Single Issue: $1.00 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40030139 CATHOLIC JOURNAL Vol. 93 No. 9 July 29, 2015 Summer schedule World’s mayors discuss climate at Vatican The Prairie Messenger pub - lishes every By Carol Glatz cially the trafficking of human second week beings that is caused by this envi - in July and VATICAN CITY (CNS) — ronmental situation and the ex - takes a sum - After decades of world leaders try - ploitation of people.” mer vacation ing to set global goals to address “I really do hope that a funda - climate change and extreme pover - mental, basic agreement is reached” in August. With this issue ty, city mayors gathered at the at the UN climate summit in Paris in the Prairie Messenger will Vatican to pledge they will take real December, he added. close for three weeks, action and lead the fight on their Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu of resuming with a weekly streets. New Orleans told Catholic News schedule August 26. Pope Francis told the mayors Service, “There is a vivid recogni - that they were important because tion that mayors are key players in Ordinations they were at the “grassroots” and changing how policies that have could make concrete changes and before now been spoken about Two priestly ordinations put pressure on leaders above across nations are actually applied and two ordinations to the them. on the streets of the cities. Mayors permanent diaconate are The pope spoke briefly off-the- are actually responsible for getting detailed in this week’s issue. cuff in Spanish July 21 after more things done.” CNS/Paul Haring — pages 3 and 9 than 60 mayors attended a daylong Mayor Bill de Blasio of New DECLARATION ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN TRAFFICK - workshop on modern slavery and York City said in his speech, “It’s ING — Pope Francis signs a declaration on climate change and human Centenary Icon climate change, sponsored by the increasingly clear that we local trafficking during a workshop attended by mayors from around the world pontifical academies of sciences leaders of the world have many in the synod hall at the Vatican July 21. Local government leaders were As part of the centennial and social sciences in the tools and that we must use them invited to the Vatican by the pontifical academies of sciences and social sci - year celebrations in the Vatican’s synod hall. boldly even as our national gov - ences to sign a declaration recognizing that climate change and extreme Archdiocese of Winnipeg, a The academies invited the lead - ernments hesitate.” poverty are influenced by human activity. Also pictured are Cardinal Centenary Icon of the Holy ers to share best practices, to sign a Landrieu told CNS that he was Francesco Montenegro of Agrigento, Italy, left, Bishop Marcelo Sanchez declaration recognizing that cli - looking forward to hearing what Family was commissioned Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and Cardinal mate change and extreme pov erty other mayors were doing to make Claudio Hummes, former prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy. and is currently on tour, are influenced by human activity, cities more resilient and “get a visiting churches throughout and to pledge to pursue low-impact practical guide on climate change.” the archdiocese. development to make cities When Hurricane Katrina hit 10 Politicians echo pope: climate — page 6 “socially inclusive, safe, resilient years ago, he said, his city became and sustainable.” “the canary in the coal mine” Remaining active The pope told his audience, showing the world how extreme change is a ‘moral mission’ “We really have to involve the weather associated with climate At St. John Bosco Parish in United Nations in these things” change can devastate a major city. By Michael Swan Although Pope Francis prefers a Saskatoon, and make sure it takes “a very The Catholic Register carbon tax, Ontario has an nounced 90-year-old strong position on this issue, espe - — MAYORS , page 19 it plans to join California and Elizabeth TORONTO (CCN) — Climate Quebec in a unified cap-and-trade Kokotailo School lives compared: change is “a challenge to our system, with the first auction of has been moral imagination” and “a moral carbon emission allowances due in mission” that requires “the moral the first three months of 2017. involved in college vs. residential courage to change,” former United The shift to a low-carbon econo - parish life States vice-president Al Gore told my is necessary, possible and even for nearly 50 years. By Frank Flegel Wilson began her presentation the Climate Summit of the profitable, Gore told an enthusiastic — page 7 by comparing experiences of stu - Americas July 10. gathering at the summit before REGINA — Truth and Rec on - dents and staff from Luther Held in Toronto three weeks kicking off a Climate Reality Lead - Northern journeys ciliation Commissioner (TRC) College and those from students after Pope Francis issued Laudato ership Corps training session. Marie Wilson reviewed the work who attended residential schools. Si’ , the summit had politicians and “Now there is a much more James Raffan’s Circling the of the TRC for the benefit of 150 The Luther College quotes came senior bureaucrats from Ar gentina powerful voice giving us an an swer Midnight Sun takes place who attended the North American from a Luther College magazine to the Arctic tweeting pictures of to the question ‘Must we change over three years from June celebrating 100 years while the Pope Francis and talking about his Mother Nature?’ ” said Gore. “You 2010 to October 2013 when quotes from former residential encyclical. can go around the world and see he travelled 17,662 kilome - school students came from testi - California Governor Jerry that Mother Nature is sending us a tres following the Arctic monials delivered at TRC hearings Brown said he was travelling with message.” Circle through the eight across Canada. All described their a copy of Laudato Si’ and “going Brown, a one-time Jesuit novice high-latitude countries, with experiences and the impact on through it carefully.” and four-time governor of nearly their lives, but Luther quotes were “I like the language in it, which 39 million Californians (elected the intent of focusing atten - positive while those from former is not the language of markets,” twice in the 1970s and twice in this tion on the four million residential school students were Brown told a press conference on century), said the pope’s discussion people who live in the Arctic. entirely negative. the first day of the two-day meet - of climate change as a moral issue Gerald Schmitz reviews “We don’t all have the same ing that brought together represen - is critical as the world tries to avoid this epic travelogue. experiences,” said Wilson in her tatives from 30 states, prov inces, catastrophic climate change. — page 11 address. cities and First Nations. “But it’s “What we’re dealing with here She reviewed the purpose of the language of spirit, of meta - is not just some market transac - A generous season the TRC and how it was estab - phor, of poetry, of humanity.” tion. We’re dealing with the future lished. “It was part of a court set - Twenty-two sub-national juris - of humanity and how human be - Both high and low points in tlement,” she told the audience, dictions capped off the summit by ings live and treat one another, as family life are marked with “and it wasn’t so much about the signing a Climate Action State - well as other living things,” he money, it was an opportunity to ment which commits their govern - said. “And the pope has really food, writes Marie-Louise Flegel Ternier-Gommers in her speak and be heard about what ments to implementing some form captured that spirit in the encycli - Marie Wilson column for the 19th Sunday happened to them” at residential of carbon pricing — whether a car - cal.” schools. bon tax or a cap-and-trade market. Brown wasn’t the only leader at in Ordinary Time. She Interfaith Network (NAIN) con - Wilson said one of the prob - “We’re on the road to Paris,” the summit talks to specifically reminds us that God’s love ference held July 19 - 22 at Luther lems the TRC encountered was in de clared Ontario Premier Kathleen reference Laudato Si’ and Pope is as abundant as a prairie College, University of Regina. trying to find out what happened Wynne, host of the summit. The Francis. Chief Larry Sault of the summer harvest. Con ference attendees came from to children who died while at the Western Hemisphere climate gath - Mississaugas of the New Credit — page 13 all over North America and many schools. Many were buried in ering was a prelude to United Na - First Nation called Francis “one of were not familiar with the com - tions climate negotiations planned mission’s work. — RECORDS , page 7 for Paris in December. — ACTING , page 4 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS July 29, 2015 New video with Planned Parenthood raises outcry

By Abbey Jaroma The new video shows a con - higher compensation. the abortion procedure can be car - hood, calling for its defunding. So versation between Dr. Mary “If it’s in the ballpark, then ried out to best preserve body parts far in 2015, the organization has WASHINGTON (CNS) — Gatter, president of the Medical that’s fine, if it’s low we can bump requested for use in research. received $46 million in federal Amid an outcry from members of Directors Council of Planned it up,” she said. “It has to be big On the day the Gatter video was funds; since 2012, it has received the GOP demanding answers to Parenthood, along with two of the enough that it’s worthwhile to released, the organization said it $207 million from the federal questions raised by a video of a California centre’s workers pos - me,” she added, laughing about could not confirm its authenticity, government. Planned Parenthood physician ing as executives of a firm en - wanting a Lamborghini. because of heavy editing, the pro - “Last week, I called on Con - talking about preserving fetal gaged in the collection and selling “Women who have been ducer’s pro-life agenda and the fact gress to investigate these grue - organs and tissue for researchers of fetal organs to researchers. exploited by Planned Parenthood the original footage had not been some practices. The Energy and for a fee, a second video emerged Cecile Richards, president of and who now see this video are made available. Commerce and (the) Judiciary July 21 of a different physician the Planned Parenthood Federa- unlikely to be laughing with her,” According to David Daleiden, committees have begun immedi - from the organization talking tion of America, released an offi - said Carol Tobias, president of who was the project leader, the full ate investigations and I look for - about the same topic. cial video response saying that National Right to Life. video has been posted online at ward to their prompt and thorough Lawmakers and pro-life lead - “allegations that Planned Parent- The sale or purchase of human www.centerformedicalprogress. action,” said House Speaker John ers said the videos document the hood profits in any way from tis - fetal tissue is a felony punishable org and is more than an hour in Boehner, R-Ohio. organization’s illicit activities in sue donation is not true.” by up to 10 years in prison or a length. He said anyone can watch “This new video is as sicken - selling organs and tissue procured The eight-minute video, how - fine of up to $500,000, according it and judge for themselves if only ing, disturbing and callous as the in abortions. ever, shows Gatter haggling over to a provision in the U.S. Public the highlights were chosen. last video,” he continued. “It’s Both videos were filmed un - prices for an “intact specimen” Health Service Act. GOP political leaders at the now clear that Planned Parent - dercover and produced by the and eventually settling on $100 Gatter began discussing proce - federal and state levels have hood allows this horrifying con - non-profit, non-partisan Center per specimen, unless others in the dures that would allow for intact launched official investigations duct to happen throughout its for Medical Progress. business, she said, are receiving tissue, which she admitted might into the actions of Planned Parent - organization.” be “a little bit of a problem . . . but not too big of a problem.” Pope Francis declares “Our usual technique is suction at 10 - 12 weeks, and we stick to Sheptytsky ‘venerable’ using an IPAS (manual vacuum aspirator) or something with less suction, or to increase the odds that By Cindy Wooden was close to artists, poets, intellec - it will come out as an intact speci - tuals and writers.” men, then we’re kind of violating VATICAN CITY (CNS) — “Like Jesus, Metropolitan protocol that says to the patient, Pope Francis has signed a decree Sheptytsky had a very clear sense ‘We are not doing anything differ - declaring “venerable” Metropoli - of his identity and his God-given ent in our care to you.’ To me that’s tan Andrey Sheptytsky, who led dignity, which allowed him to be kind of a specious little argument the Ukrainian Catholic Church in non-defensive and non-aggres - and I wouldn’t object to asking Ian, the tumultuous period of both sive with others,” the bishop who is our surgeon, who does the world wars and at the beginning of said. cases, to use an IPAS.” Soviet occupation. Elected major archbishop of When asked how she felt about The pope July 16 signed the the Ukrainian Catholic Church at violating a signed contract with a decree recognizing that Metropoli - the age of 36, he quickly became patient, who is told a certain pro - tan Sheptytsky heroically lived a recognized as a social and cultural cedure would be used and then life of Christian virtue. The recog - leader in a situation of great polit - unknown to her the procedure is nition is an initial step in the saint - ical uncertainty. changed, Gatter replied, “They are hood process; the Vatican would Rev. Peter Galadza, acting di - both totally appropriate tech - have to recognize a miracle attrib - rector of the Metropolitan Andrey niques, there is no difference in uted to his intercession for a beati - Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern CNS/Lisa Johnston pain involved, and I don’t think fication ceremony to be scheduled. Christian Studies at St. Paul Uni - PLANNED PARENTHOOD FACILITY IN ST. LOUIS — Bev Ehlen, the patients would care one iota.” Sheptytsky led the Eastern versity in Ottawa, mentioned the state director of Concerned Women for America, holds a sign outside of In the first video, released July Cath olic Church in Ukraine from metropolitan’s efforts to save Jews a Planned Parenthood facility in St. Louis July 21. She was among sever - 14, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, senior 1901 until his death in 1944. during the Holocaust — including al pro-life supporters demonstrating after the release of two videos that director of Planned Parenthood During the period of his leadership, by personally sheltering them — showed Planned Parenthood officials discussing the method and price of Federation of America’s Medical Ukraine and its people were ruled and his efforts to promote recon- providing fetal tissue obtained from abortions for medical research. Services, casually discusses ways by seven different re gimes: Aus- cil iation among Ukrainians, Rus- trian, Rus sian, Ukrain ian, Pol ish, sians and Poles. Sov iet, Nazi, and finally, Daily life in Gaza a ‘nightmare’: priest the Soviets again. Ukrainian Bishop By Paul Jeffrey told Catholic News Service. the family and on the street more Borys Gudziak of Paris The 50-day war cost the lives quickly escalating into physical told Catholic News GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip of more than 2,250 Palestinians, violence. And lingering stress Service that while the (CNS) — One year after a war 65 per cent of whom were civil - generates health problems. pro cess for his saint - with Israel that turned daily life ians, according to a June report “Some kids continue to have hood opened five dec - here into a nightmare, a Catholic from a UN investigation. The problems with speech or bed-wet - ades ago, it was only priest in Gaza said the situation in report said “the scale of the devas - ting, and now that there are with the independence this besieged Palestinian territory tation was unprecedented.” It said rumours of another war — some of Ukraine 25 years ago has deteriorated even further. the Israeli military launched more are even talking about specific that church historians “Compared with a year ago, than 6,000 air strikes, 14,500 tank dates — one child’s hair has start - and theologians had ac - we’re worse off. Although a truce shells and 45,000 artillery shells ed to fall out again,” he said. cess to all his archives. stopped the war, the blockade of into Gaza between July 7 and Of Gaza’s 1.8 million popula - The study required for Gaza by Israel has grown more Aug. 26, 2014. tion, only about 1,300 are Chris - the sainthood process intense. This has direct conse - The war also “caused immense tian. Catholics number fewer than was not possible while quences for the population,” said distress and disruption to the lives 200. Relations between this small Ukraine was still part of Rev. Jorge Hernandez, pastor of of Israeli civilians,” the UN said, minority and the Muslim majority the Soviet Union. Holy Family Catholic Parish in reporting that nearly 4,900 rockets have been marred by discrimina - “It was a rich file,” Gaza City. and more than 1,700 mortars were tion. Gudziak said. “Metro - The priest said the war also fired by Palestinian armed groups “When one looks for work politan Sheptytsky was served as a recruiting tool for during that period. Sixty-six here, the first thing they ask is if involved in everything, Hamas, the Islamic party that has Israeli soldiers were killed, along you are a Muslim. If you are, then so it took a long time to controlled Gaza since 2007. with six civilians. they ask if you support Hamas or go through it all.” “The war generated new ac - The report also cites as possi - Fatah. If neither, they ask which “Metropolitan tivism throughout Gaza. The num - ble war crimes the conduct of mosque you go to, because they Sheptytsky lived in the ber of people willing to fight has Israeli operations in residential want to know who you’re loyal house of the Lord and it multiplied, whether on behalf of neighbourhoods, as well as the to,” Hernandez said. “But if had a high roof, open Hamas or Islamic Jihad or the killing of 21 suspected collabora - you’re a Christian, you won’t get doors and open windows Salafists, and now even with the tors by Hamas’ armed wing. asked those questions because you — he lived outside the CNS Islamic State. Despite that, the Gaza’s children continue to be won’t get the job. The only way box,” the bishop said. METROPOLITAN SHEPTYTSKY — great majority of the people of affected by the war, the priest Christians can get jobs is through “He reached out to the Metro politan Andrey Sheptytsky, who led the Gaza is not aligned with one party said. Besides thousands who a Muslim friend who serves as an Orthodox when ecu - Ukrainian Catholic Church in the tumul - or another. They just want to live remain in temporary shelters, he intermediary. No store or school menism was not official tuous period of both world wars and at the a normal life,” Hernandez, an said the overwhelming violence of or bank will give them a job, so church policy; he de - beginning of Soviet occupation, has been Argentine missionary of the the conflict has created discipline they come to the church asking for fended the Jews during declared “venerable” by Pope Francis. Institute of the Incarnate Word, problems, with normal tensions in help.” the Holocaust; and he Sheptytsky is pictured in an undated portrait. July 29, 2015 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 3 Draft anti-euthanasia law a response to CMA

By Deborah Gyapong suspend for five years the Supreme suicide would pose to vulnerable own members,” said Schaden berg. requiring someone requesting doc - Court of Canada’s Feb. 6 Carter people; and recognizes the “dev - “My concern is they are stepping tor assisted death make two oral OTTAWA (CCN) — The Asso - decision that struck down some of astating social harm caused by the beyond their own expertise and requests at least 15 days apart, fol - ciation for Reformed Political the Criminal Code provisions normalization of suicide,” among going from being involved with lowed by a written request. Two Action (ARPA) has released a against assisted suicide, paving the other concerns. lobbying to actually trying to cre - doctors would have to attest to the draft anti-euthanasia law to re- way for doctor assisted death, in- Euthanasia Prevention Coali - ate legislation.” person’s mental capacity, and that spond to the Canadian Medical cluding voluntary euthanasia. tion (EPC) executive director “This is not in their best inter - the decision is free from coercion Association’s (CMA) draft proto - Section 33 of the Charter per - Alex Schadenberg said he agreed est, especially since most physi - and informed. cols for doctor assisted death. mits Parliament to pass legislation with ARPA’s approach. “From the cians remain opposed to (euthana - CMA ethics and professional - “notwithstanding” the court’s in - very beginning we’ve been calling sia and assisted suicide),” he said. ism director Dr. Jeff Blackmer ter pretation of Charter rights, such for the use of the notwithstanding He admitted, however, that he is told Postmedia’s Sharon Kirkey as Section 7, the right to life and clause and ARPA has acted by not sure what current polling June 29 the protocols are meant to security of the person, or Section codifying our basic ideas into a might show, since “there is a lot of begin the discussion in the ab - 15, the right to equality under the potential bill.” pressure on doctors.” sence of a formal government law. Both the EPC and ARPA were Schadenberg pointed out the consultation. “In this case, the draft legisla - among the interveners in the Carter CMA represents doctors who have “When you’re operating in a tion is cited notwithstanding how Case, arguing for keeping the pres - a range of opinions on the issue, bit of a vacuum like this someone the Supreme Court interpreted the ent legal prohibition against assist - but “they are going out of their has to step forward and fill it, and ‘right to life’ of section 7 of the ed suicide and euthanasia. way to create legislation that so that’s really our intent,” he told Charter to allow state-endorsed Schadenberg joins ARPA in would allow euthanasia and assist - Kirkey. killing,” said ARPA. concern over the CMA’s draft pro - ed suicide.” With the House of Commons “If Parliament refuses to even tocols. “I think they are being very “The pendulum has swung too recessed for the summer and consider invoking Section 33, premature in their concept around far,” he said. “The CMA has gone unlikely to be called back before Canada’s nine unelected Supreme building proposed legislation.” beyond the best interests of their the writ is dropped for the October Court judges have effectively The CMA is “attempting to members. If they would poll their election, the euthanasia and assist - become the supreme lawmakers steal the show, or steal the direc - members, they would find a lot of ed suicide debate seems to have of Canada,” said ARPA Canada’s tion and I’m not sure they are do - them are quite concerned.” Legal Counsel André Schutten. ing so in the best interest of their The CMA protocols suggest — GOVERNMENT , page 5 Yaworski “The notwithstanding clause was Alex Schadenberg added to the Charter to balance the power of the judicial and leg - Two ordained to permanent diaconate The CMA plans to vote on the islative branches of civil govern - protocols that would include ment. But for the clause to have By Paula Fournier home parish of St. Mark in Prince Serving for 45 years in the lethal injections at its annual gen - effect, it must be exercised. It is Albert. army, Bellavance said he’s had a eral council meeting in August. In hard to conceive of a more worthy PRINCE ALBERT — Two The word “deacon” comes good, adventurous life. He has the meantime, it is soliciting opin - time to invoke Section 33 than men have completed their prepara - from the Greek diakonos , mean - served in places including the ion from its members. now, when the basic right to life of tion program through the Roman ing “service.” Deacons are or - Middle and Far-East, the United In response, ARPA’s draft bill Canada’s most vulnerable citizens Catholic Diocese of Prince Albert dained as servants of the church. States and northern Canada. released July 7 would invoke sec - is at risk.” and have been ordained to the per - Though all Christians by baptism After 55 years of marriage, his tion 33 of the Charter, the not- ARPA’s draft legislation has a manent diaconate. are called to service, deacons wife passed away in 2012. During withstanding clause, to uphold lengthy preamble that upholds the Bishop Albert Thévenot, M. serve as a public sacramental sign most of his life, he explained, he Canada’s “absolute prohibitions of “inviolable right to life of all Afr., ordained Ghislain Bellavance of Christ in and at the service of felt called to serve as a deacon. assisted suicide and euthanasia,” human beings”; expresses “grave on June 24 in his parish of St. the world. Like a priest, a deacon His wife was in full support. After according to an ARPA news concerns about the inherent risks” André Apôtre in North Battleford is a member of the clergy who she was diagnosed with cancer, he release. Invoking Section 33 would legalized euthanasia or assisted and Brad Taylor on June 29 in his shares in the ministry of the bish - saved the idea for a later time to op. Unlike a priest, he may have a care for her. Powwow a celebration of culture wife, a family and a secular job. When the program for the per - “The deacon embodies the manent diaconate was announced self-emptying ministry of Christ for the Prince Albert Diocese, he By Paula Fournier drummed. Mayor Greg Dionne, said Cooper. “This is a real cultur - symbolized by the foot-washing wrote Thévenot to express inter - chief of police Troy Cooper, al community which allows the in the upper room,” said Rev. est, knowing he was over the age PRINCE ALBERT — On May PACSD director of education police service to be a part of the Michael Averyt, director of Per - currently considered for candida - 27, teachers, students and dancers Lorel Trumier and St. Mary High celebration. I’m thankful I’m manent Diaconate Formation. “In cy. from the Prince Albert Catholic School principal Mark Phaneuf allowed to be here as part of the our context, such ministry may “I may not have much time School Division (PACSD) and the each carried a flag representing education system celebrating include assisting the priest at the left, but I really got the feeling I Saskatchewan Rivers Public city, province and country. Bishop diversity and culture. When you eucharist, witnessing marriages, was doing the right thing.” School Division (SRPSD) took part Albert Thévenot, M. Afr., elders learn about your neighbours, when and baptizing children. They cate - Taylor has felt called to out - in a traditional powwow at St. Paul and student dancers from sur - you have an understanding and chize, minister to the sick and reach and community ministry Field by St. Mary High School. rounding communities joined the appreciation of what your neigh - poor and embody social justice. A since his conversion to follow Organizers for this year’s event Grand Entry. bours’ history is, then we form deacon places himself in the serv - Christ in his early 20s. were PACSD school co-ordinators While greeting those who bonds in our community, which ice of the church, at the pleasure Through the Oblates of Mary Diane Kopchynski at St. Mary came to take part in the celebra - makes a stronger community fab - of the bishop, who may assign Immaculate youth ministry pro- High School, Sheila Georget at St. tion, Lorel Trumier spoke to the ric, making it a better place to them to assist in a parish or to John, Therese Gerow at St. students, explaining the day was live.” some other ministry.” — OBLATE , page 7 Michael, and Jane Goulet at W. F. for learning. “Open your eyes, lis - Milton Tootoosis from the A. Turgeon as well as powwow ten to the music, enjoy your Office of the Treaty Commissioner adviser Dave Larocque and cul - friends. This is a day where you said he was thankful sweatlodge tural adviser for the Prince Albert get to build community together and sundance ceremonies have Outreach Program, Liz Sette. around a beautiful and sacred cer - been kept alive throughout the A Native Studies class from St. emony.” years, as at one time they were Mary High School set up the Thévenot said that we all come banned by the government. grounds, helped prepare and serve from one Creator and we stretch Phaneuf greeted all and ex- the meal, signed in dancers and out in different ways, like branch - plained that people in Canada have assisted the elders. Diane es in a tree, giving beauty to the a responsibility in making sure Kopchynski said many attended world. He welcomed everyone treaties are understood and fulfilled. from the four community schools. who came to celebrate and “Thank you to those who came “The cultural and traditional encouraged them to be who they today, for sharing their joy during powwow provided an opportunity are called to be. the Grand Entrance. Thank you for the students and adult commu - “Express it, live it, and let the for sharing your culture and the nity members to participate in Creator work through all of us so spirit in which it was shared.” learning and sharing about the cul - that we can be people who live in Kopchynski thanked everyone ture and art of powwow dancing harmony and work together.” from the schools and surrounding and the teaching that go with it. It Cooper made special mention area who helped organize and par - was a beautiful celebration of shar - of elder Rose Fleury, whom he ticipate in the day. ing,” said Kopchynski. “A meal of met for the first time when she “The celebration would not be stew and bannock was provided.” was awarded the Queen Elizabeth possible without the help of part - The powwow opened with a II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her ners. Thank you to the City of Yaworski pipe ceremony presided over by work in the community. Prince Albert Community Services, CARMEL BLESSING — Rev. Cosmas Epifano, OSB, blesses pilgrims elders Alex Ahenakew and Karen “I was honoured to be sitting Sask Lotteries, SIGA, and PACSD July 19 at Mount Carmel Sunday. Epifano was the homilist for the mass Bird. Representatives from the beside her and for today to be part division for bringing us together. A and Saskatoon Bishop Donald Bolen was the celebrant. Bolen and City of Prince Albert walked to of the celebration here, to teach us powwow is a celebration of culture Abbot Peter Novecosky, OSB, offered blessings following mass. the celebration area as young men about our cultural community,” and community.” Approximately 450 attended the event. 4 Prairie Messenger CANADIAN NEWS July 29, 2015 Camp Encounter gives youth a ‘loving environment’

By Ramon Gonzalez June, when high and middle Western Catholic Reporter schools bring students out for two-to-three-day retreats. EDMONTON (CCN) — Most, but not all, of those tak - Brandi Linkewich says spending a ing part in the counsellors’ train - good chunk of her summers at ing week have been campers Camp Encounter over the years before, she said. At least five changed her life. She appreciates came for the first time. the camp’s “loving environment” During training they have an and the fact she can feel God’s opportunity to get to know each love in there. other and to go through all the “You feel totally accepted activities that will occur when here,” the 17-year-old Edmonton they start counselling. youth said. “Coming here is prob - “(Staff) also works with them ably one of my favourite things to on the required training that they do in the summer.” need to have, such as safety pro - Three years ago she became a cedures, what the expectations camp counsellor to help younger are, what their role is, how to pro - campers make the best out of a vide for the needs of the camp - weeklong vacation. ers,” MacQuarrie explained. “And Owned by the Archdiocese of we do safe environment training Edmonton and set on the eastern with them as well.” shores of Lac la Nonne, Camp In practical terms, counsellors Encounter is a camp for all seasons. WCR/Gonzalez are small group leaders. They The camp’s 70-acre mainland CAMP ENCOUNTER — Any time, even the lunch lineup, is a good time for a song at Camp Encounter on guide their small group of camp - property offers accommodation, Lac la Nonne, 100 kms northwest of Edmonton. ers throughout the activities each dining and programming facilities, day and they stay in the cabin with historical trail systems and multi - every kid, in every tree, in every - member of the camp staff one day, of Christian community.” the campers. ple adventurous activity areas. thing,” she said. like her cousin and her brother. Allen, 28, started coming to the Campers of different ages were It also boasts a 30-acre island This is the second summer “This is the best place in the camp as a camper in 1996. She to start coming to Camp En- which houses an extensive trail Cain Collins, a 17-year-old from world,” she said of the camp. “I has been involved in some capac - counter July 12. They come on a system and 10 teepee sites for Vermillion, has served as counsel - counsel because I like to see the ity ever since. She was even a Sunday and leave on a Friday. overnight use. lor, a job he was inspired to take kids grow into the best individuals member of the board of directors The first batch was made up of Since 1980, Camp Encounter on by watching his own counsel - they can be.” for a few years and became pro - young people aged 10 - 13, fol - has offered outdoor, environmen - lors as a young camper. Lisa Allen, the program direc - gram director three years ago. lowed by four more weeks of camp - tal and adventure experiences in a He began camping at age 11, tor, said the camp’s mission state - Camp Encounter has shaped ing, each with its own age limits. Catholic-Christian setting for but the first time he didn’t like it a ment is to encounter Christ who she is today. “Just the sense of Up to 60 campers can be ac - children, youth and adults alike. lot, perhaps “because I wasn’t very through creation and community community kept me coming back, commodated each week. Two Linkewich was one of about 45 confident in myself.” He took a “and so we try to live by that mis - and it shaped my faith as well,” she counsellors are assigned for every young people aged 14 - 17 who two-year break and returned. sion statement in everything we pointed out. “The friends I met eight campers. received training at the camp July “I found the experience totally do here at camp. when I was a counsellor are still Most counsellors are present 7- 10. When she is 18 she will no awesome,” he recalled. “This place “The hope is that at the end of some of my best friends today.” for two weeks. The 11 adult mem - longer be able to serve as a coun - allows me to be myself.” He also the week (each group of campers) Lisa MacQuarrie, co-ordinator bers of the staff, however, stay for sellor but she says she will be - said the camp solidified his faith. have built on their relationship of youth evangelization for the the whole summer. They are also come an adult volunteer. Also taking part in the training with Christ and we do that Edmonton archdiocese and direc - assigned to the small groups of “Camp helps you to discern sessions was Haley Kieftenbeld, through being out in nature but tor of Camp Encounter and Our campers “to oversee the work of God in so many different ways: in also 17, who plans to become a also building and fostering a sense Lady of Victory Camp on Gull the junior counsellors.” Lake, said Camp Encounter actu - ally starts in the spring, May and — FRIENDSHIPS , page 10 Pope’s South Korea visit still bearing fruit Acting on climate change is By Deborah Gyapong he meet with the parish of the Catholics in Asia live in scattered Holy Korean Martyrs on July 15. communities and some experience ‘a moral obligation’: Wynne Ottawa (CCN) — Daejeon You participated closely in some persecution. Bishop Lazzaro You says Pope Pope Francis’ visit last August, Because Catholics are a minor - Continued from page 1 industrial polluters. Francis’ visit to South Korea a during which the Holy Father bea - ity — they make up 10.6 per cent Quebec Premier Philippe year ago continues to bear fruit. tified an additional 124 Korean of the population of South Korea my heroes” and a “climate change Couillard called the cap-and-trade In Korea, “we are trying to imi - martyrs, attended Asian Youth Day — the pope urged them to dia - warrior.” initiative of Ontario and Quebec tate him,” he said. He noted he logue with their fellow citizens Sault addressed delegates wear - “the most important initiative in recently gave an interview in and to remember their brothers ing a ceremonial headdress repre - Canada.” which he described the pope as and sisters in North Korea. If you senting the indigenous nations of “Each time a new partner joins “still here in Korea because of are brothers and sisters, you no North and South America, stand - us it becomes more solid,” he said. what he said and what he did.” longer think in terms of who is ing between two large screens dis - Quebec has operated the system “Every day I try to listen to winning or who is losing, he said. playing a quote from Laudato Si’ . with California as part of the what he says, and I try to put it into Since the pope’s visit, a group “It is essential to show special Western Climate Initiative since practice,” Bishop You said. He of young people have formed an care for indigenous communities 2014. Once Ontario’s system is up described the pope as “an instru - active network both inside his dio - and their cultural traditions. They and running, 70 per cent of Ca - ment that brings people in front of cese and outside to carry on the are not merely one minority among nadians will be living with a price God,” someone who makes people pope’s vision, he said. others, but should be the principal on carbon — either through British conscious that “God is before you, At Holy Korean Martyrs Parish dialogue partners, especially when Columbia’s carbon tax or the sys - behind you, over you,” and you in Ottawa July 15, You celebrated large projects affecting their land tems in Quebec and Ontario, are “always accompanied.” the eucharist, attended a reception are proposed,” read the quote. Couillard said. The pope’s encyclical on the with its Korean-speaking parish - Acting on climate change is “a Couillard framed the cap-and- en vironment, Laudato Si’ , has also ioners and delivered a lecture. He moral obligation,” said Wynne. trade system as an opportunity for received a favourable reception in said his message to the parish was “The people in this country social justice, pointing out how Korea, he said. As president of the that the “Christian life is to belief believe we have a responsibility,” Quebec government revenues are Korean Catholic Bishop’s justice in the love of God” and with this Wynne said. directed into a green fund used to and peace commission, You was CCN/Gyapong belief comes love and service to “We have done either nothing or support vulnerable communities. involved in pre paring a Korean Bishop Lazzaro You our brothers and sisters, he said. too little,” she said, pointing out that “Let us reject this false choice language summary of the docu - And to love, according to Pope Canada is the world’s ninth largest between growth and the environ - ment and meeting with govern - where he connected with 25,000 Francis, means to “have your emitter of greenhouse gases. ment,” said Couillard. ment representatives to share the Korean young people and about hands dirty,” and “shoes dirty” “My country, Canada, was In April the Pontifical Aca de - pope’s vision on energy policy. A 1,200 more from other Asian because you have moved toward founded on the belief that we have mies of Sciences and Social news conference on Laudato Si’ countries, and connected with the your brother, he said. more to gain together than we Sciences declared the Paris climate attracted five television networks, country’s 5.1 million Catholics. The bishop’s next stop is Chile, would apart,” Wynne told delegates change summit “may be the last he said. The country is in the midst Pope Francis urged the young to confirm young members of a as she boasted about On tario’s effective opportunity to negotiate of a debate on nuclear energy, he people to never lose courage and Korean parish in Santiago served plans to join with Cali fornia and arrangements that keep human- said, with many citizens express - to always keep hope, using the by a missionary Korean priest from Quebec to form a cap-and-trade induced warming below 2 degrees ing concern about safety. Korean martyrs as an example, the the Diocese of Daejeon; then he is market. Under the system industri - C, and aim to stay well below 2 You visited Ottawa July 15 -17. bishop said. The pope also urged on to Brazil to celebrate the 50th al polluters pay for allowances to degrees C for safety, yet the cur - At the invitation of Ottawa them to connect with each other anniversary of a Korean Catholic emit carbon and may sell unused rent trajectory may well reach a Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, and walk with each other, as Church in Sao Paulo, he said. allowances or permits to other devastating 4 degrees C or higher.” July 29, 2015 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 5 Inner healing draws people back to Lac Ste. Anne

By Thandiwe Konguavi on her way to back to the pilgrim - “They believe St. Anne is there, of different cultures were present given the reduction in the number Western Catholic Reporter age, when she realized something and she is there,” said Alexis. at this year’s blessing of the lake, of Oblate priests who ran the pil - was missing in her life. “They go right to the lake, and a lot including Ethiopian and Italian grimage for more than a century. EDMONTON (CCN) — “I wasn’t living my faith,” said of them receive that grace and Catholics who remained to pray in This year’s event ran from July Canes and crutches are left behind Besskkaystare, who brought all of blessing because they believe.” the lake for hours. 18 to 23 and also featured healing at the Lac Ste. Anne pilgrimage her burdens to the lake for the first Pilgrims who have come for The priest said he is grateful masses and a dramatic presenta - site, evidence of healing miracles time that year. “It renewed my healing from addictions take a for the increased involvement of tion of the life of St. Kateri experienced at the sacred shore. faith.” pledge to quit alcohol and drugs. archdiocesan clergy, especially Tekakwitha. Impressive stories of people Besskkaystare said St. Anne, The Alexis Nakota Sioux being healed of diseases such as revered as the grandmother of Nation first called the lake leprosy, entering the water lame Jesus, has helped transform her Wakamne, or God’s Lake, because and coming out walking, and other into a good role model for her the ancestors believed it was holy, healings of various sorts are not family and community, and a pas - said Alexis. hard to come by at the pilgrimage, sionate lay worker for her parish Oblate Father Garry LaBou - which is likely the largest annual and teacher of catechism. cane, spiritual director and chair of church event in Western Canada, The Dene elder said she is the pilgrimage board, said the event drawing tens of thousands of peo - happy even though she walks with has run smoother since the band, ple, mainly Aboriginal. a cane because her inner healing led by Chief Tony Alexis, took on But for many pilgrims, like journey is continuing. She returns the groundskeeping operations. grandmother Genevieve Bessk - to the pilgrimage to pray for her The Catholic band has faced kay stare, who travelled from family and her community all criticism from other First Nations Wollaston Lake, Sask., it is not the over the world. communities for embracing the physical healing, but the inner “The younger generation, church despite pain from residen - healing that draws them back to they’re committing suicides be - tial school experiences, said Alexis. Lac Ste. Anne year after year. cause they have no meaning in life. Alexis has 125 members in - Besskkaystare, 65, was lost They need to find faith again and volved in helping with the pil - with nobody to turn to as a teenag - change their lives,” Besskkaystare grimage grounds, including 73 er when her mother died. But her said. volunteers, and they do it out of life changed when she found Jesus “We won’t have any peace un- service, she said. and his mother Mary who filled less we remember God and find “People say ‘How can you love the void in her life. faith. There’s no other happiness these people?’ But when you know When she came to the Lac Ste. you can find in this world.” who Jesus is, of course you’re going WCR/Konguavi Anne pilgrimage for the first time Pilgrimage co-ordinator to serve him,” said Alexis. “Because PILGRIMAGE — Lac Ste. Anne pilgrims Genevieve Besskkaystare in 1978, her life was again in Stephanie Alexis said traditionally we love Jesus we serve him.” and her sister Jeanette Tsannie of Wollaston Lake, Sask., prayed in the shambles. She had a good hus - people believe the presence and LaBoucane said many people sacred waters of the lake on July 20. band but she was drinking a lot love of the grandmother helps and not being a good mother to them heal, so they bring all of the her children. suffering in their hearts to the pil - Jesuits lead retreats for the homeless Her turning point came in 1984 grimage. By Agnieszka Krawczynski street. About six years ago she the miracle of the present and the The B.C. Catholic realized that “if any of these folks terror of the unknowable life start to do well and get on their ahead.” VANCOUVER (CCN) — feet, they are going to need some - Chris Chiu, a spiritual director Spiritual retreats shouldn’t be lim - thing more solid than what we’re with the Jesuit Spirituality Apos - ited to the middle class, said Ted doing here.” to late of Vancouver, called it a Penton, a Jesuit in formation. They decided to try Ignatian “wonderful and powerful experi - He leads retreats for homeless spirituality three years ago and ence.” people through the Ignatian Spiri - found it resonated with their re - “The retreat helps people be - tuality Project (ISP), which runs treatants. come aware of their inner life. in 27 North American cities. Penton held a sample retreat They can then begin to notice the Penton visited Vancouver July 11 for about 15 people, including hurts and the yearnings in their - 17 to see if it could be next. those who minister to Vancouver’s soul: the desire for meaning, the “It’s a narrow demographic less fortunate. need for healing and forgiveness, coming through the doors (of “People in the Downtown the longing for the divine.” retreat houses): people who are East side who come into early City in Focus, a Christian non- middle class, people who have recovery are often well experi - profit, facilitated Penton’s visit. some money,” he said. enced with God having kept them Director of ministries Louise “Wouldn’t it be great to reach alive in the streets,” said Judy Tischhauser hopes “this style of out to a different population that Graves, a well-known advocate retreat, tailored to provide a place has both a vibrant spiritual life but for the homeless. of safe spirituality for those on the also real hunger to deepen that “Often they find it difficult to margins in our society, will find a and a real need to find some direc - integrate their spiritual past with home in Vancouver.” tion in their lives, to find some Government not to be hope, to find that foundation of love that is going to be at the basis of any long-term recovery?” faulted for being careful Each year Penton, who entered the Jesuits in 2009 and hopes to Continued from page 3 extension on the one-year deadline become a priest, facilitates about it gave for Parliament before the 12 overnight retreats and a few receded into the background of the Carter decision goes into effect. day programs for the homeless. barbecue circuit. But there is still no news from the Retreatants must be at least two “Christians of all denomina - minister. months sober to join. tions, and all people of goodwill, “This is a sensitive issue for “The 12 steps parallel very should take advantage of the sum - many Canadians with deeply held closely the Ignatian spirituality. mer season, while their MPs are beliefs on both sides of the issue,” Working with people who are in home, to let them know of their said Clarissa Lamb, a spokesper - the 12-step program is great. They opposition to any legislation that son for MacKay in an email. “We are already on that spiritual path. would allow some citizens — be will be announcing the way for - The 12 steps are spiritual through they doctors — to kill other citi - ward on this decision in due and through.” zens,” said Catholic Organization course.” ISP was founded in Chicago in for Life and Family (COLF) direc - Schadenberg said he hoped a 1998. The first and only Canadian tor Michele Boulva. “This barbar - committee of experts to guide the city on board is Victoria, B.C. ic evolution of Canadian society consultation would have been “It really is a true support for must be prevented.” announced by now. “I think the people as they want to journey Justice Minister Peter MacKay government is trying to get it toward new places and new lives,” has announced he is not running right,” he said. “The government said Margaret O’Donnell, the again in the next election. He had has been communicating with executive director of Oasis promised a formal consultation quite a few people to try to find Society for the Spiritual Health of process to aid the drafting of a bill the right people on the committee Victoria. in response to the Carter decision, so they will get effective represen - Her organization offers meals and even speculated the govern - tation. I’m not going to fault them and retreats for people on the ment might ask the court for an for being careful. 6 Prairie Messenger LOCAL NEWS July 29, 2015 Centenary Icon on tour in Winnipeg archdiocese

By James Buchok in 1915, creating the Archdiocese of Winnipeg. In a second row are WINNIPEG — As part of the Archbishop Alexandre-Antonin centennial year celebrations in the Tache, first archbishop of the Archdiocese of Winnipeg, a Diocese of St. Boniface, which Centenary Icon of the Holy was created in 1847, and out of Family was commissioned and is which was created the Arch dio - currently on tour, visiting church - cese of Winnipeg; a representative es throughout the archdiocese. of the Métis people in traditional The icon will be placed on per - garb of buckskin and beadwork manent display at St. Mary’s and sash; and a representative of a Cathedral on the closing weekend modern office worker and of the of the Jubilee Year, Dec. 4 - 6. Filipino people. The icon was designed and At right are three modern chil - written by Andre J. Prevost, origi - dren, learning of and continuing nally from Manitoba and now the ongoing proclamation of based in Vancouver. It is based on Christ, and a historical depiction the Archdiocese of Winnipeg’s of a nun with the Holy Names of centenary theme, Proclaiming Jesus and Mary representing all Christ Always, including the Holy women’s religious orders in the Family with emphasis on St. archdiocese. In a second row is a Joseph as patron of the archdio - woman bringing to mind the five cese. First Nations within the archdio - The icon is 64 inches wide by cese, dressed in traditional garb of 43 inches high and has been writ - buckskin and beadwork, a blend ten on wood. The framing, sky Swiecicki of Ojibwa and Dakota motifs. and haloes are covered with 24K CENTENARY ICON — The Centenary Icon of the Holy Family, created for the Archdiocese of Winnipeg’s Manitoba’s diverse ethnic Italian Patent Gold. Gold is the 100th anniversary celebrations, is touring churches in the archdiocese throughout the summer and fall. groups are depicted by a woman in traditional symbol of God’s light. a blouse, head scarf and apron, and The background of the icon is a also a representation of the Viator Church in Dauphin, and St. sentation of the varied population a man from the agricultural and landscape representing Manitoba. Oodena Celebration Circle. Helen’s Church in Shoal Lake. of the archdiocese. At left, Pope farming community. The mid-cen - The focus is Our Lady and St. In the centre, above the Holy On either side of the Holy Benedict XV is portrayed as pre - tral background is a simplified rep - Joseph presenting young Jesus to Family, the arch represents the Family is a compilation of histori - senting the Papal Bull to resentation of the open plains with the world, the initial proclaiming. front entrance of St. Mary’s Ca- cal personages as well as a repre - Archbishop Alfred Arthur Sinnott an upper area in a harvest colour. In the upper right-hand corner is thedral while the flooring repli - depicted the 6,000-year old abo - cates the floor of the cathedral, Centennial of St. Donatus marked riginal meeting place at the Forks anchoring the icon within the of the Assiniboine and Red cathedral. Within the arch, the Rivers. The City of Winnipeg and landscape represents the lake dis - By Kiply Lukan Yaworski nity, an “ethic of work, humility roads, the desolate telephone poles, the archdiocese are represented by tricts of the province. and sacrifice,” and “souls that are the colour of harvest.” St. Mary’s Cathedral and build - The upper left-hand corner ST. DONATUS, Sask. — partly shaped by prairie geogra - This is a landscape that breeds ings at the corner of Portage contains a representation of the Parishioners past and present phy.” qualities such as practicality, Avenue and Main Street. Two western Manitoba portion of the gathered June 20 for a 100th “Those who grew up in this earthiness, and toughness. “But more churches are also included: archdiocese, with its rolling hills anniversary celebration at St. community caught the faith,” he more deeply, the prairie has given St. Vital Church, where the and fields. The four depicted Donatus Parish, located under a said, recalling his own childhood. us a unique capacity to carry lone - founder of Manitoba, Louis Riel, churches are representational of vast prairie sky south of Macklin, “We caught it here, we caught it at liness,” said Rolheiser. “It gives attended mass, and St. John the archdiocese’s presence and Sask. our family tables at home. We us a certain capacity to handle Brebeuf Church, chosen for its work: Good Shepherd Church in “Generations of families, friend - have faith because of this little solitude that many people today dedication to a Canadian martyr Portage la Prairie, St. François ships and prayer” were remem - place and what it did for us.” just haven’t got.” and its contemporary architecture. Xavier Church, the oldest church bered and celebrated during the Growing up in St. Donatus, “we The prairie landscape also With the Forks being histori - in the archdiocese and in western centennial, held to mark the con - inhaled the value of family and breeds a certain sense of humility cally central to Winnipeg, there is Canada west of the Red River, St. struction of the church building in community 1915 in the earliest days of the St. of being New parish team launched Donatus settlement. together, Rev. Ron Rolheiser, OMI, and and this Rev. Wendelin Rolheiser, OMI, church has in St. Boniface archdiocese were among those who returned been the home for the celebration, joining centre of ST. BONIFACE — St. Timothy bless their houses with blessed Bishop Donald Bolen of the that — but Parish in St. Vital has launched the chalk, according to an Eastern Roman Catholic Diocese of Saska - it hasn’t first Marriage, Family and Life Christian European tradition. toon, and pastor Rev. Augustine always been Team in the Archdiocese of St. In February, St. Valentine’s Ebido in the celebration of the easy,” said Boniface. month, marriage was the central eucharist, followed by a banquet in Rolheiser, Even though the archdiocese focus. In May, the month that the nearby parish hall. cautioning had established a diocesan Mar- includes Mother’s Day and the In his homily, Ron Rolheiser against riage, Family and Life Service, no National Week for the Family and reflected on the deep prairie roots romanticiz - such group had existed at the Respect for Life, “we collected of those who have lived, worked ing the past parochial level until the creation clothing and articles for babies, and worshipped in the St. Donatus and noting of this special team for the pilot which will be donated to Baby community. the com - project at St. Timothy’s Parish in Layette Love,” announced “We are here to re-enkindle plexities, St. Vital. Fetherston. “This activity was a something that was given to us by the tempta - “Our objective is to create spe - huge success: we collected 1,400 this unique little parish,” said tions, heart - cial events to inspire participation articles! Finally, in June we plan Rolheiser. Even the name of the breaks, the at the parochial level,” says an event for the enrichment of church is unusual, he noted. St. sad deaths, Nadine Fetherston, president of marriage, Table for Two, with sup - Donatus was a second-century the break - the Marriage, Family and Life per and romantic discussions on Roman soldier and martyr, who is downs and Team at St. Timothy’s. the menu. a patron against lightning strikes the break- ST. DONATUS — Distinctive metal crosses in the grave - “We really want to make it eas - “We are receiving a good and for good growing weather — ups that are yard frame the prairie church of St. Donatus, where the ier for families to bring their chil - response to these planned events,” appropriate for a farming commu - always part community past and present gathered June 20 to mark dren to church and make it more the team president says happily. nity at the mercy of the prairie ele - of commu - welcoming for all,” adds Grace “We started with five organizing ments. nity life. the church’s 100th anniversary. Grindean, parish co-ordinator and team members and now we’re “The parish is first of all about “There a member of the team. “Here, we already up to 10!” community, about families,” are no simple farm folk. There are and self-effacement. do not just go to church, we are the Ideas for followup activities are Rolheiser said, reciting a litany of no simple places,” he said. “But “When you grow up in St. church.” not lacking. “We want to reach parish family names and their the centre always held.” Donatus, you know you are not Up to now, the team has everyone,” concludes Grindean. geography, located on farms sur - Rolheiser reflected on how the the centre of the planet, and that’s planned events around themes “Going beyond just plan ning activi - rounding the hub of the prairie prairie landscape has shaped the a really healthy thing to know,” coinciding with the calendar year. ties, we hope to become a support church. souls of those raised in the commu - Rolheiser observed. In January, during which there is group, a re source available for peo - “This is a privileged occasion nity. “We are also formed by the A banquet followed, with a the feast of Epiphany and right ple who are having difficulties in to try and touch those roots and to prairies — the barren hills here, the program that included sharing sto - after the feast of the Holy Family, their marriage, their family or their drink from those roots,” he said, wind storms, the drought, the win - ries, anecdotes and history from all parishioners were invited to life.” listing such gifts as faith, commu - ter blizzards, the rain, the country 100 years of parish life. July 29, 2015 LOCAL NEWS Prairie Messenger 7 Hospital, health region renew agreement

SASKATOON — St. Paul’s tional and spiritual well-being,” plement improvements and ex - Hospital (SPH) and the Saskatoon Morrison said. plore new solutions to advance the Health Region (SHR) renewed “This unique partnership be- quality of health care. St. Paul’s their Partnership Agreement at the tween our health region and St. Hospital manages 10 re gional pro - SPH Annual General Meeting Paul’s Hospital has served the grams at its hospital and through - June 25 in Saskatoon. many people who use our hospi - out the region, and works collabo - “As an independently owned tals as we strive to put our ratively with the region to manage Catholic Hospital, we are pleased patients, clients, residents and programs and services within St. to continue our rewarding part - their families first,” said Dan Paul’s. nership with the Saskatoon Florizone, Saskatoon Health Owned by the bishops of Sas - Health Region while advancing Region president and CEO. katchewan through the Saskatche- the mission set forth by the Grey “There have been many wan Catholic Health Corporation, Nuns when they founded the hos - changes in the health care system St. Paul’s Hospital is an acute- pital,” said Jean Morrison, SPH since this partnership began and care teaching hospital that has CEO. we have worked together to been offering a comprehensive “Our hospital has always fo - ensure we adjust to continually range of health care services to the cused on meeting unmet needs improve the care to our communi - people of Saskatoon and Sas - and addressing the needs of the ty, and prevent redundancy and katchewan for more than a centu - most vulnerable. Central to our inefficiency,” said Florizone. ry. A progressive teaching and mission is holistic care — provid - The 10-year renewal of the applied research hospital, St. ing care to anyone who needs it partnership agreement facilitates Paul’s is well known for the holis - S. Padmanabh regardless of their background continued plans for Saskatoon tic care it provides and leadership PARTNERSHIP RENEWED — St. Paul’s Hospital board chair Bill and placing equal attention on Health Region and St. Paul’s in the areas of palliative care, Edwards (left) shakes hands with Saskatoon Health Region board chair caring for their physical, emo - Hospital to work together to im - urology, renal care and spiritual Mike Stensrud following the signing of their Partnership Agreement care. renewal. Ninety-year-old remains Archdiocesan staff changes underway active in parish life By Frank Flegel ago” and has served at the chancery create an opportunity for some re- office, the John Paul II Centre as organization which he expects to By Kiply Lukan Yaworski Kokotailo has 10 grandchildren REGINA — The Regina arch - well as on a variety of committees complete over the summer. and four great-grandchildren. diocese is undergoing a small re- and programs over the years. SASKATOON — One of the When she turned 90 this May, organization in the wake of retire - ”What’s going through my Oblate charism blessings of parish life across the the St. John Bosco parish commu - ments of long-serving employees mind is all the people I have Roman Catholic Diocese of Sas - nity celebrated with her — Rev. and two who left to accept other known and been in contact with ka toon is found in the faithful Marvin Lishchynsky called positions. Adult Faith co-ordinator throughout the archdiocese,” she fol lowed hearts and willing hands of those Kokotailo up from the choir for a Bonnie Thiele Hunt, secretary Jo- said, talking with the PM. She longtime members who work year blessing, and the congregation Ann Selinger and accountant worked with the Lay Ministry Continued from page 3 after year to support their faith gave her a standing ovation. A MaryAnn Jardine have all retired; Pro gram, the Growing and Shar - community, providing ministry, scrapbook of greetings was col - director of Development Christina ing Financial Appeal and helped gram at Emmaus House in Saska - service, friendship and outreach. lected, with family, friends, mem - Attard left to accept a position as set up the JP II Centre. toon, Taylor met his future wife, bers of the seniors’ club, the school executive director of the South “I remember that day very Christine, where they served with and parish communities writing Sas katchewan Community Foun- well. We just took our supplies, a co-ed mission team under the messages of love and good wishes. da tion, and Pasqua Hospital chap - our paper and pens, took them in direction of an Oblate priest. The family began attending St. lain Lorraine Fahlman returned to the car and drove to JP II.” They They were married in 1994 and John Bosco Parish before the her previous employment with the arrived when the building was still sought to establish a lay missionary church was built — mass was cel - Harvest Community, which pro - undergoing renovations to accom - community. The group followed the ebrated at the school for a couple vides employment and recreational modate its new role as an arch - charism of St. Eugene de Mazenod, of years, Kokotailo recalls. opportunities for intellectually diocesan education centre. founder of the Oblates: “He sent me Kokotailo was first recruited chal lenged adults. All five were She has been thinking about to evangelize the poor and most for the choir back when they sang feted at a June 24 luncheon hosted retirement for several years and abandoned.” In 1995, they were from the loft. Today the choir by the archdiocese. leaves with mixed feelings. “I’ve installed as lay associates. sings near the front, led by Anita Vicar-General Rev. Lorne always asked for God’s direction The couple began Prairie Spirit Langford, with all ages participat - Crozon thanked the departing through my life.” Selinger said Community Restorative Justice ing, and with the addition of employees for their years of serv - that in some way she feels the Prison Ministry in Saskatoon’s instruments such as a violin, clar - ice. “We very much appreciate the decision to finally retire was not provincial men’s jail; that led Brad inet and drum. years of dedication and service you hers but God’s. “Things just kind to a position with Saskatoon Kokotailo has served on parish have provided for the archdiocese of fell in place and I almost feel Community Chaplaincy. In 2006, council for many years. “It’s so and its people,” said Crozon, “and that it is his will in my life.” they moved to Prince Albert for a nice on parish council, you get to we wish you all the best as you She accepts that retirement is position as Riverbend Institution Yaworski know the younger people, and the begin a new stage in your life.” not the end but that there are other chaplain at the Saskatchewan Elizabeth Kokotailo ideas they have for the parish. If it Selinger provided secretarial things in life, “so I will go where Penitentiary. wasn’t for those who come in, I services for 31.5 years and is the he leads me.” “St. Eugene de Mazenod and At St. John Bosco Parish in don’t think St. John’s would be longest-serving employee retiring. Director of Pastoral Services the Oblate Community have been Saskatoon, 90-year-old Elizabeth here,” she says. She was hired “three archbishops Bob Kowalchuk said the changes my mentors and friends in mission Kokotailo has been involved in Much as she loves serving on and ministry,” Taylor said. “It has parish life for nearly 50 years. parish council, Kokotailo says she Records poorly kept been through the Oblates that I A longtime member of St. John would be happy to step aside in met my wife, became Catholic, Bosco choir, as well as of the order for somebody else to take it received a solid formation, educa - parish pastoral council and the on. “But they always say they Continued from page 1 from the school but none identified tion and ministry experience, and Catholic Women’s League, don’t have time. I try every year,” any children who died there or discerned a vocation first as an Kokotailo is “the joy of our she says with a little laugh. unmarked graves and records were what became of them. Oblate associate, then as a prison parish,” says fellow parish council Kokotailo says that she tries to hard to get. One of the Calls for Action chaplain and now as a permanent member Wendy Lang. share with others the welcome that “School records were poorly contained in the interim report of deacon.” “Liz is just an amazing woman she herself feels at St. John Bosco. kept,” said Wilson. the commission released July 3 During each of the ordinations, — she always has a smile. She is “This is a good parish because One example was made avail - recommended that religious stud - Thévenot spoke of the importance 90 years old and still active on of every priest we have had, every able to delegates who opted to ies courses offered by public or of the order of permanent deacons, parish council,” relates Lang, (parish) life director we’ve had, attend a visit to an unmarked ceme - denominational schools be a com - forgotten for centuries until the describing how Kokotailo faithful - and all the people that help. It has tery that contains graves of chil - parative studies course. “So chil - period of Vatican II. ly provides a written report about to be the parishioners . . . they are dren who attended the Regina dren would be aware of other faith “Bringing people to Jesus is our the CWL council at every parish active at our parish, and they work Residential School. The school was traditions and the legitimacy of mission, and so is the mission of a council meeting. “She is a big part together,” says Kokotailo. “That is located west of the city and the those,” said Wilson. deacon, to proclaim the Good of the heart of our community.” what makes such a difference. It’s small, unkempt cemetery is located Wilson said the TRC has called News of the Lord to the people. We Still living in the Montgomery never just one person.” beside a grid road at the edge of the for a National Reconciliation Coun - priests are ordained deacon first; neighbourhood home that she and The spirit of St. John Bosco city limits. Ground radar confirmed cil that would monitor progress on you could say we are like perma - her late husband Walter built in Parish is what keeps Kokotailo a number of graves but only two the TRC recommendations. “It nent deacons. We relive history as 1964, Liz Kokotailo raised six involved. “I am at St. John’s be- contain small, almost buried head - would be a watch dog and would we begin to ordain deacons. Today, children — four boys and two cause it is actually a community of stones: they mark the graves of two make sure that those Calls for we affirm this call to serve.” girls — including a nephew left people that have faith and light. children of a former director of the Action are being implemented and He affirmed his support in the orphaned after the death of his They always show the light,” she school. A small group of concerned as a way of tracking if we are mak - journeys of both deacons as they parents in a car accident in 1967. said. citizens were able to locate records ing progress.” serve in their new roles. 8 Prairie Messenger LOCAL NEWS July 29, 2015 Lay Formation missioning held in two ceremonies

By Kiply Lukan Yaworski McGee, and other priests of the diocese. SASKATOON — Graduates of The diocesan celebration a two-year Lay Formation pro - included turning to the four direc - gram were recently sent forth in tions during the Great Amen, and two missioning ceremonies: one taking the collection in a Star for participants from the Ukrain - Blanket, with proceeds going to ian Catholic Eparchy of Saska- the Steven Ballantyne Bursary toon and another for those from Fund to assist Aboriginal Catholic the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lay Formation participants to Saskatoon. attend the program. The purpose of the Lay Forma- In both the eparchial and the tion program is to help adult diocesan celebration, participants Catholics fulfil their baptismal renewed their baptismal promises commitment to the mission and and then were anointed by their ministry of Jesus Christ, through a bishop. process of formation and faith “Our Christian discipleship is a education. sharing in the self-giving of Jesus. The program emphasizes spiri - It is an intimate sharing in the tual growth and personal transfor - Yaworski receiving, and an intimation of mation, as participants deepen MISSIONING — Bishops Brian Bayda (centre) and Donald Bolen sit with eparchial priests and Lay what we celebrate in the eucharist,” their relationship with God, Formation graduates at a missioning ceremony June 6 in Saskatoon. said Bolen in his homily, pointing expand their prayer life, learn to the moment in the eucharistic more about the Catholic faith and “Today we celebrate a great does it mean to be sent on a mis - from the Roman Catholic Diocese celebration after the consecration, experience Christian community blessing. For the past two years sion or to be invited to be a mis - of Saskatoon in a missioning cele - when the priest takes the bread during a live-in experience held at our eparchial participants have sionary?” he asked. “We think bration on the Feast of Corpus and breaks the Body of Christ. Queen’s House of Retreats one been immersed in the study and about that event as a decisive Christi June 7 at the Cathedral of “This is what Jesus does for us — weekend a month, from Septem - the experience of the richness of moment. It is a continual one at the Holy Family. and our sharing in this is to allow ber to June, over two years. Some our liturgy, theology, spirituality, the same time. Every day God He was joined at the altar by ourselves to be broken in all the 850 participants have graduated prayer and tradition,” Komarnicki calls me, every day I am sent.” Bayda, Bishop Emeritus Gerald tangible ways we are called to from the program since it started said. Giving time, extending for - Wiesner, vicar-general Rev. Kevin love and to serve and forgive.” in 1987. “It has been a special gift as giveness, and sharing mercy Thirteen eparchial graduates both diocesan and eparchial moment by moment is how Chris - Receptive ecumenism from across the province were churches have journeyed together tianity is lived and shared, Bayda sent forth June 6 by Bishop Bryan in study, prayer and community, said. At the heart of the Christian Bayda, CSsR. Sister Bonnie giving mutual respect and appreci - mission is the experience of being explored in presentation Komarnicki, SSMI, introduced ation for the dignity of the spiritual called and being transformed into the graduates at the missioning treasures of each other’s gifts.” the Body of Christ, he challenged. By Kate O’Gorman Church to incorporate a sense of celebration held at Sts. Peter and In his homily, Bayda reflected The next day, Bishop Don catholic, or universal, learning into Paul Church in Saskatoon. on the meaning of mission. “What Bolen sent forth 16 graduates SASKATOON — Students en- its sense of who it is?” rolled in the advanced year of the According to Dahl, “Murray is Program in Ecumenical Studies influential in making a case for the Lay Formation graduates interviewed and Formation (PESF) recently theological ressourcement (return participated in a session on recep - to the sources) movement leading By Kiply Lukan Yaworski and encirclement, and the Holy about the unknowns. Persevering tive ecumenism presented by Dr. up to the Second Vatican Council, Spirit moving through me. It’s through the first weekends, she Darren Dahl, director of the Prairie which called the Catholic Church SASKATOON — Reflecting been a wonderful experience.” found herself relaxing and build - Centre for Ecumenism and adjunct on their experience in the Lay Learning, prayer and commu - ing connections with others in the professor in the Department of Formation program, three recent nity life are all part of the transfor - program, and recognizing the Religion and Culture at St. Thomas graduates expressed thanksgiving mative experience of Lay Forma - hand of God in all that was hap - More College, University of Sas- for blessings of community and tion. pening. katchewan. faith enrichment. One thing that Iris says she has Gerard, who grew up in the Quoting theologian and ecu - Thirteen participants from the come away with is a sense of Ukrainian Catholic Church, was menist Dr. Paul Murray of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of peace, and a conviction that the delighted that he shared his dioce - Durham University in the U.K., a Saskatoon and 16 from the Roman Lord is with her, even in the chal - san Lay Formation journey with leading scholarly proponent and Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon lenges and difficulties. “Now I’ve the stream from the Eparchy of founder of receptive ecumenism, were recently blessed, anointed got this calm sort of resolve . . . Saskatoon. “It was an amazing Dahl explained that receptive ecu - and sent forth by Bishops Bryan nothing is too big, too momen - journey, it brought back a lot of menism is about reframing the Bayda and Donald Bolen in cele - tous,” she said. memories and a lot of tears,” he work of ecumenical dialogue. brations June 6 and 7 in Saskatoon “I’ve grown in my faith, I cer - said. “When they weren’t with us, Instead of approaching the con - (see related article, this page). tainly pray more. . . . I think I when we had our separate ses - versation with a view to teaching Lay Formation includes a dioce - learned that: every moment of sions, I really missed them.” other parties what is truth, eccle - san Latin-rite stream, an eparchial every day is a prayer, and you can Lynn joined the Catholic sial communities engage in con - Byzantine-rite stream and an thank God for that moment, at that Church as an adult, taking part in versations in humility, offering Aboriginal Catholic stream. The time — you don’t have to wait the Rite of Christian Initiation of possible areas within their tradi - O’Gorman three groups spend time together in until the end of the day to do it.” Adults, and Lay Formation was tions that are perhaps broken in Dr. Darren Dahl formation, in prayer and as a com - As a result of her Lay Forma- another step in her faith journey. some way and lacking fullness of munity, as well as gathering in their tion experience, Iris says she has a She was inspired by the dedi - expression in their current form. back to its sources — biblical, individual streams, focusing on new confidence, which has her cation and commitment of those Rather than asking what others patristic, pre-modern — in order their own traditions and spirituality. watching out for where she can undertaking the program, espe - can learn from us, receptive ecu - to continue to open up the The goal is for adult Catholics to best serve God and others. She is cially among those who travel menism asks, “What can we learn church’s catholicity — that is, the deepen their baptismal commit - also more comfortable in sharing hours each month to get there. Her from others?” church’s whole tradition.” This ment to the mission and ministry of faith and trying to offer a quiet own faith has moved beyond Dahl began by outlining three plays a large role in Murray’s own Jesus Christ, through formation and example to her grown children. Sunday mass, Lynn said. originating contexts of receptive understanding of ecclesiology and faith education. Gerard and Lynn Onushko, “It’s a big commitment, two ecumenism. in his approach to ecumenism. “One of the things that I real - parishioners at the Cathedral of years, one weekend a month. But First, Murray’s work in the area As Dahl further explained, “If ized over the past two years was the Holy Family who have been if you are on a lifelong journey of philosophical theology led to the church is a truth-teller, then it how much I needed to know and married for 36 years, joined the with the Lord, this is a small com - what would come to be called has to have something to say. So how much I wanted to know,” said Lay Formation program at the mitment,” said Gerard. Thinking receptive ecumenism: “Murray what will it say? It has to become Iris Owchar, an eparchial Lay invitation of fellow parishioner of it as 20 weekends rather than was struggling with the idea of how a learner from the tradition in Formation graduate from St. and program co-ordinator Mona two years helps in tackling the the Christian Church makes truth order to get that content anew and George Church in Saskatoon. Goodman. commitment, said Lynn. claims in the world, given popular be enriched by it.” “The more I came, the more I Gerard had a strong desire to The Onushkos stressed the notions about relativism and philo - The third context out of which looked forward to coming,” she undertake the faith enrichment excellence of the presenters, facil - sophical arguments that one cannot receptive ecumenism was born was said of the Lay Formation pro - program as a couple. “I said to itators and educators who help to say for sure what is true.” Working Murray’s involvement in ecumeni - gram, which is offered as a live-in Lynn, ‘I’m not taking it without lead the program and who provid - out of his own Roman Catholic tra - cal dialogue as a member of the experience in Saskatoon, held one you. I don’t want to go behind or ed a “wealth of knowledge.” dition, “Murray was asking practi - Anglican-Roman Catholic Inter - weekend a month from September ahead of you, separately; I want us As for anyone who might be cal and political questions about national Commission (ARCIC). to June over two years. to go together’ — and it’s been thinking of Lay Formation, but the church: can the church be a Quoting Murray, Dahl noted “We could come here and just beautiful.” hesitating, Gerard has this advice: truth-telling institution?” that receptive ecumenism sought rest in the arms of the Lord,” she At first Lynn struggled with the “Go in faith, just go. You will not Second, Murray asked the ques - said. “I felt this incredible warmth program, finding herself uncertain be sorry.” tion, “Is it possible for the Catholic — CONSENSUS , page 9 July 29, 2015 LOCAL NEWS Prairie Messenger 9 Smith-Windsor ordained for Saskatoon diocese

By Kiply Lukan Yaworski Windsor’s zeal, joyful demeanor the young man was touched by the to put himself in our hands, so that cession of the saints and the out - and evangelizing spirit. During words of a visiting Jesuit priest as we break him for others, and pouring of the Holy Spirit. SASKATOON — A new priest his time at the seminary he served about the self-gift lived out others receive the balm and the The bishop then conferred for the Roman Catholic Diocese the homeless at a downtown hos - through celibate priesthood. mercy of that breaking,” he said. ordination by laying his hands of Saskatoon was ordained June pitality centre, spent time with the “Priests don’t necessarily have “And of course you are invited to upon the head of Smith-Windsor, 19 at the Cathedral of the Holy local L’Arche community and their ego and their self interest change parts — to let the Lord a gesture repeated by the priests Family in Saskatoon. spent a summer working with pulled out of them in the way that take you in his hands and to break present at the celebration, as a Rev. Gregory Smith-Windsor Catholic Christian Outreach. parents do by necessity, looking you so that balm and mercy might sign of unity and shared spirit. of Saskatoon was ordained by Smith-Windsor’s year of pastoral after their kids,” noted Bolen, “So be poured down on others through After a prayer of consecration Bishop Donald Bolen in a joyful internship was spent at St. Patrick we have to do it by entering your life.” by the bishop, Smith-Windsor was celebration that included family, Parish in Saskatoon, where he was deeply into other lives and allow - Bolen urged Smith-Windsor to vested with the stole (a sign of the friends and clergy from the ordained deacon last year. ing God to do that work.” “stay centred at what truly is at the priestly office) and the chasuble Diocese of Saskatoon and beyond. “He has manifested a strong Bolen pointed to the moment heart of things . . . find a thousand (the eucharistic vestment), assist - Diocesan director of seminari - prayer life throughout his years of in the eucharistic celebration different ways to speak of the incar - ed by Rev. Kevin McGee and Rev. ans, Rev. Gerard Cooper, present - seminary formation and his deep when the priest takes the Body of nation and the paschal mystery . . . Geoffrey Young. ed Smith-Windsor for ordination love for Jesus, and Jesus’ Blessed Christ and breaks it for the com - stay centred in your ministry on The bishop presented a chalice and asked Rev. Stevan Wlusek, Mother,” said Wlusek. munity. “Be mindful of the depths God’s love, centred on God’s and paten to the newly ordained rector of St. Peter’s Seminary in In his homily, Bolen cited of that mystery, that the God who boundless outpouring of mercy.” priest, with the words: “Know London, Ont., to provide testimo - Smith-Windsor’s own testimony comes to dwell in our midst, who The rite of ordination contin - what you are doing and imitate the ny about the candidate. at a prayer vigil the evening be- desires to give of self to us, who ued with Smith-Windsor declar - mystery you celebrate: model your Wlusek described Smith- fore the ordination. At university somehow allows us the privilege ing his intention to care for God’s life on the mystery of the Lord’s people, promising to serve faith - cross.” Smith-Windsor then joined fully and reverently, and pledging the bishop and priests at the altar Benedictine ordained in Humboldt obedience to the bishop and his to celebrate the eucharist. successors. Smith-Windsor will be serving By Kiply Lukan Yaworski tifical Beda College in Rome. He Benedictines who serve as parish As a sign of surrender to God, as associate pastor at the Cathe - was ordained a deacon July 30, priests in the diocese: “through Smith-Windsor lay prostrate on dral of the Holy Family Parish in HUMBOLDT, Sask. — On the 2014, at his home parish of Holy that specific ministry you have the floor in front of the altar while Saskatoon, with pastor Rev. David feast day of Our Lady of Mount Redeemer in Sydney, Nova Scotia, shaped and enhanced our diocesan the assembly prayed for the inter - Tumback. Carmel, July 16, Rev. Cosmas before serving at St. Augustine in life.” Epifano, OSB, was ordained to Humboldt for the summer and then In his homily Bolen reflected the priesthood in a solemn and returning to Rome for his final year on themes of mystery, God’s call, joyful celebration at St. Augustine of seminary studies. obedience and the shape and cost Parish in Humboldt. Observations about Epifano’s of priestly discipleship. Abbot Peter Novecosky, OSB, time at seminary from rector “Like Jeremiah, we have been of St. Peter’s Abbey in Muenster Msgr. Roderick Strange were known from God from the begin - presented the candidate to Bishop shared by Novecosky. “It has been ning, we have been called by God,” Donald Bolen of the Roman a real pleasure to have Brother Bolen said. “And it is God taking Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon, Cosmas as part of Beda communi - the lead in all of this, not us.” providing testimony about his life, ty,” wrote Strange, commending Bolen added that obedience to studies and readiness for ordina - Epifano to the bishop for priestly God is the most integrated way of tion. ordination. “He is a wise and gift - living possible. “There is an ele - Born in 1960 in Sydney, Nova ed man, committed to his calling. ment of sacrifice, but it is an invi - Scotia, Epifano attended teacher’s He will be able to do much good tation and a way to a deeper life. college and university. In 1990 he to those he serves.” Through obedience to live as sons joined the Scarboro Missions as a In his homily, Bolen began by and daughters is to be caught up in lay member, and from 1991 to describing the “great joy” that the something bigger than ourselves, 1995 he worked as a teacher in diocesan church experiences in its to love what God is doing for us, Southern China. relationship with St. Peter’s Abbey. creating in us and in our world,” “I think that would indicate that “The monastic witness that you said the bishop. he is not afraid to try something give is a gift for all of us,” he said, The rite of ordination contin - new,” observed Novecosky. “He which demonstrates “that God is ued with Epifano promising to then lived as a hermit in Anti go- at the centre of things, that there is serve faithfully and pledging obe - nish, Nova Scotia for the next five nothing more important in this life dience to his abbot and each of his Yaworski years. I think this indicates his quiet than seeking God, that the funda - successors. demeanor and prayerfulness.” mental human experience that you Epifano then lay prostrate on NEWLY ORDAINED — Saskatoon Bishop Donald Bolen stands with Epifano came to St. Peter’s live in your daily life of prayer the floor in front of the altar, while newly ordained Rev. Gregory Smith-Windsor June 19 at the Cathedral Abbey in 2010, and made his and work and service at the Abbey the assembly prayed for him, with of the Holy Family in Saskatoon. solemn vows as a Benedictine is deeper than anything that our the choir leading the litany of the monk last year. “At the abbey he has culture can offer in terms of a saints. The bishop conferred ordi - Consensus sought become a valuable member of the remedy for our ills, a source for nation by laying his hands upon community, ready to pitch in to help happiness.” Epifano’s head — a gesture re- where needed, and eager to nourish He noted that some monks, in peated by the abbot and all the Continued from page 8 “At the national and internation - his prayer life,” said Novecosky. living their monastic vocation, are priests present at the celebration. al levels, the dialogues are about For the past four years Epifano also called to the priesthood. Rev. Joseph Ackerman, OSB, to move beyond “the attempt sim - seeking some kind of differentiated has studied theology at the Pon- Bolen expressed gratitude for the and Rev. Paul Paproski, OSB, ply to bring differing languages consensus,” Dahl explained. assisted Epifano in putting on the traditionally regarded as incom - “Each party comes to the table stole (a sign of the priestly office) patible into reconciled conver - first to seek mutual understanding. and the chasuble (the eucharistic sion,” even as it recognized the A breaking down of walls, a clear - vestment). implicitly receptive work taking ing of clichés and an overcoming The gifts were brought forward place in ARCIC dialogues, as well of slogans are in order, to come to by Epifano’s three sisters and as in Methodist-Roman Catholic a mutual understanding of the other family members. dialogues. other’s position,” he said. “Once The bishop presented a chalice “Here, Murray begins to make we have reached mutual under - and paten to the newly ordained connections between his work re - standing of each other, the second priest (a gift from his home parish garding understanding the church step is to reach a common under - of St. Nicholas in Sydney, Nova as both truth-teller and learner of standing of things. Not the same Scotia), with the words: “Know the tradition,” continued Dahl. understanding but a commonality. what you are doing and imitate the “Thus began the grafting of his We never want to lose points of mystery you celebrate: model earlier work into the work of re - difference, because that is unifor - your life on the mystery of the ceptive ecumenism, or, as Murray mity, but the question is, can we Lord’s cross.” Epifano then joined often calls it, receptive ecumenical find some commonality?” the bishop and priests at the altar learning.” This form of dialogue “is about to celebrate the eucharist. Explaining the nature of ecu - both parties bringing their strengths, Epifano’s first mass was cele - menical dialogues, Dahl said that bringing what they do best; both brated July 17 at St. Peter’s Abbey they are “the quest of the church parties trying to teach the other.” in Muenster, and he preached at trying to find unity, not in terms of When such a dialogue process the Mount Carmel Pilgrimage on trying to find one monolithic “hits a block” and there is no more Yaworski July 19. He has been assigned to story, but a much more complex exchange of commonalities to pur - ORDINATION — Newly ordained Rev. Cosmas Epifano, OSB, is serve as associate pastor at St. Au- story, layered through time and sue, receptive ecumenism can flanked by Abbot Peter Novecosky, OSB (right) and Saskatoon Bishop gustine Parish in Humboldt, with space, a diverse story with multi - come into the stalemate and offer Donald Bolen. pastor Rev. Ephraim Mensah. ple voices.” a new way of thinking, Dahl said. 10 Prairie Messenger ARTS & CULTURE July 29, 2015 ‘Fish-out-of-water’ priest fodder for CBC comedy

By Jean Ko Din sinners down in Florida,’ ” joked The Catholic Register Harris during the episode. Executive producer Maureen Rev. Rajumr Chebattina got his Riley said that Chebattina’s “fish- 15 minutes of fame in early July out-of-water story” was an inter - when he was featured with Rev. esting part of the episode, but she Paul Batchilder on CBC’s new adds that what makes every summer series, Still Standing. episode is the people’s obvious For Still Standing, comedian love for the tradition and culture Jonny Harris, best known for his of their town. role as Crabtree in Murdoch “Souris is a beautiful little Mysteries, travels to small towns town. When you look around it’s across Canada to spend a week just visually stunning,” said Riley. immersed in the community. At “The thing that struck me about the end of the week, he performs Souris is that they were becoming original comedy material based on so creative about what they could his experiences before an audi - do to stay in their small town.” ence of townspeople. A Newfoundlander himself, Chebattina’s episode, which Harris felt at home talking to the aired July 7, featured the small town townspeople and understood what of Souris in northeastern Kings it was like to grow up in a small County, P.E.I., where Chebattina is town in the Maritimes. His come - associate pastor at St. Mary’s Mis - Photo courtesy of CBC dy show was an affectionate trib - sion ary Church. At the time of film - CBC COMEDY — Rev. Rajumr Chebattina (left) got his 15 minutes of fame in early July when he was fea - ute to their way of living, so it was ing in April, Batchilder was pastor. tured with Rev. Paul Batchilder on CBC’s new summer series, Still Standing. only natural that he received a “It was my first comedy show warm ovation. that I watched live,” said hockey game when he saw him - would happen.” shared with Harris that moving Chebattina had lived in India Chebattina, who is originally from self on a promo for Still Standing Chebattina said his time film - from India to Souris was a huge his whole life, but as part of his India. “I was sitting in the front during a commercial break. ing the show with Batchilder and culture shock for him. He de - priestly assignment with the row. I enjoyed the evening with “It was during my beginning Harris is a bit of a blur now, but he scribed the experience as “God Missionary Priests for Christ, he him. People just laughed and days here in Prince Edward does say Harris is a “good Cath - brings you on a plane and drops was assigned to Souris. laughed and laughed.” Island and I didn’t really know olic boy who had a great love for you onto a small land.” “When I came here, I was Even though he has only lived much about it,” he said. “I didn’t priests.” “I think most people in your brought by the bishop (of Char - in Canada for a few months, know it was going to be on CBC. Harris talked to the two priests scenario would’ve been on the lottetown),” said Chebattina. Chebattina seems to be adapting To see myself on national televi - about the faithful in a town phone with the Vatican pretty “Bishop (Richard) Grecco is a well. He was watching a playoff sion . . . I never expected this steeped in tradition. Chebattina quick like, ‘Ted, there’s got to be man with great love . . . he want - ed people to realize that we are in need of missionary priests.” Being a good guest in a foreign culture can be complicated He said he vividly remembers the warm welcome he received By Caitlin Ward very sunny Caribbean city. As is time. But I’ve been a vegetarian line hanging smugly in the air. during his first mass in town. often the case on islands in the for the better part of three years. And given the kindness these Everyone lined up to greet him I’m not actually sure if it was Global South, where importing Chickens may get eaten quite communities have shown the personally after the mass and he in honour of my arrival, or if I cars is difficult and purchasing regularly, but they hadn’t been bumbling Canadians who turn up said he was very grateful. just happened to be arriving on them prohibitively expensive, La eaten by me for a rather long on their doorsteps each May, it’s “It was pretty new to me. the same day, but within an hour Federación had been repairing time. true that I wanted to honour their Everyone shakes hands with you of touching down in Santo the truck we were in with a dedi - These moments come up with hospitality and their culture and gives you a big hug, said Domingo, we were on a mission. cation we often don’t have in varying regularity in a vegetari - throughout my time there. Being ‘Father, whatever you need just One of my former students Canada. That said, parts of this an’s life: just how much of a fuss a good guest in a foreign culture, tell us,’ ” he said. and a very nice fellow who truck were somewhat past their am I willing to make of myself though, is sometimes more com - “I didn’t have lots of warm works for La Federación de sell-by date. Two of the windows right now? For me, the answer to plicated than eating a bit of clothes and in two days time, peo - Campesinos Hacia El Progreso no longer opened, and the air that can vary quite a bit. I won’t chicken, and not always some - ple just dropped a few sweaters had come to meet me at the air - conditioning had breathed its last draw attention at dinner parties if thing to feel smug about. I found and asked me ‘what food do you port. The two of them were tak - shortly before they’d picked me I can help it, but I know I can get myself the inept and confused like.’ ” ing me to the mountains sur - up. pretty tetchy at restaurants and guest speaker at a community Episodes of Still Standing air rounding the city of Bonao, in So when we made it out of the banquets. association meeting. I gritted my on Tuesdays on CBC. the heart of the Dominican mad traffic of Santo Domingo In this particular situation in teeth through a three-hour mule Republic, where I would meet and eventually to Bonao, I was the Dominican Republic, though, ride up a mountain, determined the leader of La Federación and overheated and generally con - I felt that it was about a lot more not to let my Dominican hosts see Kids form good spend the next few days meeting fused. We were going in circles in than my personal convictions how painful it was. I bit down friendships Mary Mary/Fried a particular neighbourhood, our regarding the environmental discomfort and outrage about a kind driver leaning out the win - impact of meat consumption. I great many things. I briefly went Chicken dow and asking everyone on the was coming to visit a variety of from reformed smoker to chain Continued from page 4 The Slackers street where we could get . . . the communities who had opened smoker in the name of not thing. My former student tried to their homes and their hearts first offending one student’s host “The counsellors will move explain to me what we were look - to my students, and now, to me. father, and ended up shotgunning around with the groups and partic - community members who had ing for, but her Spanish, while I don’t think I need to get into rum out of the bottle with a man ipate in the activities but is these hosted students who’d come to very good, was not completely a description of the culture of in his 70s one night. adult leaders who will organize work with their communities, acclimated to the peculiarities of hospitality among many impov - I came back to Canada with and run the activities,” explained and visiting some of the 25 dif - the Dominican dialect. She was - erished communities. It’s pretty the lungs of a coalminer and the MacQuarrie. ferent towns who belong to this n’t completely clear on what it well-documented, and it’s hard blood of a dozen chickens on my Allen, the program director, said grassroots organization. But was we were after, either. not to have it come off as cliché. hands. Once I got back, I stopped the camp program fits a variety of before any of that, there were When someone brought the The upshot of this, though, is that smoking and returned to my interests and abilities. It includes things to do. We had to get . . . a bag up to the car, it was finally I knew people with very little tofu-eating ways. And luckily, no rock climbing, archery, canoeing, thing. clear. We had been after charcoal were offering me a lot, and I did - one expects you to get on a mule arts and crafts, games, a drama pro - I wasn’t clear on what we briquettes this whole time — n’t think I had it in me to refuse. in downtown Saskatoon. gram, swimming, and a spiritual needed to get. My Spanish is pal - apparently not common in the And so, when program with Bible stories and try at best, and at first I was too Dominican, but necessary for the my former where campers explore their faith. busy warding off instant heat - particular dish they wanted to pre - student tenta - Mary won’t you come out of yonder tree On Wednesday night, campers stroke to pay much mind to any - pare for me that night. They were tively asked if Mary ’cause I want you down here with me go to the island across from the thing else. I’d come from a rela - going to make a smoker in the I would be OK See I know the place with the good fried chicken camp and each group cooks sup - tively temperate Saskatoon to the outdoor stove at La Federacion , eating some With biscuits and gravy and all the fixins per on a fire and sleeps in a teepee. heart of an obscenely hot and where we’d be going right after meat, I said, Hey Mary, don’t you wanna? Campers, counsellors and staff we picked up the briquettes and “I’d rather be Mary won’t you come with me? also take part in morning worship some wine. a good guest and night reflections. On Fridays, It was then that I realized I than a good Mary don’t you hide under all them books there is a concluding mass. Ward is a Saskatoon-based free - Sweet little girl with them bad good looks lance writer who spends her days was going to be expected to eat a vegetarian.” Kids are more relaxed and chicken. I could end See I know the place with the good fried chicken happy when they get home after a (and most nights) working at a With biscuits and gravy and all the fixins small Catholic college. Her less OK, I know. For most people, the article week at Camp Encounter, Allen that’s hardly a conundrum. It’s a there, I sup - Hey Mary, Mary wanna, said. “I think they are looking for - eloquent thoughts can be found at Mary won’t you come with me? www.twitter.com/newsetofstrings chicken. They get eaten all the pose, with that ward to coming back because they form such strong friendships here.” July 29, 2015 ARTS & CULTURE Prairie Messenger 11 The Arctic: northern journeys under summer light

making international connections in the Arctic, to get their story out and forge the scale of so - bonds of solidarity. cial and cultural Readings This is happening at the same changes out - time as the Scandinavian Sami are weighs worries & Meanings undergoing huge social and cul - over a changing tural stresses having an impact on climate, though their nomadic reindeer-herding the latter con - Gerald Schmitz traditions. Similar to Canada’s tribute to the Inuit, many have taken other jobs former. “Everything begins with a voy - In Norway, North Sea oil pro - and now live in towns. In Finland, Some politi - age,” writes Alberto Manguel in vides 25 per cent of GDP yet the Raffan worries about the effects cal develop - Curiosity, his latest peregrination country is also an environmental of that modernizing assimilation. ments have through a literary landscape. From leader whose first female prime Sami culture has to mean more been positive. boyhood I’ve been captivated by minister, Gro Harlem Brundtland, than what he finds visiting a There are Sami travel adventures, particularly the chaired the 1983 World Commis - “Santa Claus village” he com - parliaments. exploits of polar explorers. Having sion on Environment and Devel - pares to a strip mall offering The 41 indige - visited various places in the high op ment. Raffan notes the influ - kitschy products for sale to nous groups, Arctic, and preparing for an almost ence of eco-philosopher Arne tourists. It reminds him of Coca- numbering 8,000-kilometre TransMongolian/ Naess in promoting principles of Cola’s advertising images of 270,000 people Santa Claus and cute polar bears. inhabiting CIRCLING THE MIDNIGHT SUN: Culture and Change in the Too many still picture the Arctic Russia’s north - Invisible Arctic by James Raffan. (Toronto, HarperCollins, 2014, as a place that leaves out the real - ern territories, 456 pages) ities of the people who live there. are represented Given the vastness and popula - by the Russian Siberian train trek crossing north - “deep ecology” as a transforma - tion size of the Russian north, Association of ern Russia this month, James tional way of life. He profiles an Raffan devotes nearly half the book In dige nous Raffan’s Circling the Midnight Sun activist with “Nature and Youth” to its transitional challenges. He Peo ples of the stoked my curiosity. who goes up against the giant begins in the far northwest where North Actually the closest I got to the Statoil in a campaign to preserve the serene pristine beauty of Nor - (RAIPON) Arctic Circle — latitude 66°33’N codfish habitat from the pressures way’s Finmark region are “re placed which has “per - NORTHERN JOURNEYS — This is the cover of where the sun never goes below the of future petroleum exploration. almost immediately by nasty con - manent partici - Circling the Midnight Sun: Culture and Change in horizon on the longest day — was In Sweden, Raffan investigates crete-block houses, smoke stacks, pant” status on the Invisible Arctic by James Raffan. The book is at journey’s end in St. Peters burg. the struggles of the indigenous military checkpoints, and razor wire the inter-state reviewed by Gerald Schmitz. Raffan, an Arctic enthusiast whose Sami population for more co-man - running atop fences that stretched Arctic Council Scottish immigrant parents chose agement and collaborative self-rule out into a treeless post-apocalyptic of which Canada is also a founding Chukotka peninsula in the far east, the Canadian north over southern in the area known as “Laponia.” landscape.” The toxic legacy of the member. RAIPON connections home to the Chukchi, and where destinations, undertook a far more Historically the Sami “had been former Soviet Union has left its proved valuable to Raffan as he pro - Russia’s richest gold and silver ambitious globe-spanning enter - systematically marginalized in all scars as symbolized by the rusting ceeded eastward crossing nine time Kupol mine is Canadian-owned. prise. Over three years from June manner of negotiations.” But he nuclear submarines in the ice-free zones: to the Si berian heart of the Raffan’s people-focused narra - 2010 to October 2013 he travelled finds that a new generation is tak - harbour of Mur mansk, its popula - Russian oil patch (home to the tive offers an engaging survey of 17,662 kilometres following the ing advantage of digital communi - tion halved from a Cold War peak Khanty and the Man si); to Yakutsk Arctic Circle through the eight cations technologies and channels, of 500,000. And here as elsewhere in the Sakha Repub lic; to the — SHADOW , page 12 high-latitude countries, and with the intent of focusing attention on the four million people who live in Film a terrible reminder of war’s human cost the Arctic “speaking dozens of lan - guages and representing almost as By Gerald Schmitz Search , a harrowing war story set offers one of the most remarkable Emelyanov), a musician arrested many indigenous ethnicities.” in 1999 during the height of the child performances of recent years. for drug possession in a distant city, In putting a visible human face When director Michel ferocious conflict engulfing the It’s inspired by Fred Zinnemann’s forced into the army, bullied and on the Arctic, Raffan laments that Hazanavicius scored a hit in 2011 restive Muslim-majority Russian eponymous 1948 drama about a brutalized to the point of being an northern peoples have been at the with The Artist — a silent yet giddy republic of Chechnya where sepa - lost boy following the liberation of accomplice to dehumanizing evil. bottom of social indices, with their black-and-white throwback recreat - ratist rebels battled Russian troops. Nazi concentration camps who is In the chaos of war and refugee voices “least heard and little under - ing a transformational era in With eastern Ukraine now in the helped by an American soldier. flight Hadji becomes separated stood by those who make decisions headlines, the atrocities that have The shocking opening scene from his sister. He wanders alone for the rest of us, who are benefit - The Search taken place there under Putin’s shows amateur video being shot of until finding sanctuary in a relief ing increasingly from resources the watch (he became acting president a war crime. A Chechen village is camp run by the International Com - Arctic has offered and continues to (France 2014) in 1999 and has ruled ever since) being razed and the adult popula - mittee of the Red Cross and attract - offer at an accelerated pace as the should not be forgotten. tion murdered as “terrorists” while ing the attention of its Amer ican northern ice cap melts.” For north - American cinema — he gained crit - Most critics have not been kind their children hide. One of these is head, Helen (Bening). Hadji has erners global warming is only one ical applause and became the toast to The Search, which premiered at a young girl, Raissa (Zukhra been so traumatized into muteness among more immediately pressing of Hollywood. So much so that the Cannes in 2014 and has recently Duishvili), who escapes with her that Helen can only guess at what concerns addressing basic social movie took home best picture and had a limited release in Canadian nine-year-old brother Hadji (played witness to tragic loss lies behind his needs, education and cultural sur - best actor Oscars. Its fi nancial suc - theatres. I beg to differ. The film, by another Chechen, Abdul-Khalim soulful expressive eyes. Does he vival — indeed survival itself cess allowed Hazanavicius to pur - which stars Bérénice Béjo and Mamutsiev). We will learn that one have any family left to be reunited given the shockingly high suicide sue a passion project over the next Annette Bening, shows how young of the Russian soldiers implicated with? It’s a difficult case that brings rates among the young. three years. The result is The men can be turned into killers and is 19-year-old Kolia (Maksim Carole (Béjo) into the picture as an Raffan begins his circumpolar investigator with the European odyssey in Iceland which is techni - Human Rights Committee. At first cally below the Arctic Circle except the silent Hadji reacts like a fright - for its northern island of Grimsey. ened wild animal. But as their trust Iceland has no Aborigi nal popula - slowly develops Carole becomes tion and was the last Arctic country increasingly attached to him, taking to be settled though it boasts the him to live with her in her hotel oldest written text. As we know room. All this time Raissa has been from famous Norse sagas, its desperately searching for him. adventurers reached the shores of I won’t say whether the chil - North America five centuries dren are ever reunited or whether before Columbus “discovered” the Hadji ever speaks. I will say that Americas. Typical of each country the narratives of Kolia, the musi - section, Raffan’s accounts of his cian become uniformed murderer, encounters — from ordinary folks and that of his defenceless victim to having tea with the president — come together in a devastating cli - sparkle with fascinating facts and max. colourful observations. The coun - Having just returned from trav - try’s spectacular financial collapse elling through Russia, it’s a great was followed by an influx of country to visit. But that does Chinese money and interest. One nothing to absolve the burdens of sees China becoming a more active past or present conflicts. The un - presence in the Arctic generally as derlying story of The Search is climate change opens up navigable that the search for justice has not waters to northern sea routes. THE SEARCH — Abdul-Khalim Mamutsiev stars as Hadji in The Search, directed by Michel Hazanavicius. ended.

12 Prairie Messenger DEEPENING OUR FAITH July 29, 2015 Turning toward gratitude the best way to celebrate

questions, especially by young when he adults. They’re questions of high and his dis - urgency, as we’ve successfully ciples came manufactured a cluttered, chaotic a-calling Questioning environment, seemingly capable and she of keeping anybody from finding offered Faith the path to life. Can our youth be them hospi - expected to flourish without any tality (Luke Mary Marrocco assistance or sustenance in such a 10:38-42). whirlwind? What guidance can Martha’s we offer them? generosity, At a conference in Belgium I Some one in the group named Turning toward gratitude could practicality, attended, people around the din - Canada’s national path of repen - well be the medication we need the justice ner table got talking about the dif - tance this way: gratitude. for our healing and wholeness. If of her plea ferent countries they were from, At first I was surprised. Soon, we can’t take this prescription for for help, and the characteristic spirit of and since, I’ve been considering our own sake, perhaps we could make us each nation. how gratitude might be an anti - try it for the sake of our youth. want to One of us remarked that every dote for our culture’s illnesses. In the wake of the celebrations stick up for country has its own path of repen - Our increasingly anxious, wor - for our national birthday this past her: “Tell tance, just as each person has a ried and depressed way of life, month, we could reflect on our her sister particular path of repentance. Re- with its veiled anger and protec - path of repentance. What would Mary to pentance means turning around, tive coldness, afflicts us. In a cul - change if we turned more often help her Art Babych turning anew toward God, seeing ture of confusion and anxiety, toward gratitude? look after things differently, walking a new how do we find our way? How do Consider the example of St. you and HAPPY GRATITUDE — For Mary Marrocco, national way, being open to transforma - we sort through all the noises and Martha, whose feast is also this your Canada Day celebrations brought to mind a discussion tion. That’s why each person’s voices, information and propagan - month (July 29): the perplexed friends, of repentance both as a country and personally. She sug - path of repentance is personal. da, to find what’s solid and worth - woman who got such unfair treat - who’ve gests that gratitude may be an antidote for our culture’s But what about each nation? while? Often I’m asked such ment from her good friend Jesus, arrived at illnesses. her house Shadow of past looms large in film and expect her to feed them.” She that keeps us afflicted. Grate ful - needed assistance; she turned to ness doesn’t mean being thankful Continued from page 11 of teen suicides and how to maintain Ice,” he encourages readers to care Jesus for support — but got scold - for our burdens; that would be Inupiaq identity. Further east Raffan at least as much about the other ed instead. Who wants to be told perverse and harmful. It means everything from shamanistic myth- looks at the controversies over ex - challenges facing Arctic peoples. “Your sister is the one who got it being present to all that really is a ol ogies and fading cultures and panding North Slope oil and gas de - In Greenland, the world’s larg est right”? If anybody in this story gift. languages, to socio-economic con - velopment, and talks with the island, Raffan is heartened by the should be grateful, logically it’s To us, so accustomed to buying cerns, to the effects of melting per - “Gwich’in apostle” Evon Peter strides that its native population has Mary who got the meal without and spending, paying and being mafrost. The shadow of the past about preserving the natural and hu - made in wresting significant auton - the work, or Jesus himself who paid, the logic of commerce, it may looms large when he follows part man environment, including through omy from Denmark and establish - was being served by Martha. seem alien simply to rejoice in gift. of the infamous 2,000-kilometre education for cultural survival. ing a form of self-government that Martha sees her work, her con - Gratitude requires conversion and Kolma “Road of Bones” built by The next-to-last part of the book provides for control over resource cerns, her rights. Jesus sees repentance; it offers us life. It’s as prisoners of the Gulag (at least one traverses the Canadian Arctic from development and revenues. Martha. Instead of giving her simple and as difficult as what million of whom died there). The the Yukon to Nunavut. In the wake The book ends back in Iceland what’s fair, Jesus turns her back Jesus asks of Martha: stop worry - Soviet Union’s demise led to huge of the seminal 1977 Berger Report with Raffan at an October 2013 toward herself: “What’s going on ing and start sitting with Jesus. demographic shifts — an outflow — which proposed a 10-year mora - Arctic Circle conference, con - with you , Martha? You’re anxious The Belgian conversation was of some 160,000 Russian military torium on pipeline development in vened by President Grímsson, and worried.” He puts her in the a long time ago, but it planted and industrial personnel. There the Mackenzie Valley — there have where he finds some governments picture, and asks her to look again. something in my mind and heart. I was also a collapse of the reindeer been 14 land claims agreements and big-business interests eager for Then he turns her toward him - can let anxieties, worries, insecu - population. In the midst of wrench - with Arctic first peoples. Native “cold rush” opportunities from cli - self, and her relationship with him: rities and cares occupy all my ing changes, most important to the corporations have been created and mate change, happy to welcome “You’re anxious and worried, and attention, keep me from sleep, native peoples Raffan spoke with become involved in resource devel - Chinese and other outside invest - you forgot to be with me.” He drive me to addictions and com - was gaining a measure of “fate opment activities. Nunavut, 80 per ments. Fortunately others speak up brought her the gift of presence — pulsions. But I don’t have to. control” over their lives. They cent Inuit, be came a territory with for the rights of those who make human presence — divine presence Without gratitude, the spiritual wanted to overcome historical its own government in 1999. Yet the Arctic their permanent home. — but she didn’t quite know how teachers tell us, we will lose all we losses — that included removal of large federal subsidies can’t hide a Raffan concludes his epic trave - to receive it. Be grateful, Martha: have. With it, perhaps we will dis - children to residential schools — sobering reality: “On just about logue with a stirring call for educat - the one you love is here with you. cover — as my sister once ob- in order to avoid cultural oblivion. every measure of success and ing ourselves “to empower and sup - The one who cares deeply about served — we all have what we Raffan then moves on to Alaska social satisfaction — education, port northerners” in their journeys you has come to your home. This really need, but we don’t all know where he revisits the telling story of general health, life expectancy, sub - toward “sustainable self-determina - relationship is the place of life, the it. When we know what we have the coastal village of Shishmaref stance abuse, employment, income, tion.” Because, as he says: “Our fountain from which to drink. been given , then we start to know which briefly gained worldwide and housing — Nunavut was still future depends on it. In a world That’s the gift you have. that we can give , and want to give . attention as a climate-change casual - the bottom of the heap in Canada.” where climate change affects every With our many possessions and Maybe Martha’s serving now can ty. In fact, it has neither been moved Yes, as confirmed by Arctic living soul, we are all northerners.” many cares, we as a nation may come not out of resentful duty but to higher ground nor “swallowed by Council climate impact assess - This column is dedicated to my well be anxious, worried and bur - out of fullness and abundance. the sea.” While media interest has ments, Raffan writes about the in - mother who has been hospitalized dened with looking after things, or Maybe she can find that those moved on, there isn’t money to relo - controvertible evidence of a warm - with serious illness since my last looking after others. Maybe we’re around her want to give, too, and cate, reindeer have disappeared, and ing Arctic. At the same time, in - days in Russia and whose spirit of burdened with guilt for having so start to be able to receive from locals are consumed with the bigger cluding through his involvement curiosity about the world has been much while others have so little. them. Us, too. unsolved problems of an epidemic with programs like “Students on an abiding inspiration. It’s a perpetual-motion machine Happy gratitude, Canada. PRAIRIE MESSENGER PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY

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Those who lose their way hunger for the bread of soul to find meaning and belonging. Young people seeking their path Liturgy in life hunger and thirst for role models, women and men who live their commit - and Life ments with the joy, courage and faithfulness their own hearts yearn for. When an inti - mate relationship is shattered, we hunger Marie-Louise Ternier-Gommers for the emotional, mental and spiritual food of reassurance, of endurance and of com - fort. When a spouse, parent or close friend Summertime is one great, generous, overflowing sea - suffers and faces death, we thirst for the son. We enjoy vacations (or stay-cations), and special fam - holy food of a community’s love and ily celebrations such as weddings, anniversaries and prayers to carry us through. When it comes reunions. We plan barbecues, picnics and potluck meals. to these matters of heart and spirit, a diet of We indulge in the rich harvest of juicy berries, crisp carrots, Big Macs and root beer will not suffice. fresh peas and beans. Summertime creates precious memo - But then sometimes we can get caught ries of special places and times, with special people and up in the weirdest questions: Isn’t this just always, there’s the food. the local boy, Joseph’s son? How can he Tiffany Banow Both high and low points in family life are marked come from heaven? Isn’t this just a conver - SUMMER’S RICH HARVEST — “Summertime is one great, generous, with food — think of the lavish spreads at parties, and of sation with a friend? How can this be a overflowing season,” writes Marie-Louise Ternier-Gommers. “We indulge the meals provided by neighbours and friends when grief word from God? Isn’t this simply a meal in the rich harvest of juicy berries, crisp carrots, fresh peas and beans. . . .” and loss robs us of “normal” living. Food is a fundamental my neighbour brought? How can this be In the midst of it all, “know that God’s love is as abundant as our prairie ingredient in how we create community. God’s food for my soul? Isn’t this just an summers. . . .” Against the backdrop of all this food-talk in this abun - ordinary marriage with its ups and downs? dant summer season comes the words of Jesus in this How can this be a holy witness to God’s faithful love? This is eucharist: in Jesus, we eat and drink God’s love, Sunday’s Gospel from John. Now real food was central to And yet in these many ways, this is how God offers the in big gulps, without reserve, physically, mentally, emotional - Jesus’ teachings, both during his earthly life and after he rose Bread of Life. Jesus is that savoury sacred bread from heav - ly and spiritually. In turn we are set free to allow God to claim from the dead. Many times he taught in the context of meals: en no juicy berry or new potato can satisfy: “This is the bread our lives, to bless our lives, to break our lives in the name of the wedding at Cana, eating at Zaccheus’ house, dining with that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and Love, and to share our lives with those hungering and thirst - the Pharisees, breaking bread at Emmaus, cooking fish on not die.” Jesus stills a hunger that no Burger King or Tim ing for love and mercy, peace and justice in our broken world. the beach. Keep in mind that all the passages from John’s Horton’s can even begin to satisfy. In Jesus, God feeds us, This is exactly who we are called to be for one another: Gospel which we have been hearing at church the past three in the words of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, “to be imitators Sundays, including today’s, are part of a conversation 1 Kings 19:4-8 of God, to live in love as Christ loved us and gave himself for Nineteenth Sunday between Jesus and the people right after the miraculous feed - Psalm 34 us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” Eating and in Ordinary Time ing of the 5,000. Jesus gets it: food is fundamental to living. Ephesians 4:30-5:2 drinking Jesus is meant to transform us so that we will dis - August 9, 2015 Jesus also knows, however, that while our tummies John 6:41-51 cover that with Jesus we can put away — again in the words growl when left unfed, our spirits hunger and thirst for food of Ephesians — “all bitterness and wrath and anger and wran - from heaven, spiritual nourishment. If we’ve lived at all, even if it can take a long time before we feel any effect. In gling and slander, together with all malice.” Eating and drink - we know that we clearly do not live by bread alone. Life Jesus, God frees us, provided we open up all of ourselves to ing Jesus teaches us to “be kind to one another, tender-heart - can throw curves, in the form of sorrows and losses, that God. Eating and drinking Jesus in the eucharist, the Bread of ed, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.” can trigger such an insatiable spiritual hunger that even the Life equips and liberates us to give ourselves as food for oth - So enjoy the summer. Bite into that first sweet corn most bountiful banquet leaves us famished. ers without depleting ourselves. Eating and drinking Jesus is with gusto. Let the juice of the berries run abundantly down eating and drinking God’s healing power to see us through your face. Put the butter on the new potatoes. Have another incredibly painful things, including death itself. hamburger at the next reunion or anniversary you attend. Ternier-Gommers, wife, mother and grandmother, is a Take and eat me, says Jesus, take and drink me. Make Delight in one another. Know that God’s love is as abundant retreat leader and spiritual director, freelance writer and my body and blood part of your body and blood, and I will as our prairie summers with Bread of Life, Living Water, author of two books. She has worked in diocesan and be the Bread of Life and the Cup of Salvation for you. Is Cup of Salvation. Out of that abundance in Christ Jesus our parish ministry, in ecumenical dialogues and ministry, and this not Joseph’s son? Are you not simply the neighbour Lord, we are moved to respond with that same abundant co-ordinates an ecumenical network of women in ministry. down the street? Are you not the kid who, a year ago, was love toward one another. Like the boy with the five loaves Visit her website at www.prairie-encounters.ca and her losing her bearings? How can you be food for my famished and the two fish, once we share the love there is more than blog at https://graceatsixty.wordpress.com soul and drink for my parched spirit? enough to go around. There are times when the only appropriate response is silence

ly feels present to her. ing. That was enough. cumstance, we learn something: Here’s how Cadwallander “When the candle in the parlour we don’t need to say anything; we In describes the scene: “He took a guttered, he stirred, looked into the only need to be there. Our silent, deep breath and let it out slowly. darkness. ‘God be with you, helpless presence is what’s needed. There was no more he could say, Sarah.’ ‘And with you, Father.’ Her And I must admit that this is not Exile but he would not leave her alone voice was lighter, more familiar.” something I’ve learned easily, have with such bitterness. And so he There’s a language beyond a natural aptitude for or in fact do remained on his stool, feeling the words. Silence creates the space most times when I should. No mat - Ron Rolheiser, OMI emptiness of the room around him, for it. Sometimes when we feel ter the situation, I invariably feel the failure of his learning, the powerless to speak words that are the need to try to say something words he had stacked up in his meaningful, when we have to useful, something helpful that will A recent book by Robyn say more, to be more empathic and mind, page upon page, shelf upon back off into unknowing and help - resolve the tension. But I’m learn - Cadwallander, The Anchoress, simply to be more present to her. shelf. He could not speak, but he lessness, but remain in the situa - ing, both to let helplessness speak tells the story of young woman, They often argue, or, at least, Sarah could stay; he would do that. He tion, silence creates the space and how powerfully it can speak. Sarah, who chooses to shut herself tries to coax more words and sym - began to silently pray, but did not that’s needed for a deeper happen - I remember once, as a young off from the world and lives as an pathy out of Ranaulf. But whenev - know how to go on, what to ask ing to occur. But often, initially, priest, full of seminary learning and anchoress (like Julian of Nor wich). er she does this he cuts short the for. He gave up, his breath slowed. that silence is uneasy. It begins “as anxious to share that learning, sit - It’s not an easy life and she soon visit and leaves. “The silence began as a small a small frightened thing” and only ting across from someone whose finds herself struggling with her One day, after a particularly frus - and frightened thing, perched on the slowly grows into the kind of heart had just been broken, search - choice. Her confessor is a young, trating meeting that leaves Ranaulf ledge of his window, but as Ranaulf warmth that dissolves tension. ing through answers and insights in inexperienced monk named Father tongue-tied and Sarah in hot anger, sat in stillness, it grew, very slowly, There are many times when we my head, coming up empty, and Ranaulf. Their relationship isn’t Ranaulf is just about to close the and filled up the parlour, wrapped have no helpful words to speak. finally confessing, by way of apol - easy. Ranaulf is a shy man of few shutter-window between them and itself around his neck and warmed We’ve all had the experience of ogy, my helplessness to the person words, and so Sarah is often frus - leave (his normal re sponse to ten - his back, curled under his knees and standing by the bedside of some - across from me. Her response sur - trated with him, wanting him to sion), when something inside stops around his feet, floated along the one who is dying, of being at a prised me and taught me something him from leaving. He knows he walls, tucked into the corners, nes - funeral or wake, of sitting across I didn’t know before. She said sim - must offer Sarah something, but he tled in the crevices of stone. . . . The from someone who is dealing with ply: Your helplessness is the most Rolheiser, theologian, teacher has no words. And so, having noth - silence slipped through the gaps a broken heart, or of reaching a precious gift you could share with and award-winning author, is ing to say but feeling obliged to not under the curtain and into the cell stalemate in trying to talk through me right now. Thanks for that. president of the Oblate School of leave, he simply sits there in silence. beyond. A velvet thing, it seemed. It a tension in a relationship, and Nobody expects you to have a Theology in San Antonio, Texas. Para doxically his mute helplessness swelled and settled, gathering every finding ourselves tongue-tied, with magic wand to cure their troubles. He can be contacted through his achieves something his words don’t space into itself. He did not stir; no words to offer, finally reduced Sometimes silence does be - website: www.ronrolheiser.com. — a breakthrough. Sarah, for the he lost all sense of time. All he to silence, knowing that anything come “a velvet thing” that swells Follow Father Ron on Facebook: first time, feels his concern and knew was the woman but an arm’s we say might aggravate the pain. In and settles, gathering every space www.facebook.com/ronrolheiser sympathy and he, for his part, final - length away in the dark, breath - that helplessness, muted by cir - into itself. 14 Prairie Messenger FEATURE July 29, 2015 Visiting priest wonders how long he can last in North

The following article is from the Spring 2015 issue of Catholic zon to see. Colours are subtle or of the Madonna House communi - to teach moral theology in their Missions In Canada (cmic.info) and is reprinted with permission. pastel in hue. It’s a different world ty of Combermere. seminary. I’m here testing out from Southwestern Ontario, After two days, I drive two whether I could be in the North. By Rev. David Reilander in the Yukon during the darkest where my parish is. hours to Carmacks for mass at St. We get to Dawson City and part of the year is not intense, I’m in the Yukon for a month Jude’s mission. Kathleen La Brie find the church. Jim McNichol, I’ve never really understood unless you’re staring straight into after arriving on Dec. 26. Rev. is the pastoral associate there and the pastoral associate here, greets what hoar frost was until I saw it the sun. The sun, after appearing Kieran Kilcommons, apostolic is part of the Madonna House con - us. There’s two hours to mass, so in the Yukon. It becomes so thick at about 10 a.m., rises to about 30 administrator for the Diocese of tingent. She prepares for mass in we decide to check into the that it weighs branches down, degrees and stays at that angle Whitehorse, picked me up from the rectory (it isn’t worth heating “Downtown Hotel” and get bending poplar half over. It’s until 3 p.m. If you’re in hill coun - the airport in Whitehorse and de - the church). Kathleen protests. something to eat. To my pleasant beautiful in the sunlight. Sunlight try, it may be too low on the hori - posited me at Mary’s House, part “Carmacks is the place I love to surprise, the manager tells me be,” she says with enthusiasm. our two rooms have been paid I look out the window to see a for. There’s a perk. I just saved forest of hoar-frosted deciduous $220. and what I think are pyramidal Kathleen and I register, then white spruce. meet the other two in the dining “There are subdivisions here room. Jim gives us his story of you can’t see from the highway,” having left Dease Lake further she adds. south in northern British Co- “Subdivisions huh,” I respond, lumbia. Bishop Gary Gordon, the mockingly. former bishop, told him he was “Well . . . not subdivisions, but needed in Dawson City because little neighbourhoods in the there was no priest. woods.” Dawson is the second largest She disappears into the church community in the Yukon Terri tory. and I follow. It’s -17° Celsius in Jim’s a big man of 75. He carries the wooden structure. The outside himself well and looks like he isn’t temperature is -28°C. a day over 65. He has a command - “You sure you don’t want to ing presence with a Herman have mass in here?” I ask. Munster-kind of gentleness. He is “I’ll do whatever you like a layman out of Buffalo who is a Father,” she says seriously. mover and shaker with definite She hasn’t caught on to my wry ideas. wit yet. I pay for dinner and we go I go back into the rectory. I’m back to the church with three freezing. She comes back after a parishioners who meet us in the few minutes with supplies. “Are dining room. It’s exceedingly cold you really sure you don’t want to and time is a factor so we settle stay in here for mass?” she asks for liturgy of the Word. We are with all innocence. I just look at very tired. I need to go to bed. We her, and she laughs. “Gee I have to leave by 9 a.m. Every one thought you were serious.” hugs and we disperse. A car pulls in beside us. It’s It takes a long time before light David Reilander Kathleen’s pillar of faith, Ennia. appears. I have to remember that NORTHERN DIOCESE — This is St. Mary’s Church in Dawson City, Yukon. Visiting priest Rev. David Ennia enters to a big hug from we are farther north, though still Reilander wonders how long he would last in the North: “A day — maybe? There’s nothing here — a gas Kathleen who looks at me and below the Arctic Circle. At about station, highways department and summer campground, plus the church.” says, “OK, we can begin.” 11 a.m., on our ride back, I stop Begin?!? I drove two hours for the car so we can take pictures. It one person? Welcome to the Yukon! is simply beautiful. I think I can So, the three of us have mass see myself being here. The people In this fragile world we need tenderness celebrating the Feast of the Holy are great and hospitable. The land Family. The homily is a dialogue is stunning. miss everyday moments of mercy between the three of us. It’s very By July there will only be three — miss all the common, peculiar quaint and intimate. Both women priests left in a diocese that takes and playful contacts with the are faith-filled. I find myself in - 18 hours to drive across. I listen to Spirit of God and so become, for spired by them. I couldn’t be out Father Paul and Kathleen talk all the world, a practical material - here like Kathleen, though. It’s about last night and what happens ist. too isolated for me. I’m wonder - to a community that has no resi - Porch Light Tenderness and affection must ing how long I would last. A day dent priest. Carmacks, Dawson be watched for it to be kept alive, — maybe? There’s nothing here City, and the other missions get Stephen Berg the way we watch for signs of — a gas station, highways depart - mass only once a month. The rest spring to somehow ensure its ment and summer campground, of the time people like Jim and arrival. Tenderness must be guard - plus the church. The hair is stand - Kathleen lead the communities in The dachshund barked at me. I did. Then I felt embarrassed for ed, not mocked or derided. In this ing on the back of my neck as I’m liturgy of the Word and minister to was approaching a corner on my the man, the way you feel embar - fragile world we need tenderness. contemplating. It’s only two hours the local Catholics. There’s a def - way home from a morning walk rassed for some misguided soul on We need fewer cynics and naysay - back to Whitehorse, I think to inite need here and I’ve an swered when it skittered out in front of talk-radio going on about some - ers. We need more gardeners myself. the most basic of my questions. me on its short legs, yipping thing so off topic that you can’t watching for “ifs” of green push - A couple of days later, I meet The more serious questions will incessantly. It was on a long leash listen a moment longer. As I ing up out of black dirt. And we with Oblate Father Paul only be answered if I’m living and I hadn’t noticed the owner walked on, however, I began to need one another. Mariampillai, a Tamil priest on here. until he spoke. He was a large feel ashamed for thinking this. He At the beginning of the movie sabbatical for a year. We’re pick - Update: In early July, Rev. man, tall and heavy, unshaven and was effusive, yes, and there was Love Actually, the narrator points ing Kathleen up to accompany us David Reilander, pastor of St. in a black sleeveless T-shirt. He this oddball quality to the whole out, against the backdrop of what to Dawson City — another four Mary of the Assumption Parish of gently pulled back on the dog scene, but his tenderness was real we witness every day on the eve- hours away. We tell each other our Owen Sound, in the Diocese of leash, his face crinkled into an and genuine and there was no ning news, that behind the scenes vocation stories and how we got Hamilton, was posted in the exuberant smile, and wagging his trace of embarrassment in him. love is alive, that genuine tender - to the Yukon. Father Paul just fin - Diocese of Whitehorse, to join the finger, he cooed, “Now no more As I played this quirky display ness and open affection is displayed ished being provincial of the Sri three priests serving in northern barking, Maggie.” of tenderness over in my mind, I around the world every moment of Lankan Oblates. He’s going back British Columbia and the Yukon. This was a display of affection felt myself strangely lifted, proof every day and we only need go to I was not prepared for. My first my own soul needed some sun. our local airport to see it. instinct was to laugh and I almost And in this clearing I got to won - I walked the rest of the way dering about the many ways home and wondered about how God’s presence moves into the this whole scene with the dachs - Berg works for Hope Mission, human mix — ways that I miss. hund was a kind of picture of Advertise in the a social care facility for homeless We hear of, experience, and divine tenderness. So often I go people in Edmonton’s inner city. face more than enough sickness, skittering out into the world, His poetry and prose have been in loss, cruelty . . . and surely we are chuffing away off balance, ungain - PrMaoinrdaiye - FMridaey 8s:3s0 -e 5n p.mg. er staged performances and have forgiven those times we accept ly, unthinking. How comforting to appeared in such publications as this is as being the bulk of life. know that God is not above play - Ph. 306-682-1772 Fax 306-682-5285 the Edmonton Journal, Orion, But I also see the danger. I see ing an overweight bald guy that email: [email protected] Geez, and Earth Shine. He blogs how it hardens me, builds a cara - doesn’t shave, to pull me gently at growmercy.org pace around me and causes me to and tenderly toward maturity. July 29, 2015 FEATURE Prairie Messenger 15 What dialogue looks like: Jewish-Christian relations

Leading up to the October anniversary of the historic document when he said, ‘Interfaith dialogue Nostra Aetate, the Prairie Messenger is featuring “capsule biogra - begins with faith’ ” (italics added). phies,” which are also posted on the “Catholic-Jewish Relations” sec - In May of 2001, the Vatican’s tion of the Scarboro Interfaith website (http://www.scarboromissions.ca/ Commission for Religious Rela- JC_Relations/dialogue_partners.php). By October there will have been tions with Jews honoured Rabbi featured material on numerous individuals — Jews and Christians, men Klenicki for his many decades of and women — who have played key roles in drafting the conciliar dec - leadership in interfaith dialogue laration, or who have led local, national or international efforts to put and in 2007 he was inducted by Nostra Aetate’s vision into practice, through various forms of dialogue, Pope Benedict XVI into the papal action and scholarship. This is the fifth in the series. Order of St. Gregory the Great. In Rabbi Leon Klenicki January 2009 Rabbi Leon Klenicki New York to become the director died of cancer at the age of 78, (1930-2009) of Jewish-Catholic relations for leaving his wife, Myra Cohen the Anti-Defamation League Klenicki, and two children. In Rabbi Leon Klenicki, one of the (ADL) and, 11 years later, became 2013 a number of his scholarly col - most passionate and prolific mod - its director of interfaith relations, leagues and friends published a ern Jewish voices in inter-religious a position he would hold until volume of essays as a tribute to dialogue, was born on Sept. 7, 2001. In those capacities, he was him, focusing on the areas of litur - 1930, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, known for his ability to speak pas - gy, spirituality, biblical interpreta - to parents who had emigrated from sionately and forcefully about tion, and theology, and his writings Poland in the previous decade. In important issues — but always in continue to be widely used in many CNS/ L’Osservatore Romano 1959, Leon received a scholarship a respectful way that challenged educational and pastoral settings. LEADER IN CATHOLIC-JEWISH RELATIONS — Rabbi Leon to study in the United States, at Cin - but also invited further dialogue. Charlotte Lea Klein, NDS Klenicki, a leader in Catholic-Jewish relations, is pictured with Pope cinnati’s Hebrew Union Col lege. In 1987, he did not hesitate to (1915-1985) Benedict XVI at the Vatican in this 2005 file photo. In 2007 Klenicki was After initial studies in philosophy, reproach the Vatican when Pope invested as a Knight of St. Gregory, a papal honour recognizing the he graduated with a master’s degree John Paul II agreed to meet with The biography below is taken, rabbi’s work with Catholics and Jews. and received his rabbinic ordination Austrian President (and former UN almost entirely, from the biography in 1967 from Hebrew Union Secretary General) Kurt Waldheim, of Charlotte Klein written by Mary and anti-Zionism, on ritual mur - logical students in Germany, and to College, having intensively studied even after Waldheim’s service in a Kelly, NDS: “Pioneers in the United der and the Dreyfus Affair. A gift - a lesser extent in France, are full of the field of interfaith dialogue. Nazi military unit had become a Kingdom: A Positive Beginning.” ed teacher and linguist, she all the old prejudices against the Returning to his native Argen - matter of public record. When, in SIDIC Review 30:2 (1997): 9-13, became known internationally as Pharisees, and against Judaism 1997, the Vatican issued and available online at: http://www. a lecturer in Germany, Italy, Bel - generally, as if the au thors had We Remember, its long- notredamedesion.org/admin/dia - gium, North America and taught learnt nothing at all either from awaited statement on the logue_sidicView.php?id=574. at universities in England, Ger - modern scholarship or from mod - Holocaust ( Shoah ), Some material has been added. many and the United States. A ern history” (John D. Rayner, An Klenicki praised many Charlotte Klein was born in number of her articles were pub - Understanding of Judaism, 1987). aspects of it but criticized Berlin in 1915 and brought up in a lished in the Journal of Ecu - As well as the pamphlets of the others, saying that the pious Orthodox Jewish home. She menical Studies. Study Centre she published in vari - church had missed a was a headstrong, passionate, However, her most important ous journals 47 articles in Eng lish, unique opportunity to impulsive personality with a great work was within the church. It four in German, one in Italian and forthrightly confront zest for life. As she grew to ado - can be divided into four main one in Swedish. Although well- some of the painful issues lescence, she threw off religious areas: 1) Overcoming Christian known for her research into anti- raised by the wartime observance whenever she could. anti-Judaism; 2) Fostering a true Semitism and for forging a new behaviour of European However, the catastrophic Nazi image of Judaism among Chris - relationship between the church Catholics and their lead - re gime came to power and the tians; 3) Encouraging Jewish- and the Jewish people, it became ers. In any case, he said, Klein family left Germany for Christian dialogue; 4) Promoting more and more apparent to her that “Now the deniers of the Palestine (as it was then known). a new theology of the Jewish- the latter raised questions for Holocaust in Europe have Anti-Semitism was thus a person - Christian relationship. Christian self-understanding. It to deal with the Vatican.” al experience for her. In 1962, with the encourage - seemed imperative that theologians Klenicki’s publica - After becoming a Christian and ment of her order, she founded the take seriously the questions posed tions in the field are joining the Sisters of Sion in Study Centre for Christian-Jewish to the church’s theology by extensive and wide- Jerusalem, Charlotte Klein redis - Relations, the aim of which was to Judaism. She wrote briefly on this ranging, including dis - covered the beauty and truth of foster a better un derstanding of Ju- question herself. After her death, as tina, he became the rabbi of Con - cussions of problematic biblical Judaism and became aware of the daism and the Jewish-Christian a fitting tribute to her, a conference gregation Emanu-El in Buenos passages; conversations with relationship in the church. As well of theologians on Christology and Aires, and director of the Latin Christian clergy and scholars as a specialized library, an educa - Religious Pluralism was organized. American arm of the World Union about theology, faith and prayer; tional program was launched. A Some of the proceedings have been for Progressive Judaism. It was in evaluations of the Christian tradi - series of pamphlets explaining the published (In Memoriam Charlotte that second capacity that, in 1968, tion of Passion plays; liturgical Jewish roots of Christianity and Klein: Christology and Religious Klenicki took part in the first-ever resources for joint Jewish- those texts of the Gospels that have Pluralism). formal gathering of Latin Ameri - Christian celebrations of Passover been difficult for Jewish-Christian Writing after her death, can Christian and Jewish leaders, and commemorations of the relations were published, as well as Charlotte’s nephew, Dr. Jacob held in Bogotá, Colombia, ad - Holocaust; and recollections of a commentary on the Sunday lec - Klein, recalled his aunt as “a cul - dressing the participants on the Jewish communities in Latin tionary. She followed closely the tured woman with a warm sense of shared scriptural bonds linking America. For many years he deliberations of the Sec ond Vatican humour, a strong sense of duty, and Jews and Christians, but also worked closely with Dr. Eugene Council, briefing Cardinal Heenan . . . a survivor of her early traumas, recalling the long Christian histo - Fisher, the associate director of who was a member of the Vatican no doubt induced by her life in ry of persecuting Jews. The Mid - the U.S. Bishops’ Secretariat for Secretariat re sponsible for the Hitler’s Germany.” Others remem - dle Ages, he said, were a time Ecumenical and Inter-religious Decla rat ion on Relations with bered her as “a remarkable wom - when “cathedrals were raised to Affairs, and the two men collabo - Judaism. an” and a gifted teacher. She was an the sky while Jews had to go un - rated on a number of books, state - During and after the Council, eyewitness to the birth of the mod - derground.” And yet, with a nod ments and guidelines. she wrote articles and gave lectures ern State of Israel, and to the trans - to recent changes in church teach - In a 1989 book that he co- un der both Jewish and Chris tian formation that took place in her ing, he acknowledged: “The time authored with Rev. Richard John auspices ex plaining aspects of the own religious order, the Sisters of of hope has arrived. The task is Neuhaus (Believing Today: Jew & Second Vatican Council’s declara - Our Lady of Sion, in the decades hard, but not impossible.” Christian in Conversation), Klenicki tion Nostra Aetate . She was instru - after the Second World War. That He would lecture widely in wrote that “dialogue is not some - mental in setting up the U.K. Bish - transformation — which she Latin American centres, inaugu - thing that is in addition to being ops’ Commission to Imple ment the helped to prepare and advance — is rated a study of attitudes toward Declaration and was a founding summed up beautifully in the text Jewish and Christian; it is an inte - Sister Charlotte Lea Klein, NDS Jews in Latin American religious gral part of being Jewish and member of the London Rainbow of the Sisters’ Constitutions today: textbooks, and began a magazine Christian today . The dialogue is not teaching of contempt for Judaism Group. Her lecture tours in Ger - “Our vocation gives us a particular called Teshuvah (Hebrew for “re - a hobbyhorse for ‘people who hap - in Christian teaching and the his - many led to the foundation of the responsibility to promote under - pentance”), to explore Jewish pen to be interested in that sort of tory of anti-Semitism in the first house of the Sisters of Sion standing and justice for the Jewish thought. Throughout his life, he thing.’ We are called to this enter - church. Writing her doctorate the - there. community, and to keep alive in the remained a leading figure in the prise by God, and it is his enterprise sis for London University on The Her experience of teaching at church the consciousness that, in Reform movement of Judaism, before it is ours. The dialogue is Image of the Jew in German and St. Georgen in Frankfurt motivated some mysterious way, Christianity especially in Spanish-speaking most fully served by our becoming English Fiction and Drama 1833- her to publish her book Anti- is linked to Judaism from its origin countries, editing and publishing more fully Christian and more fully 1933, she strove to overcome anti- Judaism in Christian Theology to its final destiny” (#14). numerous liturgical and educa - Jewish. It is served by our disagree - Semitism wherever she encoun - (first published in German in 1975 It was a vision Charlotte Klein tional texts aimed at meeting the ments as well as by our agreements. tered it and published articles on and later in English in 1978), in passionately believed in, embod - needs of local communities. In sum, we think that the late anti-Semitism in English society, which she showed that “the text- ied and has left as a legacy to those In 1973, Klenicki moved to Abraham Joshua Heschel put it well on the Vatican and anti-Semitism books studied by Christian theo - who continue her work today. 16 Prairie Messenger FEATURE July 29, 2015 Canada has inadequate response to ‘staggering crisis’

Journey to Justice

Joe Gunn

In human history, the world has of Myanmar and Pakistan). never seen anything like it. Most alarmingly, however, In June, the UN High Com - over half the world’s refugees are missioner for Refugees reported children. “a staggering crisis.” The number I worked in Central American of people forcibly displaced at the refugee camps in the 1980s. There, end of 2014 as a result of war, children seemed to be like children conflict and persecution had risen everywhere: in makeshift schools, to 59.5 million persons, compared playing and learning and getting to 51.2 million a year earlier and into mischief as much as they 37.5 million a decade ago. could. But the worst off, it seemed According to the UN, Syria is to me, were the youth. Unable to the world’s biggest producer of move ahead with studies, a trade both internally displaced people or providing for a family, it broke CNS/Sedat Suna, EPA (7.6 million) and refugees (3.88 my heart to see their lost potential REFUGEE CRISIS — A young Syrian refugee girl cries after arriving at the Turkish-border city of million at the end of 2014). Af - — their lives had been violently Sanliurfa in June. Canada does not accept many refugees, compared to the global need for resettlement, ghanistan (2.59 million) and So - scarred and interrupted — but they writes Joe Gunn. “In reference to the world’s major refugee hot spot, Canada’s total commitment is to malia (1.1 million) are the next now faced idleness and despair, accept only 11,300 Syrian refugees by the end of 2017. And our government has made it much more difficult biggest refugee source countries. with their future dreams put on for refugees to apply for and receive asylum here.” In the past five years, at least 15 hold. conflicts have erupted or reignit - Given the magnitude of the cri - of 2017. And our government has ly produced an important report on fall on their al ready over - ed: eight in Africa (Côte d’Ivoire, sis, how are we responding to the made it much more difficult for a further federal initiative which stretched resources. Central African Republic, Libya, needs of refugees today? refugees to apply for and receive harms refugee resettlement in CPJ also reported that the lead - Mali, northeastern Nigeria, Canada’s response asylum here. Canada. ers of eight provincial and territo - Demo cratic Republic of Congo, The federal government attempt - The invisible victims rial governments have stated out - South Sudan and Burundi); three Canada does not accept many ed to cut the Interim Federal Health right that they have no intention of in the Middle East (Syria, Iraq, refugees, compared to the global Program, which covered health Unnoticed by many, the feder - imposing such a residency re - and Yemen); one in Europe need for resettlement. The govern - services for asylum-seekers. This al government has removed the quirement. Since provinces didn’t (Ukraine); and three in Asia ment agreed to process up to legislation was decried by a federal fi nancial penalty for imposing a ask for this policy change, why (Kyrgyzstan, and in several areas 14,500 resettled refugees, out of a court as “cruel and inhumane” and residency requirement for social would the federal government total of 285,000 new immigrants, ordered the IFHP to be reinstated. assistance. Such legislation was announce it? in 2015. In reference to the world’s But the government contested the initially presented as a private Perhaps an answer is to be Gunn is the Ottawa-based major refugee hot spot, Canada’s ruling — a final decision will be member’s bill, but the sponsor - found in a survey of attitudes of executive director of Citizens for total commitment is to accept only released in October. And Citizens ing Conservative MP on three Canadians toward newcomers. Public Justice (CPJ), www.cpj.ca 11,300 Syrian refugees by the end for Public Justice (CPJ) has recent - occasions declined to rise in the The Environics Institute reported House to debate it! Later, hidden in June that “federal Conservative within the hundreds of pages of party supporters remain among It takes failure to bring out genius Bill C-43 — the omnibus budget the least supportive of immigra - implementation bill — a tion and ethnic diversity.” once said that those who “only fail province or territory can now Luckily, however, that same seven out of 10 times turn out to be decide to withdraw welfare ben - study reported that public attitudes the greatest in the game.” Richard efits from asylum-seekers await - about immigration have remained Rohr, for his part, argued that ing their chance to prove they are steady or grown more positive Figure of “When we fail we are merely join - bona fide refugees. 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Around the Kitchen Table

Joan Eyolfson Cadham

I don’t often write my column “How do we grow into ever as a direct result of another col - greater openness and receptivity umn I have read. This one is an toward all that is different without exception. The memories that feeling threatened or diminished came flooding back to me as I or superior?” read the original were very vivid. Her blog made my heart sing. I The column was one of Marie- remembered being invited, as the Louise Ternier-Gommers’ blogs local Foam Lake reporter, to join a on her Grace@Sixty site. group of United Church women The blog is titled A Posture of from our town on a trip to Saska - Openness. Marie-Louise began by toon to visit a mosque, a syna - explaining that she had become gogue, a Hindu temple, a private intrigued by a new friend who Buddhist prayer room (the temple “embraces both Hinduism and was undergoing restoration) and a Gerald Schmitz Christianity as a way to honour Sikh gurdwara. WARM WELCOME — Our lives are greatly enriched when we experience other cultures and faiths, writes both her parents who were Hindu It was a wonderful experience. Joan Eyolfson Cadham. and Christian” and went on to say They all fed us. There was no ques - that she was “. . . amazed at the tion that went unanswered. On the Wonderful discussions, exciting unspoken lessons on fair econom - the food was spectacular. Every - depth of her faith and her loyalty way home, one of the United times together. Lucky us. ics — he chased me down the one was open to answering our to both God and her family of ori - Church women said, “The problem I accidentally did my kids a street one day because he worried questions. We were made to feel gin.” is that we have never been into great favour when I moved us to he’d given me five cents less entirely welcome — they didn’t At the end, she posed a couple anyone else’s house of worship Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que., an change than I deserved, and they preach at us. They were just happy of questions. “How do we grow except, maybe, for a Ukrainian old French-Canadian town that refused to raise their photocopy to have us join them. new ourselves, open to difference funeral.” I was the only person in was home to the Macdonald cam - charges when everyone else did Back home again many years yet grounded in our own faith and the group who had had any experi - pus, McGill’s Ag College, and because, they said, they were later, when my small town in Sas - worldview?” ence at all with other faiths. where I partnered in a tea/spice/ already making a profit. When I katchewan still had Girl Guides, I When I traded my small town in natural food store. My kids grew asked her about some tenet of was often called in to give a work - Saskatchewan for Toronto and up surrounded by multi-ethnici - their religion, I had to repeat my shop on anti-racism. In the midst Eyolfson Cadham is an award- journalism at Ryerson when I was ties and multifaiths. question three times. Then she of one of my talks, one of the girls winning columnist and freelance 16, I joined the Nontario Club. It was a Muslim friend who said, “Do you really want to wailed, “Joan, our problem is that journalist who moved from Ryerson tuition was free for taught me all I know about mak - know?” When I assured her that I we never see anyone who doesn’t Montreal to Foam Lake in 1992. Ontario residents. We had to pay — ing curry. I attended synagogue did, she said, “We are not allowed look exactly like us.” She is a member of Saskatchewan but we had our own club. Ryerson several times with a fellow writer to proselytize.” They invited us to No, I am not sure I could an - Writers’ Guild and is an oral sto - attracted international students and who was an Orthodox Jew. It was a house meeting, which we swer the first part of Marie- ryteller who has professional sta - we ran as a pack — many colours, the Baha’i couple who ran the attended. The Persian food was Louise’s question: “How do we tus with Storytellers of Canada. many nationalities, many faiths. bakery who taught everyone spectacular. So was the realization grow into ever greater openness that these were people who truly and receptivity toward all that is put into practice all the tenets of different?” I do know that having their faith. the good fortune to travel through CAREER OPPORTUNITY And, one lovely summer’s day, life in company with people of ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF CALGARY while we were wandering around many cultures and many faiths has Montreal, Jack and I were wel - enriched my life beyond measure. COORDINATOR, SOCIAL JUSTICE comed into a park where Hindus At no time have I ever felt “threat - Full time were celebrating their Lord ened or diminished or superior.” Krishna’s Chariot Festival. Again, Just grateful. RC Diocese of Calgary provides leadership, formation and support to the Catholic parishes and people of Southern Alberta. 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Pornography: a culture change National Centre for Missing & Exploited Children. an estimated one million total patients treated to date. A 2007 American Psychological Association “How many people have been cured using embry - A recent conference at the Vatican brought study titled Web Pornography’s Effect on Children onic stem cells?” he asked. “Zero,” he answered, not - together city mayors and church leaders to discuss cli - noted that in today’s new culture young people are ing that misinformation in the media and the Internet mate change. The initiative from the Vatican, in con - being taught that it isn’t necessary to have affection continues to promote “fairy tales” about the promise junction with the United Nations, was spurred by for people to have sex with them. of embryonic stem cells in curing disease and being Pope Francis’ recent encyclical on the environment. Dr. Donald J. Hilton, a neurosurgeon from the the elusive “fountain of youth” for humankind. The conference also addressed another change in University of Texas, said use of pornography impacts the “You’ve got to destroy that young human being to today’s global climate — the increase in human and human brain. “Pornography is associated with shrinkage get the embryonic stem cells,” he said of the failing sexual trafficking. This scourge affects millions of in the brain’s key reward areas,” he said. The more pro - but over-hyped technology. people worldwide, mainly the poor and powerless. nounced pornography usage, the more shrinkage occurs Adult stem cells — described as undifferentiated Another aspect of this cultural change was high - in that area of the brain. The brain is the source of behav - cells that already exist among the differentiated cells lighted at a recent conference in Washington, as iour, but it is modified by the behaviour it produces. that make up specific tissues or organs — can be used reported by Catholic News Service. It addressed the Layden, who is director of the sexual trauma and in various parts of the body to regenerate and repair growing use of pornography. psychopathology program in the Centre for Cognitive diseased or damaged tissue. Pornography is one of the most influential cultural Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania, noted that Adult cells have other advantages beside their eth - changes brought about by the Internet. Pornography is pornography victimizes college-age females. She said ical benefit of not killing human life, Prentice said. sexualizing the innocence of today’s young children, 25 per cent of college women experience a rape or Many types of adult stem cells can be harvested in rel - causing a race to adulthood before the end of child - attempted rape. Women who are exposed to porn as atively painless outpatient procedures. For example, hood, the conference was told. Young girls are being young girls are more likely to feel negative about adult stem cells from bone marrow, once accessible bombarded with photo-shopped images and are buying their bodies, she said. They have less support for only by deep needle extraction, can now be collected in into unrealistic expectations set before them at an age women’s equality, and are more likely to think that a process akin to giving blood. Another source of stem meant for skinned knees and the Disney Channel. rapists deserve less time in prison. cells — fat tissue — can be tapped via liposuction. “Our entire culture is getting our girls porn Pope Francis has awakened today’s world to the Here are the cases he highlighted in his address, ready,” said Gail Dines, a professor of sociology and challenge of climate change. Another change in societal as reGported by Catholic News Service: women’s studies at Wheelock College in Boston. “It values is happening, as noted above — a change that is A woman grew an entirely new bladder made hypersexualizes them at a young age.” She added, even more serious, pervasive and challenging. — PWN fromG her own adult stem cells. “We are bringing up a generation of boys,” in which A woman initially told by her doctors that she Internet porn tells them, ‘You want to be a man? Well Adult stem cells are the future would have to have her leg amputated kept the leg this is your initiation.’ ’’ after her own bone marrow was enlisted to grow new This initiation starts at a young age. A study con - Recent underground videos have caught Planned blooGd vessels in the diseased limb. ducted by the Internet Watch Foundation found 17.5 Parenthood officials flat-footed, admitting they ille - A man who lost part of his jaw to cancer regrew per cent of youth-produced sexual content involves gally harvest fetal organs and tissue to sell to his jawbone, has no lingering signs of disfigurement pornographic images of children under the age of 15 researchers. Talking to actors posing as researchers, and Gwas able to eat his first solid meal in nine years. and 93.1 per cent involves girls. two doctors have admitted they charge fees to provide Damaged corneal tissue has been successfully Dines pointed out that 36 per cent of Internet con - fetal parts from abortions. More videos will reported - regeGnerated, restoring vision. tent is pornographic and online porn brings in total ly be released in the next weeks. A man with Parkinson’s disease was treated revenue of $3,000 every second. On average, she Embryos are in demand by researchers who say with adult stem cells taken from his own brain and has said, one out of every four Internet searches is about they promise cures for a multitude of diseases. had no symptoms of the disease for five years. porn. “Pornography is the public health crisis of the But this commonly accepted notion is disputed by “The bottom line is the adult stem cells are the ones digital age,” she added. David Prentice, vice-president and research director for that work — they’re working now in patients,” Prentice Internet porn is teaching children that this is nor - the Washington-based Charlotte Lozier Institute. He said. “I’m telling you all these (stories of success), but mal, that it doesn’t hurt anybody and that everyone is told a recent American National Right to Life you’re probably not seeing it in the news, right?” doing it, according to Mary Anne Laden, from the Convention in New Orleans that the use of adult stem He referred his audience to the website www.stem - University of Pennsylvania. Porn also changes the cells far outweigh the benefits of embryonic stem cells. cellresearchfacts.org for statistics and patient testimo - way children view others of the opposite sex, said He said more than 70,000 patients throughout the world nials. Hopefully, more of these success stories will be Ernie Allen, former president and CEO of the are receiving adult stem-cell transplants annually, with reported in the mainstream media. — PWN Government inaction is leading to increase in climate refugees

By Ryan Meili and of an illness, but to seek its root recent history, as exemplified by the Natural disasters can bring out or displaced by floods or forest Mahli Brindamour, Saskatoon causes. For these patients, the cuts to the Interim Federal Health the best in our political leaders. fires. We’ve seen this in the past Troy Media connection is fairly obvious: Program, reducing health services They come forward with extraor - through smoke and relocation, the to this vulnerable population. dinary support for people affected — CIVIL , page 19 A young child arrives at the hos - fires have hurt their health. And pital emergency room in respiratory the cause of those fires? Canadian distress, his asthma worsened by experts are pointing to high tem - smoke exposure. An elder has un - peratures and dry conditions, with controlled blood pressure because climate change a likely factor. there wasn’t time to get her medica - The people who were relocated tions when the evacuation orders in Saskatchewan came from came through. Scabies and other ill - northern communities with higher nesses related to crowding spread rates of poverty than the rest of quickly through the close quarters the province. This is the predicted of the evacuees. Sudden departure pattern of the repercussions from from and worry about home bring climate change, as remote com - significant mental stress. munities with less infrastructure These sorts of health problems are more prone to its effects. are commonplace for people in Poverty, lower rates of employ - circumstances like the over ment, the effects of colonization 13,000 northern Saskatchewan and other social determinants also residents forced to leave their lead to higher rates of illness. This homes due to forest fires. means that community members As physicians, we’re taught are more susceptible to the health not only to look at the symptoms effects of changes in temperature, air quality and diet that come with the disruption of climate. Meili is a family physician in We now have internally dis - Saskatoon, founder of Upstream, placed people in Saskatchewan, and and acts as an expert adviser although they do benefit from state with EvidenceNetwork.ca. Mahli protection, in some ways they are as Brindamour is a pediatrician in vulnerable as resettled climate Yaworski Saskatoon and a member of the refugees. The federal response to OUTDOOR ROSARY — St. Paul’s Co-Cathedral hosted Rosary on the Steps every Thursday evening in steering committee of Canadian the forest fire crisis is certainly bet - July, beginning at 7 p.m. at 720 Spadina Crescent East in Saskatoon. Surrounded by the sights and sounds Doctors for Refugee Care. ter, however, than the treatment of a downtown summer evening and from the riverbank park across the street, participants pray the www.troymedia.com refugees to Canada have received in Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary as a public prayer witness, inviting passersby to join in. July 29, 2015 LETTERS Prairie Messenger 19

Do homosexuals commit adultery when expressing love?

The Editor: After reading in Canada for a number of years. aroused God’s anger and so God Dolores Flaskay’s letter to the editor Then she goes on to mention the decided to destroy them completely. in the July 15 Messenger, I feel I destruction of Sodom and Gomor- Lastly, she wants to use the spiri - must reply. She seems to be saying rah. Their destruction had nothing to tual works of mercy to show us the that we homosexuals commit adul - do with homosexuality. The resi - error of our ways. As stated above, tery when we express our love. dents of Sodom were notorious for God created me this way and God If so, this is a new, strange def - their wickedness. They had no con - does not make mistakes. Since I was inition of the Sixth Command - sideration for the poor, nor for the born homosexual, it would be a very ment. God created me homosexu - passing strangers to whom they cruel God who would tell me that I al, so ex pressing my love for offered no hospitality. They would can’t love someone of my own sex. another man is certainly not adul - not even sell them food or water. Maybe she should listen to tery. Marriage is no longer just These and many similar acts of cru - Pope Francis when he says, “Who between a man and a woman as elty by the residents of Sodom and am I to judge?” — Don McGuire, same-sex marriage has been legal their neighbours of Gomorrah had Dignity Regina Civil society works in public interest Design Pics Continued from page 18 elected leaders. However, we has been openly resistant to taking should be able to expect more. any meaningful action to reduce Listen couple of weeks in Saskatchewan The point is that talking about carbon emissions, despite Sas - too, as provincial and federal gov - climate change is not bringing up katch ewan leading the country in you hear nothing ernments have been assisting cli - politics in a time of tragedy. There per capita carbon output. in the safe portal mate refugees and adding addition - are already politics at play. What we Climate change is a massive past numb al resources to fight the fires devas - need from our leaders is more than a and complex issue, and can be hard quiet tating the north of the province. robust response to the downstream for people to get their heads is the salve This action is admirable, a ma - effects of climate change. For the around, and hard to motivate polit - of withdrawal nifestation of the care we provide health of Cana dians, we need to see ical leaders to make sacrifices to gently for each other as a society, and of upstream thinking to prevent this act. Sometimes what it takes to test the drum skin governments and civil society act - from occurring over and over. understand something on this scale stretched taut ing decisively in the public interest. Unfortunately, we’re hearing is to see its effects on the health of Tragic times can paradoxically nothing of the sort. Quite the oppo - a single person or a community. over your ache be a boon for political leaders. It’s site in fact; at the same time as the Saskatchewan today has thou - see if it will allow a chance for dramatic speeches federal government is stepping in sands of climate refugees suffer - the reverberations and fire station photo-ops from to take action to respond to the ing as a result of climate change. of words government and opposition lead - effects of climate change, they are Will that be enough to change ers alike. We say this not to cast the subject of international criti - minds and spur meaningful sound in the sacred doubt on their motivations. A cism at the Climate Summit of the action? If our leaders have, as they needs to be naked strong performance in times like Americas in Toronto for their inac - should, the health and well-being like everything else these demonstrates the dedication tion on its prevention or mitigation. of the population as their highest By Jan Wood the public expects from their Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall priority, it must. Mayors learn of extent of slavery, human trafficking

Continued from page 1 debate because “we all have a moral responsibility to speak out A number of mayors said that when we see injustice and a planet their countries and cities are still in peril” and take real action, he learning about the actual extent said. and seriousness of modern-day California Gov. Jerry Brown slavery and human trafficking and said in his speech that there is therefore found it helpful the “fierce opposition and blind iner - Vatican invited two former victims tia” to moving away from depend - to tell their stories. ence on petroleum and coal. And, Mayor Tony Chammany of he said, “that opposition is well Kochi, India, told CNS his region financed — hundreds of millions faces huge problems with forced of dollars are going into propagan - organ donations. Even though da, to falsifying the scientific there are strict laws against such record, bamboozling people of crimes, the problem “is corruption every country.” at the level of governance. We Mayor Angela Brown-Burke of have laws, but who is going to Kingston, Jamaica, told CNS that enforce them?” he said. if local people have no options, Another problem, he said, is they will continue to use polluting that mitigating climate change fuels. and curbing poverty and exploita - On the topic of trafficking, tion cost money and demand Brown-Burke said that “as an investments, and so today’s finan - individual who is from enslaved cial crisis is hindering greater people, it is extremely important efforts. for us to understand the legacy Mayor Gregor Robertson of that we have and to ensure that no Vancouver told CNS that govern - one else has to go through that ments are not accustomed to hear - again.” ing spiritual leaders speak so Today’s slavery is much worse, courageously and effectively about she said, because today’s “chains social and ecological ills. are invisible, they’re in your mind It’s not out of place for the pope in a sense and they are just as real to add his voice to the political if not worse.”

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By Abbey Jaroma learn from what they see, and dren distributing of sexually ex - Effect on Children that had three — There is a relationship be - Cordelia Anderson, founder of plicit content by using laptop key findings: tween porn use and feelings; in WASHINGTON (CNS) — Sensibilities Prevention Services, webcams. — The more often young peo - other words, it isn’t necessary to Pornography is sexualizing the believes that “pornography is teach - It found that 17.5 per cent of ple view online porn, the greater have affection for people to have innocence of the nation’s young ing young girls to be products.” the content depicted children ages the likelihood they will have a sex with them. children, causing a race to adult - “Our children are going from 15 years or younger; 93.1 per cent recreational attitude toward sex Sex education in schools does hood before the end of childhood. Dr. Seuss to porn,” said Anderson. of the content depicting children and to view it as a purely physical not cover all aspects of the issue, Young girls are being bom - Dines also discussed pornogra - ages 15 or younger featured girls. function. she believes, especially the moral barded with photo-shopped im - phy’s effects on males. Internet porn is teaching our — There is a link between the and psychological. ages and are buying into unrealis - “We are bringing up a genera - children that this is normal, that it explicitness of sexual media seen “It is about time we took this tic expectations set before them at tion of boys,” she said, and doesn’t hurt anybody and that by younger viewers and their view culture back from the pornogra - an age meant for skinned knees Internet porn “reels boys in by everyone is doing it, according to of women as sexual “play things.” phers,” added Dine. and the Disney Channel. saying, ‘You want to be a man? Mary Anne Laden, from the Those were some of the con - Well this is your initiation.’ ’’ University of Pennsylvania. Ecumenical shared ministries cerns raised at a Capitol Hill sym - She claimed that it is virtually “Porn changes the way that posium July 14 where experts in impossible to find boys in the U.S. children view others of the oppo - the field of pornography research who do not view porn and she said site sex,” said Ernie Allen, former explores grassroots ministry spoke about the significant nega - she refuses to believe males are president and CEO of the National tive effects the production and born with a natural attraction to Centre for Missing & Exploited By Kate O’Gorman viewing of pornography has had porn. Instead, this is a product of Children. on children. the culture, she said. He said that one-third of all 10- SASKATOON — The Prairie “Our entire culture is getting “We have developed a culture year-olds are accessing porno - Centre for Ecumenism (PCE) in our girls porn ready,” said Gail that is perpetrating (this) against graphic content on the Internet; 53 Saskatoon recently hosted the Dines, a professor of sociology our children,” she said. per cent of all 12- to 15-year-old Canadian Forum on Inter-Church and women’s studies at Wheelock A study conducted by the boys are accessing online porn as Dialogues, co-sponsored by the College in Boston. “It hypersexu - Internet Watch Foundation March are 28 per cent of 12- to 15-year- Canadian Council of Churches and alizes them at a young age.” 10, called Emerging Patterns and old girls. the Canadian Centre for Ecu me - According to Dr. Sharon Trends Report No. 1: Youth- The American Psychological nism. The forum was held June 22 Cooper, the CEO of Development Produced Sexual Content, found Association produced a study in - 23 at Queen’s House of Retreats, and Forensic Pediatrics, children an increasing trend younger chil - 2007 titled Web Pornography’s in conjunction with a Program in Ecumenical Studies and Formation (see related articles, this issue). Baptist discusses eucharist with Catholics Featuring keynote speakers Dr. Donna Geernaert, SC, and Dr. By Kate O’Gorman the church is itself lived out and Timothy George, the forum also experienced in the midst of a featured a panel discussion and SASKATOON — Issues sur - church that is broken,” said workshops. O’Gorman rounding ecumenical understand - George, noting that the document Rev. Nobuko Iwai, a United ings of the eucharist were ex - highlights how “we all long for the Church minister, presented one of Rev. Nobuko Iwai plored by Dr. Timothy George time when we will be able to cele - the workshops, focusing on ecu - during a Program in Ecumenical brate this holy sacrament together. menical shared ministries. serving God in a unified way Studies and Formation held We’re not there yet, but we yearn Participants explored both while still maintaining their recently in Saskatoon. for it and we feel the pain of not blessings and issues that coincide denominational identity and con - “Ironically, the sacrament of being able to celebrate in the fel - with local engagement in ecu - nections.” Christian unity is often the cause lowship of the Lord’s Table.” menical shared ministries. The The workshop provided an op - of difference and even division,” Another commonality high - workshop was also an opportunity portunity for participants to share George said in his presentation lighted in the document states that to explore ecumenism as it is stories and explore lived realities focusing on ecumenical dialogue “the Bible must play a formative experienced “on the ground,” as of ecumenical shared ministry. about the eucharist. role in the liturgy of the eucharist well as to share resources. Among resources highlighted “Identifying this reality first or in the order of worship of the The workshop addressed basic during the workshop was the Ecu - allows us to consider how we can Lord’s Supper.” George explained questions such as, “What is ecu - menical Shared Ministry Hand - talk across confessional differ - O’Gorman that both Catholics and Baptists menical shared ministry and book, issued in 2011, a document ences and issues of theology and Dr. Timothy George “go back to those formative scrip - what does it look like on the born out of an Ecumenical Shared conviction and practice that sepa - tural texts in the New Testament ground?” Ministries Task Force in which rate us, while we work and pray vidual piety. While there is a per - that tell us how Jesus and his dis - Ecumenical shared ministry is Iwai played a role. toward that unity in Jesus Christ sonal dimension to celebrating the ciples celebrated the Last Supper defined as “any combination of The task force is a collabora - that is so powerfully embodied in eucharist, it is not a private act of and how this was lived out in the denominations sharing a pro - tive body of Anglican, Evangelical the table of the Lord.” devotion. It is to be celebrated in the early Christian community.” gram, mission, ministry or build - Lutheran, United Church and George participated in a Baptist- context of a community of faith.” Nevertheless, there are differ - ing. An ecumenical shared min - Pres byterian churches of Canada. Catholic International Dialogue “In discussing the essence of ences in the way the words of istry is people worshipping and The handbook helps clarify the that produced the 2006 - 2010 the church, we recognize that the institution function in the liturgy. nuances of what ecumenical report, The Word of God in the Life Lord’s Supper is both a sign and a “Where the Catholic priest speaks shared ministry entails, and how of the Church: A Report of Inter - source of Christian unity,” contin - the eucharistic prayer in persona those en gaged in such ministry national Conversations between the ued George, pointing out that Christi (in the person of Christ), can do so effectively and appropri - Catholic Church and the Baptist while the words “source and sign” the Baptist pastor would identify ately. World Alliance. Citing the report, are more commonly considered himself not with Christ but with Another resource highlighted George stressed points of common - Catholic descriptions, it was lan - the congregation. Baptists repeat was the recently published book ality, which are highlighted in the guage that both Baptists and Cath - the words of institution as a narra - by Rev. Bernard de Margerie, In document, before nuancing points olics were comfortable with. tive rather than placing them - God’s Reconciling Grace: Prayer of difference. The fact that Catholics and selves in a mediated role.” and Reflection Texts for Chris - The report agrees that the Baptists do not share a eucharistic The Baptist-Catholic dialogue tian Reconciliation and Unity. eucharist/Lord’s Supper (noting table was addressed. Here the dia - report found commonality regard - The book was offered to both terms in respect of each logue examined some of the dif - ing the Trinity. “There is a trinitar - Christian churches across de- church’s preferred use of lan - ferences between the traditions. ian pattern in the order of worship nominational lines to be used guage) is essential to the church. As George noted, “Catholics of the eucharist/Lord’s Supper.” within the context of worship “This is very scriptural,” ex - teach that, through baptism, Chris - According to George, “this marked and prayer, and lends itself to plained George. “Both Baptists tians who are not Catholic are a notable ecumenical advance, ecumenical shared ministry, the and Catholics agree on this point. brought into what is termed ‘real when Baptists and Catholics found gathering heard. It is a fundamental agreement. but imperfect communion’ with they could agree to this statement. Issues surrounding liturgy, Everything else we say about the the Catholic Church. Eucharistic It is a much richer, more textured Flegel common mission and prayer eucharist derives from this one communion, however, is reserved understanding of the Lord’s Supper ANGLICAN BISHOP DIES — were discussed as places of both underpinning agreement.” only for those who share the one - than you find in a lot of Baptist Retired Anglican Bishop of unity and division. However, as By using the word “essential” ness in faith, worship and ecclesial churches, so we were pushing the Qu’Appelle Duncan Wallace died the workshop continued, the both churches agree on the signif - life of the Catholic Church.” boundaries a little.” June 22 after a brief bout with theme of friendship as the con - icance of the Lord’s Supper, In comparison, he went on to Discussion ensued regarding un - cancer. He was 77. Wallace was text for ecumenical sharing came “without which the church cannot say, “Most Baptists in the world derstanding the eucharist as a sacri - elected 10th Bishop of Qu’Appelle to the forefront — a theme in exist,” George explained. today practice what is called ‘open fice. While not all controversies in 1997 and served until his retire - which the entire forum was root - “It’s important to emphasize the communion’ — and all those who were resolved, significant misun - ment in 2005. The service of ed. word ‘church’ as well. We spent a love the Lord Jesus in sincerity derstandings were clarified. Getting thanksgiving held June 27 in St. As one participant commented, lot of time on this, because we and truth are welcome to the beyond assumptions opened up a Paul’s Cathedral was filled with opportunities for shared ministry wanted to say that the Lord’s Lord’s Table. new channel of better mutual under - clerics, friends, parishioners and are “key as we journey along Supper is not merely an act of indi - “The sacrament of the unity of standing, George said. family. Jesus’ path.”