Single Issue: $1.00 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40030139 CATHOLIC JOURNAL Vol. 95 No. 13 September 13, 2017 Spirit of Sion Pope beatifies two clergy in Colombia Fifty years after Our Lady of Sion Academy closed in By Cindy Wooden 1967, more than 300 former students and teachers gath - VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia ered to honour the Sisters of (CNS) — If just one victim of Sion for their contribution Colombia’s civil war forgives his or her aggressor, it can set off a to Catholic education. chain reaction of hope for recon - — page 6 ciliation and peace, Pope Francis Christ in Me Arise said. Celebrating mass Sept. 8 in A celebra - Villavicencio, a city filled with those who fled their homes during tion of the the war and with former fighters beginning of trying to start over, Pope Francis the school pleaded for honesty and courage. year for At the beginning of the mass, he Greater held up two heroic examples of Saskatoon those who gave their lives to “rise Catholic Schools featured up out of the swamp of violence and singer and composer bitterness”: Bishop Jesus Emilio ValLimar Jansen. Jaramillo Monsalve of Arauca, who was murdered by Colombian Marx - — page 6 ist guerrillas in 1989, and Rev. Ecumenism for all Pedro Maria Ramirez, a priest killed at the start of the Colombian civil CNS/Paul Haring “It is all too easy to think war in 1948. Pope Francis beatified the two TWO BEATIFIED IN COLOMBIA — A devotee holds a banner showing Blessed Emilio Jaramillo that ecumenism is a matter at the mass, which was celebrated Monsalve as Pope Francis celebrates mass at Catama field in Villavicencio, Colombia, Sept. 8. The pope for professional theologians in the middle of a broad field, typ - beatified Blessed Jaramillo and Blessed Pedro Maria Ramirez. and leaders in the Vatican or ical of the area’s cattle ranching archdiocese,” writes Jason terrain. of war, many at the mass suffered exiles and grief,” he said. the pope said. “If it were, then it West, president of Newman In his homily, the pope ac - horrors. The Christian call to reconcili - Theological College in knowledged that, during 52 years “How many of you can tell of ation is not something abstract, — VICTIMS , page 19 Edmonton. But it is a daily task for all. Advocates turn up heat on poverty reduction strategy — page 14 Disappearing By Michael Swan want to see in a national poverty progress on poverty nationwide. director of the MacKillop Centre The Catholic Register reduction strategy, people like “We would like the govern - for Social Justice in Charlotte - journalists Mary Boyd are hoping to increase ment to use the term eradication town, P.E.I. TORONTO (CCN) — Now pressure on the Liberal govern - or elimination of poverty, rather Named after St. Mary Mac - Professional journalism is in that Canadians have had nine ment to fulfil its 2015 campaign than reduction. Reduction is a Killop, Australia’s first saint who trouble because almost no one months to tell Ottawa what they promise to set targets and measure weak word,” said Boyd, who is had many relatives on Canada’s has figured out how to make east coast, the MacKillop Centre money in the news business, Bishop appointed for Diocese of Saskatoon was sure to get its recommenda - writes Thomas Reese, SJ. tions on housing, the social safety Religion writers are especially net and indigenous poverty into By Kiply Lukan Yaworski youth ministry, and supporting with a number of programs and Employment and Social Develop - hard hit because of Catholic education. renovation projects,” he says. “We ment Canada before the Aug. 31 declining revenues. SASKATOON — The new Bishop Mark Hagemoen, 56, accomplished a fair bit this year, deadline. — page 15 bishop-elect for the Roman who has served for four years as after discerning and gathering “This is a moral question,” Liturgical changes Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon bishop of the northern Diocese of things up for a couple of years.” Boyd said. “We all know well that MacKenzie-Fort Smith, was named He describes Mackenzie-Fort Christ had a preferential option the eighth bishop of the Roman Smith as an Aboriginal diocese. for the poor. He did because the Pope Francis has decentral - Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon in “Most of the Catholic people poor are defenceless. They need ized authority over how the an announcement by Pope Francis here are Aboriginal. It has been a people to take their side, to go to texts used in the Catholic released Sept. 12, 2017. privilege and a learning for me, bat for them. They need the prob - Church’s liturgies are trans - The Diocese of Saskatoon has and I still have lots to learn,” he lem of poverty to be called what it lated from Latin into local been without a bishop since Oct. says of his experience as shep - really is — a moral, sinful prob - languages, moving most 14, 2016, when former bishop herd of the geographically large lem in our society.” responsibility for the matter Donald Bolen was inaugurated as diocese that covers all the Boyd’s next turn at bat on the from the Vatican to national Archbishop of Regina. Rev. Kevin Northwest Territories, part of poverty question will be the Oct. McGee has been serving as dioce - western Nunavut, as well as the 17 Chew On This campaign co- bishops’ conferences. san administrator in the interim. Athabasca region of northern ordinated by the Catholic-Calvin - — page 20 The date for Hagemoen’s installa - Saskatchewan. ist organization Citizens for Music for liturgy tion as Bishop of Saskatoon has “In my whole way of approach - Public Justice and a national anti- not yet been announced. ing pastoral ministry, I have been poverty network called Dignity In an interview from his office shaped by walking with our This week’s PM features for All. Boyd and her friends will in Yellowknife, the new bishop- Aboriginal people here. In terms of be out on street corners handing music selections for liturgy elect said the unexpected appoint - how I pastor, and how I approach out lunch bags containing an from Oct. 1, ment is a bittersweet moment. things, that has been a real gift.” apple and a fact-sheet on poverty. the 26th Saying farewell to the people of Another passion for Hagemoen This will be the fifth year the Sunday in Mackenzie-Fort Smith diocese is is the need for a new evangeliza - Chew On This campaign has Ordinary going to be difficult, admits tion. This includes “the whole marked the International Day for Time, to the Bishop Mark Hagemoen Hagemoen, who says he was sur - issue of outreach to the People of the Eradication of Poverty. Last Feast of Christ the King. prised by Pope Francis’ decision to God, especially in the spirit of year 60 teams from coast to coast has a number of passions, includ - — pages 8 - 10 appoint him Bishop of Saskatoon. Pope Francis,” he explains. “What handed out lunch bags to 330,000 ing fostering a deeper relationship “It does come at a difficult time does it mean to go beyond the people. Boyd is hoping this year to with indigenous people, pursuing in the Diocese of Mackenzie-Fort the new evangelization, furthering Smith, as we are just moving ahead — CATHOLIC, page 17 — VIOLATION , page 15 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS September 13, 2017 Catholics criticize Trump’s decision to end DACA

By Kurt Jensen DACA youth live out Future plans for her group in - their daily lives with hope clude lobbying members of Con - WASHINGTON (CNS) — and a determination to gress to show “the root cause of Catholic church leaders, immigra - flourish and contribute to immigration, which includes tion officials and university presi - society: continuing to American policies that destroy eco - dents were swift and unanimous work and provide for nomic stability in other countries.” in their condemnation of President their families, continuing The Washington-based Francis - Donald Trump’s Sept. 5 decision to serve in the military, can Action Network’s statement to phase out Deferred Action for and continuing to receive compared Trump to Pontius Pilate: Childhood Arrivals known as an education. Now, after “Like Pilate, President Trump has DACA. months of anxiety and tried to wash his hands of responsi - “In the past, the president stat - fear about their futures, bility when he could have and ed that the Dreamer story ‘is about these brave young people should have kept DACA in place. the heart,’ yet (the) decision is face deportation. This God commands his people to care nothing short of heartless,” said decision is unacceptable for immigrants and treat them ‘no Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich. and does not reflect who differently than the natives born “The Dreamers are now left in a we are as Americans.” among you.’ ’’ (Lv 19:34) six-month limbo, during which Cardinal Joseph W. The Ohio-based Ignatian Soli - Congress is supposed to pass com - Tobin of Newark, New darity Network accused Trump of prehensive immigration reform, a Jersey, called the deci - undermining “the dignity of un - feat they have been unable to sion “malicious.” documented individuals,” adding, achieve for a decade,” he said in a “One can’t hide behind “As people of faith, we are called Sept. 5 statement. the term ‘legality’ in to uphold the inherent dignity of The rescission of DACA, an - rescinding DACA,” his our immigrant brothers and sisters, nounced by Attorney General Jeff CNS/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters statement added. “That is to stand with those marginalized Sessions, places an estimated WASHINGTON DACA DEMONSTRATION — Deferred Action for Childhood an abandonment of hu - by a broken immigration system, 800,000 undocumented immi - Arrivals supporters demonstrate near the White House in Washington Sept. 5. manity, and abandonment and to recognize the gifts and tal - grants, many of whom were Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Sept. 5 that the DACA program is of talented and hopeful ents that these young people bring brought to the United States as “being rescinded” by President Donald Trump. young people who are as to our communities.” young children and have known no American as you and I.” Georgetown University Presi - other home, under threat of depor - director of the Catholic Legal Im - ops’ Committee on Migra tion. “I Mercy Sister Aine O’Connor, dent John J. DeGioia, in a state - tation and losing permits that allow mi gration Network. She also said do not believe this decision repre - who stood in front of the White ment on his Facebook page, said he them to work. From August her organization rejects and ada- sents the best of our national spirit House as the decision was an - wanted to emphasize Georgetown’s through December, according to mantly disagrees with Sessions’ or the consensus of the American nounced, also took issue with “strongest support for all of our the De partment of Homeland “untested personal opinion that people. This decision reflects only Sessions’ remark: “Nothing is com - undocumented students. As a na - Security, the work permits of more DACA is unconstitutional.” the polarization of our political passionate about the failure to tion, we have the capacity and than 200,000 DACA recipients “Americans have never been a moment.” enforce immigration laws.” responsibility to work together to will expire and only 55,258 have people who punish children for the Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of “We do not see it as a compas - provide a permanent legislative submitted re quests for permit mistakes of their parents. I am Galveston-Houston, president of sionate act. It is a merciless act,” solution to ensure the safety and renewals. hopeful that we will not begin the USCCB, said in a statement O’Connor told Catholic News well-being of these young women The decision to end DACA is now,” said Los Angeles Arch - with other USCCB leaders: “The Service, adding that it was “an and men who have — and will — “a heartbreaking disappointment,” bishop Jose H. Gomez, chair of the Catholic Church has long watched abdication of responsibility by the contribute to the future of our coun - said Jeanne Atkinson, executive U.S. Conference of Catholic Bish - with pride and admiration as Trump administration.” try in deeply meaningful ways.” Wife, mother describes trauma she felt during deportation attempt

By Natalie Hoefer other women, most of them moth - would face persecution if she had being in the field, it’s a lot different. his mother for nearly five months. ers,” she said, her voice quivering to go back. It’s a long, in-depth, “There’s no regard for humani - “I was mind-blown,” he said of INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) — It with emotion as she shared her six-page decision, not just a check ty. There’s a lack of respect. I feel the ICE officer’s decision not to was a typical day for Maira story with a crowd of more than in a box.” like there’s been a call or a directive release his mother. “I was so dis - Bordonabe last spring. 350 people at a “families first” While Bordonabe now can from above. (ICE officials have) appointed. Me and my sister had “I dropped my children off for budget rally Aug. 30 hosted by never be deported, she must check been given the power to break up hopes that she would come home, school, then I spent some time in Indianapolis Congregation Action in with Immigrations and Custom families, and it’s not healthy. but she didn’t. It was really hard.” (adoration),” said the married moth - Network at Holy Spirit Parish. Enforcement every six months. “Everyone in the family had a Bordonabe couldn’t agree er of two children, ages seven and “One woman from Africa had Still, the case was won, and the really difficult time dealing with her more with her son. 12, and a member of St. Gabriel the been there for eight months trying federal government, which had 90 absence. They were devastated. The “This is a very hard situation to Archangel Parish in Indianapolis. to prove her need for asylum.” days to appeal the ruling, opted not children didn’t understand. They put a family through,” she said at On that typical spring day as Unlike the woman from Africa, to challenge the decision. Bordo - just needed their mother home.” the event. she pulled out of the parking lot to Bordonabe said she was “blessed” nabe was free to return home. Bordonabe’s 12-year-old son “We need to keep families head home, Bordonabe had no to have help and support from her Her husband and children Luis can attest to the hurt of losing together.” idea she would not see her family family and her faith community at arrived in Chicago, Adams re - again as a free woman for nearly St. Gabriel Church, where prayer called. Bordonabe had her few five months. vigils were held nearly every belongings packed in a box and On her way home, she was Monday evening that she was was ready to go. stopped by two Immigration and absent. But then something happened Customs Enforcement officers When she got no response to a that Adams said still leaves her in charged with the task of taking her request for a review of her case disbelief. to Chicago, from where she was for asylum, her supporters con - “ICE officials, one in particular, then to be sent back to Mexico. tacted Rep. Andre Carson, D- changed his mind and said, ‘No, Bordonabe, now in her 30s, had Indiana, for help. she has to wait 90 days to see if immigrated to the United States at That move “helped her get the there’s another country we can send a younger age with her family. She initial step to say, ‘I can’t go back her to,’ ’’ Adams said. “ICE made married a U.S. citizen, her chil - due to credible fear,’ ’’ Angela the decision in front of the children. dren are U.S. citizens, and she is Adams, Bordonabe’s lawyer, told Everyone lost it. It was a blow. She working toward a degree in human The Criterion , newspaper of the literally had the document (for her resources to help her husband pro - Archdiocese of Indianapolis. release) in her hand signed and her vide a better life for their family. “Only then can you go to a judge belongings packed up.” She hardly fits the criteria that to plead your case.” Carson again was called upon President Donald Trump claimed In the end, Bordonabe was to intervene, and Bordonabe was would be the focus of his admin - granted a trial to plead her case in released within four days. She istration’s deportation efforts dur - court. returned home with her family in ing a 60 Minutes interview days Concern for the family’s safety late August. after he won the presidential elec - prevented Adams from revealing “Before this (occurrence at the tion: undocumented immigrants the specific reasons why the judge deportation centre) happened, even who were “criminal and have granted Bordonabe a “withhold - as an immigration attorney I criminal records, gang members, ing from removal.” But the rea - thought, ‘Oh, it hasn’t changed drug dealers.” sons were grave, she assured. much under this new administra - CNS/Natalie Hoefer Nevertheless, Bordonabe was “Persecution is very hard to tion,’ ’’ said Adams, who has been DEPORTATION WOULD BREAK UP FAMILY — Maira Bordonabe, immediately taken to a deporta - prove in Mexico,” Adams ex - involved in immigration law for a member of St. Michael the Archangel Parish in Indianapolis and a tion centre in Chicago. plained. “The circumstances were more than 15 years. “But I can tell married mother of two, shares her story at an Aug. 30 rally of being “I spent four months there with such that the judge agreed that she you from personal experience and taken for deportation. September 13, 2017 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 3 Asylum seekers need honest information on Canada

By Deborah Gyapong nationality, membership in a par - from countries like Nicaragua, archdiocese is poised to help asy - fore they can obtain rental accom - ticular social group and political Guatemala, El Salvador, Yemen and lum seekers, especially vulnerable modation. OTTAWA (CCN) — Asylum opinion. Sudan. pregnant women and women with Santopadre began working for seekers in Canada need honest While the summer’s recent surge Fleeing poverty or an environ - small children. On Oct. 1 it will the Montreal archdiocese five information about their chances of of mostly Haitian asylum seekers mental crisis will not be enough to open a former rectory that will years ago, but she has spent much remaining in Canada. has abated somewhat, Santopadre guarantee being received into provide 12 rooms to temporarily of her adult life working with “Otherwise, they arrive here said many groups are in the United Canada, she said. house them while their refugee and after a few months they are States under similar circumstances: Nevertheless, the Montreal applications are processed and be - — STRESS , page 4 sent back because their request as a refugee is not valid,” said Alessandra Santopadre, 47, co- Atheist pushes anti-euthanasia fight in U.K. ordinator of the Montreal archdio - cese’s refugee sponsorship pro - By Michael Swan of Canada decision mandating “In the province of Ontario, the gram. The Catholic Register legalization in 2015 will stand the Ministry of Health and Long- Asylum seekers now in the test of time. Term Care announced that it United states have to understand The fight against assisted sui - “In the future, assisted suicide would force doctors to either euth - that just arriving in Canada does cide has not been lost, says a will be viewed as an unfortunate anize patients who wanted to die, not mean they’ll be accepted as Canadian-born liberal and atheist departure, like the flirtation with or refer them to someone who refugees, she said. English academic who opposes racial ideas (as in Nazi ideology would,” Yuill wrote for Spiked in “You have to be a Convention medicalized killing. and eugenics) in the early 20th July. “Three years ago, it was a Refugee, not because you are Kevin Yuill, a history professor century,” Yuill wrote in an email. crime for doctors to kill their scared of Trump,” she said. “That at the University of Sunderland In his frequent articles for the patients in Canada. Now, doctors is not a reason.” and one of the most prominent British press, Yuill has used the could lose their licence for refus - Convention refugees are de- voices against legalized assisted example of what’s happened in ing to participate in killing their fined as people who have a “well- suicide in the United Kingdom, Canada to warn the English how patients.” founded fear of persecution” based told The Catholic Register he legalizing assisted suicide leads to Yuill’s 2015 book, Assisted on five grounds: race, religion, doesn’t think the Supreme Court an erosion of rights. Suicide: The Liberal, Humanist Case Against Legalization , stands as proof that opposing doctor- Assisted suicide for mentally ill problematic aided death isn’t a reactionary plot by religious zealots. By Deborah Gyapong Rights and Freedoms. Suicide “Bill C-14 mentions that the “One of the most frustrating would become a treatment for illness must be irremediable, aspects of this whole discussion is OTTAWA (CCN) — An effort depression rather than a terrible grievous and unbearable, and the that those who are affiliated with Kevin Yuill by the Canadian Mental Health consequence.” patient should have a medical religious institutions make excel - Association (CMHA) to prevent Lau said he has already had pa- condition with a ‘reasonably fore - lent arguments against assisted were open to argument and sur - the mentally ill from access to tients request so-called Medical- seeable natural death,’ ” it said. suicide, but they can be dismissed prised that they had had little,” he assisted suicide is likely to fail, Aid-in-Dying (MAiD), “but they “For patients who suffer solely with a wave of the hand as reli - said. warns a Catholic psychiatrist. were depressed, so at the present from a mental illness, a natural gious,” said Yuill in an email. Yuill asked the pro-euthanasia Dr. Tim Lau, the founding pres - time there isn’t a pressure for those death would not be foreseeable. “There are broad moral reasons crowd on what basis they would ident of the Canadian Catholic folks.” This is one reason why CMHA why atheists like me oppose a deny autonomy and the right to Federation of Catholic Physicians’ “Things will change, sadly believes that psychiatric MAiD change in the law.” choose from brokenhearted 24- Societies, said he welcomes the enough,” he said. should remain illegal.” For the thoughtful atheist, year-olds who feel they no longer CMHA’s efforts to keep mental ill - On Sept. 7 the CMHA released The CMHA reported that there’s no contradiction between want to live without the lover who ness out of the euthanasia law’s eli - its position on Bill C-14 on analysis of policies in Belgium doubting God and affirming the spurned them. gibility criteria, and to maintain the MAiD, which came in advance of and the Netherlands, where psy - sanctity of life, he said. “I also asked why doctors had current regime that requires a “rea - World Suicide Prevention Day on chiatric euthanasia or assisted sui - “(Eighteenth century philoso - to perform the task,” he said. sonably foreseeable natural death.” Sept. 10. cide is permitted, showed they led pher Immanuel) Kant provides a “Why not allow competent adults “However, court challenges “As a recovery-based organiza - to increased requests. basis for secular morality. Suicide, access to deadly drugs they can will inevitably come, arguing that tion, CMHA has announced that “CMHA suggests that we must he says, is not abominable be- self-administer? It struck me that if suicide is an answer to suffer - the Canadian government should be careful to avoid the use of cause God has forbidden it. God they had never been asked these ing, why would mental suffering choose to support recovery for MAiD as a substitute for treatment has forbidden it because it is questions and it seemed to stop be a just reason to discriminate,” mental health patients rather than and supports,” the release said. abominable,” said Yuill. “We have them in their tracks.” Lau said in an email interview. MAiD, and further invest in serv - The CMHA suggested the gov - a concept of the sacrality of When those who oppose assist - “Since we had opened this can of ices, supports and research ernment instead report recovery human life — of all human life — ed suicide retreat or fail to engage worms, it could be argued that it is regarding mental health,” the in our laws against taking the life the debate they make it easy for a violation of the Charter of organization said in a release. — RESEARCH , page 17 of another.” pro-euthanasia arguments, said People have the same instinc - Yuill. tive repugnance to murder if the “Assisted suicide and euthana - victims are old, infirm and not sia advocates push against an likely to live many more years as if open door,” he said. the victim is young and healthy. Yuill fears all the ways assisted Murderer Elizabeth Wetlaufer suicide will erode our freedoms. doesn’t get a free pass because the “It does not make society — or people who died were in a nursing a man — freer to destroy the basis home. to his freedom,” Yuill said. “The “It is moral equality of every exponents of assisted suicide human life — the Kantian idea threaten our freedoms rather than that human lives must never be the other way around. We currently used as a means to an end but are have the right to refuse treatment. ends in and of themselves — that By eliding the difference between is undermined by legalizing refusing treatment and killing or assisted suicide,” said Yuill. being killed, assisted suicide Assisted suicide proponents undermines the basis of bodily have succeeded since the 1970s autonomy. . . . We are being offered largely on the basis of anecdotes choices without responsibility, and an absence of opposition, said which renders the whole meaning Yuill. of choice meaningless.” “As soon as you get beyond the Polls showing a popular em- anecdotes and you expose their brace of capital punishment don’t ‘everyone resisting this is a reli - change the morality or wisdom of gious bigot imposing his will on state-sponsored killing, Yuill said. everyone else’ argument, they have “There is a dual aspect to sui - little else. I am supremely confi - cide. There is a killer and a victim. dent that, given the chance, we can We condemn the act of the killer Tim Yaworski win these arguments. Conse quent- even as we sympathize with the BIRTHDAY OF MARY — After an evening celebration of the eucharist in the outdoor grotto at St. Laurent, ly, I have never refused a challenge victim and his family. . . . From the Sask., on the feast of the Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sept. 8, a procession of the faithful accompa - to debate them.” perspective of the community, tak - nied the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes up the hill to the log church. Bishop Albert Thévenot of the Prince Yuill recently took his argu - ing a life — no matter what value Albert diocese and priests from throughout the area presided at the celebration, which ends the pilgrimage ments to a medical conference in the killer puts on it — is always season at the historic Our Lady of Lourdes shrine at St. Laurent, north of Duck Lake, Sask. Birthday cake the Netherlands. wrong. This is also the basis of and refreshments concluded the celebration. “I was impressed that they opposing capital punishment.” 4 Prairie Messenger CANADIAN NEWS September 13, 2017 Refugees, religious freedom top concerns for Parliament

By Deborah Gyapong “This is an area where what hap - pens in the United States is really OTTAWA (CCN) — After a going to throw Canada for a loop,” surge of asylum seekers over the Gunn said. He noted the United summer, Canada’s refugee poli - States bishops oppose send ing tens cies will be top concerns for many of thousands of young people back faith-based groups once Parlia - to Mexico. ment resumes Sept. 18. The Canadian government is But religious freedom, con - even more worried about hun - science rights for health care dreds of thousands of people in workers, anti-poverty strategies, the United States, from countries palliative care, poverty, and cli - like Honduras and El Salvador, mate change also remain high on whose temporary permits to re - the agenda. main in the country may come to The Liberals face division in an end. It was Trump’s decision to their own caucus on both its han - end a temporary permit for Hai - dling of more than 7,000 asylum tians that prompted the surge of seekers who crossed the border ille - Haitian asylum seekers to Canada gally in recent months. While the during the summer. flow has abated somewhat, con - Gunn noted the Liberal gov - cerns remain that U.S. President ernment is sending emissaries to Donald Trump’s policies toward these communities in the United 800,000 so-called Dreamers, peo - States to let them know, “No, ple who came to the United States Canada is not going to accept tens as undocumented migrants as chil - of thousands of people who are no dren, could spur yet another surge longer able to stay in the United of border crossers. States.” CNS/Chris Wattie, Reuters The Liberals also face internal “Those kinds of very scary PARLIAMENT RESUMES — When Parliament resumes Sept. 18 Canada’s refugee policies will be a top con - division over a new tax policy that numbers really complicate the cern for many faith-based groups, after a surge of asylum seekers came across the border over the summer. could adversely affect doctors and whole question for people want - other professionals, entrepreneurs, ing to work with refuges,” Gunn on how to respond to the situation CPJ, as well as the Canadian form eutha nasia, abortion and farmers and contractors such as said. “Many of our parishes are in the United States can literally Conference of Catholic Bishops other morally objectionable pro - plumbers, in the name of tax fair - looking for more families to spon - twist our system into knots.” and other faith groups, are cedures. ness. sor.” The illegal border crossers are opposed to the Safe Third Country Tax policy Refugee policy A government cap on private exploiting a loophole in the Safe agreement. Gunn said every case refugee sponsorships, and having Third Country Agreement that needs to be judged individually. As for the proposed Liberal tax For Citizens for Public Justice the system flooded with new would otherwise not allow them The agreement encourages people changes, CPJ’s Gunn believes any (CPJ), a Christian social justice arrivals, could mean those waiting to apply for refugee status in Can- to sneak across the border, which government programs to receive think-tank, care for refugees is in refugee camps for years to ada because they were already in a puts additional strain on the sys - and integrate refugees, effectively among their top priorities, said come to Canada have to wait safe country where they could tem, he said. deal with climate change commit - CPJ executive director Joe Gunn. long er, Gunn said. “The pressure apply. Religious Freedom ments, or to address a promised national poverty reduction strate - For Cardus, a faith-based gy, “will cost money” and in - Stress always accompanies wait times think-tank, a top concern is Bill creased taxes “are a way govern - C-51, an omnibus bill to be intro - ment can put some of these activ - Continued from page 3 them, “Don’t worry, this is nor - Christians crossed the border ille - duced this fall intended to clean ities into practice.” mal, it takes time.” gally into Canada because they up various obsolete or redundant Whether what the government refugees. Born in Italy, she spent “When they see their family had heard of Prime Minister Justin parts of the Criminal Code. is proposing has been done “in a 15 years working for the Scala - coming out, it’s a magic moment,” Trudeau’s tweet welcoming peo - Andrew Bennett, director of fair way,” with enough consulta - brinian religious community in she said. Some of them meet again ple to Canada. At first they stayed Car dus Law, and Canada’s former tion, is another question, he said. outreach to refugee communities. after many years. “They cry; at a YMCA, but then they came to Ambassador of Religious Free - In principle, tax reform that That work took her around the they’re happy.” Santopadre’s office. dom, said he is concerned about encourages “those making very world to various countries to get Sometimes when people meet St. Giovanni Bosco, an Italian the elimination of Section 176 that handsome in comes” to pay more to know the circumstances on the with her in her office, it’s a “cry of parish in Montreal, offered to put “prohibits obstructing a clergy - should be expected. Yet, Gunn ground and “find a solution with desperation,” but when that mo ment them up for two or three months man or minister from celebrating pointed out efforts should be local people,” she said. of reunification happens, it’s a time while they searched for an apart - divine series or performing any made to ensure tax reforms “don’t Prior to coming to Canada, she of joy, she said. After a week or two, ment, Santopadre said. “They other function in connection with divide and hurt solidarity,” and had worked most recently in Haiti, she will visit the new family to help became part of the community.” this calling.” create social disruption. arriving there in 2007, three years ensure they have what they need. Their children, ages six and eight, The sections to be eliminated Forcing doctors to pay more before the catastrophic 2010 In 2016 - 2017, the archdiocese have started school. recognize religious worship as tax could have an impact on the earthquake. processed 345 files involving “I came to visit them regular - “uniquely privileged,” and some - provinces who might be forced to Since taking over the refugee- about 700 people from countries ly,” Santopadre said. “They’re thing different from a Rotary Club pay more for their services to sponsorship program, Santopadre such as Syria, Eritrea, Burundi, scared the Canadian government meeting or a university lecture, compensate, he said. has spent a lot of time in airports, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan and Iran. will send them back to Pakistan. Bennett said. CPJ hopes the Liberal govern - waiting for refugee families to Forty-seven parishes are involved Christians are persecuted there.” The proposed chang es are “not ment follows through on its prom - arrive. in refugee sponsorship efforts — The father told her, “I don’t necessarily malicious,” but per - ise for a national anti-poverty Sometimes she is with a priest about half involved in direct spon - want my two children to suffer as I haps come from “an increasing strategy and finds some revenue and members of a local parish sorships, the rest in fundraising or suffered as a Christian,” she said. amnesia around the importance of through eliminating the subsidies waiting for their sponsored fami - helping families that are sponsor - In her work, she tries to stay in religious faith and religious prac - to the oil and gas industry, so as to ly; other times she is with a fami - ing relatives. touch with the families being tice in our common life together,” better meet commitments Canada ly waiting for a sponsored loved Her office helps families that sponsored and the families and he said. made in the Paris climate change one or loved ones. wish to sponsor family members communities that are sponsoring Conscience rights for health agreement. “There is the stress of the fam - navigate the refugee and immigra - them, to help them become aware care professionals remain a top Abortion ily waiting there,” she said. They tion process with the government. of cultural differences. priority for the Canadian Con fer - worry when it seems to take a “We have to be there to help “It’ something I love to do,” ence of Catholic Bishops, the The Canadian Catholic bishops long time for the newcomers to go them and support them,” she said. she said. “I don’t see difference as Coalition for HealthCARE and have spoken up strongly against through immigration. She tells In March, a family of Pakistani a problem but as a richness.” Conscience, and the Catholic the Liberal government’s commit - Wom en’s League. The CWL ment of $650 million to fund sex - adopted a national resolution at ual and reproductive rights, in - the August national convention cluding abortion, overseas. The requesting the federal govern - government hopes to reduce the ment to amend the Criminal estimated 22 million unsafe abor - Code to make it a crime to coerce tions annually — a leading cause health care professionals to par - of death among women in the ticipate in or refer on procedures developing world, who often turn that violate their conscience and to backstreet providers because religious freedom. The Coalition they have no access to legal abor - is supporting a court challenge of tion. the Ontario physicians’ college However, advocating for ac - policy that forces doctors to cess to abortion faces obstacles in make effective referrals and, in emergency circumstances, to per - — FUNDING , page 5 September 13, 2017 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 5 Indigenous leaders optimistic on Trudeau’s direction

By Deborah Gyapong Inuit-Crown, and government-to- managing the lives of indigenous “We did have our governments ing the Indian Act improves that, government relationship with Canadians.” before and those were taken away that would be good.” OTTAWA (CCN) — Two First Nations, Inuit, and Métis The new department under and replaced with Indian Affairs “If removing the Indian Act indigenous leaders are cautiously peoples in Canada,” the prime Carolyn Bennett “has the greatest band councils,” he said. takes away what little we have optimistic about Prime Minister minister said in announcing the potential right now of initiating a Nahanee does not want to see now, then that is not good.” Justin Trudeau’s plans to renew meeting. “I look forward to meet - change process that will lead us to First Nations’ governments treat - Nahanee also wondered wheth - relations with Canada’s first peo - ing with indigenous leaders and a better place,” he said. “If they ed as similar to a municipal order er it would mean the end of the ples by getting rid of the Indian building on the real progress we don’t make this change, we’ll be of government. Also, he stressed reserve system and whether peo - Act. have made toward renewing our stuck for another half-century of any talk of self-government with - ple could own their own property relationship with indigenous peo - trying to change a bureaucracy out taxation “doesn’t really give a and therefore be able to sell it. ples.” that is so indoctrinated with colo - lot of power to band councils.” That could mean the destruction Trudeau also signalled big nizing thinking.” While he agrees with abolish - of their communities. changes in August with a cabinet The Indian Act was the driving ing the Indian Act, he worries “The problem with people los - shuffle that divided the indige - force for previous administrations about what would replace it. “As ing their status and losing the nous and Northern Affairs De part - so that even when treaties were bad as it is, it does tie us into the reserve system, that is becoming ment into two ministries. being implemented, “that imple - past and gives us certain rights.” part of the Canadian system, like Former health minister Jane mentation was always coloured by “The Indian Act ties us to the municipalities, we as indigenous Philpott will take on the role of the policies derived from the federal government, which is people could disappear into noth - Minister of Indigenous Services, Indian Act.” responsible for the Indian people,” ing,” Nahanee said. while the former minister of the As for “getting rid of the he said. “If taking away the Indian As Ottawa tries to renew rela - whole department, Carolyn Indian Act,” Lafond said, “I don’t Act moves us to come under the tions, Lafond said he hopes the Bennett, will become the new think we have an option.” provinces, that would not be good.” Catholic Church “opens itself up Minister of Crown-Indigenous It was designed to control, to The federal government has a to understand the politics of what Relations, which will deal with create a master/service relation - “fiduciary responsibility” for is happening.” treaty negotiations and replacing ship, he said. “You can’t have a indigenous peoples the provinces “We need to understand what the Indian Act. nation-to-nation discussion when do not have. “They would not (colonization) has done with us as Harry Lafond, a parish admin - that is in the room.” have to look after the indigenous a people and the church needs to istrator for the Muskeg Lake First “I know there’s fear,” he said. peoples’ best interests.” learn to walk with us on our Nation, said he welcomed the “As long as I’ve been involved in The Indian Act created the terms,” Lafond said. “It can’t con - shuffle if it brings about real First Nations politics, there’s been reserve system that was supposed tinue to pretend to be the answer change inside the federal bureau - this fear: ‘What’s going to replace to be a protection for indigenous to our problems. That’s the cracy that has been resistant to it. it?’ ” peoples’ land, he said. It also talks church’s history in the last 200 CCN/D. Gyapong “That bureaucracy is driven by Deacon Rennie Nahanee, co- about their rights and status as years in Canada.” Harry Lafond a long history of Canadian policy ordinator of ministry and outreach indigenous peoples for education The church was “a team player and laws that continue the colo - to indigenous peoples for the and health care. in the colonizing forces that came On Oct. 3 Trudeau will host a nizing practices of its predeces - Vancouver archdiocese and a “Indigenous people are still into our communities,” he said. First Ministers’ meeting in Ottawa sors,” Lafond said. Some of those member of the Squamish First mostly poor across Canada and a The church has to understand its with national indigenous leaders. policies “create dependency” and Nation, likes the federal govern - lot of reserves don’t have good role and begin a “different type of “Canada is making progress to- a “trustee relationship that is real - ment’s taking a “nation-to-nation infrastructure for housing and conversation with our communi - wards a true nation-to-nation, ly about controlling and micro - approach.” water,” Nahanee said. “If remov - ties.” Haitian partners relieved Hurricane Irma not as bad as expected

By Deborah Gyapong “People are relieved,” said Mary Durran in a phone interview from OTTAWA (CCN) — Develop - Montreal. “They were expecting a ment and Peace/Caritas Canada’s big storm, a catastrophe.” Haitian partners are relieved On Sept. 8, Irma was ranked a Hurricane Irma did not hit the Category Five Hurricane and one island nation with full force, says of the most powerful storms to its Latin American programs offi - ever form in the Atlantic Ocean cer. with wind speeds reaching 295 kilometres per hour. Haiti had initially expected a Abortion fund - direct hit, but Irma changed course and turned northwest. ing tops agenda The government prepared for the storm by setting up several Continued from page 4 hundred shelters across the island, Durran said. regions such as Africa where most Irma was expected to hit Haiti’s governments are conservative and north coast, an area not accus - influenced by Christian and Mus - tomed to hurricanes. lim groups who are strongly anti- Though Development and abortion. Peace’s partners were aware of the For Campaign Life Coalition coming storm, many of the local and REAL Women of Canada, people “had not been informed overseas abortion funding will what to do and didn’t take the remain a top agenda item. REAL threat that seriously,” Durran said. Women with the World Congress On Sept. 8, Development and of Families has launched a petition Peace posted on its website some CNS/Jean Marc Herve Abelard, EPA asking Prime Minister Trudeau to reflections by partners in Haiti HURRICANE IRMA — People walk in floodwater caused by Hurricane Irma in Romeo Et Malfety, Haiti, redirect the abortion funding to when they expected “a lot of de - Sept. 8. Development and Peace/Caritas Canada’s Haitian partners are relieved Hurricane Irma did not hit “help address the real needs of the struction and loss of human life.” the island nation with full force, says its Latin American programs officer, Mary Durran. poor in Africa, like clean water and “Mercifully, the hurricane hit a maternal health care.” lot more lightly than expected,” Rabel, in the northwest, 75 per precarious lifestyle,” she said. work that can help build up re - Campaign Life’s Johanne Durran said. “There was no loss cent of the garden plots were lost. “Any weather shocks like that silience for these kinds of Brownrigg said they want to see of human life, but crops were de - “It illustrates just how fragile cause quite a bit of damage.” shocks,” she said. the government return to the poli - stroyed, some flimsily built hous - things are,” Durran said. “Haitians are quite resilient Development and Peace re cently cies of the Maternal and Child es were severely damaged, and Haitians are used to tropical and they were expecting some - approved a goat-rearing project in Health Initiative launched by the many small animals like goats, storms and depressions that do a thing far worse,” she said. northwestern Haiti, “something that Harper government that did not hens and pigs, were lost.” lot of damage through flooding or Development and Peace is not will provide in come for very poor include funding abortion. “The One of Development and high winds this time of year, she planning a special campaign to people,” she said. millions spent abroad supporting Peace’s partners on Ile de la said. They often lose part of their help out Irma survivors, though The agency is also supporting the health of mothers as well as the Tortue, an island off Haiti’s north - crops during the hurricane season. Durran said the real need is for several agriculture projects in var - birth and lives of young children ern coast, said buildings were Though Haiti’s north and north - funds for their long-term develop - ious parts of the country. was applauded throughout Africa,” destroyed, Durran said. east experienced a lot of flooding, it ment work in the area. Haiti is the While long-term development she said. “We are making it a prior - In Baie de Henne, about 75 per was “not life-threatening flooding,” only Caribbean island where the cannot prevent tragedies like hur - ity to oppose the $650M spending. cent of small crop holdings were Durran said, though pictures show Canadian bishops’ overseas aid ricanes, they mitigate their effects We will be challenging the decision destroyed and some houses dam - people with water up to their knees. agency has partners. and help people recover more to tie aid to abortion, said ” aged, she said. In Pointe Jean- “Haitians live a very poor and “It’s our regional development quickly, Durran said. 6 Prairie Messenger LOCAL NEWS September 13, 2017 Spirit of Sion lives on as alumnae celebrate

By Eleanor Kennedy scribed life in the dorm from 1962 tea and banquet presentations,” to 1965. There were many chuck - said Sharon Cooper Murza of the SASKATOON — Fifty years les from the gathered alumnae as class of 1966. “Until then, I was after the doors of Our Lady of she talked about lining up to use more absorbed with meeting Sion Academy closed in 1967, the only telephone, the compulso - classmates I hadn’t seen in many more than 300 former students ry study halls, and the communal years. The presentations gave me and teachers gathered at Holy mealtimes. a sense of solidarity with all the Family Cathedral in Saskatoon on “The nuns tried hard to create a sisters and alumnae present. It the Labour Day weekend to hon - caring atmosphere and to be our brought us together as a united our the Sisters of Sion for their ‘pseudo-parents’ from September sisterhood and not just the few contribution to Catholic education to June.” ladies from our class year.” in Saskatoon. Sister Jocelyn Monette, NDS, “You have my heartfelt grati - The Sisters of Sion arrived in and Sister Margaret Zdunich, tude and sincere appreciation,” Saskatoon in 1917 and took up NDS, gave a short presentation Sharon Walter Churchill, class of residence in a large white house about “Sion in the World Today.” 1957, told the committee; “so that stood approximately where The evening ended with a singing much work for so many to enjoy.” Avord Towers stands today on of the school song, “Rise for our “My sister has been ill for over Spadina Crescent. They named Alma Mater.” 10 years, chiefly with memory the house Rosary Hall, and it was Holy Family Parish embraced issues. I’ve watched her slowly the first of three residences to bear the reunion group at their 11:30 slip away, and it’s almost all I can that name. mass on Sept. 3, with a special think about,” said Elaine Leier By 1919, the sisters acceded to blessing. In his homily, Rev. Zakreski, class of 1960. “All a request to open a boarding David Tumback addressed the weekend people kept telling me school for girls, and after obtain - kindness of the sisters, describing how sorry they were that she had ing title to the Drinkle property on how he was the recipient of many to go through this trial. They told Avenue A North, they opened the Nina Henry breakfasts at the Acadia Drive me about all the great memories academy in 1919 with 30 stu - SION REUNION — Sister Donna Purdy, NDS, greets Connie Convent as a seminarian, and how they have of her, stories about dents. In 1967, two years after Kurtenbach Brassard during a gala reunion for former students and “the sisters blew their monthly how well-loved she was, how funding by the province was teachers of Our Lady of Sion Academy in Saskatoon, held Sept. 1 - 3 at grocery budget to feed the hungry pretty and vibrant she was — they granted to Catholic high schools, the Cathedral of the Holy Family. The event coincided with the 100th young men who came to offer hugged me and consoled me and the academy doors closed. anniversary of the arrival of the Sisters of Sion in Saskatoon. mass.” brought my sister back to me. I Planning and fundraising start - Sister Kay McDonald, NDS, didn’t expect that from this ed some five years ago, with Memo ries had been created with and Margot Brunelle Urff, a and Sister Donna Purdy, NDS, reunion.” friends of Sion determined to life stories, obituaries, photos and boarder in the final years of the joined the celebration on Sept. 3. Pauline Bublish Perpick, class mark the 100th anniversary of the memorabilia from the convent’s school. Purdy offered a wish to all “for a of 1953, told organizers that the arrival of the sisters. By 2014, the history, and attendees spent many “What an honour — to have full life,” and McDonald reunion “will always be a warm group knew the celebration would hours all week end poring over its the opportunity to thank and ac- addressed the room for a few min - and special memory.” be a reality, but organizers wor - contents. knowledge the Sisters of Sion for utes as well. Terry Chrusch Miley, class of ried that attendance might not be Sept. 2 was reserved for remi - caring for my sister Peggy and Sister Pauline Greenizan, 1966, noted that the reunion significant, given the advancing niscing in smaller groups, and myself. My father had died at age NDS, gave thanks to the gather - brought together sisters, teachers age of the sisters, as well as the many attendees brought year - 34 and my mother was in the ing from the Congregation of and students from all years, and age of the alumnae. These worries books, photos and clothing to local sanitarium. We were basi - Sion. “The sisters are very from across Canada and the proved to be unfounded. share. After more conversation cally orphans with nowhere to proud of all the alumnae, be - United States. By 6:30 p.m. Sept. 1, the first over coffee and tea, the afternoon live. My mother was terrified and cause they have gone beyond “Even though many of us had - ar rivals started streaming ended with a re flection facilitated her only hope was for us to be their ordinary tasks to take on n’t seen each other for over 40 through the doors of the Ca - by Sister Elizabeth Losinski, boarders at the convent, even leadership roles, using their tal - years, it was remarkable that we thedral of the Holy Family for a NDS. though we were not Catholics,” ents and gifts to change the could still recognize our fellow meet and greet event. There were Alumnae and teachers streamed said Andreen. “As she was sitting world,” said Greenizan. “Many classmates. Sharing stories of cries of recognition among old into Bishop LeGatt Hall for a gala in the parlour on her day pass have raised families and are how our lives have progressed classmates, hugs to establish re- banquet that evening. Each of the from the San, she watched the now finding joy in their chil - over the years brought both connection, and peals of laughter, Sisters of Sion was introduced, and Mother Superior sweeping down dren, grandchildren and even smiles and tears and much laugh - as attendees checked out the greeted with applause and expres - the hall, with many children great grandchildren. “ ter. Re new ing old friendships and school photos printed on each sions of goodwill. attached to her habit, everyone Organizers have received memories made for a truly spec - others’ name tags. Tributes were offered by Inge laughing. Her worries disap - many messages of thanks from tacular weekend, one that will The spirit of Sion permeated Andreen, who attended Sion as an peared.” those in attendance. forever be remembered,” she the room. An 24-metre Wall of elementary student in the 1940s, Margot Brunelle Urff de - “I especially appreciated the said. ‘Christ in Me Arise’ the theme of GSCS opening celebration

By Kiply Lukan Yaworski opening mass with some 2,000 me now to this day,” said the GSCS leaders, including teachers, newly ordained eparchial priest. SASKATOON — An opening administrators, staff members and “You are all bearers of the Gos - celebration at the Cathedral of the trustees. pel. Gospel means good news, and Holy Family in Saskatoon Sept. 1 In the homily, Dungen encour - we all know that our students need marked the beginning of the aged GSCS staff and administra - good news in their lives; they are school year for staff of Greater tion to think about the effect they desperate for it,” he said, urging his Saskatoon Catholic Schools. have on all those they encounter. listeners to activate, nurture and use Starting with the celebration of “You (have) the potential to leave the gifts given by God in baptism, the eucharist, the program contin - a huge and lasting impact on a life even though it is not always easy. ued with reflections from the forever,” he said. In turn, those we “Whatever your role in the GSCS board chair, the director of encounter “have the capacity to Greater Saskatoon Catholic School education and GSCS Foundation activate something in you, some - division, God has put you in a posi - chair, and concluded with an ener - thing which you may never even tion to use these gifts. God has getic presentation from keynote know that you have — Christ graced you. Let us call out to him: speaker ValLimar Jansen. himself,” he added. Christ in me — arise!” A singer, composer and record - “Did you know that as a bap - McGee and Dungen led the ing artist, Jansen joined the choir tized Christian, Christ is alive in assembly in a renewal of commit - for mass, leading the opening you?” But as with sports or educa - ment, with GSCS leaders pledg - Kiply Yaworski hymn — “Christ in Me Arise” — tion or many other things in life, ing to serve the students attending CHRIST IN ME ARISE — ValLimar Jansen, a singer, composer and a refrain that also formed the “call “it is going to be very difficult to their schools and to help them recording artist from California, was the energetic and joyful keynote and response” theme of the day. go and make disciples if you’re respond generously to Christ’s speaker at an opening day for Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools staff Diocesan administrator Rev. not staying sharp,” Dungen added, call; to recognize and embrace held Sept. 1 at the Cathedral of the Holy Family in Saskatoon. Jansen Kevin McGee of the Roman encouraging the assembly to nur - diversity, and “help our students joined the choir for mass, leading the opening hymn — “Christ in Me Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon; ture their faith. realize that the love of God is for - Arise” — a refrain that also formed the “call and response” theme of Rev. Warren Dungen, recently Dungen reflected on the impact ever and for everyone.” Teachers, the day. ordained priest for the Ukrainian that a Grade 9 math teacher had staff, administration and trustees Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon; on his own life, at a time of pain also pledged “with the humility, chair of the GSCS board of educa - In particular, Boyko expressed Bishop Emeritus Gerald Wiesner; and difficulty. “This was the gentleness and patience of faithful tion, brought words of encourage - thanks to all those who have and a number of priests from both beginning of a series of dominos disciples” to endeavour to be liv - ment for the year ahead, express - worked hard to get the division’s six the Eparchy and the Diocese of that all fell like a chain reaction in ing examples of God’s mercy. ing appreciation for the dedication Saskatoon gathered to celebrate the my life, my life and faith, bringing Following mass, Diane Boyko, of staff. — BOYKO , page 7 September 13, 2017 LOCAL NEWS Prairie Messenger 7 Jesson a familiar face Centre closed for renovations in ecumenical office By Frank Flegel the people who depend on them.” major deterioration. The restructur - St. Paul’s Cathedral also has a ing will give the building a new REGINA — The people of Ma - program of its own every second foundation and interior renovations. By Frank Flegel Besides his ecumenical work, donna House Apostolate who oper - Saturday. The centre was built in 1913 Salkeld is also the archdiocesan the - ate the Marian Centre soup kitchen Souls Harbour is across the and once housed the German lan - REGINA — Nicholas Jesson is ologian and is responsible for and were concerned that the people who street from the Marian Centre; guage newspaper Der Courier . the new archdiocesan ecumenical teaches in the archdiocesan diaconal depend on them for weekend sand - Carmichael Outreach and St. Paul’s The Regina archdiocese purchased officer as of Aug. 1. He has long formation program. Salkeld will wiches would have nowhere to go Cathedral are within a few blocks the building in 1966. Arch- been involved in ecumenical work, continue as chair of the Regina when the centre closed this summer of the Marian Centre in the city’s diocesan officer Barry Wood con - most recently as the ecumenical Archdiocesan Ecumenical Com mis- to allow for major structural repairs core area. West minster United, firmed the building is owned by officer for the Saskatoon diocese. In sion, but Jesson will take over much to the building. however, is across the street from the archdiocese and is providing recent years he also assisted then- of the portfolio. Soul’s Harbour and Carmichael Holy Rosary Cathedral on the west the up-front financing for the ren - Bishop Donald Bolen in his various “It certainly gives me more time Outreach provide hot meals during side of the city. ovations. Wood and Istaza both to concentrate on my other duties,” the week, so Marian Centre clien - Istaza said Marian Centre staff estimated cost will be in the neigh - said Salkeld. tele have an alternative place to go were sent to other Madonna House bourhood of $400,000, but that is Jesson said he is aware of the for a hot meal, according to Hugo Apostolate centres in Canada, expected to rise as there is asbestos close relationship with the Angli can Istaza, director of the Marian including the mother house in in the building and the cost of community in Regina and of the Centre. But Saturday sandwiches Combermere, Ont. He returned to removing that is unknown. covenant that exists between the won’t be available again until the his home in Colombia at the end of While the archdiocese is put - two. He also hopes to become more centre re-opens, which is sched - August. He and the rest of the staff ting up the money for the restruc - engaged with Evangelical churches. uled to take place around the mid - will come back to Regina in early turing, Madonna House will repay “The time is right in history for us dle of November. November, depending on the pace the archdiocese. Istaza said he is to be able to address some of the his - Isaza said Westminster United of renovations. He expects it will pleased with the success of the toric issues and build relationships Church and St. Paul’s Anglican take about two weeks to get the cen - fundraising campaign. that allow us to be working togeth - Cathedral have been contacted to tre up and running again, so the goal “Cheques and money are com - er.” He said his role will also involve help out. “Our volunteers now is to welcome back the people they ing in quite well,” he said, but he interfaith relations, “So there will be make the sandwiches at West min - serve about the middle of the month. couldn’t give an estimate of the some multifaith work.” ster Church and they are tak en to The restructuring requires that amount collected so far. Wood Jesson will also be involved in St. Paul’s and Carmichael Out - the building be empty. Core sam - estimated a little less than half has discussions with other faith com - reach where they are available to ples of the foundation showed been collected. munities about issues of concern, such as the recent cuts to spiritual Salt & Light care in hospitals. “How are we Nicholas Jesson going to provide pastoral care in hospitals and nursing homes, and Vatican and international ecumeni - what kind of access is going to be cal responsibilities prior to Bolen’s provided and what do we have to appointment as Arch bish op of ask of the new health authority?” Regina. There is also the question of faith Jesson moved to Saskatoon from in a pluralistic society, something he Winnipeg in 1994. After serving as says has been in the back of the ecumenical officer and director of archbishop’s mind as well. “It’s the Prairie Centre for Ecumenism, something I call ‘religion in the pub - he spent some time in Toronto in fur - lic sphere,’ and some questions that ther theological studies. It was there come up around that we will try to that he met his wife, Rev. Amanda explore from time to time.” Currie, a Pres byterian minister. Jesson’s wife is a Presbyterian They returned to Saskatoon, minister and his coming to Regina where he has spent the past 14 years was predicated on her finding a Frank Flegel in ecumenical ministry and teach - place in ministry there. “It turned MARIAN CENTRE — Marian Centre, a Regina soup kitchen run by the Madonna House Apostolate of ing. When Bolen was appointed to out there was an opportunity for Combermere, Ont., has been temporarily closed to allow for major structural repairs. Core samples of the Regina in 2016, it was a natural time her at First Presbyterian Church, so foundation showed major deterioration, and the restructuring will give the building a new foundation. The for Jesson to explore where God it worked well.” goal is to welcome back the people they serve around the middle of November. was calling him next. As Currie was also considering a change in min - istry, they asked Bolen for advice. Boyko reflects on challenges of past school year Bolen replied that he wanted to put more emphasis on ecumenical Continued from page 6 and Holy Trinity Catholic School in over the past 106 years, in the dedi - How are they to make any sense activities in Regina and invited Warman. cation and professionalism of staff of it? Our parents and our commu - him to become the ecumenical new schools ready for opening this Boyko also reflected on the (including many who were being nity need us, despite the storms officer in Regina. “I knew Regina fall: St. Nicholas, St. Thérèse of challenges of the past school year, honoured that day for long service), that are all around us.” had an ecumenical officer, Brett Lisieux, St. Kateri Tekakwitha, and which included a provincial gov - and especially in having Jesus Chatlain noted educational suc - Salkeld, but Bishop Don said Brett St. Lorenzo Ruiz Catholic schools ernment governance review of Christ as the cornerstone, she add - cesses accomplished in the midst of was overworked and he wanted to in Saskatoon, École Holy Mary education, in which the idea of ed. “Because our foundation is faith all the challenges of last year — change that.” Catholic School in Martensville, eliminating local school boards and hope in Jesus our Saviour, we higher student reading levels; high -

was under discussion; the toughest will weather the current storms and er graduating rates, including for budget she can remember, with whatever comes at us in the future.” First Nations and Métis students; many cuts to education funding; a Director of education Greg and higher levels of student en - review of the provincial School Chatlain also spoke about the chal - gagement across the district. A gift for Act; and the Theodore court ruling lenges experienced by the school “Thanks to you — the face, the of April 2017 that stated the gov - division in the past year, and hands, the feet of Catholic educa - RCIA candidates ernment of Saskatchewan must described his growing realization tion — we are making great end funding for non-Catholic stu - that in a world buffeted by discour - strides,” he said. “I thank you for newlywed couples dents attending Catholic schools aging news of storms, tensions, ter - your dedication and commitment.” (the provincial government has rorism, violence, displacement, Laurie Karwacki, chair of the since placed the decision on hold and suffering, Catholic education GSCS Foundation that works in Pastors, parish councils, or CWL and KC councils: for at least five years by using a is needed more than ever. support of Catholic education, Give the newlywed couples or RCIA candidates of “notwithstanding clause,” and an It is important not to lose sight also provided an update about up- your parish a gift they will cherish all year. Give them a appeal of the decision has been of the big picture, he stressed. “We coming projects, including a new gift subscription to the Prairie Messenger. launched). have a ton of work to do in min - fundraising campaign entitled “But here we are, still stand - istry to our children, our youth, “Come to the Table.” ing,” Boyko said, citing the Scrip - and our families during these “The threat to Catholic educa - It costs only $13.00 ture passage in Matthew’s Gospel times, to bring hope and a vision prepaid tax included tion is real,” she said. “What is about building a house upon a of a world of peace and joy.” our response?” Using the Cana Gift Plan, you pay only 1/3 the cost and we pay solid foundation: “the rain fell, the “I am convinced that our mis - Keynote speaker Jansen then the rest. floods came, the winds blew.” sion is desperately needed now,” spoke and sang, bringing a joyful Send for Cana Gift Order Forms now: GSCS’s solid foundation lies in Chatlain continued. “How are our and energetic message of hope the quality of education offered children to care for this world? Cana Gifts, Prairie Messenger, and inspiration to conclude the Box 190, Muenster, SK S0K 2Y0 program. Through movement and Phone: (306) 682-1772 Fax: (306) 682-5285 www.prairiemessenger.ca song, she invited the group’s par - e-mail: [email protected] ticipation, sharing music, prayer, silence and sacred story. 8 Prairie Messenger September 13, 2017 ~ MUSIC FOR LITURGY ~

Hymn choices prepared by Bernadette Gasslein, Karen Koester, Heather Reid and Christina Ronzio. Please note that these selections are not meant to be prescriptive, but to help you in your choice of music that works for your community, with its resources and repertoire. Don’t be afraid to repeat selections from week to week; consider adding just one new piece per season. Under “CBW III,” CIS refers to Celebrate in Song.

SUNDAY/ Part of the Mass CBW III Breaking Bread 2017 Glory and Praise (Green, 1997) Gather FEAST

October 1, 2017 Opening hymn 427 At the Name of Jesus 722 At the Name of Jesus 421 All Hail the Power of Jesus’ 569 At the Name of Jesus Twenty-sixth Name Sunday in OT 625 Love divine, All Loves 659 Turn to Me 536 At the Lamb’s High Feast Excelling 539 Let Us Go to the Altar We Sing

624 You Have Looked Upon the Lowly (note alternative tune: 306 or 507)

CIS 6.29 O God of Past and Present

Preparation 432 Jesus, the Lord 495 Jesus, Lord 183 Psalm 25: To You, O Lord 703 Lord of All Nations of Gifts 687 Though in the Form of God 483 Love Has Come 352 In Your Love Remember Me 650 These Alone Are Enough

623 O My People, Turn to Me 476 Remember Your Mercy, Lord

CIS 6.22 Loving and Forgiving

Communion 602 Eat This Bread 141 No Greater Love 370 Jesus the Lord 926 Life-Giving Bread 603 Gift of Finest Wheat 473 Love One Another 424 At the Name of Jesus

CIS 6.2 Dona Nobis Pacem 575 Only This I Want

CIS 6.1 Bread for the World

Closing 544 O Sing to God a Joyful Song 576 In Christ There Is No East 453 One Lord 635 Let All Things Now Living or West CIS 6.23 Holy Is Your Name 560 God of the Hungry 807 We Are Called 385 Sent Forth By God’s Blessing

October 8, 2017 Opening hymn 532 For the Fruit of All Creation 424 Canticle of the Sun 301 Save Us, O Lord 745 Christ is Made the Sure Twenty-seventh Foundation Sunday in OT CIS 6.12 Gather Your People 633 This Day God Gives Me 689 Sing, O Sing 742 The Church’s One Foundation

634 Come, You Thankful People, Come

Preparation 502 As Saints of Old Their First- 347 That There May Be Bread 645 Love One Another (with vs. 5) 633 For the Beauty of the Earth of Gifts fruits Brought 310 Table of Plenty 646 Christians, Let Us Love One 823 The Peace of God CIS 6.40 Faith and Trust and Life Another Bestowing

Communion 604 Seed, Scattered and Sown 339 One Bread, One Body 516 Seed, Scattered and Sown 783 Unless a Grain of Wheat

CIS 6.11 For Countless Blessings 349 Bread For the World 526 Come, Taste and See

528 Bread for the World

Closing 521 Now Let Us From this Table 570 This Day Was Made By the 261 Psalm 118: This Is the Day 636 Now Thank We All Our God Rise Lord 599 Blest Be the Lord CIS 6.23 Holy Is Your Name 193 Now Thank We All Our God

October 15, 2017 Opening hymn 424 I Come with Joy 808 With the Lord There Is Mercy 529 Gather Your People 839 As We Gather at Your Table Twenty-eighth Sunday in OT CIS 6.34 Let Us God to the Altar 649 River of Glory 632 The King of Love My of God Shepherd Is

Preparation 67 Ubi Caritas 677 The Lord Is My Light 482 I Know that My Redeemer 736 The Kingdom of God of Gifts Lives CIS 6.39 The Summons 487 Dwelling Place 715 God Will Wipe the Tears 603 We Will Rise Again

Communion 610 Taste and See 343 Taste and See 509 A Banquet is Prepared 940 Gift of Finest Wheat

CIS 6.1 Bread for the World 324 Gift of Finest Wheat 518 I Am the Living Bread

Closing 534 Let All Things Now Living 377 God Has Chosen Me 568 They’ll Know We Are 636 Now Thank We All Our God Christians CIS 6.25 We Shall Go Out 546 Praise My Soul the King of 610 Sing of the Lord’s Goodness Heaven 722 In the Day of the Lord

Gasslein holds a licence in sacred theology with specialization in pastoral catechetics from the Institut catholique de Paris. For the past 40 years she has been engaged in various liturgical and catechetical ministries, leading workshops around the country and is editor of Worship, a journal published by Liturgical Press. She and her husband live in Edmonton.

Koester is a member of the National Council for Liturgical Music, a group that advises the CCCB. She earned a bachelor of education with music major at the University of Alberta, and has a graduate diploma in religious education at Newman Theological College. She has been actively involved in parish music ministry for over 30 years as a singer, choir director and occasional trumpeter at her parish, St. Joseph’s Basilica, and in the Archdiocese of Edmonton.

Reid is the director of music for St. Basil’s Parish in Ottawa. She has an undergraduate degree in music (Western) and a master’s degree in liturgy from Notre Dame. Reid is a member of the music committee for the Ontario Liturgical Conference.

Ronzio is the director of the Liturgy Office for the Diocese of Hamilton. She holds an MA in liturgical studies from St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN. September 13, 2017 Prairie Messenger 9 ~ MUSIC FOR LITURGY ~

SUNDAY/ Part of the Mass CBW III Breaking Bread 2017 Glory and Praise (Green, 1997) Gather FEAST

October 22, 2017 Opening hymn 527 O Christ, the Great 202 God We Praise You 685 Praise, My Soul, the King of 850 All Are Welcome Twenty-ninth Foundation Heaven Sunday in OT 418 The Church’s One Foundation 613 Praise My Soul the King of 577 Come, Rejoice Before Your 687 Sing Alleluia Heaven Maker 691 Praise the Lord, My Soul 646 Come and Sing to God Our Savior

CIS 6.31 Christ, Be Our Light

Preparation 574 We Will Extol Your Praise 491 There Is One Lord 342 Turn to Me 678 Dwelling Place of Gifts CIS 6.26 All for Your Glory 731 The Path of Life 582 By Name I Have Called You 651 Open My Eyes

652 Peace Prayer 782 Only This I Want

Communion 516 Only This I Want 327 Ubi Caritas 498 Bread of Life 947 Bread of Life, Cup of Blessing 610 Taste and See 343 Taste and See 519 I Am the Living Bread

CIS 6.8 Take and Eat

Closing 573 To You, Our Holy God 480 God Is Love 395 Lord of the Dance 734 Bring Forth the Kingdom

CIS 6.32 God, Our Author and 545 Glory & Praise to Our God 670 Sing a New Song 592 We Are the Light of the Creator World

October 29, 2017 Opening hymn 477 God of Day and God of 482 Where Charity and Love 503 See Us, Lord, About Your 707 The Call is Clear and Simple Thirtieth Darkness Prevail Altar Sunday in OT 610 Sing of the Lord’s Goodness 583 As We Gather at This Table 472 Love Divine, All Loves 546 God Has Chosen Me Excelling 625 Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

CIS 6.32 God, Our Author and Creator

Preparation 473 God Is Love 580 We Are Many Parts 600 Only in God 699 God is Love of Gifts 687 Though in the Form of God 390 Open My Eyes 610 Only in God 701 No Greater Love

427 At the Name of Jesus 626 Shelter Me, O God

CIS 6.36 Our Hope Is In the Lord

Communion 599 No Greater Love 473 Love One Another 499 One Bread, One Body 500 Ubi Caritas

612 Drink in the Richness of God 318 One in Body, Heart and Mind 511 At That First Eucharist 394 May we Be One

6.6 One Love Released 563 We Are One Body

Closing 632 Wondrous Is Your Name, 614 Lord Whose Love In Humble 578 Anthem 765 The Church of Christ O Lord Service 657 We Are the Light of the World 598 O God Beyond All Praising 521 Now Let Us From This Table 595 We Are the Light of the World Rise 717 Beatitudes

CIS 6.30 The Table of the World

November 5, 2017 Opening hymn 587 Gather Us In 512 Father of Peace 444 Lift High the Cross 600 Sing Praise to God Thirty-first Sunday in OT 561 O God Beyond All Praising 480 God Is Love 536 Come, Worship the Lord 577 Sing Out Earth and Skies

CIS 6.37 Sing, O Sing 686 Praise to the Lord

Preparation 505 Disciple’s Song 374 Servant Song 304 Jesus, Come to Us 790 The Summons of Gifts CIS 6.36 Our Hope Is in the Lord 453 Like a Child Rests 432 Sing of Mary 813 God Whose Purpose is to Kindle 635 Like a Child Rests

Communion 597A & B: Bread of Life 731 The Path of Life 576 Take, Lord, Receive 970 Where Two or Three Are Gathered 599 No Greater Love 141 No Greater Love 600 Only in God

CIS 6.3 The Hand of the Lord 610 Only in God Feeds Us

Closing 507 Lord, Whose Love In Humble 502 All That Is Hidden 415 All Praise and Glad 807 We Are Called Service Thanksgiving 371 Go In Peace to Love and CIS 6.23 Holy Is Your Name Serve the Lord 588 Sent Forth by God’s Blessing

699 Give Thanks to the Lord

November 12, Opening hymn 454 Now From the Heavens 573 In the Day of the Lord 640 Love Divine, All Loves 742 The Church’s One 2017 Descending Excelling Foundation Thirty-second 546 Praise My Soul the King of Sunday in OT 305 Be Light for Our Eyes Heaven 710 I Have Loved You

319 Wait for the Lord 713 Rain Down

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SUNDAY/ Part of the Mass CBW III Breaking Bread 2017 Glory and Praise (Green, 1997) Gather FEAST

November 12, Preparation 683 All Power Is Yours 438 We Will Rise Again 485 In the Shadow of Your Wings 590 Christ be Our Light 2017 of Gifts (Continued) 586 O Day of God 520 Holy Wisdom Lamp of 593 Center of My Life 910 Shepherd Of Souls Learning CIS 6.26 All For Your Glory

Communion 597A & B: Bread of Life 325 In the Breaking of the Bread 498 Bread of Life 35 Shepherd Me O God

599 No Greater Love 457 Shepherd Me O God 519 I Am the Living Bread

CIS 6.3 The Hand of the Lord 526 Come, Taste and See Feeds Us

Closing 345 City of God 684 Be Still My Soul 422 To Jesus Christ, Our 578 How Great Thou Art Sovereign King 591 God Is Alive! 574 Soon and Very Soon 579 Over My Head 656 Christ, Be Our Light CIS 6.14 Return, Redeemer God 705 Come, Ye Thankful People, Come

November 19, Opening hymn 532 For the Fruit of All Creation 527 Dona Nobis Pacem 530 Table of Plenty 848 Gather Us In 2017 Thirty-third 552 Great God, We Lift Our 71 The King Shall Come 704 For the Beauty of the Earth Sunday in OT Hearts

305 Be Light for Our Eyes

CIS 6.34 Let Us Go to the Altar of God

Preparation 482 Eye Has Not Seen 399 There Is A Longing 481 Parable 590 Christ be Our Light of Gifts 502 As Saints of Old Their First- 488 Centre of My Life 548 City of God 663 Lord of All Hopefulness fruits Brought

538 Behold a Broken World, We Pray

CIS 6.26 All For Your Glory

Communion 445 Earthen Vessels 341 When We Eat This Bread 498 Bread of Life 946 Let Us Be Bread

608 Now in This Banquet with 434 Seek Ye First 506 To Be Your Bread Advent refrain 519 I Am the Living Bread CIS 6.2 Dona Nobis Pacem

Closing 507 Lord, Whose Love in Humble 58 Stay Awake 656 Christ, Be Our Light 901 For the Life of the World Service 558 O Bless the Lord 717 Beatitudes 592 We Are the Light of the World 528 Father, We Give You Thanks

533 Sent Forth by God’s Blessing

CIS 6.25 We Shall Go Out

November 26, Opening hymn 561 O God, Beyond All Praising 70 Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty 356 All Glory, Laud and Honor 573 To Jesus Christ Our 2017 Gates Sovereign King Christ the King 427 At the Name of Jesus 421 All Hail the Power of Jesus’ 567 Festival Canticle: Worthy Is Name 568 Rejoice the Lord is King 580 Rejoice in God Christ 685 Praise, My Soul, the King of 613 Praise My Soul the King of CIS 6.21 Join in the Dance Heaven Heaven (esp v. 6)

Preparation 683 All Power Is Yours 71 The King Shall Come 423 The King of Glory 402 Like a Shepherd of Gifts 538 Behold A Broken World, We 721 At the Name of Jesus 560 God of the Hungry 712 The King of Love My Pray Shepherd Is 632 The King of Love My 687 Though in the Form of God Shepherd Is

CIS 6.37 Sing, O Sing

Communion 536 We Give Thanks to You 572 Worthy Is the Lamb 424 At the Name of Jesus 783 Unless a Grain of Wheat

448 For Ever I Will Sing 719 Rejoice, the Lord Is King 603 We Will Rise Again

CIS 6.8 Take and Eat 708 Like a Shepherd

Closing 591 God Is Alive! 546 Praise My Soul the King of 422 To Jesus Christ, Our 574 Crown Him with Many Crowns Heaven Sovereign King 555 Holy God, We Praise Your 734 Bring Forth the Kingdom Name 725 The King of Glory 558 Whatsoever You Do 571 Christ is the King 383 Alleluia! Give Thanks to the 715 Lead Me, Lord (Or one suggested for the Risen Lord gathering)

CIS 6.33 God, We Praise You

Please note: The Music Selections for Advent-Christmas will be included in the Nov. 1, 2017, issue. This set will include the Sundays to Feb. 11, 2018, the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. September 13, 2017 ARTS & CULTURE Prairie Messenger 11 Of saints, elephants, wars, manifestos and mothers

Screenings & Meanings

Gerald Schmitz

The fall movie season is upon bishop, an African American with us and with it the expectation of mission experience in Africa, to “prestige” pictures and awards sell the indebted church property. hopefuls in the next months, some That isn’t well received by the getting glitzy premieres at the dwindling white congregation. Toronto International Film Festi - Especially skeptical of Michael val currently in full swing (high - and his ideas is crusty curmudgeon lights to come next month). But Forrest (Barry Corbin) who calls that’s not to overlook a spate of him a “con man in a collar.” other films out there with interest - The arrival of a large group of ing angles if of varying quality. Burmese refugees proves provi - Here are a half-dozen to consider. dential. They are former farmers Courtesy Sundance Institute from the persecuted Karen minor - MOTHERLAND — Ramona S. Diaz’s Manila-set documentary Motherland takes viewers into one of the All Saints (U.S.) ity who fled to camps in Thailand, world’s busiest maternity hospitals. Motherland not only provides an expressively etched account of special - Pop Aye enduring terrible conditions. Their ized medical care, but also a telling perspective on dominant social trends and health care policy issues in English-speaking leader and fixer, the Philippines. (See page 12 for review.) (Thailand/Singapore) Ye Win (Nelson Lee), informs Good Time Michael they are Anglican and he religious happy ending. That said, moments, whether or not Popeye selection directed by Cary Murnion (U.S.) in turn hears God’s voice calling it isn’t a predictable one. Filmed is really the long-lost elephant of and Jonathan Milott, makes identi - on location in Smyrna, Tennessee, his dreams. This is a story with ty politics the casus belli as south - Bushwick (U.S.) him to turn church lands to agri - culture worked by his new parish - with many actual Karen playing heart, humour and genuine pathos ern forces of white nationalism, Manifesto ioners, with the proceeds from the their roles, the little All Saints about those left behind by the fighting for freedom in a “new harvest used to pay off the church Church on Lee Victory Parkway gods of progress. And if there America,” assault the multicultural (Australia/Germany) mortgage. The scheme gets the survives with a renewed mission were an Oscar for elephants, Bong republic. Motherland church a conditional reprieve. So as Michael moves on to a new would definitely deserve it. With helicopters hovering over - (Philippines/U.S.) Michael goes into the fields, even assignment. head, a young white woman, Lucy enlisting Forrest in the effort, This is a solid genuinely uplift - * * * (Brittany Snow), and a male com - while Aimee attends to the educa - ing movie; moreover, taking place panion emerge from a New York Director Steve Gomer’s All tion of the Karen children. in Trump territory, the acceptance Good Time , directed by broth - subway as all hell has broken loose Saints tells the true story of a fail - Obstacles abound at every turn. shown refugees is positively heart - ers Benny and Josh Safdie, scored in her working-class Bushwick ing country church rescued by an To support themselves the Karen ening. Sure, it helps that they are a place in the Cannes festival’s neighbourhood of Brooklyn. Black- influx of refugees and a first-time also have jobs working long days Christian. Still, as a longtime main competition and several clad soldiers are in the streets. She pastor, Episcopalian priest Michael at a chicken processing plant. parishioner declares: “We don’t awards, including for lead actor flees bullets, explosions, and violent Spurlock (John Corbett) accompa - Equipment is lacking. Drought is choose whom God sends to our Robert Pattinson as Connie Nikas, men until rescued by a hulking nied by wife Aimee (Cara Buono) followed by flood. Yet as serial door. We do choose how we re ceive an out-of-control New York City African-American man, Stupe and young son Atticus (Myles misfortunes test faith, and the them.” A closing message directs thief on the lam after convincing (Dave Bautista), an Iraq vet medic Moore). A former salesman, Father money is short, you just know the viewers to https://www.world his mentally challenged brother, turned janitor with a 9/11 victim Michael has been charged by his story will have an inspirational relief.org/ through which local Nick (played by Benny Safdie), to backstory divulged during a break churches are empowered “to serve be an accomplice in a bank rob - in the mayhem. Lucy and Stupe the most vulnerable,” notably im - bery that goes awry. Nick gets bond as a wounded pair trying to migrants and refugees. apprehended, sent for psychiatric survive long enough — at her evaluation, beaten up by other in - grandma’s house, druggy sister’s * * * mates, and hospitalized. Connie apartment, a Catholic church and a escapes and goes on a wild tear, laundromat — to get to where they Writer-director Kirsten Tan’s fixated on getting Nick released. can be evacuated by the U.S. army. Pop Aye , which earned a world cin - Seeking bail money Connie barges The attack is domestic terrorism. ema screenwriting award at the in on a female acquaintance The invaders are Americans. Texas Sundance festival, is a most un- (Jennifer Jason Leigh). When that has seceded supported by other usual road movie. It has a very fails Connie schemes to get Nick southern states. Stronger than large star in Bong, a huge elephant from his guarded hospital bed, but expected resistance from Bushwick with impressive tusks who is springs the wrong man. The latter residents attributed to its ethnic and named “Popeye” by its new owner, winds up an even bigger loser after racial diversity has made it a shoot- after the Disney cartoon character a crazy collision of consequences to-kill zone. of his childhood. When depressed involving a teenage African Amer - Bushwick ends with an apoca - Bangkok architect Thana (Thaneth ican girl, an unlucky amusement- lyptic night image of the Big Warakulnukroh) comes across park security guard, and the wrong Apple as a smoking ruin of fire Popeye as a circus outcast, he guy’s drug dealer. and fury, to coin a phrase. While it thinks he has found the elephant he Notwithstanding the movie’s can’t quite escape the limitations Design Pics grew up with in a rural village. ironic title, no one’s having a good of a low-budget horror movie, the Thana built a landmark high rise time, though, when the game is up, idea of Americans being each Day One called “Gardenia Square” in the there’s a suggestion Nick might get other’s worst enemies doesn’t 1990s, but he’s being eased out, some professional help. This mis - sound as crazy as it should. I watched the school bus gobble up bypassed by soaring new develop - begotten brothers’ crime caper its victims one by one; ments. His sullen wife, Bo, has stretches the heist thriller with * * * like some gigantic predator given up on him too. A sad, dumpy, bizarre twists and careening in- it even ate my son. paunchy figure, Thana’s flagging your-face action captured with I can guarantee that Berlin-based It hypnotized its innocent prey spirits are lifted in bonding with handheld cameras. Too raw and writer-director Julian Rosefeldt’s with bright and flashing eye; the elephant. He sets off with chaotic to recommend without Manifesto , another Sundance selec - it swallowed children whole Popeye to return to the country reservations, Pattinson’s nervy per - tion, is the year’s strangest film, home he thinks they shared in hap - formance stands out. before they even waved goodbye. developed from a multi-screen art pier times. installation to both provoke and Along the way this very odd * * * mystify. That it works at all is Though burdened with their textbooks, couple encounters other social thanks to the protean chameleon- symbolic of their call, rejects, including a fatalistic Do civil war dystopias seem less like talents of Australian actress these martyrs of curriculum disheveled hobo, Dee, squatting in far-fetched in Trump’s Divided Cate Blanchett who convincingly still dreamed of playing ball. an abandoned gas station, and a States of America? Getting serious assumes a dozen different personas I marvelled at the carefree way transgender singer, Jenni, in a attention is American War , a best - and guises beginning and ending such heroes met their fate, seedy bar frequented by prosti - selling novel by Egyptian-Cana - with the ranting protests of a shaggy and there I stood, a weakling, tutes. The way Thana is able to dian journalist Omar El Akkad that bearded male vagrant. “He” gets the crying at the gate. empathize with this world of the imagines such a conflict sparked by ball rolling citing from “The Com- forsaken provides some of the the ravages of climate change. By Alma Barkman film’s most poignant, touching Bushwick , a Sundance Midnight — VIETNAM , page 12 12 Prairie Messenger DEEPENING OUR FAITH September 13, 2017 In baptism new Catholics become part of parish family

Both Lungs

Brent Kostyniuk

In the Byzantine religious tra - liturgy is being revived. dition, a new Christian becomes a Just such an event took place at complete member of the church St. Basil’s Ukrainian Catholic by receiving the three mysteries of Parish in Edmonton, with Rev. initiation — baptism, chrismation, Josephat Tyrkalo officiating. and holy eucharist — at the same Cousins Forest Blair Dolynchuk time. The rationale for this is that and Elliot Christopher Semeniuk from the beginning, the new became members of the church. Catholic will be able to fully par - Forest’s mother, Anastacia, ex - ticipate in the life of the church. plains why it was important for For an infant it begins a life - her, and for both families, for the long association with Jesus, being baptisms to be witnessed by the able to receive him regularly from entire parish family. the very start of his or her life. If “When given the option to bap - we truly believe in the spiritual tize our sons during the divine litur - nourishment the holy eucharist gy, my sister and I were excited to provides, then we are also able to try something new. We felt that believe that nourishment is effica - having the baptism during divine cious no matter what our age or liturgy really fostered a sense of Brent Kostyniuk state of mind might be. community within the church for PARISH LIFE — “As social symbols, the sacraments of initiation not only bring about a new spiritual life As social symbols, the sacra - our children. It was nice to have all in Christ, they bring about communion with all the other members of the church,” writes Brent Kostyniuk. ments of initiation not only bring the parishioners, and not just our These baptisms, taking place at St. Basil’s Ukrainian Catholic Parish in Edmonton, were a social event for about a new spiritual life in families, involved in welcoming the whole parish. Christ, they bring about commun - our sons into God’s family. One of ion with all the other members of my favourite memories, when my used in Chrismation, a mixture of us have no recollection of our own order to break all covenant with the church. In particular, the new husband and I were married at St. 40 sweet-smelling substances and baptism, it remains a pivotal point evil. Catholic becomes a part of the Basil’s, was when the entire con - pure olive oil, is prepared once a in our lives. The vows made on This is followed by the Oath of local parish family. For that rea - gregation erupted in song, singing year by the local bishop. The actu - our behalf are as valid as if we had Adherence to Christ, completed son the sacraments of initiation for us Mnohaya Lita — Many al baptism and chrismation take made them ourselves. By actively while facing East, a symbol of ideally should involve the entire Happy Years. It was so beautiful! I place next. Because the rite participating in the initiation of conversion and a desire to return parish. Thus it is that the ancient was equally moved when everyone includes epistle and Gospel read - these children, all of the congre - to Paradise. It is a profession of custom of celebrating these sacra - sang Mnohaya Lita to our boys at ings, it seamlessly replaces the gation were reminded of those personal attachment to Christ, an ments in the context of the divine the end of the liturgy. We felt loved first portion of the divine liturgy vows and were invited to person - enrolment into the ranks of those and supported by all.” up to the great entrance. This cor - ally renew them. who serve Christ as their Lord and The sacramental rite closely responds to the offertory in the These vows take place during king. It is similar to the oath made Kostyniuk, who lives in follows the form of the divine Latin mass. the Rite of Completion of the by soldiers. Once again, the oath Edmonton, has a bachelor of the - liturgy, beginning with a Great Aside from the joy of seeing Cate chumenate which, in the an - is repeated three times. The priest ology from Newman and is a free - Litany. However, this is followed the two infants received into the cient church, took place at 3 p.m. asks, “Do you unite yourself to lance writer. He and his wife Bev by the blessing of water and oil to church, the ceremony was very on Good Friday, the hour of Christ?” The reply is simply, “I do have been married for 39 years be used in the baptismal anoint - much an “audience participation” Christ’s glorification and victory unite myself to Christ.” This is and have eight grandchildren. ing. The holy oil or myron (Greek) event. While the vast majority of over evil, sin, and death. The first followed by the Nicene Creed. vow, re peated three times, is the As the sacraments of initiation Renun ciation of Evil. The priest and divine liturgy concluded, Vietnam TV series to begin on PBS asks, “Do you renounce Satan Father Josephat reminded all those and all his works, and all his present that they bear responsibili - Continued from page 11 delivered with a straight face, or immersive experience. Some with angels, and all forms of service to ty for helping raise the two new rather faces. Nowhere is safe, infants born prematurely become him and all his pride?” To which parishioners and ensuring we all munist Manifesto,” but subsequent including a family dinner table and human incubators in a section the godparents, or catechumens, re main faithful to our baptism monologues, usually spoken to the a preschool classroom. Citations called Kangaroo Mother Care. As reply. “I do re nounce him.” Sym - vows. On this very special day we camera or in voiceover, are texts are only obliquely identified in a the birth of the 100-millionth bolically, this is done facing were all given the opportunity to from exponents of various arty brief opening montage of titles. It Filipino is celebrated, what does West, a symbol of darkness, in renew those vows. (including film) movements and doesn’t matter much because the future hold for many of these philosophies — subjectivism, prim - Manifesto is manifestly an art film mothers and babies? Family plan - itivism, constructivism, Dadaism, for a very mixed-up world. ning remains both a personal chal - futurism; more “isms” than I can lenge and a highly contentious remember. Some of this, well a lot * * * social policy issue in this predomi - actually, sounds like crazy talk. nantly Catholic nation. Blanchett, who famously por - In Motherland (http://www. Diaz observes that “Fabella is trayed Bob Dylan in I’m Not There , motherland-film.com/), director the final safety net for very poor keeps us listening to these wildly Ramona S. Diaz brings a candid pregnant women, most of whom contrasting characters, the recita - roving camera into the overcrowd - cannot afford either contraception tions taking place in equally op - ed maternity wards of Manila’s Dr. or the $60 delivery fee. . . . a story posed settings of modernity and its Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital, about reproductive justice and dogmas, paired with striking visual the world’s busiest (averaging 60 maternal and women’s rights, images heightened by the use of births each day) in the capital of unfolded within the hospital walls.” overhead shots and pans. The effect the country with Asia’s highest At the same time, the “wondrous is variously suggestive or con - birth rate. The documentary pre - mystery of motherhood is apparent founding: didactic, contrarian, iron - miered at Sundance where it in every frame of the film . . . the ic, paradoxical, nihilistic (notably a received a jury award for “com - joy in Fabella is no different from very funereal oration), pretentious, manding vision” as well as an edit - the joys experienced by mothers satirical, scatological, humorous, ing award in the world cinema worldwide.” Imagine a better world sententious, self-regarding. competition. It’s having a first the - for all new human life? There’s a set piece in which atrical release later this month. *A final note on the extraordi - Blanchett is a puppeteer perform - Diaz captures the intensive nary 10-part television series The ing with a puppet she makes of her - atmosphere in which the arrival of Vietnam War , which I saw a pre - self. In another she’s a news broad - new life is juxtaposed with all-too- view of at the Tribeca Film caster discoursing on artistic nos - common circumstances of teenage Festival. From renowned docu - trums while speaking with a re - pregnancies and poor women al - mentary filmmakers Ken Burns porter (also Cate, of course) hold - ready trying to care for too many and Lynn Novick, it begins airing ing an umbrella under a fake rain - children. Focusing on a few of the on PBS stations Sunday, Sept. 17. storm. It’s a hurricane of absurdities women and nurses deepens the Check local listings. September 13, 2017 DEEPENING OUR FAITH Prairie Messenger 13 Learn to hear Scripture again, for the first time

as if for the first time. Note that the landowners and hope - did you do all day?” can be a tough question to answer, ful labourers began early in the day, a reminder of the painfully difficult to articulate. As years go by, a sense of importance of setting a willing intention early. What value, a sense of belonging, and a sense of meaning and Liturgy prayer, what hymn, what Scripture passage nourishes and purpose might fade into the background. These gospel strengthens an ongoing commitment to living a faithful words might spark a deeper sense of value, a profound and Life life? appreciation for the dignity and value of each person. I wish I could recall the name of the author who And for ourselves, there are times when we feel we reflected on this gospel from a particular perspective, com - are standing on the sidelines while others are busy accom - Brenda Merk Hildebrand menting that it speaks loudly of the need for human justice. plishing great things and living the grand adventure. In She logically pointed out that the first hired workers would those times, we might consider how we wait: with have been the strongest-looking persons who would be patience? trust? faith? hope? charity? Pondering deeply, “Taste them again, for the first time.” One of my seen as the fittest and fastest workers. At each of the other perhaps considering the limitations of his blindness and enduring spiritual lessons became clear during a cereal times, the landowner would have been choosing from the shortness of a human life span, John Milton ultimately commercial. Likely created to boost flagging sales amid among those perceived to be less strong, judging them to be came to understand: “They also serve, who only stand and the competition of bulging store shelves filled with sweet - less capable. Those chosen at the last hour would, by all wait.” ened candy-like cereal, this commercial for the simple, old- that is logical, have been considered the weakest of the We might also wonder if we are truly making ourselves fashioned goodness of plain Corn flakes encouraged us to workers. The concluding comments centred around the available; asking ourselves if we are attentive to the deep give them another try. The familiar green and red rooster gospel imperative to offer a living wage to all people, and quietly spoken invitations to word and action. What was onscreen as I settled on the living room couch and regardless of ability and productivity. strength, what gift, what talent, might be placed before the heard those words. In a great synchronicity of timing, I had Master of the vineyard? We might contemplate, as did John just finished reviewing that Sunday’s Scripture readings, so Isaiah 55:6-9 Milton, “that one talent which is but death to hide.” Perhaps, Twenty-fifth Sunday I was likely a bit primed to hear those on-air words in Psalm 145 even if it is late in the day, we might find our Lord calling in Ordinary Time another way. Philippians 1:20-24, 27 us to use our strength, our gifts, and our talents in a new September 24, 2017 From that moment on, I knew I was to receive each Matthew 20:1-16 way. Listening attentively, we might clearly hear our per - and every Scripture reading as if coming upon it for the sonal invitation, “You also go into the vineyard.” first time. I was to be open to the gifts, graces and lessons Worthy of pondering, just as it stands. Most of us will We count on our Lord to receive our efforts with they offered, ready to receive them in a new way. If mem - have all thought about the rightness and appropriateness of appreciation. We acknowledge we are worthy of having our ories of past understandings came to mind, they were to be various salary scales, rating and evaluation systems. We needs met. With open hands, symbols of our open mind and integrated into a deepening wisdom that would continually have all considered, at least in passing, the various support heart, we receive his surprising and abundant generosity. transform my life. systems that have been created over the years. While the Somewhere deep inside, we are also a bit bewildered by the It is with a beginner’s heart and mind that today’s read - development and implementation of our support systems is fact that we are surprised. After all these years, how could ings are considered. Believing that every word is intention - complex and beyond the skill and talent of any one person we have imagined that our Lord was anything other than al and no words are to fall to the ground, we read and hear or any one group, an infinite wisdom teaches us that every - generous? one deserves a living wage. Isaiah reminds us: the Lord thinks differently than we This is heartening to those who are unable to work a do. Paul encourages us: “Live your life in a manner worthy Merk Hildebrand has a passion for education, spiritual full day. A compromised body, mind and spirit have an of the Gospel of Christ.” We ponder: what we might think and palliative care. She is a Benedictine Oblate of the impact on our ability to “put in a full day” as it is typically is last and least, our Lord sees as first. We listen attentive - House of Bread Monastery in Nanaimo, B.C. Contact understood in our culture. The temptation to judge others ly, considering what these words mean for us, right here, Brenda through her website: www.thegentlejourney.ca or and ourselves as less than whole, and less than worthy, is right now, in this time and place. They are meant to trans - via email: [email protected] readily supported in a productivity-based culture. “What form our lives. May we hear them for the first time. There’s a difference between our successes and the good we bring

Achievement doesn’t automatical - ments are often driven from a self- spirit we leave behind us when ly mean fruitfulness. Achievement centred need to set ourselves apart we’re gone. In helps us stand out; fruitfulness from others, to stand out, to be sin - Henri Nouwen also points out brings blessing into other people’s gular, to be recognized and admired that when we distinguish between lives. rather than from a genuine desire to our achievements and our fruitful - Exile Hence we need to ask this ques - truly help others. To the extent that ness, we will see that, while death tion: How have my achievements, this is true, our successes are bound may be the end of our success, Ron Rolheiser, OMI my successes, the things I’m proud to trigger envy. Still, on the other productivity, and importance, it to have done, positively nurtured hand, our envy of others is often the isn’t necessarily the end of our those around me? How have they self-inflicted punishment spoken of fruitfulness. Indeed, often our true helped bring joy into other peo - in Jesus’ parable of the talents fruitfulness occurs only after we There’s a real difference be- We’ve left a mark. We’ve been rec - ple’s lives? How have they helped wherein the one who hides his tal - die, when our spirit can finally tween our achievements and our ognized. And along with those make the world a better, more lov - ent gets punished for not using that flow out more purely. We see that fruitfulness , between our success - awards, trophies, academic degrees, ing place? How have any of the talent. this was true too for Jesus. We es and the actual good we bring certificates of distinction, things trophies I’ve won or distinctions And so the truth is that we can were able to be fully nurtured by into the world. we’ve built, and artifacts we’ve left I’ve been awarded made those achieve great things without his spirit only after he was gone. What we achieve brings us suc - behind comes public recognition around me more peaceful rather being really fruitful, just as we Jesus teaches this explicitly in his cess, gives us a sense of pride, and respect. We’ve made it. We’re than more restless? can be very fruitful even while farewell discourse in John’s Gos - makes our families and friends This is different from asking: achieving little in terms of world - recognized. Moreover, generally, pel when he tells us repeatedly proud of us, and gives us a feeling How have my achievements made ly success and recognition. Our what we achieve produces and that it’s better for us that he goes of being worthwhile, singular, and me feel? How have they given me fruitfulness is often the result not leaves behind something that is away because it’s only when he’s important. We’ve done something. a sense of self-worth? How have so much of the great things we helpful to others. We can, and gone that we will be able to truly my achievements witnessed to my accomplish, but of the gracious - should, feel good about our legiti - receive his spirit, his full fruitful - uniqueness? ness, generosity, and kindness we Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, mate achievements. It’s no secret that our achieve - bring into the world. Un for - ness. The same is true for us. Our and award-winning author, is However, as Henri Nouwen fre - ments, however honest and legiti - tunately our world rarely reckons full fruitfulness will only show president of the Oblate School of quently reminds us, achievement is mate, often produce jealousy and these as an achieve ment, an after we have died. Theology in San Antonio, Texas. not the same thing as fruitfulness. restlessness in others rather than accomplishment, a success. We Great achievement doesn’t He can be contacted through his Our achievements are things we inspiration and restfulness. We see don’t become famous for being necessarily make for great fruit - website: www.ronrolheiser.com. have accomplished. Our fruitful - this in how we so often envy and gracious. Yet, when we die, while fulness. Great achievement can Now on Facebook: www.face - ness is the positive long-term effect give us a good feeling and can G Page 1 secretly hate highly successful we may well be eulogized for our book.com/ronrolheiser these achievements have on others. people. Their achievements gen - achievements, we will be loved make our families and loved ones erally do little to enhance our own and remembered more for the proud of us. But those feelings of lives, but instead trigger an edgy goodness of our hearts than for accomplishment and pride are not restlessness within us. The suc - our distinguished achievements. a lasting or deeply nourishing cess of others, in effect, often acts Our real fruitfulness will flow fruit. Indeed the good feeling that HOLY LAND like a mirror within which we see, from something beyond the lega - accomplishment gives us is often PILGRIMAGE restlessly and sometimes bitterly, cy of our accomplishments. a drug, an addiction, which forev - Nov. 21 - Dec. 3, 2017, with Fr. Pius Schroh our own lack of achievement. It will be the quality of our er demands more of us and sets Visiting: Jerusalem, Mt. of Olives, Bethlehem, Church of Nativity, Dead Sea, Why? hearts, more so than our achieve - loose envy and restlessness in oth - Sea of Galilee boat ride, Cana, Nazareth, Mount Tabor, Generally there’s blame on both ments, that will determine how ers as it underscores our separate - Masada, daily mass & more . . . sides. On the one hand, our achieve - nurturing or asphyxiating is the ness. 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14 Prairie Messenger FEATURE September 13, 2017 Ecumenism: a conviction we can learn from each other

By Dr. Jason West matter for professional theolo - gians and leaders in the Vatican When we think of church teach- or archdiocese. But a moment’s i ngs that are uncomfortable to dis - thought makes it clear that ecu - cuss and difficult to live up to these menism is a daily task in which days, our minds tend to go to con - we are all en gaged in a variety of troversial issues like that of con - ways. traception, homosexuality, gender Who among us doesn’t have a and so forth. Yet in many ways the family member with a spouse church’s views on ecumenism are from another denomination? for many even more uncomfort - Which of us doesn’t have friends able. On this topic, how ever, it is and neighbours who belong to all too easy to say yes, yes with other churches? When we relate one’s lips, while denying and un - to these people we know as fel - dermining this teaching in prac - low Christians we are engaging tice. in ecumenical acts in which any Ecumenism is the attempt to personal claim to have the full - strengthen unity between the di - ness of the truth and holiness verse Christian churches through would be unimaginable for us. dialogue about doctrine, prayer in We have no trouble learning common, co-operation in good from a Baptist mother-in-law or an works and other means that deep - Evangelical colleague at work en mutual understanding and who we know to be more learned growth. In the case of the Catholic and earnest than ourselves. In a Church, these endeavours are also ECUMENICAL ENGAGEMENT — It is all too easy to think that ecumenism is a matter for professional similar way our ecclesial commu - motivated by a desire that our theologians and leaders in the Vatican or archdiocese, writes Jason West. “But a moment’s thought makes it nity as an earthly body learns from churches may unite in full com - clear that ecumenism is a daily task in which we are all engaged in a variety of ways.” and can grow through the example munion, however remote that of other Christian churches. They hope may seem to our eyes here tution and brought about by it in as your Father in heaven is per - fullness of truth and the means of have lessons to teach us and gifts and now. all the others. Such a reading fect,” and can find examples of salvation, and that whatever small to provide that genuinely come A key to the possibility of any would, however, make ecumenism holiness in our fellow Christians share our partners might have in from Christ (CCC, 819), and ecumenism lies in a few basic irrelevant and unnecessary, a fact that outstrips our own, even these really comes from us. which we could not learn from our realizations. The first is that we that likely accounts for a good deal while insisting that this holiness Such misconceptions can be fellow Catholics. are all genuinely Christians, bap - of the discomfort some of the has its origins in Christ and is fostered by our tendency to point This, of course, has nothing to tized into the Body of Christ. This Catholic faithful feel with it. On transmitted in mysterious and to the ecclesial institution. We are do with watering down the faith or entails that there is always more such a view the Catholic Church wonderful ways through the never, after all, claiming that it is seeking to find a lowest common that unites us than what divides has nothing to receive or learn Cath olic Church understood in ourselves personally who have the denominator to which everyone us. The important essentials of the from its sister churches, and what her supernatural fullness. fullness of the truth and the means can agree. That would be a cop- faith: the Trinity, the Incarnation, we call ecumenism could be noth - These are, I take it, a few of the of salvation. But the church as it is out and defeat the very purpose of and the role that baptism plays in ing other than a kinder and gentler principles necessary to understand present in this world consists pre - authentic ecumenism, for it would drawing us into the participation proselytism. if ecumenism is to function well. cisely of the individual members undermine the possibility of the of the divine life, are all unifying The key to resolving this prob - They are considerations I’ve had who make it up and the grace that genuine learning and unity that features of Christian life. In this lem is to be found in two further occasion to reflect upon often as I animates them, and none of us can come from dialogue with our respect we should be grateful for facts. First, the Catechism’s rec og - have co-chaired a local ecumeni - however saintly are so filled with fellow Christians. the profound unity that already nition that the truth and grace of cal dialogue between the Arch dio - truth and holiness that we are the Genuine ecumenical engage - does exist among the majority of all churches, Catholic or other - cese of Edmonton and Edmonton source of it in all others. It is only ment should lead us to become Christian communities ( Unitatis wise, flows from Christ. Whatever members of the Lu thera n Church the church as the Body of Christ more fully immersed in our own Redintegratio , 3). truth or goodness any of us pos - of Canada, as well as through the in her supernatural personality faith, not less, for only if each is A second important require - sesses has been received through process of developing a Certifi - that can make this claim, and all fully committed to their faith, and ment for ecumenism is the convic - the life, death, and resurrection of cate in Anglican Studies at New- of us are merely a part of this glo - genuinely interested in learning tion that we can learn from one our Saviour. Second, the Catholic man in collaboration with the rious reality. and living the truth come what another. That in some respects our Church that possesses the truth of Anglican Diocese of Edmonton. This can also be confirmed if may, can true dialogue occur. 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By Thomas Reese are simply fewer religion writers to journalists. Fox News learned Religious publications have al - the greatest assignment ever. ©2017 Religion News Service today. They have either been laid how to make money by filling the ways been non-profit charities de - Today, journalists have to be off or jumped ship before they got air with controversy and commen - pendent on donations; secular news ready 24/7 to write and post on their At this writing I am looking pushed out. tary from talking heads without organizations are beginning to look beat. Stories have to be updated forward to the annual meeting of So, when we get to Nashville, I the backing of a deep bench of like non-profits. (RNS is a non- quickly. Then there are blogs and the Religion News Association am not sure whether we will be journalists. CNN was forced to profit.) Even The Washington Post social media. Twitter is a ravenous (Sept. 7 - 9) in Nashville, where I singing country or the blues. follow Fox’s lead when its view - had to be saved in 2013 by Amazon monster that must be followed and hope to see old friends and make Professional journalism is in ership plummeted. CEO Jeff Bezos, who bought the fed constantly. It turns reporters into new ones. I enjoy the company of trouble because almost no one has That leaves online news sites. paper from the Graham family, self-promoting PR machines be - journalists, who are almost always figured out how to make money in But few news organizations have which had owned it since 1933. cause they know that they are bright, articulate and funny. Reli - the news business. The old newspa - been able to be self-supporting Nor is journalism as much fun judged by how many followers they gion reporters are a special breed per model was based on subscrip - through ads on the Internet. And as it used to be in the old days. In have and how many hits their stories because of their interest in values, tions and advertising. There were users have gotten used to getting the pre-Internet age, a reporter get online. It is not surprising that religion and the transcendent. times when a city would have six or information for free on the In - would work on a story, meet his older reporters frequently bail for a There is also some sadness as I more newspapers competing for ternet, so only a few sites, like The daily deadline and then head to nine-to-five job in PR or elsewhere. get ready to travel because I know readers. Wall Street Journal, The New York the bar, where he would down a Why do the rest of us stay? We many old friends will not be there. Today, subscription revenue is Times and The Washington Post , few while enjoying the company love it. Most reporters love their It is not that they have died, down as fewer young people get are able to get people to pay for of his colleagues (yes, most jour - job. We are interested in what is although some have. Rather, there their news from newspapers. their content. nalists were male in those days). going on, and we believe our read - Ad revenue is also down. Classi - Declining revenues were fol - And if you worked for a week - ers have the right to be informed. fied ads have almost disappeared as lowed by layoffs, and some of the ly, it was even better. When I cov - Some of us, yours truly included, Rev. Thomas J. Reese, a Jesuit people turn to Craigslist and other first to go were religion reporters, ered my first synod of bishops in enjoy having a soapbox to express priest, is a senior analyst at RNS. online ways to advertise. I remem - not sportswriters. I have a list of reli - 1980, I had to file only one story a our opinions to the world. Previously he was a columnist at ber when half the Sunday New York gion reporters to whom I email my week. Since the bishops’ meetings It is a great job. I just wish the National Catholic Reporter Times would be delivered on Satur - columns, and every week I get back were closed to the press, I was there were more of them. (2015 - 17) and an associate editor day because the classified ad sec - a half-dozen “address un known.” able to spend hours and hours vis - When I get to Nashville, I will (1978 - 85) and editor in chief tion was so thick. After three or four such responses, I iting almost every museum, have my ears open to see which I (1998 - 2005) at America magazine. Nor has television been good sadly delete them from my list. church and ruin in Rome. It was hear more of, country or blues. Lost is a place, sometimes even within our home, our relationships

Barefoot and Preaching

Leah Perrault

I am lost. The weird thing The lost task is simply to move about this lost, however, is that I through and rest in the lost. The am lost in the most familiar places place we are is the place from — my home, my relationships, which we will be found. And my life. One thing has changed, when applied to the rest of my but that one thing has changed life, this is easy to say and much everything. Lost is a place too, a harder to do; it often feels like a place of feeling unsettled, disori - kind of dying for me. ented, disconnected. My prefer - This season of lost has been ence is to be found, to feel com - full of summer adventures, lots of fortable, clear, and connected. nights in the beds of gracious Several years ago, when I think hosts, water and sand, and big we had only one strapped in a car emotions. When we arrived home seat in the back, we got lost after from our summer camping trip, I dark on our way to my sister’s began the detox process of trying acreage for the first time. We to return our family to a normal Katherine Siebert turned down endless back roads, routine. I lasted four hours. With a THE PLACE OF LOST — One can be lost in the most familiar places — home, relationships, life, writes each of them looking familiar, but deep breath, and an imagined Leah Perrault. “Lost is a place too, a place of feeling unsettled, disoriented, disconnected.” none bringing us to the right place. white flag, I surrendered to the It was dark, and muddy. We lost. New priority: as much peace, transferable. Ignore the clock. Try messy counters and unbathed kids deep well from which found will were lost in a place that was famil - rest, and lack of resistance as pos - something. Forgive a mistake. are part of the correction line, a flow, eventually. iar to me and new for Marc. We sible. Resist the need to know. Phone a had an insufficient map, no smart The paint on the walls is the friend and ask for help. My people ‘Violation of human rights’ phone or GPS. We were tired. The same colour. We are eating the are doing the same, in the house roads are a grid system , I spoke same food. The bikes still take us and in their own houses, and the to allow poverty to continue aloud from my farm-girl upbring - out to the park a few times a week. mess looks different as we all nav - ing, as much for me as for Marc. But there are shoes and unpacked igate our way through the lost. We’ll either find where we are bags from last month’s adventures This lost place, this lost season. Continued from page 1 “The nation is probably best going or hit a correction line or a sitting by the doors. The laundry is It holds the route to the next one. positioned to actually do some - highway, and we will be found. not getting done with any pre - Messy rooms and too much TV expand the P.E.I. campaign out of thing about it. If it was a national Maybe because I like puzzles, dictability. My little guy has been and choosing peace and rest will Charlottetown into Summerside and program Canadians would know I switch into lost gear pretty easi - picking through folded-but-not- allow us to survive until the next Montague. Last year the MacKillop that, No. 1, there’s a problem here ly on the roads. Ignore the clock. put-away laundry baskets for clean season emerges, until clarity Centre distributed 200 bags. and, No. 2, that their national gov - Try a turn. Acknowledge a mis - underwear for more than a week breaks through the fog. There will “It’s a violation of human ernment cares enough to put take. Embrace the not knowing. — and we have reset the counter be seasons ahead where we have rights and a violation of all these together a program to address it,” Ask for help. Blind navigation is more than once. more focus, seasons for a routine, United Nations treaties Canada Kainer said. decidedly different than travelling Where I once had lists and for discipline, for pursuing goals. has signed that we allow poverty The volunteers with the Provi - from one known place to another. plans, I have vague ideas of what Lost is not that place. to continue in Canada and contin - dence JPIC Office handing out Our eyes were on the gas tank needs to get done, and most of it And lost is not the problem. ue to such an extent,” said Boyd. lunch bags are really carrying on with each turn, not knowing if we gets addressed only when it must. My preference not to be here is In Kingston, Ont., the Justice, the work the sisters started when were getting closer to the destina - I am learning to accept that the the problem. And my barefoot, Peace and Integrity of Creation they were founded in 1861, said tion or further away. And we rest doesn’t matter. It feels like spiritual solution is to note my Office of the Sisters of Providence Kainer. made it, eventually. failure for this recovering perfec - preference and ignore it. For now, will be handing out Chew On This “It’s part of their mission from tionist. It feels like drifting aim - surviving this hour and this day is lunch bags Oct. 17. The fact that the very beginning,” she said. lessly, with none of the adventure enough. A spirituality of survival Canada has dozens of municipal “Their work originated as minis - Perrault is a wife and mom, a from that dark muddy nights with is teaching me to let go, to surren - and provincial poverty reduction tering to vulnerable populations grateful employee of Emmanuel the security of grid roads. der, to once again stop trying to plans but no federal plan defies — whether it was orphans or the Care, and a speaker, writer and con - Unsettling as it feels, however, hold it together. It feels unfamiliar logic, said JPIC Office co-ordina - elderly or ailing, sick people or sultant at www.leahperrault.com the skills from the road trip are and shallow, but I suspect that the tor Tara Kainer. people living in poverty.” 16 Prairie Messenger FEATURE September 13, 2017 Shift is needed in thinking about the nature of work

While it may be politically ex - governments begin experimenting and work in which each impart pedient to blame globalization for with ways to redistribute wealth, dignity to the other. Work, it seems, the job losses, the real culprits are such as ensuring a universal basic is necessary for human thriving. increased automation and invest - income; create and develop com - Psychology bears this out. Everyday ment in software. According to munity gathering places where Identity, meaning and purpose, as some predictions, half of all jobs people can connect with others to well as relationships, are closely Theology in industrialized countries will learn and pursue new skills; sup - linked to one’s work. Conversely, vanish in the next 20 years due to port the growth of small business; unemployment results in a loss of Louise McEwan automation, computerization, and and invest in innovation. identity and purpose, depression, advances in robotics and artificial It is hard to imagine a world loneliness and isolation. In com - intelligence. It will take time be - without work. From pre-biblical munities that experience wide - Labour Day marks the unoffi - the right software, computer savvy fore new jobs replace those that times work has shaped human spread job loss, cultural break - cial end of summer. We’re now young lawyers have less need of will be lost. society. Work has been such an down and a loss of civic pride fol - back to routine and, once again, an assistant than their predeces - In the short term, the future integral part of the human experi - low. the workplace takes precedence. sors. With the advent and rising may seem bleak as job trends point ence that ancient Hebrew scholars It may be time to rethink the Work shapes identity, gives pur - popularity of the job sharing or toward unemployment and under - sought to explain its existence in un derstanding of work. What do pose and meaning to life, creates collaborative economy, other jobs employment. There will be some the Genesis myths of creation and we mean by work? And, is paid opportunities for socialization, and are also in jeopardy. Airbnb has rocky times. The ability to adapt, the fall. Over time, the Judaeo- work the only work that matters? provides a paycheque that enables negative implications for employ - as individuals, as communities and Christian tradition developed a the - Society has come to associate people to meet their basic needs. ees in the hotel industry, as does as nations, will depend on a vari - ology of work. Through work, work with a paycheque, and in - But what if there were no work? Uber for taxi companies. Jobs in ety of factors. Education, job re - humans become co-creators with come with status. Yet work does As automation and new technolo - the retail and food and beverage training, and the development of God, shaping and transforming not have to be limited to that which gies continue to reduce the labour sectors are also at risk; in the public policy will be needed to society and the environment. The puts money in the pocket. Identity, force, economists and others are future, robots will ring up sales address the tidal wave of change. theology recognizes a reciprocal purpose and meaning can be forged pondering this question. and bring drinks to the table. In this regard, some advocate that relationship between the individual outside of the workplace. The Since 2000 the United States work place need not, nor should not, has lost five million manufactur - define one’s entire sense of self. ing jobs, and Canada has lost over Broadening the un derstanding of 500,000. According to a March work to include ac tivities beyond 18, 2017, Canadian Press article, the workplace could have positive Canada will lose another 1.5 to benefits for individuals and com - 1.7 million jobs due to automation munities. in the coming years. Work that is a calling, volun - Technology is also affecting teerism and caring for family jobs outside of the manufacturing members, are activities that are sector. Sophisticated software is either unpaid, poorly remunerated, reducing jobs in the financial and or undervalued in terms of their legal sectors. Routine banking no contribution to society. These la - longer requires interaction with a bours of love are deeply fulfilling; real, live teller. Investing can be they reward one with a sense of done online without the aid of a purpose and accomplishment, financial adviser. Equipped with shape the authentic self, promote relationships, and enhance the development of society. Trail, B.C., resident Louise Redefining work is obviously McEwan is a freelance writer, not a panacea for widespread job religion columnist and catechist. loss. But a shift in thinking about She has degrees in English and the nature and role of work could theology and is a former teacher. THE NEW WORKFORCE — “Work shapes identity, gives purpose and meaning to life, creates opportuni - help to preserve the dignity of the She blogs at www.faithcoloured ties for socialization, and provides a paycheque that enables people to meet their basic needs,” writes Louise unemployed while sparking cre - glasses.blogspot.ca. Reach her at McEwan. But as automation and new technologies reduce the labour force, economists are pondering the ative solutions to problems in a [email protected] question, “What if there were no work?” rapidly changing world. Evensong sees a surge even as British church attendance declines

By Catherine Pepinster may be a way people are drawn Archbishop Thomas Cranmer in and this is very beautiful,” he said. engage with Christianity. into a deeper relationship with the 1549. It usually lasts about 45 Another couple, Lee and Marie “Even though the majority of LONDON (RNS) — The line church. minutes and includes Scripture Johnson, from Colorado, the worshippers will be unfamiliar of locals and tourists stretches What’s behind the evensong readings, psalms and the Nunc described themselves as more with evensong, there is generally a about 400 people long, and one upsurge? Much credit goes to a Dimittis (Song of Simeon) and spiritual than religious, and the very respectful and even prayerful might think they are waiting to get website, Choralevensong.org, that Magnificat, both taken from the spirituality of the service appealed atmosphere. We assemble at the into a play, a museum or even for helps people find a service near Gospel of Luke. to them. “There is a reverence west end to farewell people and ice cream. them. Since its creation last year, Some of the greatest choral about it,” said Lee Johnson. “It is often have very positive com - But these people want to go to more than 500 churches, cathe - music sung at evensong was writ - a moment when you can pause in ments and also questions,” he said. a church service. drals and colleges have been ten at the time of Queen Elizabeth your daily life. When you can “We do from time to time have In Britain, where churchgoing included, each with their own I, soon after its liturgy was first stop. The choral music is so evidence of the impact of the is mostly in decline, what has pages. Hundreds more have designed, by composers such as important for that.” experience. I profoundly believe drawn the crowd on a late after - requested to be added. Thomas Tallis and William Byrd. “It brought tears to my eyes,” that attending a beautiful act of noon in August is evensong, the Around 11,500 visits a month The works of other English com - said his wife. “I used to go to worship whether evensong or the hymn-heavy evening service of are made to the site, with interest posers, such as Ralph Vaughan church more when I was young eucharist has converting power.” the Anglican Church taken from growing steadily. After listing on Williams, Richard Ayleward, but the rules, the judging of peo - Then there’s the more practical the Book of Common Prayer. This the site, one church found the Hubert Parry and Herbert Howells, ple put me off. But the church reason to come to evensong. line was headed for the service at numbers turning up for evensong are also frequently featured. here, with a service like this, Cathedrals in England often the famed Westminster Abbey, rose from 20 to 200. At Westminster Abbey, the brings people together.” charge high admission fees — sometimes called England’s Said Guy Hayward, the editor crowds sat near the choir and in The dean of Westminster, John about $25 in some cases — so parish church. of the Choral Evensong website: temporary seating placed next to Hall, described evensong as a some tourists opt instead for even - Abbey officials estimate that “A lot of people don’t want to the high altar — at which Prince starting point for some people to song, which is free. there can be up to 700 people at directly engage with the church, William married Kate Middleton evensong when the main choir they don’t want to go in through in 2011 — to accommodate the is singing. Similar crowds can the front door, as it were. They overflow. be found across Britain in cathe - are looking for a side entrance Among those attending was drals such as York Minster and and choral evensong provides Julia Mellow, from Adelaide, St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, that. They are attracted by artistic Australia. “I am not really reli - Advertise in the and in Oxford and Cambridge. expression and then by osmosis gious,” she said. “I came for the But even in much smaller they find it spiritually appealing.” music and the history.” churches, evensong attendance is Evensong is a creation of the For Alejandro Calas de PrMaoinrdaiye - FMridaey 8s:3s0 -e 5n p.mg. er growing, attracting people who English Reformation, derived Lexedon Zangnonit and his family, might otherwise never enter a from monastic prayer traditions. from the Rioja region of Spain, the Ph. 306-682-1772 Fax 306-682-5285 church, and bucking the British Its liturgy is drawn from the church service did matter. “We are email: [email protected] trend in declining congregations. Church of England’s Book of Christians. It was important to my Some clergy are hopeful that it Common Prayer, created by parents to be at a church service, September 13, 2017 CHURCH AT HOME Prairie Messenger 17 No hope for ‘unsaved’ children in old-time religion

Around the Kitchen Table

Lloyd Ratzlaff

Stealing that pack of Vogue calfskin Bible, looking sombre cigarettes when I was 11 was the underneath the motto on the wall bravest sin I’d ever done. It took a that read PREPARE TO MEET long time to work up the nerve for THY GOD. it, weeks of pushing hellfire out of One morning when my father my mind. In the entrance of Salem was away, Mom found a mouse Church hung a poster advertising trapped in the cellar of the house a week of upcoming revival meet - and begged me to get rid of it — ings with a preacher from Omaha, she had an incomprehensible hor - Nebraska. I tried hard not to think ror of mice. I went out to the wood - about that while I organized my pile for a stick, came in and asked sin, and still harder pretended to for a paper bag. Down in the cellar, show a normal face at home. the mouse blinked where it sat Janice Weber Then to find I couldn’t smoke hunched in a dark corner, caught REIGN OF TERROR — Even a prairie meadow is no refuge for those who believe themselves to be lost for - those Vogues after all because I’d by the tail but otherwise unhurt and ever. Confess and be saved . . . or you’ll end up in the lake of fire . . . forgotten to steal matches — my very much alive. I clubbed it till it courage took a beating as I crum - stopped twitching, emptied the trap pled the cigarettes in a fit of terror into the bag while my mother but today the smell of prairie sage the garden, or to figure out what * * * and flung them into a bush and ran watched from the top of the stairs in the summer heat only seemed was wrong with the washing myself to exhaustion at the edge and praised me as I came up, to forecast the lake of fire, and machine. They didn’t want their son Then it was Sunday morning. of the village, while the preacher’s “You’re so good to do this, I’ll tell though the wild roses wafted to be lost forever, but otherwise hell The plastic Gem radio in the fire burned back from where I had Dad when he gets home how you sweet aches through me, the evan - did not concern them personally. kitchen was tuned to the Old- pushed it. helped me today.” gelist was coming, that was the Outside my window, a dog fashioned Revival Hour from Somehow I managed to get Out in the back alley I dumped thing, he was coming again. barked. A carful of hoods careened Pasa dena, California. I sat home for supper that evening. My the mouse into tall grass and Late at night I tossed in bed. toward Main Street, going to shoot down at the table. My mother mother was fretting about the gar - thought, If I’m so good, why do I What others did with their souls pool in the Variety Shop, or dance scooped porridge into our den, Dad was preoccupied with need to get saved? I stared at the lit - was their own business — mine at the Community Hall with lost bowls. Then my fa ther prayed, something that wouldn’t come to- tle carcass, my heart divided be- was with the stolen cigarettes, a souls from neighbouring towns first for our lost relatives, and gether in the workshop, and I swal - tween a mother’s gratitude and failed, repentant smoker who’d and get into fights with them. The for the missionaries around the lowed my borscht and went up to God’s uncompromising holiness. have to go up to the altar. There Bible brooded on a shelf beside world, and finally that God my room, and no one suspected “All your righteousnesses are like was no other way. my bed. For God so loved the would revive Salem Church, what a monstrous sinner had just filthy rags” — last year the evangel - My parents snored from their world that he killed his only son, beginning today. been sitting at the kitchen table. ist had quoted this text from Isaiah, bedroom. They had been saved and if you don’t believe it and con - We picked up our spoons, and I That night in bed, nearing the shocking everyone by saying that in years ago. Now they only had to fess your sins, you’ll end up in the knew I was the only one who end of 11 years, I surrendered. I’d the original Hebrew it referred to a worry about powdering cabbages in lake of fire begging, begging . . . needed to be saved. have to go forward in church when woman’s menstrual rags. the preacher issued the altar call. Regardless of what we did, we In the following days, once in a were wrong — that much the evan - Catholic education priority for bishop while I felt almost peaceful. Then gelist had made clear. He knew I rebelled — to have to shame how to separate Christians from Continued from page 1 He was ordained a priest in community, about 500 km north myself that way in front of the pagans, and divide true Christians Vancouver by Bishop Lawrence of Yellowknife. church, confess to the handsome from backsliders. I knew myself peripheries, those existential Sabatini on behalf of Archbishop Hagemoen also currently serves evangelist everyone adored. He that down in hell I’d beg for relief peripheries, and what does that James F. Carney in May 1990. His on several committees of the had a charming smile when he from the torment — just a drop of mean in our age, our time and pastoral assignments included 10 Canadian Conference of Catholic wasn’t preaching, the smile that water, please, one drop on my place? That is fascinating to me.” years as the director of the Office Bishops (CCCB), including the beamed from the poster in the tongue. But no, Father Abra ham As a priest in the Archdiocese of Youth Ministry, as well as serv - Canadian Catholic Aboriginal church, though the elders seemed would say from the other side of the of Vancouver, Hagemoen spent ing in several parishes. Council and the Northern Bishops to prefer him in the pulpit with a chasm, you had your chance back some 10 years involved in youth He completed the national cer - Council. there in Salem Church, filthy rag and young adult outreach and tificate in youth ministry studies Saskatoon Diocesan Admin - that you were, and then you went ministry: “so that is also always and the diploma for advanced stud - istrator Rev. Kevin McGee says the Ratzlaff is a former minister, and stole the cigarettes, and killing on my radar,” he adds. ies in ministry in 1997. He earned appointment of Hagemoen is joyful counsellor, and university lecturer. a mouse to satisfy your mother Hagemoen also emphasizes the a doctor of ministry program at news for the Diocese of Saskatoon. He has authored three books of lit - won’t save you. great importance of Catholic edu - Trinity Western University, which “We look forward to welcom - erary non-fiction published by The Saturday before the re - cation and the Catholic intellectu - he completed in 2007. ing Bishop Mark Hagemoen,” Thistledown Press, and edited an vival began I walked to the mead - al tradition. “Catholic education is Beginning in 2004 Hagemoen says McGee. “I have no doubt that anthology of seniors’ writings pub - ow in the middle of the village. a real contributor to our society, was appointed for the Archdiocese our new bishop-elect has been lished by READ Saskatoon. Usually it was a peaceful place, and supporting Catholic education of Vancouver to several adminis - chosen through the work of the is another passion for me.” trative roles, including vicar of Holy Spirit — selected by the The first priority upon coming Pastoral Services; moderator of Holy Father to lead this vibrant Better research is needed to the Diocese of Saskatoon will the Curia, and vicar-general. He diocese in proclaiming and living be to get to know the diocese, to was appointed principal of St. the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” listen, and to meet people, says Mark’s and president of Corpus McGee adds that it has been a Continued from page 3 he said “A person with depression Hagemoen. Christi colleges in 2011. privilege to serve as diocesan will be more likely to want to sui - “The Diocese of Saskatoon Pope Francis appointed administrator for the past year, by investing in mental health serv - cide, and the hope that a capacity seems to be a very dynamic dio - Hagemoen Bishop of MacKenzie- while the diocese has been with - ices, by implementing a national assessment would prevent suicide cese, with a rich history, a strong Fort Smith in October 2013 to out a bishop. suicide prevention strategy, and is unlikely.” Catholic legacy and culture, and I succeed then-Bishop Murray “There is certainly a lot of better research into mental health “If someone wants suicide am looking forward to contribut - Chatlain (who had been appointed good ministry happening in our and substance abuse. badly enough, they will find ing to that legacy with all my Archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas). diocese — it is a place where cler - “Overall, CMHA’s position on someone who agrees with them,” might and energy, as well as I can, As bishop, Hagemoen has gy and laity work closely together, MAiD in Canada is that people he said. with the help of almighty God.” worked with the people of the where we strive to walk in support should be assisted to live and “Another current problem that Born and raised in Vancouver, Mackenzie-Fort Smith diocese on of our indigenous brothers and thrive before they are assisted in is not really talked about is that Hagemoen completed his under - a number of initiatives and proj - sisters, to engage closely with dying,” it said. there are mental health conditions graduate degree at the University ects, including the construction of many Catholic, ecumenical and “CMHA correctly wants to like anorexia where death from of British Columbia, and after a a new church at Fort Simpson, interfaith partners, and work in combat suicide,” said Lau. malnutrition is foreseeable and a year of travel throughout South - N.W.T., replacing a 90-year-old solidarity with the broader com - “Even in the context of the cur - person could easily ask for this east Asia, the Middle East and building that was beyond repair. munity for the common good,” he rent law, what is not mentioned ‘treatment’ to ‘end’ their suffering, Europe, he entered St. Peter’s The new Sacred Heart Church says. much is the problem of concurrent so the exclusion of MAiD for Seminary in London, Ont., com - will officially open Sept. 17, on “We give thanks to God for our mental illness and patients who mental illness is not actually true,” pleting his masters of divinity the 30th anniversary of the papal new shepherd and look forward to have, say, depression and cancer,” Lau said. degree in 1990. visit of St. John Paul II to the his arrival.” 18 Prairie Messenger EDITORIALS September 13, 2017

Advice on communications Pope Francis said that, in his experience, the media — Never seeing people as adjectives, but speak - and communicators tend to “catch what suits them,” ing to them as “nouns,” as a man, a woman, a human Pope Francis has attracted a lot of attention from and they are prone to the following four dangers: being. Finding things in common to talk about and his freewheeling style of communicating. He is — Disinformation, which offers only some or listening with respect despite different points of known to speak his mind — to the delight of many, partial facts and leads people to make mistaken judg - view. but to the consternation of some who prefer a more ments about reality. — “Joy and lightness,” because it’s not enough to tightly scripted style of papal speech. — Calumny and “tarnishing others,” which, like tell the truth if a text or discourse is “terribly boring.” Pope Francis sat down with Dominique Wolton, the “Barber of Seville” says, builds from a light wind — Building a bridge by shaking hands, hugging, an expert in media and communications, for a year - into a destructive storm. crying, eating, drinking together. In Argentina when long series of interviews and insights into his philos - — Defamation by publicizing a repentant, people want to talk, they say, “Let’s get a coffee,” ophy of communication. Wolton compiled his 12 reformed person’s past mistakes in order to under - because real communication cannot happen “without interviews in the book, “ Politique et Societe ” mine his or her authority. making a bridge, and without eating. Words alone are (“Politics and Society”) which was released in French — A “sad, unpleasant, nasty disease” of “wallow - not enough.” on Sept. 6. An English-language translation is pend - ing in the most risqué, vicious and voyeuristic stories — “Rediscovering the sense of touch,” because it ing. Catholic News Service has provided a summary. and references” possible. is the most important of the five senses. “Perfect com - Pope Francis traces his philosophy back to advice He also offered a list of suggestions and guide - munication” doesn’t require the latest technology, it he received as a student from an old Jesuit: “Listen lines for real communication. This includes: can be just giving a hand or a kiss “without words.” up, if you want to get ahead, well, think clearly and — Being able to “waste” time by giving it freely. — Building relationships with concrete gestures speak obscurely.” A priest, for example, who is too busy to be available of charity, which is why “the church communicates Wolton calls the pope a man who is “one of the and talk, is “anti-communication and anti-Gospel.” best when it does so with the poor and the sick,” when most exceptional intellectual and religious figures in Jesus was always busy, but he never saw requests as a it is following the path of the beatitudes. “It is very the world.” He suggested the pope write an encyclical bother and always insisted on helping. interesting, communication is at work in the beati - on the challenges culture and technology pose to com - — Humility, because it takes humility to be able tudes. If you read them carefully, these are also the munication today. “Maybe,” the pope replied, given to listen to people, and it opens the door to communi - rules for better communication.” that “there are very serious problems,” such as today’s cation by creating a sense of being on equal footing. In an age of fake news and spin doctors, Pope suppers in which family members are each plugged “If you want to communicate only from the top down, Francis offers valuable advice to reflect on. And it into their own device, silently eating their meal. you will fail.” applies to those silent “supper meals” too. — PWN A healthy marriage culture builds a thriving society, studies show

By Andrea Mrozek and home increases the likelihood of ing a heart attack and have better good. When marriages dissolve, Canada is about $7 billion annual - Peter Jon Mitchell children getting good grades and odds of surviving one. The happi - there are emotional and financial ly. That’s the equivalent of hosting graduating from high school and ly married are also more likely to implications for family members the Vancouver Winter Olympics You could sugar-coat the newly college, even when accounting for recover from illness, including that can reverberate through the every year. released 2016 Census data on fam - socio-economic factors. Having cancer, and lead healthier lives. wider community. One estimate by The diminishing marriage num - ilies, households and marital status married parents is also correlated This doesn’t mean marriage is a Andrea Mrozek and researcher bers confirm a well-known cultur- by applauding the rise of family with a lower likelihood of children panacea for social problems. How - Rebecca Walberg suggests that the diversity in Canada. Yet family participating in risky behaviours, ever, stable marriages are a public public cost of family breakdown in — MARRIAGE , page 19 diversity is so often a euphemism like drug abuse or early sexual initi - for family breakdown, which is ation. Happily, many great kids from Poverty is much more than lack of effort something that’s generally painful. non-married parent homes become A more honest take on the successful adults. But this doesn’t Statistics Canada data is that the change the fact that adult relation - This editorial appeared in the Aug. 11 issue of the Tennessee easy to turn our back on our call as nation’s 40-plus-year decline in ship decisions affect children. Register , diocesan newspaper of Nashville. ©2017 Catholic News followers of Christ who came to marriage rates continues, signifying Many will counter that mar - Service us “to bring glad tidings to the a cultural shift that hurts our chil - riage isn’t all that stable. Don’t poor” and abandon those in pover - dren, culture and economy. Worse, half of them end in divorce? Not The Washington Post and the control. And among Catholics ty. It would clash with the gospel it’s not what Canadians want. quite. The most recent data on Kaiser Family Foundation recently polled, 50 per cent blamed lack of message to conclude that the poor In 2001, married couples made divorce, from 2008, suggests the sponsored a poll to find out what effort while 45 per cent blamed got themselves into this mess, so up 84 per cent of all couples. Today, rate is closer to 38 per cent. Americans think are the reasons circumstances. they can get themselves out. that number is 78.7 per cent. As Marriage isn’t perfect, it’s just for poverty. The results split along Those numbers seem out of Christ and his church are call - marriage has declined, more cou - a safer family form in which to religious lines in a surprising way. tune with Christ’s message that ing us constantly to care for the ples choose to live to gether outside raise children and we know that Christians were much more “whatever you did for one of the poor, to have a preferential option of marriage. “Shacking up,” as it healthy marriages have measura - likely than non-Christians to least of these brothers and sisters for the poor. That is at the core of was once known, described the liv - ble, positive outcomes for adults. believe that the reason a person is of mine, you did for me.” If we Catholic social teaching. For just ing arrangements of 16.4 per cent of Numerous studies indicate that poor is a lack of effort on their accept the notion that the only as God loves us, we must love one all couples in 2001. That has risen people in high-quality marriages part rather than because of diffi - barrier keeping people in poverty another. to 21 per cent of all couples today. tend to be at lower risk of suffer - cult circumstances beyond their is a lack of effort, it can be too And to love one another, we Family stability and marriage go must understand one another. It together like a horse and carriage. seems hard-headed to ignore that Sociologists writing in the Journal there are complicated, systemic of Marriage and Family note that “a issues that create obstacles in the lack of marriage and the growth in path out of poverty. cohabitation, alongside the growing We all recognize that a good trend of single parenting, portends education can be a ladder out of growth in family instability.” poverty. And we also recognize In World Family Map 2017, that too often the poorest perform - sociologists Brad Wilcox and ing schools are in poor neighbour - Laurie DeRose report that Amer - hoods, where the resources so ican children in cohabiting families many of us take for granted are are 15 to 31 per cent more likely to unavailable to the schools or the experience a parental split by age families they serve. 12 than children growing up in It’s no secret that one of the best families with married parents anti-poverty programs is growing (depending on their mother’s edu - up in a family headed by two par - cation level). The resulting instabil - ents in a committed relationship. ity may mean children have to But as our culture continues to move frequently or adjust to a par - undervalue the family and its contri - ent’s new partner living in the butions to a healthy and stable soci - home. Stick-handling parents’ ety, we see too many single parents squabbles can be a time-consuming trapped in poverty, struggling alone reality for the children of divorce. to take care of their children. All too Growing up in an intact married often it is a struggle that is passed from one generation to the next. A health crisis can send a fam - Mrozek is program director of ily spiralling into poverty, over- Cardus Family. Mitchell is sen - CNS/Paul Haring whelmed by the cost — both ior researcher at Cardus. AWAITING THE POPE IN COLOMBIA — Young singers entertain as people wait for Pope Francis out - www.troymedia.com. side the apostolic nunciature in Bogota, Colombia, Sept. 6. — CHURCH OFFERS , page 19 September 13, 2017 LETTERS Prairie Messenger 19

Canada needs to sign nuclear weapons ban treaty

The Editor: Regrettably, in the global nuclear cycle as a In a letter to a UN conference Canada won’t be there when the major supplier of highly radioac - negotiating the treaty earlier this nuclear weapons ban treaty opens tive uranium which fuels nuclear year, Pope Francis rejected the for signing Sept. 20 at United medicine, nuclear energy and notion of nuclear deterrence, calling Nations headquarters in New York. nuclear weapons. The internation - elimination of all nuclear weapons When 122 UN member states al market seems incapable of dis - “both a challenge and a moral and voted to adopt the Treaty for the tinguishing between supposedly humanitarian imperative” (w2.vati - Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on peaceful and destructive uses of can.va; March 23, 2017). July 7 this year, Canada wasn’t at the controversial mineral long Sept. 26 marks the United the table. sold by the Canadian government. Nations International Day for the While it does not have nuclear In 1945, the United States Total Elimination of Nuclear weapons, Canada belongs to dropped two catastrophic atomic Weap ons. Despite discouragement NATO. All nine nuclear-armed bombs on Japan. Today other from the United States and other countries and their allies, includ - states flex muscle on the global NATO members, Canada urgently ing NATO, Japan, Australia and stage by developing and flaunting needs to sign and promote the UN South Korea declined to partici - nuclear weapons. Threats and nuclear weapons ban treaty. — pate in treaty negotiations. counter-threats abound, fuelling Roma De Robertis, SCIC, Saint Design Pics Canada has long played a role fear and instability. John, N.B. a disappointing harvest

Victims become protagonists for peace so you fancied yourself a gardener when the wind blew the seeds your way Continued from page 1 out waiting for others to do so. known as the gateway to the Ama - tilling the soil We need only one good person to zon, the pope said he could not clearing the weeds would only bring sterility and have hope. And each of us can be ignore the need for reconciliation greater distance.” It requires that person. with the natural environment. watering, when the rains refused to fall acknowledging the truth and let - “This does not mean ignoring or “It is not by chance that even on ting victims speak. hiding differences and conflicts. nature we have unleashed our desire and you dreamt you’d harvest blossoms And “when victims overcome This is not to legitimize personal to possess and subjugate,” he said. in the colours of God the understandable temptation to and structural injustices,” Pope To the delight of many in the crowd, vengeance, they become the Francis insisted. Recon ciliation he quoted the famous Colombian fragrant flowers most credible protagonists for must be accompanied by a firm singer and peace activist, Juanes: wonders to behold the pro cess of building peace,” commitment to change the in - “The trees are weeping, they are the crowning glory of your toil he said. “What is needed is for equalities and behaviours that witnesses to so many years of vio - some to courageously take the fuelled the war for decades. lence. The sea is brown, a mixture why did you frown first step in that direction, with - Celebrating mass in an area of blood and earth.” at your harvest of straw? can bricks be made from blossoms? can the weary rest Marriage is now one option among many on a bed of fading roses?

By Denise Young Continued from page 18 Research poll found that 78 per support from other institutions and cent of Canadians view marriage networks. The more healthy mar - al shift. When couples wed 40 as a positive aspect of family life. riages young Canadians see and U.S. council masks its true purpose years ago, they were typically We just don’t seem to know how experience, the better. starting out in life together. Mar- to get there. And it would help to make a The Editor: The “Evangelical pulpit and the media among the riage served as a foundation on Given that a healthy marriage deliberate and clear distinction Fundamentalism and Catholic In - “enemies” threatening “American which other experiences, such as contributes to family stability, between marriage and cohabita - tegralism: A Surprising Ecume - enterprise.” careers, homeownership and chil - there’s a need for recovery of the tion in popular culture — maybe nism” article ( La Civilta Cattolica , Powell (a corporate lawyer) and dren rested. Today, marriage is one institution. Marriage has declined even in tax policy. June 2017) mentions the “political Kristol (a journalist) counselled option among many. On average, in western countries for many eco - We should pay attention to fam - or ganizations and networks such corporate leaders to mask their lob - we marry later in life, often after nomic and social reasons, making ily stability. We need to recognize as the Council of National Policy bying against provisions that pro - living together. More of us have it difficult to reverse the trends. the contribution that a healthy (CNP).” tect us, our families or the environ - children or purchase a home before We know marriage tends to marriage culture makes to building Hopefully this means the Vati - ment as moral values about family tying the knot. The same trends are thrive in communities where cou - thriving societies, so that we can can is aware of the major role this and faith (Mayers, p. 92). evident across the globe. ples’ relationships serve as models work to reverse some of our fail - network and its multi-faceted I have not found one Catholic Even so, last year a Nanos for the next generation, and receive ing family trends. covert strategies play in deepening commentary outlining how their our increasingly unstable global deceitful strategies and the lived culture of death. realities generated directly vio - Church offers tools to alleviate poverty The network self-identifies as lates our official teachings of the “conservative.” church. Continued from page 18 Catholic Charities has programs much more. All are designed to As documented in Jane Mayer’s Given the Knights’ concern for that offer job training to prepare help strengthen families and the 2016 book, Dark Money , many are faith, life and family, I look for - financial and emotional — of car- people for today’s economy. neighbourhoods they live in. libertarian; that is, anti-govern - ward to them exposing this deceit. ing for a loved one battling a seri - Through the Family Empower- And that’s just the work of ment, regulation and tax. As St. John Paul II stated in ous illness or a catastrophic injury. ment program, case managers walk Catholic Charities. Our schools, However, they are selective. his 1991 encyclical “ Centesimus If a person doesn’t have the job with homeless families to help our parishes, our ministries are They are happy for us to pay Annus ” (58): “Love for others . . . skills needed to compete in our them find housing and employ - also at the peripheries, as Pope taxes so the public purse can pay is made concrete in the promotion ever more technological economy, ment, and teaching them how to Francis has urged us, to help those them lucrative contracts or bail of justice. It is not merely a mat - they can be left behind. manage their money so they can in need. 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By Cindy Wooden lation is “ordinarily granted based rendering the sense of a phrase unity of the Roman rite,” even dity of their concepts with the aim on trust and confidence,” and rather than translating each indi - without universal celebrations in of nourishing the faith.” MEDELLIN, Colombia (CNS) “supposes a positive evaluation of vidual word and even maintaining Latin, but also to recognize that Another teaching of the Sec ond — In changes to the Code of Canon the faithfulness and congruence of the original language’s syntax. vernacular languages themselves Vatican Council that needed to be Law regarding translations of the the texts produced with respect to “While fidelity cannot always could “become liturgical languag - strengthened, he said, was a recogni - mass and other liturgical texts, the typical Latin text.” be judged by individual words but es, standing out in a not-dissimilar tion of “the right and duty of episco - Pope Francis highlighted respect Pope Francis made no announce - must be sought in the context of way to liturgical Latin for their pal conferences,” which are called for the responsibility of national ment of immediate changes to the the whole communicative act and elegance of style and the profun - to collaborate with the Vatican. and regional bishops’ conferences. translations currently in use. according to its literary genre,” the The changes, released by the The document is titled “ Magnum pope wrote, “nevertheless some Vatican Sept. 9 as Pope Francis Principium ” (“The Great Principle”) particular terms must also be con - was travelling in Colombia, noted and refers to what Pope Francis sidered in the context of the entire the sometimes tense relationship called the “great principle” of the Catholic faith, because each trans - between bishops’ conferences and Second Vatican Council that the lation of texts must be congruent the Congregation for Divine Wor - liturgy should be understood by the with sound doctrine.” ship and the Sacraments over people at prayer, and therefore bish - The pope said the changes translations of texts from Latin to ops were asked to prepare and would go into effect Oct. 1, and he the bishops’ local languages. approve translations of the texts. ordered the Congregation for Di - The heart of the document, Pope Francis did not overturn vine Worship and the Sacraments to which applies only to the Latin rite previous norms and documents on “modify its own ‘Regulations’ on of the Catholic Church, changes two the principles that should inspire the the basis of the new discipline and clauses in Canon 838 of the Code of various translations, but said they help the episcopal conferences to Canon Law. The Vatican no longer were “general guidelines,” which fulfil their task as well as working to will “review” translations submitted should continue to be followed to promote ever more the liturgical life by bishops’ conferences, but will ensure “integrity and accurate faith - of the Latin church.” “recognize” them. And rather than fulness, especially in translating The greater oversight provided being called to “prepare and pub - some texts of major importance in earlier by the Vatican was under - lish” the translations, the bishops are each liturgical book.” standable, Pope Francis said, giv- to “approve and publish” them. However, the pope seemed to en the supreme importance of the Archbishop Arthur Roche, sec - indicate a willingness to allow mass and other liturgies in the life CNS/Paul Haring retary of the worship congrega - some space for the translation prin - of the church. POPE VISITS SHRINE — Pope Francis accepts flowers from a girl as tion, said under the new rules, the ciple known as “dynamic equiva - The main concerns, he said, he arrives to visit the Shrine of St. Peter Claver in Cartagena, Vatican’s “ confirmatio ” of a trans - lence,” which focuses on faithfully were to preserve “the substantial Colombia, Sept. 10. Pope encourages Colombians to take ‘second step’ for peace

By Cindy Wooden . . . the nobility of the Colombian small children in the fighting and to untie the knots of violence will set aside time for spontaneity. people,” he later told reporters another still limping from injuries we unravel the complex threads of With the doors of the apostolic CARTAGENA, Colombia flying back to Rome with him. suffered in an explosion in 2012 disagreements.” nunciature where he was staying (CNS) — Pope Francis said he Before ending the trip with a offered to “forgive the unforgive - With St. Peter Claver, the 17th- just a stone’s throw away, Pope had no magic words or special mass in Cartagena, Pope Francis able,” as Pastora Mira Garcia, the century Jesuit saint and apostle of Francis would watch the evening’s recipes for Colombians seeking had visited Bogota, Villavicencio mourning mother, told the pope. the slaves, never far from his mind, groups perform a folk dance or sing peace, but rather he wanted to lis - and Medellin. He celebrated a The theme of his trip was “Let’s Pope Francis asked Colombians to songs or play instruments. One or ten to them, learn from them and large outdoor mass in each city take the first step,” and Pope ensure all the nation’s people are two or three of them would make a travel a bit of the road with them. and had a packed schedule of Francis told reporters he hoped part of its progress. little speech describing what their He had a small accident on the meetings with government offi - that, after he left, Colombians The pope ended his trip in the organization does. And the pope road Sept. 10 in Cartagena, the cials, bishops, youth, children liv - would take a second step. city where the saint died and his would respond with a few remarks last city and last day of his five- ing in a group home, and with Pope Francis seemed confident. relics are venerated. of his own. day trip: Riding in the popemobile priests, religious and seminarians. No matter how thorough political Claver ministered tirelessly to the Throughout the trip, he urged down a street packed with people The painful realities of Co lom - leaders and professional mediators African slaves brought to the Carib - every Colombian to make some who wanted to see him, Pope bia’s recent past were openly ac - are in bartering and building con - bean port town in the 1600s, and “he gesture of peace: to forgive some - Francis turned and bashed his face knowledged with tears and hugs sensus, he said, “the protagonist of faced strong criticism and persistent one or help someone. On a small on the edge of the window, cutting Sept. 8 in Villavicencio. At a na - peacemaking is the people; if not, opposition from those who feared scale, that’s what the groups that his eyebrow and provoking a siz - tional prayer service for reconcili - it will only go so far.” that his ministry would un dermine outside the nunciature were doing, able bump on his left cheekbone. ation, a former member of the The country is divided not only the lucrative slave trade,” the pope whether that meant offering shelter While the bruise would fade, main rebel group and a former between those who participated in said, standing in front of the church and a future to street children, pro - the overall experience of the trip fighter with a paramilitary group the war and those who innocently built in his honour. moting the social inclusion of was likely to linger. “I really was shared their stories and asked for - suffered its effects, but also be tween Claver knew what the Gospel young people with Down syndrome moved by the joy, the tenderness giveness. A woman who lost two those who support and those who was calling him to do, the pope or strengthening fragile families. oppose the 2016 treaty that led to said, even though it was not popu - the demobilization of the Revolu - lar at the time. tionary Armed Forces of Colombia, With great respect for what Co - commonly known as FARC. lombians have suffered and admira - Cardinal Ruben Salazar Gomez tion for the faith and hope they of Bogota told the pope Sept. 7 that managed to maintain despite a 52- the process of building peace “has year civil war, Pope Francis asked become a source of political polar - them to look beyond their old be - ization that every day sows division, haviours and alliances and ask what confrontation and disorientation.” new thing God might want of them. But the cardinal also brought “We are called upon to be up an issue Pope Francis repeated - brave, to have that evangelical ly warned could undo any hope courage which springs from know - for peace. ing that there are many who are “We are a country marked by hungry, who hunger for God, who deep inequalities and inequities hunger for dignity, because they that demand radical changes in all have been deprived,” the pope said fields of social life,” the cardinal at a mass in Medellin Sept. 9. said. “But it does not seem we are Throughout the trip, it seemed willing to pay the price required.” like the pope had all the time in the No peace deal can last without world. He never seemed to tire. He CNS/Paul Haring addressing the poverty and social never cut short a speech and told POPE CELEBRATES MASS — Pope Francis greets the crowd before exclusion that led so many people those who waited for hours that celebrating mass at Contecar terminal in Cartagena, Colombia, Sept. 10. to fight in the first place, the pope they would get printed copies of said. the full text. In fact, on several CNS/Paul Haring “If Colombia wants a stable occasions he added long sections BRUISED FACE — Pope Francis “How many times have we ‘normalized’ the logic and lasting peace,” he said Sept. — particularly when talking about answers questions from journalists of violence and social exclusion, without prophet - 10, “it must urgently take a step in the evils of the drug trade. aboard his flight from Colombia to this direction, which is that of the And every evening, after a long Rome Sept. 10. Earlier, the pope ically raising our hands or voices?” common good, of equity, of jus - day of travelling, reading speech - cut and bruised his face on the — Pope Francis at St. Peter Claver Shrine in Cartagena tice, of respect for human nature es and celebrating mass for hun - popemobile window when he was and its demands. Only if we help dreds of thousands of people, he greeting people.