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Faith Brings 'A Dawn of Peace,' Pope Says Single Issue: $1.00 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40030139 CATHOLIC JOURNAL Vol. 94 No. 16 October 5, 2016 Congratulatory Faith brings ‘a dawn of peace,’ pope says issue This week the Prairie By Cindy Wooden cial mediation efforts seem not to Messenger have borne fruit.” is pleased to BAKU, Azerbaijan (CNS) — Pashazade told the pope that as offer special As the spiritual leader of a tiny reli - “head of Vatican state and of the congratula - gious minority in Azerbaijan, Pope world’s Catholics, your activity is tions to Francis told the leaders of the coun - of great interest to us.” The sheik Bishop try’s other religious communities praised the pope’s defence of Donald that they share a responsibility to immigrants and particularly “your Bolen, who help people grow in faith, but also protest of connecting the name of will be in tolerance for the faith of others. Islam to terrorism, while harshly installed as “The blood of far too many condemning the real causes of ter - Archbishop of Regina on people cries out to God from the rorism and your incisive speeches Oct. 14. earth, our common home,” the against xenophobia.” pope said Oct. 2 during a meeting In addition to leaders of the Holodomor with religious leaders hosted by country’s majority Shiite Muslim Sheik Allahshukur Pashazade, the community, representatives of the The Great Soviet Famine region’s chief imam, in Baku’s Jewish community, the Russian was perpetrated by Josef Heydar Aliyev Mosque. Orthodox Church and the Lutheran Stalin, who ordered all At a time when the world seems Church attended the gathering. grains and foodstuffs to be to be dwelling in a “night of con - In the country of more than 9.4 sent out of Ukraine. Regina flict,” Pope Francis expressed his million people, there are only students got a first-hand prayer that religions would prepare about 570 Catholics, and most of sight of the devastation the way for “a dawn of peace, them are foreigners. Still, the pope caused by the famine as the seeds of rebirth amid the devasta - said, the Catholic Church has CNS/Paul Haring Holodomor Bus visited tion of death, echoes of dialogue found a place in the nation, which POPE VISITS AZERBAIJAN — Pope Francis exchanges greetings city schools. resounding unceasingly, paths to proves that “it is not opposition, but with Sheik Allahshukur Pashazade, the region’s chief imam, and with — page 3 encounter and reconciliation reach - representatives of other religious communities during a meeting at the Heydar Aliyev mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 2. CCCB plenary ing even those places where offi - — TOLERANCE , page 15 This week’s Prairie Covenant House opens Toronto safe haven Messenger features cover - age from the annual plenary By Michael Swan “It takes a long time for a traf - treatment and education will make funding from the city for two of the Canadian Conference The Catholic Register ficked girl to adjust and not Rogers Home the key element in emergency beds at the Gerrard of Catholic Bishops, which believe her trafficker isn’t waiting Covenant House’s urban response Street shelter reserved for sex- was held Sept. 26 - 30 in TORONTO (CCN) — When around the corner to take her back model for sex-trafficking victims. trafficked girls and young Cornwall, Ont. Casandra Diamond left “the to the life she left.” Seven young women, 16 to 24 women. The beds have been used — pages 3, 8-9 game” 11 years ago she cried Diamond has been advising years old, will be housed in a almost every night. Last year the Administration Day every day for about three months. Covenant House in downtown large, restored Victorian home at a downtown youth shelter saw a 40 “It was messy,” Diamond told Toronto on the support that’s nec - secret location in Toronto. per cent increase in trafficking A Sept. 13 Administration The Catholic Register. essary for a trafficked girl to “This is a huge turning point,” and sexual exploitation cases. Day provided an opportunity The 10 years she had spent in recover and restart her life. Her said Covenant House executive Covenant House worked with 64 to reflect on changes and prostitution — handing her money advice and experience have been director Bruce Rivers. “They will sex-trafficking victims in 2015. ministry in the Roman over to a man who controlled her incorporated into The Rogers have an opportunity to reclaim A safe and systematic way out Catholic Diocese every movement, using street Home, which welcomed its first their lives.” of sex trafficking is something drugs to get through the day — resident the week of Sept. 18. It also means a more compre - of Saskatoon. that just wasn’t there for Diamond left her emotionally broken and Up to two years of transitional hensive response to a growing — page 6 when she decided to get out. unprepared for normal life. housing, coupled with coun - problem, Rivers said. Since last “Nobody was talking about Calls to action “I left with nothing,” she said. selling, medical care, addictions October, Covenant House has had this issue,” she said. “There was no counselling.” Parishes in Saskatoon are Diamond was lucky enough to being encouraged to respond be taken in by a family whom she to the Truth and trusted. They provided her with a Reconciliation Commission home and a job in the family scrap - (TRC) calls to action. “We yard business, where she was able are seeing more and more to work out her anger and grief situations where engage - sorting metal outdoors all day. ment is happening,” says But that kind of good fortune Myron Rogal of the Justice isn’t a system, which is why and Peace Office, describing Diamond is encouraged by the diocesan initiatives. new Covenant House pilot project. — page 7 The formerly derelict house got an $850,000 renovation from Scar of suicide the City of Toronto. Covenant House is renting the property “When it comes to suicide, I from Toronto Community Hous - believe in a God who ing Corp., at a nominal fee. grieves with those of us who Douglas Design Studio provided crumble under the weight of interior furnishings and design at chemical imbalance, the reduced cost. Suzanne Rogers, side-effects of medication, whose family owns Rogers Com - life crises, abuse, rapid munications Inc., is heading up a cycling bipolar or deep $10-million fundraising campaign depressions,” writes which has so far raised $8.8 mil - theology professor lion. The funding will cover the Monica A. Coleman. first five years of operations. — page 12 Anglican Archives Rogers Home is both a pilot CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL — Bishop Donald Bolen of Saskatchewan preaches at Canterbury and a research project for Cathedral, Canterbury, U.K., Oct. 2 as part of the meeting of the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission. — MODEL, page 4 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS October 5, 2016 Christians must make history, not be prophets of doom By Carol Glatz witness and share God’s word — past and journey forward. than to keep the core, essential Also, since God is love, good - VATICAN CITY (CNS) — message of the faith “front and ness, joy and hope, then God must Christians must put their mark on centre: the Lord is risen,” he said. be proclaimed by living that way history, transforming the world “The Lord Jesus is risen, the “in the present moment,” he said. every day driven by the joy of Lord Jesus loves you, and he has “We do not speak convincingly proclaiming God’s love, Pope given his life for you; risen and about Jesus when we are sad; nor Francis said. alive, he is close to you and waits do we transmit God’s beauty “We are not prophets of gloom for you every day.” merely with beautiful homilies.” who take delight in unearthing “Everything in the faith The pope highlighted the day’s dangers or deviations,” handing becomes beautiful when linked to Gospel reading in which Jesus tells down “bitter judgments on our this centrepiece,” he said; from the story of the poor man named society, on the church, on every - that proclamation all other teach - Lazarus who went to heaven, thing and everyone, polluting the ings of the faith gain meaning and while the rich man who ignored his world with our negativity,” he force, especially when Jesus’ plight, ended up in hell. told catechists Sept. 25. commandment of loving one This parable in the Gospel Instead, “whoever proclaims another is followed. according to Luke tells people the hope of Jesus carries joy” and “It is by loving that the God- “what it means to love,” the pope can see both far-off new horizons who-is-love is proclaimed to the said. and pressing needs under their world: not by the power of con - The rich man did nothing nose, driving them to help and vincing, never by imposing the overtly bad or evil, the pope said, CNS/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters “go out from themselves to write truth, no less by growing fixated he was just indifferent — an ill - POPE CHALLENGES CATECHISTS — Pope Francis blesses a fami - history.” on some religious or moral oblig - ness worse than whatever caused ly as he celebrates a mass for the Jubilee for Catechists Sept. 25 in St. The pope’s homily came dur - ation,” he said. Lazarus’ sores. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. ing a special mass for a Year of Because God “is not an idea, The rich man suffered from Mercy jubilee for catechists in St. but a living person,” Pope Francis being self-centred, materialistic thetizes the soul, the pope said.
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