Laudato Si’ , That Wealthi - Ecological Crisis,” and While Ecol - August 26

Single Issue: $1.00 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40030139 CATHOLIC JOURNAL Vol. 93 No. 6 June 24, 2015 Summer schedule God’s creation is ‘crying out with pain’ The Prairie Messenger pub - lishes every By Cindy Wooden Situating mate right” to private property, second week ecology but that right is never “absolute or in July and VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The firmly with - inviolable,” since the goods of the takes a three- earth, which was created to sup - in Catholic earth were created to benefit all. week sum - port life and give praise to God, is social teach - Regarding pollution and envi - crying out with pain because ing, Pope ronmental destruction in general, mer vacation in August. human activity is destroying it, Francis not he says it is important to acknowl - Summer issues will be dated Pope Francis says in his long- only insists edge “the human origins of the July 1, July 15, July 29 and awaited encyclical, Laudato Si’ , that wealthi - ecological crisis,” and while ecol - August 26. on Care for Our Common Home.” er nations ogy is not only a religious con - All who believe in God and all — who con - cern, those who believe in God Bred in the bone people of goodwill have an obli - tributed should be especially passionate on gation to take steps to mitigate cli - more to the subject because they profess Grace must be bred in the mate change, clean the land and despoiling the divine origin of all creation. bone, says the seas, and start treating all of the earth — Pope Francis singles out for spe - Gordon creation — including poor people must bear cial praise Orthodox Ecumenical Smith, pres - — with respect and concern, he more of the Patriarch Bartholomew of Constan - ident of says in the document released at costs of ti nople, who has made environ - Ambrose the Vatican June 18. remedying mental theology a key topic of his University A lack of respect for creation is the damage, research and teaching since the in Calgary; a lack of respect for God who cre - he also calls early 1990s. Before the encyclical’s ated all that exists, the pope says. for their sol - release, the pope told a group of physicality in our worship is In fact, he continues, a person idarity with priests that he had asked the patri - central to true worship. cannot claim to respect nature the poorest arch to join him for the public pres - — page 3 while supporting abortion, nor can of the earth. entation of the encyclical, but the one claim to be pro-life without a He urges patriarch had a scheduling conflict Sisters leave commitment to reversing damage generosity and so sent one of his top theolo - to the environment. in transfer - gians, Metropolitan John of Perga - They came in 1923 to With unusually blunt language ring clean mon. Stockholm and have served for a papal document, the pope technology, People are fooling themselves, in various capacities in the decries centuries of exploiting the protecting Pope Francis says in the docu - Regina archdiocese since, earth, exploiting other people and small farms, ment, if they think “things do not but with the death of Sister acting as if the point of human life opening look that serious, and the planet Anastasia Young, the is to buy and consume as much as access to could continue as it is for some Saskatchewan presence of possible. CNS/courtesy U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops markets and time.” Such people in all honesty the Sisters of Social Service “The earth, our home, is begin - LONG-ANTICIPATED ENCYCLICAL — This is the protecting are giving themselves permission ning to look more and more like people’s to carry on with their current is now over. cover of the English edition of Pope Francis’ encyclical an immense pile of filth,” the pope jobs. lifestyles and habits; their attitude — page 6 on the environment, Laudato Si’ , on Care for Our writes in the document. Common Home.” The long-anticipated encyclical was Quoting is “self-destructive,” he says. Spanish parish While acknowledging science released at the Vatican June 18. St. John In large sections of the encycli - is not the Catholic Church’s area Paul II and cal, Pope Francis’ language is of expertise, Pope Francis says “a cates “human activity” has seri - a constant theme of the church’s poetic, echoing the tone of St. The only Spanish-speaking very solid scientific consensus” ously contributed to it, threatening social doctrine, Pope Francis says parish in Manitoba, Nuestra points to global warming and indi - the planet and all life on it. the church recognizes the “legiti - — HYmN , page 19 Senora de la Asunción , offers numerous opportunities for the faithful of all ages. Laudato Si’ : reaction from Saskatoon bishop — page 7 By Kiply Lukan Yaworski emphasizes the profound and mov - scientists, philosophers, theolo - Christian-Jewish ing reality that earth is “our com - gians and civic groups that has dialogue SASKATOON — Pope Francis’ mon home,” the bishop added. taken place on these issues, and encyclical on the environment, Bolen expressed his delight in calls for a “conversation which Laudato Si’ , is a beautifully written the sense of wonder and awe includes everyone, since the envi - The third instalment of the and accessible document for the which characterizes this docu - ronmental challenge we are What Dialogue Looks Like whole world, says Bishop Donald ment, so grounded in a healthy undergoing, and its human roots, series focuses on Bolen of the Roman Cath olic relationship with God and with concern and affect us all.” Dr. Edward Kessler and Diocese of Saskatoon. God’s creation. Pope Francis identifies that the Sister Rose Thering, OP. “It speaks a word that the He observed that the docu - same spiritual crisis is harming — page 14 world needs to hear at this ment’s title — Laudato Si’ , or both the environment and human moment in time,” said Bolen after Praised Be — is appropriately beings, said Bolen. Engaging with the pontiff released the encyclical taken from Saint Francis of “Pope Francis makes an appeal problems June 18 as part of the church’s Assisi’s glorious hymn to creation: on both fronts. The earth is suffer - social teaching. “Praised be to you, my Lord, ing . and the greatest impact of “It is a word that many in our through brother sun, who gives us climate change falls on the poor - “By merely asserting exist - society, including our scientific light. For sister moon and the est,” Bolen said. “We are faced ing doctrines, by clamping community, are longing to hear, stars; praised be to you, my Lord, not with one but two separate PM File down on those who ask dif - have been waiting to hear. It is an through brother wind, sister water, crises, one environmental and the Bishop Donald Bolen ficult questions and exclud - invitation to come to our senses through all the creatures.” other social, but rather with one ing them from the conversa - and start to cultivate the larger “The encyclical calls into ques - complex crisis which is both nology must be accompanied by a tion, by indulging in group - vision needed if we are to live tion how we are to live on this social and environmental (139),” moral sense to protect both the think or simply avoiding the meaningfully as a human race on planet, how we are to live in rela - states the document. earth and human beings, stresses issue, we (the church) shut this earth which God has given tion to the earth, how we are to Environmental devastation and Pope Francis: “Never has humani - ourselves off from the many us.” deal with the suffering of others, the human scourges of poverty, ty had such power over itself, yet He noted that Pope Francis’ how we are to form societies, cul - inequality, injustice, wars, abor - nothing ensures that it will be used important challenges of the broad intention resonates in the tures,” said Bolen, noting it is a tion, and human trafficking are all wisely,” he writes in Laudato Si’ . world we are supposed to opening lines of the encyclical: call to conversion and change for connected to our “throwaway cul - “Our immense technological de - engage with,” writes “Now, faced as we are with global each one of us in how we live and ture,” that treats other human velopment has not been accompa - Anthony Egan, SJ. environmental deterioration, I wish in the decisions we make. beings and nature as objects for nied by a development in human — page 15 to address every person living on He noted that Laudato Si’ iden - exploitation and domination. this planet (3).” The Holy Father tifies the ongoing dialogue with The market economy and tech - — CONCERN , page 9 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS June 24, 2015 Our loved ones do not ‘disappear into nothingness’ By Carol Glatz It is “heart-rending” when a particularly distressing — “like a “absurd normality.” The Lord will reunite every - mother and father lose a child: black hole that opens in the life of a “May the Lord free us from one once again, and it is this VATICAN CITY (CNS) — “It’s as if time has stopped. An family and for which we don’t getting used to this” kind of loss Christian hope and faith that will Christian hope and faith in the abyss opens that swallows up the know how to give any explanation.” of life, he said. “protect us from a nihilistic view afterlife mean the sting of losing a past and the future,” he said. Sometimes family members For the people of God, death of death as well as false worldly loved one does not have to leave Losing a child seems to go will blame God.

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