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Our Common Pope, Lutherans begin Home

A collective statement about Reformation celebra tion water and treaty rights — in the context of Laudato Si’s By Cindy Wooden ing on concrete ways to express call to care for our common and strengthen the doctrinal home and for each other — LUND, Sweden (CNS) — agreements reached by Catholic was crafted Oct. 22 during a Urging Catholics and Lutherans and Lutheran theologians over the daylong symposium at the to take decisive steps toward past 50 years. The most appropri - Cathedral of the Holy unity, Pope Francis nevertheless ate way to mark the anniversary, Family in Saskatoon. offered no new openings to the they said, was with common — page 3 idea of sharing communion prayer and renewed commitments Christian study before full unity is achieved. to working together to help the “We Christians will be credible poor and promote justice. of Islam witnesses of mercy to the extent The Lutherans agree, but many that forgiveness, renewal and rec - also saw the joint commemora - A five-part series in the onciliation are daily experienced in tion as a moment to recognize Roman Catholic Diocese of our midst,” the pope said Oct. 31 that the joint agreements on Saskatoon is offering during an ecumenical prayer ser - issues of faith over the past 50 information and insights vice in the Lutherans’ Lund cathe - years mean it is appropriate now into the Islamic faith. dral, which was built as a Catholic to expand occasions when — page 7 cathedral in the 11th century. eucharistic sharing is possible. Key keeper With the prayer service, Pope The Catholic Church has CNS/Paul Haring Francis and leaders of the Luther- insisted that regular sharing of the POPE VISITS SWEDEN — Pope Francis and Rev. Martin Junge, gen - As chief key keeper at the an World Federation launched a eucharist will be possible only eral secretary of the Lutheran World Federation, attend an ecumenical Vatican year of activities to mark the 500th when divided Christians have prayer service at the Lutheran cathedral in Lund, Sweden, Oct. 31. Museums, anniversary in 2017 of Martin attained full unity. The prayer service, led by Pope Francis and leaders of the Lutheran Gianni Luther’s efforts to reform the In his homily at the Lund cathe - World Federation, launched a year of activities to mark the 500th anniversary in 2017 of Martin Luther’s efforts to reform the church. Crea has church (see related story, page 16) . dral, Rev. Martin Junge, general an end - For Pope Francis and the secretary of the Lutheran World lessly fascinating job. Vatican, Catholics are called to Federation, expressed his hope for While in the past Catholics stones to throw at each other, he — page 8 commemorate the event by focus - shared communion sooner. and Lutherans sometimes carried said, that is no longer possible “now that we know who we are Positive appeal for Oblates celebrate 200th anniversary in Christ.” The stones cannot be global citizenship used “to raise walls of separa - tion and exclusion” either, he Bill Graham’s “political By Kiply Lukan Yaworski “It is not the Oblate communi - Jesus asking his hometown to said. memoir” ty and the work we’ve done over The Call of SASKATOON — The 200th 200 years or even St. Eugene — OBLATES , page 6 — STONES , page 15 the World is anniversary of the Oblates of himself that we celebrate tonight not only Mary Immaculate was marked — it is the fidelity of God who Help for Yazidis must take Oct. 21 in Saskatoon with celebra - keeps his covenant, who contin - one of the tion of the eucharist and a recep - ues to love us,” said Thorson. best autobi - tion at St. Francis Xavier Parish. Beginning with a reflection on other refugees into account ographies Oblate priests, brothers and the Gospel from Luke 4 in which ever pro - associates gathered with col - Jesus unrolls the scroll in the syn - By Deborah Gyapong Commons unanimously supported duced by a Canadian politi - leagues and friends from across agogue and reads the words from a Conservative motion to recognize cian, it is a deeply informed the diocese for the celebration the prophet Isaiah — “the Spirit OTTAWA (CCN) — Refugee the ISIS genocide against Yazidis and insightful commentary marking the establishment of the of the Lord is upon me” — telling advocates welcome Canada’s and to provide asylum for Yazidi on Canada’s international missionary order in 1816 by St. his listeners that the Scripture is pledge to help Yazidis facing geno - women and girls within 120 days. relations, both in policy and Eugene de Mazenod. Archbishop being fulfilled in their presence. cide but express concerns the pro - Martin Mark, the director of practice, as well as a Donald Bolen presided at mass, “These are not words of predic - gram may overshadow needs of the Toronto archdiocese’s Office passionate positive appeal with Rev. Ken Thorson, OMI, tion, these are words of inaugura - refugees elsewhere in the world. for Refugees, said in an email he for active citizenship from giving the homily. tion,” said Thorson, describing On Oct. 25, the House of believes the government decision the local to the global, came as a result of lobbying and writes Gerald Schmitz. advocacy work that included his — page 9 office’s mission trip to Kurdistan Trinity as a few months ago. “So, I am happy that we are at divine dance this point, but of course things are not clear yet and I have serious A Franciscan priest and concerns if the preparations are founder of the Center for not adequate then this special pro - Action and Contempla tion gram can be very challenging,” he in Albuquerque, N.M., said. “If the government co-oper - Richard ates with the civic society — and Rohr, along - with the community — it can cre - side Mike ate a good example for overcom - Morrell, ing difficulties and helping those recently pub - most in need.” lished The “There is no other group in the Divine refugees’ world that would need Dance: The Trinity and Your more help than the Yazidis,” he Transformation in the hopes said. of inviting Christians Immigration Minister John to renew their lives McCallum has not yet revealed spe - by thinking “trinitarily.” Tim Yaworski cific numbers. “I think it is wonder - — page 11 OBLATE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATED — At a 200th anniversary celebration Oct. 21 in Saskatoon, Rev. ful as a Canadian that while we dif - Ken Thorson, OMI, shared the founding story of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, before inviting Oblate ferent parties have different views priests, brothers and associates to come forward to add their signatures to a copy of the document signed by founder St. Eugene de Mazenod and his six companions, requesting creation of the order in 1816 France. — YAZIDIS , page 5 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS November 2, 2016 Closing doors isn’t answer to people fleeing war: pope

By Carol Glatz So in addition to providing the centuries, even though there Looking up from his written he smelled, told the woman, ‘No, clothing to those in need, be on have been social tensions, too, the remarks, the pope told the more ma’am, I’m the one who must VATICAN CITY (CNS) — the lookout for and ready to help pope said. than 25,000 people gathered in pay because you made me hear a Closing doors to immigrants and victims of human trafficking and “Unfortunately, today’s con - the square about a “little story” story that changed my heart.’ ’’ refugees is not the answer — in those — including children — text of economic crisis prompts that happened a few days ago in Pope Francis said, “When we fact, it only helps encourage the whose bodies are being bought the emergence of an attitude of Rome. do something like this, at first we crime of human trafficking, Pope and sold like some kind of com - closure and not welcome. In some He said a woman had asked a refuse because it makes us feel a Francis said. modity, he said. parts of the world walls and barri - man who was barefoot and bit uncomfortable” or awkward, “The only way for resolution Not having a home, a job or ers are appearing,” he said. looked lost if he needed help, and but in the end, carrying out an act is through solidarity,” where fair wages and being discriminat - “Sometimes it seems that the the man said he wanted to go to of mercy or assistance makes the everyone pitches in because “all ed against because of race or faith silent work of many men and St. Peter’s Basilica and walk soul smell sweet and “makes us together we are a powerful force are all forms of nakedness that women who, in different ways, through the Holy Door. The change. Think about this story of support for those who have lost “as Christians, we are called to be strive to help and assist refugees woman wondered how the man and let us think about what we their homeland, family, work and on the alert (for), vigilant and and migrants is overshadowed by would ever get there without can do for refugees.” dignity,” he said Oct. 26 at his ready to act.” the noise of others who give shoes, so she hailed a taxi, the The pope also recalled the weekly general audience. While voluntary or forced voice to an instinctive selfish - pope said. “stupendous figure” of St. In his talk, the pope continued migration has been part of human ness,” he said. At first the cab driver did not Frances Xavier Cabrini, who his series of reflections on the history, the call to welcome the “Closure is not a solution, want to let the man inside founded the Missionary Sisters works of mercy, focusing on wel - stranger is even more necessary rather it ends up encouraging because “he smelled,” but he of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and coming the stranger and clothing than ever given that so many peo - criminal trafficking,” he said. eventually gave in. During the who emigrated to New York the naked. ple today are on the move be - The pope asked that people 10-minute ride, the woman asked from Italy in 1889 to minister to He said clothing the naked is cause of economic crises, armed never be tempted by the “trap” of the man about his life, and he fellow immigrants, opening about caring for those whose dig - conflict and climate change, he closing in on oneself, never talked about his trials of being a schools, orphanages and hospi - nity has been stripped from them said. become indifferent to people’s refugee escaping war and hunger. tals for the poor. She became the and helping restore and protect There have been many “great needs and never become focused The pope said the women knew first U.S. citizen to be declared a that dignity. expressions of solidarity” over only on one’s own personal inter - “the pain of a migrant” because saint. ests. of her Armenian roots. “It is urgent today as is in the Oscar-winning composer to The more a person opens up to When they arrived at their des - past” for all Christians to be others, he said, the more one’s tination, “the woman opened her assisting immigrants and refu - life is enriched, the more society bag to pay the cab driver, but the gees, he said. “It is a task that perform at Vatican concert opens itself up to peace and peo - driver, who at first didn’t want involves everyone, without ex - ple recover their full dignity. this immigrant to get in because ception.” By Junno Arocho Esteves ture several orchestral pieces com - posed by Msgr. Marco Frisina, VATICAN CITY (CNS) — director of the choir of the Diocese The poor and the marginalized of Rome and a well-known com - will get front-row seats at a con - poser of religious music. cert sponsored by the Vatican and Several charitable associations, performed by Oscar-winning including the Knights of Malta and composer Ennio Morricone. the Community of Sant’Egidio, The second annual “Concert will also be on hand to organize for the poor and with the poor,” to the annual event for the poor. be held in the Vatican’s Paul VI The charitable organizations, the hall Nov. 12, will benefit several Vatican said, are united “in bringing papal charities, including the con - forth through music a ‘seed’ of joy struction costs of a cathedral in and hope for our needy brothers Moroto, Uganda, and an agricul - and sisters, who will occupy a place tural school in Burkina Faso. of honour in the hall.” Morricone, who recently won While tickets are free for the an Academy Award for Best general public, concertgoers will Original Score for Quentin have the opportunity to donate to Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, the papal charities at the end of will “perform several pieces from the concert. his most famous works and As an added gesture of “con - sound tracks composed during his crete solidarity,” the Vatican said, 60-year career,” a Vatican press youth from the choir of the Dio - statement said Oct. 24. cese of Rome and Jubilee volun - Sponsored by the Pontifical teers will also distribute food and Council for Promoting New Evan - a souvenir to the poor attending gelization, the concert will also fea - the concert. CNS/Irish Naval Service via EPA MIGRANTS RESCUED IN MEDITERRANEAN — Crew members of the Irish Naval Service approach a boat filled with migrants Oct. 21 in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Tripoli, Libya. The number of migrants and refugees who have died while making the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean is expected to reach an all-time high in 2016, according to the UN Refugee Agency. Refugee deaths at sea reach all-time high

By Junno Arocho Esteves tral Mediterranean route between work of rescuers harder,” he said. Libya and Italy, the likelihood of Acknowledging those providing ROME (CNS) — The number dying is even higher, at one death asylum and assistance for count - of migrants and refugees who for every 47 arrivals,” Spindler less refugees who have successful - have died while making the said. ly entered Europe, Spindler praised treacherous journey across the Among the reasons for the governments and private entities Mediterranean is expected to increased death rate, he said, is for their contribution “to the reach an all-time high in 2016, increased use of the more danger - important work of saving lives.” according to the UN Refugee ous route from North Africa to However, he also urged coun - Agency. Italy; about half of those who per - tries to “do more in this regard,” The 3,740 lives lost so far in ished at sea were travelling that including the expansion of safe 2016 “is the worst we have seen,” route. and legal pathways for refugees, William Spindler, agency spokes - While many boats have cap - enhanced resettlement, family person, said Oct. 25 at a press sized due to bad weather, Spindler reunification, as well as the provi - briefing in Geneva. For all of said human traffickers also have sion of humanitarian, student and 2015, the agency said, 3,771 smuggled thousands of people at a work visas for refugees. refugees lost their lives on the time using “lower-quality vessels The high rate of deaths at sea, sea. — flimsy inflatable rafts that do Spindler said, is “a reminder of “This year so far, crossings not last the journey.” the importance of continuing and CNS/Amel Pain, EPA stand at 327,800. From one death “This may be to do with the robust search and rescue capaci - IRAQ TOWN LIBERATED — A beheaded statue is seen Oct. 23 in for every 269 arrivals last year, in shifting smuggler business model ties — without which the fatality the courtyard of a damaged Assyrian church in the town of Bartella, 2016 the likelihood of dying has or geared toward lowering detec - rates would almost certainly be Iraq, two days after its liberation from Islamic State militants. spiralled to one in 88. On the cen - tion risks, but it also makes the higher.” November 2, 2016 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 3 Collective statement on water and treaty rights crafted

By Kiply Lukan Yaworski the gathering with concrete, person - al pledges for action. SASKATOON — A collective Symposium speakers — Bert statement about water and treaty Pitzel, co-ordinator of justice and rights — in the context of Laudato peace in the Archdiocese of Si’s call to care for our common Regina; Trevor Herriott, author, home and for each other — was naturalist and activist; Regina crafted Oct. 22 during a daylong Archbishop Donald Bolen, who symposium at the Cathedral of the serves as chair of the CCCB’s Holy Family in Saskatoon. justice and peace commission; Entitled “Our Common Home: and Lyndon Linklater of the as long as the rivers flow,” the Office of the Treaty Commis - symposium was presented by OMI sioner — provided a framework Lacombe Canada’s Office of for the small and large group dis - Justice, Peace and the Integrity of cussions during the day. Creation (JPIC) at St. Paul’s The various presentations University in Ottawa, working in explored Laudato Si’ (Pope collaboration with the Roman Francis’ apostolic exhortation on Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon, the caring for our common home), Archdiocese of Regina, the Office reflected on our relationship with of the Treaty Commissioner, St. water and rivers, emphasized the Thomas More College, Greater impact and importance of treaties Saskatoon Catholic Schools, and to all Canadians, and acknowl - Queen’s House of Retreat and edged the Calls to Action by the Renewal. Kiply Yaworski national Truth and Reconciliation The collective statement was SPEAKERS AT SYMPOSIUM — Speakers at a recent symposium in Saskatoon about the environment, Commission (TRC). crafted as a reference point and a water and treaty rights included (from left) Regina Archbishop Donald Bolen, author Trevor Herriott, and These themes also resonated model for engagement, dialogue Bert Pitzel, co-ordinator of justice and peace for the Archdiocese of Regina. Missing from the photo is throughout the final collective and awareness that could be shared Lyndon Linklater of the Office of the Treaty Commissioner, who also spoke at the gathering “Our Common statement, which includes a list of and promoted in various ways, said Home: as long as the rivers flow.” 17 commitments to “individual organizers. “The benefit is that we and collective action.” have diverse partners sharing a nator of the Office of Justice and Col lege facilitated the small group was envisioned as “a place where Acknowledging that the gath - public statement in solidarity — Peace in the Diocese of Saskatoon. process that happened throughout we col lectively have a voice and ering was being held on Treaty and one that grew from the bottom Gertrude Rompré and Chris the day, culminating in the collec - we can share and listen and come Six territory and the traditional up,” noted Myron Rogal, co-ordi - Hrynkow of St. Thomas More tive statement. The symposium to ac tion together,” described homeland of the Métis, sympo - Rompré. sium participants opened their “Water is a path of dialogue and collective statement by expressing Catholic health association loses grant action,” added Hrynkow, describing a “duty to care for our common how water was chosen as a nexus or home as long as the rivers flow.” By Frank Flegel both,” said Kary. Martin is a Saskatoon RN and a junction point to bring people The statement asserts: “We rec - She noted the conference member of the Canadian Asso cia- together to address reconciliation ognize treaties as a covenant to MOOSE JAW — The Catholic theme is “Hope Floats”, “so tion for Parish Nursing Ministry; with indigenous peoples. “Water is share and care for our common Health Association of Saskatche- we’re quite hopeful that we’re Terrie Michaud is an RN and cur - something we need — it is part of home. As Treaty peoples we are wan (CHAS) is another casualty going to find a way forward.” rently an administrator at North us.” He stressed that the symposium all bound together with each other, of the provincial government’s The newly acclaimed board Battleford’s long-term care facility statement comes out of this particu - the land, and water. Yet, this revenue problems. The $85,000 met later in the afternoon and Villa Pascal. Past president lar time and place, and he chal - covenant has been damaged by grant it usually receives will not immediately began to address how Therese Jelinski will also serve on lenged participants to “incarnate” be paid this year. to handle the shortfall. “We’re the board. the experience by going forth from — STATEMENT , page 7 looking to asking Catho lics to help us find a way,” said Donald. Funding is just one of the chal - Reformation commemoration planned lenges CHAS will be dealing with this year. There’s also the assisted By Deborah Gyapong comes from an international joint tion and why we need to com - suicide legislation and the continu - document published in 2013 by memorate its 500th anniversary.” ing issue of abortion. OTTAWA (CCN) — Catholics the Vatican’s Pontifical Council “The second session is an his - “There’s going to be pressure need not be concerned about for Promoting Christian Unity torical sketch of the Reformation on Catholic institutions to be plans to commemorate the 500th and the Lutheran World itself, to gain appreciation for the required to perform physician- anni versary of the Reformation, Federation, the archbishop said. actual historical facts,” he said. assisted suicide; there’s going to says Archbishop Richard Gagnon “That document is an explo - The third session examines the be increased pressure on doctors of Winnipeg. ration of the whole Reformation doctrinal issues that came into to perform it even though it’s Commemoration is not cele - question,” he said. “It is a way to play such as justification by faith; against their conscience and bration, he said. “The commemo - look at the events of the Reforma - the eucharist and an understand - CHAS has been a voice with ration notion is a deliberate tion through the eyes of the ing of the nature of the church. respect to those issues and we choice of words.” Lutherans and Catholics together.” The fourth session is on the need to continue to be that voice.” Gagnon has been part of a “You are exploring the Luther - relations between Catholics and Donald believes Emmanuel working group formed by the an point of view and the Catholic Lutherans in the years from the Care, which, through the bishops Canadian Conference of Catholic point of view together,” he said. Reformation leading up to the Frank Flegel of Saskatchewan owns Saskatch- Bishops (CCCB) and the Evan - “And you are noting and recog - Second Vatican Council, Gagnon Chris Donald ewan Catholic Health facilities, gelical Lutheran Church of Canada nizing the faults committed by said. The last session examines will not permit physician assisted overseeing the production of a both sides on this issue.” the years after the council and “That’s about a third of bud - suicide in its institutions but he joint study guide entitled “Together The document is a “re-look at looks ahead to the future. get,” said outgoing president believes a Catholic solution will be in Christ — Lutherans and history, at the person of Martin Dioceses will be organizing Therese Jelinski as she addressed found. “I think there are people of Catholics Commemorating the Luther and the Catholic leaders of sessions based on the study the CHAS Oct. 20 annual meet - goodwill out there who understand Reformation.” It will be released in the time,” he said. “When you guides using both Lutheran and ing held here. our position and we can work January 2017. consider the Reformation from Catholic facilities, he said. The The group received the news together to find a way around it.” The five-part guide is meant to this point of view, it can hardly be sessions have “a prayer compo - Oct. 3, three months after the The conference also heard from help Catholic and Lutheran par- called a celebration, but you can nent as well.” beginning of its new fiscal year. three keynote speakers and one ishes discuss the historical and commemorate the event that did Gagnon said the working group “We will have to be creative to billed as an inspirational speaker theological dimensions of the happen.” had a good ecumenical spirit and replace that funding,” said incom - (see related story, page 6). Reformation, as well as the ecu - From these perspectives, you provided a respectful environment. ing president Chris Donald in an Donald, a Saskatoon lawyer, menical advances of the past 50 “can look at it to see some posi - “For each member, it’s been a interview with the PM. was acclaimed as the 2016/17 years, according to a CCCB news tive things that happened,” he moment of education, of learning, CHAS executive director president of CHAS. All board release. said. “There’s nothing to cele - and appreciation for the gift of Sandra Kary said the organization members were acclaimed: Mary The CCCB announced the pub - brate but God brings good from unity that Christ prayed for.” will approach the government and Deutscher, PhD, is a clinical ethics lication of the study guide Oct. 19, difficult situations. That is how it “I haven’t studied the Reforma - request at least the first quarter fellow, Centre for Clinical Ethics, prior to Pope Francis’ Oct. 31 trip is looked at.” tion since my seminary days,” said payment be restored. Toronto, and also serves on several to Sweden to mark the Reformat - The Canadian joint study the archbishop. “I think most “We feel that money is still Saskatoon diocese committees; ion’s 500th anniversary in a joint workshops focus on five different Catholics, most Christians proba - owed to us in all fairness,” said Lesley Larrea is president of the commemoration by the Catholic themes that can stand alone or be bly, don’t think about the Refor - Kary. She said the options are to Prince Albert Kiwanis Musical Church and the Lutheran World done as a series, the archbishop mation that much. That’s why increase revenue or cut costs. Festival Association, an RN and a Federation (see story, page 1). said. “The themes deal with re - these study guides are also educa - “We may have to do a bit of certified health executive; Ethna The word “commemoration” membering together the Reforma - tional.” 4 Prairie Messenger CANADIAN NEWS November 2, 2016 Private bill Cassie and Molly’s Law defeated

By Deborah Gyapong member’s business in the House Matters.org campaign for justice. lence creates a “massive indignity Oct. 17. “Because this bill after the next election. “The whole point for us was to the victims.” would only affect existing OTTAWA (CCN) — Jeff “They shut it right out of protecting a woman’s choice. Her “For us, it feels like we’re crimes, and abortion is not crim - Durham says he feels betrayed by committee, which was just choice to have an abortion is being re-victimized,” he said. inal, Cassie and Molly’s law the defeat of Cassie and Molly’s wrong,” said Wagantall in an already protected. Nobody wants Wagantall said she will contin - would have no impact on abor - law Oct. 19, a bill named after his interview. If the Liberals and the to protect her choice when she ue to present petitions in the tion services,” she stressed. murdered unborn daughter and NDP had “issues as they claim, chooses to take her child to House of Commons aimed at pro - “This vote tells us that our her mother, Cassie Kaake. they could have raised them term.” tecting pregnant women and their members of Parliament are there.” Meanwhile, Durham and all unborn children from violence. unwilling to take a small step “They did not have a challenge the people who loved Cassie and She will help with “anything Jeff in increasing consequences for to our legal opinion,” that the bill eagerly awaited Molly’s birth, and Nancy need,” she said. “I violence against women in would have no impact on legal continue to await the outcome of value them very highly and I will Canada,” said WeNeedaLaw.ca abortion, she said. the murder case, which has yet to continue to do what I can person - director Mike Schouten. “They Despite tens of thousands of reach a conclusion. “It’s all been ally as well.” continue to ignore cries for signatures and a poll showing difficult,” he said. “The fact is, Wagantall had argued in the justice and instead allow fear nearly 70 per cent of Canadians whatever the possible outcomes, House the Criminal Code has of the abortion discussion to would support such a bill, the with what is in place now, he will “no component” to “protect colour their decisions regard - vast majority of elected represen - not be held accountable for the pregnant women from violence. ing women’s health and safe - tatives chose to vote “against any reality of the crime.” This gap is leaving women vul - ty.” conversation,” Durham said. He “Two lives ended,” he said. nerable.” “Medical teams will fight to pointed out the vote was not on a “Two of our family members Native Women’s Association save premature babies, yet our final bill, but on whether it would were brutally slain.” of Canada and the Canadian criminal justice system will not go to committee for further study. Though Durham is not sure Resource Centre for Victims of take a stand against violence “It was voting on discussing the what he will do next, he said his Crime endorsed her bill. targeting pregnant women, he situation.” campaign for justice will contin - Opponents objected to her said. “This devalues the choice “They voted that this wasn’t a ue. He expressed gratitude for the bill on grounds it could provide of the hundreds of thousands of problem for them. They voted it level of support MollyMatters.org a “back door to abortion,” she women each year who desire to shouldn’t be a woman’s choice, has received across Canada. told the House during the bill’s carry their child safely to but it should be anybody’s choice “We will keep on going even if second and final hour of debate term.” to terminate a woman’s pregnan - nobody supported us,” he said. It cy.” is a matter of justice, because the CCN/D. Gyapong Cassie or Cassandra Kaake way the criminal justice presently Cathay Wagantall was seven months pregnant with treats families like his and the NOW AVAILABLE Molly when they were murdered many others who lose mothers e-Edition subscriptions Conservative MP Cathay in Windsor, Ont., in December and unborn children through vio - visit: www.pmonline.ca for more information Wagantall’s private member’s 2014. 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By Michael Swan deep nuance. So “I can’t recall an occasion year before it issued its final report. The Catholic Register when our statements where the CCCB has specifically “KAIROS didn’t allow for the go forward they have alerted me that they have a prob - kind of consultation or comfort TORONTO (CCN) — A the full backing of the lem with a statement that I’ve zone that we might have wanted as recent decision to withdraw from denominations that approved in my two-and-a-half bishops on a number of different KAIROS doesn’t in any way represent more than years,” Jagger-Parsons told The projects that KAIROS was in - diminish the commitment of 85 per cent of Catholic Register. volved in,” said Mancini. “Some - Canada’s bishops to ecumenism Christians in the When Hamilton sent a letter to times the points that are being or social justice action, according country.” Global Affairs Minister Stephane made might be very interesting, or to the bishops. KAIROS steering Dion concerning Canada’s partici - might be of value. But on a number “We are committed in a number committee chair Rev. pation in nuclear disarmament of instances that I’m aware of, we of different ways. One of the pri - Desmond Jagger- talks on Aug. 10, there wasn’t time as bishops did not have a position mary ways is as a member of the Parsons does send let - to secure CCC member signatures. on the subject that they were Canadian Council of Churches,” ters and make state - Acting on her own, all Hamilton protesting or commenting on.” said Halifax-Yarmouth Archbishop ments based on poli - could do was remind Dion of pre - KAIROS was formed out of 12 Anthony Mancini. cies that have already vious CCC statements and empha - inter-church committees that had Mancini is a member of the Art Babych been discussed at the size how important nuclear disar - begun work in the 1970s with Canadian Conference of Catholic Archbishop Anthony Mancini steering committee mament is to most Canadian financial support and involvement Bishops permanent council, level. The CCCB is churches. Even that statement only by Catholic bishops, religious which advised that the CCCB broad policies set by its member represented on the steering commit - reached Dion after the UN nuclear orders and Catholic institutions. leave KAIROS at the bishops’ churches, the Canadian Council tee by the staffer re sponsible for talks had already been convened in The United Church became September plenary meeting. The of Churches never makes a state - ecumenical and interfaith relations, February and May and were then KAIROS’ overseeing body so it decision was made due to a com - ment on behalf of a member Kyle Ferguson. Though a specific meeting one final time in August. could issue charitable tax receipts bination of ideological differ - church without first consulting issue, event or initiative may not The CCC did contribute a state - and so that its lobbying and polit - ences and changes to the legal directly and specifically with have been discussed, Jagger- ment of all its churches to the ical activity would not run afoul structure of KAIROS. church leadership. No statement Parsons will proceed if the protest, Truth and Reconciliation Com- of tax laws that limit charities to The CCCB was among the goes out without all the signatory letter or statement is in line with a mission in 2014, six years after the only 10 per cent of budget alloca - founding members of KAIROS in churches being individually con - general policy. TRC was commissioned, but a tions for political activity. 2001. It is an ecumenical social sulted. Every church has the justice co-operative supported by option of not signing. 11 different church bodies but “Yes it is effective and yes it is Yazidis lack worldwide support network legally operated as an arm of the efficient,” said Canadian Council United Church of Canada. of Churches executive director Continued from page 1 human rights issues,” said Janet their support, he said. The CCCB now sponsors and Rev. Dr. Karen Hamilton. “De- Dench, executive director of the “Many have told us they will participates in eight ecumenical pending on how one chooses to on many things, we share the view Canadian Council for Refugees, never go back to Mosul or the dialogues with Christian churches define the term.” that it is right to welcome the vul - in an interview from Montreal. Nineveh Plain no matter what hap - and four interfaith dialogues. For the most inclusive church nerable people to our country,” he But Dench expressed concern pens,” he said. “They have only “As for being committed to council in the world, the process told journalists after the vote. He about the “politicization” of deter - two options: to stay in Kurdistan justice issues, well the Canadian of consulting all 25 member was joined by Conservative MP mining which refugees and people or to leave Iraq altogether.” Council of Churches has a com - denominations can take some Michelle Rempel, who spearhead - get settled in Canada. If every time “In that sense, those minorities mission for justice and peace and time. Quick response on the ed the motion, and Yazidi human gross human rights abuses create a in Iraq should be given a choice,” we are part of that,” Mancini said. issues of the day sometimes suf - rights activist and former ISIS cap - demand for government to resettle he said. “If one of those choices Where KAIROS lobbied the fers, Hamilton conceded. tive Nadia Murad. people within a few months, the is to come to Canada, they should government, organized protests “Every voice gets heard and “Over the last year, Yazidi government is going to have to be able to have that choice. They and petitions and issued letters to every concern expressed,” she said. women have been abandoned in redirect resources to handle it, she are victims of war.” government ministers based on “There’s an airing of concerns and captivity with ISIS and there’s said. Meanwhile, many African Like Dench, however, Hétu said many that need to be saved right refugees face processing times of the Canadian government cannot now,” said Rempel. “So as we over 70 months. show compassion “at the expense move forward, my hope is that the “These are just extraordinarily of other groups from other regions government will act, will set specif - long processing times,” she said. that have been waiting a long time ic targets and quotas for the amount With extra effort to bring in to come to Canada and live in dire of Yazidis which come to Canada, Yazidi refugees, “does that mean situations, like Eritrean refugees in will seek international consensus to people in Africa waiting for five Ethiopia, and in Sudan,” who are Retreats & Workshops establish safe zones to keep perse - years already are going to have to “totally forgotten by the interna - Holy Scripture, Holy Lives: Bible Study for Busy People cuted minorities such as the Yazidis wait an extra few months because tional community.” Gisele Bauche. Come for one, some or all sessions. Nov. 8, 15, 22 & 29, safe in Iraq and will establish spe - Yazidis are being bumped to the Earlier in October, the presi - 10 a.m. - 12 noon, repeated from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Cost: $15/session. cial programs to assist Yazidi front of the queue?” Dench asked. dent of the Canadian Conference Sacred Scriptures of God’s People — women and survivors of genocide Carl Hétu, national director of of Catholic Bishops, Bishop Pastor Vern Ratzlaff when they come to Canada.” CNEWA (Catholic Near East Douglas Crosby of Hamilton, Sunday afternoons from 2 - 3:30 p.m., Nov. 6, 13, 20 & 27 “Today was a very important Welfare Association), said the wrote the immigration minister Cost: $10 / session. day for me as a victim of ISIS,” government decision is a good about concerns those in the Spiritual Emergencies — Dr. Nancy Reeves Murad said through an inter - one, but more needs to be done. refugee sponsorship community Saturday, Nov. 19, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. preter. As she saw parliamentari - “Many organizations and have about how long it is taking $40 per session (includes lunch) ans standing to vote, she said, “I churches believe that Christians, for many groups to receive their An Introduction to the Enneagram felt at that moment ISIS was los - Yazidis and other minorities refugee family. Groups leased Sarah Donnelly and Sr. Marie Gorsalitz, OSU. ing something in that very critical should be recognized as refugees properties, expecting the refugees Saturday, Nov. 26, 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Cost: $55 (includes lunch) moment. . . . Because ISIS never and the fact the Canadian govern - to arrive within a couple of A Gospel Series: John — Gisele Bauche thought their slaves will one day ment is recognizing this is, I think, months, and many are still wait - Saturday, Dec. 3, 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Cost: $40 (includes lunch) come out and will be speaking a good thing,” he said. “But if you ing, and spending scarce Spirituality & Psychology in Sexuality & Intimacy against them.” recognize the Yazidis you have to resources on rent, he said. Dr. Bill Nelson. Saturday, Dec. 10, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Last July the House of Com - recognize the other minorities like “The bishops are right to ask $40 per session (includes lunch) mons Citizenship and Immi gra - the Christians as well.” the government to be more sys - tion Committee held hearings on His organization and the Cath - tematic and balanced in their Ongoing Events at Queen’s House vulnerable populations such as olic Church in Canada have high - approach,” Hétu said. Centering Prayer: Monday evenings 7 p.m. Yazidis, those fleeing North lighted concerns about Christians, Meanwhile, a coalition of Holy Eucharist: Wednesday afternoons. (Call to confirm time — all are welcome!) Korea, and others. Mark appeared Yazidis and other religious minori - forces is trying to retake Mosul Journey with Scripture: Fr. Paul Fachet. $25 w/lunch. First Wednesday, Oct. 5. before the committee to make a ties who were displaced inside Iraq from ISIS, and Hétu fears the bat - Taizé Prayer for Christian Unity: Second Tuesday of the month, 8 p.m. Sept. 13. plea for the Yazidis as the most when ISIS invaded Mosul and the tle — if it lasts a few more months Day Away: Gisele Bauche. Second Wed. of the month. Cost: $25 w/lunch. Sept. 14. vulnerable group who, unlike per - Nineveh Plain in 2014. — could create another 1.2 million 24-Hour Eucharistic Adoration: Fourth Monday of the month, 12 p.m. -Tuesday, 12 p.m. secuted Christians, lack a world - “These people have been liv - misplaced persons, mainly Sunnis. Personal Day(s) of Private Prayer: Book anytime. wide network to support them. 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By Frank Flegel would not have known the love of talked relationships with patients challenging: Bolen family and friends and not have and staff. “The way we talk to MOOSE JAW — Mark Pickup known my five grandchildren.” people can cause more pain than was diagnosed with Multiple It was “through the divine love illness.” He called it Iatrogenic By Frank Flegel pounds in the knapsack walking 20 Sclerosis (MS) in 1982 and for of Jesus Christ” that he turned suffering and it is caused by the - 25 kilometres a day with no days three decades, he told delegates at around his attitude. “Human ful - action or inaction of the physician REGINA — It took about a for a break, or very few.” the annual Catholic Health filment is not achieved by killing toward the patient. year of preparation for Archbishop It carried rain gear, a change of Association of Saskatchewan or suicide.” Archbishop Emeritus of Kee - Donald Bolen to prepare for his clothes, water, snacks and a com - (CHAS), he grieved his situation Physician-assisted suicide, he wa tin-Le Pas, Sylvain Lavoie, 875-kilometre 39-day trek of the puter. He was between postings within a river of grief. Pickup was said, is abandonment not dignity gave a reflection on hope. “Hope Camino de Santiago Compostela from Saskatoon to Regina and had one of three keynote speakers and it’s a euphemism for murder. Floats” was the theme of this pilgrimage route. It started about a to work three to four hours a day to with a fourth billed as an inspira - Pickup said he severed the past year’s conference. “Hope is based year ago with a visit to a physio - keep up with what was happening tional speaker. by taking a saw and cutting his on God’s promise and the resur - therapist to get his bad knees into at home. They walked an average Pickup was visibly angry at beloved guitar in half, accepting rection,” said Lavoie. He advised shape, said the archbishop in an of five to seven hours a day begin - what he called “the odious and he would never play it again. “My delegates to live with increased interview with the PM. ning before daybreak when it was morally corrupt” Supreme Court life has quality. It is to love and be hope and share hope with others. hot and reached their desti - decision on physician-assisted loved.” He went on, “Jesus Christ Phil Callaway is a comedian nation around noon or early suicide. At times, he spoke with a can make sense of our anguish if who had delegates laughing in his afternoon. strong voice and the enthusiasm we let him in our life.” hour-long presentation. He talked The trip was in two of a televangelist as he described He ended with what he called about his experience in caring for stages; in the first 250 - 300 his journey to where he is now seven spiritual blessings he has family members interspersed with kilometres, they looked for content and has “discovered pur - found in his suffering: Christ suf - his brand of humour emphasizing accommodations, usually a pose and meaning in my life fered; humility and pride are shat - God’s gift of laughter. bed and breakfast type but through Christ.” He uses a power tered; trust is learned; patiently Regina Archbishop Donald accommodations had been cart to get around and additional - persevere; suffering teaches faith; Bolen celebrated the closing arranged for the remainder ly has lost some dexterity in his it arouses courage; and gives an mass. He noted in his homily that of the trip when his sister right hand. eternal perspective. “Use the river “Catholic health institutions are Judy and her husband joined He described, graphically, the of grief for good, for the common called to carry forth Christ’s heal - them. progress of his MS and the loss of good today and tomorrow.” ing ministry in the midst of very As with most people, he certain abilities and functions. At Dr. David Kuhl, founder of the trying times, but to do so trusting said, the first couple of one time, he said, he even consid - palliative care program at St. that God’s grace is greater than weeks on the Camino had ered suicide. “Had I taken it, I Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, any of the problems we face.” some real rough mo ments. There were at least three occasions when they arrived Oblates deeply blessed by associates at their day’s destination Frank Flegel that he told his group he had to take the next day off. Continued from page 1 later leave the order, Thorson and it needs to be said in a par - Archbishop Donald Bolen talks about the preparations he undertook before he “But you take the evening noted. ticular way, reconciliation with walked the Camino this past summer. off, you have a good rest recognize the burning bush that “But God would use that frag - indigenous people. Too often in and the next morning every sits before them. “He is asking ile, impermanent little community our quest to bring the gospel, He wrote an almost poetic time I thought ‘OK I’ll give it a try’ them to see that God keeps in southern France in 1816 as a what indigenous peoples held description of his travels along the and that’s what we did and eventu - God’s promise. He is asking foundation for a great work, and most dear — language, spiritual - route in the Prairie Messenger’s ally of course you get really them to see that the Spirit of the he has been doing so ever since, ity, myth, ritual, the practices of Oct. 5 special edition but it didn’t strong.” Lord is right here, right now, using fragile, impermanent, sinful raising the young and their rela - include a description of what it There is a bigger challenge after among them.” people.” tionship to the earth itself — in takes to prepare for such a jour - you return from such a wonderful Thorson noted that this was a Today there are some 4,000 short, their culture, was all too ney. experience, said Bolen. “You get special Scripture passage for St. men serving as Oblates of Mary often belittled and disregarded, He began walking when his back and you return to a busy life Eugene de Mazenod, often refer - Immaculate in some 70 countries, and most horrible of all was the knees were strong enough. “When and it’s how do you keep any of enced, with the conviction born including France, Canada, Sri physical and sexual abuse of the weather turned nice in the that up and so already in the last of his own experience of God’s Lanka, South Africa, Senegal, children. We Oblates played too spring, I started walking and then I three weeks I’ve lost most of what mercy. Philippines, Peru, Australia and significant a role in all of this, got the knapsack out, started I’d gained in terms of condition - In a famous sermon in 1813 de China, as well as “from Battleford too often. And today we seek putting five pounds in the knap - ing.” He doesn’t follow a condi - Mazenod said to the poorest of to Beauval . . . from Macklin to not to move on and forget, but to sack then 10 pounds in the knap - tioning regime but he does have an the poor gathered for early morn - Fox Valley, from Regina to Saska - walk with, to listen and to sack and eventually before leaving exercise bike and a treadmill that ing mass: “Come now and learn toon,” listed Thorson. learn.” for the Camino I was walking with he hasn’t yet set them up in his what you are in the eyes of faith, “And in recent decades the In looking back, aware of both 15 pounds in the knapsack about home. He does go for walks, his poor in Jesus Christ, afflicted, Oblates have been blessed, grace and brokenness, the 15 kilometres, three times a week, favourite activity, but not so much wretched, suffering, all of you deeply blessed, by all their asso - anniversary celebration is also a but it’s still a far cry from 20 in winter. whom misery oppresses. My ciates — the men and women, time to give thanks, Thorson said, brothers, my dear brothers, married and single, who, not “for all those people with whom respected brothers, listen to me. called to religious life, still share we have had the privilege to walk You are God’s children . . . lift our charism, and live it in pro - with and minister to over the your eyes, see for once beneath found and enriching ways togeth - years.” the rags that cover you, there is er . . . to preach and proclaim the He acknowledged the many within you an immortal soul gospel, close to the people, to communities of religious women made in the image of God whom participate in the mission Jesus that the Oblates have worked with it is destined to possess one day, a inaugurated that day at over two centuries, and the soul ransomed at the price of the Nazareth.” parishioners, bishops and priests blood of Jesus Christ, . . . The Oblates of Mary Imma - who have become friends of the Christians, know your dignity.” culate continue to live as people Oblate community. “I think of the Burning with a call to awaken seeking conversion, Thorson said. great benefactors whose prayer people to their dignity and “As we celebrate 200 years we and generosity has helped us encourage them to embrace it as are aware of the wheat that has carry out the ministry given to us Christians, St. Eugene and his been gathered, but we are also by God. I think of the people to first companions wrote a letter in aware of the weeds that have whom we were sent as ministers 1816 asking that their little com - been a part of our history and and leaders, and whom we failed, munity be recognized and freed to continue to be, and so we seek and hurt in one way or another, do the work to further that voca - conversion.” and who forgave us. And I think tion. He pointed to the words of about families who sacrificed A copy of the document that Pope Francis at a general chapter much but continued to encourage St. Eugene de Mazenod and his meeting, in which he described and sustain us. For all of this I am five companions signed was on how the Oblates of Mary grateful.” Wayne Kzyzyk display, and Thorson invited Immaculate were “born from an At the conclusion of the cele - LAY FORMATION — Lay Formation alumni greet members of STR8 Oblates and associates to come experience of mercy, lived by the bration Archbishop Donald Bolen UP: 10,000 Little Steps to Healing Inc., during an alumni reflection day held Oct. 15 at the Cathedral of the Holy Family in Saskatoon. forward to add their signature to young Eugene one Good Friday thanked the Oblates for their ser - Speakers included STR8 UP co-founders Rev. André Poilièvre and the letter as a sign of their ongo - in the presence of Jesus cruci - vice, humility and sincerity in liv - Stan Tu’Inukuafe, as well as youth who have left behind the violence ing commitment to the Oblate fied.” ing the gospel: “Many of us here and despair of a gang lifestyle. Based on values of honesty, humility mission. “We Oblates are aware of sin, today have been deeply shaped by and forgiveness, STR8 UP helps members understand their past, deal Of the six men who signed frailty, and our ongoing need for the Oblates, educated by them, with it and let it go, offering a path of transformation for those hurt by that letter in 1816 — Icard, conversion, and we commit to nourished by them, befriended by a lifetime of poverty, violence and addiction. Members undertake Tempier, Maunier, Mie, Deblieu that,” said Thorson. “We commit them, rescued and healed by “10,000 little steps” in the effort to be loving parents, faithful partners and de Mazenod — three would to a continued reconciliation — them.” and responsible citizens. November 2, 2016 LOCAL NEWS Prairie Messenger 7 Saskatoon series offers insights into Islamic faith

By Kiply Lukan Yaworski al understanding and respect for one another (that) is so key to SASKATOON — A five-part achieving the greater goal: collab - series in the Roman Catholic orating to achieve the greater Diocese of Saskatoon is offering good.” information and insights into the “Our lives are inspired by the Islamic faith. Prophet Muhammad, peace be Some 350 attended the first upon him, whose life we believe session of A Christian Study of is the last and final messenger of Islam: An Introduction held at the God,” said Schindel, pointing out Cathedral of the Holy Family Oct. that the Prophet lived in Mecca, 18, which featured Rev. Bernard which was a pluralistic society, de Margerie providing an over - including communities from view, with a response from Dr. many religious traditions, with Joel Schindel, MD, who serves as Muslims as a minority. associate Muslim chaplain at the “He faced discrimination for university of Saskatoon. his beliefs and he worked to pro - “I think that bewilderment may mote goodness with others none - be the mindset of many of us theless,” he said. “He later estab - before the phenomenon Islam in Kiply Yaworski lished a charter, a constitution, our midst and around the world,” STUDYING ISLAM — Sister Teresita Kambeitz, OSU, guest speaker Dr. Joel Schindel, MD, and organiz - that safeguarded the rights of all said de Margerie, who along with ing committee members Sister Phyllis Kapuscinski, NDS, and Rev. Colin Clay (from left), were among within the community.” Sister Phyllis Kapuscinski, NDS, some 350 attending the first session of A Christian Study of Islam: An Introduction, held at the Cathedral Rather than forgetting the past, and Rev. Colin Clay organized the of the Holy Family in Saskatoon Oct. 18. Schindel called for a reflection on series through the Diocese of past experiences between Mus lims Saskatoon’s Foundations: Explor - Muslim neighbours, developing Time) states: “The church has are aware of prejudices that we and Christians — the conflicts, the ing Our Faith Together program. friendships as those who “pray also a high regard for the Mus - harbour or inherited, let us not failures and the successes — to De Margerie described having among others who pray.” lims. They worship God, who is beat ourselves up about them, but learn, to understand, and to find a one’s worldview challenged by “Brother Christian contributed one, living and subsistent, merci - rather try to outgrow them through way forward together. events and changes, “causing ten - much through his witness, preach- ful and almighty, the Creator of prayer, study and helping.” The session concluded with a sion between fear and resistance ing and writing to deeper reflec - heaven and earth, who has also Responding to de Margerie’s time for participants to write on the one hand, and the desire to tion and prayer in the church re- spoken to humanity. They en- presentation, Muslim associate down questions about the Islamic enlarge one’s openness and com - garding how Christians and Mus - deavour to submit themselves chaplain Dr. Joel Schindel shared faith, to be submitted to organiz - prehension of reality on the other.” lims are related to each other in without reserve to the hidden his own experience, born and ers and answered in subsequent The series is a response to God’s plan of mercy and salva - decrees of God, just as Abraham raised in Canada as a Muslim, sessions in the series. misunderstandings and lack of tion,” said de Margerie. “The submitted himself to God’s plan, whose mother is a Christian, a The series continued the fol - knowledge about the Islamic black and white disappears my to whose faith Muslim eagerly member of the United Church of lowing week, with even higher faith, he said. The main focus is dear people. There is no black and link their own.” Canada for her entire life and who attendance Oct. 25, when speak - to be an “undertaking of Christian white, but many shades of grey.” De Margerie concluded with enjoys utmost respect from her ers included Imam Ilyas Sidyot, faith and hope seeking under - In his own life, de Chergé had “thoughts from an old pastor,” Muslim grandchildren. “This is a who summarized the teaching of standing.” some foundational experiences — stressing the depth and breadth of model we as a pluralistic society Islam, and Dr. Brenda Anderson On one hand, many Christians including his friendship with a God’s design. “Let us do our best need,” he said, thanking those in of Luther College, who provided now encounter Muslim neigh - devout Muslim police officer — to live by our own Christian faith attendance for challenging them - an overview of Christian-Islamic bours, friends, colleagues and that shaped his understanding and and tenants,” he said. selves by attending the series. relations through history. professionals in the community in his vocation to live and serve in “We try to give witness to our “Because of our current times, For more information about A a positive way, while on the other Algeria. “If you want religions to faith and our discipleship through now more than ever we have the Christian Study of Islam: An hand, there is a “visceral reaction come closer together, you have the way we live and love, more various cultural and faith commu - Introduction, contact Rita Taylor to ISIS in the background” as un- got to have friendships,” stressed than by heaping theoretical beliefs nities here in Saskatoon growing, at the Catholic Pastoral Centre in ending media coverage of injus - de Margerie. on others. . . . If we have fears or and we need to increase the mutu - Saskatoon, 306-659-5831. tice, oppression and violence The Muslim friend intervened leads viewers “to depression, psy - during a military skirmish to save chological exhaustion and dead - de Chergé, and lost his own life Statement echoes Laudato Si’ ened hope,” de Margerie said. because of it. This sacrifice pro - In the midst of all this there is foundly affected the monk. “Chris - Continued from page 3 transform our society. faith prayer by Rev. Dr. Colin a need for encounter, for dialogue tian wrote several years later: ‘In “In all of this we can learn from Clay at the close. and for understanding, he said, the blood of this friend, I came to unjust laws and policies, such as rivers, the veins and arteries of Rev. Ken Thorson, OMI, particularly in the face of war, know that my call to follow Christ the implementation of the Indian Mother Earth. Our watersheds pro- brought greetings from the Justice, violence, strife and unbearable would have to be lived out sooner residential schools and the ‘sixties vide us with intimate connections Peace and Integrity for Creation suffering which is causing the or later in the very country in scoop,’ which have negative inter- to the places in which we live. (JPIC) office of OMI Lacombe displacement of millions in our which I received the token of great - generational impacts. To con- Listening to what rivers can teach Canada, placing the gathering in its world. est love.’ ” In May 1996, de Chergé tribute to healing such trauma, we us can help us slow down and gain context. “Too often in our quest to “I came to see and believe that and six other brothers of the mon - affirm our responsibility to be the necessary courage to be fear- bring the gospel, what indigenous this unbearable situation impels astery were kidnapped and execut - Treaty people in the fullest sense.” less in our work for justice, peace, people held most dear — language, Christians and Muslims — repre - ed by terrorist extremists. Echoing Laudato Si’, the state- and the integrity of creation.” spirituality, myth and ritual, the senting the two predominant reli - The book Theology of Hope by ment describes the call to “hear Commitments listed at the con- practices of raising the young, and gions in the world, by far — Christian de Chergé is one of the the cry of the Earth and the cry of clusion of the statement in clude their relationship to the earth itself, along with others, to meet and resources being recommended by those on the margins of our soci- living in a more environmentally in short, their culture — was all too learn how to live together and organizers of the Foundations ety,” and goes on to describe wa- friendly manner, taking concrete often belittled and disregarded, and find new ways of mutual under - series for those who wish to go ter as “a commons” — a precious, action to show respect for the gift we Oblates played too significant a standing, justice, compassion and deeper in their study and reflec - life-giving gift that is meant for of water, and learning to walk with role in this, too often.” peace,” said de Margerie, who tion, de Margerie noted. the common good of all. indigenous brothers and sisters. He described the Oblate com- said he began to “pray harder” In his opening presentation, de “By dialoguing and acting to Other commitments in the collec- munity’s deepening commitment about this planetary situation. Margerie also presented a brief care for our common home, we tive statement call for mindful- to continued reconciliation with Spiritual questions began to overview of “markers of Chris- take up our responsibilities to ward ness, a slower pace, and simpler indigenous peoples, through pro- emerge in prayer, he said, such tian thought” regarding Christian- future generations. We un dertake lifestyles, as well as a commitment grams such as Returning to Spirit, as: “What is your plan, oh God, Muslim relations, including docu - this urgent and exciting task so to “listen, listen, listen, then dia- and a commitment to retelling for all your Muslim children?” ments of the Second Vatican that all might reach their full logue, dialogue, dialogue” and to Canada’s painful history as an inte- and “How can I — how can we Coun cil — “the most authorita - potential. The social and ecologi- renew quality relationships. gral part of doing justice and bring- — as disciples of Jesus, be sisters tive Christian teaching in the 20th cal benefits of these approaches Other promises include: to cut ing healing and reconciliation. and brothers to them?” century” — as well as insights and actions provide an important down on water usage; to learn more “The Oblate family and the De Margerie pointed to other de veloped over the years by the opportunity for reconciliation,” about Treaty Six, the Truth and larger church is called to continu- insights in recent years — for World Council of Churches. says the statement. Reconciliation Commission Calls ing conversion — and conversion instance, from hearing Muslim Scripture reveals that all are “Caring for water opens a path to Action, and “the church’s role in and healing ask that we listen people describe the meaning of created in the image of God and of dialogue and action on which where we are today”; and “to re- well. Our gathering today will be the Ramadan fast, which echoed that everyone on earth is included we can walk together. Caring for envision a nation that is full of col- a meaningful step in the process. with his own experience of Lent, in God’s plan of salvation, said de water can also lead to a deep eco- lective beliefs, which can all offer a Such events create spaces where and encountering the writings of Margerie. “We are all brothers logical conversion,” notes the piece of the unity, in order to see interfaith, ecumenical, intercul- Christian de Chergé, prior of the and sisters in the created adopted statement. “By honouring indige- how we are all Treaty people.” tural and intergenerational con- Trappist monastery in northern family of God, from generation to nous cultures and values, and The day was framed in prayer, versations can occur, and perhaps Algeria that is featured in the film generation.” entering into wholesome relation- led by Oblate Associates Jim and we can contribute to increased Of Gods and Men . The monks For instance, the Vatican II ships with each other, Mother Adele Longstaff in four directions understanding and empathy and lived and served among their document Nostre Aetate (In Our Earth, and the Creator, we can at the opening, and with a multi- action,” said Thorson. 8 Prairie Messenger CHURCH AT HOME November 2, 2016 Pope not the only keeper of the keys in the Vatican

By Josephine McKenna “clavigero,” or chief key keeper to the historic resigna - at the Vatican Museums, never tion of Pope Emeritus VATICAN CITY (RNS) — tires of it. He manages a dedicat - Benedict XVI in The sun is not yet up and Gianni ed team that opens and closes 2013. Crea is making his way down a some 300 rooms every day. That in turn led to pitch-black corridor inside the “We are in charge of the keys the election of Pope Vatican’s world-famous muse - for the pope’s museums,” Crea Francis, who was cho - ums. tells Religion News Service sen in part to clean up The museums take up much of enthusiastically as he opens one the Vatican. the real estate on this 108-acre city- spectacular room after another. Such crises can state in Rome, one of the oldest and “In the museums, there are make the Vatican — holiest spots on earth, and one with exactly 2,797 keys — 300 are and the Italians who a history and a reputation for secre - used for the opening and closing make up the bulk of cy that have inspired all sorts of of the museums. There are 10 of the labour force — conspiracy theories — and more us — five employed for the open - the butt of jokes, than a few blockbuster thrillers. ing and five for the closure.” which is why Francis But it is Crea who holds the The key keepers are just some has been keen to drop keys to the place — hundreds of of the more than 3,000 lay people in on the workers now them, in fact, heavy metal ones of who perform largely unheralded and again, chatting or all sizes. jobs in a place that is known for having lunch. In the pre-dawn darkness, the hierarchical pomp and circum - It’s also why he 44-year-old Italian selects a cou - stance, and above all, as the resi - made sure to single ple of them to open several thick dence of the Roman pontiff. them out for praise wooden and steel doors leading Yet Crea’s job is a reminder during a Christmas - RNS/Chris Warde-Jones into vast rooms filled with trea - that for all the great art and grand time speech in 2014, KEEPER OF THE KEYS — Gianni Crea, chief key keeper at the Vatican, in the sures that once belonged to the personages filling the endless halls asking their forgive - Sistine Chapel with the bunch of keys he uses to access all rooms in the museum, Egyptian pharaohs and the of the Vatican palaces, it is also a ness for the “shortcom - on Oct. 6, 2016. emperors of ancient Rome. functioning city-state. And it runs ings” of him and his There’s barely a sound and the thanks to workers like the key fellow churchmen, and delivering of the world,” Crea says. are held here on occasion. corridors are still empty when the keepers who show up every day so “a particular and, I would say, a More than six million people But the Sistine Chapel is most neatly dressed Crea suddenly that everyone else — including the necessary thanks to the Italians visit the Vatican museums every famous as the venue for the con - flicks a switch to reveal walls pope — can do their jobs. who, throughout the history of the year. What began in the early 16th clave, where the College of lined with Renaissance frescoes Of course, the other thing the church and the Roman Curia, have century with a group of sculptures Cardinals elects a new pope, in and priceless tapestries. Vatican is known for is the peri - always worked with a generous collected by the famous Renais - prayer and total secrecy. It’s a stunning moment, and odic scandal, such as the leak of and faithful spirit.” sance pope, Julius II, has grown The key keepers have a spare Crea, who holds the title of personal papers that helped lead The Italians at the Vatican into a vast collection of art and key for the rare times the other demonstrate a “unique industri - sculpture surrounded by architec - staff members are not available, ousness and filial devotion,” tural splendour. which is why it is sealed and Francis said, and that’s certainly As Crea makes his way stamped by Vatican gendarmes true in the case of Crea, who through the rooms, he enters the and senior museum officials. The comes from Reggio Calabria in gallery of tapestries, which span envelope is only opened two or southern Italy and has been a key the 15th to 17th centuries, and three times a year. keeper at the Vatican for 15 years. then the spectacular gallery of “The Sistine Chapel is spe - Crea begins his working day at maps, decorated under Pope cial,” Crea says as he rips the 5:45 a.m. and takes the keys from Gregory XIII (who was pontiff envelope and opens the door. a tiny underground “bunker” from 1572 to 1585) and later “To be inside the chapel gives beneath the museums well before restored by Urban VII. you a particular emotion. But you the tourists begin lining up. He In his hand he also carries a also find that in the rest of the loves sharing some of the muse - sealed envelope that contains a museum, the picture gallery, the um’s most precious artworks with key to the Sistine Chapel. Raphael rooms, the Borgia apart - the rest of the world. Other Vatican staff are usually ment. They all give you different “This is an extraordinary job responsible for opening and closing feelings. Each of them is special.” because it gives me and my col - the chapel, with its famous ceiling Antonio Paolucci, director of RNS/Chris Warde-Jones leagues the possibility to open the painted by the legendary Italian the Vatican Museums, says the KEY TO THE SISTINE — The key to the Sistine Chapel and the enve - pope’s museums to all the visitors artist Michelangelo. Tourists can lope in which it is sealed every day. Photo taken on Oct. 6, 2016. who come here from every corner walk through briefly, and services — WORK, page 9 It’s OK to be cracked, to let your light shine out

ed the bathroom or hallway light to light. Jenna used to be afraid of outside, but you could also turn shine through the opening of his being alone, but she wasn’t as that quote around and say that bedroom door. His grandfather, my fearful of the dark as Nathan was. there’s a crack in everything and Soul dad, died when Nathan was five Nevertheless, she appreciated that’s how the light gets out. years old. Dad liked lights, and he when the hallway light was on. I Sometimes our weaknesses, our had interesting lights around the think, deep down, Jenna was missteps, our mistakes and even Searching house, especially at Christmastime. somewhat fearful of the dark, but our failures allow others in. This One of the things Nathan wanted she just didn’t want to admit it. means that we must not be afraid from Grandpa’s house was a flick - When I used to check on the of the light we shine. The rays of Tom Saretsky ering electric candle. It became kids before I went to bed, I saw our weaknesses, our vulnerabili - Nathan’s most cherished light that their fears had surrendered to ties, our insecurities and even our In some capacity there’s a ers too often in my life, and my because, as he said, it reminded sleep. They slept peacefully and I failures can be the lights that can drive in all of us that seeks per - comparisons have led to feelings him of Grandpa. When I turned off believe the light dispelled their give someone strength and hope, fection. I’m not perfect and I’ve of inferiority. The only thing Nathan’s lights at night, he would fears. What was ironic was how confidence and even courage. made many mistakes, but still, I comparison has taught me is how say, “Daddy, plug in Grandpa so he the kids would fear the dark and I In life, we cannot masquerade have this irrational fear of making much joy it steals from my life. can keep me company.” Nathan would fear the light. I have this as impenetrable, as mistake-free, one. Do you fear making a mis - Yet I don’t think I’m alone. I’m liked the comfort of light, and that habit of keeping close to the or as “perfect.” It’s an impossible take? sure many others share a fear of light was of particular comfort to shadows because the light can way of existence. There’s a crack I’ve never liked the experience not measuring up to others. him. reveal my weaknesses and inse - in everything and, as strange as it of losing, and I know I’m not Fears abound in life. What are My daughter Jenna, on the curities and mistakes for all the may sound, perhaps the light that alone in this feeling. No one likes your fears? Do you fear the dark? other hand, has never depended world to see. I don’t like being shines out through these cracks to lose, and I’ve lost many times. The unknown? Are you fearful in on lights. There were no ghosts exposed that way, but that’s when has the potential to shine into Do you fear losing? general? and ghouls under her bed or in the light needs to shine the bright - someone else’s darkened world. I’ve compared myself to oth - Despite the 365 references to the closet when she was young, est because light dispels darkness, We need assistance, or maybe “be not afraid” found in the Bible, because she would scare them light dispels fear, and light makes it’s permission, to uncover, fears remain everywhere. Some - away! From when she was a one stronger. acknowledge and embrace our Saretsky is a teacher and chap - times fears are of our own making, baby, we never used a night light In Leonard Cohen’s song fears and insecurities. By doing lain at Holy Cross High School in and sometimes fears are not of our in her room. Jenna had a plastic “Anthem” there’s a line that goes, so we will illuminate the darkness Saskatoon. He and his wife, own choosing. My son Nathan, Blessed Virgin Mary statue that “There’s a crack in everything of our own lives which, in turn, Norma, have two children — who is in Grade 10 now, feared the faintly glowed when it got dark, and that’s how the light gets in.” will shine rays of light and hope Nathan and Jenna. dark when he was young. He need - but it was not like a regular night- We all depend on help from the into someone else’s life. November 2, 2016 ARTS & CULTURE Prairie Messenger 9 A positive Canadian appeal for global citizenship

would become chancellor upon advancing a wider parliamentary respect to the still controversial leaving politics, Graham was a diplomacy — drawing on his work questions about Afghans detained brilliant student of law with an with the OSCE Parliamentary by Canadian troops, handed over to Screenings uncommon interest in international Assembly and the Parliamentary Afghan authorities and subsequent - law. He would go on to earn a doc - Forum of the Americas. ly tortured, Graham acknowledges & Meanings torate at the Université de Paris . In In the wake of 9/11, and with the inadequacy of the agreement Paris he practised for a time with SCFAIT embarked on a North signed during the 2005 election: the firm Fasken & Calvin. American relations study, “Clearly our agreement was insuf - Gerald Schmitz Ultimately, though, he chose acad - Graham was suddenly elevated to ficient, and in retrospect we were emia over a lucrative private prac - Cabinet in January 2002. In Parts all naive to believe that the Afghan Next Tuesday Americans go to lege of reviewing the manuscript, tice, teaching public international 3 and 4 of the book Graham system could handle the prisoners.” the polls after a campaign that has having worked closely with him law, international trade law and the recounts his time as foreign min - In the aftermath of the Martin reflected an ugly negative and pes - — as research director of the law of the European Community at ister under Chrétien (who called government’s defeat Graham was simistic national mood. House foreign affairs and interna - the University of Toronto, as well him “professor”) and Paul Martin pressed into service as Opposition Globalization is under attack from tional trade standing committee as McGill and the Université de who moved him to the defence leader and interim Liberal leader, both right and left. In place of a [SCFAIT] during his chairship, Montréal . Committed to Canada’s portfolio after the 2004 election. stressful months that he does not confident internationalism the and then in 2003 as adviser to the linguistic duality, he also did work More engaging than any academ - recall with any fondness. For Republican presidential candidate minister for a foreign policy “dia - for the Bilingualism and ic treatment, at the same time rig - example, he “hated the whole offers a narrow exclusionary xeno - logue” with Canadians.) Even as a Biculturalism Commission. For his orously reflec - phobic nativism. “Americanism minister he would sometimes ride promotion of the French language tive, it’s a pen - not globalism will be our creed,” his bike to the office and events. the government of France made etrating candid trumpets Donald Trump, promis - His record of honourable and ful - him a “chevalier de la légion insider’s com - ing to “make America great filling public service is without d’honneur.” mentary — again.” Never mind that the super - artifice or affectation. No ivory tower scholar, from the mine - power’s stature is a measure of its Graham is also a great story - Professor Graham took his belief field of the global engagements. teller and this revealing, richly in the values of diversity, plural - Israel- Canada has so far been spared rewarding, and highly readable ism and mutual accommodation Palestine con - such demagoguery. We’ve also account of his life and career into domestic politics. He’d once flict, to the been fortunate to have in our sparkles with fascinating anecdotes been approached by Robert decisions not national politics remarkable indi - and recalled conversations, Stanfield to be the Tory research to join the dis - director but, impressed by Pierre astrous 2003 The Call of the World by Bill Graham Trudeau, gravitated to the Liberals U.S. invasion and became active in federal cam - of Iraq or par - paigns, becoming the losing candi - ticipate in bal - UBC Press, 2016, 470 pages date for Toronto-Rosedale in 1984 listic missile and 1988 (by just 80 votes). He defence, to the persevered, entering the Commons sending of viduals with a farsighted vision of enlivened by some 60 photographs. in 1993 and becoming SCFAIT combat troops Canada in the world. Among the He had a happy and privileged, but chair in 1994 after participating in to Afghan - most distinguished is Bill Graham, hardly ordinary, childhood. Only as the Chrétien government’s parlia - istan’s a member of the Order of Canada an adult did he learn that his stepfa - mentary foreign policy review. Kandahar who served as a downtown ther, a wealthy B.C. businessman, Graham never treated international province (they Toronto member of Parliament was actually his biological father. relations as a rarefied abstraction. arrived in 2006 (1993-2007), chair of the House of Growing up in elite company, he By connecting the global with the after the Har - Commons foreign affairs commit - was blessed with first-class educa - concerns of his highly diverse per govern - tee (1994-2002), Minister of tional opportunity. At age 11 he constituency that included all ment had been Foreign Affairs (2002-2004), was sent as a boarder to Upper income levels and many immi - elected). Minister of National Defence Canada College in Toronto. grants, he exemplified an Chapter 12, (2004-2006), Leader of the Entering university Graham approach that “all geopolitics is “The Un - Opposition and interim leader of also trained in the naval reserve local.” He explains that, as willing,” is a UBC Press the Liberal party (2006). earning an officer’s commission. SCFAIT chair and later foreign masterful in- Graham’s “political memoir” With his friend Patrick Wooten he minister, whenever encountering depth, behind-the-scenes account business” of having to play the The Call of the World is not only undertook an intrepid months- representatives from other coun - of how Canada resisted American game of Question Period theatrics. one of the best autobiographies long journey driving by land rover tries “I tried to make a connection pressures on Iraq. There was a More broadly, he laments the ever produced by a Canadian across Europe to India and back, through someone in my riding family element too as his son decline in parliamentary civility politician, it is a deeply informed passing through regions and coun - who had a difficult personal histo - Patrick, an intrepid foreign corre - and tendencies — loss of commit - and insightful commentary on tries (the Balkans, Turkey, the ry or relatives left behind. ‘They spondent, was in Baghdad when tee independence, lack of con - Canada’s international relations, Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan, expect us to work together to the bombs started falling. That structive cross-party co-operation both in policy and practice, as Pakistan, Iraq) he would later visit make a better world,’ I often said.” period coincided with the foreign — he believes were encouraged well as a passionate positive under very different circum - In Parliament Graham was policy dialogue I was working on, by the Harper government’s “high - appeal for active citizenship from stances as Canada’s foreign minis - devoted to achieving civility and during which he observes how the ly partisan” tactics. How can MPs the local to the global. ter. Already as a young man he co-operation across party lines. He cross-country “town halls ended up accomplish anything, he asks, if Citizen Graham, for all his dis - was eagerly expanding his hori - believed strongly in committee acting as something of a release “partisanship and rigid ideology tinctions, is one of the most acces - zons of experience and develop - independence and commanded the valve for public anxiety about the get in the way of human beings sible and down-to-earth MPs I got ing keen powers of observation. respect of all members. I can war.” Graham played a key role in willing to come together and col - to know in over three decades as a At the University of Toronto’s vouch that every effort was made the Martin government’s subse - laborate for the common good?” researcher on Parliament Hill. Trinity College, where he met his at consensus in SCFAIT reports quent international policy review The world to which Graham (Full disclosure: I had the privi - wife, Cathy, and of which he (major ones were on the interna - and as defence minister became demonstrates a Canadian calling tional financial institutions, cir - centrally engaged on the isn’t one of pious principles and cumpolar co-operation, nuclear Afghanistan file, including choos - black-and-white “with us or Work a delicate responsibility weapons, the World Trade ing Rick Hillier to be chief of the against us” simplicities. It’s a Organization, the Balkan conflicts, defence staff. He was also promi - much more complex place that Continued from page 8 the Catholic interpretation of and Central Asia). Graham sup - nently involved in the cases of requires an enlightened intersec - Jesus’ words to Peter as recorded ported Lloyd Axworthy’s “human Maher Arar, arrested in the U.S. tion of values and interests along key keeper carries enormous in the Gospel of Matthew. security” agenda (notably the con - and tortured in Syria, and Omar with a measure of empathy he responsibility for the collection. But given the number of thefts at vention to ban landmines, interna - Khadr, the child soldier sent to describes as “one of the most “The Vatican museums span other European museums in recent tional criminal court, the “respon - Guantanamo and only repatriated important tools in the conduct of seven kilometers through its gal - years, the more mundane aspects of sibility to protect” doctrine at the to Canada in 2012. diplomacy,” affirming his strong leries, rooms and gardens with security are also important. UN) and is a vigorous advocate On Afghanistan, in chapter 15 belief that “the Canadian experi - 70,000 works of art on exhibit — Crea says he has no concern, for a multilateral rules-based liber - “The 3D War” (3D refers to the ence, as a bilingual, bi-juridical paintings and sculptures — and as the Vatican museums are cov - al international order, including conjunction of defence, diplomacy culture, makes us particularly there are more than 5,000 others ered in video cameras and alarms freer trade “accompanied by and development), Graham offers a sensitive to see the other’s point in the warehouse,” Paolucci says. and plenty of scrutiny from appropriate international stan - sobering frank assessment. While a of view.” It’s as a citizen not a “Think about how delicate the Vatican gendarme police and dards.” But he is not uncritical, putative “whole of government” partisan that he expresses disap - responsibility is for this immense security patrols. devoting a chapter to tackling approach was undermined by con - pointment in the Harper govern - heritage. This man here, the key His biggest worry, he says, is “democratic deficits” in an era of tinuing inter-departmental quarrels, ment’s retreat from the multilater - keeper, opens up everything. He actually getting into his Rome globalization. His colourful obser - more serious is that the mission alism of its predecessors, because has the keys to heaven.” apartment. vations about Canadian parliamen - suffered from endemic flaws and the effect was to diminish Well, technically, and theologi - Precise about managing the tary life offer similar food for underestimated challenges. “We Canada’s international presence. cally speaking, it is the pope — 2,797 keys at the Vatican, Crea thought. He sees a strong role for knew much less about Afghanistan As he says, “We neglect our the successor of St. Peter — who says he often can’t find the one to elected parliamentarians in terms and the politics of the region than capacity to influence the world at holds those keys, in keeping with his own front door. of domestic accountability, and in we should have,” he admits. With our peril.” 10 Prairie Messenger DEEPENING OUR FAITH November 2, 2016 Faith brings about a new world order, here and now

— the Pentagon (military power), twin towers (economic live out Jesus’ call for a community that transcends social power), and the White House (political power). The plan barriers, that cares for its least privileged, and that con - of the terrorists to attack these three symbolic structures fronts abuses of power and wealth. Liturgy on Sept. 11, 2001, was deliberate. Ironically, the towers These verses allow us to examine two visions of what it were destroyed, much like the Temple that the Romans means to follow Jesus: one is a focus on prophecies of the and Life destroyed in AD 70 — not one stone was left on another. future that make no difference in how one lives in the here The message today from God’s Word is that faithful and now; the other calls for such a commitment of life that readiness, living with God, walking with God, dispels all those who dare to embrace it will find themselves perse - Sylvain Lavoie, OMI fear and brings about the reign of God here and now, the cuted by worldly authorities. new world order. Throughout Acts, God’s faithfulness remains beyond The first reading speaks of righteousness. That is a question and is demonstrated repeatedly through the A young man was rather nervous about reading in right relationship with God, one of faith, living in God’s empowerment of the disciples’ witness, wondrous deliver - church and, instead of ending his reading with, “The Word love, genuine repentance (we have changed whatever we ance and repeated triumphs over those who oppose their of the Lord,” he stammered, “This is the end of the could to live according to God’s will), and peace. For message. Nevertheless, the dangers and hardships for the world,” to which the congregation dutifully responded, those people, the end means blessing and even has healing faithful are real indeed. Truth is tested and faith is con - “Thanks be to God!” in its wings! For them, the words of the psalm apply — firmed not in idle speculation but in the crucible of adver - Genuine faith brings about a new world order, here and make a joyful noise and sing for joy, for the Lord is com - sity. Those who wish to find a more vibrant religious now. ing to judge the world. experience, therefore, should look not for signs of the Politicians often have slogans for their campaigns, such The New Interpreter’s Bible offers the following pene - future but for signals that it is time to live by Jesus’ call as “Make America Great Again” or “Stronger Together.” trating reflection on today’s readings: “In our day, there is for obedience here and now. Years ago one such political slogan was “A New World a plague of pseudo-religious prophets claiming that the Living in the kingdom is what the life of the church is Order.” end is at hand. Pastors and teachers will need to distin - all about — worship, loving one another symbolized by In the gospel today, Jesus addresses the externalism of guish biblical teachings and sound biblical interpretation the kiss of peace, forgiving and asking for forgiveness, religion and society, that is, putting emphasis on external serving one another humbly, and doing so out of loving things like buildings, money, activity, formal prayers, etc. Malachi 4:1-2 commitment and perseverance. That is what counts. Thirty-third Sunday He was critiquing the fact that, for the Jews in Palestine at Psalm 98 An Oblate brother who was playing pool was asked in Ordinary Time that time of Jesus, the Temple had become their economic 2 Thessalonians 3:7-12 what he would do if he was told that he would die within November 13, 2016 and political, more so than religious, centre — a false Luke 21:5-19 24 hours. He reflected for a few moments and responded world order. that he would keep on playing pool. He was ready because Jesus was pointing out that, as important as these exter - from the sensational claims carried by the media and pop - he was already living in the reign of God. For him the old nals are, they must not become the priority in our lives. ular religious bestsellers. The gospel offers not a way of world had ended when he committed himself to following Often without thinking about it at all, as individuals and as predicting the end of the world, but the spiritual resources Jesus totally and fully. nations, we can allow these to become false gods, a faulty to cope with adversity and hardship. St. Terese of Avila had a saying, “Its heaven all the way world order. It is Jesus who will bring about a truly new “On the other hand, following Jesus always exposes the to heaven; its hell all the way to hell.” That is a profound world order through faith in him. faithful to opposition from the authorities. If in every gen - insight. It is more a question of learning how to live in the In the United States these externals were the symbols eration there are those whose religion is simply a form of kingdom of God right here, than of trying to sneak into escapism into the fantasy of futurism, every generation has heaven later on. The old Oblate brother had it right. also had its courageous and prophetic visionaries who The eucharist we celebrate now is a foretaste of the Sylvain Lavoie, OMI, Archbishop Emeritus of the devoted themselves completely to Jesus’ call to create heavenly banquet. We are nourished and challenged by Archdiocese of Keewatin-The Pas, is chaplain at the Star community, oppose injustice, work for peace, and make a God’s Word and invited to share sacramentally in the eter - of the North Retreat House in St. Albert, Alta. He contin - place for the excluded.” nal life God offers us, so that we can go out to help build ues to live out his motto, Regnum Dei Intra Vos (the king - Every generation, therefore, is called back to the teach - up the reign of God in our world. dom of God is among you), which is his overriding focus ing of Jesus by the examples of those who have suffered So remember, genuine faith in Jesus brings about a new and passion. persecution and hardship because they dared to strive to world order, here and now. Life is rich; if we are bored, the fault lies within ourselves

The word interest is derived workplaces, colleagues, neigh - town where nothing exciting ever from two Latin words: inter bours, churches, and friends aren’t seemed to happen. He went on to In (inside) and esse (being) which, interesting. We’re bored because confess that he envied Rilke who when combined, connote being we’re too internally impoverished, travelled extensively throughout inside of something . Things are distracted, or self-centred to take a Europe and met all kinds of inter - Exile interesting to us when we are genuine interest in them. esting people. For him, Rilke’s interested enough in them to real - Experience is not what happens to poetic insights were very much Ron Rolheiser, OMI ly get inside of them. And our us, it’s what we do with that hap - predicated on the fact that he hung interest isn’t necessarily predicat - pens to us. So says Einstein. out in big cities, met interesting ed on how naturally stimulating Vandekerckhove highlights yet people, and was stimulated in something is in itself, though another irony: It’s ironic that we ways that a young man in a small In 2011 a book by a young Unexpectedly too her disease admittedly certain events and tend to wrestle with boredom and town could never hope to approxi - writer, Bieke Vandekerckhove, went into remission and she lived experiences can be so powerful dullness when we are in the full mate. won the award as The Spiritual for another 20 years. Among the as to literally conscript our inter - bloom of our lives, healthy and Rilke’s reply to this young Book of the Year in her native many rich insights she shares est. That’s what explains our working; whereas people like her, man has become a classic answer Belgium. Entitled The Taste of with us, she offers an interesting strong interest in major world who have lost their health and are to the question of boredom: “If Silence, the book chronicles her reflection on boredom. events, championship sports staring death in the face, often your daily life seems poor, do own struggles after being diag - Discussing the prevalence of matches, Academy Award cele - find the most ordinary experi - not blame it; blame yourself, tell nosed at age 19 with ALS, com - boredom today, she highlights an brations, as well as our less-than- ences in life exhilarating. yourself that you are not poet monly called Lou Gehrig’s dis - irony, namely, that boredom is healthy obsession with the pri - Her insights bear a lot of resem - enough to call forth its riches; ease, a degenerative neurological increasing among us even as we vate lives of our celebrities. blance to those of Rainer Maria for to the creator there is no condition that always results in a are daily producing every kind of Certain persons, things, and Rilke in his Letters to a Young poverty and no poor indifferent massive debilitation of one’s gadget to help us avoid it. Given events naturally interest us and Poet. Like Vandekerckhove, he too place.” body and almost always results in that today we carry in our hands we want to be on the “inside” of suggests that boredom is a fault on Finding life interesting isn’t death not long afterward. Not an technological devices that link us those lives and events. our side, a disinterested eye. In his dependent upon where you are easy diagnosis for a vibrant to everything from the world But major world news stories, correspondence with an aspiring and who you meet but rather on young woman to accept. news of the day to photos of our championship sporting events, the young poet, he takes up the young your own capacity to see deeply But, after a deep initial depres - loved ones playing with their Academy Awards, and the private man’s complaint that he, the young into things. Life everywhere is sion, she found meaning in her children, shouldn’t we be insulat - lives of our celebrities are not our man, wasn’t enough exposed to the rich enough to be interesting; but life through meditation, silence, ed against boredom? Ironically, ordinary fare, our family dinner kind of experiences that spawn we, on our part, have to be inter - literature, art, poetry, and, not the opposite seems true. All those table, our workplace, our commute poetry because he lived in a small ested. least, through a relationship that technological gadgets are not to work, our church service, our eventually led to marriage. alleviating our boredom. Why neighbourhood bake sale, our daily not? We still wrestle with bore - routine, our daily bread. And it’s dom because all the stimulation here where we tend to suffer bore - Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, in the world doesn’t necessarily dom because it’s here that we tend Advertise in the and award-winning author, is make for meaning. Meaning and to not be deeply inside the reality of president of the Oblate School of happiness, she suggests, do not the people and events with whom Theology in San Antonio, Texas. consist so much in meeting inter - and with which we are interacting. PrMaoinrdiaey - FMridaey 8s:3s0 -e 5n p.mg. er He can be contacted through his esting people and being exposed It’s here that we often feel life as website: www.ronrolheiser.com. to interesting things; rather they flat, dull, and routine. But, at the Ph. 306-682-1772 Fax 306-682-5285 Now on Facebook: www.face - consist in taking a deeper interest end of the day, we wrestle with email: [email protected] book.com/ronrolheiser in people and things. boredom not because our families, November 2, 2016 FEATURE Prairie Messenger 11 Rohr wants Christians to see Trinity as divine dance

By Brandon Ambrosino A God who is just concerned active in the way you’re claim - Jesus’ death and resurrection is cloud. That’s letting us know that ©2016 Religion News Service with being right is inert, inacces - ing because there’s so much evil not a one-time anomaly, a one- we don’t know. As Paul says, sible: the law is the law is the and death in the world”? time accident; it’s revealing the “We see through a glass darkly.” Catholic theologian Karl law; there’s no wiggle room. The human egocentric psyche shape of the universe and inviting Mother Teresa said she wants Rahner once wrote that Christians When you have God as relational, is simply not ready to see that us to have the courage to trust to be known as a saint of dark - behave as “mere monotheists.” and if the basic definition of reali - death is a necessary part of life. If that it’s OK. The final chapter is ness because dark is a better That is, if Christianity ended up ty is relationality, then you’ve got you look at the entire universe, resurrection. teacher than light. After the fights dropping the doctrine of the an open system. everything is changing forms all You talk in your book about of the Reformation and the ratio - Trinity, he suggested, the day-to- That’s what the beautiful bibli - the time, no exception. In Catholic living in darkness, as if it’s a nalism of the Enlightenment, we day lives of Christians would cal metaphors were trying to get to funeral liturgy, we say that life is good thing. Is it? wanted to be certain, to be right. remain largely unchanged. when they had God talking to not ended, but merely changed. If you take Moses on Sinai, That’s to want too much light. It’s Richard Rohr wants to change Moses; God talking to Abraham; I admit it: It does seem like an and Peter, James and John on a refusal of faith. that. Abraham able to change God’s incoherent universe. That’s very Mount Tabor, there’s always a Along with the rediscovery of A Franciscan priest and founder mind, as it were; Moses the same, true. But once you recognize this combination of an apparition of the Trinity, I think I see a long - of the Center for Action and knowing God face to face. This is is the pattern of the universe, then immense light and the cover of a ing for a theology of darkness or Contemplation in Albuquerque, good stuff! But we understood it in the cloud. The classic phrase N.M., Rohr, alongside Mike such a static way — that these coined by the 14th-century Morrell, recently published “ The were things that happened to really anonymous English writer — the Divine Dance: The Trinity and special people, like Abraham and cloud of unknowing — sums up Your Transformation ” in the hopes Moses and Jesus. But we didn’t this theology very well. You of inviting Christians to renew understand that they were reveal - can’t live in total light: It blinds their lives by thinking “trinitarily.” ing the basic pattern of reality. That you. That lack of humility has The book has gotten rave pattern of reality is this flow. probably done more to undo the reviews well beyond such popular If God is so dynamic, why Christian religion than anything Catholic writers as Rev. James did Christians come to under - else. Martin and Sister Simone stand the divine in such a static When you presume your little Campbell. Mainstream figures, way? mind fully knows what goodness including U2’s Bono and scholar What Trinity is saying, is: is and who the good people are, and public speaker Brené Brown, Don’t start with one substance, and what evil is and who the evil have been encouraging their audi - one being, and then try to make people are . . . you will most sure - ences to pick up a copy. him three. This is what we get ly die. Darkness is good, mystics Why would so many people most of the first 2,000 years after would say. That’s the liminal take an interest in a devotional Christ, and it looked like tri-the - space where you ask deeper ques - book written by a contemplative ism, or like we were meddling tions, where you make room for priest about a mysterious Chris - with monotheism, or like a mathe - God because you can’t figure it tian doctrine? matical concept, and so a lot of RNS/Whitaker House out. The soul expands inside of “I’m wondering if it’s just that people, including most Christians, The Divine Dance by Richard Rohr darkness. consciousness is ready for it,” he didn’t know what to do with it. suggests. But every science is discovering Spoken like a true contempla - it’s entirely a relational universe. Notion of ‘self-made person’ an illusion tive! Nothing stands autonomously. RNS spoke to Rohr about his Relationship is the thing, the core. ideas on God, religion and what it See how this creates such a won - or the true. It’s about proving the means to be contemplative. The derful foundation for a Christian competent and capable as me , interview has been edited for understanding of holiness? We’re measured in monetary terms. length and clarity. inherently in relationship to God. Outlooks from We know we’re in cultural Why do you think so many A lot of Christians might dis - trouble when a would-be leader people are excited to rediscover agree with you here since “salva - the Inner Life of the “free” world is ludicrously a Trinitarian God? tion,” to many, is an active choice self-justifying. One could say he This idea of a Being sitting out to be in relationship with God. comes by it honestly, however, in there, critically watching reality That’s perhaps the biggest Cedric Speyer a society that has fashioned a and judging it — usually judging Achilles heel of so many Chris - golden-calved altar out of self- it to be inadequate — is not creat - tians — that grace is an occasion - responsibility, subjectivism, indi - ing happy people, or peaceful al additive merited by certain “Attention is the engine of transformation.” (unattributed) viduality, and competitive hege - people, as we see in our politics. highly holy people. mony. The narcissism of the sov - The old paradigm, without us Let me go back to the very “Self-knowledge is a kind of funny thing because the less of it you ereign self naturally follows. realizing it, has been falling apart. first two verses of the Bible, have, the more you think you have.” — Bruce Springsteen People and things become props In your book, you mention where a beautiful verb is used. without a reality of their own, that reimagining God might The Spirit is said to be “hover - In the theatre of the absurd that The notion, and illusion, of the because they only exist to prop up help heal our political divisions. ing” over chaos. The verb that’s is the American election cam - “self-made ‘man’ ” as “the totem or undermine a constructed self- How? used there refers to the wings of a paign, much has been made of of modern life” is exposed in a image. I think we all agree, no matter mother hen protecting her young, Trump’s unbridled narcissism. brilliant, if intellectually ponder - It’s the “freedom” of entitle - where you stand on the political guarding her eggs. We have the (See a recent piece by Gabor ous book: The World Beyond Your ment and “no limits,” uncon - spectrum, politics is not a happy Spirit hovering over chaos, Maté in The Globe and Mail enti - Head: On Becoming an Individual strained by circumstances; a worldview. It’s inherently dualis - warming reality if you will. Grace tled “ Donald Trump, narcissism In An Age of Distraction , by “great again” return of an infan - tic, antagonistic and deceitful. It’s is not extrinsic! The whole thing and diagnosis as political sport ” Matthew B. Crawford. Although tile tyrant unaccountable to con - making us long for a bigger frame, begins by an act of grace which which describes the psychody - apparently solidly secular himself, sensually framed conditions. a bigger worldview than either/or. becomes the physical universe. namics underlying the main play - Crawford shows how the Amer - Sound like anyone on the public Whenever you divide things into That matter, henceforth, is the ers in the addictive reality show ican idol (pun intended) of a freely stage these days? two, the mind quickly takes sides. revelation place of Spirit, and that is CNN.) self-determining person has dis - Crawford traces this moral iso - It happens within a nanosecond. Spirit shows itself through matter. The “moral autism” we see on placed a truly religious (i.e. “bind - lation to the American distrust of You identify with one side instead The incarnation that Christians display wasn’t born in a vacuum, ing”) orientation which is pro - external rule, whether the authori - of the other, and decide that one honour is the personal incarna - though it may be filling a vacuum foundly relational, soul-crafting, ty in question is clerical, tradi - side is better and the other side is, tion. We thought it happened left by a hand-me-down American and world-making. We need tional, political, or communal. if not bad, demonic. 2,000 years ago. What Franciscan sense of the autonomous, subjec - shared frames of meaning to The sovereign self is a holdover We’ve got to get out of this spirituality always believed is that tively validated self, left to its own become fully human. Our personal from the rebellion against actual dualistic thinking. That is my most the primary incarnation was cre - devices (in more ways than one, perspectives and preferences are sovereigns, and the “divine right” simple definition of what contem - ation itself. Nature was the first given the enabling technology). not the be-all-and-end-all of self- of earthly kings. The “enlight - plation means: a mind that does Bible. And we don’t know how to fulfilment , a latently idolatrous ened” self was redefined as self- not read reality dualistically but is see the presence, how to honour term in itself. determining, self-sufficient, and able to hold contradictions until the incarnate presence of God in Speyer is a Benedictine Oblate Lo & behold, the world has a ahistorical. there’s a reconciling third, until the natural universe. I’m looking as well as an author, subject matter reality of its own, independent of The only problem is that self is there’s a broader frame revealed. I out right now on a beautiful blue expert for e-therapy, clinical con - the self and we are summoned to a fiction; it doesn’t exist a priori think that’s the law of three. You New Mexico sky, the golden ash - sultant and director of InnerView join it; we need to engage with to our lives. Perception itself is a can’t choose sides but you have to lands, green trees. How can you Guidance International (IGI). He objective reality in ways that negotiated transaction with the stay in the flow. I think we are so not be in awe of this universe? also directs a documentary series shape our character in the environment. Its currency is tired of our fighting. Maybe it’s out But we didn’t respect the first entitled GuideLives for the Journey: process. We all know on a gut intentional and relational. When of desperation that a lot of people Bible, so we murdered and man - Ordinary Persons, Extraordinary level when something is better or we arrive in this world, there are are willing to hear this message. gled the second. We weren’t Pathfinders. http://www.guide - worse, noble or shameful, beauti - inherited meanings and guiding Why does it matter that ready to honour the Christ, really. lives.ca/ Connect with Cedric on ful or ugly, but when performance purposes for us to discover. That Christians have a dynamic, What would you say if some - https://www.facebook.com/cms94 mode predominates, then it’s no takes an attentive self, not an flowing understanding of God? one said, “I can’t believe grace is or via [email protected] longer about discovering the good autonomous one. 12 Prairie Messenger FEATURE November 2, 2016 Raising kids Catholic: participating in parish life

By Brett Salkeld home before bed all month. kids part of the the temptation to entertain them. Family traditions for Advent and whole commu - It is easy to think that children This is the second of a three- Lent that provide explicit links to nity, not a par - need kid-friendly music or more part series. the liturgies experienced at the allel communi - jokes to keep them from being parish are also great. ty for children bored at mass. This never works. In the first part of this series Things like going to confes - that stops ex - When we do this we are trying to we looked at things we can do in sion at the parish as a family, or isting when compete with an entertainment the home to help our kids appro - being a welcoming presence to they grow up. I culture that has vastly more priate the faith given to them in others at fowl suppers and pan - am not against resources than we do. We won’t their baptism. Much more could cake breakfasts, are other ways to things like win. be said, and my suggestions could build up both the faith of the children’s litur - The good news is that we serve just as well as sparks to child and the Christian communi - gy or youth shouldn’t even want to win. If we your own imagination as exam - ty that is the social context for masses in prin - did, we’d stop being the church ples to strictly follow. The larger that faith. Helping at the parish ciple, but the and start being just more of the point is to be intentional about soup kitchen teaches us that faith danger is they culture. Kids don’t need to be your life of faith in the home. must express itself in love or it give the im- entertained. They need to learn But our faith is not a private will die. pression that that they don’t need to be enter - family affair. It is also concerned As an aside, in many cases it regular mass is tained. So, on top of not letting with our whole Christian commu - will be beneficial to supplement for other peo - your kids play on a smartphone or nity. How can a family participate the Christian community and the ple. I was de- tablet during mass, don’t give the in the life of the Christian com - life of the parish with participa - lighted when impression the mass is there to munity? And how can the com - tion in something like a lay apos - my seven-year- entertain them. munity support families striving tolate or even an informal gather - old chose to Mass isn’t boring. There is to raise Catholic kids? ing of Catholic families. If your stay with us something going on at every sec - In the first place, families need parish does not seem to be meet - rather than go ond. But if kids don’t have the to be rooted in a parish. That ing your needs, the answer is not, for children’s mental space to sit quietly some - means, at the very least, weekly barring exceptional circum - liturgy because times without being entertained, mass. But that is not enough. stances, to find a new parish. It is he didn’t want they won’t have eyes to see what Being parishioners also means rather to find other forms of to miss all the is going on at mass. We live in a participating beyond Sunday Christian community that can Design Pics great readings! culture of distraction. Mass mass. There is usually something support you while you work to PARISH COMMUNITY — Families need to be root - Once he re - should be an antidote to this, not more going on. Some are spiritu - build up the life of the parish. ed in a parish, writes Brett Salkeld, and that means ceives first a supplement. This may be one al, some are social, some are ser - In our family we have a rule: participating in the life of the parish that goes communion reason young people today seem vice-oriented. If there’s nothing once you are confirmed, you are beyond Sunday mass. and confirma - so open to devotional practices going on — get on that! responsible for the church and tion this year, like eucharistic adoration. Sure, it Many events are related to the that means you have a service part of their confirmation pro - he’ll always stay with us. might seem boring at first. But it liturgical calendar. This can serve role at the parish. It might be gram? Once you’re confirmed There is nothing wrong with doesn’t take long before young as a great link between parish and reading, or singing, or altar serv - you can choose to be put on the youth masses, but there is some - people realize that just being home. In early November, for ing, or collecting relief funds, but parish roster as altar server or thing wrong if that is the only with God is an immense freedom example, our kids can print the a confirmed Christian is not along reader or something, but a con - time kids see themselves and that their plugged-in distracted names of their beloved dead in for the ride. If kids are old firmed Christian gets signed up other kids serving in church. life does not often afford them. the parish prayer book and then enough to be confirmed, they are for a role in the parish automati - They need to know this is their Kids don’t need to be enter - be conscious to pray for them at old enough to be full participants cally. It may even help keep fami - church too, and youth program - tained. Like the rest of us, they in the life of the parish. Kids lies that would drift away after ming that leads to too much seg - need God. should even put their own money confirmation a little more regation from the community In the final piece in this series Salkeld is archdiocesan theolo - in the collection plate and donate engaged with the parish if their undermines that message. we will look at specific chal - gian for the Archdiocese of to other worthy causes. child has to serve once or twice a Just as parishes and our Cath- lenges our culture poses to the Regina. He lives in Wilcox, Sask., This leads into what parishes month. olic community at large need to task of raising kids Catholic and with his wife, Flannery, and their can do to support families. Why One of the key strengths of avoid segregating our kids from what we can do to meet those family. not sign kids up for ministries as this approach is that it makes the the community, we need to avoid challenges. Decision to quit KAIROS more political than theological

By Joe Gunn women working on race relations take this decision due to any indi - positioning on issues has often Churches, expressing concern for with local police. And we helped cation that the Bishop of Rome been avant-garde , challenging the way the governing board Regina’s Archbishop Charlie establish the province-wide Inter- encourages ecumenical disen - faith communities to step out operates. And according to the Halpin had a vision. He wanted to Church Energy Committee, join - gagement. Rather, Pope Francis beyond traditional comfort zones. bishops, the CCC’s Commission enhance the church’s social apos - ing many other Christian commu - has shown ecumenical enthusi - Bishop Crosby’s letter high - for Justice and Peace “endeavours tolate by opening Saskatchewan’s nities facing the ethical chal - asm and speaks often on themes lighted difficulties for the CCCB to carry out too many projects.” first diocesan social action office lenges of uranium development. of social justice. And ecumenical in managing issues and initiatives Last month the Canadian bish - in 1975. Much later, I was engaged by the theological depth has grown brought forward by KAIROS. ops echoed the call of Pope As a 21-year-old, I happily bishops’ conference to direct their markedly since Vatican II, which CCCB structures often include Francis to go out “into the periph - crossed half the continent to take Social Affairs office, and worked would seemingly allow and tedious approval mechanisms and eries.” They wrote: “The risk of the job offered by the archbishop, for 11 years at the national level advance more determined translation routines, making it very not doing so is that we end up and then Father Jim Weisgerber, with devoted and truly visionary engagement with other churches. difficult for the bishops to act on with an inward-looking church, director of Regina’s Catholic ecumenical partners. (For example, see the declara - time-sensitive matters. The finan - perhaps running efficiently but Centre. I believed that “action on Last month the bishops of tions of rapprochement from cial constraints of recent years not keenly attuned to the needs of behalf of justice and participation Canada released a document that Catholic authorities — including have not enhanced the efficiency others. . . .” Francis warns strong - in the transformation of the world seemed to reiterate their belief in the CCCB — and Protestants as and transparency of CCCB opera - ly against this: “’I do not want a were constitutive dimensions of the role of ecumenical social we approach next year’s 500th tions — visit the outdated CCCB church concerned with being at the preaching of the Gospel, and action. In the first paragraph of anniversary of the Reformation.) website to confirm this, even after the centre and which then ends by of the church’s mission . . .” “The Co-Responsibility of the It seems the decision to quit major spending was involved in being caught up in a web of (Justice in the World , #6, 1971). Lay Faithful in the Church and KAIROS was more political and updating the CCCB’s electronic obsessions and procedures.’ ’’ Regina’s Social Action the World,” they state that, “our managerial than theological. operations. With several dioceses Amen. Commission of lay and clerical response to God’s call is always These differences were noted straining to contribute their CCCB advisers organized ecumenical lived out in harmony with the in CCCB President Doug financial quotas, fewer staff events during Lent, like “Ten other parts of the Body of Crosby’s letter to KAIROS part - resources are available. The Days for World Development.” Christ.” ner churches and organizations, CCCB is often absent early on Are you We collaborated with the wonder - But that same month, the bish - when he acknowledged that when ecumenical projects are ful work of Lutherans who had ops voted to withdraw from “KAIROS’ approaches and ours planned. So their ability to influ - Moving? earned the trust of indigenous KAIROS, Canada’s largest ecu - often differ significantly.” ence projects (and eventually get Please let us know a menical social justice organiza - Of course, it is complex to approval from the bishops) is month in advance. tion, the same group that emerged gather a dozen faith-based groups reduced. (In previous years, the Write to: Gunn is the Ottawa-based from the ecumenical coalitions and focus effective efforts in CCCB often appointed trusted lay Circulation Dept. executive director of Citizens for that the bishops had always mutually acceptable ways. representatives to attend sessions Prairie Messenger Public Justice, www.cpj.ca, a helped form, govern and finance. KAIROS’ ability to offer its pro - that staff could not.) Box 190 Muenster, Sask. S0K 2Y0 member-driven, faith-based pub - Now, many are struggling to grams and educational resources But KAIROS is not the only [email protected] lic policy organization in Ottawa comprehend the contradictions in French-speaking Canada focal point of CCCB managerial Undeliverable papers cost twice focused on ecological justice, between our church’s history, our (where 40 per cent of Canadian “frustration.” One year ago, the as much to return. refugee rights and poverty elimi - bishops’ words, and their deeds. Catholics reside) has always been CCCB president sent a five-page nation. The Canadian bishops did not weak. And the organization’s letter to the Canadian Council of

November 2, 2016 FEATURE Prairie Messenger 13 We seldom walk the bridge toward the other

By Peter Oliver ground beneath him. Sometimes much his inability to plug into the raft goes along quietly, as what society requires as it is our Adam has a sparkling sense of any river does, but inevitably it failure to plug into what God humour, a sharp eye for fashion gets rough. The raft crashes upon requires. His is the contemporary and an impressive interest in peo - rocks, falls apart, and Adam story of Martha and Mary, a ple. He is alert to relationships, nearly drowns.” Florence likens story in which Adam is chosen takes a real interest in remember - the banks of the river to our for “the better part” (Luke ing names and acknowledging world. “One riverbank is not 10:42). birthdays and anniversaries. steep. This is the side that offers Out of respect, I asked Adam Affable, defined as good-natured, help such as brain injury sup - to look this story over before it cheerful, courteous and easy to ports, counsellors and chaplains. was published. He was a mixture talk to, captures the spirit of my Adam goes there sometimes but of nonchalant and grateful. Later friend. Adam does not live there, he he texted me: “It may be impor - When Adam was 23, he was resides on the river.” tant to show the time I have set upon by three men who beat Florence observes, “The spent at the prison . . . but I think him, kicking him repeatedly in other bank is steep. Adam can you know the importance of the head, until he was uncon - never climb that one because showing both sides.” scious. The attack was unpro - that is the one where people Yes, indeed, it bears mention - voked. The impact was dread - have jobs and are part of the ing that Adam has been part of ful. mainstream of society — where the prison ministry team at the He spent the next two months his old friends reside, in fact. I Correctional Centre for a number in a coma. When he recounts the earn a living on that bank. For of years. As he puts it, it’s a way experience of waking from a the most part people there don’t of “showing closure at my end.” coma, he reminds me that it is understand anyone on the river . . . I wonder what that says The Micah Mission not like the movie portrayal — nor do they understand those about apartness and “together - something that happens in an who are helping the ones on the ness”? Adam with Peter Oliver instant. His description suggests river. Occasionally someone a kind of dream-like state. As his takes the bridge over to the mind tried to make sense of what other side and tries to help. Care for the earth is a Gospel issue had happened, nurses, doctors Once in a rare while, someone and other professionals seemed jumps in the river and rides the By Brett Fawcett is human life itself and every - Taylor observed in the 17th centu - like teachers. He concluded that raft with Adam.” These people thing it embraces.” It is impor - ry that the works of mercy could for some reason he had been sent experience the current, the With an important election tant, therefore, to look at how he be multiplied almost infinitely (he back to school. rocks and the bank that people coming up in the United States, a phrases this new work: it is suggested works like “mend[ing] He had to relearn everything. with a brain injuries can’t lot of professional Catholic opin - specifically care for our common highways and bridges” and He could not walk or eat. Family scale. ion-shapers have been busily home; it is a work of mercy “redeem[ing] maidens from pros - members were unfamiliar. He I’ve taken the bridge to the explaining to voters what criteria because caring for it is to care for titution”), and noted that some lost his ability to speak. Though other side a few times and dis - they must use in choosing who to human life. works of mercy are of “a mixed he was fluent in English, the first covered something very impor - vote for. Amidst all this sound In making these observations, nature, partly corporal and partly words he spoke were “de l’eau,” tant about Adam’s gifts. Adam and fury, Pope Francis has pro - the pope puts himself within a spiritual,” suggesting that the old some water, French words has an uncanny capacity to gen - posed an important devotional well-established theological tradi - understanding of merciful works learned in childhood. It was a tly but firmly admonish. I’m development which, on the prin - tion. The works of mercy have “is too narrow to comprise them plea, “I’m thirsty.” One day he guilty of a less-than-glamorous ciple of lex orandi lex credendi, always been something of a all.” He had identified an opening picked up a familiar book but he habit — giving a compliment, is also a theological develop - developing theological project. for a new theological develop - couldn’t read the words so he the heart of which is a self-dep - ment. The first six corporal works of ment, a new way of articulating tried a simpler book. None of it recating observation. Wary of The Holy Father has suggested mercy come from Matthew 25, the works of mercy, and when we made sense. this tendency, Adam brought me an eighth work of mercy: “care where Christ elucidates what couple this with St. John of Gradually Adam recovered, up short one day: “I don’t think for our common home.” What is today we call the principle of the Damascus’ insight that all of cre - but the brain injury he sustained you should try to build me up by especially intriguing about this is preferential option for the poor. ation is joined to Christ through has permanent consequences. He putting yourself down.” I was that it is a complement to both the It was St. Augustine who, in the Incarnation, the possibility of is not permitted to drive. Old reminded that a compliment corporal and the spiritual works his preaching, found it fitting to a new way of understanding the friends married or moved on emanates from a wholesome of mercy; it links the two, and, list “burying the dead” along - relationship between “corporal” and, as education and meaning - sense of self-regard. perhaps, both find their culmina - side them based on his reading and “spiritual” works becomes ful work are either inaccessible Adam’s life is also a pointed tion in it, like the centre that links of the Book of Tobit; this obvious. or unattainable, new friends have Divine corrective. Many of us the two beams of a cross. brought the number of merciful Pope Francis seems to be been few and far between. In live atop the steep bank. We This has already alarmed works to the much more satisfy - working from this same insight, some ways the dream-like state imagine that our making-it-work, some of the faithful, who argue ing number of “seven,” and by and how fitting that he has pro - of the coma persists year after putting-our-ducks-in-order, pri - that mercy can only be shown to the time of the Middle Ages, posed this eighth work (eight, year as he tries to recover miss - ority-setting, performance-set - human persons, not to the envi - this numbering was widely biblically, being the number of ing pieces of his life. ting way of living is what life is ronment or to the earth. But it is accepted. Already, we have a salvation) during the Year of Adam’s mother, Florence, all about. It rarely dawns on us important to notice how Pope theologian and church leader Mercy. This new work brings sees her son as a kind of cast - that all this driven-ness sets us Francis explained this sugges - detecting that something about both sets of seven to their theo - away who “resides on a raft in a apart from he who had no place tion: “if we look at the works of the biblical definition of mercy logical culmination, and the fact river, apart, afloat, with no solid to lay his head (Luke 9:58). By mercy as a whole,” he explains, entails expanding our under - that caring for our common home contrast Adam’s apartness brings “we see that the object of mercy standing of what it means to act is also a spiritual work reminds him much closer to the Itinerant mercifully. us that, if the universe is joined to Oliver works in chaplaincy Saviour than our apparent Later, the spiritual works of Christ, caring for it is a Gospel and development for The Micah “togetherness.” The disconnect Fawcett is a master’s student mercy were also elucidated, but issue. 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The changing health profession assisted-suicide law in the Netherlands, he noted that The Coalition for HealthCARE and Conscience the criteria for killing people has been gradually is taking the College of Physicians and Surgeons of The news headline last week was disconcerting: expanding. It’s a slippery slope that Canadians Ontario to court over its “Professional obligations “Former Woodstock, Ont., nurse facing 8 murder should be concerned about, he warned. and human rights” policy. This policy states that charges in deaths of elderly patients.” The Dutch first introduced assisted suicide for “Where physicians are unwilling to provide certain The Woodstock nurse is charged by Ontario patients who requested it. Doctor-assisted suicide elements of care for reasons of conscience or reli - Provincial Police with killing eight elderly patients in was introduced to relieve unbearable suffering for a gion, an effective referral to another health care southwestern Ontario nursing homes. patient. It soon expanded into terminating life with - provider must be provided to the patient.” The deaths occurred between August 2007 and out the patient’s request. The subjective criteria to Michèle Boulva, executive director of the August 2014, police said during an Oct. 25 news end one’s life replaced the long-standing objective Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF), conference in Woodstock. The victims were between criteria of the dignity of all life, expressed in the says she is worried the assisted suicide law is corrod - the ages of 75 and 96. Police did not say exactly how Commandment: “Do not kill.” ing the conscience of citizens, doctors and health they died, except that seven of them received a fatal A second red flag is the attitude and training care institutions. “This may be the new normal and dose of a drug. future doctors and nurses will have. In Holland, the the new legal, but it will never be moral,” she The news is disconcerting given that Canada has majority of doctors are now in favour of euthanasia. warned. now passed a law that allows health practitioners to These are the kind of people who will be attracted to While the nurse in Ontario is now facing murder assist people in committing suicide. While the deaths the medical profession. charges, is it just a matter of time before this will not took place before the law on euthanasia was changed Will Canada be far behind? Not if some doctors happen in the future? Will there come a time when a in Canada, they happened while the legal atmosphere have their way. nurse or doctor can kill patients with impunity, even was changing. As reported in the Oct. 26 Prairie Messenger, the when not requested? Will there come a time when With the new law now in place in Canada — and policy of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of health professionals will be trained to accept as nor - not broad enough, according to some proponents — Ontario now forces doctors to provide an “effective mal the “duty” to kill someone who requests it? Will the incidents in Ontario do raise red flags, two in par - referral” for any recognized legal medical procedure there come a time when a young person interested in ticular. or treatment, even in those cases where the doctor becoming a nurse or doctor will have to choose Cardinal Willem Eijk of Utrecht raised one red objects on moral or religious grounds. Doctors are another career because of the new “legal” directives flag in his talk to the Canadian bishops at Cornwall fighting back, as they fear they will be forced to refer for health professionals? on Sept. 26. Speaking of the introduction of an for assisted suicide. The time for vigilance is now. — PWN Magdalen Islands in Gulf of St. Lawrence a refuge from life’s tempests

By Donald L. Telfer that ran aground on the reef-ringed year,” said Pauline-Gervaise Capt. Isaac Coffin, subjecting in the protected harbours. Herring archipelago. Gregoire, a tour guide whose fami - Magdaleners to seigneurial tenure, not used to bait lobster are hung “Let’s all sink with the king.” Remnants of the sleeping ly has lived on the islands for a tax on estates granted by royal out to dry in smokehouses. Rows When Shakespeare described giants are scattered throughout years. “The constant pounding of decree to the Acadians. of lobster traps are lined up neatly the shipwreck in “ The Tempest ,” he the string of islands, islets and the sea and wind carves magnifi - The islands began to prosper beside houses lavishly painted in may well have used the setting of sandbars, some of the longest, cent shapes out of the soft, sand - in the late 19th century when shades of yellow, mauve and cop - the remote, windswept and magical widest and quietest expanses of stone cliffs.” Que bec legislation enabled is- per red. The striking colours are Iles de la Madeleine for the classic white sand imaginable. And While the Maggies claim untold landers to buy back their land. an Acadian tradition, begun as play. Situated in the middle of the where the only sunbathers are numbers of ships, many crew and Yet the Maggies were still a fami - navigational aids for fishermen. Gulf of St. Lawrence, the hook- flocks of rare and exotic birds. passengers survived, thanks to hero - ly fiefdom, privately owned by Not everyone with a fondness shaped Madeleines (Magdelines to A weathered grey plank from a ic efforts of is land ers. A survivor the descendants of Coffin, who for the sea is engaged in fishing. the minority of English-speakers or shipwreck, supporting a computer was John Savage from the Isle of lived abroad. For the princely Following a near-drowning acci - just “the Maggies”) are the final at a popular bistro, Les Pas Jersey who established a general sum of $50,000, Quebec bought dent while fishing for lobster, resting place for hundreds of ships Perdus , is a recent relic from the store in 1880 that in recent years the islands in 1949, entitling is - Claude Baurgeois gave up earning deep. The cathedral-like St. Pierre has be come a popular restaurant. landers to become part of Canada a living from the sea and created a de la Verniere Church, the most Over one of Café de la Grave’s spe - when Newfoundland entered con - remarkable open-air museum. Former editor and publisher of prominent landmark on the island cialties, delicious clam chowder in a federation. Adjacent to a fir and white spruce the Humboldt Journal, Donald L. of Cap Aux Meules, is built large - bread bowl, I felt as though I was “We even had our own curren - forest, Le Site D’Autrefois de - Telfer has contributed to over a ly of shipwrecks. The latest ves - stepping back in time as pianist cy,” Sebastian Cummings said scribes fishing, farming and the hundred newspapers and maga - sel to meet its untimely end is the Jean-Marc Cormier entertained on proudly. Cummings is an ener - first lifeline to the mainland, the zines in Canada, the U.S. and Duke of Connaught, a floating the century-old upright. getic businessman who, among telegraph. abroad such as the Globe and drydock that broke in two, its The pebbly beach behind the other endeavours in the off sea - Near the northern end of the Mail, Edmonton Journal, New rusting hull left to count down the restaurant is the historic site where son, escorts group tours from English-speaking island of Grosse York Post, Dallas Morning News, ages near the towering copper-red Acadians came ashore in 1755. Paris and sells truckloads of Isle is Holy Trinity Anglican CNN Traveller London, and Time cliffs at Cap Savage. Deported by the British from what Christ mas trees on a street corner Church. The tiny church contains Warner Hong Kong. “The landscape changes every is now Nova Scotia, New Bruns - in New York City. “And we is - stained glass windows behind the wick and Prince Edward Island, landers are very resourceful.” altar with the inscription, “And I the early French settlers moved to The mainstay of the economy will make you fishers of men.” the Magdalens. They later were is fishing, and bounty from the The central figure is Jesus, wearing forced to pay rent when King sea is evident throughout the George III gave the islands to a islands. Fishing boats bob gently — TOURISM , page 15 Any cut to green energy is short-term

By Doug Wagner, the generation mix. With the cost of equipment New Hamburg, Ont. In politics, the top priority is continuing to come down as tech - Troy Media always getting re-elected, and a nology is improved, it was ex - move that is perceived to put the pected that the next tender would The cancellation of the next brakes on electricity price in - see purchases contracted for even round of tenders for more green creases is sure to gain popularity. less. energy in Ontario comes as no However, we need to consider Compare this to the recent surprise — but it’s still a serious the facts. request from Ontario Power mistake. Studies show that only five per Generation (OPG), the owner of From a political perspective, cent of the price increases have the Pickering and Darlington the decision is understandable, if been caused by the introduction nuclear plants. To cover the esti - wrongheaded. of green energy. This makes sense mated $12.8-billion cost of A provincial election is since wind and solar make up rebuilding the Darlington plant, approaching and voters are upset such a small percentage of the the OPG has applied for an 11 per with electricity prices. They have total electricity produced. But cent per year increase, for the the false impression that the perception always trumps facts. next 10 years, in the price they increase in prices over the past To cancel the tender for more receive for the power they pro - few years has been caused by renewables because of mistakes duce. This would take their price green energy being introduced to made in the past on pricing is like to 16.8 cents per kWh by 2026. driving your car using only the Of course, nuclear plants as a rear view mirror. rule go over budget, so this price Wagner is the president of The first round of tenders, in may prove to be low. The recent Saturn Power Inc., a Canadian 2015, saw wind energy contracted rebuild of just two units at the Don Telfer owned renewable energy develop - at an average price of 8.59 cents Bruce nuclear plant ran more than CHURCH BUILT FROM WRECKED SHIPS — St. Pierre de la er and power producer doing busi - per kWh, and solar at 15.67 cents $2 billion over budget. Verniere Church is built largely from ships that have crashed on the ness internationally. www.troy - per kWh, fixed for the next 20 Magdalen Islands shores. media.com years. — SUSTAINABLE , page 15 November 2, 2016 Prairie Messenger 15 Use stones to build bridges, tables

Continued from page 1 is the goal of our ecumenical error and seeking forgiveness.” endeavours, which we wish to The division among Chris tians, “Jesus Christ calls us to be advance, also by renewing our he said, goes against Christ’s will ambassadors of reconciliation,” he commitment to theological dia - for his disciples, weakens their said, using stones for “building logue.” ability to serve the world and often bridges so that we can draw closer Pope Francis began the ser - makes it difficult for others to to each other, houses where we vice praying that the Holy Spirit believe Christianity is a religion of can meet together and tables — would “help us to rejoice in the peace and fraternity. yes, tables — where we can share gifts that have come to the The Gospel reading at the ser - the bread and the wine, the pres - church through the Reforma - vice, from John 15, was about ence of Jesus Christ who has never tion.” In an interview released Jesus being the vine and his disci - left us and who calls us to abide in Oct. 28, he said those gifts were ples being the branches. In his him so the world may believe.” greater appreciation of the Bible homily, Junge said that too often A joint statement signed in as God’s word and an acknowl - over the past 499 years, Catholics Lund by Pope Francis and edgment that members of the and Lutherans saw each other “as Lutheran Bishop Munib Younan, church are called to a process of branches separated from the true president of the Lutheran World ongoing reform. vine, Christ.” Federation, said, “Many members The service was punctuated Yet, he said, “Jesus never for - E. Krawchuk got us, even when we seemed to of our communities yearn to with music from around the Room at the ‘Inn’ receive the eucharist at one table world, including a Kyrie or “Lord have forgotten him, losing our - selves in violent and hateful as the concrete expression of full Have Mercy” in Aramaic, the lan - togetherness and comfort actions.” unity.” guage Jesus spoke. Catholic and unafraid yet watchful After 50 years of Catholic- Particularly referring to Lutheran leaders took turns asking resting on a bed of autumn leaves Catholic-Lutheran married cou - God’s forgiveness for maintaining Lutheran dialogue, Junge said, offered by maples ples, the two leaders’ statement divisions, “bearing false witness” “we acknowledge that there is lightly spread by breezes said, “We experience the pain of against each other and allowing much more that unites us than nightly we’ll await their return. those who share their whole lives, political and economic interests to that which separates us. We are but cannot share God’s redeeming exacerbate the wounds in the branches of the same vine. We are By Eva Krawchuk presence at the eucharistic table. Body of Christ. one in baptism.” We acknowledge our joint pas - Lutheran Archbishop Antje toral responsibility to respond to Jackelen of Uppsala, the first the spiritual thirst and hunger of woman to serve as primate of Tourism an important source of income our people to be one in Christ.” Sweden, read the Gospel at the However, they did not autho - service. Continued from page 14 Pierre Trudeau and his wife The exhibit outlines the exploding rize further opportunities for In his homily, Pope Francis Margaret – the affair is injected with population since the seal pelt trade shared communion, but expressed insisted that Catholics and Lu - rubber boots and dressed in a fish - non-stop advances of extravagant went into decline and the devastat - longing “for this wound in the therans must “look with love and erman’s sweater and blue jeans. landscapes, velvety seas of waving ing effect it had on the fishing Body of Christ to be healed. This honesty at our past, recognizing Tourism has become an in creas - wildflowers, and an un ending selec - industry. Before anti-seal groups ingly important source of income. tion of fine French cuisine. championed their cause, there were Travelling by ferry from another A bounty of seafood such as some two million of the mammals jewel in the gulf, Prince Edward fresh mussels, crab and lobster in the sea. Now, many millions Island, visitors come to bask in the dominates island restaurants. To feed on the all-important cod. BOSCO FOUNDATION beauty and civility of the islands. my surprise, seal meat was on the “The overpopulation has had a John Bosco Unlike Shakespeare’s island of tur - menu. With images of cute baby devastating effect on our econo - moil, the calm, tidy and isolated seals, I was hesitant to dig into a my,” said Pascal Arseneau of the Child & Family Services Foundation Maggies are a grand place to disap - dinner of the marine mammal so Iles de la Madeleine Tourism pear from the hassles of civilization. championed during the anti-seal Asso ciation. “The seal pelts were The John Bosco Child and Family Services Foundation (Bosco A summer ref uge to escape the tem - fever. sold for fur and fat for oil. And the Foundation) is a public foundation dedicated to the provision of pests of life – author Farley Mowat The Seal Interpretation Centre seal meat is still a delicacy for buildings and facilities used for the treatment, education and had a cottage in one of the only on the adjacent island of Grand- Islanders.” housing of children, adolescents and adults who are in need of English-speaking communities, and Entrée describes the four species of Just the stuff for another Shake- support. visitors were former prime minister seals in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. spearean saga. Bosco Foundation believes in assisting non-profit and charitable organizations who provide vital services which aid vulnerable Sustainable energy has its advantages people in our society. We do this by providing our facilities to various non-profit and charitable agencies at below market level Continued from page 14 would all be happy, but it doesn’t. of generation that has a known rental rates. Ontario’s industrial prices, fuel cost going forward, indepen - Our facilities are used for social services group care, foster Consider also that solar only compared to the other 59 prov - dent of what happens to natural produces power during the day, inces and states, rank slightly gas or uranium prices. care, adult mental health care, the St. Francis Food Bank, two when demand for electricity is at below the median at 8.35 cents You don’t have to be a mathe - AA groups and a NE Edmonton cadet core among others. its highest, and the large wind (the median is 8.41 cents). Mani - matician to see that halting green In addition, we provide volunteer services to assist two small non- farms have a curtailment clause in toba is lowest at 4.67 cents, energy while planning to rebuild their contracts that allows the Quebec second at 5.17 cents (both nuclear plants will lead to higher profit organizations working with low income seniors and victims Independent Electricity System derive over 85 per cent of their electricity prices. of stroke with fundraising and volunteer recruitment assistance. Operator (IESO) to shut them power from hydro, compared to Cancelling the tenders for The Bosco Foundation is currently working with a large service down when power isn’t needed Ontario’s 24 per cent), and Hawaii more renewables was purely organization on a joint project with the aim of providing by giving five minutes notice to is highest at 31.1 cents per kWh. political, intended to gain elec - affordable housing for low-income seniors. the wind farm operator. 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By Carol Glatz The joint statement said the Pope Francis was a priest in regime’s reign and learned that “he de Mayo — a group that had procedures required for consult - Buenos Aires during Argentina’s had played a role on the side of the asked the pope to open up church VATICAN CITY (CNS) — ing the documents were to be 1976 - 1983 military dictatorship; people” by working behind the archives to find information iden - Following the authorization and detailed shortly, and if specified he served as the provincial supe - scenes to save suspected dissidents. tifying or locating children who recommendations of Pope that only those who were victims, rior of the Jesuits in Argentina The pope also met in 2014 were taken from their mothers Francis, documents housed in the immediate family members of the between 1973 and 1979. The with Estela de Carlotto, founder while they were under military Vatican and Argentine church’s disappeared or detained and, “in clandestine war led by govern - of the Grandmothers of the Plaza detention. archives pertaining to Argentina’s the case of religious or clerics, ment security forces saw as many “dirty war” will be made avail - also their major superiors” were as 30,000 Argentines kidnapped, able for review, said a joint press allowed to have access to the tortured, murdered or disap - statement. materials. peared, never to be seen again. The aim of cataloguing, digi - It said members representing Many priests were killed by talizing and unsealing the materi - the Vatican secretariat and the the military for their work. Other als for consultation only to people bishops’ conference met at the priests involved themselves with closely affected by the military Vatican Oct. 15 to evaluate the the dictatorship. In 1996, regime’s atrocities was to serve now-completed work of catalogu - Argentina’s bishops admitted they “truth, justice and peace, continu - ing and digitalizing materials did not do enough to stop atroci - ing dialogue open to the culture from 1976 to 1983 stored in the ties during that period. of encounter,” it said. archives of the national bishops’ The Association of Mothers of The joint statement was conference, the Vatican’s Secre- the Plaza de Mayo, which advo - released Oct. 25 by the Vatican tariat of State and the apostolic cates for justice in the name of Secretariat of State and the nunciature in Buenos Aires. their children who were disap - Argentine bishops’ conference. It said the process of organiz - peared during the war, has said In Buenos Aires, Cardinal ing and digitalizing “is complet - the church’s silence was harmful. Mario Aurelio Poli told a news ed” and had been “carried out in Hebe de Bonafini, one of the conference: “We believe this ser - conformity with the decisions and association’s founders, had a pri - vice is a service to the homeland indications of the Holy Father.” vate two-hour meeting with Pope and for the reconciliation of The project was also “a continua - Francis in May. A once-fierce critic Argentines. We are not afraid of tion of work already begun years of then-Archbishop Bergoglio, she the archives. The archives contain ago by the Argentine bishops’ told journalists she had been mis - the truth of history.” conference,” it said. taken about his role during the Human ashes to be buried, not scattered

CNS/Remo Casilli, Reuters By Cindy Wooden consecrated place. with the dead, including for EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY — Coffins are seen in a collapsed cemetery While the Catholic Church Catholics. Oct. 31 following an earthquake near Norcia, Italy. Priests in central VATICAN CITY (CNS) — continues to prefer burial in the Cremation, in and of itself, Italy were instructed to celebrate mass outdoors following another dev - Professing belief in the resurrec - ground, it accepts cremation as an does not constitute a denial of astating earthquake that rocked the region and brought one its most tion of the dead and affirming that option, but forbids the scattering belief in the immortality of the spiritually and historically significant churches tumbling down — the the human body is an essential of ashes and the growing practice soul and the resurrection of the Basilica of St. Benedict. part of a person’s identity, the of keeping cremated remains at body, the instruction says. Nor Catholic Church insists that the home, said Cardinal Gerhard does it “prevent God, in his Catholics, Lutherans pledge bodies of the deceased be treated Müller, prefect of the Congre ga - omnipotence, from raising up the with respect and laid to rest in a tion for the Doctrine of the Faith. deceased body to new life.” to serve the poor together “Caring for the bodies of the However, the Catholic Church deceased, the church confirms its wholeheartedly recommends con - faith in the resurrection and sepa - tinuing the “pious practice of By Cindy Wooden Service. The two organizations rates itself from attitudes and rites burying the dead,” Müller said. It promised to “witness and act to - that see in death the definitive is considered one of the corporal MALMO, Sweden (CNS) — gether,” supporting one another, obliteration of the person, a stage works of mercy and, mirroring The sheet of ice and the penalty including by serving the victims of in the process of reincarnation or the burial of Christ, it more clear - boxes were gone from Malmo war in Syria and Syrian refugees in the fusion of one’s soul with the ly expresses hope in the resurrec - Arena Oct. 31 as Catholics and neighbouring countries. universe,” the cardinal told tion when the person’s body and Lutherans filled the stands and The stories told in Malmo reporters Oct. 25. soul will be reunited. promised to work together for include those of a young Indian In 1963, the congregation In addition, he said, when a peace — particularly in Syria — woman working to educate people issued an instruction permitting person is buried in the ground — and for justice — especially for about climate change, the Su da- cremation as long as it was not and, at least to some extent — refugees. nese refugee runner who carried done as a sign of denial of the when the urn of the person’s ashes Pope Francis and leaders of the the flag for the Olympic Refugee basic Christian belief in the resur - is placed in a columbarium or Lutheran World Federation con - Team, the head of Caritas Co - rection of the dead. The permis - tomb, the final resting place is tinued their ecumenical commem - lombia working for peace and a oration of Reformation Day in an woman from Burundi who adopt - sion was incorporated into the marked with the person’s name, the same name with which the per - arena that usually hosts hockey ed and sheltered seven children Code of Canon Law in 1983 and son was baptized and by which the games. But kicking off a year of during her country’s genocidal the Code of Canons of the East - person is called by God. events to culminate in the 2017 rampage in the 1990s. ern churches in 1990. “Belief in the resurrection of commemoration of the 500th Lutheran Bishop Munib However, Müller said, church the flesh is fundamental,” he said. anniversary of the Protestant Younan, president of the Lutheran law had not specified exactly “A human cadaver is not trash” Reformation, the arena was trans - World Federation and bishop of what should be done with “cre - and an anonymous burial or scat - formed into a venue for song and Jordan and the Holy Land, co- mains,” and several bishops’ con - tering of ashes “is not compatible witness. hosting the event with the pope, ferences asked the congregation with the Christian faith. The Chaldean Bishop Antoine Audo also spoke as a refugee, the son of to provide guidance. name, the person, the concrete of Aleppo, Syria, called on all Palestinians from Beersheba. “All The result, approved by Pope identity of the person” is impor - Christians to join their voices in refugees are my brothers and sis - Francis after consultation with tant because God created each prayer and in pressuring their gov - ters,” he said. other Vatican offices and with bish - individual and calls each individ - ernments to stop the bloodshed “I ask each of you to pray for ops’ conferences and the Eastern ual to himself. and destruction in his homeland. my country and for the just reso - CNS/Gregory A. Shemitz churches’ synods of bishops, is Ad ALL SOULS’ DAY — An angel In fact, when asked if there was The bishop, who is president lution of the Israeli-Palestinian resurgendum cum Christo (To Rise any way to rectify the situation of Caritas Syria, announced that conflict,” he said. “Pray that figurine is seen near a headstone with Christ), an instruction “regard - in the cemetery at the mother - when a person’s ashes al ready had Christian humanitarian work in God’s will of justice will be done. ing the burial of the deceased and house of the Sisters of St. Dominic been scattered, Müller suggested his country would follow the Pray that Jerusalem would be a of Amityville, N.Y. All Souls’ Day, the conservation of the ashes in the making a memorial in a church or motto: “Become Christians city shared by three religions — celebrated Nov. 2, commemorates case of cremation.” other appropriate place and includ - Together,” focusing on how serv - Judaism, Christianity and Islam the deceased. A recent Vatican Presenting the instruction, ing the name of the deceased. ing Christ must include serving — and two peoples — Palest - document prefers burial of a per - Müller said, “shortly, in many “Only in grave and exceptional others, especially the poorest and inians and Israelis.” son’s remains in the ground and countries, cremation will be con - cases,” the instruction says, local most needy. Pope Francis told the crowd in forbids scattering the ashes. sidered the ordinary way” to deal bishops may give permission for A centrepiece of the Malmo the arena that the ecumenical ashes to be kept in a private event was the signing of a “decla - agreement is a fruit of 50 years of home. Müller said it was not up ration of intent” by the heads of Catholic-Lutheran dialogue and It is not what you gather, but what you scatter, that to him, but to local and national Caritas Internationalis , the its affirmations of a common faith tells what kind of life you have lived. bishops’ conferences to determine Vatican-based confederation of and a common baptism in Jesus. — Anonymous what those “grave and exception - Catholic charities, and the Lu- He prayed that it would unleash a al” circumstances might be. theran World Federation’s World “revolution of tenderness.”