Single Issue: $1.00 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40030139 CATHOLIC JOURNAL Vol. 95 No. 16 October 4, 2017 Saskapriest Pope launches ‘Share the Journey’ Rev. Darryl Millette of the Roman By Cindy Wooden Catholic of VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Saskatoon Christ calls believers to welcome podcasts his migrants and refugees “with arms homilies, wide open, ready to give a sincere, has over affectionate, enveloping embrace,” 3,000 said, launching the followers on Twitter and “Share the Journey” campaign of extends his ministry through Catholic charities around the a blog he calls “Saskapriest.” world. — page 3 Christians’ embrace of people Us & Them fleeing war or poverty should be “a bit like the colonnade of St. Filmmaker Krista Loughton Peter’s Square, which represents has made a the mother who embraces film, Us & all in sharing a common journey,” the pope said at the end of his Them, weekly general audience Sept. 27. which doc - With hundreds of refugees and uments the migrants present in St. Peter’s friendships Square, Pope Francis said the she devel - Catholic charities’ staff and vol - oped over unteers who assist them are “a 10 years with four chroni - sign of a church that seeks to be cally homeless people in open, inclusive and welcoming.” Victoria, BC. She says the “Share the Journey” is a two- process “taught me to pro - year campaign sponsored by CNS/Paul Haring vide unconditional love in a , the global non-judgmental way.” POPE LAUNCHES NEW PROGRAM — Pope Francis greets Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of , network of national Catholic Philippines, and immigrants during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sept. 27. — page 6 charities to promote encounters Immigrants were in attendance as Caritas Internationalis launched its "Share the Journey" campaign in Icon writing between people on the move and support of immigrants. people living in the countries they Gisele Bauche and Anna are leaving, passing through or Antonio Tagle of Manila, presi - ‘Share the Journey’ is not just a lifestyle,” an affirmation that Mycyk, who have have col - arriving in. dent of Caritas Internationalis , title or a label for a program — it lab orated as teachers of icon - Philippine Cardinal Luis told Catholic News Service, “ is that, but more than that, it is a — GESTURES , page 15 ography for nearly 20 years, affirm that the spiritual prac - Amoris Laetitia a call for ‘new pastoral conversion’ tice of icon writing is thriving. — page 6 By Deborah Gyapong ered for their annual plenary Sept. sons, to better integrate them in to integrate people in fragile cir - New political 25 - 29. the community and to help them cumstances, he said. moment CORNWALL, Ont. (CCN) — The document does not signal live out their vocations, he said. Accompanying means having Cardinal warned “changes to doctrine or to sacra - Accompanying, discerning and “confidence in the grace at work “ . . . the long journey to nu - Can ada’s against “alarm - mental discipline,” but represents integrating weakness represent clear disarmament demands ist” interpretations of Pope Francis’ a pastoral approach taking into the new pastoral direction needed — LOOK PAST , page 5 that we in the peace move - Amoris Laetitia , “The Joy of consideration “the good of the ment fight to bring Love.” person” and his or her concrete Historic Winnipeg synod back where it belongs — in circumstances, said Ouellet, the the forefront of the struggle former of now at midway point to end the ultimate evil,” said and Primate of Canada before his Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C., appointment by Pope Benedict at the recent Group of 78 XVI in 2010 to his present post. By James Buchok communities and groups conference in Ottawa. “Any alarmist interpretation” such as the Catholic Wom en’s — page 9 that says the document is “a break WINNIPEG — The synod of League and the Knights of with tradition,” or a “permissive the Archdiocese of Winnipeg, the Columbus and youth, and you are Two traditions in terpretation that celebrates ac- first in its 100-year history, has part of the synod process.” cess to the sacraments” for the reached the midway point with last Two previous orientation ses - Both Catholic and Anglican divorced and remarried, is “un - fall’s Listening Sessions leading to sions were held at St. Augustine’s points of departure carry faithful to the text and to the inten - last spring’s Focus Commissions Church in Brandon Sept. 15 and merits and risks, writes tions of the Supreme Pontiff,” and the preparation of white papers St. Viator’s Church in Dauphin Rev. Marie-Louise Ternier. Ouellet said. containing proposals to be put to Sept. 16. But, our “common ground He noted the “contrasting reac - the delegates of the upcoming The Archdiocese of Winnipeg is Christ himself.” tions” to the post-synodal apos - Synod General Sessions. director of Pastoral Services Ted — page 12 tolic exhortation, “delighting In September, the 200 dele - Wood said the word synod means Catholic extremism some, worrying others, leaving gates to the General Sessions “to come together, to walk togeth - none indifferent.” attended one of three orientation er, to go forward upon a path,” Catholic Women Speak has Some saw in it a welcome, a gatherings to learn how the ses - adding that Pope Francis calls us issued a statement express - CCN/D. Gyapong new openness for the divorced and sions will work and what their to be a more “synodal church.” ing dismay at the increasing Cardinal Marc Ouellet remarried, others saw it as a risk, roles will be. He said a synod is not very com - ferocity and intensity of “a break with the traditional doc - “You’re a very important per - mon among Canadian . online attacks perpetrated by Though the document’s Chap - trine and discipline” of the Catho - son,” said Archbishop Richard “We entered into this as an act the Catholic far right, and ter 8 opens the door by way of a lic Church, he said. Chapter 8 Gagnon to 100 of the delegates at of faith,” Gagnon said. “We had to how many Catholic institu - footnote to the sacraments of became the “interpretive key” for an orientation session at St. craft it for our own particular dio - tions are being swayed by penance and the “in cer - the document, making people Anthony of Padua Church (West cese.” He called the synod process, the threat of attack from tain cases,” these are “exceptions,” judge it as either “positive and wel - Kildonan) in Winnipeg Sept. 21. “an action of the Holy Spirit.” these groups. the for the Congregation of come,” or “ambiguous and risky.” “You have been appointed a dele - The delegates to the General — page 12 Bishops told more than 80 bishops Instead, Chapter 8 is a call for gate to the synod and this is a key Sessions are elected members, ex and eparchs of the Canadian Con- a “new pastoral conversion,” to component in the work of the ference of Catholic Bishops gath - comfort and help suffering per - Holy Spirit. You represent your — HOLY SPIRIT , page 6 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS October 4, 2017 Church must openly share its shortcomings: Dolan

By Peter Finney Jr. ever met a functional one?” love the church because of her general, but there’s no army.’ They Breslin once wrote: “We Catholics Dolan, who spoke on the theme imperfections. The mystical body want Christ without his church.” might not be very good at being NEW ORLEANS (CNS) — of “Shepherding Today as , of Christ has lots of warts.” Dolan said Pope Francis has members of the church, but we New York Cardinal Timothy M. Prophet and King,” said in the However, Dolan noted, it is made it clear that a Christian can - never leave. We’re all just one Dolan suggested to more than 400 jubilee year of 2000, St. John Paul clear from the Acts of the Apos - not be “a nomad” but is someone chest pain away from going back.” of the state of Louisiana II “apologized publicly” 54 times tles, in particular the conversion of who “belongs to a people, the “Not anymore, I’m afraid,” that humbly and openly sharing for “the specific sins of the St. Paul, that “Jesus Christ and his church. A Christian without a Dolan said. “I don’t know about the “wounds” and shortcomings of church.” church are inseparable.” church is something purely ideal - you, but every time the Pew the church might bring those who “That’s more than once a When Saul was blinded and istic.” Research Centre puts out a new are alienated back to the practice week,” Dolan said. “And Pope knocked off his horse on his way “We live in a world that often study, every time CARA (Centre of the faith. Francis surely has done so.” to Damascus, Dolan said, the considers belief in God a private for Applied Research in the Using the image of the church The cardinal said while the voice he heard was, “Saul, Saul, hobby, at best, a dangerous ideolo - Apostolate) announces more statis - as “our supernatural family, which world is “ever ready to headline why do you persecute me?” gy, at worst,” Dolan said. “The tics, I, as a priest, a shepherd, a we, as priests, are called to im - the flaws of the church,” the “He didn’t say, ‘Why do you church is considered superstitious, prophet and a king, hold my breath age,” Dolan told the opening ses - dynamic changes when “her loyal persecute my people?’ Nope. ‘My irrational, backward, useless, because the percentage of people sion of the three-day Louisiana members are more than willing to followers?’ Nope. ‘My disciples?’ counterproductive, out of it. So, who claim to be ex-Catholic or Priests’ Convention that human own up to them.” Nope. To be rather blunt, Jesus and what do we do, my fellow muse - ‘none’ rises a couple of points.” weakness has been a part of the If that happens, people es - his church are the same. Christ and um pieces?” If people with a cynical or church from the beginning. tranged from the church “might his church are one. Jesus Christ Dolan suggested to the 435 jaded view of the church experi - “The church is not just our just take a second look,” he said. and his church are synonymous,” priests that they evangelize by ence priests who “prize honesty family — it’s also a dysfunctional “Their favourite caricature of the cardinal continued. developing “a and a and humility” and are “contrite family,” he said Sept. 19 during the church is as a corrupt, arro - “My priests, as we con - practice of the church as a family.” and eager” to reform the flaws of what is one of the largest state- gant, self-righteous, judgmental sider the priesthood, preserving He said it’s not a new idea; it’s one the church, then they may begin to wide gatherings of priests in the hypocrite,” Dolan said. “I sure the unity of Christ and his church that also resonates with the Jewish view the church as “a warm, ten - U.S. “Everybody today talks about don’t have any problem admitting is perhaps the most significant community, which is experiencing der, inviting family.” dysfunctional families. Have you that, at times, it can be tough to pastoral challenge we shepherds similar challenges of keeping “If we’re not afraid as priests to face today,” Dolan said. “I’m not young people within the practice show our wounds — the wounds telling you anything (new) — of their faith. of the church, the wounds of our you’re all on the front lines. The Dolan said the late New York family — maybe the other wound - dominant opinion and sentiment newspaper columnist Jimmy ed will come back,” Dolan said. that we face today is, ‘We want Christ; we want nothing to do with Legal action needed that stupid church.’ ’’ A YouTube video by evangeli - cal Jefferson Bethke — “Why I for Holy Land violence hate religion but love Jesus” — “went viral with 27 million views” By Judith Sudilovsky charges of police inefficiency in because of that sentiment, he said. vandalism investigations. “Such is the popular and the JERUSALEM (CNS) — “There have been arrests in pre - successful crusade now to annul Chris tians in the Holy Land, vious cases. We are looking into the spousal bond between Christ including Catholic leaders, have this case to see if it was an individ - and his bride, the church,” Dolan expressed frustration with lack of ual or a group. These are all sepa - said. “We hear this all the time, legal action against cases of dese - rate cases,” said Rosenfeld. CNS/Cathal McNaughton, Reuters right? ‘I prefer spirituality to reli - cration and vandalism of sacred He said authorities do not ROHINGYA REFUGEES IN BANGLADESH — A severely malnour - gion; I want the Lord as my shep - places. believe there is any connection ished child is seen as Rohingya refugees wait to receive aid Sept. 25 at herd, as long as I’m the only one Even as the Assembly of between most of the cases nor a camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Immigrants and refugees need to there; I want Christ as my king in Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy some sort of “vandalism cell” be respected and assisted, not treated like an enemy, a panel said dur - a kingdom of one; I’ll believe, I Land issued a statement con - operating against Christian and ing a Sept. 27 news conference at the Vatican launching the Caritas won’t belong; God is my father, demning the Sept. 20 desecration Muslim holy sites. “Share the Journey” campaign. and I’m the only child; Jesus is my and vandalism of a Catholic As in past statements, the bish - in Israel, some people criti - ops called for better education cized the statement’s “weak lan - toward tolerance and coexistence. Group takes issue with pope’s teachings guage” and asked, “How long will we be tolerant?” By Cindy Wooden questions, known as “dubia,” that civilly; to check if their sacramen - “Unfortunately, in these they had sent to Pope Francis tal marriage was valid or if they situations we feel how vul - VATICAN CITY (CNS) — about his teaching on the family. could receive a decree of nullity; nerable we are,” one person Several dozen priests, scholars As recently as August, Burke and to lead them in a process of wrote on Face book. and writers have published what spoke in an interview about issu - discernment about their responsi - The latest incident took they described as a “filial correc - ing a “formal correction” of Pope bility for the breakup and about place Sept. 19 at St. Stephen tion” of some of Pope Francis’ Francis if he refused to respond to their current situation in light of Church inside the Beit Jamal teachings about marriage — par - the “dubia.” The correction, he church teaching. The document Salesian monastery west of ticularly about access to the said, would be a declaration of seemed to open the possibility — Jerusalem. The monastery is sacraments for divorced and civil - church teaching, rather than a set in certain cases and after the dis - open for visitors and general - ly remarried Catholics. of questions. cernment process — of allowing ly has good relations with its The best-known name among The new letter accuses Pope them to receive absolution and Jewish neighbours, including the signatories is Bernard Francis of “the propagation of communion even without promis - the residents of an ultra- Fellay, superior general of the tra - heresies effected by the apostolic ing to abstain from sexual rela - Orthodox town, said Salesian ditionalist Priestly Society of St. exhortation ‘ Amoris Laetitia ’ and tions with their new partner. Father Antonio Scudu, care - Pius X, a group still involved in by other words, deeds and omis - The “filial correction” lists what taker of the church. Pilgrims talks with the Vatican aimed at sions of Your Holiness.” its authors see as seven “false and to the church discovered the regularizing its status within the “Amoris Laetitia ” (“The Joy of heretical propositions” in “ Amoris vandalism, which included a . Love”) is the document Pope Laetitia ,” including: a belief that shattered statue of Mary, bro - The letter originally was signed Francis released in 2016 reflect - God’s grace does not give a believ - ken faces of figures on the by 40 people and delivered to ing on the discussions and con - er the strength to meet “the objec - stained glass windows, and a Pope Francis in August; the writ - clusions of the meetings in 2014 tive demands of divine law”; that destroyed cross. ers said they did not receive a and 2015 of the Synod of Bishops divorced and civilly remarried per - “I was shocked,” said CNS/Dylan Martinez, Reuters response, so they released it pub - on the family. sons “are not necessarily in a state Scudu. “I didn’t expect to BARBARA BLAINE DIES — Barbara licly Sept. 24, launching a website In the document, Pope Francis of mortal sin”; that a person can see something like this. The Blaine, who founded the Survivors as well: www.correctiofilialis.org affirmed church teaching that the break divine law and not be in a church is always open. If Network of Those Abused by Priests The Vatican press office had sacrament of marriage is the bond state of sin; that a person can you see what happened, you (SNAP) and served as its president until no comment about the letter. of one man and one woman united decide in good conscience that sex - feel they did it with hate. last February, died Sept. 24 in St. U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. for life and open to having children. ual relations are morally permissi - They smashed everything.” George, Utah. She was 61. She was her - Burke, former head of the Vati - However, the document also ble or even good with someone It is the third time the self a victim of clergy sexual abuse in her Beit Jamal community has teen years. Blaine founded SNAP in 1988 can’s top court, and German encouraged and priests other than the person they married with an ad placed in the National Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, for - to reach out to couples whose sacramentally; and that “our Lord been vandalized in the past Catholic Reporter. After getting a theol - mer president of the Pontifical marriages have failed, reminding Jesus Christ wills that the church five years. ogy degree, Blaine — who eventually Com mittee for Historical Sciences, them that they have not been abandon her perennial discipline of Israel Police spokesperson became a lawyer — spent her years after did not sign the letter. Along with excommunicated. refusing the eucharist to the Micky Rosenfeld said evi - college serving and living with homeless two other cardinals who are now In “ Amoris Laetitia ,” Pope divorced and remarried.” dence had been collected at people in a Catholic Worker house in deceased, they publicly released in Francis asked pastors: to accom - The letter asked the pope to pub - the site and the investigation Chicago. SNAP’s first meetings were September 2016 a critical set of pany those who have remarried licly reject the seven propositions. was ongoing. He denied held in a Catholic Worker house there. October 4, 2017 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 3 Bishops address a range of concerns at plenary

By Deborah Gyapong was not on the official agenda for the five days of meetings, any CORNWALL, Ont. (CCN) — papal visit would depend on the Any decision about a papal visit support of Canada’s bishops. will not come during the annual “The pope would never come to plenary Sept. 25 - 29 of the Cana - a country unless the conference dian Conference of Catholic was in favour or supported it, or Bishops (CCCB), said its outgo - wanted him to come,” Crosby said. ing president. High on the agenda for the “Any discussion about inviting bishops was a pastoral response to Pope Francis will probably be Pope Francis’ post-synodal Apos - more focused on our ongoing re- tolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia , sponse to the Truth and Recon - which has generated controversy ciliation Com mission (TRC),” and prompted divergent interpre - said Bishop Douglas Crosby of tations by some bishops’ confer - Hamilton in an interview Sept. 25. ences around the world on how “The issue of a papal visit we far it opens the door to commu - really have to look at seriously be - nion for the divorced and remar - cause it can be really expensive.” ried (see related story, page 14). “That’s why there is a lot of On Sept. 25, Crosby told the CCN/D. Gyapong discussion with government and bishops the conference had re- RE-CONSECRATION OF CANADA TO OUR LADY — Canada’s three cardinals led their fellow bishops with other agencies,” Crosby ceived an unusual phone call in re-consecrating Canada to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sept. 26. Cardinal Gerald Cyprien Lacroix, said. “It won’t take place under from Prime Minister Justin Cardinal Marc Ouellet, and Cardinal Thomas Collins led more than 80 bishops and eparchs from across my watch. It will be the responsi - Trudeau, asking for the bishops’ Canada and hundreds lay faithful in the consecration prayer at Ottawa’s Notre Dame Basilica. bility of the next executive.” help in providing “a better under - The consecration marked Canada’s 150th birthday as well as the 70th anniversary of the 1947 Marian While one of the TRC Calls to standing of Islam” in the wake of Congress in Ottawa where Canada was first consecrated to the Immaculate Heart. The mass also marked Action demands the pope make an the mosque shooting in Quebec the 50th anniversary of Development and Peace — Caritas Canada, the Canadian bishops’ overseas devel - apology for Indian residential City Jan. 29 that killed six and opment agency. Development and Peace was founded in 1967 on Canada’s 100th anniversary year. schools on Canadian soil, Crosby injured another 19. said he doubted Pope Francis “I was able to say we had pro - offer a whole section on Islam. logue with Islam” as part of its become too large, the archbishop would come “just for an apology.” duced a pastoral letter on Islam, The CCCB plenary also had a public session Sept. 26. said. The ad hoc committee in And while a vote on extending and in the Grade 11 program in panel discussion on “Pastoral ori - Bishop Claude Champagne of charge of the document consulted an invitation to the Holy Father the Catholic education system, we entations for inter-religious dia - Edmundston, who chaired the a range of professional experts, panel, spoke of the need to com - and the material needs to be con - bat the “virus of anti-Islamic sen - densed without losing any valu - ‘Saskapriest’ finds online audience timent” that he said was “ground - able content, he said. The docu - ed in hate,” suspicion and fear. ment will be published in 2018. By Meggie Hoegler short videos and blogging about Millette encourages other “The Gospel is the greatest tool” The CCCB plenary marked the The Catholic Register my ministry,” said Millette. priests to use social media as a against this, the bishop said, 500th anniversary of the Protes - His latest online ministry is a tool of ministry. because “we are called to love tant Reformation Sept. 25 with an Rev. Darryl Millette is a social video series appropriately named “It can be a challenge when our neighbour as ourselves.” ecumenical prayer service with media-savvy priest. He podcasts My Catholic Story, which chroni - you’re as busy as we are,” said Archbishop Anthony Mancini Archbishop Richard Gagnon of his homilies, has over 3,000 fol - cles parishioners’ faith journeys. Millette. “Not everyone has the of Halifax updated the bishops on Winnipeg co-presiding with Rev. lowers on Twitter and extends his time or the abili - the progress of the replacement Susan Johnson, National Bishop ministry through a cleverly named ty, but most document for “From Pain to of the Evangelical Lutheran blog — Saskapriest. priests still have Hope,” the 1992 document that Church in Canada. The prayer Millette, 39, is the pastor at a parish website responded to the clerical sexual Holy Spirit Parish in Saskatoon. or social media abuse crisis. The document has — SOCIETY, page 4 He uses Saskapriest to share pod - accounts run by casts, videos and blog posts about someone who is Archbishop Bolen named the faith. To him, social media are hired to do so.” a way to stay connected with his In addition to parish outside of the weekly mass. online outreach, St. Paul Alumnus of the Year “The church should be where Millette teams up people are and there are certainly with his Wheaten OTTAWA — On Sept. 29, St. he joins the company of many a lot of people on social media,” terrier, Chloe, to Paul University in Ottawa present - well-accomplished and celebrated said Millette. “Pope Francis tells bring joy and ed the 2017 Alumnus of the Year men and women who have made us to go out into the periphery. comfort to the Award to Archbishop Donald and are making significant im- Online is no longer the periphery, community. Bolen. Pope Francis appointed pacts and contributions to build - it’s the norm.” “Dogs are Bolen the eighth Archbishop of ing a more humane society.” Millette’s family bought their such wonderful Regina on July 11, 2016. The in- “I am pleased to learn of the sig - first computer in 1986, when he creatures,” said stallation ceremony was held Oct. nal honour which St. Paul Uni - was eight years old, and he created Catholic Register/CCN Millette, as Chloe 14, 2016 at Holy Cathedral. versity is conferring on Arch bishop his first website 10 years later. He Rev. Darryl Millette barks in the back - The award recognizes the out - Bolen as Alumnus of the Year,” was passionate about technology ground. “If I standing achievement of one of St. said Ottawa Archbishop Terrence and went on to study computer sci - The series is a joint effort be tween know a family is comfortable with Paul’s alumni. Bolen has dem- Prendergast, SJ. “Arch bishop Bolen ence and electrical engineering. Millette and the administrative a dog, I will bring her to funeral onstrated, through his personal and is well known for espousing the While attending the University of assistant for the Diocese of preparations. She can sense when professional mission, a steadfast path to reconciliation among Christ - Saskatchewan, he became involved Saskatoon, Sharon Leyne. She people are feeling down and her commitment toward healthier and ian bodies through his commitment with Catholic Christian Outreach finds the sources and interviews presence helps bring back joy.” more vibrant communities. He is to ecumenism; in society by his (CCO), a decision that prompted a them while Millette works behind Chloe goes just about every - best known for his extensive work devotion to indigenous peoples; and drastic career change from engi - the scenes — filming, editing where with Millette. Except mass. in the field of ecumenism, which in his preoccupation to identify neering to ministry. footage and post ing the videos to “I bring her to parish events, has spanned two decades and with and serve the urban poor.” “When I started university, I got both his blog and the archdiocese’s but never to mass. She’d be com - advanced ecumenical dialogue on Bolen obtained his honours very involved with CCO and as a Facebook page. pletely out of control,” he says, an international level. He is also bachelor’s degree in religious result, got deeper and deeper into Millette uses Instagram for laughing. known for his support of indige - studies with a minor in English my faith. When I finished my de - photo sharing and Twitter to He also finds sports a great way nous communities in Saskatchewan from Campion College at the gree, I decided to work with CCO share snippets of his life in less to connect with his community. and his dedication to charitable University of Regina. Later, he for a year. It gave me a lot of time than 140 characters. Face book, “I’m a big fan of the Sas katch- causes. His extensive resumé also entered the Seminary of St. Paul in to think, which I hadn’t had while I however, is his platform of ewan Roughriders,” said Millette, includes a large body of work in Ottawa, and completed his theo - was studying. I began to feel the choice. who enjoys discussing games and both teaching and leadership roles. logical studies at St. Paul Uni - call of God in my heart and I “It reaches the most people,” predictions with fellow fans after “Archbishop Bolen’s contribu - versity, obtaining a bachelor’s, entered the seminary a year later.” said Millette. “There is a pretty mass. “It’s about reaching people tions toward the enhancement of master’s and licentiate in theology. Millette entered St. Joseph’s even mix of parishioners — we on a human level. Social media are social justice and the achievement St. Paul University (1848) is the Seminary in 2002 and was or - have six elementary schools in the fantastic for making the first step of a more inclusive and compas - founding college of the University dained a priest in Saskatoon on area along with a bunch of seniors’ and starting a conversation, be it sionate society clearly demon - of Ottawa, with which it has been July 13, 2007. During this time, homes. There are people from all about faith, sports or something strate a strong alignment with the federated since 1965. It offers pro - he was running a personal web - ages here. Although it’s mostly else. But we still need face-to-face mission of our university,” said grams in canon law, conflict stud - site. “I was challenged by a friend millennials and young parents who interactions for the deeper discus - Chantal Beauvais, St. Paul Uni - ies, counselling and psychotherapy, to be more intentional with it. I follow my blog and Twitter, I get a sions. You can’t read someone’s versity rector. “As the recipient of human relations, philosophy, public took that to heart and began re - surprising amount of feedback facial expressions or hear the tone the St. Paul University Alumnus ethics, social communication, cording my homilies, making from retirees on Facebook.” in their voice in a Tweet.” of the Year award for 2016-2017, social innovation, and theology. 4 Prairie Messenger CANADIAN NEWS October 4, 2017 Build on grace of ad limina visit: to bishops

By Deborah Gyapong Jesus will accomplish day after day, living with his disciples, CORNWALL, Ont. (CCN) — sharing with them, showing them Canada’s bishops were urged, the works that he himself is they heard at their annual plenary, doing.” to build on the “moment of Though a bishop becomes one grace” and “fresh wind” of their at his ordination, the nuncio ad limina visits to earlier pointed out, “we are always in the this year. process of becoming bishop, that “I believe that for all, this was every day we must learn — in a moment of grace, a moment order to grow within us, the sta - which you will keep as a living, ture of Christ the Good Shepherd, tangible and unforgettable memo - from whom we must learn each ry,” Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi and every day the wise search” told the more than 80 bishops and for the one thing necessary, the eparchs gathered for the Canadian “salvation of souls.” Conference of Catholic Bishops’ This requires a permanent, not annual plenary. an occasional, “spiritual appren - The bishops travelled with ticeship,” both personal and their regional assemblies over “lived together,” he said. the spring months to meet with He urged the bishops to be Pope Francis and representa - close to their priests with “broth - tives of various in erly and paternal love,” noting Rome. the priests are the bishops’ first “It remains true — and we are neighbours. Their brother bish - witnesses to this each day — that ops are also their first neigh - the church is marked by many bours. weaknesses and fragilities, for the “Let us support one another,” simple reason that we who are the he said. “Let us commit ourselves church are weak and fragile,” the CCN/D. Gyapong to cultivating and growing among nuncio said. “But, however weak PLENARY ADDRESS — Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi, the Apostolic Nuncio to Canada, reminded the ourselves the episcopal fraternity. it may be, the church has a very Canadian bishops of the graces they received on their ad limina visits to Rome last spring. He spoke to the Let us help each other to remain reliable guide given her by bishops' annual plenary Sept. 25. in that ‘spiritual apprenticeship’; Christ.” that will enable Jesus, in and He quoted Pope Francis, who “The are poor sinners.” “And it will be a slow and pro - through us, to continue, as Good said during the Aug. 27, teaches us that ‘in the person of “That is why he said to Peter gressive work: ‘I will make you Shepherd, to serve this land that “Peter . . . is not a great stone; he bishops assisted by priests, it is and to the Twelve — and he is become,’ This is a formation that is yours in Canada.” is a small stone, but taken up by the Lord Jesus Christ, supreme also saying to us, ‘Come with me. Jesus, he becomes the centre of pontiff, who is present among I will make you fishers of men’ Society in ‘a state of denial’ communion.” believers.’ ” (Mk 1:17). ‘I will make you,’ “Without any wish for triumph- It is important bishops “be Jesus said. Poieo . “This verb alism, but with a peaceful realism, always accompanied by this indicates the creative action of about human trafficking we can say: ‘What other society awareness,” the nuncio said. God, the action of Jesus who per - has at this time a guide as authori - “Are we up to the task? Are forms the works of the Father,” Continued from page 3 Petrimoulx said her religious tative and as recognized as Pope we capable?” he asked. “If we the nuncio said. congregation was able to pay for Francis?’ ” look at ourselves, if we look at “It is the efficacious word that service featured prayers of repen - airfare and emergency visas for The nuncio spoke of how the our human capacities, the an - brings about what it says,” he tance for disunity in the Body of the men’s families. church is founded on the Apostles swer is certainly: no! But Christ said. “It is not Peter and his com - Christ. “We Fight” is focusing now on and Peter, their leader, and “on Jesus, the Good Shepherd who panions who by themselves In ecumenical greetings, human trafficking and helping their successors, the bishops in called us, is himself well aware become fishers of men: it is Jesus Johnson told the Catholic bishops survivors within Canada. “The union with the successor of that we are radically inadequate. who makes them fishers of men Sept. 26 she was concerned that highways from the Maritime Peter.” He knows perfectly well that we by his own power.” “we will come to the end of 2017 provinces all the way to Windsor and go back to business as usual.” are known as the human traffick - She said she hoped Catholics ing corridors where traffickers Bishops to wait on new abuse policy and Lutherans would build on the can move their victims far away fruits of this year and 50 years of from their families and supports,” By Francois Gloutnay he said. “Their remarks are now dialogue. she said. coming to us.” The bishops heard a presenta - She noted one woman had re- CORNWALL, Ont. (CNS) — He also reminded French- tion on human trafficking Sept. 26 cruited her 17-year-old daughter The Canadian bishops will not speaking bishops that they led by Bishop Raymond Poisson to recruit into the sex trade social - publish their new policy for the “strongly recommended” last year of Joliette. Poisson spoke of the ly isolated girls in one of the local protection of minors before 2018, that the French translation of this work of the Santa Marta group, an Catholic high schools. said Bishop Anthony Mancini of text be completely revised before international coalition of police Francine Cabana of CATHII Halifax-Yarmouth, N.S., chair of a possible publication. “Before officers, bishops and decision- (Le Comité d’action contre la the ad hoc committee tasked with we produce the French text, it is makers launched by Pope Francis traite humaine interne et interna - drafting this resource in 2012. important that we have finished to eliminate human trafficking, tional ) said their focus is on sexu - “No, it will not be possible,” the English version,” he said. which the Holy Father has called al exploitation in Quebec, since Mancini told his colleagues dur - “Another year and, thank God, “a wound on the body of contem - police see Montreal as a hub of ing a brief speech at the plenary it will be over,” Mancini said at porary society.” sex trafficking. It is also focusing assembly of the Canadian Con- the end of his brief statement. Sister Helen Petrimoulx, on the sexual exploitation of na - ference of Catholic Bishops Sept. In June 1992, the Canadian bish - SNJM, co-founder of “We Fight,” tive women, who are “the greatest 25. “I anticipate that the docu - ops published a report entitled a Windsor-based coalition against victims of international exploita - ment will be finalized in 2018.” “From Pain to Hope,” entirely human trafficking, said human tion.” The bishops first spoke of a devoted to sexual assaults by the trafficking has been going on for The bishops elected a new publication before the end of clergy. The bishops proposed “ways decades, but Canadian society and executive and Permanent Council 2016. Faced with delays, they and means both to eliminate in the institutions have been in a state of and choose new heads of various then planned to make it public in church the after-effects of past scan - denial about its extent. episcopal commissions during the the first months of 2017. In dals and to prevent new cases of Organized crime is involved plenary. August, Bishop Douglas Crosby, aggression against children.” and “they are powerful because we Crosby’s two-year term came president of the CCCB, suggested Last year Mancini said the do not know enough,” she said. to an end on Sept. 29. that the document could be pub - Catholic Register adoption by the Vatican of new The first victims her group “I’ll be glad to relinquish the lished before the end of the year. Bishop Anthony Mancini standards for the protection of helped were some young men title,” he said. He recalled Arch- Mancini explained that the children made it necessary to from Hungary who had been lured bishop Richard Smith of Ed mon - document has taken on such a before they release it. Fifteen revise the standards and policies to Canada by the promise of work ton telling him how much time it scale that it needs to be made lawyers, psychologists, psychia - of the bishops’ conference. in construction in Toronto. They would take up to serve. “I will more comprehensive. He also trists and insurers were consulted. “This is not a document were confined in a basement, she gain back about three months a said the bishops want to have the They “have something to say against sexual abuse,” he said. “It said, until they were able to take year of my life when I finish and text analyzed by professionals about the document,” and it is a document that places the pro - them in a van to Windsor. Or- I will be happy about this,” would be better to hear the pro - tection of young people as an ganized crime in Hungary threat - Crosby said. “The Diocese of fessionals “before rather than essential responsibility of the ened the men and their families Hamilton is a big diocese and Gloutnay is a reporter for after” this report is actually pub - bishops as leaders of the Gospel with violence, so they sought they have been very supportive Presence info, based in Montreal. lished by the bishops’ conference, and the church.” refugee status. and very patient.”

October 4, 2017 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 5 After 300 years, Ursulines prepare for fond adieu

By Alan Hustak “It’s sad, but we have to con - without an e,” she says with sider the future,” says the com - a giggle, suggesting she QUEBEC CITY — Thirty-one munity’s superior, Sister Lise wouldn’t want to be mistak - years after Samuel de Champlain Munro, who at 75 is the youngest en for Marilyn Monroe. founded Quebec City in 1608, in the convent. The first three Ursulines three Ursuline Sisters arrived in Most of the 40 Ursulines will who arrived in 1639 were New France packing little more move soon into a seniors’ resi - led by Marie de l’Incarna - than their simple possessions and dence in nearby Beauport, but a tion to heed what she their faith. Today the sisters who tiny community will stay in the believed was Christ’s call to inherited that founding legacy are old city for as long as possible. “build a house for Jesus and set to leave their grand mother - “If Marie de l’Incarnation was Mary” in Canada. She was house in much the same way. able to leave France and come to joined by an aristocratic Time has finally caught up the new world with nothing in widow, Marie Madeleine de with North America’s oldest front of her, we’ll surely be able la Peltrie, who financed the order of sisters and, too few and to leave our beloved convent and endeavour, and a novice, too old to maintain their convent, go into a modern, comfortable Charlotte Barre. Almost im - they will soon be gone from the home a few minutes away,” said mediately they opened the home in the heart of the historic Sister Helen Hayes, who joined first school in North Ameri - walled city they have occupied the order 60 years ago. ca for girls, serving First with dignity for 340 years. The sisters, resigned to the Nations and French children. move, remain cheerfully dignified Their original mona stery, under the circumstances. They in the lower town along the M. Weber Hustak writes from Montreal pray in a routine that hasn’t St. Lawrence River, burned URSULINE CONVENT IN QUEBEC CITY — Time has finally caught up for The Catholic Register. changed much in four centuries. A down 11 years later. They with North America’s oldest order of sisters and, too few and too old to visit with them is moved to the upper town maintain their convent, they will soon be gone from the home in the heart of like being in the and the foundations for the the historic walled city they have occupied with dignity for 340 years. company of a lov - present building, set out ing grandmother around a courtyard in the manner General James Wolfe defeated the students. There are plans to devel - or a cheerful aunt. of a French chateau, were laid in French under General Louis- op the vast property, designated as Hayes and 1686. Much of that 331-year-old Joseph de Montcalm, the Ursu - a national historic site in 1972, as a Munro guide this convent is still intact. lines cared for the wounded. heritage centre that will also house reporter through Today the complex covers a “We took care of both sides,” municipal government offices. the convent’s city block. The focal point is its Munro says dryly. “We still have At its peak the convent was sanctuary, clois - chapel and magnificent 287-year- things here from the British side.” home to some 300 sisters, but the ters and tomb. old altarpiece. With a trumpeting The monastery was badly dam - last two postulants left the order The scent of in - angel and ornate gilded pulpit aged during the British bombard - before making their final vows. cense is eve ry - carved by the Levasseur brothers, ment and, following the surrender, Still, Hayes doesn’t believe women where. That and Pierre and Noel, the altar is British General James Murray and today are any less spiritual. furniture polish. regarded as one of the finest ex- his staff used a wing as military “Young women still have a The place is as amples of wood sculpture from the headquarters. The chapel was yearning for spirituality and depth, clean as a whistle. New France era. used by both Catholics and Prot - but they have other ways to be All the sisters The convent houses the re mains estants for about five years after empowered,” Hayes said. “There are retired, but of St. Marie de l’Incarnation, who the conquest. will always be a desire for a conse - they still project a was canonized by Pope Francis in Wolfe and Montcalm both died crated life, but I don’t think we can radiant em brace 2014, as well as an oratory within in the battle and Montcalm was go back to the days of robes and of the spiritual the chapel, an archives and a muse - buried beneath the Ursuline cha - habits and wimples. If I were 17 world they have um. What used to be the cloistered pel. For centuries the kept today I know I would searching for encountered with - chapel is now a vast room of high - his skull in their chapel until it a greater in my spiritual life.” in the walls. They ly lemon-polished wooden stalls. was buried in 2001 in a nearby The Ursulines are teaming up also retain their During a visit, the silence exploded military cemetery. with another order, the Soeurs sense of humour. with the sound of the sisters’ The Ursulines will continue to Servantes du Saint-Coeur de M. Weber Munro tells me laughter. own the building and run their pri - Marie , to share an annex in a HISTORIC CHAPEL — The Ursuline chapel in to be sure to spell Following the Battle of Que - vate school, which has about 400 seniors residence. 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By Kate O’Gorman What begins as a journey to Loughton has been on tour as for me.” help ease the pain of others ulti - screening the film across Canada in She went on to clarify that SASKATOON — A number of mately sees Loughton changed. an attempt to humanize the home - learn ing to be non-judgmental and local Saskatoon agencies collabo - Through interviews with Dr. less and, as she says, “opening our compassionate toward people who rated to offer a special free screen - Gabor Mate — renowned addic - hearts to people on the street.” are homeless and struggling with ing of the documentary Us & Them tions expert — and the use of The film was presented by the addiction is something she consis - Sept. 21 at the Roxy Theatre. indigenous traditions such as the Saskatoon Housing Initiatives tently works at. Ten years in the making, the medicine wheel, Loughton docu - Partnership (SHIP), United Way “It’s hard work. In some ways film documents the friendships ments their mutual journey toward Saskatoon, Stewart Proper ties, Sum it’s easier to be grumpy and angry that filmmaker Krista Loughton healing and friendship, while also Theatre, Persephone Theatre, than it is to be compassionate and has with four chronically homeless shining a light on the root causes EVCO Developments, and Shift loving,” she said, “but you never individuals in Victoria, B.C. of homelessness and addiction. Development as a means of pro - give up on people. As long as a moting awareness of the issue of human being is breathing, you homelessness in our community. never give up on them, because In his introduction of the film they’re alive; they need love and Chris Randall, director of Saska - care, just like we all do.” toon’s Homelessness Action Plan Loughton noted how the at SHIP explained, “Through films “Discrimination and prejudice Kate O’Gorman like this, we can become aware of toward people living on the street Krista Loughton the issue and hopefully, when we is atrocious. So many homeless see people who are struggling with people told me that they feel invis - interested in addressing the dispro - housing or who are at risk of ible. Each one of us can individu - portionate number of indigenous homelessness, we can see them ally change that. It really matters people living on the street. She has through a different lens: we can how we treat each other. Give peo - begun working on her second doc - see them as fellow human beings, ple the decency of being kind.” umentary, which will focus on our brothers and sisters — people Looking forward, Loughton is indigenous homelessness. who need our help.” In a post-screening question- and-answer session with audience Blessing Bags a new ministry members, Loughton spoke about the lessons she learned in the By Pat Suchorab whelmed by the parish support Kate O‘Gorman process of creating the film. and generous donations to the ICONOGRAPHY EXHIBIT — Anna Mycyk (left) and Gisele Bauche “It taught me to provide uncon - PRINCE ALBERT — The project. Work bees are held at are preparing for an iconography exhibit at the Musée Ukraina ditional love in a non-judgmental Ministry of Comfort and Care for which the collected items are sort - Museum in Saskatoon. way,” she said, “for them as well widowed persons at St. Joseph ed and the bags are filled. The Parish in Prince Albert has under - work bees are a time for parish - taken a new charity project, pro - ioners to gather and spend time Icon writing is a thriving practice viding “Blessing Bags” for men with one another, sharing in their and women who may need them lives. A lunch is included as part By Kate O’Gorman in its own unique way. Creating sharing the work of so many local in our community. of the gathering. an icon affirms the uniqueness of iconographers,” say Bauche and A Blessing Bag is a large At a mass held on Aug. 4, Rev. SASKATOON — Gisele each person.” Mycyk. “What makes the whole Ziploc bag filled with travel or Roque Concepion blessed the Bauche and Anna Mycyk have According to Mycyk, “Icons experience unique is the sense of sample-size items of toiletries and bags in preparation for delivery to collaborated as teachers of icon - can take a long time to create. It is entering into prayer. The collec - personal daily necessities such as the charity or local shelter in ography for nearly 20 years. Ac - the opposite of how our life is now tion will invite contemplation and shampoo, soap and toothbrushes. need. cording to the two women, the — so much of the world is fight - reflection and we hope people A prayer of encouragement is With the support of the parish spiritual practice of icon writing ing for our attention and what we will see how nourishing iconogra - included in each bag, noting that and the blessing of Rev. Tuyen Vu, is thriving in Saskatchewan. take in with our eyes is very pow - phy can be.” the recipient is a valued person the new pastor, St. Joseph will Saskatoon “is a special area in erful. In contrast, iconography is For more information call and that others care about them. continue with the “Blessing Bag” Saskatchewan and in Canada about focusing on heaven. We step Mycyk at (306) 477-1118. The ministry has been over - project into the foreseeable future. where iconography is taking off back from ourselves and look strongly,” says Bauche. “Interest toward the eternal. It is a monastic grows every year.” experience; we come together to What is the Holy Spirit saying to us? With a weeklong icon-writing share food, prayer and practice.” retreat held annually, as well as The exhibit, entitled, “Icono- Continued from page 1 Focus Commissions to study those at the Synod General Sessions, two weekly classes and a network graphy in our Time: The Power of topics. The members of the Focus which initiate the formal part of of other local instructors with Visual Prayer,” will launch Nov. 19 officio members (those who hold Commissions were selected by the synod. The white papers can their own growing pool of icono - at the Musée Ukraina Museum in a certain office or position in the Gagnon in consultation with a be read in their entirety on the graphers, Mycyk and Bauche Saskatoon and will run until Jan. archdiocese) and those appointed three-person Synod Secretariat. Arch diocese of Winnipeg website, decided it was an opportune time 30, 2018. The exhibit will be open at the archbishop’s choosing. The Focus Commissions stud - in the Synod 2016 - 2018 section: for an exhibit. during regular museum hours. Elected members include one ied: New Evangelization and www.archwinnipeg.ca/ “We want to bring together “We are very excited about priest from each of the six deaner - Missionary Outreach; Catechetics The General Sessions open iconographers ies; two representatives from and Faith Development; Indige - with mass on Nov. 3 at St. John from across the every parish with more than 50 nous People; Youth and Young XXIII Church, followed the next city and show - families; one representative from Adults; Marriage and Family; day with the first of six General case the work every par ish with fewer than 50 Sacramental Preparation, Prayer Sessions. The sessions will be of people who families; four female religious and and Devotional Life; Vocations held once a month until April, love this prac - two male religious; and three per - and Leadership; Church Govern - alternating between John XXIII tice,” explains manent deacons. ance; and Social Outreach. The and St. Paul the Apostle Church, Mycyk. “There The archbishop spoke of the Focus Commissions produced chosen for the size of their facili - is a mystery to 14 Listening Sessions held across white papers that will lead to pro - ties and easy access for those icon writing. the archdiocese that attracted 900 posals to be studied and voted on coming from rural points. It’s an an cient people. “The People of God form of ex - spoke as to how they see the local pressing faith.” church, what our priorities should “Each piece be and where it’s going. What is is a unique the Holy Spirit saying to the reflection of church, to you as an instrument of the individual God? It re quires silence, patience who created Kiply Yaworski and listening. It’s not about us; it,” she contin - INSTALLATION DATE SET — During a recent two- it’s about our whole local ues. “It’s fasci - day visit to Saskatoon, Bishop-elect Mark Hagemoen church.” nating because greeted Colm Leyne, diocesan co-ordinator of Youth At the Listening Sessions all multiple peo - Ministry, and other Catholic Pastoral Centre staff at were invited to speak directly to ple can be cre - a coffee break that featured saskatoon berry pie. The installation of the new bishop of the Roman Catholic the archbishop and respond to ating the same Diocese of Saskatoon is set for Nov. 23 at the three questions: What do you image, but be - Cathedral of the Holy Family. Born in Vancouver, appreciate about your church? cause each Hagemoen has served four years as bishop of the What is your vision for your arch - person has northern diocese of Mackenzie-Fort Smith. Pope diocese? What should be your their own spir - Francis recently named him eighth bishop of church’s priorities? Those respons - James Buchok itual identity Saskatoon, to succeed Bishop Donald Bolen, who was es led to the formation of nine WINNIPEG SYNOD — Synod delegates attend an orientation session it’s expressed installed as Archbishop of Regina in October 2016. main topics and the creation of Sept. 21 at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Winnipeg. October 4, 2017 LOCAL NEWS Prairie Messenger 7 Pastor installed as parish celebrates anniversary

By Frank Flegel Bolen, in his homily, spoke Rome, and while there he was The congregation, too, was moved to the hall for a banquet about Holy Child being named after introduced to the late Archbishop asked at each location if they prepared by Holy Child parish - REGINA — “It was just a good the Incarnate Jesus coming to earth Daniel Bohan. The archbishop agreed to support Meredith, and ioners. The program featured a time to celebrate the success of the as a child. “Holy Child is a welcom - was impressed and asked him to they responded, “With the help of reading of letters and emails parish,” said Rev. Danilo Rafael, ing parish,” said Bolen, referring to come to Regina as a seminarian. God, we will.” from former pastors and parish - former pastor of Holy Child Parish its welcoming of refugee families He is still completing a doctoral After the mass and induction ioners remembering their time at in Regina’s Glencairn neighbour - and the fact that it has become the thesis from the Angelicum Uni- ceremony, the celebration Holy Child. hood, when he was asked about “go-to” parish for seminarians per - versity in Rome and, if all goes celebrating a 40th anniversary. forming their year of internship. well, could be ordained to the Rafael was pastor of Holy Child Several Regina priests now serving transitional diaconate in June. On for six years before he moved to in the archdiocese did their intern - Sept. 17 he was officially accept - Holy Rosary Cathedral Aug. 1 ship at Holy Child, including Bolen. ed as a candidate for holy orders. with the yearly shuffle of diocesan The archbishop said Holy Child The anniversary mass was also priests. parishioners have a strong reputa - the occasion to induct Rev. Brian His leaving the parish had noth - tion of co-operating and working Meredith as the new pastor. As ing to do with deciding to celebrate together, which is encouraging for part of the induction ceremony, the 40th anniversary. “Some peo - seminarians. Bolen escorted Meredith to loca - ple celebrate a 10th or 25th or Seminarian Ricardo Escalante, tions in the church — the bap - 50th,” said Father Dan, as he is now serving his internship at tismal font, the holy oils, the con - known. “We decided on a 40th.” Holy Child, is originally from fessional, the ambo, the altar — Invitations were sent out and Arch - Trinidad, where he worked as a and finally the presider’s chair bishop Donald Bolen was invited lawyer. When he came to Canada next to the altar. At each location, to celebrate the anniversary mass. he worked as a paralegal in Van- the archbishop asked if he would Several former pastors also attend - couver before following his call faithfully serve the parishioners ed, including Rev. Norman to the priesthood. Rather than in his duty as pastor. Meredith Marcotte who, although retired, attend the seminary in Vancouver, responded each time, “With the regularly helps out at Holy Child. though, he wanted to study in help of God, I will.”

Frank Flegel Alumni inducted into Wall of Honour PRAISE IN THE PARK — Regina Archbishop Donald Bolen was one of several Christian clergy to address participants at the fourth annual By Derrick Kunz Honour, established to recog - consultations is being applied in Praise in the Park, held Sept. 9 in Regina’s Victoria Park, amid a day nize significant achievements of clinical settings across Canada and threatening rain. Bolen emphasized common beliefs among Christians SASKATOON — Five Holy Holy Cross alumni. abroad, and is becoming a stan - that should allow the different faiths to act together in prayer and wit - Cross alumni were inducted into “It’s a privilege to welcome our dard for the mental well-being of ness. the Saskatoon Catholic high graduates and honour them this cancer patients. school’s Wall of Honour at an way,” said principal Lisa Hodson. Trevor Herriot (1972 - 76) is a Rain holds off all day awards ceremony Sept. 22. “It sends a strong message to our naturalist and writer, recognized for Addressing students and staff, students that they, too, can accom - his contributions to environmental inductees reminisced about their plish great things and make a dif - issues in the media and literature. for Praise in the Park time at Holy Cross, thanked fami - ference in their community.” Herriot honed his craft as a writer ly members and teachers, and This year’s inductees have while pursuing an English degree at By Frank Flegel Week in the city, put together by an encouraged students to foster their diverse backgrounds and a range the University of Saskatchewan, organizing committee made up of God-given and talents while of accomplishment. then as a corporate writer for REGINA — Regina Archbishop representatives from the Regina forging their own path in life. Robert Enright (1963 - 67), is a SaskTel. He now writes about con - Donald Bolen was one of several Evangelical Ministerial Association The diverse group of gradu - research professor and fine arts crit - nections between culture and Christian clergy to address partici - and the Regina Council of Church - ates will join 42 former stu - ic who was recognized for his con - nature on the prairies. In addition to pants at the fourth annual Praise in es. The purpose is to bring glory to dents on the school’s Wall of tributions to the academic and art published books (a fifth will come the Park, held Sept. 9 in Regina’s Jesus Christ in the public square communities. The valedictori - out in October), Herriot has written downtown Victoria Park, amid a and to demonstrate the essential an of Holy Cross’s first gradu - for the Globe and Mail , Canadian day threatening rain and the bustle unity of the Body of Christ. ating class planned on pursu - Geographic and Nature Canada . of the Farmers’ Market held in the Pastor Graham Beke, an elder ing law after earning a BA He is also a regular on CBC same location. associated with the Regina Apos - from the Uni versity of Radio’s Blue Sky . He has been Bolen emphasized common tolic Church, spoke to the crowd Saskatchewan, but found his short-listed for the Governor beliefs among Christians that and the rain held off, as he said it calling in the arts as a cultural General’s Award for Non-Fiction, should allow the different faiths to would. Beke said he asked God to affairs journalist for print, radio and has recently received The act together in prayer and witness to delay the rain from a threatening and television. He was found - Kloppenburg Award. the faith, though he acknowledged sky and was confident it would ing editor and senior contribut - Keith Martell (1976 - 80), is the that some differences do prevent not rain. And it didn’t, except for ing editor of Border Cross ings , CEO of First Nations Bank of the faiths from doing everything a few drizzles as the day went on, an acclaimed arts magazine. Canada, and is recognized for his together. “What we do hold in com - but there was no interruption of Enright has curated exhibits at leadership in delivering financial mon should allow us to pray togeth - the schedule. several galleries across Canada services to indigenous peoples and er, to give thanks to God together, It was a full day of activity in and in Europe, and currently his contributions to the business and to engage in the Lord’s mission the park, all of it free. The men’s teaches in the graduate pro - community. Originally from the to the extent that we can.” ministries from the Regina Apos - gram at the Uni versity of Waterhen Lake First Nation, He continued with a prayer to tolic Church cooked and served Guelph’s School of Fine Art Martell earned his bachelor’s bless all the Christian faiths in the pancakes in the morning, switched and Music. Enright’s accom - degree in commerce from the city: “Help us to find new and cre - to baked beans and curried rice in plishments have been recog - University of Saskatchewan. After ative ways to pray together and the afternoon, and then hot dogs at nized in many ways, including working with KPMG and FSIN, give thanks to your name. We ask the supper hour. An air-filled slide being named a member of the Martell was instrumental in the you to help us stand up for human provided entertainment for young Order of Canada. formation of the First Nations dignity together to find those children. A line of tent cubicles to Dr. Tom Hack (1976 - 80) Bank of Canada. The Saskatoon- places in our culture, in our city, the side of the park provided infor - is a clinical psychologist and based bank offers a full range of and our province where we need to mation about a wide variety of cancer researcher, recognized personal and business banking ser - stand together to protect the rights Christian organizations, including for his leadership in advanc - vices with a focus on indigenous of people. We ask you to help us pro-life and a Christian motorcycle ing patient care in cancer customers. Martell serves or has serve the common good, to reach club. A small prayer tent was set treatment. After obtaining served on many boards and advi - out to the poor together, to find apart from the activity. Annette Bentler degrees from the universities sory bodies and is currently on ways to join together in dialogue, The day featured non-stop mu - SERENA RUN — The annual Serena of Saskatchewan, Cal gary and PotashCorp’s board of directors. to learn more about each other and sic from praise bands from a num - Run for the Family was held Sept. 9 Mani toba, and interning at Jerry McHale (1963 - 67), is a from each other.” ber of Regina Christian churches, this year. Memorable moments Harvard Medical School, professor of law, recognized for his He noted a group just outside ending in the evening with a per - included watching two families cheer Hack continued as a professor contributions to law and public the park who were gathered in sup - formance by The Informants, a on a grandmother as she passed the at the University of Manitoba, policy, particularly in the area of port of the Rohingya Muslims blues band from Denver, Colo. The finish line, the joy as two young run - teaching psychology, family family and child welfare. McHale being persecuted in Myanmar and music was upbeat, with a mixture ners discovered they were wearing medicine, clinical health psy - matching outfits and almost the same earned degrees from the universi - prayed to bring justice to the land of rock, pop and blues, all praising number, and the blessing of the run - chology and nursing. As a ties of Saskatchewan, Toronto and of Myanmar. He then introduced God. The audience was sparse ini - ners by Rev. Michael Yaremko. The researcher, he has examined Alberta, was a partner in the Vision, a Catholic praise band, and tially but grew as the day went on annual run raises funds and aware - communications be tween Victoria law firm of Cardinal joked that Catholics are known to and the music had people clapping ness for Serena Sas katchewan. For patients and health profession - Edgar Emberton & MaCaulay. He be fans of Gregorian chant, “but I along to the beat. A couple of information about Serena and natural als. Findings of his research then shifted to public service, assure you what you are about to young women occasionally danced family planning, visit “Serena into providing patients with working in a variety of roles in the hear is not Gregorian chant.” in front of the stage, swirling large Saskatchewan” on Facebook. audio recordings of treatment B.C. Ministry of Justice. Praise in the Park ended Love red and blue ribbons. 8 Prairie Messenger ARTS & CULTURE October 4, 2017 Toronto festival: marathon madness and discovery

Screenings & Meanings

Gerald Schmitz

I’ve been going to the Toronto thanks to the “Mississau gas of the International Film Festival for New Credit, the Haude nosaunee decades. This was the first time as (Iroquois), and the Huron Wendat” an official “senior citizen,” which as “the original keepers of this land perhaps explains why the mara- . . . and for hosting TIFF on their thon felt more exhausting than land every day.” Unfortunately the ever. While TIFF scaled back its Canadian feature selection Indian bloated program, squeezing in 47 Horse , based on the Richard features still represented barely 18 Wagamese novel, was left out of Gerald Schmitz per cent of the total on offer (not the thick program book and so un - 55 STEPS — In a post-screening panel for 55 Steps is director Bille August and Helena Bonham Carter at to mention shorts and other fest der the radar I only heard about it far left, and at far right the two actual legal heroes of this true story, Colette Hughes and Mort Cohen. In- events). Movies, too, seem to be after. between are several screenwriters and producers. getting longer (many at or over the TIFF has charitable status as an two-hour mark), and quite a few arts organization but also caters to as Billie Jean King. tion and for best Canadian fea - I’ve seen is Greek disruptor started late, upsetting crowded the world of celebrity and corpo - Current releases include the tures.) Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of schedules. In the long mostly out - rate cachet. A lengthy investiga - period piece Victoria & Abdul from By far the most far-out is Darren a Sacred Deer (Ireland/U.K.), door lineups for public screenings tive report published Sept. 20 in Stephen Frears about the relation - Aronofsky’s mother! starring which takes the human comedy (at least no rain after day one) pan - The Globe and Mail under the ship between the aging British Jennifer Lawrence and Javier from pitch black to psychotic ter - handlers commonly made the heading “Losing Focus” depicts a monarch (Dame Judi Dench) and Bardem as a nameless couple holed rain. In it cardiologist Steven rounds. That doesn’t happen at the troubled enterprise. an Indian subject, and Mike up in a remote ramshackle house (Colin Farrell) befriends teenage major U.S. festivals I go to, which What about the films? There’s White’s Brad’s Status about an under renovation. The older hus - loner Martin (Barry Keoghan) makes me wonder about our sup - the usual parade of high-profile insecure father (Ben Stiller) and his band is a famous author and poet before finding out the boy blames posedly kinder gentler country and Hollywood movies and star vehi - college-age son. Coming soon is suffering from writer’s block when him for the death of his father. who benefits from its fast-growing cles ramping up publicity before George Clooney’s Suburbicon . I a strange dissembling couple Martin exacts a sacrificial penance economy. hitting the multiplex. Coming on generally avoid these as the real intrudes (Ed Harris and Michelle concluding in a bizarre game of Before every public showing the heels of the Venice and Tell - discoveries lie elsewhere, but have Pfeiffer) followed by a stranger, murderous roulette Steven plays there’s six minutes of noisy video, uride festivals, TIFF can’t count seen a few already in theatres, as growing crowd as she is pregnant with his terrified wife (Nicole mainly corporate promotion but on world premiere bragging rights. well as the dubious winner of and he has published again. A crush Kidman) and small children who including a fitting tribute to the late Its hyped opening weekend, coin - TIFF’s “people’s choice” contest of adoring fans goes on a frenzied must also suffer for his sins. Like festival founder Bill Marshall. A ciding with the U.S. Open Tennis considered an augur of pre-Oscar rampage as she gives birth, leading mother! there are some arresting welcome touch this year was that finals, had two racquet “galas”: favour. (Among the drama presen - to a horrifying fiery climax clearly moments before the storyline goes TIFF programmer introductions Borg/McEnroe and Battle of the tations, juried prizes are only intended to shock and appall. started with an acknowledgment of Sexes , the latter with Emma Stone offered in the edgy Plat form sec - The only wackier TIFF movie — 55 STEPS , page 12 Solidarity, a sometimes overused word we should be less afraid of using

By Caitlin Ward unconscious — words like femi - one actually mean ? How are you there, but I’m grateful they did. advocating for human rights in nism, triggering, privilege, cultur - backing that claim up? Is saying Toward the end of the second Honduras is like standing in Solidarity. al appropriation. Words that have it enough? Why aren’t you doing day one of the co-operative orga - front of a cannon. We need you Man, sometimes I hate that come to mean so many things to something, for God’s sake? nizers from Honduras, Donaldo to keep putting pressure on our word. It’s overused, it’s mocked. so many people that they start to Recently something switched Zuñiga Enamorado, spoke. At government. We can’t stop our - It conjures up this image of peo - in me. My office mate and I, first, he spoke about the success - selves from being killed. ple who take themselves far too A Bunch of Lonesome through a serendipitous series of es of one of the co-operatives But he also said this: we need seriously. The kind you see on Heroes events, were invited to take part with whom he works — what your solidarity. We need to know university campuses, with but - in a workshop at the Nobel Peace they’re trying to do, and how you care, and that you know what tons and badges on their back - Leonard Cohen Prize Forum in Minnea polis. It’s they’re making positive changes is happening is wrong. We need pack declaring how they feel a terrible season for us to take in their community. But unfortu - to know that we’re not alone. about everything in pithy slo - lose meaning. Words that, as a time off work, and frankly, it was nately, you can’t really talk Of course, he said all of that gans. Or the ones you see at result of this, are often met with way above our pay grade, but it about successes in Honduras in Spanish, so it sounded way community meetings loudly immediate resistance. Words like was too significant an opportuni - without also speaking about the better. But it reminded me of demanding that the workers of solidarity. These words are con - ty to pass up. For two days we sat country’s violent context or the what solidarity is supposed to the world should unite when the nected to concepts that are chal - in a room with co-operative orga - price of advocacy. Every 15 be. And it made me think, per - rest of you are trying to figure lenging, and should be challeng - nizers from Honduras and Pana - hours a woman dies in Honduras haps, that it’s a word I should be out what to plant in the commu - ing, but the names we have given ma, coffee roasters from the as a result of domestic or state less afraid of using. Because the nity garden. them sometimes become so elas - United States and Germany, acad - violence. The country has one of act of caring is not enough, but it You know. Tiresome people. tic as to become completely un - emics from Nicaragua, Colombia, the highest per capita death rates is the beginning of something. People who aren’t a lot of fun at helpful in conversations. In my and the United States. We learned in the world, if not the highest. The act of telling you this story parties. People you’d call Social experience, people start reacting about the practical issues that Since the coup in 2009, 123 is not enough, but it is a step Justice Warriors, and definitely to the word more than the con - have arisen with the formal Fair human rights and ecological toward something. And solidari - not mean it in a nice way. cept, and your ability to have a Trade movement, the attempts of advocates have gone missing or ty on its own is never enough. Frankly, sometimes, people conversation about anything sub - worker-owned co-operatives to been killed. Donaldo said that But it’s something. like me. stantial gets subsumed into an foster positive I’ve gotten more careful about argument about terms. peace in their how I use words lately. I don’t So I haven’t actually used the respective A bunch of lonesome and very quarrel - Put out your cigarette, my love, mean in the sense that I am care - word solidarity in a long time — countries, the some heroes You’ve been alone too long; ful not to use terms and phrases at least, not outside very specific challenges of Were smoking out along the open road; And some of us are very hungry now that offend marginalized people contexts when I know that living in post- The night was very dark and thick To hear what it is you’ve done that was — or not just that, anyway. I’ve everyone agrees on what the peace accord between them, so wrong. also been thinking about the word means. And even then, I’m societies Each man beneath his ordinary load. words we use to de scribe social not always happy about it. The where the ten - I sing this for the crickets, movements, social concepts, prej - idea of solidarity — of unity, of sions that led “I’d like to tell my story,” I sing this for the army, udices that are conscious or standing with people, of working to war in the Said one of them so young and bold, I sing this for your children toward common goals across first place “I’d like to tell my story, And for all who do not need me. difference — is one for which I have not been Before I turn into gold.” Ward is a Saskatoon-based have profound respect. The way meaningfully “I’d like to tell my story,” freelance writer who spends her we sometimes get to talking addressed. But no one really could hear him, Said one of them so bold, days (and most nights) working at about solidarity in a cozy middle Frankly, I The night so dark and thick and green; “Oh yes, I’d like to tell my story a small Catholic college. Her less class Canadian context can be don’t know Well I guess that these heroes must ’Cause you know I feel I’m turning into eloquent thoughts can be found at frustrating. What does saying why anyone always live there gold.” www.twitter.com/newsetofstrings you’re in solidarity with some - asked us to be Where you and I have only been. October 4, 2017 FEATURE Prairie Messenger 9 The Prohibition Treaty: a new political moment

The following is the address given by Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C., to the to possess nuclear Group of 78 Annual Policy Conference 2017 in Ottawa, Sept. 23, 2017. arsenals while pro - scribing their acquisi - The struggle for nuclear disar - ment is futile; the world survived tion by any other state. mament in the summer of 2017 the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 North Korea has, in a was, to paraphrase the immortal because diplomacy saved the day. figurative sense, ex - Charles Dickens, the best of times We must concentrate on keep - ploded that theory. and the worst of times, the age of ing our balance on this jolting The arrival of wisdom and the age of foolishness, ride through history. In a long life Stage 2 a season of light and a season of dealing with the vagaries of darkness. On July 7, a Treaty to nuclear disarmament, and always The rise of the Prohibit Nuclear Weapons was mindful of the horrors of Hiro - humanitarian move - adopted at the UN, the result of a shima and Nagasaki, I have never ment against nuclear collaboration between like-minded lost my hope that an enlightened weap ons, seen in the governments and highly informed humanity can fight back against special conferences in civil society activists, who recog - the shrill voices of fear. That is Oslo, Nayarit and nized the “catastrophic humanitari - why we are here at this Group of Vienna, signalled the an consequences” of the use of any 78 conference. end of stage one. The nuclear weapon. On Aug. 8, Taking a longer perspective than vigour displayed by President Donald Trump issued an the 24/7 news cycle helps us to see the U.S., the U.K. and CNS/Tyler Orsburn extraordinary ultimatum to North reasons for hope. The first point I France against the Korea, warning Pyongyang not to wish to make is that nu clear disar - NUCLEAR PROTEST — Nuclear war protesters hold a demonstration in August proposals for, then the near the White House. In an address to the Group of 78 Annual Policy Conference, make any more threats against the mament has entered stage two of its actual negotiations, Doug Roche said “ . . . the long journey to nuclear disarmament demands that we United States or they will “face fire historical development. All great and finally the adop - in the peace movement fight to bring Canada back where it belongs — in the fore - and fury like the world has never movements for social change go tion of the Treaty on front of the struggle to end the ultimate evil.” seen.” This rhetorical forecast of through three stages: first, the re - the Prohibition of doom is backed up by U.S. mod - form is scoffed at, second, estab - Nuclear Weapons showed they are made in 1983 to the P5 capitals to NATO commitments preclude sign - ernization of its entire nuclear arse - lishment forces vigorously object indeed taking the proponents seri - urge them to desist from the nu - ing the Treaty. This too is a false ar - nal — the bombers, submarines to it, and third, the change is ac- ously. The ink was hardly dry on clear arms race. A later government gument. NATO’s Stra tegic Con cept, and missiles — at a cost of $1 tril - cepted by the body politic. The end the Treaty when the P3 declared: so persistently urged NATO to re - claiming nuclear weapons as the lion, leading former U.S. Secretary of slavery, colonialism and apar- “We do not intend to sign, ratify or view its nuclear polices that Can - “supreme guarantee” of security, is a of Defence William Perry to ex - theid all went through these stages. ever become part of it.” The vehe - ada be came known, derisively by political policy. It is not a binding press his own version of Dicken - For decades, nuclear disarma - ment objections characterize the the NATO hierarchy, as a “nuclear legal document, a status that only sian gloom: “Today, the danger of ment has been brushed aside as the arrival of stage two. nag.” But the present government the NATO Charter possesses. Thus some sort of a nuclear catastrophe major powers dismissed the idea of No one thinks the Treaty by refuses to have anything to do with there is no legal barrier to a NATO is greater than it was during the the abolition of nuclear weapons. itself will eliminate nuclear weap - the Treaty, which the incumbent country signing the Treaty — as Cold War.” The U.S. and Russia, despite ons. But it does stigmatize them prime minister, the son of Pierre, long as the country ex presses, in What are we to make of such reducing the quantity of their and puts them outside the bound - has brusquely called “useless.” good faith, its opposition to NATO’s contradictions? The world appears nuclear arsenals, have never taken aries of international humanitarian The official government posi - political declarations on nu clear to be going in two directions at the abolition of nuclear weapons law. It directly challenges the mili - tion, stated on the floor of the weapons. Since the early days of the the same time. The joy we should seriously and have consistently tary doctrine of nuclear deterrence. House of Commons, is that the Alliance, member states have re- be experiencing from the forward thwarted the aspirations of those Those who sign the Treaty recog - Treaty is “premature” and “ineffec - served the right to adopt in- movement of humanity — every who urged them to move, via nize there is not an ounce of moral - tive.” In an exercise in baffling dependent national policies on nu - field of human activity is provid - Article VI of the Non-Proliferation ity or law to justify the continued logic, the government takes the clear weapons. At one time or an - ing more benefits to more people Treaty, toward a nuclear weapons- possession, by any state, of weap - stand that the Treaty is “divisive” other, Norway, Denmark, Iceland than ever before — is smothered free world. In India, Pakistan and ons that threaten to annihilate be cause it will stig matize nuclear and Spain have held nuclear policies by violence and the threat of the Israel, latecomers to the nuclear humanity. The strength of the weapons over the objections of the at variance with NATO. To this day, ultimate violence. President club, the idea of foregoing nuclear Treaty is that it raises the global current possessors. Having boy - France remains outside NATO’s Trump’s bellicose speech to the weapons has been met with gro - norm against nuclear weapons and cotted the negotiating process, the integrated command structure. United Nations is further unnerv - tesque laughter. Twenty years ago, prepares an institutional path possessors now object to a lack of It is a fallacy to claim that Can - ing, but that does not mean diplo - when I led a Middle Power Ini - toward their elimination. It opens consensus. Truly, the ar guments by ada would have to leave NATO in matic work for nuclear disarma - tiative delegation to NATO to re - the door to comprehensive negotia - the possessors and their NATO ad - order to join the Treaty. In fact, quest an end to NATO’s reliance tions — eventually — between the herents are descending to vapidity. Paragraph 96 of the NATO Re port, on nuclear weapons, a senior offi - U.S., the U.K., France, Russia and It is particularly sad to see our Dec. 14, 2000, explicitly says, The Hon. Douglas Roche, cial leaned back in his chair and China and the remaining members government, once so respected in “NATO is committed to meaning - O.C., is an author, parliamentari - with a huge grin proclaimed, of the nuclear club. the community of nations — as I ful public outreach to interested in - an and diplomat, who has special - “Mission impossible!” We must expect more opposi - and many others who have been dividuals and groups, including dis - ized throughout his 40-year public The major countries built their tion to the breakthrough that has privileged to represent Canada in cussion of the adaptations which career in peace and human secu - nuclear mountains, seemingly created stage two. Anyone who official forums can attest — is the Alliance’s force posture has un - rity issues. He lectures widely on impregnable, and the passage of reads Christopher Ford’s legal now undermining the very ratio - dergone . . . NATO is equally com - peace and nuclear disarmament time has, at least in their own inter - diatribe against the Treaty, pre - nale of the Treaty. For a full rebut - mitted to discussing the Alliance’s themes. pretation, conferred a right on them sented August 22 to the Carnegie tal of the government’s arguments, policy of support for nuclear arms Endowment for International I refer you to Cesar Jaramillo’s control and disarmament.” Peace on behalf of the U.S. gov - dissection, “Six Deceptive Argu - If, as the Pugwash policy rec - ernment, will be in no doubt that ments Against a Nuclear Weap ons ommends, Canada were to work to an immense fight against the hu - Ban,” in which he explains that end NATO reliance on nuclear manitarian movement has been the Treaty developed out of the weapons, that would show good launched by the nuclear powers. failure of the NPT to deliver on faith in seeking to uphold the object Canada’s responsibilities the promise of complete nuclear and purpose of the Treaty. What disarmament. The Treaty is the specific actions would Canada have This brings us to Canada and outcome of a new kind of politics to undertake to sign the Treaty in the re sponsibilities of the nuclear in which like-minded governments good faith? We are in uncharted disarmament community in our joined with committed civil soci - territory here, though there are own country. I want to align my self ety activists to put human safety some guidelines from the past, e.g., im mediately with the policy adopt - ahead of strategic analysis. when Canada re nounced the capac - ed by the Canadian Pug wash The humanitarian movement ity to produce nuclear weapons and Group that “Canada should sign the has come too far to be stopped by also when it ended deployment of Treaty on the Prohibition of Nu - the intimidation tactics long prac - U.S. nuclear warheads with Cana - clear Weapons and state that it will, tised by the possessors. However, dian Forces in Europe under NATO through dialogue and changes to its as far as Canada is concerned, the and in Canada with NORAD. own policies and practices, persist U.S. has immense power over our A new dialogue in NATO in efforts to bring NATO into con - global security decisions. It is not formity with the Treaty, with a easy to stand against U.S. deci - In the light of the Treaty, non- view to Can ada’s ratification as sions, erroneous as they often are, nuclear states within NATO soon as possible.” I respectfully as illustrated by the Vietnam War, should lead the Alliance in a dia - suggest that the Group of 78 add its the Iraq War, and the fixation on logue on measures to reduce and prestigious support to this policy. ballistic missile defence. But we ultimately eliminate nuclear weap- There was a time when the Gov - have done so before. Courage is ons from NATO security policies. ernment of Canada would have the first requirement. The start of such a dialogue re- welcomed the Prohibition Treaty. We can now expect the Cana dian quires Canada, at a minimum, to Think back to the courageous jour - government to switch gears, so to ney Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau speak, and begin arguing that its — AMBIGUOUS , page 11 10 Prairie Messenger DEEPENING OUR FAITH October 4, 2017 Jesus calls out the hypocrisy of the rigidly pious

together. In biblical texts from Isaiah to the New Testament, Who then was worthy of entering the banquet feast? banquets also serve as imagery for the reign of God. Who is likely to partake of the reign of God, today? Our Lord is forever the gracious host, inviting us to Liberation theologians like Gustavo Gutiérrez point us Liturgy enjoy the fullness of life. The invitation to share in the to look in a different social place. To “go out into the main bounty of God’s love is extended to all — but deciding streets and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet” and Life whether to respond, and how to respond, is what we are gives meaning to what Catholic social teaching calls “the called to consider in these readings. preferential option for the poor.” Here in these streets were At one time some preachers suggested that the para - the outcasts who had no high social rank like the priests and Joe Gunn bles of the wedding feast described the people of Israel as the scribes — those who considered the poor as ignorant and those who rejected the prophets and, ultimately, Christ’s sinful. This same parable is also told in the words of Luke, invitation to baptism. These were those left outside the but the wording is much more specific than in Matthew’s Thirty years ago, during a time of war and material reign of God, “wailing and gnashing their teeth.” version: “invite the poor, the crippled, the lame and the shortages, I got married in Central America. A deeper reflection, however, might lead us to see that blind” (Lk 14:21). The reign of God makes a special place Suzanne and I decided to keep things simple in an there is a constant theme evident in the readings of earlier for the poor — in our own lives, we should do the same. attempt to respect the hardship that many people we cared and even later Sundays — namely, how Jesus navigated the Jesus is no “party-pooper.” He expands his concern to for were forced to endure. The preparations took some tension between himself and the religious leaders in those seeking a place at the table, to those seeking a rela - extra planning and effort due to the rationing and limited tionship with God. Those who are looking for meaning in availability of goods. For weeks beforehand, our friends Isaiah 25:6-10a their lives, those who are not the “usual suspects,” those Twenty-eighth Sunday were enlisted to gather stocks to ensure there would be Psalm 23 who don’t get seen in all the right places, are invited by in Ordinary Time enough beer for everyone coming to the party after mass! Philippians 4:12-14, 19-20 Jesus to share God’s life. There is no exclusion. And that’s October 15, 2017 My mother-in-law almost missed the ceremony when her Matthew 22:1-14 Good News for us! flight was stopped in an unfriendly and highly militarized But with invitation comes obligation. The accompa - neighbouring country. The laughter and merriment we ulti - Jerusalem. Increasingly he criticized the hypocrisy of the nying parable in this passage relates the story of the guest mately enjoyed was (honestly) accompanied by a sense of Pharisees who defended a status quo that neither served the who arrived improperly clothed — and for this lack of gratitude and relief that the big event came off with only a needs of the people, nor promoted good religious practice. care and respect for the host was thrown out. Perhaps this few minor catastrophes. Those who had “farms” and “businesses” or other part of the story reminds us that accepting God’s invitation Wedding feasts reflect the values of a couple, and are possessions seemed to put these worldly goods ahead of requires a proper response from us. The image of wearing designed to express the care and affection that friends and the invitation to come to the banquet and join the reign of the proper robe may lead us to consider what is needed in family want to lavish upon lovers embarking upon new lives God. Even those who were privileged to have knowledge my life to be clothed in God’s love? What practical behav - of the Law (and who thereby were granted high social iours do I need to adopt to respond to God’s intimate pro - standing) turned out to be unwilling to honour the invita - posal? Does my daily prayer focus on finding the answers Gunn is the Ottawa-based executive director of Citizens tion of the king. Refusal of the invitation to a banquet that I need to prepare for the banquet? for Public Justice, www.cpj.ca, a member-driven, faith- seems ludicrous, but even worse is rejection of the very I’m sure we’d all agree that wedding feasts are happy based public policy organization in Ottawa focused on messengers and doing them harm. Clearly, many of “those occasions! So are our lives when we have opened them to ecological justice, refugee rights and poverty elimination. invited were not worthy.” the loving embrace of the Lord of Life. In an age in which stillness eludes us: a prayer . . .

failure. Save me from the jeal - of immortality for myself. Give every second, that everyone, ousy that comes unbidden as I me the grace to trust, even in myself no less than everyone else, In begrudgingly accept the limits of darkness and doubt, that you will is your beloved, that you want our my life. Give me the grace to lives to flourish, that you desire givGe me immortality. Exile accept what circumstance and Still my heart so that I may our happiness, that nothing falls failGure have dealt me. know that you are God, that I may outside your love and care, and Still in me the fear of my own know that you create and sustain that everything and everybody is Ron Rolheiser, OMI shadow, the fear I feel in the face my every breath, that you breathe safe in your gentle, caring hands, of the powerful, dark forces that the whole universe into existence in this world and the next. unconsciously threaten me. Give me the courage to face my dark - Be still and know that I am enough, that I need not make an ness as well as my luminosity. God. Scripture assures us that if assertion of myself, even as the Give me the grace to not be fearful we are still we will come to know whole world beckons this of me befGore my own complexity. God, but arriving at stillness is from a million electronic screens. Still in me the congenital fear BOSCO FOUNDATION easier said than done. As Blaise Give me the grace to sit at peace that I’m unloved, that I’m unlov - John Bosco Pascal once stated, “All the mis - inside my own life. G able, that love has to be earned, that Child & Family Services Foundation eries of the human person come Still my sexuality, order my I need to be more worthy. Silence from the fact that no one can sit promiscuous desires, my lusts, in me the nagging suspicion that The John Bosco Child and Family Services Foundation (Bosco still for one hour.” Achieving my polymorphous aching, my I’m forever missing out, that I’m Foundation) is a public foundation dedicated to the provision of stillness seems beyond us and this relentless need for more intimacy. odd, an outsider, that things are buildings and facilities used for the treatment, education and leaves us with a certain dilemma: Quiet and order my earthy desires unfair, and that I’m not being we need stillness to find God, but without taking them away. Give respected and recognized for who I housing of children, adolescents and adults who are in need of we need God’s help to find still - me the grace to see others without am. Give me the grace to know that support. ness. With this in mind, I offer a a selfish sexual colour. 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The following statement was issued by the Catholic Women Speak cy). She faced sustained question - condemned, pastoral sensitivity to lence which is infecting the Network on Sept. 26, 2017. ing from trustees and senior man - life’s incarnate and messy realities Catholic Church along with so agement because in April 2016 takes precedence over doctrinal many other religious and political Rebecca Bratten Weiss is a There is nothing new about the she signed a letter (along with 98 absolutism, and all Catholics share institutions. member of Catholic Women Catholic far-right using social other Catholics, including well- the vocation to follow Christ in joy - Among the billions of Cath - Speak (CWS) — an international media, blogs and websites to pro - known bona fide theologians), ful humility and solidarity with olics in the worldwide church, 900 network of nearly 900 Catholic mote their views, often using urging the Polish bishops not to those who are marginalized, poor women’s voices may not be a women committed to defending multiple pseudonyms, and some support their government’s pro - and oppressed. We add to this the movement for global change, but women’s right to speak and be of our members have in the past posal to criminalize abortion. In in creasingly urgent need to include the church we love first came to heard inside as well as outside the been targeted. However, the May 2016, Tina gave a full women as full and equal partici - life among a small number of ter - church. That is the only single increasing ferocity and intensity account of her position on her pants in church institutions and rified people huddled in an upper cause we campaign on, for our of these attacks is alarming. blog. Eventually in July 2017, structures, which would be one room. Let’s act now before we all members represent the diversity Many of the perpetrators have Cafod’s trustees arrived at a deci - effective way to combat the grow - find ourselves in a small and win - that exists among Catholics on three things in common — oppo - sion not to ask for her resignation. ing extremism and rhetoric of vio - dowless room, bullied into silence. other issues. sition to Pope Francis, support for We applaud In early August this year, Donald Trump and, in the small Cafod for this Rebecca was told that her con - but significant faction in the decision, but we tract with the Franciscan Uni - U.K., support for Brexit. are dismayed versity of Steubenville would not We are dismayed to note how that they are be renewed, even though she was many Catholic organizations and still allowing scheduled to teach three courses institutions are being swayed by the themselves to in the autumn semester, and to threat of attack from these groups. be manipulated direct two theses. She was shown This includes the withdrawal or by social media screenshots of conversations she rescheduling of several speaking attacks. We be- had participated in on social invitations for Rev. James Martin, lieve that, in media, including some taken SJ, following attacks relating to his this time of dis - from the closed CWS Facebook book, Building a Bridge: How the unity and ex - group, as evidence for why she Catholic Church and the LGBT tremism, it is was no longer employable by a Community Can Enter into a Rela - vital for all Catholic institution. In September tionship of Respect, Com passion Catholic organi - the website Lifesite News posted and Sensitivity. Organiza tions zations and con - an attack on Rebecca, using simi - affected include Cafod, the official cerned individu - lar screenshots to those her em - development agency of the Bishops als, including ployers had used. of England and Wales, which bishops and Rebecca is one of a vanishing decided to reschedule a lecture by priests, to de - breed in the Catholic Church — a Father Martin because, to quote fend the funda - passionately committed young from a statement, “we saw the mental princi - woman academic who is both a strength of feeling it generated in ples enshrined faithful Catholic and a feminist. some quarters. . . . We have re cent in Vatican II. None of the evidence used experience of social media attacks. We also fully against her was heterodox or doc - Responding to these takes a signifi - support Pope CNS/Bob Roller trinally challenging in any way. cant amount of staff resource.” (See Francis in his INCLUSION OF WOMEN NEEDED — From a statement by Catholic Women Speak She is also married with children, the Tablet editorial, Sept. 20, 2017 endeavours to Network released Sept. 26: “Catholics share the vocation to follow Christ in joyful and the loss of her job has had a http://www.the tablet.co.uk/editors- nurture an ec - humility and solidarity with those who are marginalized, poor and oppressed. We add to devastating impact on her family. desk/ 1/11267/let-father-martin- clesial ethos of this the increasingly urgent need to include women as full and equal participants in Rebecca’s is one of several speak-out.) mercy and com - church institutions and structures, which would be one effective way to combat the similar stories currently in the Another member of CWS, passion in which growing extremism and rhetoric of violence which is infecting the Catholic Church along news. Losing one’s job is a more Prof. Tina Beattie, was the target clericalism is with so many other religious and political institutions.” serious issue than having a lecture of the attacks referred to in that cancelled, but we are also dis - statement, again instigated by a mayed to note that this week Prof. screenshot from CWS’s private Dis-invited speakers: déjà vu all over again M. Shawn Copeland has agreed Facebook group. Tina is a mem - with Madonna Uni versity in ber of Cafod’s theological refer - By Joe Foy first session of Vatican II. We all Theological College. Livonia, Michigan, that she will ence group (an advisory group of knew that. We also knew that a But how this came to pass voluntarily cancel a lecture she theologians who volunteer their February 1963. A cold, dark high-profile member of our own shows that the epicentre of the was due to give after an attack by time but who do not represent win ter night, and this third Basselin CUA School of Theology, Joseph problem has shifted. Now we are a group called Church Militant. Cafod or seek to influence poli - (program at Theological College, Fenton, had been welcome at the not dealing with the Vatican. National Seminary of the Catholic first session, and had for years Instead, we have some very angry Ambiguous stand on nuclear University of America) was wait - attacked Murray and his thesis Catholics, intensely opposed to ing to board one of the fleet of with extreme vigour. seeking alternatives in theology, disarmament must end buses which had been chartered to We knew that our Theology who have used social media to carry the CUA student body over to faculty was split on the issue — incite a virtual mob almost Georgetown Uni versity. John the Sulpicians were split, the overnight, and believably threaten Continued from page 9 ambiguous stand on nuclear disar - Courtney Murray, SJ, editor of University was split, and the 180 to create a physical mob if Martin mament. Canada must decide if it Theological Studies, had been students at Theological College shows up. And we know from renounce use or threatened use of will work to support the Pro - uninvited to speak at CUA by its were split. We knew that several recent events in nearby Virginia nuclear weapons on its behalf and a hibition Treaty or continue to sup - Board of Governors, and then papal decrees had been negative that angry people can do just that. renewed commitment to support port the nuclear deterrence doc - Georgetown had invited him to about religious freedom. So far as I know, there is little efforts on nuclear disarmament. An trine. One path leads to nu clear speak over there. His topic was Murray’s talk that evening was consensus on how to deal with this important step toward eliminating weapons elimination; the other freedom of religion, which many of logical, clear, and convincing. new phenomenon. I am glad it was reliance on nuclear weap ons is to leads to the perpetuation of the hierarchy in Rome feared and Returning home, my head was not me who had to decide what to confine their role to deterring other nuclear weapons and the near cer - disagreed with, and for which spinning. What was safe to read? do about our invited Alumni Days nuclear weapons, e.g. to call for a tainty of their eventual use. Murray had become a high-profile What questions was it safe to ask? speaker and the virtual mob arising no-first-use policy as a start, and a Stage 2 of the long journey to champion. It was my first involve - And, most importantly, what was in protest. I only know this: the epi - call for the re moval of all tactical nuclear disarmament demands that ment in any sort of “protest” and I it safe to say? sode has dredged up some painful, nuclear weapons from Europe. we in the peace movement fight to was both excited and scared. When asked by friends over the disturbing memories, which I was To sum up, NATO non-nuclear bring Canada back where it belongs For advancing alternative theo - years “What was it like to be in not expecting and am not enjoying. states should announce their — in the forefront of the struggle to logical ideas, Henri de Lubac and seminary during the Council?” I Ken Burns recently quoted a intention to sign the Prohibition end the ultimate evil. The 1,000 other French Jesuits had been answer truthfully: It was the best of chap from my own Hannibal Treaty and then begin to work on members of the Order of Canada silenced by the Vatican in June times, it was the worst of times. roots, Mark Twain: “History does NATO policy to further reduce who have called for Canada to take 1950; Yves Congar and French Pure chaos: exciting and terrifying. not repeat itself . . . but it does reliance on nuclear weapons, and strong diplomatic action for nuclear Do minicans silenced in February Collectively, our hierarchy rhyme.” I guess we are stuck with promote mutual nuclear disarma - disarmament are but one example 1954; and, for championing uni - (especially its Roman base) does that. I hope it will draw even more ment with Russia, China and the of the Canadian public’s desire for versal religious freedom, Murray not often seem pleased to see alumni to the upcoming reunion, other nuclear states. an end to nuclear weapons. had been silenced in July 1955. As alternative ideas emerge in theol - not discourage them from coming. There is no legal impediment Stage 3 in this mammoth social persona non grata , he had not ogy. Not then; not now. Ecce quam bonum . . . to Canada talking this action now. change in the human journey — been invited to the just-completed James Martin, SJ, has recently (John Courtney Murray’s mas - But there is definitely a political government policies to negotiate advanced some alternative theolog - terful talk of that long-ago Febru - inhibition. The existence of the the complete elimination of nuclear ical ideas, and so it is not com - ary evening was printed in Amer - Prohibition Treaty, backed by a weapons — awaits. This great day Joe Foy, philosophy/theology, pletely surprising that he has been i ca. For text, see: www.library. majority of nations of the world, for the world seems far in the Theological College 1960 - 1966. dis-invited to be the main speaker georgetown.edu/woodstock/mur - forces Canada to end its present future. It is our job to bring it closer. He writes from Hantsport, N.S. at our upcoming Alumni Days at ray/1963i) 12 Prairie Messenger FEATURE October 4, 2017 Two traditions: the common ground is Jesus himself

clear moral and spiritual mark - profound and robust relational the name of God and morality, ers to help develop our con - and incarnational ethos. Roman but to invite a deeper maturity so science and guide our life choic - Catholics can be criticized for as to more properly honour the es. Like a good mother, Rome trying to squeeze life’s ambigui - great gift that we have been Double indeed strives to guide her chil - ties into a greater rigidity than life given” (May 21, 2006). dren in upright and moral living. itself can tolerate, thereby ignor - Our common ground is Christ Belonging But I also appreciate the An - ing its noble commitment to Jesus himself. In light of glican instinct of hospitality and moral guidance. Rolheiser’s words, and in light of Rev. Marie-Louise Ternier trust, the kind Jesus extended so Ron Rolheiser once wrote: increased ecumenical apprecia - freely in ways that scandalized “What’s needed today is not less tion of the past 50 years, we can the religious establishment of freedom but more maturity. We now recognize that Christ indeed We have 85 per cent agree - ple must be affirmed without ex - his day. don’t need to roll back freedom in meets us in either tradition ment between the two churches ception; and that thereafter excep - However, both traditions the name of God and morality: depending on one’s spiritual and that both claim a Catholic identi - tions can be dealt with, without struggle how to read the “signs of we need to raise the level of our moral challenges and needs. Both ty. Indeed, we are so very close in modifying the principle. The the times” from different vantage maturity to match the level of our traditions have gifts and chal - liturgy and prayer, Scripture and view natural to the (Anglican) points. While criticism can be freedom. Simply put, we are lenges needed by the other. Only Gospel discipleship, sacramental mind is rather that a principle swift over the Anglican storm often too immature to carry prop - in the tension of mutual account - practice and spirituality, the his - must be framed in such a way as around homosexuality and same- erly the great gift of freedom that ability can the fruits of common toric threefold order of bishop— to include all allowable excep - sex marriage, accusing it of sell - God has given us. The answer to witness mature on our pilgrimage priest-deacon, Mary and the tions. It follows inevitably that ing out to culture trends, Catholi - that is not to denigrate freedom in in Gospel faithfulness. saints. But why do we still find the Roman (Catholic) Church cism has its own challenges. The ourselves in such vastly different must profess to be fixed, while church’s official teaching against places? the Anglican Church must profess artificial birth control has failed In this question lies the enigma to take account of changed condi - to persuade many married that is the Anglican Church to tions. The (Roman Catholic) Catholics. As much as it tries to Roman Catholics. Now that I am Church thereby conceives of and remedy and show contrition, the swimming in Anglican ecclesial treats human nature in vastly dif - clergy sexual abuse continues to waters, some answers are slowly ferent ways than the Anglican tra - deliver serious blows to Roman floating to the surface. I will dition, and that difference goes Catholic moral credibility, while attempt to share a couple in this deep” (pg. 118, 1983). it is struggling mightily how to and the next column. In other words, the Roman welcome and accompany its gay In his book The Anglican Catholic point of departure leans and lesbian members. Finally, Moral Choice Paul Elmen writes: more toward a legal authority while the passing of time is an “The Roman Catholic view in model that allows exceptions in im portant discernment tool, general seems to be that a princi - pastoral situations. The Anglican much-needed reform in the Cath - model acknowledges the grey and olic Church occurs at a snail’s ambiguous spheres of life up- pace despite Pope Francis. Rev. Marie-Louise Ternier front, motivated by a deep con - Indeed, both Catholic and serves the Anglican and Lutheran cern to make room for every pos - Anglican points of departure parishes in Watrous, Sask. This sible situation in which people of carry merits and risks. A superfi - CNS/Nancy Wiechec column is co-published with the goodwill with a sincere desire for cial understanding of the Angli- HAPPY THANKSGIVING! — The first official, annual Thanksgiving Saskatchewan Anglican. Marie- God can find themselves. can position can lead to the no - in Canada was celebrated on Nov. 6, 1879, though indigenous peoples in Louise blogs at http://graceat I appreciate the Roman Cath- tion that it stands for nothing, Canada have a history of celebrating the fall harvest that predates the sixty.wordpress.com olic Church position. We need thereby completely missing its arrival of European settlers. Thanksgiving this year is Monday, Oct. 9. Among best of TIFF features includes world premiere of 55 Steps

Continued from page 8 unused billboards to blare the word, truly exceptional in the cur - future fuller review. Danish director Bille August, messages: “Raped While Dying”; rent cinema. Two other veteran master also a two-time Palme d’Or win - off the deep end of crazy. Fair “And Still No Arrests?”; “How Ethan Hawke gives an Oscar- directors at TIFF deserve men - ner, brought the world premiere of warning. come Chief Willoughby?” worthy performance as the Rev - tion. (I’ll highlight more top dra - an American true story in 55 Steps On the inspirational true-story Mildred’s crusade is what holds erend Toller, a 46-year-old former mas in a next column.) whose heroine, Eleanor Riese side is David Gordon Green’s it together. Willoughby puts him - military chaplain who has been Austrian Michael Haneke who (Helena Bonham Carter), diag - Stronger , in which Jake Gyllenhaal self out of his misery (while assigned as the pastor of the his - works in France was back at nozed with schizophrenia, was portrays Jeff Bauman who lost his secretly helping her), replaced by toric First Reformed church in Cannes in May with Happy End subjected to treatments against her legs in the April 2013 Boston an African American who fires the upstate New York. The solitary (France/Austria/Germany), in part will in the psychiatric ward of San marathon terrorist bombing. The racist officer Dixon (Sam Rock- Toller has turned to alcohol after a sequel to Amour (2012), which Francisco’s St. Mary’s Hospital. Boston bombing has already been well), a mama’s boy doofus who losing a son in Iraq and the break - won the festival’s top prize, the Amazingly this German/Belgium the subject of the Mark Wahlberg gets burned when she resorts to down of his marriage. He starts Palme d’Or , the Oscar for best co-production was mostly shot in drama Patriots Day and a 2016 firebombing the station but is will - writing a private journal to be foreign-language film and many Cologne. A devout Catholic who HBO documentary Marathon: The ing to ride shotgun with her after destroyed after one year. He minis - other awards. lived with her mother and whose the case gets a lead but stays ters to just a handful of parishioners The great Jean-Louis Trin - best friend was an elderly , unsolved. while a nearby “Abundant Life” tignant reprises his role as the octo - Eleanor made and was I’m from Missouri on this one. megachurch flush with corporate genarian phlegmatic patriarch deeply attached to the Blessed McDormand, Harrelson and Rock - donations prepares for his “tourist” Georges, wheelchair-bound with Virgin. In the 1980s she developed well chew the scenery to black church’s 250th anniversary. several Moroccan attendants. The a remarkable relationship with a comical effect but the side charac - Toller is shaken when a pregnant incomparable Isabelle Huppert is lapsed Catholic lawyer, Colette ters (Lucas Hedges as her son, young woman, Mary (Amanda back too as his icy daughter Anne Hughes (Hilary Swank), who took Peter Dinklage as the village Seyfried), seeks his help for her who runs the Laurent business on her case as an advocate for the Patriots Day Bombing . Regina’s dwarf) don’t add much. The crude troubled husband Michael (Philip empire and is engaged to English rights of mental patients to in- own Tatiana Maslany plays Bau - transgressive language and situa - Ettinger), a radical environmental lawyer (Toby Jones) handling a formed consent. Backed by her man’s girlfriend Erin Hurley, who tions elicited lots of cheap laughs activist who, despairing of the fate new deal. The setting is their luxu - mentor and senior counsel Mort was among the runners. and applause from the Toronto of the earth, doesn’t want her to rious seaside estate in Calais where Cohen (Jeffrey Tambor), Hughes The coveted “People’s Choice” audience. Wasn’t the pretext for all have the child. That is the setting the clan gathering includes her hap - waged an uphill battle at consider - nod went to Brit director Martin the motherly rage and mayhem a for some extraordinary faith-testing less son Pierre (Franz Rogow ski), able personal cost against the McDonagh’s Three Billboards horrendous crime? Hardly a laugh - conversations about humanity’s whose negligence has ex posed the medical and legal establishments, Outside Ebbing, Missouri , which ing matter, but then we learn almost responsibility for the ills it has firm to serious civil liability for a achieving an ultimately successful had been awarded best screenplay nothing about it or the victim. inflicted. Mary confides to Toller construction-site fatality. Also pre - ruling on appeal that was upheld at Venice. McDonagh specializes her worries about the extremes, sent is her brother Thomas in the California courts. in savage comedy on the dark side * * * which Michael is planning. Toller is (Mathieu Kassovitz) with his 13- Bonham Carter and Swank are and this is no exception. At the torn and drawn in deeper, agonizing year-old daughter Eve (Fantine superb in the roles. At a critical centre is an aggrieved middle-aged Turning to my best of TIFF, I’ll over the comfortable pew versus the Harduin) from a previous marriage juncture Colette appeals to a high - woman, Mildred (the terrific start with veteran Paul Schrader’s cross of Christian witness. In reach - whose mother is hospitalized from er power: “I’m out of practice Frances McDormand), in the fic - First Reformed , presented in the ing out to Mary perhaps he can find a drug overdose and whose use of praying but I know You are not tional Ebbing (actually filmed in festival’s “Masters” section, which some light to relieve his dark night digital social media skills help out of practice listening.” And Sylva, North Carolina), who also premiered at Venice where it of the soul. frame this as a very contemporary although Eleanor, whose favourite accuses its inept police department received an environmental “green Schrader’s fierce demanding exercise in familial sociopathy and expression was “Tell me I’m not led by Chief Willoughby (Woody drop” award. It would have been scenario draws on some cinemat - self-absorption. George’s private right” didn’t live long after the Harrelson) of doing nothing to my choice for best screenplay too, ic classics, notably Robert talk with Eve of final wishes and landmark decision, her dogged solve her daughter’s rape and mur - one that is profoundly morally Bresson’s The Diary of a Country no regrets prefigures an ironically faith made a lasting difference for der. Fed up, she pays for three serious without a single swear Priest , to be expanded on in a perfect wedding-scene ending. hundreds of thousands of patients. October 4, 2017 CHURCH AT HOME Prairie Messenger 13 When ‘nothing' is happening, change takes place

standing, pointing, legs churning, charging ahead, fully blossomed in the time it takes to blink. Around the A few weeks after Anissa was born, Leigh said to me that what Kitchen Table struck her with force was the real - ization that her fierce love for her newborn daughter was also the Maureen Weber fierce love Russ and I must have had, and do have, for her, for all our children. As parents, the love Days sometimes drag even as looked like an ancient soul, weary we have for our children is the time flies by. Living from the in the wake of her transition from same as breathing. Life does not inside out, the changes in our - one life to the next. exist without it. Watching our selves — minds, bodies, spirits — In the days that followed it own children parent is the same: are imperceptible, and yet much became clear that she was an we witness the immeasurable can shift in the course of a year. observer. Anissa gazed at her new love and delight in their little one. More than a year ago we world, alert yet calm, and we in Of the many photos we see of watched and waited as our daugh - turn gazed upon her in wonder. Anissa in any given day, there ter Leigh and her husband, Nohé, When we were raising our four was one recently that in a brief prepared for the birth of their first children we were so mired in the flash reminded me of one of my child. Leigh’s last ultrasound, at hectic pace of a busy home that I own baby pictures. Seeing myself 29 weeks, was unnerving to me: a failed to notice the subtle changes in Anissa, however slight the baby with huge eyes — could young children experience every resemblance, was a reminder of they be that large, or was I imag - day. A grandchild is different. something I’d lost sight of — that ining what I saw? — looked out Watching Anissa grow in this I was once small too, and that my from her cosmic capsule. It was as past year has been like seeing a parents had the same I would if she could see us in the world flower open in time-lapse photog - walk through fire for you love . beyond hers. raphy: the serious newborn, a tight - As older people we run the Anissa was born Sept. 24, ly closed bud unfolding, long limbs risk of becoming jaded. Love is 2016. Our first glimpse of her quivering; now colour peeling back fine for the young! For us was in a 10-second video when at the edges — rolling, reaching, grownups it is superfluous. Or she was two hours old. 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Revolution 100 years ago Eastern Catholic churches were outlawed and their medieval Russia. bishops were imprisoned. Priests caught celebrating “I wished to describe a way of life that is far October is a busy month for anniversaries this mass were arrested and either executed or sent to from modern people,” but one that is nevertheless year. prison or to work camps. attractive to contemporary readers, Vodolazkin said. Oct. 31 will mark the 500th anniversary of the After the Soviet Union began breaking up in His book details the quest of a “holy fool” in the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. 1990 and communist rule came to an end, the Russian Orthodox tradition, a kind of ascetic who Fatima celebrated the 100th anniversary of its churches experienced a revival. In Russia, even gov - humiliates himself in the eyes of others to draw clos - apparitions this year. ernment officials are now embracing Orthodoxy in er to God. “Humans cannot live only through TV, the Not so well publicized — at least in the West — public, and Russian culture and art are being trans - Internet and shopping,” Vodolazkin said. “This all is the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution formed with new Christian influences. concerns a horizontal level (of living), while humans in Russia. Salavat Scherbakov, a Moscow-based sculptor, are looking for a vertical dimension to life.” The anniversary of the communist takeover of recently completed a massive statue of Russia’s first Many Orthodox faithful say they are optimistic Russia coincides with the 100th anniversary of the final Christian emperor. The towering St. Vladimir sculp - about Christianity’s future. Soskina Lubov apparition of Our Lady of Fatima to three shepherd ture was prominently placed in Borovitskaya Square, Stepanovna, 68, who has lived her entire life in children in Portugal. The children said the lady just outside the walls of the Kremlin. Nizhniye Pryski near the famous Optina Pustyn “dressed in white” asked them for prayers and penance, A few blocks from Moscow’s Lubyanka Build - Monastery, remembers the decades when going to otherwise Russia “will spread her errors throughout the ing, which for decades served as the headquarters of church was illegal. world, causing wars and persecutions of the church.” the KGB, the Russian Orthodox patriarch recently “Now life is better: we can pray, ask God for Vladimir Lenin became dictator of the world’s consecrated a church memorializing those martyred help and he listens to our prayers and helps us. We first communist — and officially atheistic — state. during the communist reign. ask him to help our children and, you see, our chil - Christians were persecuted, church buildings confis - “While we were in procession around the church, dren were baptized as Christians.” cated and many leaders were killed. people were standing with portraits of those martyred Mother Cornelia Rees, an American Orthodox The Russian Orthodox Church formally has rec - and those condemned to death” by the communist nun who has lived in Russia since 2008, said that, ognized, or “glorified,” more than 1,500 bishops, regime, said Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion of despite the progress made since the fall of commu - priests, monks, nuns and deacons who died for their Volokolamsk, who heads the church’s department for nism, the country still suffers “ills” from its atheist faith under communist rule, which lasted from 1917 external affairs. past, reflected in high rates of abortion, prostitution until 1991. While the Orthodox Church was never President Putin, a former KGB agent, as well as and drug addiction. legally suppressed like most Protestant churches government officials and church leaders, were in While there is a new openness to the Christian tra - were, communist authorities worked vigorously to attendance for the ceremony May 25. dition, church attendance remains low. According to a encourage atheism, closing thousands of Orthodox Patriarch Kirill’s consecration of the Church of the recent study from the U.S.-based Pew Research Centre, monasteries and churches, sending clergy and reli - New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Orthodox only six per cent of the Orthodox population in Russia gious to the gulags or to psychiatric hospitals, and Church was one of the ways his church is commemo - attends church weekly. However, the study reported, 57 making it extremely difficult for any regular church - rating the centenary of the 1917 Revolution. per cent of Russians believe Orthodox Christianity is goer to hold a decent job or get into a university. After 70 years of persecution, contemporary an important feature of national identity. The Roman Catholic Church suffered even more. Russians are rediscovering their Christian heritage, Less than one per cent of the population identi - Long considered by Russians to be part of the West, Scherbakov said in a Catholic News Service article. fies itself as Catholic. Catholicism under communism was seen as having a Russian writer Eugene Vodolazkin is cited as an Lenin could not have imagined how Russia foreign allegiance. By the end of the 1930s, only two example of Christianity’s growing acceptance. He would be transformed in 100 years. Nor can we of the 150 Catholic parishes in Russia were still won his country’s most prestigious literature award imagine what will happen in the next 100 years — functioning. The Ukrainian Catholic and other for his 2012 novel Laurus, which is set in religious, both in Russia and in the West. — PWN Amoris Laetitia is built on traditional Thomist morality: pope

By Carol Glatz it is what is needed to guide peo - he said during a private audience asked what the pope hoped to see rithm table.” ple toward God, Pope Francis Sept. 10 in Cartagena, Colombia. in philosophical and theological The same sort of dialogue, he VATICAN CITY (CNS) — told Jesuits in Colombia. The Rome-based Jesuit-run jour - reflection today, not just in Co- said, applies to theology, which is Seeing, understanding and engag - “The theology of Jesus was the nal, La Civilta Cattolica , published lombia, but also in the Catholic not “to bastardize” theology or ing with people’s real lives does most real thing of all; it began with a transcript from the meeting Sept. Church in general. make it impure. Rather, “quite the not “bastardize” theology, rather reality and rose up to the Father,” 28. The journal provided its own Philosophy, like theology, the opposite” is true. Jesus, who is translations of the original Spanish pope said, cannot be done in “a “the greatest reality” of all, al - Kind and compassionate remarks. laboratory,” but must be done “in ways started with people’s real Meeting privately with a group life, in dialogue with reality.” lives to lead them toward God. of Jesuits and laypeople associat - Pope “Benedict XVI spoke of “It began with a seed, a para - people are happier ed with Jesuit-run institutions in truth as an encounter, that is to ble,” a specific incident, and then Colombia, the pope told them, “I say, no longer a classification, but Jesus would explain, he said; By Gerry Chidiac with the respect they deserve, how - am here for you,” not to make a a path,” Pope Francis said. It Jesus wanted to do a “deep,” pro - ever, good things begin to happen. speech, but to hear your questions always has to be done “in dia - found theology. Radio personality and motiva - A study documented in the Harvard or comments. logue with reality because you tional speaker Earl Nightingale Business Review noted that respect A Jesuit philosophy teacher cannot do philosophy with a loga - — THEOLOGIAN , page 15 said, “Treat every person as the toward employees was the most most important person on Earth.” important quality that leaders need - This may seem counterintuitive. ed to demonstrate in order to get Doesn’t it make sense to only treat commitment and engagement from people well if they have something their workers. This normally trans - to offer us? Why would I treat lates to stability and profitability someone with respect if there’s for corporations. nothing in it for me? In my work life, it’s just made It’s true that being nice can set sense to be nice to people. As a us up to be taken advantage of. A pool cleaner working my way few people see kindness as weak - through university, I was advised ness. by a co-worker to be nice to the But while it’s important to be landscapers. “All they have to do prudent, if we stop treating others is turn the lawnmower the other with respect to avoid rare negative direction to make a lot more work consequences, we’re giving a for us.” Even more than avoiding great deal of our power to people negative consequences, being nice who simply don’t deserve it. to co-workers, from trainees to A look at the world suggests that owners, just made for a pleasant many people don’t follow work environment. Nightingale’s advice. We see the As a teacher, it’s vital that I poor neglected and, even worse, we foster an atmosphere of kindness see groups of people treated cruelly and respect in my classroom. This for simply being who they are. is created by honouring each indi - When we treat every individual vidual and insisting my students do the same for each other. The result is an environment where Chidiac is an award-winning effective learning can take place. CNS/Robert Duncan high school teacher specializing The ideals of respect and service NEW ORTHODOX CHURCH IN RUSSIA — Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow consecrated in languages, genocide studies also help me to be mindful that the Church of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church May 25 as a way of mark - and work with at-risk students. ing the centenary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, which ushered in the communist era and led to the per - www.troymedia.com — BENEFITS , page 15 secution of Christians. October 4, 2017 LETTERS Prairie Messenger 15

Catholics want a better translation of the

The Editor: I was happy to Pettipas that he hoped the Cana- recite a creed telling us that Jesus read in the Sept. 13 Prairie dian bishops would not soon be descended into Hell (of all places), Messenger that Pope Francis had considering any changes. and the beautiful word Blessed is made a change in Canon Law, I, and many of my friends, so over used that one feels irritated allowing episcopal conferences were shocked when the translation by its constant repetition. more freedom regarding the lan - offered by the English-speaking I do hope the Canadian bish - guage translation of the Roman bishops was not accepted some ops will soon reconsider the pre - Missal. years ago, and we were given the sent translation, as there is a I was not so happy when I read current translation which has beautiful one waiting to be used. a comment from Archbishop G. many flaws. Weekly we have to — Mary Reilly, Burnaby, B.C. Small gestures do extraordinary things

Continued from page 1 extravagant things to make a dif - gee, have not even touched the ference in the lives of people.” hand of someone forced to flee a everyone wants and needs some - Rather, he said, “small gestures, war, have not even smelled the one to share his or her journey ordinary gestures, when done with misery of these people. So we through life. sincerity, with the light of human wonder, ‘What are you afraid of? “There are specific moments understanding, with the fire of love Where is this fear coming from?’ ’’ in the life of a person, a family or can do extraordinary things.” Tagle said his hope is that the whole human family when we The cardinal said it is important when Catholics meet a migrant or need to be reminded of this fun - for himself and for all Chris tians to refugee, they can say, “ ‘She’s a damental truth that we have been look not only at the gestures of sister.’ ‘She could be my mother.’ given each other so that we would care and love they extend to others, ‘She could be my neighbour.’ ’’ have someone to share our jour - but to recognize how “I have been Lasting impressions can come neys with,” he said, the day be- assured and encouraged by little from the experience of meeting, fore the campaign launched. gestures that people have extended talking to and sharing even a mo - “A small gesture like extending to me with sincerity and love.” ment of the journey with a mi - one’s arm to somebody else — it Those gestures, he said, “wow, grant or refugee, the cardinal said. means a lot,” he said. “I reach out they make my day, they make my For him, the refugee who stays and if a person feels alone and iso - journeys more pleasant and bear - in his mind, heart and prayers is lated, my reaching out is a gesture able.” “a teenager, a young boy who we of solidarity. If I reach out and that One key point of the “Share encountered in the refugee camp person is wounded, it could be a the Journey” campaign, Tagle in Idomeni, in Greece,” in late Alma Barkman sign of healing. If I reach out and said, is to help Catholics and oth - 2015. He was from Syria and he the person is lost, it could mean an ers take positive steps to get to was alone after his parents urged He splits the rocks in the wilderness. Psalm 78:15 offer of guidance. If I reach out and know the truth about the current him to escape the country. the person feels like nobody cares, refugee crisis and to actually meet “You know, whenever I think of A boulder looms across the path of progress. then it will be a sign of welcome.” a migrant or refugee in person. this boy, I feel anxious, but I pray We attack it with dynamite and bulldozers, In his ministry in the Philip - “Fear comes first from the for him,” the cardinal said. “And blasting, cracking, splitting stone. pines and travelling around the unknown,” he said. “Many people you just hope there are men and God takes time world for Caritas, Tagle said he who are against migration or re - women of goodwill who will see in He gently drops has come to realize that “we don’t ceiving migrants have not even him a son, a brother, a neighbour some pine cones in a crevice need to do great, extraordinary, met a real migrant or a real refu - and will share his journey.” and waits for roots to force the rock apart. Often we resort to confrontation, noise and speed, when all we need are mustard seeds of faith To be a good theologian, one must pray and time to move our mountains. By Alma Barkman Continued from page 14 God,” but they are “wrong.” The pope had made a similar “In order to understand point during his meeting with “To be a good theologian, in ‘Amoris Laetitia ,’ you must read Jesuits gathered in Rome for their Benefits of doing good addition to studying, dedicating it from the beginning to the end,” general congregation in 2016. oneself, having sharp insight and reading each chapter in order, There he said, “In the field of grasping reality,” one must reflect reading what got said during the morality, we must advance with - evident on social level and pray “on one’s knees,” he said. synods of bishops on the family out falling into situationalism.” A man or a woman “who in 2014 and 2015, and reflecting “St. Thomas and St. Bon - Continued from page 14 care has resulted in significant doesn’t pray cannot be a theolo - on all of it, he said. aventure affirm that the general sav ings for all Cana dians. Com - gian,” he said. He or she may know To those who maintain that the principle holds for all but — they each child is unique, with an excit - munities that care for their poor every doctrine that ever existed and morality underlying the document say it explicitly — as one moves ing future ahead. One of them may have lower crime rates and lower be a walking “Denzinger,” the pope is not “a Catholic morality” or a to the particular, the question someday be prime minister. The costs for law enforcement. Coun - said, referring to the 19th-century morality that can be certain or becomes diversified and many child who struggles to read may tries that invest in public educa - “Handbook of Creeds and Defini - sure, “I want to repeat clearly that nuances arise without changing earn a fortune as an amazing tion have stronger economies. tions ” by Heinrich Denzinger, “but the morality of ‘ Amoris Laetitia ’ the principle,” he had said. It is a plumb er. The child who struggles The same is true on an interna - they will not be doing theology.” is Thomist,” that is, built on the method that was used for the with math may become a famous tional level. When wealthier coun - It all comes down to “how you moral philosophy of St. Thomas Catechism of the Catholic Church performer. tries fund health care and educa - express who God is,” how the Aquinas, he said. and “ Amoris Laetitia ,” he added. When children feel accepted tion in developing countries, the Holy Spirit is manifested, the mys - One of the best and “most ma - “It is evident that, in the field and celebrated as individuals, result generally is peace, stability, tery and “the wounds of Christ,” he ture” theologians today who can of morality, one must proceed they have the courage to explore freedom from epidemics, avoid - said. “How you are teaching this ex plain the document, he told them, with scientific rigour and with their giftedness. ance of mass migration and overall encounter — that is the grace.” is Austrian Cardinal Christoph love for the church and discern - It’s also true that being good to progress. The pope then said that he Schonborn of Vienna. ment. There are certain points of others benefits us. Extensive re- Perhaps author and marketing wanted to use the teacher’s ques - “I want to say this so that you morality on which only in prayer search accumulated at the Greater consultant Simon Sinek put it best tion as an opportunity to address can help those who believe that can one have sufficient light to Good Science Center at the Uni - when he said, “If you want to be a — in justice and charity — the morality is purely casuistic,” he continue reflecting theologically. versity of California, Berkeley, great leader, remember to treat all “many comments” concerning the said, meaning a morality that And on this, allow me to repeat it, shows consistently that people people with respect at all times. post-synodal apostolic exhortation changes according to particular one must do ‘theology on one’s who are kind and compassionate For one, because you never know on the family, “ Amoris Laetitia .” cases and circumstances rather knees.’ You cannot do theology are happier and healthier. when you’ll need their help. And Many of the commentaries, he than one that determines a general without prayer. This is a key point The benefits of doing good for two, because it’s a sign you re - said, are “respectable because approach that should guide the and it must be done this way,” he others are also evident on a soci - spect people, which all great lead - they were made by children of church’s pastoral activity. had told the Jesuits in Rome. etal level. Giving everyone health ers do.”

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By Matt Fowler R. Gallagher, Vatican foreign “Thirty-eight of the world’s said. That dialogue must aim “to incite violence must also be tack - minister, said Sept. 22 during a 196 countries showed unmistak - overcome the cynical assumption led,” he said. VATICAN CITY (CNS) — UN session devoted to a discus - able evidence of significant reli - that conflicts The “revolting reality” of recent sion of protecting religious gious freedom violations, with 23 among reli - wars shows just how urgent it is minorities in situations of con - amounting to outright persecu - gious believers that the international community flict. tion,” said Gallagher. “When we are inevitable, act to protect religious minorities Although every recognized survey the world situation, we see and to chal - in situations of conflict, a top faith group experiences some that persecution of religious lenge the nar - Vatican official told the UN form of oppression globally, minorities is not a phenomenon row-minded General Assembly. Christians remain the most perse - isolated to one region.” interpretation “As all of us have seen, in the cuted, the archbishop said, citing Gallagher listed some strate - of religious last several years in various findings from a number of exten - gies that are essential for stopping texts that de - blood-drenched parts of the sively researched reports. The the persecution of religious monize and de - world, war and conflict often pro - studies have shown that anti- minorities. They included: humanize those vide the backdrop for religious Semitic attacks have also — Blocking the flow of of different be - minorities to be targeted,” which increased, most notably in money and weapons to those who liefs,” Galla - shows the need to focus on safe - Europe, while Muslims continue intend to target and harm reli - gher said. guarding religious minorities in to face persecution from funda - gious minorities. “Stopping atroc - — Con front - these situations, Archbishop Paul mentalists, he added. ities not only involves addressing i ng and con - the hatred and cancers of the demning the Immigration, health care heart that spawn violence, but abuse of religion also removing the instruments by to justify terror - are also pro-life issues: Paglia which that hatred actually carries ism and the out that violence,” he said. killing of inno - — Dialogue between religious cent people in CNS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins, Reuters By Junno Arocho Esteves “The academy’s goal is to followers to overcome the the name of PUERTO RICO — A man carries containers filled tackle these issues, combining assumption that inter-religious God. “Social, with water from a tank truck in Canovanas, Puerto VATICAN CITY (CNS) — scientific rigour and humanistic conflicts are unavoidable. “There political and Rico, Sept. 26 in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Pro-life issues cannot be restricted wisdom, a passion for truth and a is an urgent need for effective economic issues The and other agencies solely to bioethical concerns but comparison between different inter-religious dialogue as an that demagogues announced they are sending aid to Puerto Rico, must encompass a broader defini - skills and visions of the world,” antidote to fundamentalism,” he can ex ploit to which is on the brink of a humanitarian crisis. tion that defends life in every Paglia said. aspect, said Archbishop Vincenzo The Pontifical Academy for Paglia, president of the Pontifical Life, he said, has a responsibility Differing accounts of resignation Academy for Life. to promote life, not just in theory, Speaking to journalists at the but in the realities where it is By Cindy Wooden been tampered with. He contacted been infected with spyware that Vatican press office Oct. 2, Paglia most threatened. an external company that had copied files, he told Reuters. said that to be pro-life, Christians Recalling a visit to camp in VATICAN CITY (CNS) — done work for him before to But Archbishop Angelo Becciu, must “rethink the semantic value Uganda that housed 500,000 The first person to serve as the check for surveillance devices Vatican undersecretary of state, told of the word, ‘life’ and not just in a refugees, Paglia said that such cases Vatican’s independent auditor “because there are no such spe - Reuters there was proof that the reduced way.” show that the “horizon is very said he was forced to resign after cialized people” in the Vatican. outside contractor had been helping “If we must be pro-life, we wide.” opponents of Pope Francis’ finan - The company discovered that Milone to spy on others, “including must always, however and wher - “To be pro-life doesn’t mean cial reforms mounted a campaign his computer had been the target me.” The archbishop added, “If he ever, be pro-life,” Paglia said. having a theoretical, abstract con - against him. of an unauthorized access, and had not agreed to resign, we would Paglia presented the theme of cern; it means promoting a culture But the Vatican press office that his secretary’s computer had have prosecuted him.” the academy’s Oct. 5 - 7 general that helps life always and every - responded Sept. 24, saying Libero assembly, which will reflect on where,” the archbishop said. Milone, “going outside his compe - Vatican official condemns “accompanying life: new respon - Sickness, the death penalty, tencies, illegally hired an external sibilities in the technological weapons trafficking and health care company to undertake investigative discrimination against women era.” are also important life-related activities about the private lives of The assembly, he said, would issues that are often “overlooked or representatives of the .” offer a time of reflection on viewed with prejudice,” Paglia “This, besides being a crime, By Matthew Fowler enough. Legislation should be cou - human life today that considers said. irremediably strained the trust pled with education — at school the strides made through new The pontifical academy, he placed in Dr. Milone,” the state - VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The and in homes — for shaping minds technology while acknowledging added, holds those issues dear and ment said. It added that the need to recognize women as hav - and forming consciences that rec - that technology also risks becom - academy members are committed Vatican’s internal investigation of ing equal worth as men and allow ognize differences as a richness and ing “a new religion where all to studying them at a global, in - his actions was conducted with them to fully exercise their human reject all forms of racism, he said. other values are sacrificed.” ter national level. care and respect. rights is increasingly urgent due to He also called on government Without providing an explana - the “resurgence of divisions in agencies, the media and others to tion, the Vatican in June announced today’s world,” a top Vatican offi - avoid stereotyping minorities, say - that Milone turned in a letter of res - cial told the UN Human Rights ing they “must join the rest of soci - ignation, which was accepted by Council in Geneva. ety in upholding human dignity.” Pope Francis. Milone had been in “An increased fragmentation of office just two years, although he social relations in our multicultural had a five-year contract. societies, with spontaneous acts The position of auditor general and words of racism and xenopho - was seen as a key component of bia, social and racial discrimina - Pope Francis’ efforts to reform tion, and political ex ploitation of Vatican finances and bring greater differences, is evident in everyday transparency in financial deal - experiences,” said Archbishop ings. According to statutes issued Ivan Jurkovic, Vatican observer to by Pope Francis, the auditor gen - UN agencies in Geneva. eral has the power to audit the During a Sept. 25 speech re - books of any Vatican office and garding the impact of racial dis - reports directly to the pope. crimination and intolerance on the Milone, 68, an Italian accountant human rights of women, the arch - and expert in corporate risk man - bishop explained that women are agement, was chair of Deloitte Italy “too often undervalued” and vul - and served three years as a member nerable to discrimination, not CNS/Rich Kalonick of the audit committee of the United only when they are part of an eth - ARKANSAS ROTHER CHURCH — A sign is seen outside Blessed Nations’ World Food Program. nic, religious or linguistic minori - Stanley Francis Rother Church in Decatur, Ark., Sept. 24. It is the first The Vatican statement Sept. 24 ty, but for simply being women. in the world to be named after Blessed Rother, who was beatified Sept. expressed surprise that Milone had He said that women provide 23 in Oklahoma City. Located in the rural town of less than 2,000 peo - gone to the news agency Reuters “an irreplaceable value in political, ple, the church is home to a small but thriving Catholic community. and other news outlets when, at economic and social life,” and he the time he left the Vatican, he had emphasized the need to eliminate CNS/Paul Haring agreed not to discuss the circum - any form of racism, racial discrim - CARDINAL BURKE — Pope Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am stances of his leaving. ination, xenophobia and related Francis has named U.S. Cardinal everything. Between these two banks, the river of Milone told Reuters his trou - intolerance toward women. Raymond L. Burke a member of bles had begun on the morning of He told the council that recog - the Apostolic Signature, the my life flows. church's highest court, which the — Nisargadatta Mahara Sept. 27, 2015, when he suspect - nizing the equal dignity and funda - ed that his office computer had mental rights of all people is not cardinal headed from 2008 - 2014.