Single Issue: $1.00 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40030139 CATHOLIC JOURNAL Vol. 95 No. 33 February 7, 2018 Our Canada Diversity a value, not a threat: Vatican “This my Canada, this is your Canada, this is our Canada,” By Cindy Wooden communities and governments to “The struggle for the affirma - rian University Jan. 30. said knowledge-keeper teach people to respect other tion of religious liberty is far from The cardinal shared the dais Lyndon Linklater, speaking ROME (CNS) — A rigorous faiths and to see diversity within being won,” Cardinal Leonardo with Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, at a Treaty Elder Series event defence of religious freedom a society as a value, not a threat, Sandri, prefect of the Congregation the British minister of state at the in Saskatoon. “Canada is around the globe must be accom - said a Vatican cardinal and a top for Eastern Churches, told an audi - Foreign and Commonwealth the best place in the world, panied by the efforts of religious British government official. ence at Rome’s Pontifical Grego - Office for Counter-Terrorism and but it can be even better. Violent Extremism, Freedom of It is up to us as Canadians Religion and Belief. The conver - to make that happen.” sation was sponsored by the — page 3 British Embassy to the Holy See. Support and healing With his responsibility for the East ern Catholic Churches through - Women have come together out the world and for all Catholics and said in the Middle East, Sandri said he #MeToo. has seen beautiful examples not Men and only of peaceful coexistence, but of women real community-building and co- operation between members of dif - have come ferent religions. together At the same time, he said, he and said Time’s Up. Now, it has seen the “great suffering when is time to ask What’s Next? some basic rights of the human It could be an organization person — and, first of all, that of called Women of the Word. religious liberty — are violated or — page 5 insufficiently guaranteed.” Multi-Faith video He told the story of a teenager he called Youssef. The young A video promoting Canada Iraqi was baptized and raised a as a harmonious nation was Chris tian, but after his mother premiered on World Religion married a Muslim, the whole Day Jan. 28 at Luther Col - family was listed as Muslim in lege, University of Regina. the government registry and on Highway to a Harmonious CNS/Philippe Vaillancourt, Presence their identification cards. He can - Canada featured children IN MEMORY AND SOLIDARITY — Public officials join a crowd of people gathered in Quebec City Jan. not “correct” the listing, the car - from a variety of cultures 29 to observe a moment of silence for the six Muslim men who were shot during an attack on their mosque dinal said, “because in modern speaking about a welcoming in 2017. Pictured is Chief Konrad Sioui of the Wendake Huron Wendat First Nation, Quebec Premier Iraq, after the two Gulf wars, the and inclusive nation. Philippe Couillard, Quebec Mayor Regis Labeaume, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. More than 1,000 people gathered near the mosque on a freezing night to support the families and condemn Islamophobia. — page 6 — AHMAD , page 15 Hospital chaplains Abundance of grace to be found in ecumenism Hospital chaplains in Saskatchewan remain By Kate O’Gorman mation,” Dahl said. “What we do prised and delighted by the ways of the milestone document, on the job, despite here is part of a wider movement in which God comes to us, bring - Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry provincial budget cuts, SASKATOON — Rev. Susan of the Spirit, and this series keeps ing transformation and life,” she (BEM), adopted by the Faith and but obtaining their services Durber, moderator of the Faith us in touch with the depth and said. “In my own life, and in the Order Commission of the World is an awkward process and Order Commission for the scope of that wider movement.” life of my church, I’ve come to Council of Churches in 1982 and not always successful. World Council of Churches, pre - In the 2018 lecture presented know disappointment and pain, brought high hopes, Durber said. — page 7 sented the 2018 De Margerie at STM, Durber reflected on the but even in the midst of such “There was delight and optimism Lecture Jan. 25 in Saskatoon, giv - hope she has for the work of experiences, I’ve always found about how much the member Prairie Catholic ing a talk entitled, “Surprised by Christian unity, in the midst of that God comes to surprise me. churches (Orthodox, Anglican, journalism unity — finding oneness in ways both disappointment and surprise. God is there, waiting for me.” Protestant, and Catholic) could say we hadn’t planned.” “I find myself constantly sur - Durber said there is an abun - together, particularly on baptism In the first of a seven-part Part of the Week of Prayer for dance of grace to and the eucharist. We expected and series, St. Peter’s Abbey Christian Unity, this annual lec - be found within hoped that with the following wind archivist Paul Paproski, ture sponsored by the Roman the work of ecu - of the Holy Spirit, we would move OSB, examines the Prairie Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon, menism, despite even further toward a more visible Messenger and more than St. Thomas More College (STM), some seeming dis - and tangible unity — the unity to 100 years of journalism by and the Prairie Centre for Ecu me - appointments, such which Christ calls us. We believed the Benedictine monks of nism (PCE), is part of a reconcili - as a decline in ecu - we were on a pilgrimage to unity St. Peter’s. ation and unity series named in menical fervour, that was gathering pace,” she said. — page 11 honour of Rev. Bernard de church structures “But the walk is slower than Margerie, founder of the PCE and struggling with we once imagined. Theological Benedictine values a lifelong leader in ecumenical numerical decline, conversations have proved more and interfaith engagement. and a lack of unity difficult than we thought, and we The development of Bene - “The purpose of the lecture among churches. are beginning to recognize that dic tine values is “our social series is to bring to Saskatoon The unity that the way we once imagined visible responsibility — not an internationally recognized voices was prayed and unity would come doesn’t match excuse to withdraw from in the ecumenical movement, to hoped for at the the reality.” society in the name of false motivate, inspire, and nurture our height of the ecu - Often today, Durber added, “I and fruitless piety in the own local ecumenical activity and menical movement hear little curiosity from other face of the Jesus who says awareness,” according to PCE 40 to 50 years ago churches, no urgency to overcome clearly: ‘By their fruits you executive director Darren Dahl. hasn’t happened as differences, as long as we can work will know them,’ ” says “By inviting international lead - envisioned, admit - together. I see (churches) making Joan Chittister, OSB. ers in ecumenism to our communi - ted Durber. “We alliances and working together on — page 12 ty during the Week of Prayer for are left feeling particular projects, but not wanting Christian Unity, the lecture series Kate O’Gorman bereft, facing a to reflect on what it is that compels continues to affirm our desire to DE MARGERIE LECTURE — Rev. Susan future we hadn’t them to work together.” participate in God’s work of glob - Durber presented the 2018 De Margerie Lecture expected.” al, ecclesial, theological transfor - Jan. 25 at St. Thomas More College in Saskatoon. The publication — UNITY , page 7 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS February 7, 2018 Trump’s immigration plan ‘troubling’ for families

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The keep the “nuclear family” intact. Francis states: ‘The family is the DACA ends March 5, unless quences of delayed action in the chair of the U.S. bishops’ migra - “We welcome the administra - foundation of coexistence and a Congress passes a bill to keep the form of young people losing their tion committee said Jan. 30 that tion’s proposal to include a path to remedy against social fragmenta - almost six-year-old program in livelihood and their hope. the Catholic bishops welcomed the citizenship for Dreamers. How - tion.’ Upholding and protecting place. “As pastors and leaders of the Trump administration’s proposal ever, the proposed cuts to family the family unit, regardless of its “In searching for a solution for church, we see this fear and sad - to give “Dreamers” a path to citi - immigration and elimination of national origins, is vital to our Dreamers, we must not turn our ness in our parishes and as such, zenship, but at the same time, they protections to unaccompanied faith.” backs on the vulnerable,” Vasquez continue to call for immediate are “deeply troubled” about the children are deeply troubling,” In September, Trump ended said in his statement. “We should action,” Vasquez added. “Elected plan’s “impact on family unity.” said Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of the Obama-era Deferred Action not, for example, barter the well- officials must show leadership to On Jan. 26, the White House Austin, Texas, who is chair of the for Childhood Arrivals program, being of unaccompanied children quickly enact legislation that pro - released a proposal offering a U.S. Conference of Catholic known as DACA, and he called for the well-being of the Dream- vides for our security and is path to citizenship for approxi - Bishops’ Committee on Migration. on Congress to pass a measure to ers. We know them all to be chil - humane, proportionate and just.” mately 1.8 million of the so- He made the comments in a preserve the program. The DACA dren of God who need our com - The Trump administration’s called Dreamers and asking for a statement released ahead of recipients are called Dreamers, passion and mercy. proposal to provide a path to citi - $25-billion investment in a border President Donald Trump’s State who are immigrants brought to The U.S. bishops “urge a zenship for approximately 1.8 wall and other security measures. of the Union speech. Immigration the U.S. illegally as children by bipartisan solution forward that is million Dreamers includes those The plan also calls for an end to and border security were among their parents. Under DACA, they narrowly tailored” to keep DACA currently covered by the program the diversity visa program, popu - the topics Trump addressed in the are protected from deportation, in place, the bishop said. “Time is and more than one million who larly known as the “visa lottery,” speech, in addition to the econo - but they have to apply to the pro - of the essence. Every day we meet the DACA criteria but have and also a program that grants my, tax reform and the country’s gram and meet certain criteria. experience the human conse - not signed up. visa preferences to relatives of infrastructure needs. U.S. citizens or residents. “Family immigration is part of The administration said its the bedrock of our country and of Readings at mass offer God’s ‘real-time’ help focus for immigration policy is to our church,” Vasquez said. “Pope By Carol Glatz

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Listening to the Scripture read - ings at mass is hearing God speak directly to his people, offering spiritual sustenance and needed guidance for life’s difficult jour - ney, Pope Francis said. For that reason, the prescribed texts should never be skipped or substituted during the mass, lec - tors should read clearly and peo - ple should always listen with an open heart so that the words may eventually bear fruit in good deeds, the pope said at his weekly general audience Jan. 31. CNS/Paul Haring Continuing his series of audi - ence talks on the mass, Pope POPE AT GENERAL AUDIENCE — Pope Francis greets children Francis spoke about the liturgy of who rode in the popemobile during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Jan. 31. the Word and the importance of listening to the Bible readings at not something else, he said. for my path.” CNS/Ignatian Solidarity Network mass. Substituting God’s word with “How can we tackle our earth - IGNATIAN MIGRANT LOGO — The Ignatian Solidarity Network, a “In the liturgy of the Word, in something else “impoverishes and ly pilgrimage, with its trials and coalition of Jesuit schools and universities, is encouraging those in the fact, the pages of the Bible stop compromises the dialogue be - tribulations, without being regu - network and beyond to celebrate Valentine’s Day Feb. 14 by sending being something written and tween God and his people in larly nourished and enlightened cards to lawmakers asking them and others to “Love your neighbor” become the living word, delivered prayer,” the pope said, while by the Word of God that rings out and to send “migrants welcome” Valentine’s Day messages Feb. 11 - 18. by God himself,” the pope said. sticking with the prescribed read - in the liturgy,” the pope asked. As the readings are pro - ings expresses and fosters eccle - Also, he said, listening to Pope asks Vatican abuse claimed, people in the pews sial communion, helping every - God’s word requires much more should be silent and receptive, one on their journey together. than one’s ears. It must go from expert to review bishop opening their hearts and minds to The pope also insisted on the ears, to the heart and then to what is being said, not looking choosing lectors who are well-pre - the hands, resulting in good around or making small talk and pared and speak clearly, not people works in the world, he said. By Carol Glatz petrated by his former mentor, criticizing what other people are who garble their words “and no “It’s necessary to have an open Rev. Fernando Karadima. The wearing, he said. one can understand a thing.” heart to receive the word,” Pope VATICAN CITY (CNS) — priest was sentenced to a life of “We have to listen, open our “The Lord’s word is an indis - Francis said. “God speaks and we Pope Francis asked a longtime prayer and penance by the Vati can hearts, because it is God himself pensable aid for not getting lost,” turn to him to listen so as to then expert in handling abuse allega - after he was found guilty of sexu - who is speaking to us. So don’t he said. It is, as the psalmist put into practice what we have tions to gather new information in ally abusing boys. think about other things or talk says, “a lamp for my feet, a light heard.” Chile concerning Bishop Juan Despite the claims against about something else. Un der- Barros of Osorno. Barros, Pope Francis named him stood?” he asked the thousands of South Korean bishop hopes The pope was sending Arch - to head the Diocese of Osorno in people gathered in St. Peter’s bishop Charles J. Scicluna of 2015, saying he was “personally Square. Olympics a step to peace Malta to review the matter after convinced” of the bishop’s inno - “We need to listen! It is a the pope received “some informa - cence after the case was investi - question of life,” he said, because tion recently with regards to the gated twice with no evidence as Jesus told the devil in the SEOUL, South Korea (CNS) ful as it is a step forward to a new case” of Barros, the Vatican said emerging at the time. desert, “one does not live by — A South Korean bishop wants era of peace by ending the long- in a communiqué Jan. 30. The pope told reporters Jan. 21 bread alone, but by every word the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter lasting struggles. As Pope Francis Pope Francis decided to send that while “covering up abuse is that comes forth from the mouth Olympics to be a steppingstone stresses, we should welcome the archbishop to the Chilean cap - an abuse in itself,” if he had pun - of God.” for achieving peace in the region, North Korean delegates based on ital “to listen to those who ex - ished Barros without moral cer - People can receive spiritual reported ucanews.com. fraternity full of love. pressed a willingness to submit tainty, “I would be committing the nourishment from the “table” of Bishop Peter Lee Ki-heon, “We should make hay while the information in their possession,” crime of a bad judge.” God’s word, which is abundant president of the Korean bishops’ sun shines. We need to see this pre - the communiqué said. Scicluna has often been called and “rich” in so many biblical Committee for the Reconciliation cious opportunity as a chance for Scicluna is president of a board to look into allegations involving offerings, he said. of the Korean People, released a coexistence and a new era where of review within the Con gregation high-profile clergy. For example, It is obvious then why “some statement hoping “the Olympics, future generations freely go and for the Doctrine of the Faith; the after years of allegations about subjective choices” are forbidden feast of peace, will be a turning come between the two Koreas.” board handles appeals filed by abuse committed by Rev. Marcial — such as omitting the prescribed point to reduce the uneasiness and Lee urged disarmament of clergy accused of abuse or other Maciel Degollado, founder of the readings or substituting them with to settle peace on the peninsula.” weapons of mass destruction, in - serious crimes. The archbishop Legionaries of Christ, in 2005, the non-biblical texts, for example, North Korea is sending a large cluding nuclear arms, for the also had 10 years’ experience as Vatican sent Scicluna to listen to like the newspaper for bringing team of athletes and an art compa - complete settlement of peace on the Vatican’s chief prosecutor of his alleged victims. Several up a current event, he said. ny to the Olympics, which start the peninsula. clerical sex abuse cases at the months later, Pope Benedict XVI “No. The word of God is the Feb. 9. He also stressed the need for doctrinal congregation. ordered Maciel to “a life reserved word of God. You can read the Lee of Uijeongbu, which bor - more meetings and dialogue Some have accused Barros of to prayer and penance, renouncing newspaper later. However, right ders North Korea, said: “North between the two Koreas to recov - having been aware of abuse per - any public ministry.” there, the word of God gets read,” Korea’s participation is meaning - er trust and partnership. February 7, 2018 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 3 ‘This is our Canada’: knowledge-keeper Linklater

By Kiply Lukan Yaworski story that starts to emerge when child is going to be messed up has enabled many to walk a long Muscowequan Indian Resi den tial you talk to those who attended when they get older.” path of healing, Linklater School. SASKATOON — Parishioners them, when you talk to their chil - In Saskatchewan, he stressed, described. and visitors gathered in a circle at dren and grandchildren.” The residential schools were not “What really St. Joseph’s Parish Hall in aftermath has included damaged around for just a few years, but helped us Link - Saskatoon after Sunday mass families and communities, addic - for 122 years, “so it is multi-gen - laters, was that Feb. 4, sharing soup and bannock, tion, and dysfunction. erational.” we found our listening to the experiences and “Today we recognize this ill - The Truth and Reconciliation culture, we went the wisdom of two indigenous ness, post-traumatic stress disorder, process has offered a path of back to our tra - leaders. or PTSD,” said Linklater, noting healing, not only for residential ditions.” Mike Broda of St. Joseph that trauma will affect a person school survivors and their descen - Diversity is a Parish offered a traditional wel - physically, mentally, emotionally, dants, but for the entire country, gift from God, coming gift of tobacco to knowl - and spiritually. “If you have PTSD, which made some profound his - with peoples of edge-keeper Lyndon Linklater and all these sociological factors will torical mistakes, said Linklater. many different Elder Agnes Desjarlais to open the plague you,” he said. “And every “This is my Canada, this is your appearances, gathering, part of a Treaty Elder single person that went to these Canada, this is our Canada — languages, and Series in the Roman Catholic schools suffered from PTSD in one Canada is the best place in the cultures wor - Diocese of Saskatoon. Linklater form or another.” whole wide world, but it can even shipping one and Desjarlais both work at the Linklater described how his be better. And it is up to us as Creator, said Regional Psychiatric Centre, father was taught to reject his tra - Canadians to make that happen,” Linklater, where they provide traditional cer - ditions, his language, and his he said. “How are we ever going to describing the emonies as the path of healing. identity, to the point that he did know where we are going as a many connec - Linklater, who is also a mem - not even know he was Ojibwa. country if we don’t know where we tions and com - ber of the Office of the Treaty Linklater also reflected on the have been? How are we ever going monalities Commissioner’s Speakers Bureau, damage caused by removing chil - to know not to make the same mis - between described his background. Both of dren from their families. “In the takes if we don’t know we made Christianity and his parents, and their parents be- schools, they were very lonely. I mistakes in the first place?” indigenous Kiply Yaworski fore them, attended residential can’t imagine what it must have Linklater expressed apprecia - teachings. TREATY ELDERS — Lyndon Linklater and Elder schools — his Anishinaabe (Ojib- been like, to be five years old and tion for the parish event, noting “When I Agnes Desjarlais were speakers at a Treaty Elder wa) dad Walter Linklater in your mom and dad aren’t there that “for too long we haven’t found my tradi - Series held Feb. 4 at St. Joseph Parish in Saskatoon. Ontario and later in Saskatchewan, for you, to comfort you, to care been able to do this. We talk tions, my cul - A second gathering is planned for Feb. 11. and his Cree mother Marie in for you, to nurture you,” he said. about the Truth and Recon cili - ture, I could not Saskatchewan, until she ran away, “We know what it is like to ation Commission and the 94 believe the many similarities, the Even though there were some to be hidden by her grandmother. have children, to have grandchil - Calls to Action: you are doing it unbelievable parallels,” he said. positive things about her experi - “Like many First Nations peo - dren, and how important it is to right now.” Desjarlais also spoke about ence — she loved learning to ple, we suffered as a result of have young children feel loved. It Recognizing the impact of resi - trauma and healing. A member of read, for instance — the damage these residential schools,” Link- is so critical: if that child grows dential schools and coming to a the Muskowekan First Nation caused by the system resonated in later said. “There is a common up without feeling loved, that better understanding of the trauma near Lestock, Sask., Desjarlais and her parents attended — HEALING , page 6 Faith groups must be free to shape world Canadian bioethical centre Andrew Ehrkamp Grandin Media cited by labour minister

EDMONTON (CCN) — By Michael Swan Maren. “There’s quite simply not Prime Minister Justin Trudeau The Catholic Register a single injustice in the history of signalled his support for faith social reform that was ended with - groups in Canada, even though The anti-abortion organization out first being exposed with many are locked in a battle with cited by the employment minister imagery of the victims.” his government over its contro - for questionable use of an em - He said “it’s understandable” versial new Canada Summer Jobs ployment subsidy refutes claims it for some people to be upset by the attestation. provoked the government into graphic images.” “We need to make sure that, forcing all Canada Summer Jobs Toronto NDP MPP Peter whether it’s religious organiza - applicants to attest that their “core Tabuns received several com - tions or charitable organizations, mandate” supports a woman’s plaints about the flyers distributed that they are free to impact and right to obtain an abortion. in his Toronto riding last summer. shape the world around them as so A $56,000 grant to the Cal - The images “cause a lot of emo - many have done,” Trudeau told a gary-based Canadian Centre for tional pain,” Tabuns wrote in an packed forum Feb. 1 at MacEwan Bioethical Reform was used to email to The Catholic Register . University in Edmonton. stuff mailboxes with colour pam - “The pictures do not make them “If someone is an anti-poverty Grandin Media/Andrew Ehrkamp phlets that showed graphic im ages oppose abortion. It makes them activist or a charity, they shouldn’t FORUM — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signalled his support for of aborted fetuses. The same oppose anyone who would do be accused of doing politics sim - faith groups in Canada, even though many are locked in a battle with images were also shown on ban - what they see as violence to their ply just because they’re saying his government over its controversial new Canada Summer Jobs attes - ners displayed by summer stu - state of mind or that would make there should be less poor kids in tation. He spoke to a packed forum Feb. 1 at MacEwan University in dents at major intersections in their children distraught.” Edmonton. our schools showing up without downtown Toronto. At the deVeber Institute for breakfast.” a so-called “right” to abortion. strongly about that,” said Ralf “Some groups, like the Cana - Bioethics and Social Research, Faith leaders have vowed to She has refused to change the Lemire, who says he’s not even a dian Centre for Bioethical Re - co-president Martha Crean doubts continue fighting the new require - attestation or extend the Feb. 2 particularly religious person. “I form, for example, were using that the CBR campaign is the true ment that they attest to government deadline for funding. think it’s a mistake, but I don’t those government funds in a way starting point for the Canada values all the way to the Supreme “They (government) shouldn’t think they’re trying to pick a fight.” to create graphic pamphlets that Summer Jobs controversy. Court. Applicants for grants under be trying to push their agenda on Sarah Shulist supports abor - featured aborted fetuses as a way “Last year, we were refused in the jobs program must attest that people,” said Brynna Robinson, a tion rights, but doesn’t agree that to shame women,” Labour Minis - all the Liberal ridings we usually both the job and their organiza - second-year communications stu - faith groups should be denied ter Patty Hajdu told a news con - got it (money) from,” Crean said. tion’s “core mandate” support val - dent at MacEwan University, who fund ing under the Canada Sum - ference Jan. 25. “We even received a phone call ues that include the “right to access identifies as Catholic. mer Jobs program because they Asked whether the Centre for from one of the ridings saying to safe and legal abortions,” as “If you don’t believe in that, can’t sign an attestation they Bioethical Reform had poisoned ‘Congratulations, you got your well as the Trudeau government’s you shouldn’t have to check it don’t believe in. the well for other organizations, money.’ Fifteen minutes later they interpretation of sexual orientation off. It should be optional. That’s “I believe government funding CBR spokesperson Jonathon Van phoned back and said, ‘Oh, sorry, and gender identity. your religion. Especially abortion. should be allocated with human Maren told The Catholic Register , it really wasn’t your organiza - Canada’s Catholic bishops, as People don’t believe in that . . . rights in mind, and I consider “Absolutely not. tion.’ So they had been reminded, well as Muslim, Protestant, and they don’t believe in killing abortion to a human right,” said “We’re not utilizing the bodies I guess.” Jewish leaders, say the require - babies.” Shulist; however “if it were a of children. We’re showing abor - Unlike the CBR, the deVeber ment is the equivalent of an “ide - Even those who support abor - Catholic charity that is feeding tion victim photography,” Van Institute works on a wide variety ology test” that infringes on reli - tion rights are panning what they the poor, and has nothing to do Maren said. of life issues from stem cell sci - gious freedom. describe as government over - with abortion in the work they are The CBR uses graphic abortion ence through palliative care and Employment Minister Patty reach. doing, I do believe that requiring images, “in the same way that the euthanasia, with an emphasis on Hajdu has clarified the meanings “Why push something like that? them to sign something that says (American) civil rights movement producing academically credible, of words in the attestation, such There are other issues. Again, ‘I support abortion’ is not OK.” was started by the photograph of a original research. as “core mandate,” but any group you’re discriminating against a 14-year-old murdered boy in 1955 that ticks off the box is affirming whole community that feels quite — GOVERNMENT , page 4 named Emmett Till,” said Van — BRUSH, page 11 4 Prairie Messenger CANADIAN NEWS February 7, 2018 Catholic papers squeezed by U.S.-Canada tariff

By Mark Pattison Before the day was out, Weis - ing for our member publications, tended Canada was illegally sub - Senator Chuck Schumer, D-New mantle got an email from her including the potential impact on sidizing its newsprint industry. York, in a Jan. 26 letter to Ross. WASHINGTON (CNS) — A printer notifying her of a second printing costs and overall budgets The U.S. government investigat - “I am all for fair trade, and I 10 per cent tariff slapped on price increase. that such a tariff could have,” said ed, sided with NORPAC and lead that fight on many fronts — imports of Canadian newsprint by “As the publisher of the sec - a statement by Joe Towalski, pres - imposed the tariff. especially against China — but the United States is playing havoc ond-largest circulated newspaper ident of the Catholic Press Asso- NORPAC did not respond to an when the federal government tries with newspaper budgets across in western Pennsylvania, I oppose ciation of the United States and interview request by CNS. “This to put in place duties that will the United States, and Catholic these newsprint tariffs,” said Canada. “At this time, the CPA is de cision will protect American lead to a loss of American jobs, a newspapers are no exception. Bishop David A. Zubik of Pitts- still learning about and monitoring jobs in Washington, Mississippi rise in prices and a diminution of Press groups, one U.S. senator burgh in a Jan. 31 statement. the tariff situation.” and Georgia, and may even serve top-notch journalism and infor - — and now a bishop — have “Newspapers provide the most Towalski, who also is editor of to create jobs in the U.S. as idled mation to residents across upstate appealed to Commerce Secretary reliable information and the great- The Visitor , newspaper of the paper machines restart,” said New York it’s time to yell: ‘Stop Wilbur Ross to get rid of the tar - est platform for genuine debate. Diocese of St. Cloud, Minn., and NORPAC CEO Craig Anneberg in the presses!’ ’’ Schumer said. iff, which took effect Jan. 11. Should they disappear, our ability diocesan communications direc - a Jan. 9 statement posted on the “This is something we don’t “They already passed a 6.6 per to make wise decisions as a demo - tor, said he received an email Jan. firm’s website. need,” said Mark Cohen, president cent increase on to us,” said cratic society would be severely 24 from his printing representa - But press groups warn that thou - of the Pennsylvania News Media Carmella Weismantle, operations impacted,” Zubik added. With tar - tive to plan on a three per cent sands of jobs in other industries are Association. “We just think this is manager and director of advertising iffs, he said, “newspaper workers increase for paper costs, but the at risk due to the tariff ruling. real troubling,” especially for an for the Pittsburgh Catholic , the will lose their jobs. No one will increase could be as high as eight The Commerce Department “industry that is in transition.” diocesan newspaper. After experi - benefit. The tariffs are a lose-lose to 10 per cent. “We just do not “should find a new way forward There are “some incredibly big encing no newsprint price hikes last proposition.” know as of today,” Towalski said that does not place such an unfair repercussions for our members year, Weismantle said in a Jan. 25 “The Catholic press is an his printer told him. and unwise burden on an already and for the industry across the telephone interview with Catholic essential source of information The tariff was imposed after a at-risk and extremely vital Amer - United States,” said Rebecca News Service, the increase comes and formation for helping Cath - complaint lodged by the North ican industry that provides so Snyder, executive director of the to about $6,700, based on the olics live out their faith. We are Pacific Paper Corp. in Longview, many jobs and so much value to Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press newspaper’s typical press run, page concerned about anything that Wash., which goes by the name New Yorkers from one corner of Association. “Newsprint prices are output and publication schedule. makes this mission more challeng - NORPAC. The company con - the state to the other,” said going to go up significantly, 10 per cent. That’s a pretty big cost to absorb,” she added. “It stresses an Healing spiritual suffering focus of new workshops already-stressed industry.” Canadian newsprint is being By Andrew Ehrkamp Providence Renewal Centre on four spirit. They are all connected.” more sought by U.S. newspapers Grandin Media weekends over two years, starting Unlike physical wounds, spiri - as U.S. mills have shuttered due to April 6 - 7. Participants will be tual pain is more difficult to slow business. Newsprint usage is EDMONTON (CCN) — trained to diagnose, respond to and define, and that’s where the work - down by some estimates as much Richard Groves and his wife, help heal spiritual suffering using shops can help, said Debbie as 75 per cent from its peak due to Mary, had travelled the world 40 different tools including prayer, Doornbos, program director for fewer and thinner publications, teaching people how to alleviate forgiveness, relating and being pre - Providence Renewal Centre. operating on a reduced publication the spiritual pain from all types of sent with the person who is hurting. “When you have wounds inside schedule and circulation. Despite trauma – job loss, loss of a friend - “It’s part of life to deal with of yourself, they are not always vis - the reduced demand, prices rose ship, illness, life transitions, and anxiety, with fear, with suffering, ible. When we can un derstand what during the newspaper industry death of a loved one. with disappointment,” Groves said. those wounds are, it’s a lot easier to slump as mills converted to more Then, nine years ago, when “And you could call those just both heal our ourselves, and then profitable forms of paper manu - Mary died, Richard Groves had to psychological issues or emotional we can become more present to be facturing. use those skills to heal himself. issues or you could — like many a healing force for others.” The newsprint tariff is another “I thought, ‘I don’t know if I wisdom traditions — see that there Groves hopes that graduates of skirmish in trade battles between want to continue doing this.’ It is a spiritual component under - his Healing the Healers series will the United States and Canada was kind of my dark night of the neath that.” pass their knowledge on to others, over the past year. soul. I could talk about spiritual Spiritual suffering is as unique noting that the spiritual healing Last year, the United States suffering in the first person,” said as each individual, Groves said, skills he teaches are not new. imposed tariffs of up to 18 per Groves, an international speaker, describing the skills he teaches as They have existed for centuries. cent on Canadian lumber. Canada author and co-founder of the non- a “half step” in-between pastoral “It’s so old-agey. This came out Sacred Art of Living and Dying retaliated by sharply restricting profit Sacred Art of Living and care and psychological coun - of our monasteries 1,000 years ago. Richard Groves imports of Wisconsin dairy prod - Dying Institute in Bend, Oregon. selling. They are a complement to We’re not inventing this stuff. It’s ucts. The two countries are, with Groves’ Healing the Healers is a parish ministry. totally based on a wisdom tradition background. We thought we were Mexico, trying to renegotiate the four-workshop series that integrates “We try to teach tools that help that happens to go back to medieval very poor for not having specific North America Free Trade Agree- history, science, psychology and a person identify and diagnose the Christianity and, by and large, was training in matters of the soul.” ment, which took effect in 1994. spirituality to addresses the issue of total person, and we particularly lost in the hospices. Regardless of a Greene calls the ability to heal Some progress in talks has been spiritual suffering, a reality faced emphasize the spiritual part,” said person’s religious background, we spiritual pain, a basic life skill that reported, but many big-ticket by most people at various times, Groves, a former Catholic priest, think these tools work.” many of us have forgotten. issues remain . particularly toward the end of life. chaplain and bereavement coun - Christina Greene, who has The workshops will be held in sellor. “You can’t unravel — and signed up to take the Healing the Edmonton for the first time at totally separate — body, mind and Healers workshop, sees spiritual Government obeying law healing skills as “a way of relating to people on the same level.” Continued from page 3 Erik Yuson, a Catholic who sup - “It brings light, or another out - ports abortion rights, said he can look, on how to help people who Debby Martin, who is Catho - see both sides of the Canada are palliative or are going through lic, said the Trudeau government Summer Jobs attestation argument a different journey than what I am is simply obeying the law, and the but he notes that controversy points going through right now, how to larger question is Canada’s abor - to Canada’s changing social fabric. allow them to express that and tion law, which was struck down “I’d like for religious groups also how to help them move 30 years ago and never replaced. and organizations to remain au - through that journey.” “It doesn’t have a choice. Are tono mous, but at the same time in Greene said the workshops will they saying you must support the today’s kind of culture, with how help her personally, and profes - government’s view of abortion or Canada is progressing really liber - sionally as a team leader with are they saying that Canada, through ally, eventually certain groups are Catholic Social Services’ St. the courts, has determined that abor - going to have to understand that,” Joseph residence, which provides tion is legal and the government is said Yuson, a third-year social comfort and care to terminally ill enforcing that court ruling?” asked work student at MacEwan Univ - people who are homeless or diffi - Martin, a member of St. Charles ersity. cult to house in Edmonton. Parish who says she’s pro-life. “With religion, it’s always a Groves and his wife developed “If we really want to change tough question, because it’s so their spiritual healing techniques things, then we have to change the important to many people. It’s the decades ago when they were law.” backbone of their beliefs.” working as bereavement counsel - Martin said her advice to faith The federal government’s posi - lors, and at a time when legisla - groups is to let the government tion was bolstered by a Jan. 28 state - Photo courtesy Paul Lauzon, Campaign Life Coalition tion for euthanasia became legal know that when they complete ment supporting the attestation from BUBBLE ZONES IN EFFECT — Temporary signs anchored with in Oregon. Both were working in their application — including the 80 groups such as Planned Parent - sandbags mark the 50-metre zones around the Morgentaler abortion hospices at the time. attestation section. hood and abortion rights groups, the facility in Ottawa. Pro-life demonstrators protested against Ontario’s “We found we didn’t have “I would check off and say that Canadian Union of Pub lic Emp - Safe Access to Abortion Services Act, Feb. 1, arguing the new “bubble training in it. We were just hired ‘I’m doing it under duress’ beside loyees, Oxfam Canada, legal rights zone” violates rights to freedom of expression. because we had the degrees or the it.” groups, and women’s shelters. February 7, 2018 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 5 #MeToo: healing is important, prevention is key

By Meggie Hoegler years ago at his more we keep things locked up, The Catholic Register wife’s encourage - the greater the wound becomes. ment. There’s no healing when someone TORONTO (CCN) — Women “It’s such a is denied their truth.” have come together and said great program. Hollywood, which has fed the #MeToo. Men and women have They use medical sexualization of society since its come together and said Time’s and social science inception, is now trying to play a Up. Now, it is time to ask What’s to illustrate their bigger role in healing the damage. Next? concepts along Several films nominated for this The #MeToo and #TimesUp with church teach - year’s Academy Awards deal with movements have gone well ings and the wis - themes of sexual harassment, beyond their Twitter beginnings, dom of the saints.” assault and the grey area of con - making sexual assault a hotbed Like Women of sent. Three Billboards Outside topic in the media, toppling high- the Word, That Ebbing, Missouri , nominated for profile personalities in entertain - Man is You! is for seven awards, including best pic - ment, sports, politics and corpo - all ages. ture, deals head-on with the hor - rate boardrooms. Though the “It’s mainly rors of rape. Other films like campaigns were born in the U.S., geared toward Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird deal Canada has not been immune — married men and with the complexity surrounding witness the headlines generated fathers, but we consensual sexual relations. from accusations against broad - have quite a few Consent has become another hot casters Jian Ghomeshi and Gregg young men who topic following sexual assault Zaun, or more recently two are fresh out of allegations against comedian and provincial Conservative leaders, university and outspoken feminist Aziz Ansari. Jamie Baillie in Nova Scotia and newly married,” The allegations spurred an outcry Patrick Brown in Ontario. said Foronda, who for more male education about Celebrity names may have believes the age consent. pushed the issue forward with gap provides even “It’s about men being better lightning speed, but it is certainly Photo illustration by Erik Canaria more opportunities husbands and fathers,” said not just a phenomenon among POWERFUL OFFENSIVE — The #MeToo movement has created a powerful offen - for learning and Foronda. “If we do not teach our those in a media spotlight. Well sive to combat sexual assault and harassment. Catholic groups have long been sharing wisdom. sons to respect women, it is likely before allegations against men involved in both helping victims heal and in changing attitudes. “We look up to the that they are going to end up like Harvey Weinstein and Matt older men in the going down a bad path.” Lauer opened up the Pandora’s the most and saying, ‘Yes, I scientific and biblical lens. group for their wisdom, but it’s For Minicucci, the goal is to box on sexual assault and harass - understand. I went through that “I’m not a scientist, but I think not surprising for an older man to create a world in which the ment, Catholic groups were pro - too.’ But many of these older pornography and how women are approach a younger man for human body is considered sacred viding resources for prevention women did not have an opportu - portrayed in the media have con - advice if he is having trouble and sexual assault is eradicated. and rehabilitation for everyday nity to speak up about what hap - tributed to what we’re seeing with his sons or grandsons.” “We’ve reached the point victims. pened to them. For them to hear right now with so many women Echoing Oprah Winfrey’s where women are getting tired “The focus of #MeToo was pri - someone speaking about a situa - coming forward about sexual Golden Globes acceptance speech, and frustrated of hearing about marily on celebrities,” said Sister tion they suffered through, they assault,” said James Foronda, the both groups operate on the princi - sexual assault after sexual Christine Minicucci, a Carmelite can finally know they are not co-ordinator for the program at ple of communication. assault,” said Minicucci. “It’s time sister and spiritual director of alone.” St. Timothy’s Parish. “It’s time that we talk about to start setting some standards for Women of the Word, an organiza - Women of the Word hosts regu - Foronda, a husband and father, these things and stop hiding under the treatment of women in our tion that provides hope, healing and lar events with guest speakers who started attending meetings two the covers,” said Filangi. “The society.” restoration to women who have share their experience. In April, experienced trauma. “We don’t Catholic speaker, author and for - hear about the everyday women mer America’s Next Top Model Religious freedom is an ongoing struggle who go through the same thing. contestant Leah Darrow will “It’s important that these high- address the group. Darrow has By Michael Swan “Fears that the Christians in seriously threatened by the back - profile women are sharing their been outspoken in the #MeToo The Catholic Register Iraq are on the verge of extinction ers of Hindutva ideology, who are experiences, but we cannot forget movement and has publicly shared were, to some extent, alleviated at currently in power,” reads the about the vulnerable women — her experiences of sexual harass - TORONTO (CCN) — There the end of the reporting period by American religious freedom the poor, the indigenous, who ment, which she says is rampant in has been some positive news on news of thousands of families report. The ideology is a major encounter the same experiences. the modelling industry. the global religious freedom front returning to their homes on the challenge for India’s bishops, said We need to make sure these “She (Darrow) will talk about over the past two years, but it is Nineveh Plains following the Lalonde, who travelled to India to women are also getting the help her experiences on the show and still far from peaceful. defeat of Daesh (ISIS),” reads the witness the situation first-hand. they need.” what she went through prior to “It’s not getting better. Year report. “The bishops, I can tell you, Women of the Word was her conversion,” said Filangi. after year, the situation is deterio - ACN notes that the Iraqi avoid politics. They definitely founded in 2009 by a group of Women of the Word also pro - rating,” Aid to the Church in Christian population dropped don’t want to be on that ground,” Catholic women to provide sup - vides community resource infor - Need Canada (ACN) national from 275,000 in mid-2015 to Lalonde said. “The idea is not to port and healing for women of all mation relating to a number of director Marie-Claude Lalonde below 200,000 in 2017. The try to convince them that India faith backgrounds. The organiza - issues, including family, marriage, told The Catholic Register . report quotes Chaldean Bishop shouldn’t be fully Hindu. They tion provides safe spaces for spiritual matters and women’s While the ACN’s biannual Antoine Audo of Aleppo claim - don’t even go to that extent, women to share their stories and issues. global report Persecuted and ing that Syria’s Christian popula - because it would create more listen to others in hopes that soli - “We try to cover as much as Forgotten? is “qualitative” rather tion had declined by two-thirds problems.” darity can lead to healing. we can, but we encourage women than “quantitative,” the organiza - over five years, to around ACN relays the report of “We send the message that to seek medical help if needed tion’s monitoring of religious 500,000 in 2016. India’s Catholic Secular Forum, each and every one of us carries through doctors, psychologists freedom issues and persecution of Aid to the Church in Need has which recorded 365 serious anti- hurt or some kind of brokenness and therapists,” said Filangi. Christians gives the organization shifted some of its focus to the Christian incidents across India in that affects our lives,” said Mary Healing is important, but pre - a solid basis for concluding that plight of Christians in South and 2016 — incidents that included Filangi, one of the founders of vention is key. Several organiza - Christians across a wide swath of Southwest Asia, especially India. 10 people killed and more than Women of the Word. “Sometimes tions have been calling for a the world, from North Africa to The most recent U.S. State 500 clergy and lay leaders women speak about having been change in the rhetoric surround - China, are more oppressed today Department report on internation - attacked for their faith. The prob - raped or sexually assaulted, the ing sexual assault — instead of than they were two years ago, al religious freedom highlights a lem is compounded by a govern - wound that was created and how telling women “don’t get raped,” Lalonde said. case of 30 youth armed with ment and judiciary that will not it changed who they were.” teach men not to rape. And in spite of improvements sticks and batons who beat a reign in extremist, religious vigi - Participants range from young A Catholic men’s organization in countries like Iraq, violence group of 20 Catholics (mostly lantes behind incidents such as women in their early 20s to grand - is doing just that. That Man is against Christians has shot up in women and children) in late the 2016 gang rape and murder of mothers. Despite the drastic age You!, which began in the United other areas, particularly India. 2016. a 14-year-old Christian schoolgirl gaps, the women bond through States, teaches men accountability, “We’ve seen the situation get - Since the rise of the Hindu in Chhattisgarh State, 1,200 kilo - shared experiences. According to providing information and sup port ting worse through the (ACN’s Nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party metres south of New Delhi. Filangi, many of the stories of on how to be good husbands and annual) religious freedom report. — now both the largest party in The 2016 record of violent sexual harassment and assault are fathers. There are several groups The information in the past year India’s parliament and the party incidents against India’s similar, whether they happened in Canada, including one at St. doesn’t tell us it has changed dra - of President Narendra Modi — a Christians was matched in the five minutes ago or 50 years ago. Timothy’s Parish in North York. matically,” she said. “I think we strong, populist, right-wing first five months of 2017, with “When we have grandmothers The program discusses how can still conclude it’s not getting movement has called for India to 316 attacks. The ACN’s plan for in the group and someone is talk - women are hyper sexualized gen - better.” become an officially Hindu coun - India is to continue funding inter - ing about sexual assault, we just erally in the media and particular - While Christians still suffer try. faith dialogue efforts spearheaded assume that they won’t be able to ly in the pornographic film indus - massively in the Middle East, “Seen from abroad, the foun - by Indian Catholics. relate,” said Filangi. “But they try. Among other things, they ACN acknowledges the picture is dations of Indian democracy and The ACN’s full report is post - are the ones nodding their heads analyze these issues through a brighter. respect for minority rights seem ed at acn-canada.org

6 Prairie Messenger LOCAL NEWS February 7, 2018 Video premiered by Regina Multi-Faith Forum

By Frank Flegel by the children in the video,” she said. “This will be an education REGINA — A video promoting resource for schools. Access Com- Canada as a harmonious nation munications will also be playing was premiered on World Religion it, and we are planning a major Day Jan. 28 at Luther College, event sometime in March to an University of Regina, to an audi - invitation list that will include ence of invited guests. The Regina many dignitaries.” observance of World Religion Day Krishan Kapila, one of the was moved to Luther College from founders of the Multi-Faith Forum Beth Jacob Synagogue this year to and current president of Multi- accommodate the viewing of the Faith Saskatchewan, co-chaired video. the video project along with Initiated by the Regina Multi- Gagan Deep Singh. Both said the Faith Forum and produced by road to getting the video produced

Access Communications Regina, was long and fraught with obsta - Frank Flegel Highway to a Harmonious Canada cles, but, Singh observed, “a SILENT PRAYER — Participants at the Regina Multi-Faith Forum’s observance of World Religion Day featured children representing a divine hand kept us going.” Jan. 28 at Luther College, University of Regina, take a moment for silent prayer. “We are one tree with variety of cultures speaking briefly The video is 45 minutes long many branches,” said Rev. Uttam Barua, a Buddhist monk. “Our goal is one. We are all Canadian. We about a harmonious and inclusive and will be made available to the understand and respect each other.” nation. Each held up a familiar public. “Access Communications highway sign with an inclusive is giving us 60 DVDs and we will Barua, a Buddhist monk, said, “We tablished in 1950 by the National spread around the world, and is message: a stop sign that read give one to each school division,” are one tree with many branches. Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is usually celebrated on the third “Stop Racism,” a yield sign that said Kapila. The cultural organiza - Our goal is one. We are all Cana- in the United States. It has since Sunday in January. read “Yield to the Rights of tions that took part in the project dian. We understand and respect Others,” and so on. Segments of will each receive two DVDs for each other.” Healing found in learning the video showed the children their own use. Access donated its “Why did we come to Regina?” playing and participating in prayer services, some funds were re ceived asked Kapila. “We are accepted; together, and showed short perfor - from the Canada 150 Communities we can live together. We are one, traditional teachings mances, also by children, from a Fund, and some from arts founda - maybe of a different colour. We variety of cultural organizations. tions. There was virtually no cost must help and communicate with Continued from page 3 During the event at St. Jos eph’s, Brenda Anderson of the Regina to the forum itself. others. That is how we grow. Reli - Myron Rogal, who co-ordinates the Multi-Faith Forum emceed the Speaking on behalf of Regina gion is very important to all of us.” her family and community, result - diocesan Office of Justice and Peace event. “We have all been inspired Multi-Faith Forum, Rev. Uttam World Religion Day was es - ing in alcoholism and broken and serves on the Diocesan Council families. Desjarlais recalled the for Truth and Recon cil i ation loneliness and fear of going to the (DCTR), provided an over view of school as a child of six, how stu - the Treaty Elder Series, which is a dents who spoke their own lan - diocesan reconciliation initiative guage were punished, and how offered in collaboration with the everyone’s long hair was cut. Office of the Treaty Com missioner. Now the mother of eight, the As one response to the Calls to grandmother of 13 and the great- Action by the national Truth and grandmother of three, Desjarlais Reconciliation Commission, par- said she found healing as an adult ishes have been invited to hold when she began to learn about her events to enhance awareness and culture, and became involved in tra - understanding of treaty history and ditional teachings and ceremonies. indigenous spirituality from the Rob Bredin “Once I started attending some perspective of community elders, CONSECRATED LIFE — A group photo taken at the Regina Catholic School Division’s annual luncheon of the ceremonies, I started feeling he explained. to honour those who have chosen to live a consecrated life shows the largest group ever to attend the func - better about myself and who I “It is an act of reconciliation to tion. This year’s lunch was held Feb. 1 in the Gratton Room at the school division’s office. was,” she said. “A lot of my family be here today,” Rogal said. are strong Catholics. We all have to The DCTR was established in learn to respect each other’s way; the diocese in 2012 when then- Luncheon celebrates consecrated life we all follow the same God.” Bishop Donald Bolen called Today she offers traditional together a group of indigenous and By Frank Flegel we had last year. Some have even consecrated life who contribute to teachings and ceremonies to wom - non-indigenous people to “begin to come from outside the city.” and support the division’s work of en at the Regional Psychiatric find a way forward, recognizing REGINA — For eight years the Most who attended the lun - Catholic education. Centre, and has found herself re - our treaty responsibilities and Regina Catholic School Division cheon were members of sisters’ Trustees and members of the di - flecting on how similar the prison wanting to build relationships has hosted a lunch to honour those congregations, but several mem - vision’s senior administration were system is to the residential school face-to-face,” Rogal said. who have chosen to live a conse - bers of the Madonna House Apos - then introduced, following which system. “A lot of the men and “Reconciliation is not some - crated life. This year’s lunch was tolate who operate the Marian Meyers, who organizes the event wom en there have parents and thing that can be delegated,” Rogal held Feb. 1 in the Gratton Room at Centre soup kitchen in downtown each year, led the group in a com - grandparents who went to residen - added. “As Christians, just as we the division’s office and attracted Regina were also in attendance. munal prayer for consecrated life, tial school. It is just one big cycle.” cannot delegate the cross, we can - the largest group ever. School board chair Robert which included a memorial section The path of healing is not an not pass it on. Recon cil i ation is We have 38 people here to- Bresciani welcomed everyone, recognizing those who died in the easy one, she noted, and involves something that is part of the com - day,” said Miles Meyers, the divi - explaining that the lunch is held past year. A group photo by divi - each new generation. “All my life munity, something that the church sion’s co-ordinator for religious each year as a gesture of thanks sion photographer Rob Bredin was I’ve tried to do what I can to help is engaged in, but it is also the education. “It’s twice the number for the efforts of those living a taken to commemorate the event. people.” responsibility of each one of us.” PRAIRIE MESSENGER PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY

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By Amanda Thorsteinsson with “I had the privilege of staying families struggle to produce “It was impressive to me that their time, land and equipment. files from James Kornelsen with a farm family in Saskatch - enough food to provide for their farmers here have been using Some of them have been doing ewan,” says Mbae. “Although families, and regularly experience conservation agriculture tech - this for more than 15 years.” WINNIPEG — For John Mbae, their farm operation was very hunger. niques, like zero tillage, for 20 Overall, the visit was a success, a Canadian Foodgrains Bank con - large and profitable, they were Over the course of about two years or more,” he says. says Theresa Rempel Mulaire, servation agriculture technical spe - very approachable and hospitable weeks, Mbae travelled over 3,700 “I was able to visit a potato who manages the Scaling-Up cialist based in Kenya, a visit to the to me, an African farmer. We kilometres through Manitoba, farm that invested heavily in crop Conservation Agriculture in East Canadian Prairies was informative shared with each other like col - Saskatchewan, and Alberta, visit - rotations. It was amazing to see Africa program to which Mbae and inspiring. leagues.” ing a dozen communities and giv - how much farmers invest in cover provides technical support. Mbae supports ing nine presentations to over 500 crops, to manage the soil.” “It was important for John to partners, farmers, people. He also noted how much tech - see that conservation agriculture and farm extension Mbae specializes in training nology is used on Canadian principles are applicable around workers in Food - small-scale farmers in East Africa farms. the globe, and not just for small- grains Bank pro - in how to implement conservation “The level of mechanization scale African farmers,” she says. jects in Kenya that agriculture techniques, including was amazing to witness,” he says. “It was also great for John to are teaching small- minimal soil disturbance, crop “In Saskatchewan, I visited a meet the community of support scale farmers how rotation, mulching, and the use of dairy farm with only a few people for this work.” to implement con - cover crops, to improve the health working. We went out to see the Along with Canadian farm servation agricul - of their soil, and ultimately, their animals, and when we got there supporters, he also met officials ture techniques on crop production. and turned on the lights, the cows from Global Affairs Canada. their farms. “The stories I shared of Ken - were milking themselves, with It’s through Global Affairs The purpose of yan farmers who have improved the machines monitoring and con - Canada that the Canadian govern - Mbae’s visit was to their lives through conservation trolling the milking.” ment supports the Scaling-Up share with Cana - agriculture projects — these were He was touched by the care Conservation Agriculture pro - dians how assis - very well received by the and commitment shown by such gram, providing a 3:1 matching tance through the Canadians in attendance. They farmers in helping others around grant totalling $14 million over Foodgrains Bank are stories that are important for the world. the five years of the program, and Global Affairs them to hear,” he says. “I was struck by the longevity which has a total value of $18.6 Canada is making “Some people were very of the growing projects, through million. a difference for moved by the stories about wom - which farmers and rural commu - For more information, see people in Kenya en farmers, for example, asking nities support the Foodgrains foodgrainsbank.ca/campaigns/con Rick Block experiencing what more could be done to help Bank,” he says. “They give of servation-ag KENYAN VISITOR — John Mbae, a conserva - hunger. women in Kenya who face these tion agriculture technical specialist based in Although many major challenges.” Hospital chaplains still on Kenya, meets with Canadian Foodgrains Bank Kenyans rely on Mbae himself was affected by board member and Saskatchewan farmer agriculture for the stories and experiences of the Marion Ausmus. their livelihoods, Canadian farmers he met. the job, despite budget cuts

By Frank Flegel part of clinical care, the informa - Unity is coming in unexpected ways tion would not be shared outside REGINA — Hospital chap - the hospital, and privacy would Continued from page 1 these different worlds have largely table of the one church.” lains in Saskatchewan remain on not be an issue,” said Jesson. broken down,” Durber continued. This deeper ecumenism, said the job, but the process to obtain Durber voiced disappointment “Christians of different tradi - Durber, will only come with further their services is awkward and not with ecumenical approaches that tions now meet together not only sustained ecumenical engagement always successful. Nick Jesson is settle for what she referred to as in multi- or bi-lateral dialogues and intentional understanding of the the Regina archdiocese ecu meni - “reconciled diversity.” but in the workplace, in schools, tradition and spirituality underpin - cal co-ordinator and one of a team “Even within the heart of the in art and culture,” she listed. ning church practices: “With con - of people trying to get the spiritu - ecumenical movement, I some - “We are inheriting, exchanging, tinued thought and awareness our al care office restored in the times sense that the word ‘unity’ is and inhabiting each other’s tradi - gifts can truly en rich each other. health district. out of favour. There is a reluctance tions in a way that would have “The ecumenical movement The office acted as the co-ordi - to pray for unity without a thou - seemed unthinkable not many has not taken the path that we nation centre for hospital chaplains. sand qualifications — an unspo - years ago.” first thought it would, and yet, It used to be that, when patients ken feeling that we were wrong In response to a document despite ourselves, we are part of a were being admitted to hospital, once to hope for it,” she said. called “The Church: Towards a church that is united in ways we they were asked if they desired the However, in the midst of dis - Common Vision”x, published by could little imagine some decades services of a chaplain and, if so, appointments are positive realities the World Council of Churches in ago. While we were looking for their faith community. Lists of that ring true both locally and 2014, a successor to BEM, many unity in one way, God was build - patients requesting chaplaincy ser - abroad. have noted how a real form of ing it in another.” vices were then prepared for each “Like a character in a fairy unity is coming in ways that For Durber, these ecumenical denomination and given to the spir - tale that suddenly discovers in weren’t necessarily expected. moves forward continue to heal that itual care office, whose staff made the depths of the forest the “For example,” said Durber, “it’s sense of disappointment around the the information available to the PM file hidden enchantment of the clear that Orthodox churches have a search for Christian unity. “The various chaplains. Nicholas Jesson world, I have begun to see that strong understanding of the ministry church is a divine reality as well as a “It was simple and straightfor - while I’m mourning the loss of of the whole people of God, of the human one. What ever is happening ward,” said Jesson. The denominational chaplains something, it is also being re- importance of Scripture, and the to the church in terms of its disap - Previously, he explained, the are funded by their faith communi - stored many times over. While imperative to mission. It’s equally pointments, the church is, first of all, staff of the spiritual care office were ties and remain on the job. The I was looking for unity in one clear that Protestants value the tradi - God’s creation and its future is in hospital employees, but those posi - multifaith chaplain serves all way, God was building and tions of the early church and have a God’s hands.” tions were cut in the last provincial Regina hospitals. That position is forming it in another, and I growing sense of the importance of This, she stressed, is a source budget. Now, if patients want the funded by Living Sky, a non-profit find myself having to reshape living tradition. We have come a of hope. services of a chaplain, the only group — part of the larger group my hope.” long way in receiving the gifts of “The work of ecumenism is avenue available to them is to ask trying to have the chaplaincy Citing an article by Will Adam other traditions.” always being enchanted with hospital staff on the ward to make office restored and, in the interim,

Est. 1948 and Graeme Smith titled, “Hidden Citing her personal experi - God’s surprising grace. God is the call to a chaplain for them. This trying to have a document includ - G Ecumenism”, Durber explained ences of ecumenical encounter, writing the story and the ending is problematic for the patient. ed in the hospital’s paper work that how “ecumenism is happening in Durber affirmed that there is pro - belongs to him,” she said. With the elimination of the spir - would inform the patient of the S7H 1Y5 all sorts of informal and unoffi - found meaning in receiving the If that is so, concluded Durber, itual care office, some front-line chaplains available and for the T Fax: (306) 955-0549

E S cial, but nevertheless real ways: gifts of other traditions, and that quoting the English saint Julian of hospital staff are telling pa tients patient to indicate a request for a Norbert Wasylenko ( “We have moved from a time “it is more than mere bricolage.” Norwich, then “all shall be well, that chaplains are no longer avail - visit. The group is also requesting when Christians inhabited differ - Nevertheless, Durber expressed and all shall be well and all man - able. “That,” said Jesson, “is not that chaplain information be ent worlds and different traditions a need for continued and deeper ner of thing shall be well.” true.” He emphasized that de- placed on the hospital’s closed-cir -

to one in which many things are reflection on the theological work Durber is a minister of the nominational chaplains of the An- cuit television programming. Representatives of all faith simply shared.” of Christian unity. United Reformed Church in glican, Roman Catholic, and She noted that there was a time “How can we receive each Taunton, Somerset, England. She is United churches, plus one multi- communities comprise the group when people from different sides other’s gifts most fully — not as the former principal of West minster faith chaplain, all remain available. meeting with the government in an of church divisions hardly ever quaint customs unexplored but as College at Cambridge and has There was also some concern effort to restore the chaplaincy

met each other. “People were practices deeply situated in theo - served as theological co-ordinator among hospital staff that asking office — so far without success. In

divided in ways that were literally logical soil and ecclesiological of the UK-based charity Christian patients for their religious affilia - the meantime, churches are being

visible and audible; they sang dif - tradition?” she asked. Aid. Her books include Surprised tion might be a privacy issue, but encouraged to inform their congre - ferent hymns; had very different “A deeper ecumenism is still by Grace , Preaching like a Woman , the Privacy Commissioner’s office gations that chaplains are avail -

kinds of worship; even had differ - needed if we are really to receive and a collection of reflections and said that that is not the case. able, but they have to ask for the ent jobs or social standing. But the gifts we each bring to the prayers on the parables of Jesus. “If spiritual care were made service. 8 Prairie Messenger CHURCH AT HOME February 7, 2018 Winter break in Ottawa not as enjoyable as it sounds

what seemed a long time — which you definitely need a Queens way Carleton Hospital enough time to think, please don’t drink). Or how the orthopedic sur - — I want to say the name — is fall on your hand — before land - geon pulled on my arm as though filled with kind, compassionate, Around the ing on my outstretched right hand. playing tug-of-war while someone caring people. If only warm This is the second time I’ve else applied the cast. hearts could thaw icy streets. Kitchen Table felt and heard the collapse of No. This story is about the Now that I’m back home, I bone. Afraid to stand back up, I kindness of strangers, from a self - wish I could button a warm shirt, sat on the sidewalk watching the less young couple who turned tie boot laces, zip a jacket, or pull Maureen Weber traffic whiz by and, in a fog of around and came back, to recep - on some mittens. I’ll never com - confusion and pain, phoned Russ tionists who clucked sympatheti - plain about a Saskatchewan win - who, since he was in Saskatche- cally, gentle X-ray technicians who ter again. Anyone who knows me knows daycare to pick her up at 3:30, as wan, suggested calling a cab. I smiled, a I’ve done my share of complain - I’d been doing for the past seven didn’t have to. radiologist ing about Saskatchewan winters. days. I expected to see icy streets Every one has stories about with a wry It’s dark. The sun gets up late and but, as is typical in a big city, good Samar i tans, the kindness of sense of lays low. everything was covered in salt strangers, people coming to an- humour, a And it’s cold. I resent the time and, apart from inches of slush, other’s aid in a time of need. talented it takes to look for layers of warm the streets were safe. Shock made thoughts come ortho - clothes, pull on boots that have to The day after that, the sun was slowly, but I heard someone call, paedic be laced and tied, find shoes to blinding and I felt no hesitation in “Do you need help? We saw you nurse who put into a bag to take to work and walking over to a nearby store to go down and circled around just managed once getting there stripping off all get some groceries. There’s a in case you were still here.” to calm the stuff before you can finally major sidewalk that runs along a I squinted against the sun won - my anxi - get to your desk. This infernal busy drive and when I turned dering if this young couple call - ety while routine shreds my patience. onto it I was surprised to see what ing from their car was really shoving But it’s a dry cold, they say. appeared to be a vast ice field. A there, or if it was the apparition of an IV line As if that’s supposed to make one clear seamless glaze covered a desperate mind. The young man into my feel better. curb, boulevard, sidewalk, and and his girlfriend left their vehi - hand. And I recently spent two weeks in the open space in front of an cle on a busy road and came a large, Ottawa where a “dry cold” started apartment building. It shone with across the icy boulevard to help serious to look pretty appealing. In menace in the sunlight. me to the car. “We could take you surgeon Ottawa winter seeps into your As I gingerly walked along the to the hospital.” who bones and feels much colder than treacherous surface, I met a man I won’t bore you with the de - brushed the temperature would indicate. who wondered if I needed help tails of a misshapen wrist, holding off my Grey clouds can hang low over since I was walking so slowly. I it still for X-rays, chatting with jokes like the city for days, spewing forth said, more brightly than I felt, that the radiologist who nonchalantly lint, and large fat snowflakes that thud, I was just trying to be careful said I’d need a reduction. You went pellets of ice that sting, and snow because “every time I fall it seems probably don’t want to hear about about his that alternates with freezing rain I break something.” having a tourniquet applied to my work with on a roller-coaster temperature Against my better judgment, I upper arm to cut off circulation, serious ride. A +5 day can sink to a -14 forged ahead and angled right to then having a drug injected into determi - M. Weber night. It’s called a flash freeze. get a foothold into the snow on the my hand to freeze the bone (a pro - nation and SASKATCHEWAN WINTERS — Tying boots, pulling The day after one such flash side. The crust of ice was too thick cedure known as a “Bier block,” explicit on mittens and zipping heavy jackets are part of winters freeze I took my usual 15-minute to break into, and when my boot which sounds like something you instruc - in Saskatchewan. Being able to do those things shouldn’t bus ride to my granddaughter’s lost traction I became airborne for could order in a pub and after tions. be taken for granted. Writer’s work touches on ongoing search for personal moral standards

By Mike Mastromatteo the areas rocked by the ongoing or that they had souls in the first CNS. “What I mean is, without work in fiction and journalism, drug wars involving cartel lead - place. . . . There were other doubts the conviction that the human Caputo could be forgiven for TORONTO (CNS) — Catho- ers, local vigilantes and hard- which had made a mockery of all race has a purpose, that each of looking to slow down and enjoy lic writer Philip Caputo shot to pressed military and police the Catholic theology the our lives has a purpose, granted the fruits of his literary labour. He literary prominence in 1977 with forces who make little distinc - Dominican and Jesuit priests had by God, life becomes unbearable retains two homes: in Norwalk, release of his Vietnam war mem - tion between the innocent and preached to me in high school and — the sound and fury signifying Connecticut, where he attends St. oir, A Rumor of War . the guilty. college. Man’s body is the temple nothing.” Mary’s Parish, and Patagonia, The no-holds-barred soldier’s While struggling to remain of the Holy Spirit; man is created Caputo suggested his own Arizona, where he attends St. account of the horror, brutality, true to his vocation as a shepherd in the image and likeness of God; view is like his character, Riordan Thérèse of Lisieux Church. demoralization and pointlessness of the flock, Riordan is coerced have respect for the dead.” in Some Rise by Sin . But as a self-described “hack,” of combat in an ideologically into acting as an informer, there - Caputo’s witnessing of such “As there can be no true cour - Caputo isn’t quite ready to put the murky war was one of the first by compromising much of his grotesqueries, both as a soldier age without fear, so can there be writing tools away. He is working notes of doubt and dissent about priestly ministry. and as a foreign correspondent no faith without doubt. Blind on a number of new writing pro - America’s foreign policy objec - “All my literary work — as covering international hot spots faith, as we see with the jihadists, jects, “hoping to find which one tives in that turbulent time. opposed to my journalism — has in the 1970s and ’80s, further leads to fanaticism and, paradoxi - will work.” After his discharge from the been about God and the devil and shaped his outlook on the capri - cally, ungodly acts. Faith requires As for his ongoing faith influ - military, Caputo joined the staff people having to make hard cious nature of human life and us to question it.” ence, Caputo seems prepared to of the Chicago Tribune , where he moral choices in places or cir - where, in fact, the Spirit re - Compare the above with the stick it out with the church he wrote about local and internation - cumstances where the handbook sides. words of fictional Riordan on his grew up with and never quite al events, culminating with his for decent behaviour is out of “I’m sure my Jesuit education decision to quit the informer role abandoned. sharing of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize print, leaving them to search their had a lot to do with the themes and return to his priestly integrity, “Catholicism is the faith I for reporting on Chicago city pol - own depths for a moral standard,” that run through most of my liter - even to his peril: “Grace is given grew up with and is the one in itics. Caputo told CNS in a recent in - ary work,” Caputo said. “A for - to the undeserving,” he thought. which I feel I belong, even if Caputo left journalism to be - terview. “ Some Rise by Sin is, mer president of Loyola Uni - “But once it is, your actions have some of my views would not be gin a new career as a novelist and however, my first book with an versity in Chicago once told me to show that you’ve received it.” approved by its theologians,” he writer. By 2017, he had written overtly Catholic protagonist.” that I was a very ‘Catholic’ Careful readers of Caputo’s said. 16 novels, memoirs, a travelogue Riordan is redeemed by the writer, not only in the sense of work will no doubt pick up his and countless magazine and op- end, but it does not come without being concerned with moral ques - journalism experience as a ed pieces in U.S. journals. significant hardship and loss, and, tions and dilemmas, but also in source for lively, relevant story - His latest novel, Some Rise by in its own way, it echoes the mus - the sense that my mind seemed to telling. Two previous novels, To advertise in the Sin (2017) may have more reso - ings earlier raised by A Rumor of hark back to an ancient, or at any Crossers (2009) and Acts of nance with Catholic readers. It War . rate a pre-modern, mode of Faith (2005) fictionalize contem - Prairie tells the story of American Fran - Describing some of the car - thought.” porary issues in social justice, ciscan Father Timothy Riordan nage he witnessed as a U.S. But where some writers might illegal border crossings and Messenger serving as pastor of rural parish Marine in 1965, Caputo wrote in turn their backs on faith and be - humanitarian relief work in the call in the Sinaloa state, a rugged A Rumor of War : lief after witnessing war, brutali - Third World. 306-682-1772 area dominated by the Sierra “The sight of mutilation did ty, corruption and incomprehensi - “Being a reporter has been very Madre Mountains that run along more than cause me physical ble suffering, Caputo is hanging important in writing fiction,” or fax Mexi co’s West Coast. It’s one of revulsion; it burst the religious on to core belief. Caputo said. “The skills I ac quired 306-682-5285 myths of my Catholic boyhood. I “Sustaining any kind of faith is in journalism — digging into email: could not look at those (dead) men a struggle, but faith, I think, is a facts, interviewing people . . . have [email protected] Mastromatteo is a Toronto- and still believe their souls had sine qua non for survival, emo - been a great help in my research.” based writer and editor. ‘passed on’ to another existence, tional and psychological,” he told After an impressive body of February 7, 2018 ARTS & CULTURE Prairie Messenger 9 Taking seriously religion’s role in a connected world

“Pachamama” (Mother Earth) and “buen vivir” (to live Readings well). Bolivia adopt - ed a new constitution & Meanings that included provi - sions establishing “the right of anyone Gerald Schmitz to take legal action to defend Mother Earth, Much secular scholarship has cism is often presented as blas - should practices de - been dismissive of the role of re - phemous by the defenders of the stroy the precarious li gion. Although that has changed free market and private property natural equilibrium.” somewhat in recent years, as the rights.” This possibility is echoed Smith’s summary co-editors of this important vol - and elaborated by Smith in his chapter re views the ume note, religious activists were conclusion. many ways in which often “written off as remnants of The book’s first chapters pro - religious ideas and traditions” destined to disappear vide some historical context on practice have been under “modernization” processes. the relationship between religion impacted by econom - Any residual religious activity and modern capitalism, and some ic globalization, as that remained would be confined data on comparative demographic indeed have all to the private sphere. I recall that trends of religious adherence in Gerald Schmitz aspects of modern in 1976 when I decided to do my different countries and regions. SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL — The 2018 Sundance Film Festival Jan. 18 - 28 life. There are forms political science doctoral disserta - The next chapters then examine screened 191 feature and short films from 29 countries. At the opening press con - of religion and spiri - tion on the political significance the three main forms of recent ference, from left: Barbara Chai, Entertainment Editor, MarketWatch, and Head tuality that are very of liberation theology in Latin religious activism in turn. Chap- of Arts and Culture coverage, Dow Jones Group; Robert Redford, president and comfortable with the America, and specifically the role ters four through 10 look at the founder Sundance Institute; Keri Putnam, executive director, Sundance Institute; prosperous develop - John Cooper, director, Sundance Film Festival. “From the beginning, the purpose various ways in which religious ment they associate of Archbishop Helder Câmara in of the Sundance Film Festival has been to support artists and their stories, and this Brazil, it seemed a most unusual ideas have promoted, or at least year, our mission seemed especially relevant. Supporting independent voices, and with modern corpo - subject, one that challenged the accommodated, capitalist systems listening to the stories they tell, has never been more necessary,” said Redford. rate and consumer dominant narrative in a number of development. The most asser - Watch for highlights beginning the Feb. 15 issue. capitalism. There are of respects. tive and far-reaching are those of forms that can be Of course the forecasts of reli - the “prosperity gospels” preached Chapters 11 through 13 exam - caring for God’s creation is seen comfortably accommodated gion fading away proved to be by American Protestant evangeli - ine religious activism that ad - as a moral imperative, it affects within a neoliberal ideology of famously wrong. There was the cal Christianity, which have gen - vanc es a critique of capitalism lifestyle and economic choices. globalization. Religion and spiri - Islamist revolution in Iran, and erally been aligned with the con - and advocates reforms to mitigate Ecological sustainability cannot tuality can be privatized and dis - the influence of Pope John Paul II servative or right wing side of the its failings and negative effects. be sacrificed for profits and connected from broader societal in undermining communist rule in political spectrum. Particularly important have been growth as the measure of a good concerns. By limiting the influ - countries that had been officially As Michael Wilkinson ex - campaigns for corporate social economy. ence of faith to personal choices, atheist for decades. The resur - plains: “The prosperity gospel is responsibility, for ethical invest - In chapter 14 Peter Smith and in a kind of “religious supermar - gence of religion could not be characterized by themes of abun - ing and consumption, for fair Elizabeth Smythe discuss the role ket” catering to “the individual ignored. Alarmingly, there was dance, blessing, health, wealth, trade, fair taxation, and the like. of religion in global justice move - need for meaning,” it loses any also the growing menace of ter - and victory. These cultural values As Michael MacLeod observes: ments that, in putting forward a larger socio-critical potential. rorist groups claiming religious have translated into specific eco - “In addition to the creation of systemic critique of neoliberal Religion, so conceived and cir - motivations however miscon - nomic action in the United States many specific religiously moti - global capitalism, make the case cumscribed, poses no challenge ceived. And it is these extreme and throughout the world among vated investment funds, faith- that “another world is possible.” to dominant ideological narra - manifestations of a violent reac - millions of Christians.” That based activism has also been Their main focus is on the World tives. tionary nature that have tended to global spread has been facilitated leading in the collective mobiliza - Social Forum which began in By contrast, Smith emphasizes get the most media attention. by the influence of multimedia tion of resources to promote Brazil in 2001 as an alternative to the emergence of a “spirituality of This book is not about them. evangelists, “pastorpreneurs,” and greater social responsibility of the elite gathering of the World resistance” that confronts the inter - Rather it examines the role of the outreach activities of mega - business.” Economic Forum (WSF) in related ecological and economic religion much more broadly in churches. Interfaith ecumenical coali - Davos. They argue that, while the crises facing the planet and that contemporary societies in relation Examples in the Global South tions have led the way. In Canada WSF defines itself as a diverse embraces a holistic vision of global to the “neoliberal” international in clude what Asonzeh Ukah terms the Taskforce on the Churches “non-confessional” space for con - justice for all. He devotes several political economy that has spread testing neoliberal economics, reli - pages to the seminal 2015 encycli - across the globe. By “neoliberal” Sabine Dreher and Peter J. Smith, eds., gious actors (notably the World cal of Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ is meant an ideology that pro - Religious Activism in the Global Economy: Council of Churches) have played (On Care for Our Common Home), motes market-oriented policies a prominent role from its found - which “reverberated around the open to international trade and Promoting, Reforming or Resisting Neoliberal ing onward, and that, moreover, world” and from which he cites the investment. The authors identify Globalization? global social justice movements following passage: and analyze divergent forms of Rowan & Littlefield, London and New York, 2016 have made room for “spirituality There needs to be a distinctive religious activism in relation to with its emphasis on affect, emo - way of looking at things, a way of the forces of neoliberal globaliza - tion, authenticity, relating to oth - thinking, policies, an educational tion. Some are supportive of free ers, and interconnectedness with program, a lifestyle and a spiritu - markets and individualism. There “prosperity Pentecostalism” in and Corporate Responsibility was one another and the Earth.” It is ality which together generate are even “prosperity gospels” that Africa. Other religious traditions created in 1975. (In 2001 it be- noteworthy that one of the origi - resistance to the assault of the link personal faith to successful have also made business-friendly came part of a larger social jus - nators of the WSF is a Brazilian technocratic paradigm. Other - capitalist growth. Some religious accommodations. A chap ter by tice coalition KAIROS.) In the Catholic, Francisco Whitaker, wise, even the best ecological ini - activism promotes a communitar - Surya Prakash Upadhyay looks at U.S. there is the Interfaith Center who “takes his theological inspi - tiatives can find themselves ian as well as individual ethics, “Neoliberal Capitalism and the on Corporate Social Responsi- ration from Archbishop Helder caught up in the same globalized seeking to reform capitalist econ - Emergence of Corporate Hindu - bility and in the U.K. the Church Câmara and Liberation theolo - logic. o mies: for example, through “fair ism in Urban India.” Several Investors Group. A good deal of gian Leonardo Boff.” (He has As Smith comments: “We trade,” debt relief, implementa - chapters explore the complicated Canadian religious activity has served on the Brazilian Catholic need to go much deeper than tion of corporate social responsi - and contested relationships of addressed foreign mining opera - Bishops Justice and Peace Com- what the ruling political and eco - bility principles, redistributive Islam to neoliberal economic tions in which Canadian compa - mission which was among the nomic elites prescribe. . . . the taxation and welfare policies, etc. development. In addition to the nies and financial institutions are organizers of the first WSF.) pope’s encyclical is clearly politi - More radical is the emergence of cases of Tunisia and Lebanon, major players. Religious groups The book does not neglect the cal, suggesting the need for sys - religious activism that seeks a especially fraught is that of in the affected countries have also increasing role of indigenous peo - temic change in the economy and fundamental social-democratic Turkey where the ruling Justice used “naming and shaming” ples who have been among the in how we live and associate with and ecologically sustainable alter - and Development Party (AKP) strategies to draw attention to world’s most oppressed and ex - one another.” native to the prevailing system of has been in a power struggle with abuses and lobby for reforms. ploited populations. As they en- Secularists, including many globalized growth-oriented capi - the quasi-religious trans national Papal encyclicals, which have gage in the struggle of decolo - academics, have tended to dis - talism. “Hismet” movement based on the long stressed the social responsi - nization they are recovering their count the role of religion or see it The co-editors find inspiration teachings of Fethullah Güllen. bilities of economic actors, have own religious traditions and spiri - only in a negative light. To the in the latter movement for change. (The increasingly autocratic AKP been increasingly critical of a tuality, bringing these to bear contrary, what the above shows is Dreher in her introduction ex - government’s sweeping purge of globalized economy that widens among the voices of resistance to the power of a religious and spiri - presses a “hope that the religious Güllen followers took place after the gap between rich and poor. the juggernaut of neoliberal glob - tual critique to be more relevant resurgence sweeping through the this book’s publication. Whatever The environmental movement has alization. A chapter by Marcos than ever in challenging the pre - planet may also support a neces - the pro-development elements in also had a marked impact on Scauso explores the decolonial vailing idolatries (with respect to sary fundamental transformation the ideologies of both, a climate many faith communities, includ - project of “Indianismo” in Latin money, markets, technocracy) of an economy that has taken on of instability is usually bad for ing among young evangelicals in America, notably Bolivia where it that have characterized economic god-like features and whose criti - business.) the U.S. When protecting and has given rise to concepts of globalization in our time. 10 Prairie Messenger DEEPENING OUR FAITH February 7, 2018 To trust and repent is to put on our ‘highest mind’

of the Old Testament, and vindicated all of Jesus’ teach - by the following story: ings in the New Testament. A psychiatric nurse was told the lurid history of a cer - In the Gospel, Jesus, the faithful one, the New Israel, tain patient who had committed a terrible crime, had served Liturgy is tested in the desert like the old Israel. Luke tells us that his time and now was sent to the hospital to die. He did not the Spirit drove Jesus there — it was something he and Life had to do to be the new faithful Israel. The expres - sion “forty days” means “the time that it takes to bring something to completion, to fullness.” Jesus Sylvain Lavoie, OMI stayed there until Satan had exhausted his efforts to tempt him to betray who he was, the divine Son of God, by using his divine power in a selfish way, and Two movies speak to the readings today. Noah more or of course, Satan was unsuccessful — Jesus stayed less literally portrays how Noah and his family are true to his relationship with God and to his humanity. snatched out of a wicked world to hopefully begin anew, Having proven himself to be the New Israel, the almost against Noah’s own worldview. Hunger Games — faithful Son of God by both his baptism and the The Mocking Jay , featuring Jennifer Lawrence, touches on temptations in the desert, Jesus went up to Galilee the archetypal themes of good versus evil, only in this after John was arrested. Galilee in the gospels, unlike movie, the non-ending implies that evil triumphs over Jerusalem, symbolizes the time in Jesus’ ministry good, as we hear the words, “There is no more District 12.” when all went well, when he was accepted by the Today’s liturgy invites us not just to believe that good people, performed miracles, healed the sick, raised triumphs over evil, but to live the Good News of a new the dead, preached and taught throughout the region. life through faith and repentance. His message is key to living in the reign of God: The first two readings build on the story of Noah. In repent and believe. We are to put our total and com - Genesis, God makes a covenant relationship with Noah plete trust in him as the Son of God, the New Israel and his family. They were to live with God in a new way, who alone can give us that new life that the flood could want anyone to know what he had done and could not on a renewed earth. Interestingly, that covenant was made only symbolize. We are to believe in him who is the true believe that God could forgive his crime, so he resisted any with all the animals and all of creation — a reminder that victor over evil. That is why the Gospel is good news, or attempt at reconciliation. The nurse showed him every the original “bible” or revelation was the book of creation evangelion in Greek. Warriors who were victorious in war courtesy. She tucked him in at night, provided him with lit - itself. Richard Rohr calls this the first religion, or “awe- used to send messengers ahead of them to announce the tle favours, remembered his birthday, asked about his fami - ism.” The sign of this covenant would be a rainbow and ly, wrote him notes on her day off and developed a friend - the promise that there would never be another flood. Genesis 9:8-15 ship with him. Near the end, his closest friend came to see First Sunday of Lent St. Peter in the second reading adds that the people of Psalm 25 him and begged him to be reconciled with God. He persist - Noah’s day refused to believe. That is the same sin as the 1 Peter 3:18-22 ed in his belief that God could not forgive him. In despera - February 18, 2018 Pharisees and religious leaders of Jesus’ day, who refused Mark 1:12-15 tion, the friend reminded him of the love the nurse had to believe in him as Son of God. Their unbelief led to his shown him and suggested that God could do the same. The innocent death for our sins; his descent into hell or Hades good news, evangelion , of their victory in battle. Well, this man replied that if the nurse knew what he had done, she to bring salvation to the justified dead of the Old is the true good news about the real victor in battle, Jesus too would reject him. The friend confessed that he had told Testament, and to open up for us a new way of life that the new Josuah, who brings his people into the Promised the nurse his whole story when he entered so she knew would be initiated not by a flood, but by the waters of bap - Land of a new life with God, free from sin and darkness. what he had done. The man was stunned and astonished. tism. The proof and the pledge of this is nothing other than We are also to repent. In Greek the word is metanoia , He broke down into tears, saying that if she could love him the resurrection of Jesus, which fulfilled all the prophecies which means “putting on a higher mind.” It is the opposite knowing all that he had done, then God too could love him. of paranoia which means to have a “divided mind,” to be The eucharist is a living out of our baptism, a renewal of two minds, to be confused and without direction. To of our covenant with God through the Body and Blood of Lavoie, Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of repent means to change our whole way of being, to let go Jesus, an act of repentance, and a deep act of faith. It is Keewatin-The Pas, is chaplain at the Star of the North of any sin and darkness in our lives, to be the best person also a celebration of the kingdom of God in our midst. Retreat House in St. Albert, Alta. He continues to live out we can possibly be, to put on our highest mind. May our celebration deepen our faith, enhance our his motto, Regnum Dei Intra Vos (the kingdom of God is This is an invitation to experience this good news, this repentance, and help us to live and proclaim this Good among you), which is his overriding focus and passion. new way of life, through faith and repentance, illustrated News. Jesus Christ is no ‘superstar,’ just a dying, rising Messiah

because Jesus immediately shuts it triumph, as a man so powerful, transform evil into good, hatred down. What Jesus says to Peter is strong, attractive, and invulnerable into love, bitterness into forgive - In not so much: “Don’t tell anyone that everyone would simply have ness, humiliation into glory. That’s that I’m the Christ,” but rather, to fall at his feet. Hence Jesus’ the proper work of a Messiah. “Don’t tell anyone that I am what sharp reply: “Don’t tell anyone In Matthew’s Gospel this same Exile you think the Christ should be. about that !” event is recorded and this same That’s not who I am.” Jesus then goes on to instruct question is asked and Peter gives Ron Rolheiser, OMI Like virtually all of his contem - Peter, and the rest of us, he really the same response, but Jesus’ poraries and not unlike our own is a saviour. He’s not Superman or answer to him here is very differ - fantasies of what a saviour should a superstar in this world or a mira - ent. In Matthew’s account, after look like, Peter no doubt pictured cle worker who will prove his Peter says: “You are the Christ, the There’s an oddity in the gospels right conditions within which his the saviour who was to come as a power through spectacular deeds. Son of the Living God,” rather than that begs for an explanation: Jesus, identity should be revealed? superman, a superstar who would Who is he? warn him not to talk about it, Jesus it seems, doesn’t want people to That question is centre stage in vanquish evil through a worldly tri - The Messiah is a dying and ris - praises Peter’s answer. Why the know his true identity as the Mark’s Gospel, at Caesarea umph within which he would sim - ing Messiah , someone who in his difference? Because Matthew Christ, the Messiah. He keeps Philippi, when Jesus asks his disci - ply overpower everything that’s own life and body will demon - recasts the scene so that, in his ver - warning people not to reveal that ples: “Who do you say that I am?” wrong by miraculous powers. Such strate that evil is not overcome by sion, Peter does understand the he is the Messiah. Why? Peter answers: “You are the Christ.” a saviour would not be subject to miracles, but by forgiveness, mag - Messiah correctly. Some scholars refer to this as Then, in what seems like a surpris - any weakness, humiliation, suffer - nanimity, and nobility of soul and How do we imagine the Mes - “the messianic secret,” suggesting ing response, Jesus, rather than ing, or death and his superiority that these are attained not through siah? How do we imagine triumph? that Jesus did not want others to praising Peter for his answer, warns and glory would have to be ac - crushing an enemy but through Imagine Glory? If Jesus looked us know his true identity until the him sternly not to tell anyone about knowledged by everyone, willing loving him or her more fully. And square in the eye and asked, as he conditions were ripe for it. There’s what he has just acknowledged. or begrudgingly. There would be the route to this is paradoxical: the asked Peter: “How do you under - some truth in that, there’s a right Peter seemingly has given him the no holdouts; his demonstration of glory of the Messiah is not demon - stand me?” Would he laud us for moment for everything, but that right answer and yet Jesus immedi - power would leave no room for strated by overpowering us with our answer or would he tell us: still leaves the question unan - ately, and sternly, warns him to doubt or opposition. He would tri - spectacular deeds. Rather, it is “Don’t tell anyone about that!” swered: Why? Why does Jesus keep that to himself. Why? umph over everything and would demonstrated in Jesus letting him - want to keep his true identity Simply put, Peter has the right reign in a glory such as the world self be transformed through secret? What would constitute the answer, but the wrong conception conceives of glory, that is, as the accepting with proper love and Are you Moving? of that answer. He has a false Ultimate Winner, as the Ultimate graciousness the unavoidable pas - Please let us know a month notion of what it means to be the Champion — the winner of the sivity, humiliation, diminishment, in advance. Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, Messiah. Olympic medal, the World Cup, the and dying that eventually found Write to: and award-winning author, is In the centuries leading up to Super Bowl, the Academy Award, him. That’s the dying part. But Circulation Dept. president of the Oblate School of the birth of Jesus and among the Nobel Prize, the winner of the when one dies like that or accepts Prairie Messenger Box 190 Theology in San Antonio, Texas. Jesus’ contemporaries there were great trophy or accolade that defini - any humiliation or diminishment in Muenster, Sask. S0K 2Y0 He can be contacted through his numerous notions of what the tively sets one above others. this way, there’s always a subse - [email protected] website: www.ronrolheiser.com. Christ would look like. We don’t When Peter says: “You are the quent rising to real glory, that is, to Undeliverable papers cost twice Now on Facebook: www.face - know which notion Peter had, but Christ!” that’s how he’s thinking the glory of a heart so stretched as much to return. book.com/ronrolheiser obviously it wasn’t the right one about it, as earthly glory, worldly and enlarged that it is now able to February 7, 2018 FEATURE Prairie Messenger 11 The PM: over a century of Benedictine journalism

This is the first of seven articles on the Prairie Messenger and the past 100 years of journalism by the Benedictine monks of St. Peter’s Abbey.

By Paul Paproski, OSB They were members of a religious order that had a history of struggle The closing of the Prairie and perseverance. The first pho - Messenger in May of 2018 will tographs of the monastery display signal much more than the end of a a pristine land which was largely Catholic newspaper. This year prairie and wilderness. Many of brings to a conclusion more than a the first buildings were made of century of dedicated journalism by logs and the roads were primitive the Benedictines of St. Peter’s trails used by horses and buggies. Abbey. The Catholic weekly was The Benedictines needed to over - born in a small German-Catholic come many obstacles to get their colony in the Northwest Territories newspaper off the ground. Sub - that was opening to settlers. The scribers, advertisers and correspon - newspaper served the colony and dents had to be found and they later expanded to Western Canada would be among pioneers who and across the nation and its bor - were struggling to build their own ders to touch the hearts of people homes, homesteads, churches, struggling to live the message of schools and communities. the Gospel. The coming of the railroad in The Benedictines came to Can - 1904 - 05 made it possible to haul ada in 1903 to provide German- a printing press to St. Peter’s speaking priests for second-genera - Colony. It was more convenient to tion German-Catholic settlers. print the Bote locally and printing SPA Archives Only one year later, after barely costs were lower in Muenster than COLONY PIONEERS — Parishioners of St. Peter’s Parish in Muenster stand in front of the second getting a foothold in their new in Winnipeg. Meanwhile, there Benedictine monastery of St. Peter’s Abbey. St. Peter’s (log) Church is to the left and the printing press land, the Benedictines agreed to were other apostolates to build that building stands next to the church. The Benedictines of St. Peter’s Colony opened their first newspaper in establish a newspaper. The news - would help ensure the success of 1904, one year after arriving in Canada. The printing operation began in Winnipeg and moved in 1905 to paper, one of the apostolates of the the Bote . The Benedictines began a the colony. monks, was more than a local mixed farming operation and gar - source of news. It was an instru - den. They provided pastors for The editors of the Bote and its Peter’s Messenger in 1923, there name of the newspaper was ment for promoting St. Peter’s churches and strongly encouraged English successor were all Bene - were two newspapers in St. Peter’s changed to The Prairie Messenger . Colony and German-Catholic tra - colonists to build separate and pri - dictines. (During a few transition Colony, one in English and one in Rev. James Gray served as edi - ditions. On Feb. 11, 1904 (114 vate Catholic schools. years there were non-Benedictine German. The Bene dictines did tor from 1962 to 1972. He wrote in years almost to the day), the first The dream of building a mon - editors.) All the Benedictine edi - change their German newspaper his final editorial, “Words be come issue of the German-Catholic astery and German-Catholic col - tors had a common baptism and into an English publication previ - flesh,” his understanding of the weekly, St. Peter’s Bote (Bote ), ony could only happen through vocation in a religious congrega - ous to the inauguration of St. mission of the Catholic newspaper: rolled off the press in Winnipeg. hard work and income. Prior tion famous for its promotion of Peter’s Messenger . The Bote was “From the beginning the PM has The printing operation moved to Alfred Mayer and his successor, church life and education. The men printed in English near the end of been its own master, paying court Muenster in 1905 when the Bene - Prior Bruno, in 1906, became ex- had an understanding of events the First World War in obedience to no power but the power of dictines purchased a printing press. perts at borrowing from colonists within and outside the colony and to an Order in Council under the God’s Word become Flesh. . . . The Another newspaper, St. Peter’s and banks and begging for funds they illustrated this knowledge in War Measures Act. The Order single and simple objective of the Messenger , was established 18 and mass stipends from Abbot editorials and articles. The monks required that any publication in the editors of the PM has always been years later to meet the needs of the Peter Engel of St. John’s Abbey in were united in a common zealous - language of a country at war with to bring Christ and the Gospel’s readership who were speaking Minnesota. The American abbot ness for journalism and promoting Canada would need a licence to themes into the day to day life of English. The first issue of St. was amenable to the re quests for the Gospel. The zeal of the editors continue publication. A request by the Christian people.” Peter’s Messenger was published financial help. Thou sands of dol - also set them apart. They had the Bote to continue in German on May 24, 1923. The Bote contin - lars in loans, gifts and mass strong convictions about church was denied, so the Bene dictines ued publishing until July 31, 1947. stipends from St. John’s en sured life and politics that were shaped published in English under the ‘The brush is The Benedictines were ground - that the Benedictines would have a by their environments and the out - name of St. Peter’s Bote until Dec. ed in a faith tradition that prepared foothold in Canada. The monastic side world. The formative years of 30, 1919, when the Order in too broad’ them for their new life in Canada. community was grateful for the the Benedictines defined how they Council was revoked. support of Engel. St. Peter’s understood the Gospel and their Canada had a strong British Colony and St. Peter’s Abbey were mission in the church and colony. heritage with close ties to Eng land. Continued from page 3 Paproski is a monk of St. named in honour of the abbot, as The Benedictines came to The dominant Anglo-Saxon Peter’s Abbey, a pastor, an well as Englefeld, a community to Canada to live in a monastic com - Protestants wanted all immigrants Crean speculates that a book of archivist and a historian. the east. munity that was immersed in to become British. The establish - ethics and epidemiology essays German-Catholic traditions and ment was suspicious of everyone called It’s Not That Simple , which supported a German-Catholic who was not British and tensions the deVeber Institute distributed to Star of the North Retreat Centre colony. The Catholic weekly was were heightened with people of all MPs during the assisted suicide an important instrument in up - German heritage during the First debate, may have landed them on a 3A St. Vital Ave, St. Albert, Alta. holding these traditions. The and Second World Wars. The Liberal blacklist. Register online at: monks soon realized that the local Bene dictines were proud of their “A party platform is being put www.starofthenorth.ca community was intertwined with German-Catholic heritage and forward for the disbursement of the outside world. It was impossi - were loyal Canadian citizens. The public funds,” said Crean. “The or call 780-459-5511 ble to ignore the rest of the country monks exemplified their loyalty by brush is too broad. The brush that is and the nations beyond Can ada’s sending the first copy of St. Peter’s painting us out of the picture, that borders when outside events and Messenger to Regina where it was brush that is painting any Canadian Did Your God Grow Up? Healing Our Image of God decisions affected issues important delivered, May 22, 1923, to in any organization that does not with Ma Linn, SJ to the local colony. The vision of Premier Charles A. Dunning, the agree. . . . The government is really This retreat aims to help heal the wounds that prevent us from each editor was transformed as he lieutenant-governor and members playing politics with voluntary discovering and trusng the God of Life. www.linnministries.org came to see the church and its mis - of the cabinet. The premier organizations across the country; 7 p.m. Friday, March 2 to 1 p.m. Sunday, March 4 sion in a new light through each responded, in kind, by a congratu - silencing legitimate conscience Live­in: $250; Commute: $190 passing decade. latory letter, but was mildly critical objections.” There was one issue that united of an editorial taking to task the Michel MacDonald, executive Hands­On Forgiveness: Breaking Free and Moving Forward all the editors and journalists from provincial government for its lack director of the Catholic Or ganiza - with Fr. Peter Doherty, OMI & Pa­Anne Kay the very beginning and it was of support for farmers. tion for Life and Family, said the Parcipants will be given Tools and Strategies to facilitate their “money.” The German and Eng lish The May 22, 1924, issue mark - problem is that “other pro-life personal journeys of forgiveness. newspapers were always short of ing the first anniversary of St. groups can be painted with the 7 p.m. Friday, March 16 to 1 p.m. Sunday, March 18 cash and in need of new sub - Peter’s Messenger proclaimed that same brush.” Live­in: $250; Commute: $190 scribers. The Benedictines could the newspaper was continuing to Campaign Life Coalition’s only keep their publications above grow “sturdy and strong.” Its four youth arm stopped using graphic A Path and a Small Light with Paula D’Arcy ground if they subsidized it. Prior pages had developed into eight, abortion imagery in 2015, but the In this retreat we will explore what we can do, through our choices Bruno soon realized in come from and the number of subscribers had organization doesn’t condemn and by widening our perspecve, to not only nourish our own subscriptions and advertising increased from 37 to many times randomly stuffing mailboxes with spirit, but to be an instrument of change for the world. This is a would be insufficient, not only to that number. “The watchword of abortion photos. silent retreat. Please bring a journal. www.redbirdfoundaon.com meet printing expenses, but also to the Messenger is ‘Service’ — in “I think they’re a necessary 7 p.m. Friday, April 27 to 1 p.m. Sunday, April 29 pay press staff the wages to which defence of the church, and the evil, if you will,” Gunnarson said. Live­in: $250; Commute: $190 they were entitled. advancement of her interests,” a “A necessary part because they’re With the inauguration of St. front-page article read. In 1928, the showing the evil of abortion.” 12 Prairie Messenger FEATURE February 7, 2018 Oblate programs carry values beyond the monastery

Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister delivered a keynote address at Oblate programs are not simply heart into a world in chaos. or also the other and how would the Fourth International Oblate Congress, which took place Nov. 4 - there for monastics to strengthen They need, most of all, an we know it if we ever saw it? 10 in Rome. The following is Chittister’s address, “Let the call be an Oblate’s special gifts but for opportunity to make a faith-journey Now is our time to carry these heard.” It was published on National Catholic Reporter the monastery to learn from the that is regular and deep and tried vibrant and world-changing (https://www.ncronline.org) Jan. 9, 2018, and is reprinted with permis - wisdom and knowledge that sin - and true — and they need someone charisms back into a world that sion. This is the last of three parts. gle life and married life of our to walk the journey with them. To needs them so badly now. oblates are offering us, as well. teach them the way, to point out the For many, the pious image of By Joan Chittister for their labour, monastics edu - And Oblates for their part must path, to monitor the going, to Cluny and its 24-hour prayer cated the poor to prepare them to learn the pervasive power of age- applaud the efforts, and to care schedule remains. But the Cluny Finally, Oblate programs seen make the leap from serfdom to old spiritual traditions and truisms about both them and the tradition who refused starving peasants the as both consumers of the tradition self-direction. for the quality of life today. enough to walk the way with them. harvest in their barns is an aberra - and as part of its present carriers, It is a cry to us to participate in Monastics, who are accustomed Oblate programs are not meant tion of a great tradition of care as well, enable both its body of the renewal of our own societies to the security of group projects, to be this decade’s substitute for and service, education and heal - oblates and the religious commu - still caught in the materialism that must learn the breathtaking impact ladies aid societies or monastery ing, justice and peace. And so the nity itself to strengthen the gifts dries out the soul and to engage of the kind of independent and guilds or alumnae programs or peasants of the day tore it down. of the other and to learn from the ourselves, as well, in modelling individual actions that lay associ - community auxiliaries. Cluny is at best a warning of gifts of the other at the same time. other, deeper, longer lasting val - ates, in their isolated lives, risk Oblate programs need to be what happens when a religious As Abba Arsenius and the old ues. every day, take for granted every the spiritual ripple, the life com - order goes sour. When re li- day, brave without end every day. panion, and the support of the Instead we are at a common gion failed it self We must look to one another monasteries to which they belong table, you and I, called the and spawned for the wisdom of experience each — a call to community that is so church. We are called to share a na tional divi - of us brings to the table from a rare in a world of isolates. common feast, with the world sions in stead of different part of life, another facet They need to extend the out - around us. We bear a common peace, Ben e- of living, a completely distinct reach, the depth, and the breadth responsibility to bring the bread dictines strug - perspective on being Christian, on of monasteries that built the last of life to every dying thing we gled to create being whole. era and, now smaller, must begin see. We owe to the world now the rule for war and There are challenges, of course; to build again. cup of blood that is our own. sought to bring it is an adjustment period for us all. They are the hope that in this We are companions on the spiritual dis - In the first place, monastics and century, too, the life and values way and keepers of a great spiri - cernment to the religious at large are just learning and spirituality of the Benedictine tual tradition, born in times of intricacy of hu - to learn from the laity. Religious vision — now centuries tried and stress and discord, inheritors of man relation - are coming to a sense of a wisdom true — can be born in us again. merciless war and death, healers ships. beyond the conventional. And most of all, if our Oblate of spiritual poverty and physical That model We are discovering that with the programs are to be authentic, let pain, rampant oppression and is a cry to us to open door that characterized the there be Oblates who will carry great human need. see the devel - foundresses of our mission monas - these values beyond the monas tery This is not a time to mistake opment of teries goes their own sense of per - to corporate offices and city streets the first great cenobitic tradition Bene dictine fect privacy and antiseptic control — even, if necessary, into monas - of history for some kind of spiri - values as our of circumstances and physi cal teries themselves that have become tual spa, where we can burrow in social responsi - environments and regular sched - too quiet, too comfortable with the and ignore the call of Jesus to bility — not an ules and sanctifying seclusion. world as it is, rather than commit - hear the call of the poor. ex cuse to with - We are learning that life itself ted to shaping a world as it must Now is our time to carry these draw from so- is not neat and that neat can be a become. vibrant and world-changing char - ciety in the trap that swallows us into the In this most violent of cen - isms back into a world that needs name of false middle of ourselves where noth - turies, the blood of our children them so badly now. and fruitless ing grows but narcissism. runs in our streets because we Let us then with Ruth and CNS/Paul Haring piety in the face Religious are finding that what have taught them violence well. Naomi, Elisha and Elija, Judith and of the Jesus GIFTS — Oblate programs are not simply there for the lay seeker, and most often lay If our Oblate programs are to be her maidservant, Timothy and Paul, monastics to strengthen an Oblate’s special gifts but for who says clear - women lack most, is space. They authentic, let there be peacemaking as Oblates and monastics compan - the monastery to learn from the wisdom and knowl - ly: “By their need space for the quiet that a Oblates, with the peacemaking ion one another again to prophetic edge that single life and married life of our oblates are fruits you will clinging child does not give for charism of a Benedict of Nursia truth, to gospel voice, to brave wit - offering us, as well, says Joan Chittister, OSB. know them.” one moment a day. They need who put down weapons in order to ness, to contemplative courage to When fami - space to talk about their own do battle for Christ the King. risk the new life everywhere. peasant knew, it is the wisdom we ly industries broke down, and fami - dreams and hopes and questions. In this most sexist of worlds, Let us, in other words, be true to seek together that will be most ly farms disappeared, when the And they need someone to talk women to this day are raped, the tradition we hold in common. likely true. new industrialization herded men to. They need connectedness — a beaten, bought and sold around Once upon a time a disciple Oblates bring to the monastery into factories giving men money sense of being part of something the world, left to face widowhood asked the holy one, “Holy one, the gift of immersion in another but women nothing, women mo- larger than themselves, something without adequate resources, invis - what is the difference between whole dimension of life with all nastics opened schools for girls and that enables them to know that on ible in all the major decision- knowledge and enlightenment?” its insights, all its understandings, boys alike so that the seeds of a the wide stage of the planet, they making arenas of both church and And the holy one said, “When all its muddy, complex complica - world without sexism would some - too count on the issues that make state, deprived of both equal pay you have knowledge, you use a tions, and its cry for our aware - day be not only possible but imper - the Gospel real and the beatitudes and meaningful promotions. torch to illuminate the way. When ness our understanding, our in - ative. They began to provide true and the resurrection possible If our Oblate programs are to you are enlightened, you become volvement, and our voice. women, too, with the education, for everyone. be authentic, let there be associ - the torch to lead the way.” Monastics bring to Oblates the and the child care, and the health They are finding out that lay ates with the spirituality of a Where do you come from? You lived experience and real witness care and the status their lives would men need a sanctuary where Benedicta Riepp and Hildegard of come from the heart of the Spirit. of a long-standing spiritual tradi - depend on in coming generations. being macho and tough, where Bingen who call the men of the Who are you? You are monas - tion that has withstood the test of It is a call to us, too, to gather inflicting pain and taking pain are world to conscience and account - tic gifts given by God for today. time over centuries of challenge, up the forgotten again, to speak for not the measure of a man. They ability in both church and state. What must you do? You must stabilized whole layers of people the muted again, to paint across are coming to realize that lay men Oblate programs are not meant embody and extend the charisms in the midst of grave dangers and the sky again with our own lives need a place where the spiritual to be pious additions to a string of or gifts of the Spirit long embed - given direction to whole bodies of the vision of a brighter, more just life is nurtured in them, not derid - private devotions. Benedictinism ded in this great monastic tradi - seekers at times of great darkness. and equal world once more. ed or considered weak. is a journey into the depths and tion in new and even richer ways. In the fifth century, when the It is the depth of those spiritual They are beginning to under - demands of the contemplative So, why do you exist? For one Roman Empire broke down and traditions, the courage of those stand that there are lay men out life, into a prayer life that is real reason, and one reason only: to Europe lay in ruin, Benedictinism spiritual histories, the commit - there who want to learn from the not simply ritualistic. become, like the great monastics was there to give both spiritual ment of those monastics who spiritual wisdom of women for Benedictines stand on a moun - before you, the blazing, flaming, meaning and social organization to brought us to this day, that mo - whom force and power, money tain top of prayer immersed in the searing light to others that you are a people left without either politi - nastic communities hold in trust and profit are not the goals of life. cries of the psalmist, challenged really meant to be. cal centre or spiritual guidance. for those who seek to find. They are coming to understand daily by the prophets, touched to Finally, the truth is that the call It is a cry to us to continue to How can we fail, then, if we that both women and men need to the core by the demands of the to wisdom, to witness, and to one - bring Benedictine values to the are truly forming strong Oblate be invited, to be companioned into Gospel and called by Jesus — lib - ness in community is common to centre of every system. programs, if we are truly seeking the soup kitchens and peace vigils erator, redeemer, healer, and lover us both: Oblate and monastic alike, When the emerging mercantile to be part of the spiritual tradition and social justice groups that con - — to “Come follow me!” and the call must be heard. To geth - society began to consume the we treasure, to form justice-seek - front the state on behalf of the And so Benedictine prayer er you and I must make it happen. lives of the poor for the sake of a ing people, strong and indepen - poor and cry out to the church on leaves us with the questions: As a May you, I, our monasteries new economic system that robbed dent women and men, holy and behalf of women and contradict Benedictine, who are you strug - and our Oblate programs every - the poor of land and paid nothing spiritual laity for our own time? the powers that chain the gling to liberate from the chains where companion one another, Otherwise, how can we hide in oppressed, and so renew the world of rejection, poverty and greed? listen to one another’s wisdom our spiritual jacuzzis, our pious with the message of the Christ. What have you redeemed in a and so become even a stronger Chittister is a Benedictine sister spas and say that we carry the They need monasteries that world full of its own destruction? part of the tradition — both of us of Erie, Pennsylvania. char isms of those before us? will lead them to take a monastic Who do you love? Only the self — than we can ever be alone. February 7, 2018 FEATURE Prairie Messenger 13 European Catholics grapple with the Lord’s Prayer

By Tom Heneghan that churches could not simply rewrite biblical texts. PARIS (RNS) — The Lord’s But it also posed a problem for Prayer has a reassuring ring for German-speaking Austria, where Roman Catholics who recite it in Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of English. The Shakespearean style Vienna agreed with Pope Francis of its opening lines — “Our Father, shortly after the pontiff’s inter - who art in Heaven, hallowed be view. The bishops conference Thy name . . . ” — suggests some - there now has to decide whether to thing ancient and unchanging. follow the pontiff’s advice or to In other languages, however, keep in step with its larger neigh - translations of the prayer Jesus bour and not change anything. taught to his disciples are now the In countries with two or more subject of lively debate. The languages, Catholics can pray dif - French recently updated theirs, ferently according to where they and the Italians will opt for their live. In Belgium, the Wallonia own new version later this year, region adopted the new French while the Germans have just said translation, while Flanders switched a firm “ nein ” to any change. in 2016 to a new Dutch translation Pope Francis, who in his native that says “bring us not to the test.” Spanish prays a version that is Switzerland has a German- slightly different again, encour - speaking majority that has not aged proponents of a new transla - changed its Our Father, a fran - tion in December when he praised cophone minority that will follow the changes made in French. the French example at Easter this But another reform the Ar - year and an Italian-speaking mi - gentine pontiff has championed nority that will make the switch when Italy does. — giving local church hierarchies CNS/Gregory A. Shemitz a greater say in how the original Rev. Adrian Schenker, an emeri - LOST IN TRANSLATION — Worshippers recite the Lord’s Prayer during mass. The Italian and English Latin texts of prayers are translat - tus professor of Old Testament translations of the “Our Father” can give believers the wrong impression that God can and does lead peo - studies at Switzerland’s University ed — gave the German bishops ple into temptation, Pope Francis said. the leeway to refuse to follow the of Fribourg, found a way to say that suggestion he made. much larger France attracted atten - to render prayers from Latin into agree with the objections that oth - both the old and new translations Welcome to the confusing tion in the wider Catholic world. their own languages. ers — including the pope — had were correct. world of Catholic translations, In an interview with the Italian Cardinal Robert Sarah, the to the traditional translation of the Both versions would be possi - where linguistics, theology, ecu - Catholic television station TV2000 conservative head of the Vatican Our Father. ble if the petition were translated menism and power politics clash a few days later, Pope Francis department that oversees transla - “The petition ‘lead us not into back into Jesus’ native tongue, despite the church’s claim to uni - approved the French move and tions, claimed in October that his temptation’ . . . does not express Aramaic, or the Hebrew used for versalism. (The term “catholic” agreed the older version was faulty. office still had the power to im - the suspicion that God could want prayers in the synagogue, so his comes from the Greek word for “(God) is not the one who push - pose its versions on recalcitrant people to fail, but the belief in his original words could have been universal.) es me into temptation,” he said. “A bishops. A week later, the pope justice and mercy,” it said in a five- un derstood both ways, the Do - The problem arises from the father does not do that. . . . The one took the unusual step of publicly page statement explaining why it minican theologian wrote in the fact that Jesus would have recited who leads into temptation is telling Sarah he was wrong. would not change its translation. Neue Zürcher Zeitung . his prayer in Aramaic or Hebrew, Satan.” One effect of this devolution The statement mentioned ecu - “Both translations and both but it was reported in the Gospels Francis actually misquoted the of responsibility became clear last menical reasons for sticking with understandings are possible and so in Greek and later translated into new French translation, explain - week when the German bishops the old version. Bishop Heinrich they must have been intended,” he the Roman church’s official lan - ing in Italian that it said “do not conference, an influential sub - Bedford-Strohm, head of the said. “Wherever the biblical speech guage, Latin. let us fall into temptation.” That group within the world Catholic Evangelical Church in Germany has several meanings, we must A key point of discord: The is the way this line is translated in hierarchy, announced it did not (EKD), had said a week before understand it in its ambiguity.” Latin text of the prayer’s sixth Spanish and Portuguese. petition to God is “ ne nos inducas The Catholic Church in Italy in tentationem ” (“lead us not into proposed almost a decade ago to Compelling mystery: the accent of God temptation”), while the Greek replace “do not lead us into temp - original, which ends with the word tation” with the phrase “do not the face of the earth” (Gen 11:9). “peirasmos ,” can also be translat - abandon us to temptation,” but Could it be, I wondered, that God ed as a “trial” or “test of faith.” only announced recently that its wanted to test how human beings Some non-Catholic churches bishops would meet in November might find better ways to commu - have been more flexible with that to approve its use at mass. Figure of nicate at a deeper and more sub - line and focused on the Greek ver - Italian theologians began work - stantial level, by removing the sion. An ecumenical translation by ing on the change as early as 1988 Speech easy tools of speech? liturgists from around the English- and its bishops approved it in Certainly, for my parents, lan - 2002, Cardinal Giuseppe Betori of speaking world translated it as Dr. Gerry Turcotte guage was eventually no bound - “save us from the time of trial.” Florence told the Italian daily ary at all. Through love, they But Catholic congregations, Avvenire in December. learned to hear each other for which recite the prayer at mass, But a Vatican directive in 2001 . . . the Lord confused the language of all the earth . . . decades until their death. Since want to avoid straying too far titled Liturgiam Authenticam stat - — Genesis 11:9 then I have comforted myself with from the Latin. Theologians dis - ed that all translations of prayers the thought that the Word is about agree on how to transfer that must be as close as possible to the As someone who grew up be - Perhaps because of this I have the importance of communication phrase from a dead language into original Latin, which forced local tween languages, I have always always been fascinated by the sec - and translation. And I remind my - living modern tongues. churches to review all the work been fascinated by the idea of tion of Genesis that describes the self that for the Bible itself — The current confusion began they had recently done and get translation. With a father who building of the Tower of Babel. how ever translated, in whatever when Catholic bishops in France approval from Rome for the didn’t speak English and a mother According to some, the tower was language or form — the essence switched to a new translation on slightest change. who didn’t speak French, I was a built as a safeguard against a sec - of the work is deeper and more Dec. 3, changing the sixth petition Denounced by critics as a bid verbal bridge between them for a ond flood, hence demonstrating mysterious than we can ever fully from “Do not submit us to tempta - by conservatives in the Vatican to very long time. Admittedly, in the humanity’s attempt to second- comprehend. And so understand - tion” — the wording they have exert control over national church- course of their marriage they guess or outwit God. In anger at ing must always be a journey. used since the 1960s — to “Let us es around the world, this led to learned to mangle each other’s this arrogance, the Lord “con - I once asked Mom if the mys - not enter into temptation.” years of haggling between Rome language, yet it remained true that fused” the languages of the Earth. tique of my father disappeared as They argued that God would and commissions of bishops from I largely only spoke French with As a child, though, the story was she learned his language. “No,” not tempt his faithful into sin, so a the major language groups. my dad, and English with my an almost physical emblem of the she answered shyly, “because his new translation was needed to Vatican authorities insisted on mom, and Franglais when they tensions in the community be - accent always reminds me of that avoid the impression that he would translations that critics in several were both together. “Can you pass tween English and French in other world.” Perhaps, in the end, willingly do the devil’s work. language groups, especially Eng - le sel ?” I’d say, or “ la poutine is Mon treal, and a fabulously logical that’s what we should always lis - French-speaking Catholics in lish, thought sounded stilted to great!” Unilingual friends often example of the power of language ten for whenever the Bible is Belgium and Benin had already native speakers and were hard to felt at sea at my place. “It was like to divide. read: the echo of a greater mys - introduced the change in June recite out loud. being on the border of two coun - Over time, though, I began to tery — call it the accent of God 2017, but seeing it happen in Pope Francis, who frequently tries,” a classmate once grumbled, look at this in another way. The — which is always compelling criticizes Vatican centralization, “and not belonging in either.” formation of the languages creat - and just out of reach. For that rea - acted to end this tension in Sep - ed the world in all its magnificent son faith must always be actively Heneghan is a Paris-based tember by issuing an edict saying diversity. After the Lord eliminat - pursued rather than passively correspondent for Religion News that national bishops’ conferences Turcotte is president of St. ed a common tongue, He “scat - received. That, surely, should be Service. would from now on decide how Mary’s University in Calgary. tered” the people “abroad over clear in any language. 14 Prairie Messenger EDITORIALS February 7, 2018

Overlooked countries erbate the dire humanitarian situation.” estimated 14 people were killed, 112 injured, and hun - Next on the list is Eritrea. This eastern African dreds of thousands of homes were flooded. Every day the news media report on disasters nation is cut off from the outside world, but a severe Conflict in Mali, particularly in the northern and around the world, but humanitarian crises are soon drought, lack of food, and water shortages affect central areas of the country, have left more than 900,000 forgotten as the media move on to the next major more than 700,000 inhabitants. In addition, a 2015 people without clean drinking water or sanitation facili - story. The public seems unable to sustain prolonged UN human rights inquiry said the Eritrean govern - ties, according to CARE. This has resulted in outbreaks interest in bad-news stories. ment may have committed crimes against humanity, of diseases that pose major risks to the population. CARE International recently released a report describing extrajudicial killings, widespread torture, In the Democratic Republic of Congo, more than titled “Suffering In Silence: The 10 most under- sexual slavery, and enforced labour. 1.7 million people — 5,500 per day — fled their reported humanitarian crises of 2017.” Seven of the “Half of all children in Eritrea are stunted and homes in 2017 as a result of violence that has been top 10 countries were in Africa, where internal tur - cannot achieve their full mental and physical poten - ongoing for two decades. This has left two million chil - moil, severe weather disasters, and malnutrition have tial,” CARE International reported, “simply because dren acutely malnourished and four million displaced. all contributed to desperate crises. they do not have enough food to develop and grow.” Starvation, extreme weather conditions, poverty, North Korea’s starving population topped the list Eritreans are among the largest group of migrants and war have all contributed to the dire humanitarian for receiving the least media attention globally. arriving on Europe’s doorstep. crisis in Sudan. Of the five million Sudanese living Attention is limited mainly to Pyongyang’s weapons Burundi has a history of political unrest, which is in poverty, 88 per cent are women and children. program — and now North Korea’s participation in fuelling its humanitarian crisis. CARE International Violence and political turmoil in Burundi since the Olympics. cited reports indicating that more than 2.6 million the 2015 election have seen hundreds of thousands “People (in North Korea) urgently require food . . . people — 27 per cent of the population — did not forced into exile. Human rights groups fear for the medical and health services, water and sanitation facili - know how to feed their families: “With political future of the country, with escalating violence result - ties,” CARE reports. unrest and significant human rights concerns persist - ing in nearly 2.6 million people — 27 per cent of the About 18 million people — 70 per cent of the popu - ing, the crisis in Burundi enters its fourth year.” population — uncertain how to feed their families. lation — are food-insecure and rely on government food In Vietnam the most powerful storm in a decade, With 24-hour newscasts on multiple platforms aid, according to UN estimates. CARE International said Typhoon Doksuri, ravaged the country’s long, exposed seven days a week, people can easily become saturat - two in five North Koreans are undernourished: “The coastline in September, triggering widespread power ed, and many global crises are missed. Media outlets impacts of the country’s political regime, together with outages and inflicting damage on 1.5 million people. discontinue coverage, or it is forbidden by national global warming and frequent natural hazards, such as The UN reported more than 11,000 hectares of rice governments. CARE International seeks to bring floods, rising temperatures or prolonged droughts, exac - and other crops were ruined following the storm. An these stories to our attention. — PWN Catholics need critical skills to help create a true culture of life

Are you aware of the numer - provide direction for us to be tural/social sin” and “the ecologi - ous viable alternatives we could prayerfully, reflectively en gaged. cal question” into our highest be putting into place that would St. John Paul II states in his level of official teachings. significantly lessen their genera - 1991 Centesimus Annus (61): Both he and Pope Emeritus Soul tion — including the demand for “After The Second World War, Benedict in his 2009 Caritas in abortions and euthanasia? she (the church) put the dignity of Veritate make it clear it doesn’t Mending “Social” in this sense refers to the person at the centre — insist - matter if it is governments, corpo - anything co-created by humans or ing that material goods were rations or “markets” shaping our that flow from human decisions meant for all.” development modes, including our Yvonne A. Zarowny — whether or not they are made In this encyclical, as with his economies. If dignity for all peo - consciously or in a critically inf - 1987 Sollicitudo Rei Socialis , his ple impacted and respect for all “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for ormed manner. criticisms of capitalism and the aspects of God’s Creation doesn’t someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” — Matthew 19:24 Any arrangement or issue co- American form of “free enter - flow, they constitute structural or created by humans can be changed prise” or “market economies” are social sins. “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” — Matthew 6:10 by humans. scathing compared to his criticism “Good” Catholic formation/ Since St. John XXIII’s 1963 of communism and socialism. education needs to provide us Have you thought about where issues confronting us? Pacem in Terris , Catholic Social It is in this encyclical St. John you get your understanding of our These include the root causes Teachings (CST) assume this and Paul introduces the term “struc - — POLITICS , page 15 actual Official Church Teachings of the unprecedented number of (OCT) or sacred Scripture? Or internal and international refugees, the sources for your understand - wars, structural deficits that deny Stop flushing resources down the drain ing of the life-threatening social the poor and marginalized life with dignity, the increasing concentra - By Cheryl Croucher School of Public Health at the ground as a high-grade fertilizer.” tion of power and wealth in the Troy Media University of Alberta, where he The new concept here is to sep - A critical educator, writer and hands of a few, and our develop - holds the Al berta Innovates arate toilet water, what Ashbolt engaged citizen living in Quali - ment mode’s wanton destruction Once you learn what Dr. Translational Health Chair in calls blackwater, from greywater, cum Beach, B.C., Zarowny is also of Earth — one symptom of which Nicholas Ashbolt does for a liv - Waterborne Di sease. His multidis - the water we flush down the sewer on the leadership team for her is the climate chaos we are experi - ing, you’ll never look at plumb - ciplinary perspective intertwines after bathing, washing clothes and parish’s Justice and Life Ministry. encing. ing the same way again. new approaches to public health, so on. New systems can recover Ashbolt believes water conservation and resource and recycle this spent water. it’s time for a para - recovery. Waterborne pathogens consti - digm shift in the way Take the urine diversion toilet, tute another aspect of Ashbolt’s we think about water, for example. “Eighty per cent of investigations. His research sug - sewage and public the nitrogen that we consume in gests our current plumbing sup - health. From his per - our diet ends up in the urine ports the growth of some patho - spective, wastewater stream,” says Ashbolt. “Why di - gens that cause respiratory dis - has value and we lute that one per cent of the urine ease. Also, fecal germs can be should stop flushing stream with 99 per cent of what propelled into the air like a giant money and resources else is in the sewer? It’s not a sneeze whenever the toilet is down the drain. And very sensible approach.” flushed. People breathe in or pick he questions the wis - And what does a urine diver - up these germs by touching sur- dom of providing sion toilet look like? faces and then spread them treated potable water As Ashbolt explains, “If you around. Switching from our grav - for everything, in - look into the little bowl of a urine ity system to vacuum toilets like cluding fighting fires. diversion toilet, it looks like a those in planes, trains and boats Ashbolt is a conventional pedestal, except at could eliminate that problem. world-renowned the front there’s a little bit of a “With a vacuum flush toilet, environmental micro - weir and a second hole if you like only half a litre or so of water, biologist. Be fore so that the urine can go down a along with 60 litres of air, is coming to Alberta in separate bit of plumbing to a stor - needed to move that residual late 2013, he worked age tank where it can either go in down the sewer,” Ashbolt ex - as an academic and a vacuum or pressure sewer, plains. “That’s a much, much research scientist in pumped out to a central location safer scenario because there are Australia and Swe - where it can then be taken out to no leaks to the environment.” den, followed by agriculture and injected into the A vacuum flush sewer system CNS/Kenny Katombe, Reuters seven years with the also facilitates the separation of CONGO PROTESTS ELECTIONS — Protesters and clergy march during a Jan. American Environ - greywater from blackwater and 21 protest organized by Catholic activists in Kinshasa, Congo. Parishioners and mental Protection Croucher is a veteran broad - allows for the recovery of imbed- clergy planned the march to demand that Congolese President Joseph Kabila hold Agency. Today, he’s a cast and online journalist. fresh elections in line with a church-brokered accord. professor in the www.troymedia.com — HEAT PUMPS , page 15 February 7, 2018 LETTERS Prairie Messenger 15

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The Editor: The article “Bio- light fuel oil and natural gas. (used fryer oil) in 2011. Both conversion technology is viable” Links to these Discover arti - were sold in 2013 to a Calgary- (PM , Jan. 24) by Cheryl Croucher cles can be found at the end of the based company, Ridgeline Energy reminded me of a series of articles company's Wikipedia entry: Services. The plant now appears that I read in Discover magazine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C to be operating successfully. more than 10 years ago. hanging_World_Technologies It should be noted that demand Between 2003 and 2008, Dis- The 2008 Discover article de - for such “renewable fuels” stems cover published four articles ex - tailed the problems Changing largely from government-mandat - amining a new process for trans - World Technologies unfortunately ed reductions in new carbon pro - forming agricultural, industrial, had in scaling up the process to be duction. and municipal waste into usable commercially successful, in terms I would be surprised if the Uni - fuel, other useful products, and of market price and desirability of versity of Alberta spinoff compa - sterile, easily disposed waste. the final products. The use of tur - ny, Forge Hydrocarbons Corp., Changing World Technologies, key offal feedstock in the first large which your article reported on, was beginning in 1999, developed and scale plant led to it being closed not aware of the U.S. history with commercialized a high temperature due to complaints about odour, as converting “dirty” feedstock into “thermal depolymerization” process stated in the Changing World Tech - fuel, and I would be interested to that could deal with plastic bottles, nologies’ website: Chang ing World know if the process they use is used car tires, slaughterhouse offal, Technologies | The Solution for similar to that developed by Maureen Weber municipal liquid waste, and refinery Energy Independence Changing World Tech nologies, and residues that separated out the water The company opened a new more economical. — Roger Cat in the Window and mineral content and produced a plant using different feedstock Schmitz, Saskatoon Perched in the window while blust’ry blizzard rages . . . Ahmad urges ‘intolerance of intolerance’ Cat dreams of Springtime! By Jeanette Martino Land Continued from page 1 lim Rohingyas, Iran’s treatment of been a dominant religious tradi - Baha’is, China’s treatment of all tion, he said. “When we promote Heat pumps can recover possibility of changing religions believers, Saudi Arabia’s treat - religious tolerance in other coun - is not foreseen.” ment of all but Muslims or Pakis- tries, we know from experience Sandri also insisted that full tan’s blasphemy laws, which can how challenging this really is.” energy from wastewater religious freedom includes the be manipulated to punish anyone “When a temple is built on right to conscientiously object to who is not Muslim. your street or a halal butcher shop Continued from page 14 far more efficient way of recover - abortion and other “biomedical “It would be wrong to suggest opens in the market,” he said, “it ing the imbedded energy in food practices that go against one’s that it always has been easy to forces you to accept that your ded energy in residual waste. “If and fecal residual, which can sup - deepest convictions.” integrate religious minorities into religion is one of many and not we connect kitchens to the black - ply more than the total amount of At the same time, the cardinal a society” where there always has the only one.” water system, for example, it’s a energy used to treat all drinking said, Catholics must remember and waste water services in a how many centuries it took the community,” says Ashbolt. church to recognize religious Politics is about the shaping of nations Using heat pumps, we can freedom as a basic human right recover thermal energy from the for all people of every faith or no Continued from page 14 Economics “Good Profit and tending that genuinely controver - greywater, says Ashbolt. We can faith. Catholic Social Teachings” confer - sial positions are official church also reclaim methane from the Such recognition came only in with the critical skills and infor - ence, Busch stated Charles Koch teaching.’ ” organics, as well as precipitate 1965 with the Second Vatican mation so we can be part of an “embodied the teachings of St. Except, as affirmed by St. ammonium and phosphorus that Council’s declaration Dignitatis effective political force capable of John Paul II’s (1981) Laborum John Paul II, they are not just part can be returned to the earth as fer - Humanae , the cardinal said, so transforming our grotesque cul - Exercens .” they are the centre of our official tilizer. According to the professor, instead of condemning others ture of death into a variety of cul - If you are not familiar with the teaching and have been for seven countries like Germany, Sweden who struggle to recognize the tures of life. stealth and multi-faceted political decades! and the Netherlands are experi - rights of others to believe differ - Downey’s Dec. 13 article in network of which the “Kansas” My understanding of Matthew menting with vacuum flush black - ently, the Catholic Church must the Prairie Messenger touches on Koch brothers are a vital part, read 19:24 deepened. Be prepared to water community systems. patiently encourage them. this with respect to Pope Francis Jane Mayer’s 2016 Dark Money . enter into the Passion of Jesus. Thanks to funding from the Ahmad urged “intolerance of and Canadian Catholic higher If you care about all those who As I unpacked the involvement Canada Foundation for Inno va tion, intolerance,” but also pointed to education. It is to be neither ideo - have suffered and died for democ - of a small group of multimillion - Ashbolt has constructed a premise ed ucation as the key in promoting logical nor partisan. racy, truth, life with dignity from aire Catholics in American plumbing lab at the Uni versity of respect and inter-religious harmo - It is definitely political, moral conception to natural death or get - “Catholic” education — both for - Alberta. Instead of using more ny. and cultural — just as our invest - ting a timely hip replacement, read mal and informal — I felt as if chlorine to treat water, he suggests A Muslim educated in An - ment and purchase choices are. Nancy MacLean’s 2017 book, my heart was being squeezed by it may be possible to harness the glican schools, Ahmad now has “Political,” a grossly incorrect - Democracy in Chains . an icy skeletal hand and my microbiomes in pipes to fight two children in Catholic schools, ly used word, is from the Greek MacLean builds on Mayer’s essential organs dissolved in toxic pathogens. “In the future, we may because of the way those schools “polis ” which means “city.” work, providing missing links to sludge. have an up stream plastic pipe filter teach “the ethos of faith as a force In his 2012 book Speaking Mr. Trump and the integrated, They are involved in all parts — we call it a selector — that se - for good,” he said. Christian , American Episcopal comprehensive, covert strategy of of the EWTN global media con - lects for the right probiotic mi cro- “Children learning from other theologian Marcus J. Borg states: “Koch et al.” glomerate, the Acton and NAPA organisms, to see whether we can faiths doesn’t dilute their faith; it “Politics concerns the shape of She outlines James Buchanan’s Institutes, and much more. deliberately colonize building pipes doesn’t make me or my children how we live together in large pop - “public choice” theory which un - I prayed: “Let this cup pass with preferential organisms that less Muslim,” he insisted. “It ulations. Politics is about the derpins the Virginia School of from me!” will suppress the growth of these makes us more rounded, it makes shape and shaping of societies, Political Economics. It frames I learned about Thomas opportunistic pathogens.” us more passionate and it develops nations, and the world itself. What governments as “the” problem Monaghan, his formation of The idea is not unlike eating a deep-rooted understanding that should the humanly created world and public sector workers, includ - Legatus , a by-invitation-only or- yogurt with probiotics to restore faith is a route that we follow.” look like?” (p. 49). ing scientists, as only being about ganization of “top tier” — i.e. balance to your intestinal tract, “Intolerance is something that As outlined above, CST, a narrow self-interest, not the com - multimillionaire — Catholics and thus preventing ill health. is learned,” he said. “We must ed - constitutive or essential part of mon good. its influence on Busch. There remains, however, a sig - ucate children to understand other our official teaching, tells us. In his Jan. 22, 2015, article in This small group of the super- nificant challenge to adopting religions in the hope that the next I was bewildered when they The Wall Street Journal, “Teaching rich are inhibiting our capacity to these new technologies: munici - generation will be wiser than those were referenced in the 2016 Amer- Capitalism to Catholics,” Busch know our official teaching and our pal bylaws stifle innovation. that have come before them.” ican presidential campaigns. 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By Rhina Guidos KIND, moderated a Jan. 30 panel ing asylum and which would system may be sacrificed,” “We need to see each child as that included representatives of include turning away unaccompa - Panelist Ashley Feasley, poli - a gift to be welcomed, cherished WASHINGTON (CNS) — faith communities who say the nied minors who come to the U.S. cy director for Migration and and protected,” she said. Hours before President Donald administration and “anti-immi - fleeing violence. Refugee Services at the U.S. That’s why many took issue Trump’s first State of the Union grant members of Congress are The proposal is not just about Conference of Catholic Bishops with the way the president por - address Jan. 30, immigrant sup - relentlessly targeting children and a border wall and technology, in Washington, said the Catholic trayed immigrants, painting them porters said they were concerned families in a cynical, cruel strate - said Kevin Appleby, senior direc - Church long has made clear its as criminals to be feared. with his administration’s “sys - gy that plays politics with the tor of international migration pol - support for those who seek refuge Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El tematic targeting of vulnerable lives of the most vulnerable.” icy at the Centre for Migration from dire situations in their home Paso, Texas, characterized Trump’s populations.” The rhetoric being used to talk Studies, but it’s about changing countries, particularly children. remarks as a “false narrative.” In particular, they were both - about the immigration deal is long-standing U.S. policies that ered by the portrayal of migrant harmful to communities, they say, allow people in dire circum - children, youth and families as but that it also is dangerous to stances to come in. gang members and criminals. form policy based on what they The plan amounts to a “calcu - The president and Congress consider scare tactics. lated attempt to undermine protec - are haggling over a plan about Trump and Republican mem - tions for unaccompanied minors, how to fix some of the country’s bers of Congress have asked for families and asylum seekers,” said most urgent immigration woes in curtailing family reunification Young, adding that those protec - which immigrants, legal and oth - visas, which they refer to as “chain tions have long been carefully erwise, have been caught in the migration,” an end to lottery visas, incorporated into U.S. law and middle of verbal fire. also known as diversity visas, and policy over the years. The most urgent includes find - want up to $25 billion for a border “The protection of people who ing a solution for some 800,000 wall with Mexico in exchange for arrive at our border seeking safe young adults brought into the providing a path to citizenship for haven from war, human rights country illegally as minors by 1.8 million young adults who were abuses and human trafficking has their parents and who now face a brought illegally into the country long been a cornerstone of U.S. March 5 deadline for the end of as children. immigration policy,” she said. an Obama-era protection that In his address, Trump spoke of “These policies are not loopholes granted them some legal relief to gang members who had entered and they are not risks to U.S. bor - CNS/Mike Crupi, Catholic Courier remain in the country. the country using a “deadly loop - der security, as some would char - NATIONAL MARRIAGE WEEK IN U.S. — A couple processes out of In September, Trump an - hole” and then went on to kill two acterize them. Instead, they are Our Mother of Sorrows Church in Greece, N.Y., at the end of their nounced the end of the Deferred teenage girls. The “loophole” programs that represent the best wedding ceremony. Feb. 7 - 14 marks the annual celebration of Action for Childhood Arrivals must be closed, he said. humanitarian and democratic tra - National Marriage Week in the U.S. program, or DACA, and charged Along with money for the bor - ditions of our country.” Congress with passing a bill to der wall, the administration keeps But in the framework of nego - Vatican, China nearing save the program. bringing up the vague term “loop - tiations over immigration policy, Wendy Young, president of hole,” an apparent reference to Young said, “we are concerned Kids in Need of Defence, or curtailing policies for those seek - that this pillar of our immigration agreement on bishops

By Cindy Wooden who was excommunicated by the Religious life always countercultural Vatican after being appointed by VATICAN CITY (CNS) — the patriotic association and illicit - By Cindy Wooden someone and is called to share it In his homily, Pope Francis Multiple news reports indicate the ly ordained. Reuters reported that with others, the pope said at the focused on a series of encounters: Vatican has made substantial under the agreement, the govern - VATICAN CITY (CNS) — mass Feb. 2 in St. Peter’s Basilica. between people and Jesus; be - progress in reaching an agreement ment would recognize Zhuang as Lift up your eyes from your The feast day commemorates tween the young Mary and Joseph with China’s communist govern - the “emeritus” bishop and his suc - smartphones and see your broth - the 40th day after Jesus’ birth and the elderly Simeon and Anna; ment on the naming of bishops for cessor would reconcile with the ers and sisters, those who share when, in accordance with ancient and between individuals and several dioceses. Holy See. your journey of faith and those Jewish practice, Mary and Joseph members of their religious com - The news agency Reuters and Also under the agreement, who are longing for the Word of took him to the temple and pre - munities or their neighbourhoods. The Wall Street Journal both according to Reuters, Bishop life, Pope Francis told consecrat - sented him to the Lord. The “In the Christian East,” the reported Feb. 1 that the deal would Vincent Guo Xijin, 59, of Min - ed men and women. feast’s Gospel reading from St. pope explained, “this feast is involve two bishops recognized by dong, another Vatican-recognized “Today’s frantic pace leads us to Luke recounts how the aged called the ‘feast of Encounter’: It the Holy See stepping aside to bishop, would become the auxil - close many doors to encounter, Simeon and Anna, who were is the encounter between God, make way for two bishops chosen iary bishop of the diocese and often for fear of others,” the pope praying in the temple, recognized who became a child to bring new - by the government-controlled serve under the government- said in his homily for the feast of Jesus as the Messiah. ness to our world, and an expec - Chinese Catholic Patriotic Asso - approved bishop of the diocese, the Presentation of the Lord and the The mass, attended by thou - tant humanity.” ciation; the new bishops would Bishop Zhan Silu, 57. World Day for Consecrated Life. sands of women and men belong - The pope, himself a Jesuit, have to recognize the authority of According to Reuters’ source, “Only shopping malls and Internet ing to religious orders, began told the religious that their own the pope and ask forgiveness for both Vatican-backed prelates rec - connections are always open.” with the traditional blessing of journeys were “born of an en - having accepted ordination with - ognized they would be making Yet believers’ hearts must be candles and a prayer that God counter and a call” which, while out papal approval. sacrifices for the greater good of open as well, because every would guide people toward his highly personal, took place in the Both articles relied on un- the church. In addition, the source believer receives the faith from son, “the light that has no end.” context of a family, a parish or a named sources at the Vatican. said, there was “a gentleman’s community. Greg Burke, director of the Vati- agreement” on seven government- Members of religious orders can press office, would not com - backed bishops who would be must realize that they need each ment when contacted by Catholic made legitimate after seeking a other — young and old — to re - News Service Feb. 2. papal pardon but that it still had to new and strengthen their knowl - However, the reports coincide be formalized. edge of the Lord, he said. They with claims made by Cardinal The overall agreement foresees must never “toss aside” the elder - Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, retired arch - the patriotic association choosing ly members because “if the young bishop of Hong Kong, who an - bishops, but submitting the names are called to open new doors, the nounced in late January that he to the Vatican for final approval. elderly have the keys.” had met personally with Pope “It is not a great agreement, One’s brothers or sisters in the Francis to express his opposition but we don’t know what the situa - community are a gift to be cher - to the plan and to deliver into the tion will be like in 10 or 20 years. ished, he said before adding a pope’s hands a letter from one of It could even be worse,” the plea: “May we never look at the the bishops involved. source told Reuters. screen of our cellphone more than Ucanews.com reported Feb. 1 Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vati - the eyes of our brothers or sisters, that 88-year-old Bishop Peter can secretary of state, noted in an or focus more on our software Zhuang Jianjian of Shantou con - interview Jan. 31 that “commu - than on the Lord.” firmed in a telephone conversa - nion between the bishop of Rome Pope Francis said strengthening tion that he had met with Vatican and all Catholic bishops touches the intergenerational bonds in a officials in Beijing in December. the heart of the church’s unity: it religious community also is an anti - Earlier, ucanews.com had re - is not a private matter between the dote to “the barren rhetoric of ‘the ported that Zhuang, who is recog - pope and the Chinese bishops or CNS/Kim Hong-Ji, Reuters good old days’ ’’ and the only way nized by the Vatican, was asked to between the Apostolic See and retire to make way for a bishop civil authorities.” OLYMPICS TORCHBEARER IN SOUTH KOREA — Wearing tradi - “to silence those who believe that tional clothing, a man carries the Olympic torch Jan. 13 in Seoul, ‘everything is going wrong here.’ ’’ South Korea. Bishop Peter Lee Ki-heon, president of the Korean bish - Religious life, with its vows of ops’ Committee for the Reconciliation of the Korean People, wants the poverty, chastity and obedience, Gratitude is a flower that blooms in noble souls. 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics to be a steppingstone for achiev - always has been countercultural, — Pope Francis ing peace in the region. he said.