blessing to cherish. know what she looked like. Of all We had known since May that name. I have I’ve always known that. But in the things I was curious about, it the baby was a girl, but the name called you by my youth I was more concerned was her face I longed to see. had remained a surprise. The name, you with practical issues. The busi - I remember arriving at the hos - sound of Leigh’s tired, happy are mine . . . ness of survival, while trying to pital at 2 a.m. and was prepped in voice saying the baby’s name A couple take care of a baby I felt ill- a darkened room where gentle over the phone will never be for - of weeks lat - equipped to nurture, supplanted people spoke in hushed tones. The gotten: Anissa Zoé Sassi . er, in the east, Maureen Weber any marvelling I may have had at exit light in the hall glowed a soft Even more than the anticipation where WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Anissa Zoé Sassi the miracle of new life. red and I remember thinking that, of hearing the baby’s name, how - Thanks giv - was born Sept. 24. Maureen and Russ are discovering They say being a grandparent for me, exit was not an option. ever, was seeing her face. I expect - ing reds and the joys of being grandparents. is different. I’ve heard it hundreds The window of my room in old ed to see the face of a baby. What oranges are of times over the years but, like St. Elizabeth’s was propped open I didn’t expect to see was a face so beginning to burst from the trees, I one, inhale the perfume of her skin my dad seeing eternity in my a few inches. Outside, the autumn intimately familiar, it was almost am finally holding this little one in and watch her stretch and yawn. daughter’s eyes, I was skeptical. wind tossed crisp leaves that rus - as though I was looking at myself. my arms and gazing into her face. She is restless and I whisper to her Our daughter Leigh became tled about the end of things . Geese Even more surprising was the She is smooth and new, and now of how precious her life is. She pregnant in January. Because she trumpeted their exit from a newly sense that I was seeing the face of this world — no longer the ancient becomes still and listens, her dark lives in Ottawa, I followed this barren land in the dark of night. an elder. Anissa’s sombre expres - one. Geese fly in giant flocks above eyes searching my face. time in her life from a distance, But there was no barrenness in sion told the story about being the house honking their goodbyes. It’s true. Being a grandparent through Snap chats, texts, emails, this room where I laboured with a born — that being born is as diffi - But inside I say hello to this little is different. The American election reveals how sexist and racist society still is

By Caitlin Ward little son posted on Twitter about fringe conspiracy into the spot - the fourth claim — well, just stinct ively less inclined to believe Skittles and refugees. It’s hard light? Trump. Who refused to about every American politician women. I am trying to ignore the not to be incredulous. It’s hard believe the irrefutable proof? who tries to do anything is Really, I think this is why I’m American election. I am trying not to watch in fascinated horror Trump. Who tried and failed to accused of wanting to destroy trying to ignore the election. Not so very hard to ignore it. I don’t as this thing happens. lie his way out of it? Trump. America at some point, so dis - just because I am powerless to read the articles, don’t watch the On some level, though, it’s not But here’s the kicker: has it proving it would be as counter - do anything about it, as I said at short films and try not to listen hard to believe that the American made any difference to his cam - productive as it would be time- the beginning. But because it to the pundits. The night of the election has unfolded this way. paign? consuming. The real clincher makes me think that people first presidential debate I avoid - On a more immediate level, it’s Well, we won’t know until with that one is that no one don’t want the truth — they want ed the television and any part of been hard not to type some varia - after the election is over, I guess. seems to be able to explain how something beautiful. the Internet that might be paying tion of “people are fools” after The fact that he’s got this far, universal health attention to it. The next day, peo - the first sentence in this para - though — it’s a little scary. The care is going to Prophet took my hand on all saints day ple asked if I had seen it and I graph. I deleted some version of fact he doesn’t need anything lead to an He preached the values of deception nearly put my fingers in my ears that sentiment three times before resembling proof or facts for him oppres sive reli - Changing shadows by a shapeshifter rules and said, “la la la la la la la . . .” I figured I would just confess to be believed — that is far more gious oligarchy. Tales are never just for fools Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful scary. It says to me that a white And yet, the The court of conscience came before me man speaking with authority is all claim persists. Presenting me with a heavenly angel the proof some people need. His It’s believable Paloma Faith You took my hand and ask me, truth aside lies, spoken with such conviction, not because it’s To his questions I replied get echoed across the continent possible or rea - It’s just — there’s nothing I that’s what I was thinking at the and across the Internet. And even sonable, but CHORUS can do. Sending people videos of moment. I don’t believe, though, when they’re not believed, they’re because a lot of Do you want the truth or something beautiful? what an idiot one of the candi - that people are fools, or idiots. taken seriously enough that even people want to Just close your eyes and make believe dates is (you know which one I I do think this American elec - when they’re laughable, people believe it. The Do you want the truth or something beautiful? mean) won’t do any good, except tion has revealed just how racist take the time to refute them. same way peo - I am happy to deceive you we can sit in horrified silence or and sexist a society we still live The fact that he doesn’t need ple disbelieve hysterical incredulity as this gong in, mind you. I say that not anything resembling proof or statistics about He stood as tall as redwood trees show unfolds to the south of us. because Barack Obama and facts to be believed also says to police brutality Drank tea from a seamstress thimble Of course, all of this said, try - Hillary Clinton have been sub - me that he says things people against African Didn’t want to speak, the honest truth ing to ignore the election doesn’t jected to an overabundance of want to believe — and that is the Americans in the So I spit out lies that aimed to soothe mean I’ve succeeded in doing scrutiny and prejudice, though scariest thing of all. Because that United States, so. It’s kind of everywhere. It’s it’s certainly arguable they have goes far beyond the single per - and against First CHORUS seeping into most aspects of my been. I say it because of how lit - son saying the absurd thing. I Nations people life. Last week in class, I said tle scrutiny has stuck on the hor - honestly can’t think of another in Canada. We Secrets, lying, falling veils explicitly I did not want to talk rible little orange man. Oh, he reason why so many people don’t want to I can be who you want me to be about that horrible little orange- has certainly been roundly criti - would say, and say publicly, that think it’s true. Sacred, lies in, telling tales faced man, but I ended up talk - cized by people all over world. Barack Obama is a Muslim and The same way I can be who you want me to be ing about something his horrible But he’s been much more absurd a terrorist in league with ISIS, that despite the But do you want me? than either Clinton or Obama to and he wants to destroy fact that Trump garner such criticism, he’s far America. Three out of four of has demonstra - CHORUS Ward is a Saskatoon-based less qualified than either of them those claims can be disproven bly lied expo - freelance writer who spends her to do the job he claims he wants with the most cursory evidence. nentially more Sacred lies in, telling tales days (and most nights) working to do, and despite how ridiculous Statistically, the first claim than Clinton, I can be who you wants me to be at a small Catholic college. Her a human being he is, his words doesn’t have much to do with the she’s the one I can be who you wants me to be less eloquent thoughts can be get traction. Was there ever any second and third, given the vast considered But do you want me? found at www.twitter.com/newset proof that Obama was born in majority of practising Muslims untrustworthy. But do you want me? ofstrings Kenya? No. Who moved that are neither of those things, and We seem in - October 12, 2016 ARTS & CULTURE Prairie Messenger 9 Toronto festival at 41, a critic in La La Land

gave their award to Pablo ture award, the only reaction I married a gruff fish seller, Larraín’s Jackie , a moving re- heard in the lines was negative. I Everett Lewis, in a union of imagining of the 1963 JFK assas - was very taken with the other social outcasts redeemed by the Screenings sination and its aftermath through Canadian Platform feature, spirit of her art. Sally Hawkins the eyes of Jacqueline Kennedy Zacharias Kunuk’s Maliglutit and Ethan Hawke do fine work & Meanings as portrayed by Natalie Portman. (Searchers) , an all-Inuit historical as the oddly matched couple. Somehow this British production saga shot in Nunavut. That is also (Hawke adds to his impressively by a Chilean director powerfully the modern-day setting for wide range of current roles. One Gerald Schmitz recreates one of the most traumat - Quebec-based ic moments in American history. Kim Nguyen’s The 41st Toronto International channel I’ve enjoyed revisiting Portman’s performance in partic - excellent sur - Film Festival (TIFF) Sept. 8 — the 1960 movie. And despite ular has drawn raves. (Her debut realist drama 18 unspooled under unseasonable being a political junkie, on Sept. directorial effort, A Tale of Love Two Lovers tropical heat that lasted through 26 I skipped the first U.S. presi - and Darkness , based on the and a Bear . its packed 10 days, testing the dential debate in order to view eponymous autobiographical More about stamina of attendees. There were Seven Samurai on the big screen novel by the renowned Israeli both in a some very hot titles on screen as at my neighbourhood arthouse writer and intellectual Amos Oz, future column. well, and of course the heat gen - cinema in Ottawa, the Bytowne. has been less well-received.) The highest erated by the presence of A-list (It was certainly better than listen - Larraín had another drama - profile stars brought in for the gala pre - ing to Trump’s idiocies!) Those tized biographical film in the fes - Canadian mieres of major Hollywood 207 minutes, in black and white tival, Neruda , based on the life of movie, a co- movies like Deepwater Horizon . with a boxy square aspect ratio, Pablo Neruda, Chile’s most production Of course most are basically mar - are a testament to the enduring famous literary figure (his poetry with France keting launch pads in keeping power of great moviemaking. earned him the 1971 Nobel Prize) accorded mul - with TIFF’s celebrity-conscious The reason I mention this is in who was also an icon of the com - tiple screen - corporate side. As usual, several the hope that a future TIFF will munist left. The film concentrates ings, was 27- — notably the over-hyped open with a movie that is more on the period in the late 1940s year-old Snowden — went into wide than a conventional commercial when communism was outlawed Québécois release before the festival ended. product and has the potential to in Chile forcing Neruda and his wunderkind I always avoid those. The real become a classic. wife to go underground, continu - Xavier Dolan’s value for the serious filmgoer are That said, TIFF did showcase ing to pursue their artistic Juste la fin du the gems to be discovered among some impressive movies that were engagement while evading police monde (It’s the festival’s huge selection of a hit with both critics and audi - detection. Only the End nearly 300 features from over 80 ences. The most prominent among Another film in the Platform of the World) . countries. (Tiny Belgium is listed these was La La Land which to no section, the first I saw at TIFF, That Dolan was writer-director and composer remains the Jo Piazza, If Nuns Ruled the World Bertrand Bonello’s controversial darling of Nocturama , a France/Belgium/ Cannes offi - (New York: Open Road, ©2014) Germany co-production that was cialdom was Gerald Schmitz reportedly rejected by the Cannes confirmed TIFF PREMIERE — Bertrand Bonello attends the festival nervous about its content when he was international premiere of Nocturama at the Toronto for no less than 24 film titles.) one’s surprise took the “People’s in the wake of terrorist attacks. awarded both International Film Festival Sept. 8. With 89 films claiming some Choice” award. Writer-director The disturbing scenario has a mul - that festival’s Canadian provenance, one might Damien Chazelle’s semi-autobio - tiracial group of alienated young Grand Prix and the Prize of the of the better things in Fuqua’s have thought that TIFF could graphical followup to his first fea - people, one of whom has high Ecu menical Jury despite a critical Magnificent Seven is his perfor - showcase one for its opening ture, the Sundance prize-winning political connections, plan and savaging (a dismal 43 per cent mance as the Confederate sharp - night. But no, instead it boasted and Oscar-nominated Whiplash carry out a day of mayhem in score on rottentomatoes.com). shooter Goodnight Robicheaux.) the world premiere of Antoine (2014), is a musical crowd pleaser Paris involving a series of murders Dolan has recruited some of Finally, one of the revelations Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven in the best sense of the word. It and explosions. Communi cating France’s biggest stars to tell this of the festival was writer-director remake, not even an original film. imagines an alluring L.A. and by social media the surviving story of an ailing playwright, Louis Mahmoud Sabbagh’s Barakah This version does have some Hollywood of yesteryear in which members hole up for the night in (Gaspard Ulliel), who returns to Meets Barakah , an upbeat roman - striking New Mexico landscapes a romance unfolds between two the swank surroundings of a multi- his hometown and dysfunctional tic comedy from Saudi Arabia, if though mostly shot (and there’s an dreamers, a jazz pianist played by level department store where they family after a 12-year absence to such seems possible. Cinema is orgy of shooting) in Louisiana. Canadian-born Ryan Gosling and break the news of his impending hard to do or to find in the Fuqua piles on the western tropes an aspiring actress played by death (spoiler alert, he doesn’t). repressed Islamist kingdom and and caricatures as a motley crew Emma Stone. Scheduled for a pre- This screen adaptation of a 1990 this is only the second film — of seven violent men — led by an holiday December wide release, play by Jean-Luc Lagarce who after Wajda (2012) — that the African-American man in black this song and dance story is an died of AIDS quickly descends country has submitted for consid - (Denzel Washington) and includ - early favourite for Oscar best-pic - into a marathon of close-up histri - eration in the Oscar foreign-lan - ing a knife-throwing Asian and ture consideration. onics. Apart from a few typical guage category. That film, by a Comanche warrior archer — are Another of TIFF’s hottest tick - Dolan visual and musical flourish - female director, was about an 11- the hired avengers of good farm ets was Moonlight by writer- es it’s a dreadful tiresome affair. year-old girl living in the capital folk up against a murdering, director Barry Jenkins which indulge the consumerist fantasies Several other Canadian Riyadh. This feature, set in more church-burning, California capi - merits its stellar reviews. Also a of a society for which they sup - movies, both Canada-Ireland co- liberal Jeddah, a port city on the talist robber baron. Evil will be sophomore feature, it follows the posedly have contempt. Such productions, deserve mention. Red Sea, depicts an amorous rela - vanquished at a steep cost. Fuqua difficult journey from childhood meaningless nihilism — as one Alan Gilsenan’s Unless is a faith - tionship that develops between includes a few nods, without to adulthood of Chiron, an says “It’s crazy . . . we know noth - ful adaptation of the eponymous adults, both named Barakah. The acknowledgment, to Akira African American living in a ing!” — cannot but end badly. Yet Carol Shields novel in which the smitten male Barakah (played by Kurosawa’s 1954 masterwork rough Miami neighbourhood as in the context of the times, of protagonist, the young Norah Hisham Fageeh, a comedian who Seven Samurai , which inspired he copes with challenging cir - indiscriminate acts of terror and (Hannah Gross), bears silent wit - is a YouTube star in Saudi Arabia) the 1960 original American- cumstances and wrestles with his hard to explain radicalization, ness to a traumatic event not is a shy municipal official with Mexican Magnificent Seven. If sexuality. Moonlight , which is there’s a palpably expressed sense revealed till the end. It’s also an bigger dreams. The female quality matters, after six decades slated for a late October release, of a violent venting that had to exploration of the complex emo - Barakah (Fatima AlBanawi), who of reviews Seven Samurai still was a strong contender among the happen. Nocturama’s sleepless tional terrain of mother-daughter goes by “Bibi,” is a free-spirited rates a 100 per cent fresh score on 12 entries in TIFF’s juried night cuts uncomfortably close to relationships. Catherine Keener rich girl, a fashionista and rottentomatoes.com; the 1960 “Platform” program that was ded - a real-world malaise manifest in is excellent as the mother, a suc - Instagram star looking for bigger classic 90 per cent; the new icated to the great Iranian film - many western democracies. cessful writer struggling to con - things too. How they get together knock-off just 61 per cent. Thanks maker Abbas Kiarostami who There were two Canadian nect with Norah. The premiere in spite of the forbidding strictures to the Turner Classic Movies died in July. In the end the jury entries in the Platform program. I took place appropriately at the of Saudi society provides for a didn’t see the Quebec three-plus Bloor St. HotDocs theatre across compelling youthful and gently hour docudrama Those Who the street from the “Honest Ed’s” humorous push against those con - Make Revolution Halfway Only storefront, the wintry setting of straining boundaries. That a film Dig Their Own Graves directed much of the film. Aisling like this can get made and be seen by Mathieu Denis and Simon Walsh’s Maudie is the story of in Saudi Arabia is a positive sign Advertise in the Lavoie which has a parallel to Maud Lewis who suffered from and speaks to a generation yearn - Nocturama in that it posits a cell juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and ing for change. Kudos to TIFF for Prairie Messenger of young people in Montreal with who, despite a hard existence of giving it an international spotlight. Monday - Friday 8:30 - 5 p.m. terrorist intent, though linked to a little comfort in rural Nova Coming next, several columns Ph. 306-682-1772 Fax 306-682-5285 radical political agenda growing Scotia, persevered to produce highlighting more of the best out of Quebec’s 2012 mass stu - paintings of folk art that became dramas and notable documen - email: [email protected] dent protests. Although it internationally famous. She taries from the festival’s diverse received the best Canadian fea - became housekeeper to and then offerings.

10 Prairie Messenger DEEPENING OUR FAITH October 12, 2016 Co-operatives mean stretching beyond self-interest

Questioning Faith

Mary Marrocco

On a rainy Saturday, I joined a trative assistant, later became his unique gathering. In Grimsby sister-in-law; later, my mother; Museum, an exhibition long in later still, his posthumous biog - the making opened — “Sweat rapher. Father Marrocco was Equity: Grimsby Co-operative instrumental in the Grimsby ini - Homebuild ers 1953 - 1956.” It tiative. Rita’s book The Light documents and displays the story From One Candle helped tell the of 80 families who co-operatively story. financed and built their homes. So, exhibit-creators Janet and Sixty years later, those houses Paul Muise invited her to still grace several lakeside blocks Grimsby’s Museum. I escorted. in this Ontario town. We met people who helped build Building co-operatively meant the homes, and people who grew they could afford their own up in them: the real-life results of homes. “Sweat equity” meant this word “co-operation.” CMHC gave them a mortgage “Co-operative” simply means Design Pics based on their commitment to “working together,” but when it ‘PEOPLE NEED TENDERNESS’ — “These days,” writes Pope Francis, “more than anything, people need doing the work themselves, comes to humans, that’s not so tenderness.” Tenderness is not a state of mind. It’s the way we hold the person next to us — our neighbour. together. It meant serious labour, simple. “Unless there is sufficient It’s matter, our own flesh, radically open to spirit, the spirit in us breathing the Spirit of God. hard feelings and hurdles, and it education in co-operation princi - meant people inspired and ples from the very beginning, the as self, at heart,” said Father a beloved brings joy. When bread “Buzz thought quietly about it changed by co-operating in con - development of the co-operative Marrocco. Rita says she wondered offered by friend or stranger feeds and then answered: ‘Well, if I crete ways that affected their may be disappointing and the then why he talked all the time soul as well as body. were living next door to some - daily lives. association more susceptible to about the Mys tical Body of Christ, When 60-year-old houses wit - body who didn’t get in as many One of the priests working failure.” So notes the Social and wonders now why nobody ness people’s faith in God and hours as I did, and was penalized with the families said: “Its princi - Action Institute’s Guide to Co- talks about it. each other. for that, I think it would make my ples were focused on building operative Housing , which the Maybe some of us want to have One of my favourite stories house of less worth to me.’ The people , not houses. Don’t know families studied for a year before others’ welfare at heart, but find it about the Grimsby co-operative, vote was taken and it wasn’t even how we missed that, but we did they began building. Such co- hard to stretch beyond our self- recounted in Rita’s book, discuss - close. No penalties were made. for a long time.” operation can happen because interest. What can help us? The es the families’ distress over We were painfully democratic. It’s a story of Canadian Cath - humans are naturally inclined spirit is willing but the spirit takes deciding how to allocate the fin - And Christian.” o lic history, and personal for me. that way, but it often doesn’t flesh in matter, which is notorious - ished houses. Who would get Painfully Christian. Being The co-operatives were inspired because of our deep and stubborn ly weak (Matthew 26:41). which? Everybody had worked Christian can be painful, as being by the Antigonish Movement, resistance to our need of each Matter is weak, but open to on them all, but everybody knew renewed in the likeness of Christ itself informed by Fathers Moses other. spirit. We can readily discover that some people had worked can be painful. Coady and Jimmy Tompkins. My We aren’t suddenly, magically this truth when we feel the wind much harder than others. At a “These days,” writes Pope uncle, Francis (Father, then able to co-operate as members of open our hearts to God’s Spirit, “heated” meeting, they were on Francis, “more than anything, Bishop) Marrocco, carried this the same body. Yet when we do when a white-and-green birch tree the verge of deciding by vote people need tenderness.” Ten - vision to Ontario, helping estab - manage to co-operate, it works reaching up to the intense blue whether those who were “labour derness is not a state of mind. It’s lish Ottawa’s Institute for Social great change in us. Belonging to sky raises our hearts to our delinquent” would get last pick. the way we hold the person next Action (now, sadly, defunct). the Body of Christ inspires and Creator, when the delight of Then somebody turned to the to us — our neighbour. It’s matter, Rita Larsen, his trusty adminis - exhorts us to live like that: to not swimming in a clear lake brings man who’d done more than any - our own flesh, radically open to do separately what we can do to- us closer to Christ who loved the body, saying, “Buzz, what do you spirit, the spirit in us breathing the gether. To care for and assist one Lake of Galilee. When the kiss of think?” Spirit of God. Marrocco is a marriage and another in the concrete. To family therapist, teacher of theol - remember the other’s needs at PRAIRIE MESSENGER PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY ogy, and writer, and co-ordinates least as much as our own. “Mem - St. Mary of Egypt Refuge. 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to justice. Quiroga saw first-hand the horrific decimation rice and corn tortillas but at least we had three meals a of introduced European diseases and the virtual enslave - day. Many neighbours could not count on this. ment of first peoples on the large encomiendas cobbled Nearly five decades ago now the first signs of major Liturgy together from seized native lands by the rapacious con - change had already become apparent. Eventually these quistadores and their successors. In Santa Fe de Los Altos would lead to the modern commercial and residential dis - and Life he attempted to create a model haven for the oppressed. trict with its futuristic architecture, which we see today. I Thomas More’s Utopia first published in 1516 influenced recall once following a steep path down the barranca or his actions. By 1536 de Quiroga would become the first narrow ravine behind the church then climbing up the far Michael Dougherty bishop of the diocese of Michoacán, Mexico, where he side to a building site. I talked my way into a luxury man - would repeat the experience of Santa Fe de Los Altos. sion then under construction. Three large circular windows Today’s first reading touches on a recurring theme for maybe three metres in diameter each, looked over onto the The community of Santa Fe de Los Altos in 1968 still Joshua ben Sira or Joshua son of Sirach; social justice. He colonial church and surrounding humble homes of the set - had campesino farms surrounding it when I led a group of Ca- wrote his book of ethical teachings almost 200 years tlement Quiroga had founded. The huge centre “window” na dian and American teenagers on a six-week summer service before the birth of Jesus. The prayers of the humble, the was beautifully crafted from translucent onyx. project there. High up on the mountain rim above Mexico wronged and the person “whose service is pleasing to the This ostentatious display of wealth contrasted sharply City this then small town began as a haven for the poor, ill and Lord will be accepted.” Were the prayers of the first resi - with the poverty in the community where I worked. oppressed in 1532. The 16th-century Spanish conquistadores dents sheltered at Santa Fe de Los Altos heard? Families had trouble finding the money necessary to buy with their allied native army had shattered the Aztec In the letter Paul writes to Timothy we hear the words the uniforms and school supplies for their children. Kids Confederacy centred on city-state of Mexico-Tenochtitlan in of an old man who expects to die soon. Rescued from unable to go to school ran out to cars slowed by the topes the heart of the central valley of Mexico below. “every evil attack” he faced by the Lord, Paul knows that he or speed bumps as it went through the heart of town trying The colonial church of Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion to sell them chiclets or other small items. lay at the heart of the community. The parish compound Sirach 35:15-17, 20-22 A sudden illness could wipe out any savings a family Thirtieth Sunday where the eight of us from Project Christopher stayed at Psalm 34 might have. Water-born diseases affect many. As it turned in Ordinary Time the invitation its young pastor, Padre Vincente Jara Luna, 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18 out I caught hepatitis there but it was only diagnosed in October 23, 2016 abutted the church. A low adobe complex of rooms sur - Luke 18: 9-14 Regina upon my return. Ten days in hospital had me well rounded a shared interior courtyard with an outdoor pila or on the way to complete recovery. Many of the people of washing basin and the mandatory chickens always under “fought the good fight” and “finished the race.” He kept the Santa Fe de Los Altos just had to live with chronic illness - foot. Padre Vincente’s name was then at the end of the faith even in the face of seemingly impossible odds. Paul is es and maybe die early from their complications. long unbroken list of priests dating back to when Vasco de aware, though, that the path he set his foot on continues. He The Gospel passage from Luke relates a parable Jesus Quiroga first shepherded this community. hopes that Timothy, his protege, and other members of the told of the Pharisee and the tax collector. Do we like the Vasco de Quiroga was a religious and political leader faith community he nurtured will carry on. Did Bishop Pharisee define ourselves by what we don’t do rather than in the earliest days of this Spanish colony. As a judge of Quiroga sense that as well a he lay dying in 1565? by what we do? How did the family living in the mansion the Royal Audiencia, the highest court of the fledgling Poverty blighted the community of Santa Fe de Los across from Santa Fe de Los Altos justify their good for - Spanish Empire, he sought to bring the cruel and corrupt Altos that I first knew in 1968. People gleaned building tune and the great gulf between them and their neigh - supplies for their homes from the municipal garbage dump bours? Can we be forgiven our often wilful blindness? of Mexico City filling old sand pits nearby. A couple of Who should be beating their breasts? Remember, Dougherty is co-chair of the Social Justice Committee stand pipes provided the only reliable source of clean “Whoever exalts themselves will be humbled and whoever at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Whitehorse, Yukon. water. Our diet in the parish compound centred on beans, humbles themselves will be exalted.” Propensity to tribalism blocks us from seeing reality of others’ lives

morality, all shared similar hopes First, there’s our innate narcis - headaches, our joys, our pains, and fears about the outside world, sism. Simply put, we cannot not our deaths, do not count more In and all worshipped God quite feel that our own reality is more before God than those of persons confidently from inside that real and more precious than that in other places in the world, per - cocoon. We knew we were spe - of others; after all, as Rene haps even less, since God has a Exile cial in God’s eyes. Descartes put it, classically and preferential option for the poor. There’s a wonderful strength forever, the only thing we can The lives of the hundreds of thou - in that, but also a pejorative know for sure is that we are real, sands of present-day refugees, so Ron Rolheiser, OMI underside. When there are no real that our joys and pains are real. easy to lump into one mass of strangers in your life, when We may be dreaming everything anonymity to which we can everyone looks like you do, else. Beyond that natural narcis - accord abstract sympathy, are just I was blessed to grow up in a went to the same church, all believes what you do, and speaks sism, other things begin to play as precious as those of our own very sheltered and safe environ - belonged to the same political like you do, when your world is in: blood, language, country, and children; perhaps more so, given ment. My childhood was lived party, all were white, all came made up of only your own kind, religion are thicker than water. the truth of our Scriptures about inside of a virtual cocoon. In the from the same ethnic background, it’s going to take some painful Consequently our own kind God taking flesh in the excluded remote, rural, first-generation all shared the same accent when subsequent stretching, at some always seem more real to us, par - ones. Today they may be the peo - immigrant community I grew up we spoke English, all had a simi - very deep parts of your soul, to ticularly apposite race and coun - ple of manifest destiny, the ones in, we all knew each other, all lar slant on how we understood accept, existentially accept, and try. Too many of us live with the carrying God’s special blessing. be comfortable with the fact that notion that God has blessed our As well, and importantly, we people who are very different race and country more than God must also correct our bad theolo - from you, who have different skin has blessed other races and coun - gies. The God whom Jesus colours, speak different lan - tries and that we are special in revealed and incarnated may guages, live in different countries, God’s eyes. That’s a dangerously never be turned into a God of our have different religions, and have false and unchristian notion, own, a God who considers us  a different way of understanding directly contrary to the Judaeo- more precious and gifted than RE-ELECT things are just as real and pre - Christian Scriptures. God doesn’t other peoples, a God who blesses cious to God as you are. value some races and some coun - us specially above others. Sadly, Of course not everyone has a tries more than others. we are perennially prone to turn background like mine, but, I sus - Where might we go with all of God into our own tribal deity, in Tim Jelinski pect, most everyone also struggles this, given that it’s hard to see the name of family, blood, to accept, beyond our too easy how everyone else’s life is as real church, and country. God too eas - espousal of how open we are, that and precious as our own? How do ily becomes our God. But true all lives in the world are equally as we bring our hearts to existential - faith doesn’t allow for that. Greater Saskatoon precious to God as is our own. It is ly accept a truth that we espouse Rather a healthy and orthodox hard for us to believe that we, and with our lips, namely, that God Christian theology teaches that Catholic School Board our own kind, are not specially loves everyone equally, with no God is especially present in the blessed and are not of more value exceptions? other, in the poor and in the than others. There are lots of rea - We might begin by admitting stranger. God’s revelation comes sons for that. the problem, by admitting that to us most clearly through the our natural narcissism and outsider, through what’s foreign propensity for tribalism do block to us, through what stretches us Wednesday, October 26 Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, us from seeing others’ lives as beyond our comfort zone and our and award-winning author, is being as real and precious as our expectations, particularly our president of the Oblate School of own. Very particularly, I suggest expectations regarding God. Theology in San Antonio, Texas. we need to look at our false patri - God is everyone’s God equal - “Experience, and a profound commitment He can be contacted through his otism. We aren’t special as a ly, not especially ours, and God is website: www.ronrolheiser.com. nation, at least no more special too great to be reduced to serving to Catholic educaon.” Now on Facebook: www.facebook. than any other nation. Our the interests of family, ethnicity, com/ronrolheiser dreams, our heartaches, our church, and patriotism. 12 Prairie Messenger FEATURE October 12, 2016 What is the future for consecrated religious life?

being taken seriously in advocacy But, in late 2015 there were a gregation to serve the so-called on any important public concern. little less than 16,000 religious in “foreign missions” of the time. I was never formally educated Canada (compared to just over Rev. Dan MacDonald of the Dio- Journey by sisters, but have worked to 18,000 four years previously). cese of Alexandria, Ont., received help a congregation establish a They were unevenly distributed: permission from Rome to recruit to Justice social justice office, and today I 68 per cent lived in Quebec, but women for this work under the continue to collaborate with many only eight per cent in all the west - guidance of several Sisters of St. sisters in advocacy ministry. My ern provinces. Eighty per cent of Joseph from Toronto. The Cath - Joe Gunn experience, and Canadian history, religious were female, and 80 per olic Women’s League offered suggests that religious women cent francophone. More worri - financial support for formation of have always been hands-on, well some, perhaps, is the fact that the women in their first five years. What would the Catholic Canada look like? My guess: ahead of most of the clergy and only one per cent of members of Our Story tells some lovely Church in Canada look like if there much less compassionate, less laity in the service of charity and, religious orders were under 40 anecdotes of the rather austere were no more religious sisters? socially just, with weaker ecolog - certainly since Vatican II, the years of age, yet 50 per cent were novitiate of the first OLMs. There Perhaps the more important ical leadership — and the church public promotion of beneficial over 80! were only nails upon which to question would be, what would would have much more difficulty society and ecclesial change. I pondered this situation this hang their clothes. The postulants summer as I opened the pages of had to crack open the ice on their Our Story , a history written by, and wash basin each winter morning. about, Our Lady’s Mission aries. The first candidates told the story The OLMs were formed in of walking down to visit their 1949 because there was no con - aging founder, who offered them cigarettes, chocolate bars and peanuts! Apparently Father Dan Gunn is the Ottawa-based was thinking that, “if they were to executive director of Citizens for be missionaries, their lives would Public Justice, www.cpj.ca, a be very difficult and smoking member-driven, faith-based pub - would be a comfort to them.” lic policy organization in Ottawa In 1956 four sisters who had just focused on ecological justice, trained as nurses attended mass refugee rights and poverty elimi - nation. — INSPIRATION , page 13

Art Babych A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE — National Arts Centre Orchestra Music Director Alexander Shelley con - ducted OrKidstra at the international One Young World Summit Opening Ceremonies on Parliament Hill Sept. 28. OrKidstra is a charitable organization for children living in under-served areas of Ottawa. Its mission is to “empower children and build community through the universal language of music.” Hayes’ ‘Halifax experiment’ was a success

By Joseph Foy tion.” Confessing one’s sins indi - into the yard. People were vidually to a priest would not be amazed; the enthusiasm was con - Most Canadians have heard of required; instead, the priest, at the tagious. The next year we added a the Great Halifax Explosion of end of the liturgy, would absolve second lenten service, and the 1917. But few know about the the entire congregation, collec - church filled to overflowing both “great Halifax Catholic experi - tively. nights. Later we added a third ment” of the 1980s. This was not a new idea; many one, with the same results. Not It involved a new liturgy for the veterans of the Second World War only were they intergenerational sacrament of reconciliation (a.k.a. were still around, and they had liturgies; people were “coming “confession,” a.k.a. “sacrament of often participated in such liturgies out of the woodwork,” some of penance”). Two dioceses (Halifax on the battlefield. However, the whom we had not seen in church and Yarmouth), covering half of use of general absolution was for years. The sacrament of rec - mainland Nova Scotia, were restricted by the Vatican to onciliation was being reborn right included. Thousands of parish - “extraordinary circumstances.” before our eyes. ioners in literally scores of parish - Archbishop Hayes, who was Knowing success when he saw es participated and it lasted more very knowledgeable in liturgical it, Archbishop Hayes reminded us than a decade. It was a significant matters, approved the experiment, that Advent is also, in our tradition, experiment by any standards. arguing that Lent was, historically an “extraordinary circumstance.” I thought of those days when I and liturgically, quite definitely a And so penitential services with heard of the recent death of James “special circumstance.” general absolution were held then Hayes, Archbishop of Halifax for I remember the first year. In the as well, with similar results. Thus 25 years (1965 - 91), a real trea - dark evening parishioners gradual - we moved into the 1990s knowing sure and the most innovative and ly filed into our church. The ser - that we were all involved in some - open bishop I have ever known. vice was long but meaningful, thing wonderful and rare: the He had returned from Vatican with appropriate singing and pray - rebirth of the sacrament of God’s Council II with a rejuvenated the - ing. Then came an examination of mercy, in a form parishioners ology and quickly set to work fol - conscience led by a local Sister of respected and cherished, and for lowing John XXIII and “throwing Charity who focused on social jus - which they would brave bitterly open the windows!” tice rather than on traditional “hot cold Maritime nights to take part. By the late 1970s, the new button” Catholic moral issues. By In 1991, Archbishop James English (and French) mass was the time she was finished, all of us Hayes retired. Under Bishop well established and Catholic had realized that, by omission and Austin Burke, the experiment con - sacramental liturgies were thriv - by commission, we were indeed tinued. However, in 1993, John ing. Except for reconciliation, part of a sinful people. Then, to Paul II appointed a new archbish - where the practice of individual our great relief, in the name of our op, and one of his first official confession-in-the-box was every - God of Mercy, our pastor absolved acts was to announce that general where in steep decline. us all, and we sang together a absolution would no longer be An experiment was proposed: rousing song of joy. It was a mov - allowed in our penitential ser - during Lent, offer an evening ing experience, one which I will vices. Thus the “great Halifax penitential service and include always remember. Catholic experiment” ended. what was called “general absolu - Come next Lent, an inter-gen - Some believed, faced with that erational crowd (grade school, change, parishioners would return high school, college, 20-some - en masse to the confessional. Foy belongs to St. Francis things, middle-agers, elders) That did not happen. And still has Parish in Wolfville, N.S. filled the church and spilled out not. October 12, 2016 FEATURE Prairie Messenger 13 Churches look together toward 2017 — and beyond

together and celebrate the progress “The churches need to take This anniversary is an unparal - made over the past 50 years of official juridical action and own leled opportunity for both church ecumenical dialogue. certain conclusions of the dia - leaders and laity to enter into the “In the 15th century there was a logues,” Rusch emphasized. process of healing and reconcilia - Challenge of Protestant trajectory and a conflict - “This is a process that happens on tion at both juridical and grass - ing Roman Cath olic trajectory two levels. There is a reception roots levels. It is important that Ecumenism rejecting it,” said Rusch. “But in that is juridical, and another that we capitalize on this opportunity the last 50 years of Lutheran- affects the life of the church at to render more effective the mis - Thomas Ryan, CSP Roman Catholic dialogue, both local levels. The latter goes for - sion and witness in our divided Protes tants and Catho lics have ward slowly and takes time.” world of a Christendom united. been able to see Luther At its annual fall conference Ref ormation anniversary events. in his historical con - which took place this year Sept. 23 They would have us all remember text. Luther ceased to - 25 at the Candler School of that there are some common, fun - be an im moral charac - Theology outside of Atlanta, damental affirmations that point ter, and a theologian Georgia, the North American be yond Lutherans and Roman who brought some Academy of Ecumenists focused Catholics. needed reforms in the on “Commemorating the Reforma - For starters, baptism is the church.” tion: Churches Looking Together basis of our unity. This is true for “The dialogues have To ward 2017 — and Beyond.” all Christians. Further, Jesus’ produced thousands of Members from Alberta, Sas katch - prayer for unity in John 17 (“that pages of theological ewan, Ontario, Quebec, and Nova they all may be one”) and Paul’s accord on questions Scotia were among the partici - words to the Ephesians to “be once seen to be church- pants. eager to maintain the spirit of dividing,” observed The keynote speaker, Rev. Dr. unity in the bonds of peace” per - Rusch. “Cer tain topics William Rusch, professor of tain to all Christians as well. In have lost their ca pacity Lutheran Studies at Yale Uni versity short, this commemoration of the to di vide us. Un fortu - and a longtime national ecumenical Reformation encourages all Chris - nate ly, the conclusions leader, reflected on how “commem - tians to give more visible expres - of the dialogues’ work orate” means to honour the memory sion to their unity in a hostile and have been ne glected. of a person or event and how this is fearful world. With the exception of more fitting language for the up - A constant theme in the ecu - the Joint Dec laration on Janice Weber coming year of events on the 500th menical movement that has marked the Doctrine of Justi fi - THE WHOLE — “The outer situation of your life, whatever happens there, is like anniversary of the Protestant Ref - the last century has been the visible cation which was joint- the surface of a lake. Sometimes calm, sometimes windy and rough, according to orma tion than is “celebrate,” which unity of the church of Jesus Christ. ly signed in 1999, they the cycles and seasons. Deep down, however, the lake is always undisturbed. You is to observe an event with joy. “It’s obvious that the Refor - have not been formally are the whole lake, not just the surface, and you can be in touch with your own Rusch noted how, historically, mation split or severed the accepted. depth, which remains absolutely still.” — Eckhart Tolle the Reformation has both sup - church,” reflected Rusch, “but porters and detractors. For even Luther just before his death Protestants it restored the church; did not reject out of hand the pos - Foster positive rather attacking negative for Catholics it divided it. sibility of a unified church under “This time around, however, the leadership of the pope.” And on what we are here for , not what we’re emphasizing not just the he noted that Pope Francis will be we are here against . It depends on past, but the future,” he noted. going to Lund, Sweden, at the end “Be ye not afraid.” It’s the way of Is the Reformation anniversary of October for the kickoff of the Outlooks from Jesus, St. Francis, Julian of to be seen as only a Lutheran- year’s events, and in the course of Norwich, Mahatma Gandhi, and Roman Catholic event? Already the year itself, to Germany. the Inner Life Martin Luther King. They knew other Reformed churches such as Until very recently it would all about the bad, but practised the the Presbyterian and Methodist have been unthinkable for a pope better. They took “against-energy” are objecting to what to them is to join in an anniversary service of Cedric Speyer and let it pierce them right “a Lutheran monopoly” of the the Reformation. Past observances through, until it revealed the beau - have been oppositional, at times tiful human needs, or “for-ener - leading to open hostility. This one “Successful solutions are based on the powerful principle that reso - gies” beneath it. Ryan directs the Paulist North will be the first marked by a real lution occurs by fostering the positive, not by attacking the negative. We are witnessing the politics American Office for Ecumenical desire on the part of Catholics, Recovery from alcoholism can’t be accomplished by fighting intoxica - of polarized “against-energy” and Interfaith Relations in Lutherans, and Chris tians of all tion, but, rather, only by choosing sobriety. The ‘war to end all wars’ playing out in the American elec - Boston, MA. the Reformed traditions to come did no such thing, nor could it possibly have done so. Wars — including tion campaign. We haven’t quite wars on vice, drugs, or any of the human (unmet) needs . . . can only be decided whether it’s a comedy or won by choosing peace.” — David R. Hawkins a tragedy (both suffice for a dis - OLM women an inspiration sociated culture’s “entertain - “I know about the bad, but I look at the good thing.” — Alice ment”). Most would agree on Continued from page 12 initiating the Out of the Cold pro - Summers “theatre of the absurd,” given the gram for the homeless, Mary extreme partisan divide between when there and then they heard the Gauthier mobilizing people Picture the following cartoon faith vs. intelligence, symbol vs. liberal, well-educated, progres - bishop announce that they were against the Energy East pipeline, characterizing the state of much science, or essence vs. experience. sive do-gooders and conservative, going to be missioned to Japan. Clarice Garvey accompanying the public discourse. There’s a pair of Lost is the coincidence of oppo - principled, traditional patriots. None of these women had ever landless peasants in Brazil, or restroom doors, but instead of the sites we find on the cross, where The antagonism between “left” been on a plane before, yet off they Monica Gebel advocating for eco - bathrooms having male and human/divine, soul/spirit, dark/ and “right” displaces the kind of went. Over the years, OLMs served logical justice, the OLM women female signs, one says “evil doers” light, and sadness/joy are held in creative dialogue allowing third in over a dozen countries on all remain an inspiration. Would that and the other “entitled victims.” creative tension. On the cross, one alternatives. Instead, the intoler - continents. Their stories have been our church knew more about — The zeitgeist (spirit of the age) movement is horizontal, the other ance of competing agendas degen - regularly told in the pages of the and more faithfully imitated and these terrorized days tends toward vertical, apparently at cross-pur - erates into childish name calling. Scarboro Missions magazine, as celebrated — their total life-giv - such “dichotomous thinking”; the poses. Yet it shows us that the It’s no accident that it appears they developed strong working ing service to the preferential polarized worldview of win/lose, nature of reality is cruciform. childish. Psychologically, left and relationships in many countries option for the poor. either/or, good guys/bad guys, When opposing ideas or clash - right represent opposite ways of where these fine Canadian mission - In 2006 the Canadian Churches’ truth/lies, and especially us/them. ing energies of all kinds collide dealing with the basic wounds of ary priests also served. Forum for Global Ministry granted It has its roots in the age-old within us or in society, we are childhood — those deficits of nur - In my last year of high school I the OLMs an award “for living the conflict of romance vs. reason, naturally aggrieved. We tend to turing and respect we can spend participated in a Catholic Youth grace of mission in a particularly keep a tight grip on our emotional the rest of our lives compensating Corps summer exchange in Mexi- significant way.” position and mentally or literally for. It’s just that Republicans and co. OLM Sister Frances Arbour Sister Joan Chittister asserts Speyer is a Benedictine Oblate expel that which threatens us. Democrats do it so differently! In had worked three years in that that the question for religious com - as well as an author, subject matter Most of human history charts the short, the former identify with the country and organized the program munities today is, “What have you expert for e-therapy, clinical con - seesaw violent power struggles authoritarian, punitive parent; the on the ground for us. Later, as the questioned lately, and who knows sultant and director of InnerView that result. Sacred history, howev - latter with the victimized, power - director of the Inter-Church Com - it? For whom have you spoken Guidance International (IGI). He er, shows us a different way — less child. Then both hold right - mittee on Human Rights in Latin lately, and who knows it? For what also directs a documentary series the way of redemptive suffering eous political positions intended to America, Frances led the solidarity have you as a community stood for entitled GuideLives for the Journey: rather than the escalation of uphold their God-ordained mis - work of the region. lately, and who knows it?” Ordinary Persons, Extraordinary grievance politics. sions, be it for justice or mercy, Whether it is Sister Elaine Our Story answers these good Pathfinders. http://www.guide - If we have the creative courage neither camp realizing . . . MacInnes (an Officer of the Order questions. We might also ask our - lives.ca/ Connect with Cedric on to hold the tensions and contradic - “Mercy and truth are met to - of Canada) teaching Zen medita - selves, our parishes and our dio - https://www.facebook.com/cms94 tions inherent in our reality, a gether; righteousness and peace tion to prisoners, Susan Moran ceses. or via [email protected] Third Way can emerge. It’s based have kissed” (Ps 85). 14 Prairie Messenger EDITORIALS October 12, 2016

New head for UN national commit - crucial actors in any process to be able to come togeth - ments. er and overcome their differences.” The nomination for secretary general for the He said these 10 A member of Portugal’s Socialist party and a fer - United Nations is raising hopes among world leaders. years, which ended vent Catholic, Guterres, 67, was one of the founders All 15 members of the UN Security Council voted in December, were of the Franciscan-backed Grupo da Luz (Light unanimously Oct. 6 for former Portuguese prime “excellent prepara - Group) in the early 1970s while still a college stu - minister António Guterres. The next step is consid - tion” for a secretary dent in Lisbon. The group worked with poor people ered a mere formality: approval by the 193-member general who needs living in Portugal’s capital. Among his colleagues General Assembly on Oct. 13. He will take up office to be an honest bro - within the group was Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, on Jan. 1, 2017, replacing Ban Ki-moon who served ker and be seen by Portugal’s current president. two five-year terms. countries as inde - After a meeting with Pope Francis on Dec. 6, The result disappointed campaigners for a woman pendent in order to 2013, Guterres commented that “the Catholic or East European to be the world’s top diplomat for promote consensus Church has always been a very important voice in the first time. Guterres, however, is expected to and overcome crises. select a woman as deputy secretary general. He said He said what’s need - the defence of refugees’ and migrants’ rights. A one of the things that is “crucial” at the male-domi - ed is a new “diplo - voice of tolerance, respect for diversity in a world nated UN is “to have gender parity.” macy for peace” that is indifferent, hostile in fact, toward anything The Portuguese Bishops Conference praised their which re quires dis - foreign.” former prime minister for his “deep sense of humani - creet di plomatic Guterres said the simple answer to why he wants ty and faith.” contacts and shut - to be secretary general can be found in “The Parable Guterres is noted for his knowledge of interna - tling among key of The Talents” from the New Testament, which has tional affairs, his moral integrity, his ability to players in conflicts been the central thing in his life. “I think that one in mediate, his willingness to reform the United CNS/Rafael Marchante, Reuters and disputes. The life receives a lot of gifts, and one has the responsi - Nations, and his attention to the poor and human António Guterres secretary general bility to pay back, no? And to multiply the gifts that rights. As UN High Commissioner for Refugees for should also engage were received.” 10 years, from 2005 to 2015, he devoted a great as much as possible and “act with humility to try to It’s a good attitude to help him in his new position. deal of time to the refugee issue as part of his inter - create the conditions for member states that are the — PWN Catholics urged to be ‘stewards of mercy’ amid growing polarization

By Peter Finney Jr. and not a prayer that he converts When aliens from outer space education) parents or Catholic attack, or reject the authority of, to your position or that she be are portrayed in films and books, school parents; we are Latin their priest, their bishop, their NEW ORLEANS (CNS) — struck down by a temporary ill - Erlandson said, they often are Massers or English Massers; we pope.” The polarization that exists in our ness on election day. Say a shown as “indistinguishable and are ‘Pope Francis people’ or ‘Pope Even a cursory reading of the secular culture, so visible in the prayer for that person, and say a uniform. Their sameness is what Benedict people,’ ’’ Erlandson Acts of the Apostles reveals divi - acerbic campaign for the White prayer that you are able to makes them different from our said. sions within the early church, but House, has crept into the church approach that person with humil - gorgeous mosaic.” The “importing of political cat - Erlandson said Catholics would be and compels Catholics of goodwill ity and charity.” “Unfortunately, we do this all egories into the church” is a prob - mindful to recall St. Paul’s exhor - to be “stewards of mercy” and Erlandson said the church is the time with our ‘aliens’ here on lem that needs to be addressed, he tation that we are not Jew or civility, the head of Catholic News not immune to “binary” thinking. earth,” he said. “Those people we said. Greek, slave or free, but all one in Service told an audience in New Recently, “duelling bands of the - don’t encounter, we don’t see and People also have developed a Christ Jesus.” Orleans Oct. 5. ologians” issued positions “re - interact with on a daily basis be- growing distrust of institutions In the face of major disagree - Greg Erlandson, the director garding some of the church’s sex - come the ‘same.’ They are lumped such as government, corporations, ments, Erlandson said, “civility and editor-in-chief of CNS, was a ual teachings,” and there were dis - into one indistinguishable tem - banks and even the church, which becomes an expression of mercy. keynote speaker at the annual con - agreements over the results of the plate of otherness. They are suffered such a crisis in trustwor - . . . It starts with us. We can’t ference of the International two synods on the family and defined as ‘not us.’ ’’ thiness in the wake of the sexual wait for politicians to start being Catholic Stewardship Council. Pope Francis’ apostolic exhorta - Political and ideological silos abuse crisis, Erlandson said. nice or for some great civility Erlandson’s talk on polarization tion, Amoris Laetitia . make it easier for people to segre - Leaders, both political and reli - program to come down from the and mercy in the church, which Erlandson said human diversity gate themselves in secular society, gious, also have come under USCCB (U.S. Conference of closed the four-day conference is a gift from God. he said. In the church, those divi - attack. Catholic Bishops). We are called that attracted more than 1,000 “I want to point out that ours is sions play out as Catholics divide “Even though there is a new to be disciples of mercy. We are stewardship and development pro - a God who does not appear to themselves, Erlandson said. generation of bishops, there are called right now, in this inglori - fessionals from around the world, expect all of us to be in a kind of “We are progressives or tradi - still deep wounds,” Erlandson ous scrum, this merciless age, to focused on the broader culture’s lockstep harmony, like a parade tionalists; we are converts or cra - said. “This has led to fragmenta - be agents of mercy.” increasingly coarse, political dis - ground full of goose-stepping dle Catholics; we are home-school tion. It has led to a reluctance to One way to do that is by ac- course. North Korean soldiers,” he said. parents or parish R.E. (religious be led. People are quicker to companying those “who are “You are all aware that this is wounded and hurting,” Erlandson one of the most polarized and said. polarizing elections in U.S. histo - “But I think we also need to ry,” Erlandson said. “Besides the accompany those with whom we usual chasm regarding the life disagree,” he added. “Accompani - issues and the almost non-existent ment involves listening. It also discussion of the poorest and involves speaking. We need to most vulnerable among us, this know how to do both effectively, year we have the personal attacks, and this is something we must live the tabloid journalism, the social and we must teach. . . . This takes media trolls, the exploitation of humility, especially when we dis - race, class and gender issues –- agree.” really it is unequaled in recent “In this often uncivil age, we history, a true basket of deplora - should be particularly careful to bles!” watch our language,” he added. But just as St. Teresa viewed “A friend of mine told me that the sick people she picked up our inner life is expressed with from the streets of Kolkata, words. When others listen to us, India, as “Jesus in one of his are they seeing Christ, or are they more distressing disguises,” seeing someone else entirely — Erlandson asked his audience to someone angry or snarky or dis - go through a “thought exercise” missive?” about the person “who is sup - Erlandson said the “good porting the candidate you most news” is that there has been “a dislike.” renewal of the parish, a renewal “Maybe it’s someone you’ve that is not some top-down man - argued with, repeatedly; maybe date, but one that is coming from someone you are no longer talk - the ground up. . . . It is in the ing to, someone you have CNS/Vincent Kessler, Reuters parish, in all of our diversity, in all unfriended, unfollowed and CLIMATE VOTE PASSES THRESHOLD — Members of the European Parliament vote in favour of the of our conflicts and our wounded - blocked,” Erlandson said. “Think Paris UN COP 21 climate change agreement Oct. 4 at a plenary meeting in Strasbourg, France. Approval ness, it is here where we can, of that person in the words of of the agreement negotiated in Paris last December reached the threshold of 55 countries accounting for at where we must, bridge the divides. Mother Teresa: That person is least 55 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions Oct. 5 when European nations, Canada, Bolivia and It is here where we can encounter Jesus in one of his more distress - Nepal backed the accord. The deal goes into effect Nov. 4, four days before the U.S. presidential election. the other members of our family. It ing disguises. Meanwhile, seven Catholic institutions from around the world, including the Jesuit Fathers of Upper is here where real change will hap - “Say a prayer for that person, Canada, said they plan to divest from fossil fuel corporations. pen, if it is to happen at all.” October 12, 2016 Prairie Messenger 15 Care home good use for convent

Continued from page 3 idea. Eventually a tour of the for - surrounding areas.” mer convent was organized in The Elizabeth committee has needs — such as the desperate 2014 for representatives of all lev - received “an overwhelming re - lack of affordable housing for els of government, who were im - sponse” from the community, says seniors who do not need high lev - pressed with the quality of the Norman. A Sept. 15 public meeting els of nursing care, but who building and the beautiful grounds. to discuss plans for the convent require some support. With the encouragement of building was well attended. A Pratchler describes how in officials, and now incorporated as $400,000 capital campaign has May 2013 a group of local a non-profit organization, The been launched, with plans to fur - women met to discuss the strug - Elizabeth committee is working nish the facility with a hydrosound gles of a loved one who needed with Stewart Properties to reno - bathtub and lift, and to renovate the help with daily needs. “They vate the facility, with a hope of dining and multipurpose room, came up with the idea of having opening 41 units within a year or chapel, offices and front entrance, the people who are in need of so, says committee member Cori as well as to upgrade and equip the help live in the same housing Norman. kitchen with a walk-in cooler, complex and get their meals pro - “Humboldt can be very proud stoves, freezers and other equip - M. Paul vided, and with home care of the Sisters and their legacy — ment. Donations are tax deductible. already available (this) should and this building is a part of their Committee members note that A Little Bit of Magic solve those needs.” legacy,” she asserts. “They knew The Elizabeth will reflect the phi - Around this time it was sug - that their last gift to the commu - losophy of care that the Sisters of The whine of a saw gested that a care home would be nity could continue their legacy.” St. Elizabeth lived out when they and the scent of freshly cut wood a good use for the vacant convent Sister Philomena Dobmeier, strived to provide seniors at St. greets me as I open the workshop door. building that had been sold to the OSE, has expressed the order’s Mary’s Villa with beauty, enjoy - Here in the cozy room city of Humboldt when the Sisters support for the project: “In all our ment and normalcy in their lives my husband creates magic of St. Elizabeth retired to dealings we felt the convent through such amenities as garden - by turning long pieces of oak, walnut and birch Saskatoon. should be re-purposed. It was built ing and pets. It is a philosophy of into rocking horses, shelves and burial urns. “It is a solid brick building and so well and was kept up so well. creating elder-centred communi - Lacquer, varnish and a bit of paint good for many more years,” says Senior housing and affordable ties that is now known as the draw out the hidden beauty in the wood. Pratchler, describing how commit - housing was something that was Eden Alternative — and it is part Day after day his skilful hands tee members met with city of very much needed in the city of of the vision for The Elizabeth. make masterpieces that will last Humboldt officials, the Humboldt Humboldt. This would certainly “Our mission is to improve the long after he is gone. Housing Authority, the provincial carry on the legacy and charism of well-being of elders and their care By Marilyn Paul Health minister, and representa - the Sisters of St. Elizabeth who for partners by transforming the com - tives of the Canada Mortgage and over 100 years brought quality munities in which they live,” Housing Corporation about the health care to Humboldt and the Pratchler says of the Eden Alter- Churches promote charity native. “That statement is not so different from the view that Sister www.prairiemessenger.ca Colletta Kloppenburg, the first and human development: pope administrator of St. Mary’s Villa, had many years ago.” Continued from page 1 a garment the pope described as a “symbol of unity of the church.” their independence from the “This unity is supported by the Soviet regime, they still “face blood of so many martyrs of dif - numerous difficulties in different ferent Christian confessions. aspects of social life” and the Among the most tested are the Catholic Church, in collaboration Assyrian-Chaldeans in Tbilisi with other churches and Christian with whom I lived an intense communities are called to be “a moment of prayer for peace in sign of charity and human devel - Syria, Iraq and in the whole opment, he said. Middle East,” the pope said. “In Georgia, this mission natu - The witness of love and unity Since 1971 rally passes through the collabora - given by religious men and tion with our Orthodox brothers women as well as Christian fami - and sisters, who form the vast lies in Georgia was also witnessed majority of the populations,” the in Azerbaijan. Although the pope said. majority of the population is Pope Francis said a “very Muslim, he said, they share a important sign” of this collabora - good relationship with the small tion was the presence of Ortho dox Catholic community there and Patriarch Ilia II at the airport upon “maintain fraternal ties with his arrival as well as their meeting Orthodox Christians.” at Svetitskhoveli Cathe dral, which Pope Francis said the celebra - houses the seamless tunic of Jesus, tion of the eucharist and the interre - Just three ligious meeting in Baku were proof • 4XDOLŵHG7HDFKHUV that “faith knows how to maintain the right relationship” between dif - (QJOLVK0DWK6FLHQFH Are you ferent faiths and expressed his hope Ř1XUVLQJ0HGLFDO that through this unity, the people Moving? of the Caucasus may “live in peace 3HUVRQQHO Please let us know a and mutual respect.” will help thousands. month in advance. 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16 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS October 12, 2016 Pope announces Santos wins Nobel Peace Prize

17 new cardinals OSLO, Norway (CNS) — The referendum Oct. 2 “was be seen as a Even though the people of not a vote for or against peace,” tribute to the Colombia rejected the terms of a the prize announcement said. Colombian By Cindy Wooden bishop Mario Zenari, who, the peace accord ending more than “What the ‘no’ side rejected was people who, pope explained, “will remain apos - 50 years of civil war, the Nobel not the desire for peace, but a despite great VATICAN CITY (CNS) — tolic nuncio to the beloved and committee chose Colombian specific peace agreement.” hardships and Pope Francis will conclude the martyred Syria.” President Juan Manuel Santos as The committee honoured abuses, have Year of Mercy by creating 17 new The last of the cardinals he winner of the 2016 Nobel Peace Santos “for his resolute efforts to not giv en up cardinals, including three from the named was Albanian Father Ernest Prize. bring the country’s more than 50- hope of a just United States: Archbishop Blase Simoni, a priest of the Archdiocese “The fact that a majority of the year-long civil war to an end, a peace, and to J. Cupich of Chicago; Bishop of Shkodre-Pult, who will turn 88 voters said no to the peace accord war that has cost the lives of at all the parties

Kevin J. Farrell, prefect of the Oct. 18. He had moved Pope does not necessarily mean that the least 220,000 Colombians and who have CNS/Andrew Kelly, new Vatican office for laity, fami - Francis to tears in 2014 when he peace process is dead,” the com - displaced close to six million peo - contrib uted Reuters ly and life; and Archbishop spoke about his 30 years in prison mittee said, announcing the prize ple.” to the peace Juan Manuel Joseph W. Tobin of Indianapolis. or forced labour under Albania’s Oct. 7. The prize, it said, “should also pro cess.” Santos Announcing the names of the militant atheistic regime. new cardinals Oct. 9, Pope Francis In creating 13 cardinal-electors said, “Their coming from 11 — those under the age of 80 — nations expresses the universality Pope Francis will exceed by one of the church that proclaims and the 120 cardinal-elector limit set by witnesses the good news of God’s Blessed Paul VI. The number of mercy in every corner of the earth.” potential electors will return to 120 The new cardinals — 13 of Nov. 28 when Cardinal Theodore- whom are under the age of 80 and Adrien Sarr of Dakar, Senegal, cel - therefore eligible to vote in a con - ebrates his 80th birthday. clave to elect a new pope and four The youngest of the new cardi - over 80 being honoured for their nals — who will be the youngest “clear Christian witness” — will member of the College of Car di - be inducted into the College of nals — is 49-year-old Archbishop Cardinals Nov. 19, the eve of the Dieudonne Nzapalainga of close of the Year of Mercy. Bangui, Central African Republic. The next day, Nov. 20, they Seven of the 11 nations repre - will join Pope Francis and other sented by the new cardinals did not cardinals in celebrating the feast have a cardinal at the time of the of Christ the King and closing the pope’s announcement: Central Year of Mercy, the pope said. African Republic, Bangladesh, Shortly after the pope’s an - Mauritius and Papua New Guinea nouncement, Tobin tweeted: “I will now have cardinal-electors. am shocked beyond words by the Malaysia, Lesotho and Albania CNS/ L’Osservatore Romano decision of the Holy Father. will be represented in the College POPE VISITS EARTHQUAKE ZONE — Pope Francis greets a firefighter in Amatrice, in central Italy, Please pray for me.” of Cardinals, although their cardi - Oct. 4. The town was devastated by an Aug. 24 earthquake that claimed the lives of nearly 300. Amid the The first of the new cardinals nals will be too old to vote in a devastation wrought by an earthquake, Pope Francis quietly prayed and offered words of consolation to an nounced by the pope was Arch- conclave. survivors and those assisting in relief efforts.