Single Issue: $1.00 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40030139 CATHOLIC JOURNAL Vol. 94 No. 8 July 13, 2016 Summer issues Bolen appointed Archbishop of Regina The Prairie Messenger pub - lishes every second week in By Kiply Lukan Yaworski vicar-general Rev. Kevin McGee, July and takes a chancellor Rev. Clement Amofah three-week vaca - SASKATOON — After six and judicial vicar Rev. Marvin tion in August. years as bishop of the Roman Lishchynsky, as well as Priest The next issue Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon, Council chair Rev. Matthew will be July 27, Donald Bolen has been appointed Ramsay and priests who are and the PM office will be Archbishop of Regina. presently serving as deans in the closed from July 29 - August The appointment by Pope six diocesan deaneries. 21. Our weekly publishing Francis was announced July 11. During the last episcopal tran - schedule resumes with the The Archdiocese of Regina has sition in September 2009, when August 24 issue. been without a bishop since the Bishop Albert LeGatt was Mercy Jan. 15, 2016, death of Arch - appointed Archbishop of St. bishop Daniel Bohan after a battle Boniface, Rev. Ron Beechinor “Our mission is to love God with cancer. Since Bohan’s death, was selected to provide leader - and his people,” says Rev. Lorne Crozon has been serv - ship until a new bishop was Deacon Doug Cross. “Mercy ing as archdiocesan administrator. appointed. is a way of living out that Bolen will continue to serve as Bolen’s first words about his apostolic administrator in Saska - appointment as Archbishop of love. It’s a chance to reach toon until his installation as Regina were words of gratitude for into ourselves and remove Archbishop of Regina this fall; the his time as bishop of Saskatoon. those barriers that keep us exact date has not yet been set. “Because of the dedication, faith - from loving other people.” “Serving in the Diocese of fulness and wisdom of the — page 3 Saskatoon has been one of the Catholic Pastoral Centre staff, the Reducing violence great joys and privileges of my clergy, religious, and faithful of life,” said Bolen, describing the the Diocese of Saskatoon, this has A group of women from mixed emotions that news of the been a powerful experience for me Regina’s North Central Regina appointment brings. of the Holy Spirit at work in the neighbourhood is trying to “To be moved from the church,” he said. do something to reduce vio - Diocese of Saskatoon is painful, Bolen is looking forward to lence in the area. The White because it has been such a grace- building new relationships in the Pony Lodge carries out filled experience to live and to Archdiocese of Regina and re - patrols every Friday and serve here as bishop, but, at the newing cherished connections. Saturday, not to get involved same time, to move to the Arch- “When I think about returning to in any perceived violence diocese of Regina is to go home. I Regina, I recall with joy that Arch - but to encourage their neigh - am profoundly grateful to remain bishop James Weisgerber has re - bours to be more vigilant. in my home province.” Tim Yaworski tired there — he was my pastor and — page 6 Bolen was born Feb. 7, 1961, ARCHBISHOP-ELECT — Pope Francis has appointed Saskatoon then my spiritual director before in Gravelbourg and raised on a Bishop Donald Bolen as the new Archbishop of Regina. Bolen will entering the seminary, and has been Hope’s Homes nearby farm. He was ordained by remain apostolic administrator of the Saskatoon Diocese until his instal - a mentor throughout my adult life.” Archbishop Charles Halpin Oct. lation in Regina, to be held in the fall (the date is still to be determined.) Bolen also expressed his grati - Ten years ago Jacqueline 12, 1991, in Regina, and served at tude for generations of fine lead - Tisher took some time off a number of parishes in the arch - in 2009, serving as vicar-general a new bishop is appointed. ership in both dioceses that have from work diocese over the years, as well as for the archdiocese and chair of There are 12 consultors in the in neonatal being on the department of reli - the Archdiocesan Ecumenical Diocese of Saskatoon, including — DIALOGUE , page 15 intensive gious studies faculty at Campion Commission. care to help College. With the permission of Once Bolen is installed as Married man ordained a family Archbishop Peter Mallon, Bolen Archbishop of Regina, a diocesan who had spent seven years (2001 - 2008) administrator will likely be elect - children working at the Pontifical Council ed for the Diocese of Saskatoon priest in Winnipeg with com - for Promoting Christian Unity in by the diocesan College of Con - plex medical needs. She Rome, before returning to Regina sultors, to provide leadership until By James Buchok be ordained as Catholic priests. hadn’t planned on taking The Canadian Conference of more than a year. She is Pope says critics won’t stop WINNIPEG — A Roman Catholic Bishops was unable to now head of Hope’s Homes, Catholic priest is a rare enough provide figures for the number of with locations in three cities him from pursuing vision individual, but a married Roman married men in Canada who have and a budget of $8 million. Catholic priest is rarer still. become Catholic priests since the — page 6 Rev. Colin Peterson, a married Pastoral Provision was established, By Cindy Wooden Macri — “I have no problem with former United Church minister, but the California-based Pastoral Our grandiosity President Macri,” the pope said in was ordained to the Catholic Provision Office reports it is over VATICAN CITY (CNS) — the interview. priesthood by Winnipeg Arch - 100 for the United States. We have few tools to deal Pope Francis said he will continue But Morales also asked about bishop Richard Gagnon June 10 In an interview, Peterson, who with the dragon of our own pressing for a church that is open internal church matters, including at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Win - was ordained to the transitional grandiosity, writes Ron and understanding despite opposi - criticisms of the pope. nipeg. diaconate in May 2013, said as a Rolheiser, OMI. tion from some clerics who “say “I want a church that is open, “Colin, you have taken the young member of the United — page 10 no to everything.” understanding, that accompanies path of United Church Minister, Church of Canada he developed Hierarchical “They do their work and I do families who are hurting,” Pope of husband and father and now an appreciation for the liturgical mine,” the pope said when asked, Francis said. the path to holy priesthood,” said and sacramental life of the Roman tensions “What is your relationship with Some church leaders do not Gagnon. “Now you and your wife Catholic Church. He was or - ultraconservatives in the church?” agree with his approach, but “I Sandy look forward to a new life, dained as a United Church minis - Pope Francis has sparked The question was posed by continue my course without look - to serve Christ, to advance the ter in 1978. headlines recently about how Joaquin Morales Sola, a journalist ing over my shoulder,” he said, kingdom of God.” In 2001 he became chaplain at his unpredictable papacy is for the Argentine newspaper La adding that he does not try to Peterson, father of three adult the Manitoba Youth Centre, a changing Catholicism, writes Nacion , in an interview published silence them. “I don’t cut off children, with two grandchildren detention facility for minors, and David Gibson. But more July 3. The Vatican newspaper, heads. I’ve never liked doing (and another due in August), was in that role attended worship in a than setting the church on a L’Osservatore Romano , published a that.” ordained under a Pastoral Pro vision variety of churches. “My love for new course, Francis may be translation of the interview July 5. Besides, he said, he’s the pope. set up in 1980 by Pope St. John good liturgy and the importance exposing the tensions within Most of the interview focused “You remove nails by putting Paul II to enable married, former of the sacraments, especially the his own hierarchy . . . on issues related to Pope Francis’ pressure on the top. Or you set Protestant and Anglican ministers eucharist, led me into the Roman — page 11 home country and his relationship them aside to rest when they to receive a dispensation from the with Argentine President Mauricio reach retirement age.” vow of celibacy, allowing them to — EVIL , page 5 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS July 13, 2016 Pan-Orthodox council encourages regular meetings

By Colleen Dulle Orthodox Christians was the ques - York can have 10 bishops from the Assembly of Canonical Ortho - closer to ensuring the church is tion of the diaspora: how the five different Orthodox churches. dox Bishops of the United States one, holy, catholic and apostolic. WASHINGTON (CNS) — church’s hierarchy should work in This current organization con - of America, is the largest in the Chryssavgis lauded the civility During the week following the pan- lands that are not traditionally flicts with the Orthodox canon, or world, with almost 60 bishops. and honesty of the council’s Orthodox council, which wrapped Orthodox, but where different law, that there should be only one Greek Orthodox Father Patrick debates, especially after four of June 26 in Crete, Greece, Orthodox groups of Orthodox Christians now church authority in each region. Viscuso, a member of the North the 14 churches refused to attend. clergy in the U.S. reflected on what live, like in America and Australia. The final message and encycli - American Orthodox-Catholic “After years, if not centuries of the council would mean for Ortho - In these places, various Or - cal from the Holy and Great Theological Consultation, said the estrangement and isolation . . . dox Christians here. thodox churches like the Greek, Council made no changes to the affirmation of episcopal assemblies this was nothing less than a mira - Going into the council, the most Russian and Ukrainian coexist, current structure but affirmed the is “actually a wonderful thing.” cle,” he said. pressing issue for American meaning that a city like New importance of the governing epis - “Episcopal assemblies are a The council’s final encyclical copal assemblies, which bring first step for sorting out the echoed a proposal made in Crete together the different bishops in canonical structure of the church that the bishops should convene these regions. and bringing about canonical nor - more regularly, perhaps every “The council decided to en - malcy,” Viscuso told Catholic decade, for this type of conciliar courage their (the episcopal News Service in a phone inter - dialogue. assemblies’) continuation until the view from New Jersey. “For us in the U.S.,” situation in the various re gions He said the assemblies are Chryssavgis said of the church’s matured for future development,” helpful in terms of pooling the conciliarity, “it means always said American Greek Orthodox Orthodox churches’ resources, and searching for ways to open doors Father John Chryssavgis, who that while they won’t eliminate the and mend bridges, to create attended the council. priority of ethnic identities in the opportunities for reconciliation The American assembly, called Orthodox Church, they are a step and co-operation.” Pray for the rich, pope tells homeless

By Carol Glatz fine linen, who feast VATICAN CITY (CNS) — with great Pray for those responsible for banquets extreme poverty, for the rich who without feast unaware of people in need at realizing their door, and for priests who that lying at ignore those who are hurting, their door CNS/Sean Hawkey Pope Francis told people living a there are so ORTHODOX COUNCIL SESSION — Orthodox leaders attend a June precarious existence. many Laza - 25 session of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church on Say a prayer for these people, ruses eager the Greek island of Crete. During the week following the meeting, wish them well and “ask Jesus that to eat the which wrapped June 26, Orthodox clergy in the U.S. reflected on what they convert, and I assure you that scraps from the council would mean for Orthodox Christians in the United States. if you do this, there will be great their table.” joy in the church, in your hearts “Pray Iraqi patriarch calls for and also in beloved France,” the also for pope told his audience. priests, for tolerance to fight terrorism The pope met with about 200 the Levites, people from the French province who, seeing of Lyon, who are homeless, living that man CNS/Paul Haring BAGHDAD (CNS) — ISIS wouldn’t be able to commit in poverty or coping with an ill - beat en and PAPAL AUDIENCE WITH DISADVANTAGED — Chaldean Catholic Patriarch these crimes; tamper with the ness or disability. half-dead, Pope Francis greets a young girl during an audience Louis Sako, on the Muslim feast country’s security and stability, The group was on pilgrimage pass to the with people from Lyon, France, in Paul VI hall at the of Eid al-Fitr, called for tolerance killing thousands of innocent peo - to Rome with Cardinal Philippe other side, Vatican July 6. The audience was with 200 people living and forgiveness to fight extrem - ple; displace millions; and destroy Barbarin of Lyon and the All look the in difficult or precarious situations. ism, hatred and terrorism. the Iraqi national fabric and Together With Dignity Fourth other way, Speaking at a prayer service peaceful co-existence.” World movement founded by because they have no compas - church, Pope Francis told them. July 7 in the Karrada section of Rev. Joseph Wresinski, who min - sion,” the pope said. “The church, who loves and Baghdad for the victims of the istered to deprived families in Jesus chose to share in their prefers those whom Jesus loved July 3 bombing that killed more urban and rural parishes. suffering out of love, by becom - and preferred, cannot rest until it than 290 people and wounded Meeting with the group July 6 ing “one of you: scorned by man, has reached all those who experi - 200, the patriarch emphasized that in the Vatican’s Paul VI audience forgotten, someone who means ence refusal, exclusion and who “there is a spiritual, moral, and hall, the pope told them he had a nothing.” don’t mean anything to anybody.” patriotic side for our prayer.” favour to ask them, or rather, he “When you experience this, do Not only are people able to “In such a tragedy, we are join - said, he was giving them a mis - not forget that Jesus also experi - encounter Christ in the poor, he ing millions of Muslims in pray - sion to carry out. enced this like you. It is proof that said, the poor help build peace in ing for the affected families, that It is “a mission that only you, in you are precious in his eyes and the world by “reminding us that God may have mercy on the vic - your poverty will be able to accom - that he is by your side,” he said. we are brothers and sisters and that tims and bless the wounded with a plish,” he said in Italian, while an The poor are a priority for the God is the father of everyone.” speedy recovery,” Sako said. aide translated into French. “We express our shock, sad - Jesus was very harsh with and ness and solidarity with Iraqis and “strongly reprimanded people who Youth face long walks at WYD strongly condemn these cruel acts do not embrace the father’s mes - that affected innocent people, sage,” the pope said, recalling By Jonathan Luxmoore - 31, is expected to bring two mil - stole the happiness of preparing to Jesus’ “sermon on the plain” in the lion people from 187 countries to celebrate Eid al-Fitr and convert - sixth chapter of the Gospel of Luke. WARSAW, Poland (CNS) — the southern Polish city. They will ed it to a national mourning,” he While the poor, hungry, ex - Young people attending World be accompanied by 47 cardinals, said. cluded and mournful are blessed, Youth Day 2016 in Krakow, 800 bishops and 20,000 priests. The patriarch said terrorism Jesus said, “woe to you who are Poland, will have to walk 29 kilo - The July 30 - 31 vigil and mass, had nothing to do with religion, rich,” satiated and mocking, the metres to and from one of its key on the fourth and fifth days of Pope “but may be linked to political pope said. sites, event organizers said. Francis’ visit, will require nearly all games that allow killing of Mus - When spoken by the son of “They’ll have to be ready for a of the participants to make the 15- lims, Christians, Mandaeans and God, the warning of “woe,” he long foot journey of several kilometre journey to Campus Yezidis as ‘infidels,’ ’’ the patri - said, “is frightening,” and Jesus hours, but this has always been a Miseri cordiae , near Poland’s arch said. directed that admonition “to the feature of World Youth Days,” Wieliczka salt mine, Chmura said. He added that “everyone rich, the wise, those who laugh said Anna Chmura, WYD’s com - Buses will be available only should understand that killing now, those who like to be flat - munications co-ordinator. for the 2,000 handicapped people innocent people leads to hell CNS/Gary Cameron tered, hypocrites.” “There’ll be several designated registered for the event, elderly rather than to heaven.” ELI WIESEL DIES — Nobel “I give you the mission of routes, mostly from Krakow, and pilgrims and those with special “Our prayers this evening will Laureate Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust praying for them so that the Lord they’ll all be used heavily. But needs, she added. help us learn lessons from this survivor and author who fought give them a change of heart.” we’re confident the logistics and “Although we don’t have a tragedy and find effective and for peace, human rights and sim - The pope also asked them to security have now been carefully final number for the buses, there’ll permanent solutions,” he said. “If ple human decency, died July 2 at pray for those who are “guilty of worked out,” she told Catholic certainly be dozens, but the foot the government was coherent and his New York home at age 87. He your poverty” and for “so many News Service. pilgrimage theme is central to the politicians worked as one team, is pictured in a 2015 photo. rich people dressed in purple and The event, which runs July 26 WYD,” Chmura explained. July 13, 2016 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 3 Mercy a way of living out love, says deacon

By Faith Anderson Cross related the qualities of a attractive: he was usually dirty and He is a person. He is a person that drugs, who hurt their loved ones, certain man he has known for smelly or intoxicated or belliger - Jesus loved and he is a person that who are sick or hurt or dying or ST. BONIFACE — The some 40 years. During this time, ent, and frequently homeless. He we are called to love. How are we have a disability, who are just lone - keynote speaker for St. Boniface he picked him up when he was has mental health issues, and can called to love him? As Jesus loves ly — there is one thing I’ve heard Diocesan CWL Council 67th annu - hurt or sick and took him to the be violent at times. Cross said that us — totally, unrestrictedly. over and over: see me. Know that al convention was Deacon Doug hospital and also put him in jail when we see him on the street, we “Over and over again through I’m a person, that I exist. People Cross of St. Bernadette Parish. and the drunk tank. He has also turn our heads and hurry past, many years with people on the really appreciate all the things we Cross is a retired police officer sat down with him for coffee and hoping he’s not going to bother us. streets, with people in poverty, peo - give them, but if we give them who spent most of his career in the shared a meal. Cross said, “He Cross said, “Have you noticed ple who have addictions, people without loving them, if we can’t core area of Winnipeg or in the has taught me much.” the one really important thing that I who are not able to get along with see that that’s a person at the other north end. His preaching is pep - The man was not physically didn’t mention? His name is Roger. other people, who steal, who sell end, we’ve got a problem.” pered with tales of his experience of the streets and his ability to see beyond the marginalized individual Diverse crowd celebrates Refugee Day in Saskatoon to the person God created, and how his faith has affected his By Kiply Lukan Yaworski approach to his job and his life. He is also part of the Faith and Light SASKATOON — A diverse community in Winni peg and is crowd gathered under sunny skies chaplain for Faith and Light at City Hall in Saskatoon June 20 English Canada. to mark Refugee Day with a He started his presentation by noon-hour program that included indicating that this year is the speakers, music, dance and poetry. Extraordinary Year of Mercy and Participants of all ages and asking, “What does it mean? You backgrounds joined in. Some car - talk around it, you talk about fail - ried signs with messages such as: ing, you talk about ways to under - “My door is open to refugees,” stand it.” “Protect the children,” “Hopes, Cross offered two things Jesus dreams, justice,” “Take one minute said: “The greatest command - to support a family forced to flee,” ment is to love God with all your “We stand together with refugees,” heart and soul, and to love one and “Live, love, laugh.” another as I have loved you” (Mk Master of ceremonies Anthony 12). He presented a way to under - Olusola introduced speakers, stand that mercy is not about talk - musicians, dancers, and poets, ing about what has been done or encouraging the crowd to support not been done in the past, but those from around the world who about what is yet to be done. must flee for their lives from vio - K. Yaworski “Our mission is to love God lence and persecution. REFUGEE DAY — A noon-hour gathering of people of all ages and backgrounds was held June 20 at City and his people,” Cross said. Zainab Al-Musawi, one of Hall in Saskatoon to mark Refugee Day. The program included speakers, dance, song, poetry and drumming. “Mercy is a way of living out that those who addressed the crowd, love. It’s a chance to reach into described the challenges and hard - welcoming society,” she said. thank my mom and dad for bringing Helen Smith-McIntyre, chair ourselves and remove those barri - ships she and her family endured A Grade 8 student at Grey - me to Canada. It was hard for them of the Saskatoon Refugee Coali - ers that keep us from loving other to escape Iraq, before arriving in stone Heights School who arrived to leave their brothers and sisters, tion, also addressed the crowd. people the way we are called to, Saskatoon five years ago. “Refu - in Saskatoon with her family as a but they did it for me,” she said. “One of the points we are asked the ones who keep us from loving gees, like anyone else, have hopes refugee from Syria just a few “I am so happy to go to school. to make today is for each of us to the way Jesus loves us.” and dreams for their children,” she months ago also spoke, express - In Jordan and Syria I could not go think about what we can do to He went on to ask the dele - said. “My family and I are lucky ing thanks to all who have helped to school for five years. Now I support refugees,” she said. gates if they had an image of what enough to be among those limited along the way, especially her can go to university and be an Smith-McIntyre pointed out Jesus looks like. “I am going to numbers to get resettlement to teachers. “There are many stu - EAL teacher, or a doctor for that those who come to Canada as show you my image of Jesus. This countries like Canada.” dents learning English like me. babies.” She thanked Canadians refugees are soon reaching out to image that has been chosen to Assisted by the Open Door When I came to Greystone and Prime Minister Trudeau “for help others — for instance, step - remind me of who I am, who I am Society when she first arrived, Al- Heights I felt like I had a home opening Canada to us.” ping up to offer assistance to supposed to be, and that I’m Musawi now helps that organiza - again. I was not scared,” she said. Elisha Muembo, a refugee those displaced by recent wild - called to love everyone, no matter tion to welcome and support other “In Syria, my mom was scared from Congo who is now studying fires at Fort McMurray. what they look like.” refugees coming to the communi - for me to go to school. In Saskatoon at the University of Saskatche- “People who have been here After the image was unveiled, ty. “I feel proud to be part of a she knows I am safe. I want to wan, performed a song accompa - for generations and newcomers nied by Tanjalee Khul and Eric can work together to continue to Kaninda, singing about the pain make this a welcoming place for Women seek to reduce violence of being a refugee, not knowing refugees,” she said. “what home looks like.” The UNHCR reports that right By Frank Flegel any perceived violence but to a 26-year-old man in their com - Saskatoon poet Ahmad Majid now there are 21.3 million encourage their neighbours to be munity. Three teenage boys and a performed poetry about the strug - refugees among the 65.3 million REGINA — A group of more vigilant and show they care. 22-year-old man were charged gles, pain and hopes of refugees, forcibly displaced people world - women from Regina’s North “This came out of an initiative with the murder. including a tribute to his father, wide. Some 54 per cent of these Central neighbourhood is trying to called North Central End the “We held a community forum who came to Canada as a refugee come from Syria, Afghanistan do something to reduce violence in Violence,” said Shawna Oochoo, and a political forum, and we from Iraq. and Somalia. the area. The White Pony Lodge one of the organizers. The com - began looking at what other com - carries out patrols every Friday munity began talking about what munities were doing.” and Saturday from four p.m. to could be done to reduce violence They looked to Winnipeg and nine p.m. — not to get involved in following the February murder of the Bear Clan that began patrols in the 1990s. “We looked at the success they’re having and how to apply it to what we’re doing,” said Oochoo. The Ojibwa and Cree traditions see people born into the Bear Clan as protectors of their community. The name White Pony Lodge was given to the Regina group by a Cree elder who lives in the North Central neighbourhood. The patrol — usually three to five members wearing reflective vests and carrying first aid kits and radios — walk on Fifth Avenue, considered North Central’s main P. Paproski F. Flegel drag. As of this writing the group ABBEY BAPTISMAL FONT — The inscription on this historic bap - WHITE PONY LODGE — A group of women trying to reduce vio - had been out for just a couple of tismal font at the entrance of Belmont Abbey Church, North Carolina, lence in Regina’s North Central neighbourhood includes (from left): reads: “Upon this rock, men once were sold into slavery. Now upon this Shawna Oochoo, Beatrice Wallace and Tara Amyotte. — WHITE PONY , page 12 rock, through the waters of baptism, men become free children of God.” 4 Prairie Messenger CANADIAN NEWS July 13, 2016 Three Amigos make progress on climate commitments

By Deborah Gyapong mate-change advocacy groups President Barak Obama on June The leaders reaffirmed a com - Mark Cameron, executive said after the so-called “Three 29. The meeting dealt with trade, mitment to the 2015 Paris Agree - director of Canadians for Clean OTTAWA (CCN) — North Amigos” summit in Ottawa. human rights and other issues, but ment to limit global warming to Prosperity, was pleased to see American leaders are making Their comments came after the centrepiece was the leaders’ 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre- Mexico, a developing nation, agree progress on climate commit - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau statement on climate, “A North industrial levels as they recognized to abide by the same standards. ments but more needs to be hosted Mexican President Enrique American Climate, Clean Energy “the urgent need to take action to “I think most of the initiatives done, Catho lic and other cli - Peña Nieto and United States and Environmental Partnership.” combat climate change through they talked about are positive,” he innovation and deployment of low- said. “Reducing methane emis - carbon solutions.” Among several sions from oil and gas is a very Hall looks forward to serving as deacon objectives by 2025, they hope to low cost positive measure which achieve 50 per cent clean power will help clean up Canada’s oil and By Ramon Gonzalez port,” Hall pointed generation, a 40 per cent reduction gas industry, something Canada Western Catholic Reporter out. “Without her in methane emissions from the oil and the United States had already support this would and gas sector and significant indicated they were supporting.” EDMONTON (CCN) — not have been pos - growth in the use of clean vehicles. Talbot expressed concern Lawyer Michael Hall said the per - sible. It’s a big “It’s a good first step,” said about the term “clean energy.” manent diaconate wasn’t part of commitment. ” Canadian Catholic Organization for “It’s not the same as talking his plans until God came knocking. Cheryl said she Development and Peace research about renewable energy,” she said. “I felt the call from God that plans to support and advocacy officer Genevieve “Clean energy includes nuclear he wanted me to pursue this min - her husband in his Talbot. “It is good to see all three of and carbon capture technologies. istry,” he recalled. “It is not calling. “We look them are discussing a way out of We want to achieve, by 2050, 100 something that I had been think - upon this opportu - the fossil fuel industry.” per cent renewable energy.” ing of for a long time. I felt nity to serve God Citizens for Public Justice Cameron also said a move - moved by the Holy Spirit to serve as a team effort.” senior policy analyst Karri Munn- ment toward clean energy could the church in this way.” That’s the reason Venn described the meetings as be beneficial for Canada. Hall, 55, was born and raised she took the pro - “a positive collaboration.” But “The commitment to have clean in Humboldt, Sask., and moved to gram along with she is looking for more. energy reach 50 per cent of elec - Lloydminster a year after obtain - him. “I felt I need - “We’ve come off a long time tricity production in North ing his law degree in Saskatoon ed to know what of lots of commitments and little America is a good opportunity for in 1984. He and his wife, Cheryl, he is learning and action to support them,” she said. Canadian hydropower exports,” he have been married for 35 years also grow in my “In terms of the framework and said. “The U.S. would need signifi - and have three adult sons and one own learning.” direction there’s a lot of great cant hydro imports to meet that tar - grandchild. PERMANENT DEACON — Michael Hall, seen Others in stuff in this agreement. get. Renewables are not enough.” The Halls both serve the parish here with his wife, Cheryl, was ordained to the Lloydminster, like “I’m more curious than ever Munn-Venn noted the docu - in a variety of roles. He has been permanent diaconate July 9 in Edmonton. his good friend on how this plays out in terms of ment mentions at the very end a a lector and acolyte; Cheryl has John Koep, are national action plans,” she said. “just transition to a clean energy served in the music ministry and “The formation process was one excited about what Hall will bring “As Christians we are called economy.” with the fall supper. of the most wonderful experiences to St. Anthony’s Parish and the by God to love and care for all of Though this transition is not Things started to take shape I have ever gone through; I learned community at large. the Earth and to respond to cli - laid out, Munn-Venn said “the when Hall met the current direc - a lot about the faith,” Hall said. “There isn’t a better person,” mate change as a human and eco - phrase just transition is important.” tor of the diaconate program “It may sound corny but the says Koep, a life insurance bro - logical crisis.” “We need to make sure people Deacon Lynn Pion, who worked most memorable thing (about the ker. “If I had some issues in my The leaders, however, could who are employed in the oil and at the credit union in Lloyd- program) is the friendships, the life and I wanted to speak to have made a stronger commit - gas sectors, for example, aren’t the minster. As a lawyer, Hall had to people that I journeyed with and somebody, he would be the first ment toward carbon pricing, said ones who alone carry the burden deal closely with Pion. their spouses. It’s just wonderful. guy I would go to.” some observers. of transitioning away from fossil “I followed him a little bit They will be permanent friends Hall, who recently retired as a “Putting a price on carbon is a fuels,” she said. It also means through his formation and through for the rest of our lives.” lawyer so he can serve the church real critical piece of moving to Paris being “supportive of communities his journey and that definitely Cheryl came to almost all the better, is so respected in Lloyd - commitments, reducing greenhouse that are already marginalized,” gave me awareness that this is formation classes over the last minster that everybody will be gases, and supporting the shift away such as the Inuit, First Nations and something that is out there.” four years. They plan to exercise happy with his ordination, Koep from fossil fuels to renewable ener - “coastal communities seeing He and his wife joined the pro - their ministry as a couple as much said. gy,” said Munn-Venn. impacts from rising sea levels.” gram four years ago and have as possible. only good things to say about it. “Cheryl was my greatest sup - New bishop named for TheThe Catholic Women’sWomen’’ss LLeagueeague of Canada th Gaspé as incumbent retires 96 Annual National ConvConventionention

OTTAWA (CCN) — Pope years, he returned to Quebec to Francis accepted the resignation serve as Master of Formation for of Gaspé Bishop Jean Gagnon the Servites of Quebec and do July 4, and named Quebec parish ministry at Quebec City’s Auxiliary Bishop Gaétan Proulx, Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-la-Salle OSM, as his replacement. Parish. Proulx, 69, had served as Prior Gagnon, who was named of the Canadian Servite Province Gaspé’s apostolic administrator in since 2000 and as pastor and ad - 2001 and its bishop in 2002, ministrator of the Quebec arch - offered his resignation upon diocese’s Notre-Dame-de-Foy reaching the mandatory retirement Parish until his Dec. 12, 2011, age of 75. appointment as auxiliary bishop. Born in St-Joseph-de-Lauzon, Born on Mary 27, 1947, in Quebec in 1941, Gagnon was Saint-Denis-de-Brompton, ordained to the priesthood in the Quebec, Proulx joined the Servite Quebec archdiocese in 1966. Pope order, then studied philosophy at John Paul II named him Auxiliary Dominican University College in Bishop of Quebec on Dec. 4, 1998. Ottawa and went on to obtain a As a member of the Canadian master’s of theology at Laval Conference of Catholic Bishops University in Quebec. (CCCB), Gagnon was a member After his ordination to the priest - and chair of the former social hood on June 8, 1975, Proulx affairs commission (1999 - 2003); worked as an assistant and master member of the French Sector’s of novices for his religious commu - Christian education commission nity until 1985, when he went to (2003-2005); and a member of the France to serve as a priest in the French sector’s liturgy and sacra - dioceses of Séez and Belley-Ars. In ments commission. From 2005 - The Catholic Women’sWomomen’s LeagueLeague of Canada 1989, Proulx moved to Brussels to 2007, Gagnon represented the take on the role of Master of CCCB on the board of the Cath - C-702C-702 Scotland Avenue,Avenue, WinnipegWinnipeg MB R3M 1X5 Formation for the Servites of olic Organization for Life and Toll-free:TToll-froll-free:ee: 1-888-656-4040 wwwwww.cwl.ca.cwl.ca France, Belgium and the Demo - Family (COLF) and served as cratic Republic of Congo. After two COLF’s chair from 2007 - 2009.

July 13, 2016 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 5 Canada’s Jesuits meet with First Nations people

By Michael Swan Rather than concentrate exclu - new government be given a be faster than you think. We can given up on their beliefs. It’s one of The Catholic Register sively on the residential schools, chance to pick that decade up and afford it, but we have to do it the most incredible acts of courage Canadians need to come to terms make up for lost time.” now,” he said. I’ve ever seen,” Martin said. TORONTO (CCN) — Taking with their entire history of colo - When people argue that Abo - Aboriginal Canada is the Jesuit efforts should be seen in responsibility for a deeply painful nization, said veteran Cree leader riginal governments can’t be young est segment of the Cana - the context of a broader discussion history may be difficult, but it’s Noel Starblanket. trusted with the money, or that dian population. Failing to invest among Canada’s bishops and all the Jesuit thing to do. “We’re here for the truth, after Canada can’t afford that level of in Aboriginal communities is a the religious orders about how to On June 22 Canada’s Jesuits all,” he said. “The truth is not expenditure on social services, failure to invest in the future, move forward now that the Truth gathered in Toronto with First pretty, we all know that.” they simply don’t know what Martin said. and Reconciliation Com mission Nations people to make a sort of Starblanket urged the audience they’re talking about, said the for - “We have put them in poverty, has handed in its final report, examination of conscience focused of several hundred in the univer - mer finance minister. but they haven’t given up on their including 94 recommendations for on the relationship between Jesuits sity lecture hall to think hard “If you don’t put the money culture, they haven’t given up on future reconciliation, Jesuit provin - and Canadian Aboriginal people — about the treaties as they apply to into it then the decline is going to their traditions and they haven’t cial superior Peter Bisson said. a relationship which stretches back both First Nations and non- to 1611. The conference at the Uni - Aboriginal Canadians. versity of Toronto’s St. Michael’s “They made these promises in College was called Truth, the eyes of God. Do they not Reconciliation and Hope. Rather believe in their God?” he asked. than narrowly focus on what the “Let’s honour our treaties, all of Jesuits did and didn’t do, organiz - us, in the name of God.” ers wanted to look at the bigger Timmins-James Bay MP picture of how Jesuits were a part Charlie Angus similarly urged a of Canada’s history of broken wider focus on the entire relation - promises, broken treaties and bro - ship between non-Aboriginal and ken lives epitomized by the 150- Aboriginal Canadians. year history of residential schools. “(The federal government) The Jesuits ran Charles Garnier wanted to offload the responsibil - residential school for Aboriginal ity (for delivering the education boys in Spanish, Ont., from 1913 promised under various treaties), to 1958. It was across the street which is why they used the from St. Joseph’s, a girls’ school churches,” Angus said. operated by the Daughters of Mary A pattern of sidestepping or and the Diocese of Sault Ste. minimizing treaty obligations — Marie. Canada’s English-speaking for health care, education, welfare Jesuits are not part of the 50-plus and basic community infrastruc - Catholic entities named in the ture — has resulted in the crisis 2005 Indian Residential Schools of youth suicides in Northern Art Babych Settlement Agreement. They came Ontario, Angus said. There have CHANGING OF THE GUARD — One of Ottawa’s most recognized military traditions — the changing of to an earlier, separate agreement been more than 700 suicide the guard — opened its 2016 season on Parliament Hill June 26. The summer attraction by the Ceremonial with survivors of their school. attempts in the James Bay region Guard has welcomed thousands of visitors to the Hill for 57 years. Members also perform sentry duties at Residential school survivor since 2009. The federal education Rideau Hall every hour on the hour from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Rosella Kinoshameg was appre - grant per student comes to $8,000 ciative of the opportunity to look per school year in Attawapiskat at the future of reconciliation. compared to $16,000 per student Leduc out as D&P’s executive director For Kinoshameg hope for the in provincially run schools in future lies in recovering the values, Timmins, Angus said. By Michael Swan had yet to complete his one-year new position it comes with new traditions and language that she “What kind of nation squan - The Catholic Register probation. challenges, new reflections,” managed to keep in her family de - ders its children?” Angus asked. Sources familiar with the situ - Worms said. “You find yourself spite limits the residential schools Ten years ago the then-Liberal TORONTO (CCN) — The ation have told The Catholic with a new perspective and new placed on her and her siblings. government negotiated the sudden departure of David Leduc Register Leduc had proposals for professional challenges you want “It’s a good thing that my dad Kelowna Accord, which would has left the Canadian Catholic new directions for the national to pursue. I think that’s the case was very smart. He brought us have delivered $5.1 billion in ed - Organization for Development Catholic social justice movement for David. After a year he found up with those teachings, living u cation and health care funding to and Peace searching for a new with more than 10,000 members. he wanted to pursue some new those teachings. He brought us Aboriginal communities, said for - executive director for the second Anticipating these proposals professional challenges. That’s up so we knew how to live,” she mer prime minister Paul Martin. time in less than 12 months. might not be accepted at a nation - what we’ve been told.” told The Catholic Register after But a change in government In a terse press release, Devel - al council meeting that wrapped Director of administration the conference. “You have to go meant the accord was never im - op ment and Peace said Leduc was up June 19, Leduc had told select Marc Brochu will resume the role back to those values, those plemented. leaving immediately and wished colleagues he might be leaving he had in the first half of 2015 as teachings. That’s where our hope “We lost a decade,” Martin him “every success in his future Development and Peace. interim executive director while will be.” said. “It’s very important that the professional challenges.” Leduc Contacted by The Catholic the national council relaunches its Register , Leduc would not speak search for an executive director to about his plans for the organiza - serve a five-year term. Catholic Church understands evil tion or what precipitated his While it’s up to the national departure. council to set its criteria, Worms “I have decided to stick with believes it will be looking for Continued from page 1 Trappist Monastery (in Holland, Gianna Beretta Molla Parish, the explanation and the conclu - both familiarity with development Man.) and the guidance of several with Pastor Darrin Gurr and a sion that the organization has put policy and personnel in Ottawa Catholic Church where I felt very spiritual directors, helped me get host of truly amazing parish - forward. I don’t really feel I need and frontline, international expe - much at home,” he said. through this very difficult stage in ioners, has been a rich and won - to add anything to that,” he said. rience in development. “This came at a time when the my life as a minister,” he said. derful experience. The ongoing Members of the organization’s “Another key element is the ele - demands of working with incar - Peterson became a Catholic at friendship and support of Deacon national council did not return ment of faith,” Worms said. “You cerated youth began to have a the Easter Vigil in 2011. Rudy LeMaitre of St. Mary’s calls from The Catholic Register . need to know well the Catholic profound spiritual impact. I Peterson said “the call to a Cathedral continues to be a great Leduc’s hiring was announced Church and to know that being an grieved for many young people ministry of word and sacrament blessing.” July 28 last year. He came to organization of the Catholic Church who were dying tragic and vio - not only persisted but became Peterson said the demands of Devel opment and Peace with a his - makes Devel opment and Peace lent deaths and I lamented the focused in a particular way on husband and father “can some - tory of frontline community devel - special. We are not just an NGO. depth of evil that pervaded their sacramental life. I wanted not times conflict with the demands opment work in the Middle East We are the official solidarity orga - lives and the system that tried to only to proclaim God’s word, but of pastoral ministry. However, and 11 years as director of opera - nization of the Catholic Church.” support them. I came to realize to be able to care for God’s peo - unmarried priests face some of tions at McGill University’s In ter - Set up by Canada’s bishops in that what St. Paul called the ple through the beauty, mystery these same challenges as they national Community Action 1967, Development and Peace is ‘principalities and powers’ were and the power of all the sacra - care for aging parents and Network. His undergraduate degree Canada’s member of the interna - at work in our world and it ments. In consultation with (past) respond to the needs of family in international development from tional Caritas movement. It runs seemed to me that the Catholic Archbishop of Winnipeg James members. Being married means Dalhousie University was supple - more than 200 development and Church was one of the few Weisgerber and with permission that I must be a good steward of mented with an MBA from McGill. humanitarian projects per year in churches that understood evil and from the Holy See, a process of my time and energy. But it has Staff at Development and 37 countries. Annually it organizes took it seriously.” formation was begun. I had the not, in any way, diminished the Peace’s Montreal headquarters and conducts more than 500 educa - Peterson said the Catholic support of Archbishop Richard strength or validity of the call to have no knowledge of what passed tional events in Canada to make Church provided the spiritual Gagnon and many tutors and the ministerial priesthood. I thank between Leduc and the volunteer Canadians aware of root causes of strength and healing he needed at teachers who have helped me my wife for her patient love and national council, said Ryan global poverty. It spent more than the time. “The spiritual exercises prepare for the unique require - support as well as the ongoing Worms, the organization’s deputy $32 million in 2014 - 15 on interna - of St. Ignatius, the life of prayer ments of the ministerial priest - support of my family and director of in-Canada programs. tional programs and raised close to practised by the monks at the hood. My internship at St. friends.” “Sometimes when you have a $12 million from individual donors. 6 Prairie Messenger LOCAL NEWS July 13, 2016 Hope’s Homes serve children with complex needs

By Frank Flegel respite beds, but it has no daycare. has an 80-space integrated daycare. year’s provincial budget cuts: “We’ve grown very fast,” said “Thirty per cent of our chil - “No, not at all. They fund for chil - REGINA — Ten years ago Stewart, “because the need is so dren have complex medical dren. They care for children.” Jacqueline Tisher took some time big. There is no other community needs, and the other 70 per cent Tisher lost an 18-year-old off from work in neonatal inten - support for those families who are typically developing children daughter who was born with sive care to help a family who have children with complex med - or have development or behav - spina bifida. “Being her mom and had children with complex med - ical needs.” iour needs. It’s integrated so chil - raising her gives me a personal ical needs. She hadn’t planned on Tisher convinced governments dren with complex medical needs connection with the parents taking more than a year before and others that it saves taxpayers and their siblings can attend the here,” said Tisher. returning to work. She is now money when quality care for same daycare,” said Stewart. Hope’s Homes is named after head of Hope’s Homes — located these children is provided at Nine staff work in the provin - a foster daughter, also with spina in Regina, Saskatoon, and Prince home. “At first they said I was cial office and 16 floor staff, in - bifida, who lived 10 months, Albert — with an $8-million bud - crazy, but I’m persistent. I believe cluding two nurses, are on duty entirely in hospital. “She’s the get that looks after children with when you have a passion in your full time every day, plus a nurse inspiration of why we started complex medical needs. heart and you recognize the need, who “floats around the rooms,” Hope’s Homes, recognizing that Hope’s Homes is Canada’s first you can speak very clearly and said Stewart. many families don’t have the sup - medically integrated daycare, advocate for the families that The ministries of Social port they need to raise a child according to Kelsey Stewart, Fund need that type of support.” Services and Education as well as with complex medical needs.” Development and Marketing man - F. Flegel Eight children, wards of the the Regina Qu’Appelle Health Tisher said Hope’s Homes just ager. It moved into the former Jacqueline Tisher state, were relocated from two rent - Region provide about 90 per cent grew. “We had eight children John Paul II Centre April 1. The ed homes to a building owned by of the funding and the remainder, coming every day, including my organization leases the lower and has it open for lease. Hope’s Homes in a supportive liv - about $800,000, is raised through own children, in my little house main floors, not including what The Prince Albert location has ing environment. The rest of the donations and fundraising projects in the north end. This wasn’t my used to be the chapel. The upper a 90-space daycare and a four-bed Regina operation moved into JP II. each year. Tisher said Hope’s plan, it’s obviously God’s plan floor remains empty, and the Nicor supportive living home. Saskatoon It contains the provincial office and Homes was not affected by this and it’s pretty big.” group, who purchased the building has a five-bed supportive living from the Archdiocese of Regina, space and will soon add five Wiesner presides at pilgrimage Tabs for Wheelchairs By Kiply Lukan Yaworski to reflect more deeply on God’s program in 18th year BLUMENFELD, Sask. — mercy. We are to Bishop Gerald Wiesner’s prayers reflect more deeply By Faith Anderson “The success of any event or for good weather were answered, on how we have program is due to all the people with a picture-perfect pilgrimage received God’s ST. BONIFACE — The 18th who are part of it and who continu - day June 12 at the historic shrine mercy in many and Tabs for Wheelchairs Assembly ously go above and beyond in their at Blumenfeld. different ways, and was held at Holy Cross School generosity of time and dedication,” “I had a chat with our Blessed then, very impor - gym June 23. Students, staff, con - stated Buccini. She expressed her Mother,” he said with a smile. tantly, to reflect on tributing schools and supporters thanks to St. Boniface Bag for pro - Along with Rev. Lawrence how we are called gathered for the presentation. A viding free bags; Reimer Express DeMong, OSB, and Rev. Hoang to be merciful to wall of drink tabs made of 50 Lines who transport the tabs free Nguyen, Wiesner was the chief our sisters and pound bags was erected in the of charge and Western Scrap presider at the annual Blumenfeld brothers. We are Holy Cross gym. This represented Metals who give them the going pilgrimage, organized by parishes supposed to be am- the collection of tabs from various rate or better for the pounds of tabs in the area. Wiesner, Bishop bassadors of mer cy, schools and organizations. that are delivered. Cash donations Emeritus of the Diocese of Prince we are supposed to Approximately 90 schools save are also accepted, with an income George and a member of the be agents of mercy tabs for the project. tax receipt issued for donations Oblates of Mary Immaculate, for our sisters and Gwen Buccini, a retired librari - over $20. now resides in Saskatoon and brothers.” an from Holy Cross School, start - Buccini also thanked Mike serves as chair of the diocesan Wiesner also ed the project 18 years ago. Hughes of HT Mobility who Holy Year of Mercy Committee. reflected on the Buccini said, “It is our 18th makes sure that each recipient gets Beginning with the Stations of Blessed Virgin anniversary and two years from the specialized chair that best fits the Cross and the Rosary, this Mary as “the moth - now it will be our 20th. We would their needs. “With the assistance of year’s pilgrimage also included er of mercy,” noting love to make that 20th year spe - the Rehab Centre for Children the the dedication of a Holy Door of that the annual cial, and present two wheelchairs right chair is chosen and ordered Mercy at the entrance of the his - Blumenfeld pil - in honour of the milestone.” by Mike,” indicated Buccini. toric Sts. Peter and Paul Church. grimage is held in K. Yaworski Buccini, along with helpers from Buccini remarked that although Wiesner blessed the Holy Door, honour of the DOOR OF MERCY — Pilgrims pass through the the school and other volunteers, more tabs have come in this year praying, “We seek your blessing Blessed Mother. He Holy Door of Mercy blessed June 12 by Bishop have faithfully throughout the year than any other in the history of the upon these doors: we ask you to described how Emeritus Gerald Wiesner, OMI, during the annu - al pilgrimage to the Blumenfeld Heritage Site gathered the donated tabs and Tabs program, it will still not be impart your blessing upon all the Mary trusted in faithful who will pass through God, gave her “yes” southeast of Leader, Sask. The pilgrimage also assembled them in 50-pound bags. enough to reach the goal of pur - included Stations of the Cross, praying the chasing two wheelchairs in 2018. these doors, receiving your divine to becoming the Rosary, the celebration of the eucharist in the She challenged those in attendance mercy. We ask that these doors mother of Jesus, in outdoor grotto, and concluded with supper. In to spread the word and encourage stand as a beacon of welcome to order that the Son addition to marking the Jubilee Year of Mercy, more people, schools, companies all who are hurt, who thirst, who of God could come this year’s pilgrimage also celebrated the 200th and organizations to save tabs. She are oppressed, who are incon - into the world as anniversary of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. also mentioned that cans, old hub - solable, and who have forgotten “our Saviour, our caps, rims, car batteries — any - that your heart is a heart of Redeemer, the face of the Diocese of Saskatoon that have thing made of copper, brass, steel immense and unconditional love.” Father’s mercy.” designated Holy Doors. During or aluminum — could also be The church bells peeled as the Mary walked a pilgrim’s path of this Jubilee Year of Mercy the turned into scrap metal, designat - faithful passed through the Holy faith, bearing sorrows and hard - faithful are invited to make a pil - ing the monies to the Tabs for Door. ships, he added. Standing at the foot grimage to a Holy Door. The Wheelchairs Program. Mass followed at the outdoor of the cross, it might appear that blessing of a plenary indulgence Jessica Rempel was the 17th grotto of Our Lady of Sorrows, in Mary was doing nothing. But she is granted when a visit happens in recipient of the Tabs for a celebration that also took mercy was not passive at all. “Mary was conjunction with the sacrament of Wheelchair program. Jessica was as its theme, as well as marking holding and carrying the tension,” reconciliation, celebration of the born with spina bifida and has the 200th anniversary of the said Wiesner. “She was not giving it eucharist, a reflection on God’s nerve damage to her lower spine. Oblates of Mary Immaculate, back. She was absorbing the hurt. mercy, and praying the intentions She has been in a wheelchair all who historically served the Mary’s silence and strength were of the Holy Father. her life. The chair she received Catholic community in the area. speaking powerful words to us,” he A pilgrimage to the Holy Door will help her become more inde - In his homily, Wiesner reflect - said, describing her as a “manifesta - at the Cathedral of the Holy pendent and one day live on her ed on the boundless mercy of tion of mercy” in the face of dark - Family in Saskatoon will be held own. God revealed in the Sunday read - ness at the foot of the cross. Aug. 5, with participants gathering “The wheelchair has the capa - ings, including the Gospel about “Mary embodies the Gospel of in the parking lot at 6:30 p.m. to bility of being elevated in order Jesus’ response to the woman divine mercy,” Wiesner added. process into the building and for her to work in the kitchen and who washed his feet in the house “She radiates God’s sympathy, through the Holy Door for celebra - other areas and give her greater of the Pharisee. “What strikes us God’s mercy. By her maternal tion of the eucharist with Bishop F. Anderson mobility,” said Buccini. Jessica most are these extravagant acts of charity she cares for us, she Donald Bolen. There will be TABS FOR WHEELCHAIRS — was clearly excited as her chair God’s mercy,” he said. guides us, she leads us.” opportunities for the sacrament of Jessica Rempel tries out her new was brought forward, knowing it “Pope Francis reminds us that The Blumenfeld church is one reconciliation and eucharistic ado - wheelchair. will change her life. in our celebration this year we are of several in the Roman Catholic ration during the Aug. 5 event. July 13, 2016 LOCAL NEWS Prairie Messenger 7 St. Boniface CWL celebrates Year of Mercy

By Faith Anderson Francis has invited us to reflect on, for their families. For us our main postcards. In the in a deeper way, the incredible concern should always be to pray afternoon the key - ST. BONIFACE — The 67th mercy of God who sends his Son to for respect for life; also to pray note speaker was Annual Convention of St. raise us out of our sinfulness and for ways that the mercy of God is Deacon Doug Cross Boniface Diocesan Council of the our darkness to love and eternal shown in palliative care in hos - from St. Berna - CWL was held April 30 at St. life, and we are invited to turn pice establishments and very dette’s Parish who Alphonsus Church. toward those who are suffering, in much in our homes among our spoke on the Year Archbishop Albert LeGatt in darkness, alone, oppressed in any families. What will bring a con - of Mercy, reflecting his opening remarks thanked the way, and to shine the light of version of heart, what will bring a on how we see Je - members of CWL parish councils Christ’s love on them. In so many greater sense of the power of sus in others, espe - in St. Boniface for all that they of your projects and activities, that God’s mercy and how that mercy cially the marginal - bring to their parishes, families is exactly what you do.” can be lived out by ourselves?” ized. and communities through their He stated, “In Canada we are In their oral reports many parish One resolution service and witness of love. at the moment debating what councils indicated they had taken was adopted calling LeGatt said, “We are in this year mercy looks like for the dying, action on physician-assisted death for an updated Can - the Jubilee Year of Mercy. Pope for those approaching death and and euthanasia issues by sending ada Food Guide (CFG), which has not been reviewed Graduates celebrate three-year journey and revised in nine years. The resolu - F. Anderson By Frank Flegel Loran, Lori Bresciani and Georgina Archbishop Charles Halpin. The tion focused on IMAGE OF CHRIST — Deacon Doug Cross’s With notes from Eric Gurash Churcko from Resurrection Parish; anniversary was celebrated the reviewing the CFG image of Christ “has been chosen to remind me Julie Lemoine from St. Jean same evening with about 114 every five years, re - of who I am, who I am supposed to be, and that REGINA — Nine graduates of Baptiste and Pat Herauf from St. alumni, several priests and former moval of fruit juice I’m called to love everyone, no matter what they the Archdiocesan Lay Ministry Paul’s in Vibank. Archdiocesan administrators present. Current as an option to look like.” Formation Program celebrated the administrator Rev. Lorne Crozon administrator, Eric Gurash, in his fresh fruit and regu - end of their three-year journey in celebrated the mass and commis - keynote address to alumni, told a lating free sugar intake and the eucharistic celebration. At a June 11 graduation ceremony at sioned graduates, assisted by co- story about a cat who wanted to be stronger warning on pro cessed the closing banquet, parish coun - Little Flower Church. celebrants Revs. Louis Abello, J.B. a lion and hunted Zebras, to illus - foods that are high in sodium and cils were presented with certifi - Verna Angielski of Holy Okai, Jose Peryilkatte and Carlos trate that evangelization is about trans fats. cates for increase in membership Family Parish, Regina, decided Jimenez, SVD. telling good stories, “and we’ve This was election year, with and council an niversaries. Life after retiring that she wanted to “It is a fabulous program,” got the best story ever told.” It’s Mavis McLaren elected president Membership was presented to learn more about her faith and in Angielski said in an interview with the heart and soul of evangeliza - of the diocesan council for the Rolande Chernichan for her some sense, calm a biblical quote the PM, “it enhances and broadens tion, said Gurash, but it’s words next two years. ongoing work for the league in that kept popping into her head. your faith and teaches you about that cause Catholics to shrink. The archbishop presided at service to God and Canada. “It’s from the old testament and it the history of the church.” She “They haven’t been part of our says ‘if you are luke warm in enjoyed the close fellowship and recent stories — we don’t evan - Saskatchewan CWL your faith I will spew you out of comradery of the group. “I formed gelize. That’s a Protestant thing.” my mouth,’ (it’s actually from many beautiful friendships.” Evangelization is not about Revelations) and every once in a Angielski has become much more carrying a Bible and annoying convention held while it would pop into my head, involved in her church since she people with quotes, and it’s not a so I decided to do something and began the program and is currently recent invention of Christian By Kiply Lukan Yaworski Lamoureux and Regina arch - learn more about my faith.” organizing a bereavement group to fringe groups, he said. It’s been diocesan president Lynn Rogers Angielski was joined by help people experiencing times of around since Christ told his disci - SASKATOON — Catholic also reported on statistics, activi - Dorothy Seiferling from Holy sorrow. ples to go and make disciples of Women’s League members from ties, and milestone anniversaries Family; Farrah Semegen and Ivan The program began 35 years all nations. “It is the number one across Saskatchewan gathered in their dioceses. Paska from Holy Child; Donna ago as a vision of the late Regina mission of the church.” June 6 - 7 at the Cathedral of the Reports by provincial commit - Holy Family in Saskatoon for tee chairs were presented through - their 68th annual convention. out the two days, addressing a Guest speakers Mary Deutscher wide range of initiatives, under - and Dr. Laurence Clein addressed takings and issues, including the legalization of assisted suicide advocacy around life issues, and euthanasia during the two-day assisted suicide and euthanasia, provincial convention, which also refugee outreach, and protection included prayer, a number of of the environment, as well as reports from CWL executive mem - spiritual enrichment undertakings bers, and approval of a resolution and such CWL initiatives as a about labelling of over-the-counter national day of prayer for pallia - medications. tive care and Catch the Fire for - Introduced by St. Gerard CWL mation workshops. council of Yorkton, the provincial The convention also included a resolution will now be forwarded presentation by Melanie Fauchoux, to the national CWL convention for winner of the provincial CWL approval. It urges the federal gov - social justice award for 2015, who ernment to implement and enforce described her experience travelling printing standards for over-the- to India to assist with projects initi - G. Stepanski counter medication labels. ated by Free the Children. LAY FORMATION — Nine graduates of the Lay Ministry Formation Program celebrated the conclusion The convention began with the CWL life member Tillie Aessie of their three-year journey in a June 11 ceremony at Little Flower Church in Regina. presentation of colours, prayer, announced 2016 social justice and greetings from parish and award winners, with this year’s organization representatives and award shared between three young Belt-tightening approved by GSCS elected officials. Saskatoon women: Jessica Frehlich of Moose Mayor Don Atchison thanked Jaw, who will be serving in the By Derrick Kunz teachers to fill 13.5 full-time program budgets. members of the CWL for their Dominican Republic though the equivalent (FTE) positions and “We worked hard to maintain volunteer spirit and community Intercordia program at St. Thomas SASKATOON — Greater educational assistants to fill 2.5 our teacher-to-student ratio and contributions. “Because of your More College, and Desiree Nelson Saskatoon Catholic Schools Board of FTE positions. Enrolment growth hire more teachers. But to say work our communities are more and Philomena Ojukwo of Education approved a balanced bud - of 300 students for 2015 - 16 and some of these cost-cutting mea - vibrant, caring, compassionate Saskatoon, who will be travelling get for 2016 - 17 at a special meeting projected growth of 365 students sures won’t affect the classroom and understanding,” he said. to the World Social Forum in June 27 to meet the Min istry of for 2016 - 17 was rec ognized in the isn’t totally accurate. We will In her report, provincial CWL Montreal as Development and Education’s June 30 deadline. Gov ernment of Sas katche wan’s have less capacity to support pro - president Jean Reader listed the Peace youth delegates. “Both the timeline and the June 1 provincial budget with addi - grams like English as an many elements of league life, Bishop Albert Thévenot of money were tight for the process tional operating funding. However, Additional Language, school from spiritual enrichment to com - Prince Albert presided at the con - this year,” said board chair Diane funding is not at a level that allows counsellors and literacy support munity service, as well as social vention’s opening mass June 6. Boyko. “With less-than-expected the division to maintain current staff,” said Boyko. events, fundraising, justice work, During the closing mass on June 7 funding to account for enrolment per-student spending. The province maintained its and advocacy. “There is so much with Bishop Donald Bolen of growth, inflation, and to cover Cost-saving measures approved capital funding commitment for that we can do and so much that Saskatoon, provincial CWL spiri - teacher salary increases, we’re by the board include not filling six new schools being built in the we already have accomplished,” tual adviser Rev. Gerard Cooper stretching every dollar to limit the vacant non-teaching positions, division and increased preventa - she said. was commissioned, and the pro - effects on classroom learning.” reassigning centralized staff into tive maintenance and renewal Saskatoon diocesan CWL pres - vincial CWL executive members To account for enrolment classrooms, changes to transporta - spending, but these funds are sepa - ident Marlene Van Dresar, Prince were reaffirmed in their mission growth, the division will hire tion for 11 schools, and reducing rate from operating funds. Albert diocesan president Shirley and blessed by the bishop. 8 Prairie Messenger CHURCH AT HOME July 13, 2016 Your spiritual house: love it, or list it?

then begin their competition with to the budget. As well, the house living space. To that end, my newly one another. One host is a realtor the realtor finds doesn’t always renovated spiritual house will have looking to find another home for satisfy everything on the couple’s higher ceilings, more open space the couple, and the other is a ren - wish list. At the end of the and rounded corners on all the Soul ovator/interior designer seeking episode, when the house is reno - walls. to renovate the couple’s current vated and another house is I need to tear down the walls of Searching home. offered, the couple is given the my pride and seek to open my mind The hosts are given a generous choice. Will they love their newly and my heart to all kinds of faith budget and a wish list from the renovated home, or will they list perspectives. I would endeavour to Tom Saretsky couple for what they would like it and move out? build larger rooms of acceptance changed in their current home or In the times I’ve watched the and understanding and seek to live My current favourite televi - looking to either renovate their included in a new one. Most of the program, the majority of the cou - the words of St. John of the Cross sion program is called Love It or current home or upgrade to a dif - couples on the program usually ples choose to love their home and who once said, “Learn to under - List It . It’s one of the countless ferent home. The house is usual - desire, in either a new home or a stay. The renovations are impres - stand more by not understanding home renovation programs on ly in desperate need of some renovated one, an “open concept.” sive, but the viewer doesn’t see the than by understanding.” I need to TV nowadays. The program kind of renovation, putting the They want more space with fewer work that remains to be completed work on welcoming those with chronicles the desire of couples couple at odds with one another walls, less clutter, larger rooms, — yet they love it enough to con - whom I don’t always agree or share because one wants to stay and and a major update or upgrade. tinue living in it. The house the same worship style or faith per - renovate the home and “love it,” The renovations never go remains a work in progress. spective instead of placing them on Saretsky is a teacher and chap - while the other wants to leave it smoothly. They always encounter Have you ever thought about a spiritual spectrum or dismissing lain at Holy Cross High School in altogether and “list it” for sale. major hidden obstacles, and usu - your own spiritual house? Think them as old-fashioned or out-of- Saskatoon. He and his wife, After the initial meeting with the ally something must be sacrificed about these questions. If your date. I’m currently in the process of Norma, have two children. couple, the hosts of the show on their wish list in order to stick spiritual life were a house, what building a bigger entrance. would it look like? Is it in need of We could all use the occasional renovation? Do you “love it” the spiritual renovation. Cynicism, way it is? Does it need an up - pride and division seek to turn us grade? Would you “list it” and away from one another, leaving pursue a completely different the entrance of our hearts too spiritual path? Or would you small to accept another’s perspec - rather leave it alone and put a tive. Sometimes we need to “Keep Out” sign in the window? remove walls and insert more win - If I were to honestly answer dows in order to let in the Light. these questions, I would have to My spiritual renovations will say that my house is in need of a never be complete, but I’m a renovation. I love what I have, work in progress. The main thing yet I know it needs work. How - is to continue loving my faith and ever, with a hard hat, the right embracing the opportunities or tools, materials and lots of help, I invitations that present them - could turn this “old house” into a selves to change or to renovate. much newer one. I urge you to embrace the Like all the participants on the opportunities to look at your cur - show, my wish list would include rent spiritual lives and make the an open-concept. I need extra space, effort to renovate when necessary. fewer walls, and a general upgrade. Change is never easy, and renova - Usually the guests of the show need tions can be messy and inconve - to do a good deal of cleaning before nient. However, they’re essential the renovation project begins. I’m if we are to ever make room and the same. I’ve accumulated a lot of provide a home for one another stuff over the years, like some atti - and for the One who seeks to take tudes that need to be thrown away. up residence in our hearts. Be Edna Froese I’ve held onto some resentment and courageous. Be bold and begin GENERATIONS — Lunch in a treeless prairie graveyard causes Edna Froese to realize the pain of one past judgments. These conspire to your renovation project today. generation suffuses more than just that one generation. make for a closed-in and cramped You might just love it! Graveyard reconciliation: hearing and bearing witness

By Edna Froese back to Germany only to be re- unwillingness to explore either pat - gious thinkers. Childhood trauma, wanted to return to places we patriated to Russia, I do not know. terns of human behaviour, which especially if masked by self- both knew. I provided a vehicle My paternal grandmother My grandmother entered my she, an educator and psychologist, destructive behaviours, can also and my company — and a picnic would have understood the plight life when I was a little girl, too had made her life’s study; or our trigger urgent re-examination of lunch that we ate in that treeless of Syrian refugees. Born in 1870, young to understand the stories religious heritage, which she had identity, of selfhood. prairie graveyard, in the shade of in what is now Ukraine and then told among the grownups — but examined more honestly than I had The second half of my life just a small tool shed. The stone on was Russia, she survived the only in the daytime, lest recurring yet dared to do. happened to coincide with the Grandmother’s grave was almost upheaval and banditry of the nightmares banish sleep. She had But there comes a time in our beginning of my career, following unreadable, but we did find it, Russian Revolution; her husband been brought to Canada as a lives, according to James Hollis, years given to raising our children, and stood in silence and tears. We had died earlier, in a typhus epi - refugee by my father after the writer and Jungian analyst, when when religious certainties were wept, I think, for her many losses demic. In 1929, she said farewell Second World War had ended and we cease striving and begin eval - dissolving like so much mist in the and suffering, and for our father, to her middle son (my father), then before the Cold War made emi - uating what it has all been for — sun. Frankly, it felt more like now also dead, who should have only 18 years old, who fled alone gration impossible. A quiet that is, if we can permit memories breaking apart into small pieces as had more time with his long-wid - to Canada, seeking a life with woman, grateful for every kind - to resurface and begin to question if I were an already cracked rock owed mother. more hope than was possible in ness, she was granted a few years the assumptions on which we being pummelled by a random We wept also for each other, Russia. She lived through forced of comfortable living before she have carved out our careers and sledge hammer. Who knows how each of us carrying our own collectivization, lost a daughter died. The primary thing I remem - built our families. the cracks first appeared. As in the traces of family trauma, for we and son-in-law to starvation, and ber of her is her burial in a coun - The first half of life requires forest giant boulders are wedged were beginning to understand in the Second World War, wel - try cemetery, in a light rain, to the the creation of our identities; the apart at last by sun and wind and how the pain of one generation comed German invaders because sound of my father’s sobs — a second half is for finding meaning. granules of sand and infinitesimal suffuses more than just that one they spoke her language and sound I’d never heard before. This shift is not determined by a roots of plants, so the mind and generation. And we were now brought some order amidst the My family eventually moved to calendar. For people like my pater - heart are infiltrated by small ques - learning to listen to each other chaos. Whether she was one of Saskatoon and I left behind the nal grandmother, the struggle to tions, incongruent happenings, again, not in order to peddle our many Mennonites, including my small Mennonite community of survive forestalls any such reflec - stubborn inner cues that won’t go own grand solutions, religious or father’s oldest surviving sister, my childhood. Anxious to become tions. Beliefs remain unexamined away, and loving actions of others psychological, but in order to who followed the German army part of my new city life, I refused because they’re too badly needed (sometimes strangers, sometimes hear, to bear witness. Grand - to look back. I did not return to for survival; education remains a enemies). Whatever the mysteri - mother, gentle quiet soul that she that country graveyard until our distant dream. Or life may have ous process is, it leads us where was, had lived through so much, Froese taught English litera - children were teenagers. By that been easy enough and kind we need to go. without a voice, with little choice ture at St. Thomas More College time my only sister and I had enough that it’s possible to refuse Where I needed to go, with my but to endure. I like to think she in Saskatoon for many years until grown apart, thanks to different life the calling to become more than sister, was to the country grave - would have smiled to see that her her retirement. She currently choices and experiences. To her earners of wages and spenders of yard where my paternal grand - grave had become a safe place works part time as academic edi - credit, she never gave up on me the spoils. For others, the second mother lay, half a world away near which her granddaughters tor while relishing the freedom to and remained in regular contact, half of life begins early, as it often from her home. My sister had could give each other hugs, and read and write for pleasure. despite my judgmentalism and has for mythic leaders and reli - come for a summer visit and share a sandwich. July 13, 2016 ARTS & CULTURE Prairie Messenger 9 In America, a lost Civil War legend is retrieved

Screenings & Meanings

Gerald Schmitz

In today’s increasingly polar - background of this controversial ized America, racial tensions are and complex character. As noted easily stoked. Although an by Mississippi historian Jim African-American has been in the Kelly (one of many expert con - White House for going on eight sultants listed in the credits): years, American politics are any - “The facts have been buried so thing but post-racial. This is a deep and spun in so many ways country that a century and a half that generations knew very little ago experienced one of the most about what really happened.” murderous civil wars in history The movie opens in October fought on the issue of slavery. 1862 amid graphic scenes of bat - Stories from that period continue tlefield slaughter with Knight as a to have a strong resonance when nurse tending to the wounded and brought to the big screen. Steven dying. The soldiers grumble Spielberg’s stately Lincoln (2012) about perceived injustices. To was followed by Steve wage the war the Confederacy CNS/STX Entertainment McQueen’s raw and wrenching was imposing onerous tax bur - FREE STATE OF JONES — Matthew McConaughey and Jacob Lofland star in Free State of Jones. 12 Years a Slave awarded the dens and confiscations on their 2014 best picture Oscar. The lat - farms. Another grievance was the unable to summon a doctor, a boys, out into the open. Instead have shocked most good Southern ter brought to life lesser-known “Twenty Negro Law” by which young “house negro” named they are summarily hanged, set - white folk. Through occasional historical events. In a similar large plantation owners and fami - Rachel (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) from ting the stage for one of the film’s flash forwards, the movie some - vein, an 1830s slave revolt is the ly members with 20 or more a nearby plantation enters the pic - most stirring scenes. The Con - what awkwardly introduces how subject of the Sundance festival slaves were being exempted from ture, secretly called upon to cure federate commander has troops “85 years later” laws against inter- sensation The Birth of a Nation military service. The conscripted the child. When Knight becomes lined up watching as a procession racial marriage were invoked in a by another black filmmaker, Nate poor man was doing most of the an injured fugitive, he is led to of grieving women in mourning 1949 Mississippi court case take refuge in dense swampland. black accompany wooden caskets against a great grandson, Davis Free State of Jones Rachel comes again, guiding him to a church. The intent backfires Knight (Brian Lee Franklin), who (U.S. 2016) to a group of runaway slaves that spectacularly in a shootout. had married a white woman. http://stxmovies.com/freestateofjones/ she is helping. Knight’s strong Christian faith Accused of being mixed-race, he It’s here that the resistance does not prevent him from deliv - was sentenced to five years in begins to take shape. Knight frees ering the coup de grace to the prison for the crime of “misce - Parker, with a theatrical release fighting to uphold the privileges one of the escaped men, Moses wounded colonel inside the genation” (interbreeding of the scheduled for October. of the rich, being asked to die for (Mahershala Ali), from a ghastly church. races). Although that conviction Now playing is director and their honour and their cotton. spiked iron collar. Guns are smug - This is a deadly, at times ruth - was overturned on appeal, it drew co-writer Gary Ross’s epic Free When a terrified boy soldier, a gled in. The numbers hiding out less, struggle in which women and attention to Rachel’s role, which State of Jones about a remarkable nephew of Knight’s named Daniel grow through 1863 as defeats pro - girls too play their part, including the official historical record had Civil War-era episode that has (Jacob Lofland), is shot and voke desertions from Confederate as shooters. And it is a class as well suppressed. been nearly lost to history. The killed, Knight decides to desert ranks. These outlaws will form a as mixed-race struggle. As Nancy Both Matthew McConaughey central figure is white Southerner and take the body back to his fam - sizeable guerrilla band, a “Knight Isenberg observes in a new book as Knight and Gugu Mbatha-Raw Newton (Newt) Knight (Matthew ily farm. He protects the house - company,” able to thwart confisca - White Trash: The 400-year Untold deliver very fine convincing per - McConaughey), a Mississippi hold, a mother with three little tions and harass Confederate History of Class in America , poor formances in the central roles. The farmer and Confederate soldier girls, in an armed standoff with a troops. Under orders from senior whites of the time had no love for attention to period detail is impres - who deserted and in 1863-65 led Confederate military posse led by commander Col. Elias Hood the slave-owning elites. sive as is the cinematography (shot a fierce rebellion of poor whites a Lt. Barbour (Bill Tangradi). (Thomas Francis Murphy), retalia - The uprising spreads, taking in Louisiana) and the restrained and blacks against the Con - Knight briefly returns to his own tions are severe, terrorizing the over a town and the plantation of musical score. Ross, who directed federate government. Getting the farm, wife Serena (Keri Russell) rural population and burning farms. Rachel’s masters. Knight will The Hunger Games trilogy, is aim - story made was a decade-long and baby son, knowing he is Offers are made of clemency permit no discrimination. In con - ing for something much more sig - passion project for Ross involv - wanted for treason. While there for anyone who surrenders, trol of Jones and several adjacent nificant with this effort. ing intensive research into the the infant falls seriously ill and, enough to lure a handful, mostly counties in southeast Mississippi, Whatever its narrative flaws, the stars and stripes replace the Free State of Jones tells an Confederate flag. But when a plea important story. In Ross’s words: for assistance to Union General “Newt Knight makes sense of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon Sherman is rebuffed, it seems no American Civil War at its country wants the insurgents. essence, which is that it was fun - EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO DIRECTOR Knight then proclaims a “free damentally a moral struggle. He (Permanent Full Time) state of Jones” with socio-eco - was such a progressive forward- nomic and racial equality as foun - looking individual and totally dational principles. unique in his own era. I wanted to Key Responsibilities: The narrative loses some steam tell the story to illustrate the fact G Provide administrative assistance to the Director of Pastoral Services at the Catholic Pastoral Centre as Ross extends it through a suc - that the South was not entirely G Logistics planner for diocesan annual events (venue, speakers, catering, agendas, letters, cession of events to 1876 — the unified in its support of the Con - federacy or slavery.” Texas native tracking payments, invoicing) Emancipation Proclamation, the G Union victory, the Reconstruction, McConaughey admires the moral Coordinate annual Foundations courses in parishes throughout diocese G the return of white masters and stand taken by Knight as a man Requisitioning payments and data entry racist laws, the continued oppres - “who lived by the Bible and the Qualifications: sion of blacks despite a constitu - shotgun. He bowed to no one’s G Administrative Assistant certificate from a recognized business college an asset tional amendment granting them authority but God’s. He under - G Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office with an emphasis on Access, Excel, and the right to vote and the coura - stood that he couldn’t be free as geous efforts of freed men like long as anyone else was enslaved. Microsoft Word G Moses. The violations and vio - . . . If he saw something wrong he Knowledge of office machines including copier, faxes, postage meter G lence are underscored by a grue - had to make it right and damn the Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills consequences.” He adds a person - G some lynching and the rampages Basic knowledge of Catholic theology and diocesan culture an asset; willingness to learn required of the Ku Klux Klan. al reason for embracing the role Salary will be commensurate with education and experience, in accordance with the Diocesan salary Knight returned to farming of Knight: “I’m a Southerner, and to fellow South erners like myself grid. Please submit letter of application, resumé and references by noon on July 19, 2016 to: after the war, living openly and having children with Rachel, Newt repudiates the stereotype Blake Sittler whom he had taught to read in the that all South erners are, or were, Director of Pastoral Services swamps. His wife Serena, who racists.” 123 Nelson Rd had fled with the baby in 1863, In every era, there are individ - Saskatoon SK S7S 1H1 returned several years later and uals who stand against oppression [email protected] took shelter with them, apparently and intolerance. They should not accepting a situation that must be forgotten. 10 Prairie Messenger DEEPENING OUR FAITH July 13, 2016 Our God is intent on mercy, rather than punishment

Finally, when it comes to the end of the proceedings, no nourishes us through all of our human experiences. If we can sentence is ever delivered. If humans were dealing with a trust that God will give us the grace, daily, to deal with the judging God, Sodom and Gomorrah would have long been joys and anguish in our lives, we can “use the good things Liturgy destroyed. What Scripture reveals instead is a God whose that pass in such a way as to hold fast . . . to those that default position is mercy, who will recognize even the endure” (Collect, 17th Sunday in OT). We can rest in God’s and Life slightest good within us in the hope that we will, eventual - merciful love rather than anxiously cling to those things that ly, return to God’s embrace. pass away and only provide momentary consolation. In this year of mercy, God’s penchant for mercy has Third, we need to be receptive. That’s why the phrase, Gertrude Rompré been given a lot of airtime. Pope Francis, in his book The “it’s better to give than to receive,” doesn’t apply to our Name of God is Mercy , highlights how God’s mercy flows relationship with God. When it comes to our encounters into our human experience. Our lives are broken by sin — with the divine, we must be open, first, to receiving God’s Cleanliness is next to godliness. It’s better to give than both social and personal — but God enters directly into merciful love. Only in this context, when we are plugged to receive. Phrases like these abound in the English lan - the messiness of it all. Our God stands in solidarity with into God, will our own giving have meaning. If we put the guage but it’s good to remember that they were likely us at our worst, embracing us with merciful love so that cart before the horse, and give without first receiving, our coined by frustrated parents trying to get their teenagers to we can become our best. So the question then becomes, generosity quickly depletes us. By becoming conduits of do their chores rather than by Scripture scholars. When we how do we receive God’s give of mercy? God’s mercy to the world, we give what we have ourselves reflect on the readings this week we realize that God tends received. We become co-constructors of God’s vision for to get intimately involved with the messiness of our lives Genesis 18:20-32 humanity and builders of God’s kingdom on earth. Seventeenth Sunday and that, when it comes to mercy, we need to receive first Psalm 138 Finally, as humans, our most proper stance toward God in Ordinary Time before we can give. Colossians 2:12-14 is one of gratitude. If the name of God is mercy, then the July 24, 2016 The story of Sodom and Gomorrah provides an inter - Luke 11:1-13 name of humanity must be gratitude. With the psalmist we esting case. Here’s a classic story where God is portrayed must give thanks with our whole hearts for God’s steadfast as a punishing God, ready to smite the unrighteous citi - First, we need to recognize the need. In The Name of love and faithfulness. At best, prayers of gratitude would zens of these two cities. But look at what actually happens God is Mercy, Pope Francis tells the story of a prisoner of be the first ones on our lips in the morning and the last in the passage. No smiting or punishment ever occurs. war about to be executed. The priest comes to hear his ones we pray as we fall off to sleep at night. God’s mercy Rather, when God hears that things are unravelling in confession but the penitent faces a dilemma. He has spent is freely offered to us, it sustains our every moment of Sodom and Gomorrah — that their actions may deserve years womanizing and does not feel sorry for his actions. existence, and it transforms us into God’s adopted chil - punishment — God decides to go and have a look. God Then the priest asks, “But are you sorry for not being dren. What more can we say than “thank you” with every will not judge them on hearsay. Then, God allows a mere sorry?” When the man says “yes,” the priest offers God’s moment and every action of our lives? mortal, Abraham, to plead on their behalf. A God intent on mercy. Being sorry for not being sorry is enough of a So, perhaps, it’s time to retire those well-worn phrases punishment would not stop to listen to Abraham’s defence. crack for God’s consolation to seep into our broken lives. that tell us that only our cleanliness will allow us to come Second, we need to trust that God’s mercy will ever sus - close to God and that our giving has merit on its own tain us. When Jesus teaches his disciples how to pray, he accord. Rather, let us bring our messiness to God and open Rompré is the director of Mission and Ministry at St. tells them (and us) to ask God for our daily bread. God’s our hearts to receiving God’s mercy. Then we will be able Thomas More College in Saskatoon. mercy is a constant companion, like our daily bread, that to claim our own name: Gratitude. We have few tools to deal with the dragon of our own grandiosity

famous dictum — “You have not being recognized and even as the disciplines (discipleship) to made us for yourself, Lord, and we are being given less and less enable us to live out our unique - In our hearts are restless until they the religious and psychological ness and our specialness, even as rest in you!” — but this innate tools with which to handle that. we make peace with our own grandiosity has us forever nursing What are these tools? mortality, our limitations, our Exile the belief that we are special, Psychologically, we need frustrations, our anonymity, and uniquely destined, and born to images of the human person that create space for the uniqueness somehow stand out and be recog - allow us to understand ourselves and specialness of everyone else’s Ron Rolheiser, OMI nized and ac knowledged for our healthily but in ways that include life. In essence, religion has to specialness. an acceptance of our limitations, give us the tools to healthily And so all of us are driven out - our frustrations, our anonymity, access the divine fire inside us We live in a world wherein the Judaeo-Christian understand - ward by a divine gene to some - and the fact that our lives must and act healthily on the talents most everything over-stimulates ing of the human person. How - how make a statement with our make gracious space for everyone and gifts God has graced us with, our grandiosity, even as we are ever, it is not to be conceived of lives, to somehow create a per - else’s life. Psychologically, we but with the concomitant disci - handed fewer and fewer tools to simplistically, as some beautiful sonal immortality, and to some - must be given the tools to under - pline to humbly acknowledge that deal with that. icon stamped inside our souls. how create some artifact of spe - stand our own life, admittedly as these gifts are not our own, that Several years ago, Robert L. Rather it needs to be conceived of cialness that the whole world has unique and special, but still as they come from God, and that all Moore wrote a significant book in this way: God is fire, infinite to take note of. This isn’t an one life among millions of other we are and achieve is God’s entitled Facing the Dragon . The fire, an energy that is relentlessly abstract concept; it’s utterly unique and special lives. grace. Only then will we not be dragon that most threatens us, he seeking to embrace and infuse all earthy. The evidence for this is Psychologically, we need better killed by failure and inflated by believes, is the dragon of our own of creation. And that fire is inside seen in every newscast, in every tools for handling our grandiosity. success. grandiosity, that sense inside us of us, creating in us a feeling of bombing, in every daredevil Religiously, our faith and our The task in life, Robert Lax that has us believe that we are sin - godliness, an intuition that we too stunt, and in every situation churches need to offer us an suggests, is not so much finding a gularly special and destined for have divine energies, and a pres - where someone seeks to stand understanding of the human per - path in the woods as of finding a greatness. This condition besets us sure to be singularly special and to out. It’s seen too in the universal son that gives us the insights and rhythm to walk in. all. Simply put, each of us, all achieve some form of greatness. hunger for fame, in the longing to seven billion of us on this planet, In a manner of speaking, to be be known, and in the need to be cannot help but feel that we are the made in the image and likeness of recognized as unique and special. centre of the universe. And, given God is to have a microchip of But this grandiosity, of itself, that this is mostly unacknowl - divinity inside us. This consti - isn’t our fault, nor is it necessarily edged and we are generally ill- tutes our greatest dignity but also a moral flaw. It comes from the PAROISSE CATHOLIQUE equipped to deal with it, this creates our biggest problems. The way we are made, ironically from makes for a scary situation. This infinite does not sit calmly inside what is highest and best in us. ST. ALBERT isn’t a recipe for peace and harmo - the finite. Because we have The problem is that, today, we CATHOLIC PARISH ny, but for jealousy and conflict. divine energy inside us we do not generally aren’t given the tools to And yet this condition isn’t our make easy peace with this world grapple with it generatively. More 7 St. Vital Ave. St. Albert, AB T8N 1K1 fault, nor is it in itself a moral flaw — our longings and desires are and more, we live in a world 780-459-6691 www.stalbertparish.com in our nature. Our grandiosity too grandiose. Not only do we within which, for countless rea - comes from the way God made us. live in that perpetual disquiet that sons, our grandiosity is being We are made in the image and Augustine highlighted in his over-stimulated, even as this is YOUTH MINISTRY COORDINATOR likeness of God. This is the most fundamental, dogmatic truth inside St. Albert Parish is seeking a full time Youth Ministry Coordinator. The Youth Minister would be responsible for development, coordination, and implementation of youth Rolheiser, theologian, teacher Advertise in the programs for school aged youth in the parish. For a detailed and award-winning author, is job description see the parish website. president of the Oblate School of Prairie Messenger Review of applications will begin on August 10 and will Theology in San Antonio, Texas. Monday - Friday 8:30 - 5 p.m. continue until the position is filled. He can be contacted through his website: www.ronrolheiser.com. Ph. 306-682-1772 Fax 306-682-5285 Please forward your application to: Rev. Ignacy Warias, OMI, Follow Father Ron on Facebook: email: [email protected] at the above address. www.facebook.com/ronrolheiser July 13, 2016 FEATURE Prairie Messenger 11 Call for apology exposes hierarchical tensions

By David Gibson Lynch wrote a day after the June ©2016 Religion News Service 12 massacre, when he opined that “it is religion, including our own, When Pope Francis said which targets, mostly verbally, recently that the church should and also often breeds contempt ask forgiveness from gay people for gays, lesbians and transgender for the way it has treated them, he people.” sparked yet another round of Lynch, who heads the Diocese global headlines about how his of St. Petersburg, added that unpredictable papacy is changing “attacks today on LGBT men and Catholicism. women often plant the seed of But more than setting the contempt, then hatred, which can church on a new course, Francis ultimately lead to violence” — a may have exposed the tensions statement that drew sharp attacks within his own hierarchy over from conservatives who said the how to engage the gay communi - blame lay with shooter Omar ty — tensions that have intensi - Mateen, a Muslim, and not with fied in the weeks after the horrific Catholics or Catholicism. massacre at a gay nightclub in Lynch’s words spread so far Orlando that left 49 dead. they prompted a remarkable pub - Francis’ comments made June lic rebuke from a fellow prelate 26 during an in-flight press con - and Floridian, Miami Archbishop ference on his return from a trip Thomas Wenski. to Armenia came in response to At a June 19 mass to mark the remarks by German Cardinal opening of an annual campaign for Reinhard Marx, a top adviser to religious freedom, Wenski ripped the pope. A few days earlier, those who said religion was a factor Marx had said that the Catholic in anti-gay violence, and referring Church, as well as society, had to Lynch — whom he described as RNS/REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi treated gay people in a “scan - “one bishop who should know bet - FRANCIS’ PAPACY — Pope Francis celebrates mass during the feast of Corpus Christi (Body of Christ) at dalous and terrible” way. ter” — he asked: “Where in our St. Giovanni in Laterano Basilica, in Rome, Italy, on May 26, 2016. “The history of homosexuals faith, where in our teachings . . . do in our society is a very bad histo - we target and breed contempt for conference when Francis was that there was no way he would analyst for the National Catholic ry because we have done a lot to any group of people? asked about Marx’s remarks and ever be ‘out’ with him,” said Reporter, told The New York marginalize them. It is not so long “Our faith, our religion gives the Orlando killings and about Martin, who has called on the Times. “With gays, it is especially ago and so as church and as soci - no comfort, no sanction to a suggestions that Christians need institutional church to be more important because they are still ety we have to say sorry,” Marx racist, or a misogynist, or a to examine their own consciences outspoken for the gay community. subject to persecution and dis - told journalists after a lecture he homophobe,” Wenski said. when it comes to the treatment of “So it’s no wonder that many crimination all over the world, gave in Dublin on the role of the Needless to say, some other gays and lesbians. don’t know many gays or les - and even in the United States.” church in a pluralist society. church leaders took a different Francis shook his head in grief bians,” Martin wrote in an email. Finally, many churchmen, like That didn’t sit well with some tack. If they did not directly at the mention of Orlando and “The way to heal this is for bish - Wenski — and more than a few Catholics, including South African blame church teachings — which recalled church teachings that ops to do a simple thing: Get to lay people — don’t think the Cardinal Wilfrid Napier. “God describe homosexuality as homosexuals “should not be dis - know the LGBT community and church is biased against gays. If help us! Next we’ll have to apolo - “objectively disordered” but say criminated against” and “should listen to them.” some Catholics have acted that gize for teaching that adultery is a gays should not be subject to be respected, accompanied pas - Francis himself has gay way, it’s unfair to connect such sin! Political Correctness (PC) is “unjust” discrimination — they torally.” friends, and that may be one rea - behaviour to the Orlando shoot - today’s major heresy!” he tweeted. did say Christians have been the Then he added: “I think that son he is able to speak as he does. ing or the almost commonplace Marx’s line actually echoed source of anti-gay sentiment. the church not only should apolo - Another stumbling block to a level of violence against homo - what Florida Bishop Robert Then came the papal press gize . . . to a gay person whom it broader embrace of the pontiff’s sexuals in the U.S. offended, but it must also apolo - approach is the concern among “There undoubtedly was a lot gize to the poor as well, to the some that expressing regrets to of anti-gay bias among Catholics women who have been exploited, gays and lesbians would be tanta - — and everybody else — in the to children who have been ex - mount to affirming their identity past, and some residual bias still ploited by (being forced to) work.” as homosexuals. exists,” said Russell Shaw, a for - BOSCO FOUNDATION Christians, he reiterated, “must That’s one reason why many mer spokesperson for the U.S. John Bosco ask forgiveness, not just say church leaders who expressed Conference of Catholic Bishops sorry.” sorrow over Orlando and called and a veteran Catholic writer. Child & Family Services Foundation In an understandable bit of for prayers did not mention that “But in all my years as a Catholic, ball-spiking, Bishop Lynch the the shooter apparently targeted I do not recall any official encour - The John Bosco Child and Family Services Foundation (Bosco next day posted a response to homosexuals. agement being given to anti-gay Foundation) is a public foundation dedicated to the provision of Wenski and his other critics, writ - In a response to Martin’s com - bias by anybody speaking for the buildings and facilities used for the treatment, education and ing: “Apropos recent comments ments after Orlando, Elliot Milco, church, and today such bias is housing of children, adolescents and adults who are in need of concerning my last blog entry on an editor at the conservative jour - officially, and frequently, deplored support. the Orlando massacre I simply nal First Things, said that to have and opposed.” offer the following” — and he done so “would be deeply mis - “The long and the short of it in Bosco Foundation believes in assisting non-profit and charitable then cited the quotations from leading on the part of the bishops, any case is that attitudes among organizations who provide vital services which aid vulnerable Francis and Marx about the since the church cannot endorse Catholics have changed a great people in our society. We do this by providing our facilities to church apologizing to gays. this ideology.” deal in recent decades, and it dis - various non-profit and charitable agencies at below market level That was the ecclesiastical “Father Martin says that gay peo - torts reality to speak as if nothing rental rates. equivalent of a mic drop. ple are ‘invisible’ in the church. To an had changed.” But it was hardly the last extent, he is right — the church, like Others would take that view Our facilities are used for social services group care, foster word. Why is this such a con - Christ, refuses to mistake the mirage even further. care, adult mental health care, the St. Francis Food Bank, two tentious issue for the hierarchy? of sin and ideology for the reality of Asked on CNN recently if he AA groups and a NE Edmonton cadet core among others. For one thing, the experience the people it encounters,” Milco con - thought Catholics should follow of Catholic bishops may not track cluded. the pope’s advice and ask forgive - In addition, we provide volunteer services to assist two small non- that of the wider public, which in Yet in his remarks a few days ness of gay people for marginaliz - profit organizations working with low income seniors and victims recent years has grown used to after Milco’s essay, Francis used ing them, William Donohue, pres - of stroke with fundraising and volunteer recruitment assistance. gays and lesbians coming out of the word “gay” to refer to the ident of the Catholic League, said The Bosco Foundation is currently working with a large service the closet to family and friends. community, which he has done no way, no how. before, and which rankles some organization on a joint project with the aim of providing That’s not the case in the “As a matter of fact, I want an church, said Rev. James Martin, a in the church. apology from gays,” Donohue affordable housing for low-income seniors. Jesuit priest and editor at A third factor at work is sim - said on CNN’s “New Day” pro - 100% of donations go toward charitable purposes. America magazine; gay people ply that it’s not easy to say you’re gram. “I’ve been assaulted by Administrative expenses are covered by other sources. can be fired from church posts if sorry — perhaps more so if you gays. I’ve never assaulted a gay they are open about their sexual are a church that is dedicated to person in my entire life.” Please forward your donation to: identity. telling others where they have “(T)he idea of a blanket apolo - Bosco Foundation “A gay friend of mine who gone wrong. gy because you are a member of 315-6770 129 Avenue NW, worked for several years for an “There are a lot of people at some demographic group, I mean, Edmonton, AB T5C 1V7 N otherwise compassionate bishop the Vatican who don’t like the I don’t know what church teach - Tel: (780) 809-8585 Fax: (780) 809-8586 told me that the bishop made so church ever admitting we ever did ing is it that you have a problem www.boscofoundation.com many snide comments about gay anything wrong,” Rev. Thomas J. with that maybe the church *Charitable Tax Number: 85985 8664 RT0001* people, in my friend’s presence, Reese, a Jesuit priest and senior should apologize for?” 12 Prairie Messenger FEATURE July 13, 2016 ‘Spare’ time, sunscreen, and the intensity of the light

family and friends that extends to sation with every area of my life: physical a stranger in and mental health, childcare, need, an Barefoot finances, spirituality and pretty apology, much anything else I would need. there is and Preaching Despite all this support, I feel growth, and like I (accidentally) apply spiritu - possibility, al sunscreen too. Even having and even been loved deeply my whole life, beauty. Leah Perrault I am still afraid of the ways that Right there, loving hurts. The intensity of sun - in my On the longest day of the year years, skin left unprotected now light is a lot like the intensity of Twitter I was working out of the office — itches long before it burns, in a love, both with the capacity to fill feed, I can under the sun on the top of a hill, way that makes me think I might me up and burn me. I am afraid feel simul - with my feet in prairie grass, have an actual allergy to sunlight. of being burned, afraid that lov - taneously melting in the heat and the light. Hats and sunscreen, lightweight ing too much will hurt more. blinded and It felt like a holiday, “spare” time long sleeves. I need a lot of equip - Just like I avoid excursions blessed. at work to rest and to share. Just ment to enjoy summer in Sas - outside when they will cause me Like buds days before, a colleague and a katchewan. discomfort, I avoid the invitations opening friend were participants in a sur - Of all the ways I am privileged, to love when it is uncomfortable. under the vivor-style homelessness chal - sunscreen never occurred to me. When the kids want breakfast at sunlight, the lenge, to raise funds for Sanctum, The intensity of the light and heat 6:45 on Saturday morning, when seed long an HIV hospice in Saskatoon. is too much for me, most of the someone asks me for change I since bro - While following the participants time. I go outside when I want to, want to spend on treating myself, ken open in on Twitter, one comment really when it is enjoyable for me, armed when I can avoid admitting my hope of a got me: “Tired and sunburnt.” with my protective shields, letting mistakes and save the embarrass - flower, the My red hair and Irish complex - only enough light and nature in to ment, I am armed with excuses, little light I ion has always required a tentative stay comfortable. All this while so self-righteousness, and indigna - let in is relationship with the sun. I was many people in our world go with - tion. I can love generously in my absorbed born before sunscreen was some - out safe places of refuge from any “spare” time, when it suits me, and trans - thing everyone used, and I have dangers. I will be praying and and makes me feel good. formed into several childhood memories of donating every time I pull out my My spiritual self-protection something hinges on a ridiculous fear that new, some - peeling skin and burning sleepless sunscreen this summer. CNS/Gregory Shemitz nights. My family has long joked Even more than changing my responding to others’ needs when I thing I that Leah is allergic to nature: pol - heart when I head into the sun in do not feel like it will make me could not LOVE’S INTENSITY — Invitations to love are great, break out in hives. But every time I have seen except when they make us uncomfortable. Like “when lens and grain dusts, mosquito the coming weeks, this lesson is someone asks me for change I want to spend on treat - bites and heat. In more recent working its way through the rest walk away from my potential dis - or ima gined ing myself,” writes Leah Perrault. “I can love gener - of my life. Not only do I have comfort, I block more of the light in my fear. ously in my ‘spare’ time, when it suits me, and makes trouble with letting the sun touch love offers. And this is where the The only me feel good.” Perrault is a wife and mom, a me, I have already told you I have metaphor breaks down. Unlike UV reason I grateful employee of Emmanuel to work at being held, at letting rays, getting uncomfortable in lov - have the privilege of sunscreen is housed, addicted and sober, Care, and a speaker, writer and other people into my life to love ing others will not give me cancer. because I won the birth lottery, healthy and allergic to nature, we consultant at www.leahperrault. me and take care of me. I am Right in the middle of arguing which, it turns out is also how I all have ways of protecting our - com privileged to have the support of kids, an awkward but real conver - got the red hair. Homeless and selves from the places where lov - ing hurts, where the intensity of seeing one other deeply scares us, In Britain, between a rock and a hard place where we hide behind the false premise that we just do not have By Tahir Nasser For many younger voters, In March 2016 a Glaswegian Shah’s killing. I know, however, the time. ©2016 Religion News Service there is a deep sense of violation. shopkeeper, known for his the road that Britain is going Slowly, one mistake after We feel as if our identity has been friendliness and kindness in the down and I know where it leads. I another, I am trying to choose the My country doesn’t know shaped by views that we do not local neighbourhood, was have seen it in Pakistan, where discomfort of loving with my what to do. Its citizens are con - share by a generation so far stabbed to death in the early fear of Ahmadis has turned into whole heart, wrapping my arms fused on who they are and what removed from us. Many of us hours of the morning while hatred. I know that because my around a kid having a fit instead they stand for. It is a fractured embrace immigration, with our opening his shop. At first, the faith is vilified in their legislation, of getting angry, or whispering I nation, unsure about its place in British identity inexorably tied to killing was thought to be I would never fit into Pakistan, forgive you when I really want to the world today and its standing our European one, having only Islamophobic in nature but it was despite my ethnicity. scream that I will not. Rather in the eyes of others. ever lived in a British European quickly realized that his killer Similarly, Britain’s recent ref - than an ocean of perfection and I am talking about Britain, of nation. This is especially the case was also a Muslim. The attack - erendum result, driven principally ease, love is a garden that course, but you could be forgiven since around 75 per cent of those er’s reason was simple: Asad to Brexit out of fear of other peo - requires seeding and weeding, for thinking that I was talking 24 or younger voted to remain in Shah had “disrespected” the ple, has made me feel that I no water and sun. The garden needs about Pakistan, my country of the EU. Prophet of Islam by virtue of longer fit in today’s British soci - my attention all the time, not just heritage. In a way, I’m talking This sense of violation is evi - being an Ahmadi Muslim. It ety. I am a British European in the minutes I have left over, about both. dently new to many of my gener - soon emerged that leaflets call - Ahmadi Muslim of Pakistani her - though it will wait for me, grow - The United Kingdom recently ation, but the feeling is not new to ing for the death of Ahmadi itage. If home is where the heart ing ever more wild until I head held a referendum in which its me. Muslims had been distributed in is, then I belong everywhere and out into the sun to learn its future in Europe has been voted As an Ahmadi Muslim of British mosques as well as at nowhere. lessons. on by around 70 per cent of its Pakistani heritage, I know full London universities. population. Not a bad turnout. well about having your identity In the recent referendum, fears White Pony Lodge Fifty-two per cent voted to leave forcibly taken and shaped by oth - of immigration from eastern the European Union, with immi - ers. In Pakistan, Ahmadiyya Europe and from Muslim refu - a positive presence gration to Britain from the EU Islam is banned. Any Ahmadi ex- gees coming freely to the U.K. being cited as the most common pressing an Islamic identity can were exploited by the likes of reason for doing so. be imprisoned for three years and Nigel Farage. This has resulted in Continued from page 3 building, and donations have Britain stands now on the subject to a fine. If one’s expres - hate incidents such as the distrib - helped purchase vests, radios and brink, with many in the country sion is deemed blasphemous, one ution of cards in Cambridge shire weekends, but were pleased with first aid kits. embarrassed at its isolationism, can be put to death under the stating “No more Polish vermin” the support. Oochoo said the short Beatrice Wallace lives and realizing slowly that departure blasphemy laws. and the graffiti of a Polish centre weekend hours were chosen as a owns a business in North Central. from the EU may be the end of The reality, however, is that in London with the words “Go start; they do not yet have the She became involved in the initia - the United Kingdom as we know before the law can even get hold home.” resources to carry out patrols in tive because she felt the area was it, with Scotland seeking a sec - of such dastardly criminals, vigi - After Shah’s killing, Ahmadi the more dangerous overnight not safe for her children or grand - ond referendum and some in lante groups execute them in the Muslims too are in a precarious hours. children. Northern Ireland seeking a refer - cold light of day. In the last two position. To the indigenous “We are not the police or any “It hasn’t been safe in front of endum to join the Republic of months, three prominent mem - British community, we are visibly authority. What we are is a sup - my house for a long time, so Ireland. bers of the Ahmadiyya Muslim and noticeably Muslim. To many portive, positive presence in the when this came about I definitely community of Karachi, Pakistan, other Muslims, however, we are community.” wanted to be part of it.” She were gunned down. Most surpris - not Muslims but Ahmadis posing They advise police when they believes the patrol hours are hav - Nasser is a 27-year-old physi - ingly, however, is that such as Muslims. A heretical sect in a begin and end their patrols, and ing an impact in the community. cian and a regular contributor behaviour is no longer confined pure religion. We are, in many will call police if they encounter “People can see we are trying to and commentator in British to Pakistan, but has been exported ways, between a rock and a hard any situations. make a difference. We have kids media. Find him on Twitter: to my own country — the United place. Aids Program Southern Sas - greet us, parents greet us, and that @TahirNasser Kingdom. I do not live in fear since katchewan provided space in their support is beneficial.”

July 13, 2016 FEATURE Prairie Messenger 13 Reconciliation is a way of moving to mutual respect

instances of church entities trying A decade ago, Sinclair told a beliefs and practices. One thing hard to reconcile with indigenous CPJ audience in Winnipeg of his we need to understand is that people, while also seeing the grandmother’s deep Catholic within that aura of differences, Journey challenges and failures they have faith — and mentioned that he we can still have commonalities had. What, I asked, should be the felt she always wanted him to — we can still have very impor - to Justice next, further steps for faith com - one day become a priest. “My tant mutually acceptable ways of munities to play in the reconcilia - grandmother was raised by nuns proceeding to living side by side tion process? in residential school, she was a in this country in a very respect - Joe Gunn “Historically, the Christian fervent Catholic who did not ful way.” community generally has spent a believe in any other spiritual “Faith-based groups have not long time convincing themselves belief. If she had been alive when yet learned to give that same One year ago the Truth and poverty” on indigenous people. as well as convincing indigenous the pope came to Canada, she respect to indigenous spirituality Reconciliation Commission of “The aim was to impoverish people that indigenous philoso - would have wanted to go to see that they demanded indigenous Canada (TRC) released its 500- indigenous people to force them phies, views, ceremonies and him, and I would have taken her spirituality give to them.” page final report, “Indian to do the government’s bidding,” spirituality are not only irrele - because I respected her beliefs For Senator Sinclair, “recon - Residential Schools: Honouring said Sinclair. vant, but evil. That teaching has that much. But at the same time ciliation is a way of moving to the Truth, Reconciling for the Not only was land taken away, gone on for many, many genera - she had a respect for indigenous mutual respect.” Future.” Most importantly, the but “a policy of starvation” was tions. It has permeated much of TRC issued 94 Calls to Action. developed (killing off the bison of our conversation to the extent that Several of these recommendations the Great Plains, prohibiting we’re not even conscious of what should directly have an impact on movement off reserves to access we’re saying and how we’re say - the ways people of faith will live jobs, not allowing the “cultural ing it and what we’re believing out our covenantal relationship tools” used in ceremonial practices by it. with the indigenous people of this and economic activities of hunt - “For example, I’ve had experi - land. ing, fishing and trapping to be ences in government buildings In late June I was able to inter - learned and nurtured in residential where indigenous elders are not view the commission chair, now schools, etc.). allowed to smudge (burn sweet - senator, Murray Sinclair. (A video What is the way forward, grass or sage) while Christian cere - of our discussion is available on then? monies using incense are not ques - CPJ’s website.) Since reconcilia - “Education is the foundation tioned. There’s that inherent bias, a tion is not complete, I wanted to for reconciliation, in my view,” he systemic bias, that we all carry and discover how the work of the TRC said. The education in our domi - we are often just not aware of it. can and should be continued nant society must change, as “it is So faith communities need to do today. also a way for us to address the their own internal soul-searching Senator Sinclair feels that the poor knowledge that non- to recognize and to address their poverty experienced by indigenous Aboriginal people have about own systemic influences and bias - people is different than that of other Canada’s relationship with indige - es, address them and put them into Canadians. He analyzes the policies nous peoples.” And certainly edu - their proper place, getting rid of of the Canadian state, including cation and skills development for them to the extent that they can, or residential schools, as intentionally indigenous peoples must be put them into a more respectful designed to create “an imposed improved, since “education is also tone if you can’t. the key to addressing poverty. “It’s understood that every - There is no question of that — it is body will continue to follow Gunn is the Ottawa-based exec - in every society.” their particular faith teachings utive director of Citizens for Public During the years-long TRC — and that should be encour - Justice, www.cpj.ca. process, Sinclair witnessed many aged.” Art Babych MUTUAL RESPECT — Senator Murray Sinclair, seen in this 2015 PRAIRIE MESSENGER PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY photo with his granddaughter Sarah Fontaine-Sinclair, says “reconcili - ation is a way of moving to mutual respect.”

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Vatican warnings proved right down Saddam Hussein which has transformed Iraq ing it prey to Islamic terrorism — were ignored. into a cesspool of terrorists. Pope John Paul II, Hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed by The Vatican’s claim to infallibility is restricted to already old and ill at the time, tried everything to not-so-smart bombs, a conflict whose consequences rather narrow claims of faith and doctrine. Not stop it. But in vain. the whole of the Middle East and the world pay to everything the pope says, contrary to some popular Tornielli wrote that in January 2003, then- this day.” belief, gives his view the mantle of infallibility. Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano issued a He writes that Pope John Paul II tried to speak Thus, popes do not claim to be infallible when warning about the imminent war against Hussein. the truth to power. All he could do was to suggest a they speak on economics, the environment, or poli - “We say to our American friends: is it in your inter - day of prayer and fasting for peace for March 5. tics. However, they have often argued that there are est to anger a billion Muslims and risk having the Tornielli says the voice of the aging pontiff “should other options to consider when we face hard choices, hostility of the Muslim world for decades?” have been better heeded, instead of waging a war on and political and business leaders tend to look only Meanwhile the pope met with world leaders and the basis of lies, without UN backing and without for pragmatic and short-term solutions. sent envoys to both Iraq and America in an effort to thinking of the aftermath. The voice of Iraq’s A case in point is the Chilcot Report released in prevent the 2003 conflict. U.S. President George Christians should have been better heeded. They the United Kingdom July 6. The official inquiry Bush Jr. labelled the conflict a “preventative war.” were mocked and branded as ‘pacifists’ on Saddam’s delivered a devastating indictment of Britain’s deci - The Chilcot Report accuses then-prime minister payroll even by some Catholic media outlets that sion to invade Iraq. It said the war was based on Tony Blair of wanting to wage war at all costs, ignor - were eager to put on the helmet.” flawed intelligence and was launched before all ing the many alternatives. It was these very alterna - The Chilcot Report supports the pope’s warnings diplomatic options were exhausted. The 2.6-million- tives the pontifical diplomats had insisted on so pas - of the terrible aftermath the war would bring about. word report said the U.K. failed to appreciate the sionately. The whole region was destabilized and fundamental - complexity of governing Iraq, and did not devote Tornielli reminds us that war “is won by propa - ism and terrorism were strengthened. Thousands of enough forces to the task of securing the country in ganda in the first place.” The propaganda empha - civilian lives were lost and terrorists reign over the the wake of the invasion. sized weapons of mass destruction and terrible chem - area with impunity, with no peace in sight. Vatican commentator Andrea Tornielli wrote in ical agents which were never found. “Warnings about The Chilcot Report alerts us to beware of propa - his Vatican Insider blog that the Chilcot Report has the potential consequences of a war — not least of ganda that continues to guide international policies brought to light the absurdity of the conflict to bring which was plunging the country into chaos and leav - even today. — PWN Bolen reflects on his service in Saskatoon diocese, and looks ahead

Dear members of the clergy, claims the Gospel of Jesus Christ, differently. As church, we are and clergy of the diocese. Thank mentors in life have been from religious communities, and trying to live the Gospel with learning anew to walk to gether you for your faith, wisdom and among the clergy and faithful of faithful of the Diocese of Saska - integrity, mindful always of the with indigenous peoples. generosity, which have made it the archdiocese. toon and the Archdiocese of mercy of God at the source of our Through a series of initiatives, such a joy to minister alongside There is a great legacy within Regina, calling. We have striven to be a we have set out with energy on you these past years. You remain the archdiocese of strong parish church in dialogue with our cul - this walk, with the support and in my heart and I assure you of communities, evangelization, dia - Grace and peace to you in the ture, with other Christian commu - guidance of many indigenous my ongoing prayers and, in turn, logue, collaboration between all Lord Jesus Christ. nities and with adherents of other friends. I hope and pray that ask your prayers for all that lies the people of God, and the pursuit By now you will have received religious traditions, always open these efforts and this learning ahead. of justice. It is a privilege to serve the news that I have been to working together at the service will continue. To the clergy, religious and in a new way, alongside all of appointed by Pope Francis as the of God’s merciful designs for The date for the transition to faithful of the Archdiocese of you, as we strive to be faithful to Archbishop of Regina. I write this humanity. Regina has not yet been set. As of Regina, I promise to try to serve the Gospel and respond to the note with many and conflicting We have sought to be a church July 11, I am the apostolic admin - you well, by the grace of God, world in its needs. emotions, held to gether by a deep seeking justice, engaging in istrator of the Diocese of and very much look forward to I am also mindful that many and abiding trust in God’s mercy issues of the day, addressing sys - Saskatoon, with the authority of a working with you at the service things have changed in the arch - and faithfulness. temic injustice, and showing spe - diocesan bishop. Upon my instal - of the kingdom. diocese in my years away from it, Serving with you in the cial concern for those on the mar - lation as Archbishop of Regina, it Returning to Regina means and that my knowledge of its Diocese of Saskatoon these past gins of our society. While our is to be anticipated that the coming home to the place where parishes and people is very limit - six-plus years has been one of the efforts have been shaped by our College of Consultors in the I grew up (then in the Diocese of ed. There is a steep learning great joys and privileges of my own limitations and failings, we Diocese of Saskatoon will be Gravelbourg), where I was edu - curve ahead and I ask in advance life. Under the leadership of Pope have felt and seen significant asked to meet and elect a dioce - cated (many years at Campion for your patience, and especially Benedict XVI then of Pope signs of the Holy Spirit at work in san administrator who will work College) and where many of my for your prayers. Francis, together we have sought our midst. with others to lead and guide the family members and friends still It is my hope to keep as epis - to address pastoral challenges The years I have served in diocese until a new bishop is reside. I was ordained a priest copal motto the phrase from within our parishes and commu - Saskatoon have coincided with named. by Archbishop Charles Halpin, Thomas Merton which speaks nities. the Truth and Reconciliation I have every confidence that blessed by Archbishop Peter eloquently the name of God: With an exceptional team of process addressing the painful the Holy Spirit, who has been Mallon’s willingness to have me “mercy within mercy within clergy and lay leadership, we legacy of the Indian residential leading us these past years, will spend years working at the mercy.” May we jointly be held have sought to be a church that in schools. As a people, we need to continue to be at work in the fine Pontifical Council for Promoting by and draw life from that great our parishes and outreach pro - learn to tell the story of our land and gifted lay faithful, religious, Christian Unity in Rome, and font of mercy and daily show it to had the privilege of serving others and to the world. (briefly) as vicar-general of the Yours in the Risen Lord, archdiocese then as fellow bish - op alongside Archbishop Daniel +Donald Bolen Bohan. Many of my teachers in Apostolic administrator, Roman the faith, spiritual guides and Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon

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O Canada doesn’t deserve to be sung in church

The Editor: I wonder what it marriage, and pressured Chris - Maybe Catholics do know that will take for Catholics to stop tians who refuse to co-operate in the church is under attack, but marking July 1 by singing “O the chang es to violate their con - put their faith in the line “God Canada” at the end of mass. sciences. keep our land glorious and free.” Don’t they realize that Canada is Oh yes, and the assailants It would be a persuasive possibil - at war with the church? have introduced a slippery dis - ity if, mentally, they replaced I don’t know how else to tinction between freedom of reli - “keep” with “make.” They could explain legislative and judicial gious beliefs and the right to act be praying for a future liberated assaults of more than half a cen - on them, trashed the Christian from an inglorious and licentious tury. The assailants have struck counsel of hate the sin but love present. down the Lord’s Day Act, em- the sinner, broadened the notion If so, they had better hope boldened secularists to banish of hate speech in ways that that the God they are praying to Chris tian practices, symbols and could include quotations from is the one who is supreme, not utterances from the public the Bible, violated Catholic subordinate, in the Charter. I square, ruled against religious social teaching by allowing the fear, though, that if the exercises and recital of the Lord’s welfare state to usurp from sub - assailants can demote God in the Radim Schreiber Prayer in public schools, com - sidiary organizations and indi - Constitution, they can easily pelled all schools to be open to viduals what they are able to do remove him from the national Afterglow homosexual and gender ideology, on their own initiative, and in anthem. Just as they changed legalized contraception, group the Charter of Rights and free - “all our sons” to “all of us” in When I actively practice my faith, sex and assisted suicide, liberal - doms demoted God from the second line, they should Like a firefly on the wing, ized abortion and possession of supreme in the preamble to sub - have no difficulty changing It brightens the world. child pornography, introduced ordinate in the rest of the docu - “God” to “Let’s” in the seventh. By Jeanette Martino Land no-fault divorce and same-sex ment. — Joe Campbell, Saskatoon Dialogue the cornerstone of Bolen’s time as bishop Appreciate story The Editor: Re Alma Continued from page 1 nous people received a “signifi - the Justice and Peace Commission we need to learn how to give an Barkman’s Prairie Messenger cant push” as a result of the TRC of the Canadian Conference of account of the hope that is within story of June 29, “Rising to the created vibrant and healthy com - process, said Bolen. Catholic Bishops (CCCB). us, to find ways to speak the challenge to sing despite our loss - munities. “Like Saskatoon, “Thanks to exceptional leader - Persecution of Christians depths of that, so the life it gives es.” What a touching metaphor of Regina also has a strong commit - ship from within the indigenous around the world, the scourge of is communicated to an increas - life and loss in both human and ment to lay formation, and to col - community, our church has taken human trafficking, the need to ingly secular culture. We need to avian form. May she always have laboration between lay leadership significant steps and is now clearly care for the environment, oppos - be able to express why our faith a robin nest near her kitchen win - and clergy, to justice and to pro - on a journey to a new way of living ing the legalization of assisted in Jesus Christ gives us life and dow in the spring. — Clara claiming the Gospel.” together in a healthy relationship suicide and euthanasia, protecting provides hope for the world.” Fouillard, Kamloops, B.C. Bolen’s tenure as Bishop of grounded on truth and justice.” conscience rights, and promoting Saskatoon has included a multi - Dialogue has been an ongoing the need for palliative care are U.K. citizens vote for ‘sovereignty’ tude of initiatives and projects. He cornerstone of Bolen’s time as among issues addressed in the came into the diocese just as con - bishop. diocese and beyond during The Editor: On June 23, 51.9 Johnson and Nigel Farage? struction was beginning on a new “It was a beautiful thing to be Bolen’s time as bishop. per cent of the voters in the United For me, a clue lies in the repeat - cathedral and Catholic Pastoral named a bishop by Pope Bene - Other milestones have includ - Kingdom — mostly in England — ed claim of the “Leave” campaign Centre, after years of planning and dict, who is such a towering theo - ed the return of diocesan mission - voted to leave the European Union that if the U.K. leaves the EU it fundraising. logical thinker. It has also been an aries from Brazil, a re-envisioned (EU). will have greater sovereignty and “It was a great blessing to me incredible experience to be in Christian Initiation and Cate - As titillating as the superficial can just negotiate agreements with to be bishop during the process of leadership at a time when Pope chetics office, the renewal of the coverage of the ramifications of the EU as Canada is doing (CETA). building, opening and blessing Francis is giving a strong thrust diocesan Covenant of Care and this vote is, important questions Farage, a commodities broker the new cathedral,” said Bolen. toward dialogue and a culture of sexual abuse policies, the estab - are not being asked — much less and former leader of the U.K. The new cathedral and pastoral encounter,” said Bolen, noting lishment of a Justice and Out - answered. Independence Party, is a sitting centre has became a hub of ministry that the papal transition of 2013 reach Year of Formation (JOY) I was in the Republic of Ire land member of the European Par - and outreach. “When we opened the was an historic moment in the life program, and a discernment about and England for most of May. liament (MEP) as well as co-chair cathedral we ex pressed the hope of the church and in his life as ordaining men to the permanent In England, “Leave” ran a slick, of the Europe of Freedom and that it would be a place of welcome, bishop. diaconate. hard-hitting campaign that manip - Direct Democracy (EFD). but also a place of healing and rec - “At a time when Pope Francis “One very moving experience ulated the legitimate fear and anger Members of the EFD are liber - onciliation — and I think it has called for a culture of encounter has been the privilege of ordain - of people for whom the current tarians favouring asymmetrical become just that,” he said. and said what was most needed in ing eight new priests,” added world order is not working — agreements misnamed “free” trade. Bolen pointed to a Holocaust our world was ‘dialogue, dia - Bolen. “There’s a great joy is see - using lies, xenophobia and racism. These agreements, negotiated Memorial held at the Cathedral of logue, dialogue,’ we were able to ing young priests thriving in their Being an uglier steroidal version in secret, give global corporations the Holy Family this spring “that foster dialogue on many fronts,” ministry and committing them - of the 2015 Harper Con servative the right and means (through brought 2,400 students together he said, listing events such as selves with dedication to the and current Trump campaigns, it secret tribunals) to sue democrati - for an event that directly addressed public interfaith forums about People of God.” skilfully redirected dissatisfaction cally elected governments if pro - the horrors of the Holocaust and issues such as faith in the public Bolen said that he longs to away from those socially engineer - jected profits are threatened by took steps of reconciliation be- sphere or peace and terrorism, a see more effort put into finding ing current situations toward a pos - legislation favouring the common tween Christians and Jews.” He public discussion on compassion a way to speak faith to new gen - sible means of constructively good. also cited the recent installation of with a Tibetan Buddhist, and a erations and to share the beauty addressing legitimate concerns. They do not give people or a treaty plaque at the cathedral, dialogue on the music of Leonard of the Gospel. “There is so Within days of the vote, government equal rights or means “demonstrating how important it is Cohen by Bolen and Rabbi much more to be done. Our “Leave” campaigners backed away to sue corporations should they that we walk together with indige - Claudio Jodorkovsy. church is being summoned by from major promises (health care; violate human rights, poison nous peoples, genuinely and In addition, a local Evan - young people today to greater cut immigration) while hate crime watersheds or misrepresent the humbly seeking reconciliation and gelical-Catholic dialogue has pro - compassion and greater integrity complaints rose by 57 per cent. threat to life posed by eco-system healing.” duced a joint statement and nur - in the way we live and preach Who would risk the unravel - destruction. The Truth and Reconciliation tured many discussions and the Gospel.” ling of the UK and EU to meet “Increased sovereignty” may Commission (TRC) process to friendships, while an Ecumenical As for ongoing challenges for their ideological and economic be the biggest lie of the “Leave” address the painful legacy of the Formation Program has been both the Diocese of Saskatoon goals? Who finances the lies and campaign. — Yvonne Zarowny, Indian Residential School System established through the Prairie and the Archdiocese of Regina, antics of the likes of Boris Qualicum Beach, B.C. and the June 2012 national event Centre for Ecumenism. Bolen echoed the message of a that was held in Saskatoon also Justice and Peace have been an pastoral letter on hope written to affected Bolen’s tenure as bishop. ongoing priority for Bolen, both in the diocesan faithful shortly after www.prairiemessenger.ca A long-standing diocesan com - the diocese and on the national his episcopal ordination: “As a mitment to walking with indige- stage, where he serves as chair of Christian community, I believe

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By Bronwen Dachs With rising poverty levels, Conference, told Catholic News ally,” the church leaders said. Mugabe’s administration, which “life is unbearable now for most Service in a telephone interview. Taxi operators and angry spends more than 80 per cent of its CAPE TOWN, South Africa people” in the southern African Thousands of people joined a youth clashed with police in revenue on wages for state work - (CNS) — Violent protests in country with an unemployment July 6 national strike over griev - Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, July ers, faces a worsening cash short - Zimbabwe reflect people’s frus - rate of 90 per cent, Rev. Frederick ances, including the government’s 4 as they protested roadblocks age. In a bid to end hyperinflation, trations in extremely difficult Chiromba, secretary general of failure to pay state workers’ that they said are used by police it abandoned its own currency in times, a church official said. the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ salaries, national cash shortages to solicit bribes. 2009 and uses mainly U.S. dollars. and new import controls. Other violent protests that Chiromba said the government The Zimbabwe Heads of included the razing of a ware - is to blame for inconsistent poli - Christian Denominations said in a house took place in early July at cies, such as “the sudden banning July 5 statement that the coun - Zimbabwe’s border posts with of imports which has destroyed try’s challenges require “collec - South Africa after the Zimbab - people’s livelihoods” and lack of tive concerted efforts, wisdom, wean government banned imports effective leadership. insight, co-operation and collabo - of a wide range of foodstuffs and Most people in Zimbabwe, ration of all stakeholders and con - other products. with a population of close to 16 cerned friends.” Protesters in Beitbridge, a bor - million, survive on $1 a day. Chiromba is executive secre - der town about 650 kilometres They eke out a living in small- tary of the umbrella group, which south of Harare, barricaded a road scale informal trade, mostly sell - includes the bishops’ conference, with rocks and burning tires July ing goods bought in South Africa. the Zimbabwe Council of 2, forcing the temporary closure With the ban on imports an - Churches and the Evangelical of the border post. nounced June 17, “groceries can - Fellowship of Zimbabwe. Civil unrest is rare in Zim - not be sent across the border from Zimbabwe is “undergoing a babwe, where 92-year-old Robert South Africa, which creates diffi - very difficult patch, economical - Mugabe has ruled since indepen - culties for families who rely on ly, socially, politically and spiritu - dence from Britain in 1980. these,” Chiromba said. Fear closes hearts, prayer opens them to God

By Carol Glatz sadness to joy and from division keys, it was a symbol of his ability CNS/Philimon Bulawayo to unity, Pope Francis said on the to open the kingdom of heaven, not ZIMBABWE PROTESTS — Riot police detain residents after a July 4 VATICAN CITY (CNS) — feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. lock it up like the hypocritical protest by taxi drivers turned violent in Harare, Zimbabwe. Violent Prayer is a key that opens the Prayer is “the main way out: the scribes and Phar isees did to those protests in Zimbabwe reflect people’s frustrations in extremely diffi - door to God, unlocks selfish, fear - way out for the community that seek ing to enter. cult times, a church official said. ful hearts and leads people from risks closing up inside itself The day’s first reading, from because of persecution and fear,” Chapter 12 of the Acts of the Apos- he said during a mass in St. Peter’s tles, the pope said, speaks of differ - Irish parliament rejects liberalized abortion Basilica June 29. ent kinds of closure: Peter being Prayer — entrusting oneself locked up in prison and a group of By Michael Kelly ment did not publish that legal have a detectable heartbeat. If a humbly to God and his will — “is faithful gathered inside a home in advice, and three senior govern - fetus has the capacity to be born, always the way out of our personal prayer and in fear. DUBLIN (CNS) — The Irish ment ministers broke ranks and it has the protection of the consti - and community’s closures,” he said. After God sends an angel to parliament has defeated legisla - voted in favour of the law. tution.” Twenty-five archbishops ap - free Peter from his captors, the tion that would have allowed The Irish Constitution pro - Cora Sherlock, spokesperson pointed over the course of the apostle goes to the house of a abortion of fetuses diagnosed vides for an equal right to life for for the Pro-Life Campaign, past year were invited to come to woman named Mary, and knocks with life-limiting conditions. mothers and their unborn chil - accused politicians who support - Rome to concelebrate the feast on the door. Though many people Members of the Dail — the dren. However, the Supreme ed the change of doing a “real day mass with Pope Francis. are gathered inside in prayer, they lower house — voted 95 - 45 July Court has ruled that this permits disservice to families of babies They came from 15 countries. are unsure about opening the door, 7 to reject an amendment that abortion in limited circum - with a life-limiting condition, par - Like last year, the pope did not unable to believe Peter is really would permit abortion in cases stances. ticularly those who have been confer the pallium on new arch - outside knocking to be let in, Pope described as “fatal fetal abnormali - Health Minister Simon Harris, pressured to abort their child.” bishops during the liturgy, but Francis said. ty.” Pro-life campaigners pointed opposing the legislative change, “There is something really dis - rather, blessed the palliums after King Herod’s persecution of out that children in these circum - told the parliamentary debate: “It turbing about the way some politi - they were brought up from the Christians created a climate of fear, stances often live beyond birth and can never be said that a fetus cians are trying to introduce legis - crypt above the tomb of St. Peter. the pope said, and “fear makes us some go on to lead healthy lives. with a fatal fetal abnormality will lation that will have the effect of The actual imposition of the wool - immobile, it always stops us. It Ireland’s attorney general had not be born to live for a short removing all legal protection from en band was to take place in the closes us up, closes us to God’s declared the proposed law uncon - time, even if that is only to be these babies who are very sick and archbishop’s archdiocese in the surprises.” stitutional. However, the govern - minutes, to draw a breath and to need our support,” she said. presence of his faithful and bishops This temptation is always out from neighbouring dioceses. there for the church, even today, In his homily, the pope said to close itself up in times of dan - Catholic, Orthodox must show mercy: pope when Je sus promised Peter the ger, he said.

By Cindy Wooden each year for the feast of St. and St. Paul, who had persecuted Andrew, patron of the patriarchate. the early Christian community, VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Metropolitan Methodios is the both had powerful experiences of Professing the same faith in the Orthodox co-president of the God’s forgiveness and great mercy, mercy of God, Catholics and North American Orthodox- the pope said. They became “tire - Orthodox must do more to ensure Catholic Theological Consulta - less evangelizers and fearless wit - mercy marks the way they treat tion. Pope Francis used his pres - nesses to the salvation offered by each other, Pope Francis told a ence at the Vatican as an opportu - God in Christ to every man and delegation from the Orthodox nity to praise the “fruitful work” woman.” Ecu menical Patriarchate of Con- of the North American group. With St. Peter and St. Paul, he stan tinople. “Instituted more than 50 years said, Christians are united in their “If, as Catholics and Orthodox, ago, this consultation has pro - experience of being forgiven and we wish to proclaim together the posed significant reflections on receiving God’s mercy and grace. marvels of God’s mercy to the central theological issues for our Before the split of the churches CNS/Paul Haring whole world, we cannot continue churches, thus fostering the devel - of the East and West in the 11th to harbour sentiments and atti - opment of excellent relations be - century, he said, the church of NEW LEADERSHIP FOR VATICAN PRESS — Greg Burke, the new director of the Vatican press office and Vatican spokesperson, and tudes of rivalry, mistrust and ran - tween Catholics and Orthodox on Rome and the church of Con stan- Paloma Garcia Ovejero, the new vice director, are pictured with Jesuit cor,” the pope said June 28. that continent,” the pope said. tinople were united despite differ - Father Federico Lombardi, the outgoing Vatican spokesperson, during The delegation, led by Greek Pope Francis told the delegation ences “in the liturgical sphere, in an announcement of their appointments at an informal meeting with Orthodox Metropolitan Methodios that in proclaiming a Year of Mercy ecclesiastical discipline and also in journalists at the Vatican press office July 11. Lombardi, who has of Boston, was in Rome to repre - he wanted not only to encourage the manner of formulating the one served as director of the press office and Vatican spokesperson since sent Ecumenical Patriarch Bar - people to contemplate how merci - revealed truth.” 2006, will retire. Burke, a native of St. Louis, has worked for the tholomew of Constantinople at the ful God is, but also to focus on “However,” the pope said, Vatican since 2012 and prior to that was a television correspondent for pope’s celebration of the feast of ways to make the witness they give “beyond the concrete shapes that Fox News. Ovejero is a Spanish journalist who has worked for the Sts. Peter and Paul, the patron to God’s mercy more effective. our churches have taken on over radio station of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference. saints of the church of Rome. “Divine mercy frees us of the time, there has always been the Since 1969, the patriarchs have burden of past conflicts and lets same experience of God’s infinite sent delegations to the Vatican for us be open to the future to which love for our smallness and frailty You can’t change the world from the rearview the June 29 feast and the popes the Spirit is guiding us,” he said. and the same calling to bear wit - mirror. — Anita Roddick have sent a delegation to Turkey St. Peter, who had denied Jesus, ness to this love before the world.”