Single Issue: $1.00 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40030139 CATHOLIC JOURNAL Vol. 94 No. 22 November 16, 2016 Called to mission First Nations youth in crisis need support “We can’t rely on our main - tenance mode anymore,” By Mickey Conlon whole culture and community, Lake, Stanley Mission and the said Katherine Coolidge at there’s a lot of despair and lack of Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation. a Study Days session REGINA — With six First hope and purpose,” said Chatlain. La Ronge has been especially in Saskatoon. “We are Nations youth recently taking “That’s all contributing to these hard hit, with two of the girls now called to mission.” their own lives in northern Sas- number of suicides. coming from that community. — page 3 katchewan, Canadian bishops “So as church, our presence, Chatlain said there has been a SCSBA conference who have ministered in mission our trying to help with grieving strong ministerial presence at St. territory say the church must con - and then trying to find some ways John Vianney Church, a mission Delegates to the tinue to be a presence in these of helping young people see the parish that does not have a resi - Saskatchewan Catholic remote communities for those big picture of knowing how to dent priest. Its pastor, Rev. School Board Association’s experiencing deep pain. pray, how to reach out to God and Lawrence DeMong, OSB, spends annual conference and Archbishop Murray Chatlain is trying to reach out to the other about one-third of his time in the AGM spent the Nov. 4 - 6 the Archbishop of Keewatin Le- people God gives them to.” town, said Chatlain. That means a weekend learning about the Pas, a vast diocese that takes in The despair and lack of hope in lay presence is essential. impact of residential schools large portions of northern Saskatch - these communities saw six “Definitely a lot falls on the on First Nations people. ewan and Manitoba and a small Aboriginal girls, all between the laypeople,” he said. “They have — page 6 corner of northwest Ontario. It’s an ages of 10 and 14, take their lives tried to have some youth ministry area heavily populated by First over a four-week period in north - going in that region, there have The Wonder Nations, Métis and Dene people. ern Saskatchewan communities been efforts to reach out to the Chatlain has seen far too many during October. Crisis teams have young people. But there’s so CCN/D. Gyapong Author Emma Donoghue’s youth from these communities take been deployed to the affected com - Keewatin Le-Pas latest book, The Wonder , their lives in an ongoing crisis that munities, La Ronge, Deschambault — PEOPLE , page 4 Archbishop Murray Chatlain nominated for the recent has only recently garnered much Scotiabank attention in Canada. Pope visits former priests on Mercy Friday Giller “The amount of grieving takes Prize, is her its toll,” said Chatlain. “You can ninth novel get weighed down by the dark - By Cindy Wooden a choice that often was not shared tal unit — as his own expression but it is her ness of the situation.” by their fellow priests and fami - of the corporal works of mercy. first to deal The Catholic Church needs to VATICAN CITY (CNS) — lies,” the Vatican said in a state - The destinations were not so centrally go beyond helping families dur - Nearing the end of the Year of ment about the pope’s visit Nov. 11. announced in advance and jour - with reli - ing the grieving process, said the Mercy, Pope Francis paid a visit to The visit was part of the Mercy nalists were not invited. gion. Steph Cha of USA archbishop. It has to be there for seven families formed by men who Friday initiative Pope Francis Travelling to an apartment in the Today called the book “a families that deal with despair on left the priesthood to marry. The began in December for the Holy Ponte di Nona area on the far east - rich Irish bog of religion a daily basis. Vatican said the visit was a sign Year, which ends Nov. 20. Almost ern edge of Rome, the pope met the and duty and morality “There’s something with the that God loves and is merciful to every month throughout the year, families of the former priests. Four and truth.” everyone experiencing difficulty. the pope visited a group of people of the men had been priests in — page 8 “The Holy Father wanted to — people recovering from addic - Rome. A former priest from Conlon is a freelance writer in offer a sign of closeness and affec - tion, women rescued from prosti - Madrid and a former priest from Love and loss Regina. tion to these young men who made tution, infants in a hospital neona - Latin America, both now living with their new families in Rome, Among “seaside stories of The Qur’an and the Bible explored also were in attendance as was a love and living with loss” is visiting former priest from Sicily. the film Manchester by the After serving in parishes, the Sea . “This is grownup By Kiply Lukan Yaworski Vatican said, “solitude, incompre - complex human-scale hension and tiredness because of moviemaking of the highest SASKATOON — The rela - the great requirement of pastoral order — an American tionship between the Qur’an and responsibility put in crisis their cinema truly worth celebrat - the Bible was explored in the initial choice of priesthood.” The ing,” writes Gerald Schmitz. third session of a Christian Study crises were followed by “months — page 9 of Islam series underway in the and years of uncertainty and Roman Catholic Diocese of doubts that in many cases led Helping Trump Saskatoon. them to believe they had made Scholar, author and Lutheran the wrong choice with priesthood. A strong white evangelical, minister Dr. Roland E. Miller was So they decided to leave the white Catholic and Mormon guest speaker at the public lecture priesthood and form a family.” vote for Donald Trump Nov. 3 at the Cathedral of the Pope Francis entered the apart - belied the condemnation Holy Family, offering an over - ment and was greeted by the many religious leaders had view of the function of each holy priests’ children, who embraced levelled at the tycoon book. him. The adults, the Vatican said, and paved the way for a Summarizing his topic, Miller “could not hide their emotion.” stunning upset after a long said: “Two books, two different The former priests and their and polarizing campaign. primary purposes, different per - families did not feel judged by the — page 12 ceptions, yet many points of con - pope, the Vatican statement said, tact, much to talk about, much to but felt his closeness and affection. Working together Kiply Yaworski bring us together — for who in He listened to their stories and the world does not need guidance, THE QUR’AN AND THE BIBLE — Archbishop Donald Bolen of paid particular attention to the “The fruit of ecumenical Regina, Imam Sheikh Ilyas Sidyot of the Islamic Association of learning leads to a realiza - and who in the world does not concerns they raised about “juridi - need salvation?” Saskatchewan, and featured speaker Dr. Roland E. Miller (from left) tion that we need all church - participated in the Nov. 3 session of a Christian Study of Islam series cal procedures,” apparently in ref - es together in order to In addition to presenting pas - underway in Saskatoon. Some 500 attended the public lecture at the erence to the process of releasing a provide a full and complete sages to show the primary pur - diocesan cathedral about the relationship between the Qur’an and the priest from his priestly promises. witness to the Gospel,” pose of the Qur’an (to offer God’s Bible. Pope Francis’ “paternal words writes Marie-Louise guidance) and the primary pur - reassured everyone,” the Vatican Ternier-Gommers. “For the pose of the Bible (to reveal God’s Archbishop Donald Bolen of the diocesan Foundations series, said. “In this way, once again, neglect of one church could plan of salvation), Miller’s pre - Regina introduced Miller as “one along with Rev. Bernard de Pope Francis intended to give a well be the strength of sentation also examined the of the great teachers of my life” Margerie and Rev. Colin Clay. sign of mercy to those who live in another, and vice versa.” Qur’anic understanding of Jesus. to some 500 assembled for the Born in Saskatchewan, Miller a situation of spiritual and materi - lecture. Another of Miller’s for - served for years as a missionary — page 13 Imam Sheikh Ilyas Sidyot of the al difficulty, showing the obliga - Islamic Association of Saskatche- mer students — Sister Phyllis among Mappila Muslims in India. tion to ensure no one feels wan provided a response to the Kapucinski, NDS — is a member deprived of the love and solidari - lecture to conclude the evening. of the organizing committee of — EDUCATION , page 6 ty” of the church’s pastors. 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS November 16, 2016 U.S. voters reject most Catholic issues

By Carol Zimmermann along lines of race, ethnicity and income in our society and entrench WASHINGTON (CNS) — In us deeper into a culture that offers this year’s election, voters went a false compassion by marginaliz - against nearly all of the ballot ini - ing the most vulnerable.” tiatives backed by Catholic leaders The three death penalty refer - and advocates, except the referen - endums before voters this year all dums on minimum wage increases ended in favour of capital punish - and gun control measures. ment. Oklahoma voters re- Voters passed an assisted sui - approved the use of the death cide measure in Colorado and penalty after the state’s attorney voted in favour of the death penal - general had suspended executions ty in three states and in favour of last year. Nebraska voters also legalized recreational marijuana in reinstated the death penalty that four states and against it in one. had been repealed by state law - They also voted for minimum makers last year. In California, wage increases and gun control voters defeated a ballot measure measures in four states. to repeal the death penalty in the In Colorado, the only state state and narrowly passed an ini - CNS/Bobby Yip, Reuters with an initiative to legalize tiative aiming to speed up execu - REACTION TO U.S. ELECTION — A street performer dressed as the Statue of Liberty holds photos of assisted suicide, voters passed the tions of death row convictions. U.S. presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in Hong Kong’s financial district Nov. 9 measure, making the state the Karen Clifton, executive direc - after Trump won the election. sixth in the nation with a so- tor of the Catholic Mobilizing called “right-to-die law,” joining Network, the national Catholic disappointed” that the ballot to social service programs. that work to reduce poverty. Washington, Oregon, California, organization working to end the repeal the death penalty didn’t In a statement opposing the Gun control measures passed Vermont and Montana. death penalty, said in a Nov. 9 pass, stressing “it would have been ballot measure, the Massachusetts in three states — California, “The decision the voters of statement that “despite referendum the fitting culmination of a year - Catholic bishops referenced a Nevada and Washington — and Colorado have made to legalize losses” in those states, she was long calling to live out the works report from the National Institute lost in Maine. physician-assisted suicide via the hopeful “the country will continue of mercy.” And the Catholic bish - of Drug Abuse that said marijua - Although gun control has not passage of Proposition 106 is a to move away from the death ops of Nebraska expressed similar na is the most commonly used been taken up by the U.S. bishops great travesty of compassion and penalty and toward a greater disappointment, saying in a state - illicit drug in the United States. as a body, some bishops have choice for the sick, the poor, the respect for life.” She also praised ment they would “continue to call “Its widespread use and abuse, spoken out in favour of gun con - elderly and our most vulnerable the work of Catholics on the state for the repeal of the death penalty particularly by young people trol measures, including Cardi - residents,” said Jenny Kraska, level to end the death penalty. when it is not absolutely necessary under the age of 18, is steadily nals-designate Blase J. Cupich of executive director of the Clifton said the state ballots gave to protect the public safety.” increasing while scientific evi - Chicago and Kevin J. Farrell, the Colorado Catholic Conference. Catholics the chance to “prayerfully Voters in California, Massa - dence clearly links its long-term former bishop of Dallas who is “Killing, no matter what its reflect on the dignity and worth of chusetts, Nevada and Maine damaging effects on brain devel - prefect of the new Vatican office motives, is never a private matter; all life during this Jubilee Year of approved recreational marijuana opment,” the bishops said. for laity, family and life. it always impacts other people and Mercy and to continue moving initiatives, while Arizona voters On minimum wage ballots, Measures on climate change, has much wider implications,” she away from violence as the answer rejected it. California, Massachu- voters in Maine, Arizona and an issue backed by the Catholic said in a Nov. 9 statement. in our criminal justice system.” setts and Arizona bishops spoke Colorado voted to increase the Climate Covenant, were rejected Kraska also said the state’s ini - The California Catholic out against the initiatives. minimum wage to at least $12 an by voters. In Washington state, a tiative will only “deepen divides Conference said it was “extremely The Boston archdiocese spent hour by 2020 and in Washington ballot initiative called for the first $850,000 in a last-minute effort they voted to increase it to $13.50 carbon tax in the U.S., and a Pro-life supporters denounce to defeat the ballot measure, say - an hour by 2020. Catholic Florida measure would have ing increased drug use was a Charities USA has long been a restricted the ability of homeown - threat to those served by the proponent of raising the mini - ers to sell electricity created Pavone over Facebook video Catholic Church’s health and mum wage as have other groups through rooftop solar panels.

By Rhina Guidos sacramental purposes, not to advance a political candidate. WASHINGTON (CNS) — “When a photo of a pro-life Pro-life supporters in the Catholic priest with a naked corpse of an Church are denouncing activist unborn child on an altar is used to Rev. Frank Pavone for what he get out the vote, it’s time to say: said was an “emergency situa - ENOUGH!” wrote Dominican tion” on the eve of the U.S. presi - Father Thomas Petri of Wash ing - dential election. ton on Twitter Nov. 7. “What did he do?” wrote Ed Mechmann, of the New York Mechmann, a public policy direc - archdiocese, wrote: “It is hard for tor whose areas of concern me to express in calm, measured include pro-life issues, in a blog terms, the revulsion I feel about for the Archdiocese of New York. this.” “He used a dead aborted baby, But Pavone said that everyone laying naked and bloody on an should be repulsed by the act of altar, as a prop for his video.” abortion and that’s what he was But Pavone, no stranger to con - trying to show. troversial situations, said he was “You can’t do it with words,” trying to drive home, in a visual he said, about why he chose to do and impactful way, what it meant a Facebook Live video. to choose one presidential candi - Pavone said he was alone, in a date over the other on election day. chapel with the body, which he Pavone, appealing for votes for said was given to him by a pathol - Republican presidential candidate ogist who had received it from an Donald J. Trump, said he was abortion clinic. showing “the Democrats’ support But the viewing was a very of baby-killing.” public affair. By election day, it “I’m showing the reality,” he had been viewed 707,000 times. said in an interview on election Pavone said he has apologized to day with Catholic News Service. those who were offended and has Pavone is a member of Trump’s posted an apology but has not Catholic advisory group. taken down the video. But some say what he did, how In 2014, New York Cardinal he did it and where he did it — a Timothy M. Dolan cut ties with body on an altar via Facebook Pavone and his group Priests for Live — amounts to desecration of Life, saying the priest refused to a body and also is sacrilegious allow an audit of the group’s because it was done on an altar, finances. Priests for Life is based which should be used only for in Staten Island, New York. November 16, 2016 CANADIAN NEWS Prairie Messenger 3 Sister sews hope for war-ravaged children

By Jean Ko Din “One of the greatest values of their children belong to their hus - The Catholic Register African women is resilience, and bands. The girls were often reject - of course, I must speak about the ed for having children of LRA TORONTO (CCN) — Sister young women I work with is rebels. They had nowhere to go. Rosemary Nyirumbe firmly resilience,” said Nyirumbe. “We “It was a demand-driven idea,” believes that a woman’s most are to teach them by giving them said Nyirumbe. “Some having chil - valuable asset is her resilience. practical skills to sustain their life dren, some expecting children and Women, she says, have the and to sustain their children.” of course, they didn’t really know inner strength that can overcome Nyirumbe said her mission has where to go and they needed some - any hardship. She is living proof always been to dedicate her life in body to rely on. For me, I felt it of that — her own resilience has service of Africa’s future. By was a great opportunity that God changed the lives of more than helping girls who were forcibly had put us there as religious 2,000 Ugandan women and girls. enlisted as child soldiers by war - women. And not just as religious “Sister Rosemary is one of the lord Joseph Kony and his guerril - women, but African religious most outstanding African nuns la group, the Lord’s Resistance women who could show these girls that is living today and it’s not Army (LRA), Nyirumbe and her exactly how to be mothers again.” just an overstatement,” said Rev. small Catholic school became a When Nyirumbe first came to Stan Chu Ilo, founder of Cana - beacon of hope for a new life. St. Monica’s as director in 2002, dian Samaritans for Africa. “She Decades of brutal conflict, she knew instantly that she had to personifies the Gospel values in which began in 1987, left a deep open the school doors to these its highest form through the sacri - scar in the Ugandan people. Kony girls. The school, which original - fices she has made to the devel - and the LRA have been implicated ly opened in 1982 to help school opment of African girls and in abducting at least 66,000 chil - dropouts, had a capacity for 300 women, her commitment to eradi - dren and forcing them to become students. Only 30 girls were en - cate poverty in Africa, but also armed soldiers against their own rolled. her commitment to build a culture Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe families and communities. Nyirumbe and her fellow of peace.” Young girls were especially Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Nyirumbe is a spunky ball of The documentary was fol - these titles. I like them because valuable, both as soldiers and sex Jesus faced many challenges, energy known to many as the lowed by a book of the same they have given me a platform slaves for commanding officers. including hostility from the com - African Mother Teresa. The five- name in 2014, when she was also that I can use to bring a voice to At the age of 13 or 14, these girls munity for taking in former child foot tall Sister of the Sacred Heart named one of Time magazine’s the voiceless.” would be forced to become soldiers and their children. To of Jesus first caught the world’s 100 Most Influential People. On Nov. 5, Nyirumbe was the “wives” to the rebel men. Many help fund the school, Nyirumbe attention when she was awarded Last July Nyirumbe was guest of honour at the Canadian of them became pregnant. worked as a driver for her sister, a the 2007 CNN Heroes Award for among the inaugural recipients of Samaritans for Africa’s annual Kony and the LRA are now on government minister. her work as director of St. Monica the Veritatis Splendor Award dur - African Awareness Night in the run, but in their wake they When she wasn’t doing that, Girls Tailoring Center in Gulu, ing World Youth Day in Krakow, Mississauga, Ont. Chu Ilo invited have left thousands of children she drove around looking for girls Uganda. Poland. The award, named in Nyirumbe to speak to Canadians tormented and broken. living on the streets. The story of her fight to re store honour of John Paul II, is present - about “supporting the African When these young women re - Nyirumbe believed that the hope to her war-torn country began ed for lifetime achievement and woman in Africa’s march to turned to their homes, they faced a to gain traction when the 2013 doc - service to the Catholic Church. modernity.” cultural belief that women and — SEWING HOPE , page 4 umentary, Sewing Hope , received “Sometimes you hear these critical acclaim. The docu mentary strange titles being given to me was about the Sewing Hope and I always find myself taken by Mercy must remain church’s focus Foundation, an organization she surprise that I have been called established in 2012 to build a sus - this and that,” said Nyirumbe. By Deborah Gyapong tainable business for girls, selling “But on the other hand, I find that handmade pop-tab fashion bags. I’m not going to be buried in OTTAWA (CCN) — Mercy is not merely a project for one year, We are called to mission, but the way the church continues to reveal the loving face of God not maintenance: Coolidge in Jesus Christ, says Cardinal Gerald Cyprien Lacroix, Primate of Canada. By Kiply Lukan Yaworski accompaniment and evangeliza - In a speech at Saint Paul tion, becomes the basis for calling University Nov. 4 after receiving SASKATOON — Parishes are forth a deeper, life-changing com - an honorary doctorate, the called to be places of lay forma - mitment to living as a disciple of Archbishop of Quebec said he tion, said Katherine Coolidge of Jesus Christ, she described. hoped the fruits of the Jubilee the Catherine of Sienna Institute, Coolidge provided “a few rules Year of Mercy would continue to at a Study Days session offering of thumb,” that included keeping inspire the faithful to spread the practical suggestions for how the end in mind: making disciples Good News. parishes can create intentional and forming apostles. “Institutions The Archbishop of Quebec disciples. do not make disciples. People said he committed himself to Creating a parish culture of dis - make disciples.” Parishes should working with his brothers and sis - Sylvain Marier, courtesy Saint Paul University cipleship is not a quick fix, but a begin by making disciples of ters to “open the doors of the process of conversion and transfor - adults, who will then be key to MINISTRY OF MERCY — Saint Paul University awarded Cardinal Good News that frees hearts from Gerald Cyprien Lacroix an honorary doctorate Nov. 4, recognizing his mation that can eventually build a making disciples of children and the anguish of doubt and fights ministry of conveying the mercy of God. He is shown here with faith community where Christians youth, she added. illusions that lead to dead ends.” Chancellor Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of Ottawa and Rector are called and equipped to be At times, a parish’s culture will He outlined the need for God’s Chantal Beauvais. intentional disciples, she said. unintentionally suppress spiritual mercy in a world beset with the “We can’t rely on our mainte - growth and conversion, she point - horrors of genocide, terrorism and Gospel has not dispelled the tor - comes to sharing it with young nance mode any more,” she said. ed out. “We have too often come war. Quebec has not escaped the por of indifference — that “Jesus people. Success can no longer be “We are now called to mission.” to accept religious identity with - “powerful wave of secularization Christ is the face of the Father’s measured in the number of bap - Beginning in prayer with the out personal faith as normal,” she that swept the West” and trans - mercy,” he said. tisms or the size of crowds at reli - account in Acts 9:10-19 about said. The consequence is that the formed a traditionally be lieving Lacroix urged Christians to gious celebrations. Saul and Ananias, Coolidge asked graces many Catholics have society, he said. The narcissistic move beyond their comfort zone “We need to invent new para - participants to envision a model received may “bear little fruit” — vision that maintains the impor - to “reach out to people wherever digms for the transmission of an of church in which parishioners it is as if we have received a gift tance of autonomy and individu - they are,” whether in geographi - enlightened and life-giving faith,” would be formed and equipped to that sits unopened. alism makes it difficult to present cal or ideological peripheries, and he said. “The door is wide open act like Ananias, going out to Using examples of personal the history of salvation since our do so with the confidence in - to innovation projects, renewal walk as companions to those who conversion, of parish transforma - creation in the image of God. stilled at Pentecost, without fear. and consolidation and I am de- are seeking to follow Jesus. tion, and historical moments of Can we speak of mercy with - “I am convinced our forces to lighted to see the enthusiasm for She stressed the importance of renewal, Coolidge shared stories out an awareness of a deep need achieve the mission do not reside the mission among the priests and “thresholds of conversion” along and encouraged participants to to go beyond the limits of this in our ecclesial structures, in new deacons, consecrated persons in an individual’s faith journey — a visualize steps to be taken in their narrow, selfish “self” that may be parish groupings, and in majestic the variety of charisms of the movement from initial trust to own ministry or parish. secretly suffering and aspiring to churches with steeples pointing to committed laity all ages and all spiritual curiosity, that continues Rather than being “seed sow - the kindness of a higher power? the sky to which people no longer backgrounds.” through spiritual openness, spiri - ers,” Christians are called to be he asked. look,” he said in French. The Lacroix spoke of the millions tual seeking and finally intention - “fruit farmers” — actively work - It is urgent to remind our spreading of the Good News and of people who have crossed al discipleship. ing to nurture and support the Christian communities — and the transmission of faith is “no through Holy Doors established Building parishes as a place of even the outskirts of our teeming, longer the responsibility of public trust, with a culture of spiritual — SHARE , page 7 noisy cities where the joy of the institutions,” especially when it — LACROIX , page 5

4 Prairie Messenger CANADIAN NEWS November 16, 2016 Euthanasia opponents: getting accurate stats a problem

OTTAWA (CNS) — With News that, even in Quebec, where that legalized assisted suicide with Dignity. euthanasia occurring in Quebec at the requirements for re porting and requires the government to estab - “We’re talking about killing a triple government predictions, oversight are the most rigorous, lish reporting guidelines to record human being,” Martin said. “This obtaining accurate statistics on euthanasia deaths are likely being requests and approvals for assisted is criminal. Is there going to be medically assisted deaths across underreported. He also expressed suicide, but those guidelines any followup?” Canada is almost impossible and frustration at a lack of transparen - remain unwritten. Schadenberg said the Quebec could lead to abuse, according to cy in other provinces, making it As of mid-October, in addition government will not divulge the opponents of the practice. impossible to compile accurate to the euthanasia cases in Quebec, circumstances of those three eu - A recent report from the Que- statistics on assisted suicide and there had been about 200 known thanasia deaths. One patient was bec government showed 262 euthanasia, leaving no way of cases of assisted suicide in other not terminally ill, as required. euthanasia deaths in the first sev en identifying instances of abuse. provinces, according to various There is no sign “they are even months after the province le - “A system was promised, but media reports. slapping the wrist of the doctor galized the practice last December. we don’t know what it is,” But Schadenberg said some involved,” he said. Quebec Health Minister Gaetan Schadenberg said. smaller hospitals are not releasing Quebec’s oversight commis - Barrette told journalists he was Quebec’s law resembles those any data for privacy reasons, and sion, which examines whether surprised at the figure, which is of Belgium and the Netherlands, he predicted that could become a doctors have followed the criteria about three times higher than which rely on doctors to self- trend. for euthanasia, is already being anticipated. He said the number of report instances of euthanasia, In Quebec, the government criticized as “too demanding and euthanasia deaths in the province Schadenberg said. report included three cases of too curious,” said Martin. He said could reach 300 by the end of the “The doctor does the death,” euthanasia that did not comply he was not surprised at the high year, but the executive director of but there is no way of knowing if Art Babych with the law, but there is no infor - number of euthanasia requests in the Euthanasia Prevention Coa li - he or she reports all of them, Alex Schadenberg mation on what, if anything, will Quebec. tion believes the figure will be especially those that fail to meet happen in those cases, said A report after six months had closer to 450. the government’s criteria, he said. pile information on euthanasia and Aubert Martin, executive director already shown the numbers were Alex Schadenberg, coalition Across the rest of Canada, there assisted suicide, Schadenberg said. of the province’s grassroots anti- “exceeding predictions by two or director, told Canadian Catholic is no co-ordinated system to com - The federal law passed in June euthanasia organization, Living three times,” he said. Despite its surprise at the high numbers, the Quebec government People encouraged to educate themselves on Aboriginal reality is considering proposals to soften safeguards, such as no longer re - Continued from page 1 was thrust into dealing with the other denominations, has “to offer uation, said Chatlain. quiring approval of a second doc - suicide crisis in his first days on the covenant of healing, compas - “I ask people to refrain from tor for each euthanasia request, much more that needs to happen.” the job. The father of five from the sion and love that Jesus brought making simple analysis or quick Martin said. It’s something the community Key First Nation agreed that the to us by his incarnation and re - solutions, but to engage and try to He estimated only 10 to 12 itself recognizes, said Chatlain. solutions must come from within. demption,” said Bishop Noel get a sense of how much depres - doctors have been involved in One program that has been tried He told MBC Radio that the solu - Simard of Valleyfield, Que. The sion and how much cultural up - Quebec’s reported 262 deaths. In is White Lightning, where peers tion doesn’t originate in Regina or church, he said, must share in the heaval there has been in northern Quebec City, where most of the support peers around suicide Saskatoon, “the community has to responsibility to help because of communities,” he said. “There’s no deaths by euthanasia have oc- issues. lead the discussions.” its role in the residential schools simple answers but I think the ways curred, “there are only two of “It’s not flying in experts from Community leaders in La where the Canadian government we are all trying to wrestle with them doing the job,” Martin said. other places — which can be Ronge have been working with co-opted churches in trying to what little parts we can do, what “They’re the two complaining helpful — but it’s trying to build the Red Cross to develop a com - assimilate Aboriginals. God is asking us to do, to try and (about the requirement for a sec - up the capacity to deal with some munity safety plan that would see “We caused big problems, lots make a positive difference.” ond doctor).” of the situations from the commu - youth workers hired for each of of tension, in their families,” said And it goes beyond just the sui - The government claims there nity itself,” he said. the Lac La Ronge Indian Band’s Simard, who before his current cide crisis, according to Chatlain. is a consensus regarding euthana - “They’re trying to figure out six communities. The youth appointment served as auxiliary “There’s a lot of expression of sia, but it contradicts this by what can we do today for the workers would offer suicide pre - bishop in northern Ontario’s Sault the pain that is there,” he said. claiming it is hard to find a sec - young people that gives them vention training to parents, Ste. Marie diocese, with its signifi - “I encourage people to pray ond doctor to OK it, Martin said. some spiritual tools to try to find schools and the community, as cant First Nations’ population. “So and educate themselves more on “Every precautionary measure more hope and support in their well as creating activities and we need to attempt to reconcile our Aboriginal reality. This isn’t sold as a way to pass the law is ups and downs.” programs to meet the different with them and to help them recon - about us doing it for the people, now seen as an obstacle,” he said. Corey O’Soup is the new Sas - needs of the community. cile with themselves and each but it is how do we helpfully “So if we follow that logic, it’s katchewan children’s advocate and The Catholic Church, among other. The family is very broken on accompany.” easy to predict in the next years, the reserves.” (With files from Evan what we call the slippery slope Sewing Hope to expand Still, it remains a complex sit - Boudreau.) will be felt as wanted progress.” PRAIRIE MESSENGER PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY Continued from page 3 Recently, the school added a day - care and a kindergarten for the best way to help the young girls’ children. MCKERCHER LLP BARRISTERS & SOLICITORS KAPOOR, SELNES, & women through their trauma was The school that was once a to teach them practical skills. humble refuge has become a cen - KLIMM SASKATOON: John Schachtel Barristers & Solicitors (306) 653-2000 Learning to sew became an alle - tral hub for the town of Gulu. L.J.(Dick) Batten, QC 1201 - 8th St. East gory to help girls stitch together a Graduates from St. Monica’s are W. Selnes, B.A., LL.B.; G. Klimm, B.A., LL.B.; Michel G. Thibault Saskatoon, Sask. new livelihood for themselves. able to find jobs in local hotels David M.A. Stack,QC (306) 978-5200 Phone (306) 752-5777, P.O. Box 2200 Curtis J. Onishenko In 2012, she established the and community centres. Many Melfort, Saskatchewan S0E 1A0 Galen R. Richardson   
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By Michael Swan seven Canadians, 4.9 million of Canadians have the basics. Man., from 1974 to 1979, but amounts to a guaranteed basic The Catholic Register us, lives in poverty, according to “Those of us from Judaeo- lost momentum with the changes income for children under 18. a review of 2015 tax data by the Christian backgrounds, such as in government and policy. Just by filling in a tax form, Ca - TORONTO (CCN) — Every Christian ecumenical policy myself, seem to have lost our Conserv a tive libertarian econo - na dian seniors receive the Guar - armchair economist in the coun - think-tank Citizens for Public way in being able to translate mist Milton Friedman proposed anteed Income Supplement. But try wonders how a country so Justice. our faith into more meaningful a guaranteed income as early as in be tween all we’ve got is wel - rich can have so many people If you doubt the statistics, action to support the most vul - 1962. fare. who are poor. just take a walk, Ayesha Valliani nerable in our society,” Catholic From Brazil to Finland, at Social workers spend their Canada’s economy annually recommends. real estate investor David Walsh least half-a-dozen countries are days navigating the maze of produces $1.6 trillion worth of “You only have to walk told the conference. “The culture experimenting with variations social assistance restrictions and goods and services. On a per through the streets of Yorkville of individualism and secularism on the basic income idea. programs. Michael Fullan, exec - on a Friday night,” said the dominates our lives.” The union-funded economic utive director of Catholic researcher for the United Walsh is dismayed by knee- think-tank Canadian Centre for Charities, says social work could Nations Special Rapporteur for jerk reaction from businesses Policy Alternatives believes be much more than a bureaucrat - Freedom of Religion and Belief against any new taxes or innova - that, depending on how the sys - ic paper chase if there was a and the British Foreign and tion in social policy. tem is designed, anywhere from straightforward basic income in Commonwealth Office. “You “Business seems to be brain $49 billion to $177 billion a year place. can see cars that you can’t drive dead as far as a lot of these in new spending could wipe out “You would be dealing with a around in the city be cause issues go,” said Walsh. poverty in Canada. This isn’t clientele, for lack of a better they’re so expensive, so absurd Conferences on basic income money to be derived from effi - word, that would come in and and cost over $1 million. And a have become a growth industry ciencies. It would mean double- have some of the basic necessi - homeless person sleeping beside in recent years. The Ontario digit tax increases. ties of life. So that would help that car.” government committed to run - The sticking point is the idea you to deal with some of the What role can people of faith ning a pilot program on basic that basic income would mean other kinds of issues happening play in closing that income gap? income in its 2016 budget, with giving some people money for in life — whether it be marriage, Finding answers to that question the expectation that it will begin nothing while the rest of us go family, child problems. But is what drove Valliani, a in 2017. to work everyday. In you’re not having to deal with Muslim, to work with people of It’s not a new idea. In the first Switzerland earlier this year vot - the abject poverty issues,” said other faiths in setting up a multi- Pierre Trudeau government, the ers rejected a basic income pro - Fullan. faith symposium on basic prime minister’s principal secre - posal by a whopping 77 per cent Catholic Charities recently income at St. Michael’s College tary, Marc Lalonde, talked up a majority. submitted a brief to the federal last month. Guaranteed Annual Income in Basic income systems already government urging a national It was a close look at an old 1970. The “Mincome” pilot was exist for certain groups of Cana- housing policy. If people could idea — that every citizen should run in Dauphin and Winnipeg, dians. The Canada Child Benefit be decently and reliably housed have enough money for necessi - that’s half the battle, said Fullan. Catholic Register/Swan ties and a dignified life. The Michael Fullan symposium was the brain-child Lacroix says he of Christian-Jewish Dialogue of capita basis, Canada ranks 10th Toronto. They brought together is inspired by among all nations in economic politicians, business leaders, output. In 2014, our per person social workers, theologians and Pope Francis GDP (gross domestic product) poor people themselves to talk wQas $5 6 ,07 6.52. Bu t one in about w a ys of e n suri ng t hat a ll Continued from page 3 in dioceses around the world dur - ing the jubilee year who have “tasted through prayer God’s mercy.” “In all cases and all situations, the Lord reached out, listened and Retreats & Workshops touched the heart,” he said. “Prayer meets our human mercy Spiritual Emergencies — Dr. Nancy Reeves of hunger and love. His power is Saturday, Nov. 19, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. endless as the love that nourishes $40 per session (includes lunch) eternal.” Sacred Scriptures of God’s People — Pastor Vern Ratzlaff Any new paradigms will Sunday afternoons from 2 - 3:30 p.m., Nov. 20 & 27 require our taking responsibility Cost: $10 / session. to personally enter through the Holy Scripture, Holy Lives: Bible Study for Busy People “holiest door” — that of prayer, Gisele Bauche. Come for one, some or all sessions. Nov. 22 & 29, he said. It is through prayer we 10 a.m. - 12 noon, repeated from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Cost: $15/session. encounter the God who is both An Introduction to the Enneagram wholly Other yet completely pre - Sarah Donnelly and Sr. Marie Gorsalitz, OSU. sent. It is through prayer we unite Saturday, Nov. 26, 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Cost: $55 (includes lunch) our hearts and minds with the A Gospel Series: John love of God the Father, and the — Gisele Bauche Art Babych Saturday, Dec. 3, 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Cost: $40 (includes lunch) face of his mercy, Jesus Christ, in REMEMBRANCE DAY CEREMONY — Assembly of First Nations Advent: Waiting in Joyful Hope the fire of the Holy Spirit, he — Sarah Donnelly, MDiv. National Chief Perry Bellegarde laid a wreath at the Remembrance said. Saturday, Dec. 3, 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Cost: $55 (includes lunch) Day ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa Nov. 11, 2016. Prayer is a place of adoration, Spirituality & Psychology in Sexuality & Intimacy worship, dialogue and humility as Dr. Bill Nelson. Saturday, Dec. 10, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. we express our needs, he said. It $40 per session (includes lunch) COORDINATOR OF YOUTH MINISTRY is the “cry, breath and energy of the Spirit” that propels us “into The Pas, Man. Ongoing Events at Queen’s House Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas, the joy of the mission toward our Centering Prayer: Monday evenings 7 p.m. brothers and sisters wherever they Holy Eucharist: Wednesday afternoons. (Call to confirm time — all are welcome!) The Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas has an opportunity are.” Journey with Scripture: Fr. Paul Fachet. $25 w/lunch. First Wednesday, Oct. 5. for a full-time Coordinator of Youth Ministry. Taizé Prayer for Christian Unity: Second Tuesday of the month, 8 p.m. Sept. 13. Lacroix spoke of how Pope Day Away: Gisele Bauche. Second Wed. of the month. Cost: $25 w/lunch. Sept. 14. The Archdiocese is made up of 46 parishes in northern Francis in his writings, his words 24-Hour Eucharistic Adoration: Fourth Monday of the month, 12 p.m. -Tuesday, 12 p.m. and his actions inspires and Personal Day(s) of Private Prayer: Book anytime. Manitoba and Saskatchewan and is comprised of 83% guides him, especially in his call indigenous peoples. The position will focus on animating For program details visit www.queenshouse.org for pastors to dwell closely with To register please call 306-242-1916 and coordinating Youth Ministry in the Archdiocese by their people and take on the smell or email: [email protected] planning and organizing regional gatherings, pilgrimages of the sheep, and to exhibit the tenderness, compassion closeness and involving other youth ministers. www.facebook.com/Queens-House-Retreat-and-Renewal-Centre of the Good Shepherd, especially Salary is negotiable. those who suffer. The cardinal’s keynote 601 Taylor Street West, Saskatoon, SK S7M 0C9 Feel free to contact our office with further questions at tel: (306) 242-1916 fax: (306) 653-5941 address crowned a symposium on 204-623-6152 ext. 1 or submit your resumé to: Being a Church of Mercy Nov. 4 DO YOU NEED A FACILITY FOR: [email protected] by December 1, 2016. - 5 to mark the closing of the Inservices, seminars, workshops, retreats, or any occasion? BOOK QUEEN’S HOUSE TODAY! jubilee year that ends officially (306) 242-1925 or [email protected] Nov. 20. 6 Prairie Messenger LOCAL NEWS November 16, 2016 SCSBA focuses on reconciliation Boyko re-elected

By Frank Flegel about hurt and the road to recon - Regina Roman Catholic School Catholic board chair ciliation. Division. She described several SASKATOON — Delegates to Eugene Arcand was a member support programs for indigenous the Saskatchewan Catholic School of the Truth and Reconciliation students that the Regina Catholic By Derrick Kunz Board Association’s (SCSBA) Commission’s (TRC) Residential school division has developed and annual conference and AGM School Survivor Committee. He maintained, especially since 2000. SASKATOON — Greater spent the Nov. 4 - 6 weekend spoke about the 94 TRC recom - Shane Henry and CeCe Saskatoon Catholic Schools’ learning about the impact of resi - mendations, but spent more time Baptiste, second- and third-gener - Board of Education held its orga - dential schools on First Nations describing his experience in resi - ation descendants of parents and nizational meeting, the first meet - people, their children and grand - dential school. He said he learned grandparents who attended resi - ing since October’s civic election, children. animal instincts when he was in dential schools, described their on Nov. 7, at which Diane Boyko The conference theme, “Heal - school. own experiences of taunts and was re-elected chair of the board. ing Through the Living Gospel: “I was a party animal; I loved abuse in school. The 10-member board has nine Truth and Reconciliation in to fight; I was a bad parent, but I Henry, a researcher/writer for returning trustees: Debbie Catholic Education,” featured have a good wife. I tried to forget the Saskatoon Tribal Council, said Berscheid, Ron Boechler, Diane speakers and a panel who spoke with drugs and alcohol” — all he has a complicated relationship Boyko, Jim Carriere, Tom behaviours learned with the Catholic Church. “It is Fortosky, Todd Hawkins, Tim in school. Things not compatible with my indige - Jelinski, Alice Risling and Wayne have improved nous identity.” Reconciliation may Stus. Sharon Zakreski-Werbicki somewhat, said be a bridge too far for some, said was elected to fill the 10th seat. Arcand, but he sees Henry. “Give First Nations some Trustee Wayne Stus, who rep - PM file bad behaviour latitude to come to a good place. resents rural areas around Saska - Diane Boyko among young peo - Genuine love is the order of the toon, including the cities of ple in indigenous day, but conditions have to be Martensville and Warman, was we strive for as a division.” communities, right for that to happen.” elected vice-chair for the second Fiscal challenges around fund - “because they don’t Baptiste is a financial analyst consecutive year. ing and uncertainty around “trans - know who they with the University of Saskatche - “The electorate appears pleased formational change” for education are.” wan’s Institutional Planning and with the direction of the board,” in Saskatchewan are also top of Reconciliation Assessment Unit. She shared her Boyko said, referring to the fact mind for trustees. “We will go has no boundaries, experience as the only Aboriginal all nine incumbents were re-elect - forward doing the good work that said Arcand. in her school and the abuse she ed. “We have the opportunity to we do. Our board and our admin - “We’ve never done experienced when she took grades build on the momentum of the istrative team will continue to this before and we 9 and 10 on her reserve. “I had to past several years. Catholic faith- show great care for our students, don’t know how to take care of myself. I didn’t based education is as strong as it our staff and for each other.” do it. It is a call to belong in the city and was too ever has been. Our growing enrol - Rev. Kevin McGee, adminis - Kip Yaworski action for every - white for the reserve.” ment, opening six new schools trator for the Roman Catholic CALLED AND GIFTED — A Called and Gifted one, not just the George Lafond was Sas katch - next year and an increasingly Diocese of Saskatoon, began the workshop was presented by facilitator Katherine government.” ewan’s first indigenous treaty diverse student body, demonstrate meeting with a prayer and a short Coolidge of the Catherine of Siena Institute (left) the support of our parents and the commissioning service. He spoke Oct. 21 in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Other speakers commissioner, from 2012 - 2016. community. We continue to about trustees using their God- Saskatoon, working with a local organizing com - had similar themes He said there are five steps to rec - improve student outcomes and mittee that included Rita Taylor, executive assis - about lack of iden - onciliation: spiritual, legal, eco - given gifts in service to students, tant to the director of Pastoral Services (right). tity. nomic, political and educational. achieve the academic excellence parents and staff. Parishioners and ministry leaders from across Joanna Landry “Indian kids need more to allow the diocese and beyond participated in the work - is First Nations, them to compete in the world,” shop, designed to help individuals discover Métis and Inuit arguing that equality with non- www.prairiemessenger.ca God’s call, discern their charisms, and equip Education co-ordi - indigenous students is not them as apostles for their mission in the world. nator for the enough. Education will always bring us together, says Saskatoon imam

Continued from page 1 dialogical approach. “You know would be hard for a clear picture holds it together,” Miller asserted. ance to Mary (Miryam), and the in this field almost everything to emerge from that kind of “The Bible is also the story of birth of Jesus. In 1976 he moved to Regina as depends on mutual trust,” he said, source.” God’s Word at work, for God car - According to the Qur’an, the professor of Islam and World sharing stories about how he Instead, Miller proposed exam - ries out his renewal plan and acts message Jesus proclaimed was Religions at Luther College, came to love his Muslim neigh - ining what each sacred book says of salvation through his Word, his plain and simple: “Lo Allah! He working with the late Rev. Isidore bours when serving in India. about its own primary function. “I self-expression,” added Miller, is my Lord and your Lord, so Gorski of Campion College to It is not easy to compare any call it Function Analysis. What is pointing to the first words of worship him. This is the straight establish the Religious Studies two books, Miller pointed out, the Qur’an intended for? What is John’s Gospel, which describes path.” Although his enemies put Department at the University of questioning by what criteria the its purpose? What is the Bible Jesus as the Word incarnate: “In Jesus on a cross, God did not Regina. Qur’an and the Bible might be intended for? What is its purpose?” the beginning was the Word and allow Jesus to die there, “but took “To bring Muslims and Chris - compared. To answer those questions, the Word was with God and the him to himself.” tians together to discuss funda - “The Qur’an is a monograph Miller cited texts from the two Word was God.” In responding to Miller’s lec - mental issues is a very good idea — that is, a single text given books. “When it speaks about The Bible’s testimony about ture, the Saskatoon imam de- indeed,” said Miller, pointing out through a single person, the itself, there is no mystery in regard God’s salvation began with the scribed Miller’s lecture as “very that together the two faiths make Prophet Muhammad, peace be to the primary purpose of the promises of the Old Testament heart-touching and thought-pro - up some 55 per cent of the upon him, over a period of only Qur’an. Its self-description about a saviour Messiah, and voking.” world’s population. 22 years, coming from one cultur - includes such phrases as sure their fulfilment in the New Imam Sheikh Ilyas Sidyot “Surely it is plain that if Chris- al context. The Bible is made up knowledge, a reminder and a warn - Testament in the life of Jesus. shared stories from the life of the tians and Muslims are friends and of 66 booklets, given to a variety ing, a plain sign, and true guid - Miller also described the Prophet Muhammad that show mutually co-operative, the world of authors over a period of 1,500 ance,” he said. Qur’anic understanding of Jesus. peaceful co-operation and care would be a better place. In fact it years, living in several different “Among its topics is a great “The Qur’an does not report the between Christian and Muslim might be said they have the fate of regions and cultural contexts.” double theme. On the one hand, activity of Jesus as the saving communities, and quoted a verse the world in their hands.” From a historic point of view, the Qur’an emphasizes God’s Word of God. Rather, it looks at from Chapter 5 of the Qur’an For Muslims, he said, the since the Bible is some 600 years unity and power, and on the other him through the lens of guid - about the closeness of Christians Qur’an “is the guiding star for older than the Qur’an, it might hand it emphasizes human sur - ance.” He stressed the Muslim to Muslims. The imam noted that life in this world and it is the seem possible to examine how render and obedience to the will admiration of Jesus, who is Muslims hold that all of the pre - compass for the Muslim’s journey the Bible influenced the Qur’an, of God. What links the two is esteemed as one of a small group vious books and previous to the next world. The Qur’an is but this is a very limited divine guidance. From the of revered prophets: Adam, Noah, prophets (including those in the the tangible symbol of God’s approach, said Miller, as the first Muslim point of view it is God’s Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Bible) were sent by God for the reality, the exposition of his eter - Arabic translation of the Bible infallible word. Its overriding Muhammad. Jesus is mentioned guidance of humanity. nal will. . . . Because of its divine did not appear until 200 years function is to teach one how to in 93 verses of the Qur’an. “We should always try to place in Muslim belief, it is after the death of the Prophet. surrender to Almighty God and “For many Muslims, Jesus is understand, read, dialogue, (have) unhesitatingly referred to as the “From a purely historic point how to lead a God-pleasing life not only a humble prophet and questions and answers, further ultimate and infallible authority of view, Prophet Muhammad, of piety.” teacher of love, but he is also a our education. Education is in all of human affairs. It can peace be upon him, had to receive As for the Bible, its overall saint and a symbol of true piety.” always power and will always safely be said that nothing is his information orally from the theme is that human beings con - Qur’anic verses about Jesus bring us together,” said the imam. more important to Islam and to few Jews and Christians who hap - sistently fail to obey God, and that centre on his birth and childhood, “I do not want you to become Muslims than the Qur’an.” pened to be resident in Arabia, or God in his mercy continually goes without much reference to his Muslim, or to make me Christian. Christians have similar feel - from traders passing through beyond guidance to save them. later ministry, said Miller, re - Let us sit together, be strong in ings about the Bible, Miller Mecca and Medina, or through “Salvation is the Bible’s central counting the Qur’anic verses your faith, but at the same time added, applauding the idea of a semi-Christianized tribes. It theme, the golden thread that about the Angel Gabriel’s appear - let us try to understand.” November 16, 2016 LOCAL NEWS Prairie Messenger 7 Loehndorf given meritorious service award

By Frank Flegel years later. He retired in 2015. Education Directors and Super - the Regina Catholic School director of education in 2008. Robertson is active in his church, intendents) and served a term as Division in 1985, rising through Currie is active in his church, as SASKATOON — Ken serving as acolyte, lector and president. the positions of vice-principal, well as charitable and sports orga - Loehndorf's life has been dedicat - communion minister. He was Currie began his teaching principal, and supervisor of nizations. He also served a term ed to his faith and to Catholic also active in LEADS (League of career in Moose Jaw and joined school operations, becoming as president of LEADS. education in Saskatchewan. For that service he was the recipient of the Saskatchewan Catholic Rosaries said in Regina for Canada and the world School Board’s 35th annual Julian Paslawski Meritorious By Frank Flegel Service Award. The award was presented by Julian Paslawski and REGINA — Two groups pub - SCSBA president Paula Scott licly said the rosary Oct. 15 in during the SCSBA annual meet - Regina: one group in front of the ing held at Saskatoon’s Sheraton Saskatchewan Legislative Build - Cavalier Hotel Nov. 4 - 6. ing at the south end of the flower Loehndorf ended his teaching garden across the road, and the and administration career in 2007 other prayed in front of Holy after 25 years as director of edu - Rosary Cathedral. cation for Light of Christ Cath- The Public Rosary Rallies olic School Division in North were initiated by a relatively new Battleford. He was immediately organization called the Canadian hired by the SCSBA to be its Society for the Defence of Chris - executive director and will con - tian Civilization. It was estab - tinue to serve in that position lished as a non-profit in 2013 to until his official retirement in July advance religion by the promo - 2017. tion of the teachings, tenets, doc - Two other longtime Catholic trines, morals, and observances of educators received appreciation the Roman Catholic faith and awards: Doug Robertson, retired their application to individuals, director of education at the families, and society in Christian Lloydminster Catholic School culture and civilization. The pub - Division, and Robert Currie, who lic square rosary campaign is Frank Flegel retired from the Regina Catholic called Canada Needs Our Lady, PRAYING THE ROSARY — A public rosary campaign Oct. 15 saw some 337 groups across Canada pray - School Division at the end of July according to the group's web ing for Canada and the world. Two groups said the rosary in Regina: one in front of the Legislature and the and took a position as Assistant page. Rallies were held by 337 other in front of Holy Rosary Cathedral. Deputy Minister of the Saskatch- groups across Canada, all praying e wan Ministry of Educa tion. for Canada and the world. Hernando said the exposure asked for rosaries may have double the number who partic - Robertson began his teaching Sharon Martorana organized helps Regina to pray. “I think the attended the Oct. 14 installation ipated in 2015, the first year it career in Rabbit Lake, Sask., the group praying in front of the rosary is a powerful prayer.” She of Donald Bolen as Archbishop was held. where he became a vice-princi - cathedral and Jessica Hernando's said several people approached of Regina. The rallies are held on the pal. He then moved to Spirit - group was in front of the Legis- her group and asked for a rosary. Both groups had about 30 Saturday closest to Oct. 13, which wood, Sask., as a principal as lature. “There are many reasons “They were probably Catholic but people take part in praying the this year is the 99th anniversary well as technology co-ordinator. to pray in public,” said Martorana not going to church.” She rosary; according to Her - of Our Lady's appearances at He joined the Lloydminster in an interview with the PM. “It is believes some of the people who nando, her group was about Fatima. Catholic School Division in really important to honour Our 1997 as superintendent of cur - Lady and pray for Canada. It is an riculum and instruction and opportunity for the public to see Christians called to know and share became director of education 10 us,” she said. Regina Catholic School Continued from page 3 branches of the vine, she said, cit - Board elects new chair ing John 15 about the vine and branches. “Our relationship with Christ is supposed to bear fruit By Frank Flegel serves as director of Pastoral for the life of the world.” Services for the Archdiocese of She noted that in a vineyard, REGINA — Donna Ziegler is Regina. Bresciani retired at the each branch affects the ability of the new chair for a one-year term end of June after serving 27 years the other branches to bear fruit. of the Regina Catholic School as an educator, and Richard Apprenticeship into the Christian Division. She was acclaimed at Dittrick retired after 30 years as a life is needed to encourage a the board’s annual organizational teacher, chaplain and principal. fruitful profession of faith and an meeting held Nov. 7 in the Catho - The three filled vacancies left authentic discipleship focused on lic Education Centre Board Room. by Lisa Polk, who decided not to the person of Jesus Christ. Rob Bresciani was acclaimed run this time in order to concen - Steps to becoming a parish of deputy chair and will also serve a trate on new responsibilities in her intentional disciples were provid - Kiply Yaworski one-year term. parish; Nicole Saurer, who was ed, and included laying a founda - STUDY DAYS — After small group discussion and brainstorming dur - Three new trustees elected in elected an NDP MLA in the April tion of organized intercessory ing Study Days Oct. 19 - 20 in Saskatoon, parish representatives came the Oct. 26 civic election also took provincial election; and Gerald prayer in the parish, offering multi - forward to share concrete ideas about implementing the steps needed their seats: Robert Kowalchuk, Kiesinger, who retired after a ple opportunities to encounter to make a parish a place of formation for intentional disciples. Deb Bresciani, and Richard career spanning 37 years as Jesus in the midst of the church, Dittrick, all retired education teacher, educational psychologist and “breaking the silence” to the great story of Jesus. As Pope to choose to follow Christ. administrators or teachers, were and trustee. Ziegler, Rob Bresciani, encourage and equip Catholics to Francis wrote in Evangelii Most people need to hear the elected in their first attempt to run. Vicky Bonnell and Frank Flegel share both their personal faith story Gaudium , “The first proclamation kerygma multiple times before Kowalchuk, former Education were all re-elected to the seven- and the Jesus story with others. must ring out over and over: ‘Jesus they can personally respond. It Superintendent with the Regina member board of trustees. Throughout the two days Christ loves you; he gave his life to must become normal for Catholics Catholic School Board, now Ziegler, in a statement to the Coolidge challenged participants save you; and now he is living at to talk about Jesus Christ, his life, Prairie Messenger, said education to come up with practical ideas your side every day to enlighten, teachings, death and resurrection, is in interesting times given finan - for what they can do in terms of strengthen and free you.’ ’’ she said, with personal testimony To advertise in the cial and growth challenges. “We intercessory prayer, opportunities Coolidge stressed that all serving as a bridge to Jesus. have been meeting and exceeding to encounter Jesus and ways of Christians are called to know and There is a need for multiple the goals under the Education encouraging personal faith shar - share the great story of Jesus, and opportunities for evangelization, Prairie Sector Strategic Plan (ESSP, ing. She encouraged participants to know the impact it has made and ongoing parish-based procla - Messenger established by the Ministry of to identify concrete actions for on their own lives. As for how to mation of the kerygma that call Education) and we have been pru - their own faith community that share it with others, respect is matches the unique character and dent with our finances and cur - would be within reach (but still a key, she said. This includes culture of each parish. 306-682-1772 rently have a balanced budget. stretch) and sustainable, which respect for a person’s situation, Following Study Days, or fax Our challenge is to balance expec - would honour the parish’s culture, respect for what they need, and Coolidge offered a “Called and 306-682-5285 tations of stakeholders in light of gifts and traditions, and would respect for their conscience and Gifted” workshop on Oct. 21, email: challenges and deliver the best call the community to mission. convictions. Every person has the designed to help individuals dis - [email protected] practises possible given those All evangelization and disciple - right to a “real spiritual choice,” cover God’s call and to discern challenges.” ship is grounded in the kerygma — she said, which includes the right their charisms and gifts. 8 Prairie Messenger ARTS & CULTURE November 16, 2016 Author Donoghue finds ‘The Wonder’ in fasting girls

By Kimberly Winston King said in The New York Some social historians have to,” she said. “But I hoped that if ©2016 Religion News Service Times Book Review , linked fasting girls to anorexia I made the movement between “Donoghue’s grave consid - nervosa, exerting control over Anna and Lib sufficiently dramat - SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (RNS) eration of the damage reli - their own bodies in a culture that ic, with a lot of sympathy on both — Emma Donoghue often finds gion can do when it crosses otherwise gave them little control. sides, there would be no character the kernel of her critically the line into superstition “Many young women wanted the readers would be cold to.” acclaimed, best-selling novels in lifts that narrative rather to be pure and live an ascetic life Religion, she continued, is a stories of dead women and girls. than weighing it down.” without any of the appetites of the rich mine for writers because “it Hood (1995) has a young Donoghue, who was flesh,” social historian Joan Jacobs allows your characters to have woman’s accidental death at its raised in Ireland but lives in Brumberg writes in “Fasting Girls: entirely different worldviews from heart; Slammerkin (2000) is based Canada, first encountered The History of Anorexia Nervosa.” each other. There is no overlap. on a 1763 murder of a prostitute; fasting girls 20 years ago “The so-called fasting girls were It’s as if one of your characters and Frog Music (2014) is based when she was working on still considered by many to have can see a mountain in the distance on the unsolved 1867 murder of a her doctorate. She was par - miraculous powers. The public dis - and the other says, ‘Where? I see woman who illegally hunted frogs ticularly struck by the story cussion of these cases revealed the no mountain.’ That always creates and hung out in railroad saloons. of Sarah Jacob, a 12-year-old staying power of traditional piety a sort of electrical charge.” Then there’s Room , her 2010 Welsh girl who died quickly and belief.” But that does not extend to novel that was shortlisted for the after doctors and nurses But Donoghue couldn’t find talking about her own faith. She Man Booker Prize. It told the began watching her around a way into the story through one is religious, she said, but doesn’t story of Ma, a kidnapping victim the clock. Her parents were real case — her usual method of speak publicly about it the way shut away in a tiny shed with her convicted of manslaughter approaching historical fiction — the novelist Marilynne Robinson young son. It became a 2015 film and sent to prison. so she shelved the idea. Then she and writer Anne Lamott do. for which Donoghue wrote the “I was struck by the realized combining elements of “I think some writers talk Oscar-nominated screenplay. RNS/Little, Brown and Company horror of all these well- several cases — the religious pas - about their faith very eloquently and Now, Donoghue, 47, has Emma Donoghue intentioned people wanting sion of one fasting girl, the family they become, effectively, spokes - written The Wonder , a story based to know the truth who involvement of another — would people, religious people who talk on “fasting girls” — a crop of though the plot is not as simple as ended up killing her,” said allow her to explore questions of about it to the world, but I really pre-adolescent Victorians, some any of the real-life dramas it is based Donoghue before giving a sold-out fervent faith and cool reason, reli - don’t,” she said. “I am religious and of them religiously motivated, on. Set in post-famine Ireland, The reading recently of The Wonder at gion and of science and the extent I practice but I don’t talk about it.” who seemed to survive for Wonder spins out the drama a bookstore in San Rafael. “I was to which love of family and of Donoghue’s next book will months or years on no food and between Anna O’Donnell, a devout also struck by the weird fact that God can drive someone. be a novel for middle-grade chil - little water. Some were revealed Catholic child who believes she is while she was being watched The Wonder is Donoghue’s dren — she and her partner of 22 as frauds, some gave up their fast, surviving on “manna from heaven,” nobody said stop, this is evil, and ninth novel, but it is her first to years have two, a boy, 12, and a while others wasted away while and her nurse-turned-guard, Lib as soon as she died people started deal so centrally with religion. It girl, 9. Then she is working on a family, friends, doctors and cler - Wright, who has no use for religion. throwing blame in every direction. is, she said, a subject she is both contemporary novel set in France. gy watched. Steph Cha of USA Today It is as if people were paralyzed by fascinated by and wary of. Asked if there would be any reli - The Wonder (which was also called the book “a rich Irish bog their fascination with the case. It “It’s like bringing an instru - gion in it, she paused, then nominated for the 2016 Scotiabank of religion and duty and morality was like some terrible reality tele - ment into your music that you grinned and said, “There’s always Giller Prize) fictionalizes the latter, and truth,” while author Stephen vision situation.” know some people will be deaf a little bit of religion.” Those with a passion for writing benefit from thoughtful encouragement

cupied with the collapse of an the gifts began coming. Glen writer. In 2002, shortly after I outdated mythology to be consid - assured me, first, that spiritual turned 55, Thistledown published ered literary. I was essaying concerns need not be at odds with my first book, The Crow Who Around the toward my own kind of non-fic - literary discernment or merit; and Tampered With Time. tion, sending pieces to remote well before the discussion’s end In 2006, when by certain cal - Kitchen Table magazines — mostly American he’d arranged to put me in touch culations I was officially a senior, — and of course grateful when - with Jesse Stothers, the acquisi - Thistledown released my second ever something was accepted. tions editor at Thistledown Press, collection, Backwater Mystic Lloyd Ratzlaff Yet I never got to meet the peo - and I felt reassured that maybe Blues , and in 2015 published ple associated with those periodi - sometimes an old dog can learn a Bindy’s Moon , the book I’d often cals, or knew whether anyone but new bark after all. imagined would be my first, but One afternoon in my early sale. Although I had scarcely any the editors had read my work, A few months later I submitted which appeared as the third in a teens I stood enthralled watching idea of the difference between and I began to yearn for a local a manuscript, and was heartened series of literary non-fiction a press operator at the Sas katch - printing and publishing, I could community of writers. further when Al and Jackie Forrie essays, filling still fuller a writing ewan Valley News in Rosthern a see that the operator’s job was to I had occasionally met Glen said in what seemed an offhand dream I could trace back at least few miles from my home in help get the words out, and Sorestad in a group who con - way, “We believe in your writing.” as far as that adolescent hour in a Laird. To my village sensibilities, watching him at work, I felt a vened on Thursday nights at Seán Virgo was appointed my edi - smalltown print shop. the printing press loomed huge mighty pull toward my own fasci - Bud’s on Broadway for a weekly tor, and seeing I could not possibly My gratitude to Thistledown and silent on the far side of the nation with words. draught of the blues. I knew he ascend to his literary orbit, he gra - Press goes as deep as those roots. room (the News came out only But I was nearly 50 and living was a respected English teacher ciously descended to mine, and I *Quoted in Joseph Adamson, once a week), but meanwhile the in Saskatoon before I left my and a poet himself, who with his began to understand more clearly Northrop Frye: A Visionary Life , operator was busy at a coal-black other professions to begin a writ - wife Sonia and some friends had than ever why I ha d wished to be a E CW Pre s s, 199 3. machine resembling two giant ing life. I had shifted (not yet into founded Thistledown Press in ping-pong paddles that rhythmi - high gear) from the religious and 1975. For more than a year I had cally slapped together. He insert - academic styles of writing to thought of asking Glen to point ed blank sheets of paper one at a which I’d been accustomed in my nose in an appropriate direc - time between flaps, and extracted previous lives as a minister, coun - tion, and never imagined having a pages of words that advertised (I sellor, and university lecturer, and publisher right in my own city. WE INVITE YOU TO PLACE YOUR think) some local farm auction was beginning to explore regions By then he and Sonia had relin - I considered “spiritual” but which quished their shares in Thistle - CCHRISTMAS GGREETING I couldn’t imagine being of inter - down, but retained close ties with IN THE Ratzlaff is a former minister, est to a literary publisher. I had the whole literary community. I counsellor, and university lectur - been struck by Northrop Frye’s put off calling Glen until one day er. He has authored three books of characterization of his own fun - in a fit of resolve — perhaps 20162016 CCHRISTMAS IISSUE literary non-fiction published by damentalist background, which in aided by a dose of liquid courage OF THE RAIRIE ESSENGER Thistledown Press, and edited an some ways resembled mine. He — I phoned to ask him whether I P M anthology of seniors’ writings was still in his teens in Moncton, could buy him a coffee and talk a published by READ Saskatoon. New Brunswick, walking to high bit about writing. the Christmas issue is He has been short-listed for three school one day and grappling He said without hesitation, Saskatchewan Books Awards, won “How about three this after - December 14, 2016 again with “the Old Bugger in the Deadline for ads is Dec. 2 two Saskatchewan Writers Guild Sky,” when suddenly “that whole noon?” literary non-fiction awards, and shitty and smelly garment of fun - After all those months of Please contact us to reserve served on local, provincial, and damentalist teaching I had all my twiewling! (pronounced tveevel - your advertising spot for your national writing organization life just dropped off into the sew - ling ), my Mennonite tradition’s Christmas Greeting in this boards. He has taught writing ers and stayed there.” * word for “qualming.” special issue! classes for the University of My shedding took a lot longer. We met at Emily’s Jazz Saskatchewan Certificate of Art I considered my new writing Restaurant around the corner and Design (USCAD) and the too heretical for any denomina - from our blues bar. Within a few Ph: 306-682-1772 Fax: 306-682-5285 Western Development Museum. tional house, but still too preoc - minutes, and from that hour on, email: [email protected] November 16, 2016 ARTS & CULTURE Prairie Messenger 9 Seaside stories tell of love and living with loss

ic flashbacks, revealing the source memories of sailing with Joe and populations. (A recent peace deal of his estrangement from his wife young Patrick in Manchester har - to end the half-century-old civil Randi (Michelle Williams) and bour; of Lee as a loving husband war between the government and Screenings family that has hardened into a and father of three children. There’s FARC guerillas was narrowly defensive solitude. no simple formula for recovering rejected by referendum, although & Meanings But life has a way of cracking from loss or picking up the pieces President Juan Manuel Santos was open our defences. That’s what of relationships, and this genuinely subsequently awarded the Nobel happens when Lee’s older brother affecting story, with its ear for dia - Peace Prize.) Cruz explains his Gerald Schmitz Joe (Kyle Chandler), who had logue, nuances and subtle details, motivation to tell the story: been diagnosed with a congenital indulges none. Manchester by the Sea This Friday sees the theatrical At the centre is the taciturn heart condition, dies suddenly of The movie is an understated release of writer-director Kenneth character of Lee Chandler (Casey a heart attack and thrusts an masterpiece of moods and the (U.S. 2016) Lonergan’s acclaimed drama Affleck), a loner and lost soul who unwanted responsibility on him. rhythms of ordinary people cop - Between Sea and Land Manchester by the Sea has withdrawn from a hurtful Joe’s marriage has also broken ing with life’s sometimes cruel (http://manchesterbytheseathe - world. He rents a bleak basement up, with ex-wife Elise (Gretchen challenges and healing possibili - (Colombia 2016) movie.com/) which had its world apartment in Boston, working as a Mol) in no condition to be a ties. While the performances are The Book of Love premiere at Sundance and its handyman and janitor. His minimal guardian to their 16-year-old son all excellent (including Matthew international premiere at the social life is limited to having a Patrick (Lucas Hedges). Instead, Broderick in a small role), special (U.S. 2016) Toronto film festival. It’s only his few beers at the local bar where he Joe’s will expressly appoints Lee praise is due Michelle Williams third feature in 16 years and defi - is more likely to pick a fight than to be Patrick’s legal guardian. and, above all, Casey Affleck “Because in a country like mine . . . nitely worth the wait. This is to make friends. Lee has a huge The funeral and aftermath force (Ben’s younger brother) as the violence has left a trail for genera - grownup complex human-scale chip on his shoulder or is carrying Lee to return to the hometown of troubled Lee. Oscar nominations tions and to the world we have this moviemaking of the highest order a burden of private tragedy; maybe Manchester-by-the-Sea that he had would be richly deserved. very bad image, which is why I felt — an American cinema truly both. The layers of his past life are abandoned, to deal with the issues the need for something more inti - worth celebrating. unfolded gradually through period - of familial crisis and obligation he * * * mate, our other reality, that fact has tried so hard to that there are good people, to res - leave be hind. Lucas Also from Sundance, where it cue wonderful human beings who is a handful who won the world cinema audience live here, people who are happy rules out any move award, comes Colombian director giving as much love as they can.” to Boston. He’s a Carlos del Castillo’s Between Sea Between Sea and Land will star hockey player. and Land , a story of parental have a North American release in He plays in a rock love inspired by an idea of princi - January. band. He juggles pal actor Manolo Cruz who wrote several girlfriends, the screenplay and is also a pro - * * * Sandy and Silvie ducer on the film. The Colombian (Kara Hayward and setting is the swampy marsh of Also scheduled for a January Anna Baryshnikov). Santa Marta on a coastal inlet release is director and co-writer Reacting aggres - next to the Caribbean Sea where Bill Purple’s The Book of Love sively to parental those too poor to own land have which was originally titled loss, there’s no way constructed a small makeshift vil - “Between the Devil and the Deep he’s going to make lage on stilts over the stagnant Blue Sea” when it premiered at anything easy for water, making do without elec - the Tribeca Film Festival in April. uncle Lee. But, in tricity or any amenities. In one of New Orleans architect Henry struggling to reach the huts lies 28-year-old Alberto (Jason Sudeikis) is in charge of a out to this boy on (Cruz), a severely disabled young major waterfront restoration project the threshold of man who is bedridden and cared when he receives the devastating manhood, Lee starts for with constant devotion by his news that his pregnant fun-loving Gerald Schmitz a painful process of mother Rosa (Vicky Hernandez). wife Penny (Jessica Biel) has been FILM PREMIERE — Casey Affleck, Anna Baryshnikov, and Lucas Hedges, actors in reconnection. This Alberto suffers from a chronic killed in a car accident. Happiness the film Manchester by the Sea , and director Kenneth Lonergan, are seen at the was a place of much muscular neurological disorder that and future hopes dashed, Henry Sundance premiere Jan. 24, 2016. happier times — of contorts his appearance, and he retreats into a housebound world of requires a breathing machine, grief until a chance encounter with hooked up to a generator, in order a ragamuffin teenage street kid to survive. While Rosa barely ekes named Millie (Masie Williams) out a living from selling fish, pries it open. Millie scavenges the Alberto makes sketches and streets with her dog “Ahab” look - dreams of going to the sea beyond, ing through trash for items that can FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING escaping the suffocating confines be used to build a makeshift raft. of his sickbed room with its Speaking a poor-girl slang, she’s oppressive heat and humidity. steeped in stories of the sea and Adding to that longing are the visits claims to have the diary of a lost he receives from childhood friend sailor found by her father. Her Giselle (Viviana Serna), now a improbable goal is to cross the beautiful young woman whose Atlantic to the Azores. desire to help him stirs a faint hope Henry and Millie form a bond of easing his condition. Her pres - that takes increasingly bizarre ence creates an underlying tension turns as he neglects his responsi - with the intensely protective Rosa bilities and evades his mother-in- and makes Alberto even more law (Mary Steenburgen). He acutely aware of being imprisoned stops shaving and becomes by his crippled body and dependent almost as feral as Millie while in circumstances. He becomes more his backyard the raft is assembled insistent about being taken to see with the help of a couple of the sea using a neighbour’s boat. eccentric construction workers Beyond a mother’s love and the named Dumbass (Orlando Jones) machine keeping him alive, he’s and Pascal (Richard Robichaux). desperately reaching for a horizon For Henry, believing again in life to set his spirit free. and love means shedding person - To portray the disabled Alberto, al and corporate baggage, em - Cruz lost a great deal of weight bracing Millie’s plan of escape and lived among people with dis - through the Louisiana delta to the abilities in order to effect a chal - open sea. lenging transformation that is Unfortunately the narrative emotional as well as physical. elements are so strange as to Veteran actress Hernandez is stretch credulity and what could equally convincing in the maternal have been genuinely moving too role. Their work was recognized at often sinks into maudlin melodra - Sundance with a special jury prize. ma amplified by a swelling musi - Apart from its coffee, Colombia cal score (by Biel’s husband is a country mainly known for bad Justin Timberlake). Some seaside news — of drug wars, human stories exert a powerful undertow. rights violations and displaced Others simply don’t hold water. 10 Prairie Messenger DEEPENING OUR FAITH November 16, 2016 English Christ our Pascha is a ‘wonderful resource’

and also helps us discern the uni - recited at every divine liturgy derful gift. Until now, we have versal value of our Eastern her - and is familiar to Catholics in had to rely on the Catechism of itage.” both the East and West. As such, the Catholic Church to explain By its very title Christ Our it not only reveals God to us, it is church teachings. However, we Pascha — Greek transliteration the source of Christian unity. have had to temper that informa - Both Lungs of the Aramaic word meaning The Anaphora of St. Basil tion from our seminary training Passover — directs us to the describes the entire history of in order to present a correct paschal foundations of our salvation. As we liturgically Byzantine perspective.” Even Brent Kostyniuk faith. “Christ is risen from the recall the events of the passion that was not without pitfalls, as dead trampling death by death and resurrection we become wit - Faryna remarks. “That is, if we and to those in the tombs giv - nesses to those events and share remembered our seminary train - Those who are old enough tolic Constitution on the Deposit in the new life ing correctly!” will remember the Baltimore of Faith. “This catechism is not of Christ. One of the beauties of Christ Catechism. We spent religion meant as a substitute for the vari - “(Historical) Our Pascha is that it is intended class after religion class memo - ous local catechisms. . . . Rather truth and the not only for clergy, but for the rizing the commandments, the it is meant to encourage the cre - solemnity laity as well. “It is a wonderful prayers, and those concise state - ation of new and local catechisms (celebration of resource for the laity, provided ments that defined our relation - that are better equipped to take it) are not at they take the time to go through ship with God. At the time, that into account the unique nuances variance,” it. It can provide them with an- catechism, more than anything, of particular cultures, while at the expressed St. swers to questions about their seemed to encapsulate the Cath - same time remaining diligently Augustine. faith, without having to turn to olic faith. How ever, as important faithful to the unity of faith and Christ Our Internet catechisms. There is a as it was, the catechism did not Catholic teaching.” Pascha is di - difference between the two. They address the spiritual needs of A major step forward was vided into can be assured the answer they Eastern Catholics. publication in 2011 of a Ukrain - three main find in Christ Our Pascha accu - While reliance might today ian language catechism specifi - parts — The rately reflects the teaching of the seem to have been over empha - cally for the Ukrainian Catholic Faith of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. It sized, the need for a catechism, in Church — Christ Our Pascha. Church, The presents the teachings of the whatever form it takes, is essen - Once again, however, this was Prayers of the Church Fathers and how those tial to any religion. In that light, not the total solution. A large Church, and teachings fit in with eastern spiri - publication of the Catechism of number of Ukrainian Catholics the Life of the tuality.” the Catholic Church in 1992 was live in the diaspora — outside Church. These Looking ahead, Faryna would a significant milestone. For Ukraine — and many of these three themes like to see a Christ Our Pascha Ukrainian Catholics, a further are not fluent in the Ukrainian reflect the app that would appeal to the new milestone was reached in 2002 language, hence the necessity of very essence generation of Ukrainian Catho - when a Ukrainian translation of an English language catechism. of Chris tian lics who rely on digital commu - the catechism was published. Now, with the publication of the salvation. Re - nications rather than the printed However, even this did not fully English version of Christ Our call ing the word. meet the needs of Ukrainian Pascha , this need has been met. Balti more Another innovation might be Catholics and all the other mem - While far from an old-fash - Cate chism, we a guide that would cross-refer - bers of Eastern Catholic church - ioned concept, a catechism is rel - are all called ence content of the Catechism of es. Those needs were expressed evant in today’s world, as head to know, love the Catholic Church with Christ by St. John Paul II in the Apos - of the Ukrainian Catholic and serve Our Pascha . Being able to easily Church, Major Archbishop God. see how elements of eastern and Sviatoslav, explains in the intro - ing life.” — Easter Hymn Rev. Greg Faryna, pastor of western spirituality and theology Kostyniuk, who lives in duction to Christ Our Pascha . The catechism relies on two Protection of the Blessed Virgin are alike, and yet different, Edmonton, has a bachelor of the - “A profound grasp of our Chris - key sources — the Nicene Creed Mary Parish in Camrose, Alta., would help us all appreciate how ology from Newman and is a free - tian roots aids in the discovery of and the Anaphora of the Divine sees Christ Our Pascha as an the church truly does breathe lance writer. He and his wife Bev our own identity in the modern Liturgy of St. Basil for both its invaluable resource. “It is a won - through both lungs. have been married for 38 years world, with its challenges of structure and its content. The B and hav e eig ht grandchild re n . g lob aliz ation and assimilation, Creed, or Symbol of Faith, is

Coordinator, Martha Ministry of Social and Ecological Justice BOSCO FOUNDATION John Bosco Sisters of St. Martha, Antigonish, N.S. Child & Family Services Foundation

Founded in 1900, the Sisters of St. Martha (CSM) were greatly influenced by the rich social consciousness The John Bosco Child and Family Services Foundation (Bosco present in the Antigonish Movement and the Social Teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. Justice Foundation) is a public foundation dedicated to the provision of and the dignity of the person, with an option for the poor, have been key values in the Congregation buildings and facilities used for the treatment, education and from its earliest roots, and have been manifested in many ways over the years through its ministries. housing of children, adolescents and adults who are in need of When the Motherhouse moved to a farm on the outskirts of Antigonish, Care of Earth became another support. key value. For the last few General Chapters, the Congregation committed themselves to deepening consciousness of the Living Universe Story and expressing it through reverence for all creation. Bosco Foundation believes in assisting non-profit and charitable organizations who provide vital services which aid vulnerable Full-time position, starting early 2017 people in our society. We do this by providing our facilities to The Sisters of St. Martha, Antigonish are seeking a coordinator for the Martha Ministry of Social and various non-profit and charitable agencies at below market level Ecological Justice. This is a new position. Justice and the Care of Earth are essential values to the rental rates. Sisters of St. Martha. We believe that the addition of a Coordinator will enable us to move into the Our facilities are used for social services group care, foster future with renewed energy and commitment to continue to promote these values on the local, national care, adult mental health care, the St. Francis Food Bank, two and global scene. AA groups and a NE Edmonton cadet core among others. Overview The purpose of this position is to further the Mission, Vision, Values of the Sisters of St. Martha around In addition, we provide volunteer services to assist two small non- social and ecological justice through education, advocacy and deepening of our theological understanding. profit organizations working with low income seniors and victims Key areas include: of stroke with fundraising and volunteer recruitment assistance.  Create and facilitate learning and educational opportunities, experiences, methods processes, The Bosco Foundation is currently working with a large service and co-ordinate actions directed by a Core Committee.  organization on a joint project with the aim of providing Support and serve as a resource to the Congregation Leadership, local communities, associates, affordable housing for low-income seniors. and others.  Assist in deepening the Martha commitment to the ideals of Catholic Social Teaching, the 100% of donations go toward charitable purposes. Living Universe Story and Living in Right Relationships.  Administrative expenses are covered by other sources. Represent the Sisters of St. Martha at local, regional or national conferences and gatherings Please forward your donation to: related to social and ecological justice; in the public forum, through emails, letter writing, Bosco Foundation phone calls, public statements, and by participating in relevant public events. 315-6770 129 Avenue NW, Edmonton, AB T5C 1V7 A job description and application details are available from Sr. Joanne O’Regan N [email protected] Please include Coordinator Social/Ecological Justice in subject line. Tel: (780) 809-8585 Fax: (780) 809-8586 www.boscofoundation.com Application deadline is November 25, 2016. *Charitable Tax Number: 85985 8664 RT0001* November 16, 2016 DEEPENING OUR FAITH Prairie Messenger 11 Advent may be quiet, but we wait with alertness

all, that of inviting peace into our troubled souls and bro - ber once waiting with a friend for food at the food bank. It ken world. took forever, waiting in a waiting room full of other hungry Peace-making is an activity. None know this more than people. The time of those living in poverty has little value so Liturgy those who are committed to non-violence. They know we waited, being pacifists does not mean being passive. They know aware that the and Life building peace is hard work that, like gestation, is often next meal was hidden in the recesses of our everyday lives. It means set - in another per - ting out into the deep, casting our nets into the unknown, son’s hands. Gertrude Rompré and crossing the boundaries of our own security. Inviting The wait ing peace into our lives means finding the courage to enter we engage in into relationship with those — and those parts of ourselves during Advent Let us go! — that we perceive to be the enemy. It’s hard work. It’s is that same Keep awake! active. It’s the call that is put forth to us today. sort of waiting. Be ready! The Advent call also requires us to be vigilant, to be It is the wait - I’m surprised to hear these very active phrases as we awake! The gospel reminds us that the householder would ing that makes embark on our Advent journey. Often Advent is billed as not have lost her treasure if she had kept awake. In this us aware of our a still, silent time — a time of expectant waiting. We Advent season we are called to open our eyes, pay atten - vulnerability light candles, we sing, “O Come Divine Messiah.” We and our des - pray in the dark evenings and contemplate the period of Isaiah 2:1-5 perate need for First Sunday gestation before the birth. What the readings remind us, Psalm 122 the One for in Advent, Yr. A then, is that gestation is a holy and active time, even if Romans 13:11-14 whom we wait. this activity remains hidden. It is a time to be ready, November 27, 2016 Matthew 24:37-44 It re minds us awake and go! that everything Be ready for the journey ahead. We are a pilgrim peo - tion, and recognize the presence of Christ in our midst. about us de - Stushie Art ple on a journey toward the “mountain of the Lord.” In Being awake means being alert to the coming of the Lord pends on the that holy place everything is transformed. Swords are in unexpected places. As we move toward Christmas, grace of the One who comes to us “through the cry of a tiny turned into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks. there will be a lot of static, a lot of background noise. babe.” In the waiting we actively embrace our own vulnera - What is at war within us is invited to lay down its arms. We’ll be bombarded with tinsel and tinny-sounding carols bility and peace is born. So, this somewhat understated season of Advent about red-nosed reindeers. Will we be awake and recog - Let us go re joicing to the house of the Lord! What a becomes an invitation to engage the greatest activity of nize the coming of the Lord in the midst of the distrac - wonderful invitation. In the house of the Lord peace is born. tions? In the house of the Lord, we come to recognize Christ in Yes, we wait during Advent, but we wait actively. We unexpected places. In the house of the Lord, our vulnerabili - Rompré is the director of Mission and Ministry at St. wait for the coming of our Lord. It strikes me, though, that ty is embraced by the One who has loved us into being. Thomas More College in Saskatoon. often waiting and vulnerability go hand and hand. I remem - May you be blessed in your waiting this Advent season. The real presence is both in a person and in an event

circles and indeed in most tures are celebrated in a liturgi - meal recalls the Exodus from Protestant and Anglican circles, is cal service, God’s presence is Egypt and the miraculous passing In very much concentrated on three made special, more physically through the Red Sea into free - things: the liturgy of the Word, tangible, than God’s normal dom. The idea is that one genera - the music, and communion. presence everywhere or God’s tion, led by Moses, did this his - Exile Moreover, in Roman Catholic presence inside our private torically, but that by re-enacting churches, we speak of the real prayer. The Word of God, when that event ritually, in the Passover presence only in reference to the celebrated in a church is, like meal, the event is made present Ron Rolheiser, OMI last element, the presence of Christ’s presence in the conse - again, in a real way, for those at Christ in the bread and wine. crated bread and wine, also the table to experience. While none of this is wrong, real presence. The eucharist is the same, When I was a graduate stu - homily and the music. If the the liturgy of the Word, the But there’s a further element except that the saving event we dent in Belgium, I was privi - homily was interesting and the music, and communion are that’s less understood: The re-enact so as to remake it pre - leged one day to sit in on a con - music lively, most people would important, something is missing eucharist doesn’t just make a per - sent through ritual is the death ference given by Cardinal answer that it had been a good in this understanding. It misses son present; it also makes an and resurrection of Jesus, the Godfried Danneels of Brussels. eucharist. Now, he continued, if the fact that the real presence is event present. We participate in new Exodus. Our Christian He was commenting on the you had stood outside a Roman not just in the bread and wine, it the eucharist not just to receive belief here is exactly the same as eucharist and our lack of under - Catholic church 60 or 70 years is also in the liturgy of the Word Christ in communion, but also to that of our Jewish brothers and standing of its full richness when ago and asked, “Was that a good and in the salvific event that is participate in the major salvific sisters, namely, that we are not he highlighted this contrast: If mass today,” nobody would have recalled in the eucharistic prayer, event of his life, his death and just remembering an event, we you stood outside of a Roman even understood the question. namely, the death and resurrec - resurrection. are actually making it present to Catholic church today as people They would have answered tion of Jesus. What’s at issue here? participate in. 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By Lauren Markoe Hillary Clinton made her commit - their bal - Trump over Clinton 52 per cent ©2016 Religion News Service ment to her Methodist faith lots for to 45 per cent. That’s despite known on the campaign trail. him, com - Pope Francis and other prominent A strong white evangelical, But no one should be surprised pared to Catholics’ rebuke of the candidate white Catholic and Mormon vote by evangelicals’ turnout for 37 per for railing against minority for Donald Trump belied the con - Trump, said Robert P. Jones, CEO cent for groups. Earlier this year, the pope demnation many religious leaders of the Public Religion Research Clinton. had suggested that Trump, who had levelled at the tycoon Institute. But it identifies as Presbyterian, was and paved the way for a stunning “White evangelicals in this was the re - “not a Christian” for his rhetoric upset after a long and polarizing election aren’t values voters. verse for about wall building. campaign. They’re nostalgia voters,” he Latino Though white Catholics in both Preliminary exit polls indicate said. “Trump’s line — ‘let’s make Catholics: 2012 and 2016 went for the GOP these religious groups voted America great again’ — and his 67 per candidate, their support for Trump for Trump by wide margins — last-minute saying — ‘look folks, cent went this year was not as strong as the and, in the case of white evangel - I’m your last chance’ — was real - for Clin ton 59 per cent they gave to Romney. icals, wider than they had given ly powerful for white evangeli - and 26 for And while Latino Catholics in both to GOP presidential nominee Mitt cals who see their numbers in the CNS/Andrew Gombert, EPA Trump. elections threw their support be - Romney in 2012. general population slipping. ELECTION REACTION — Many reacted with shock and Trump hind the Democrat, their support Christians who described them - “White Christians are declining despair at the news of a Donald Trump victory. A majority had alien - for Clinton trailed the 75 per cent selves as evangelical and born- every year by a percentage point or of white Catholics, Evangelicals and Mormons, however, ated many they gave to Obama four years ago. again gave Trump 81 per cent of more as a proportion of the popula - were among those who helped catapult him to victory. Latinos Mormons nationally, accord - their votes, up three percentage tion,” Jones added. “So when during the ing to exit polls, preferred Trump points from their support for Mitt Trump says, ‘I’m your last chance, and proved himself, said Tony campaign: lambasting the crimi - to Clinton by 61 to 25 per cent. Romney, the 2012 GOP presiden - folks,’ there’s a real truth to that.” Perkins, president of the conserva - nals and “rapists” among Mexi - The Mormon vote, key in over - tial nominee. Democratic presi - Scott McConnell, who studies tive Family Research Council. can immigrants, promising to whelmingly Republican Utah — dential nominee Hillary Clinton evangelicals as executive director “Donald Trump went out of his force Mexico to pay for a wall he where more than 60 per cent of garnered 16 per cent of their votes. of LifeWay Research, said its pre- way to build a relationship with would build on America’s south - people belong to the Church of “Donald Trump made the most election studies showed that eco - evangelicals. I’m not saying there’s ern border and denigrating a Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints full-throated and aggressive appeal nomics — not religious belief — 100 per cent trust, nor embracing judge because of his Latino — gave Trump an easy win in the to evangelical voters . . . since was driving evangelical voters. what he has done in the past,” parentage. state. Ronald Reagan spoke to the That research also revealed Perkins said. “But one thing evan - Perhaps there was a little more Trump won 46 per cent of Religious Roundtable in August of clear divides along ethnic and gelicals understand is that every - Latino support for Trump than Utah votes, compared with 1980,” Ralph Reed, chair of the party lines within the group: white body has a past, but everyone has expected, said Greg Smith, associ - Clinton’s 27 per cent. Independent Faith & Freedom Coalition, said and Republican evangelicals the promise of a future as well.” ate research director at the Pew Evan McMullin won 21 per cent. the day after the election (Nov. 9). favoured Trump while African- “Once he captured the nomi - Research Center. But otherwise, Prominent Mormon politicians “He made these voters of faith American, Asian and Hispanic nation, he didn’t say ‘well I’ve he said, the divided Catholic vote in the state — including Gov. a centrepiece of his campaign.” evangelicals favoured Clinton. checked the box with evangeli - — between whites and Latinos — Gary Herbert — had expressed White evangelical support for “These divides are powerful in cals, I’m moving on,’ ” Perkins split as earlier polls had predicted. outrage at Trump after a video Trump surged even as prominent America today, and they are added. “He continued throughout “Talk about a ‘Catholic vote’ as released last month revealed the evangelicals, including Southern deeply entrenched in the church,” the course of his campaign and a whole can obscure as much as it candidate’s lewd comments about Baptist Russell Moore, railed McConnell said. the general election to communi - reveals because there are identifi - assaulting women, and pulled against Trump’s behaviour to - Some prominent evangelicals cate with, go to events of, and able subgroups of Catholics who their support for him. ward immigrants, women and who supported Trump acknowl - build upon the relationship with tend to vote in particular ways, Given Mormons’ reputation other groups as un-Christian. edged that his lifestyle and behav - social conservatives.” and that is exactly what we saw in for clean living and their embrace Trump never cast himself as a iour had given them pause. But he White Catholics also favoured this election,” he said. of traditional values, there was particularly religious person. And actively sought evangelical votes Trump, casting 60 per cent of Catholics overall voted for even some talk in the past few weeks about the red state turning Trinity Manor a Catholic health care good-news story blue, or at least purple. But the backlash against Trump in Utah did not benefit and religious men that were a sig - vate independent senior living, Clinton. Anti-Trump votes in - nificant percentage of the initial and respectfully journey with stead seemed to gravitate to population from day one. What a people to assisted care and higher McMullin, who is Mormon. Catholic gift to have those at the core of a level needs of care. In a complex The voting statistics on main - community who come imbued environment of publicly funded line Protestants make drawing Connections with the mission of “loving their health care, and the often “bumpy meaningful conclusions difficult. neighbours as themselves.” And, ride” to acute or long-term care, Available exit poll data, compiled no doubt, building a strong com - Trinity Manor does its utmost to by a firm hired by a consortium Sandra Kary munity was also the aim of the smooth the path for its residents. of major national news organiza - staff and other residents as well. With Samaritan Place across the tions, does not break down the Altogether, that intangible sense of way (a sister Catholic health group by race — an important The Catholic Health Association occupancy with a vibrant commu - culture and diversity was wonder - organization that is a publicly factor in analyzing the vote. of Saskatchewan recently hosted its nity that happily calls this place fully mixed together. And it gelled. funded long-term care facility) The Jewish vote in this presi - 73rd annual conference in Moose home. Mission-mindedness is the next many find comfort and compan - dential election looked much as it Jaw with the theme Hope Floats: What was the key to Trinity key to Trinity Manor’s success. ionship from their friends and did in the past, with overwhelm - Serving in Health Care as People of Manor’s success? I contacted You see it everywhere — in the community that are close by. ing support for the Democrat: Faith. It inspired me to look around Suzanne Turmel, Trinity Manor’s way they plan programs and activi - Of course, there is no straight Clinton garnered 71 per cent the province to find a few executive director, for a chat. ties that tend to the body, mind and (or magic “Catholic”) line for compared with Trump’s 24 per hope-filled success sto - First of all, let me tell spirit; their attention to quality and direct access to Samaritan Place. cent. That’s not far from the 69 ries of those serving in you about Suzanne. security; and their intentional con - Saskatoon Health Region’s Client per cent for President Obama and Catholic health care. She is personable, nection to the community at large. Patient Access Service (CPAS) 30 per cent for Romney in 2012, I didn’t have to passionate and Interestingly, the mission of Trinity oversees admissions to long-term and the 78 per cent for Obama look too far. competent. A nurse Manor is not simply prescribed to care throughout Saskatoon, and and 21 per cent for rival John I was reminded by trade, Suzanne its residents, it’s held as a conver - admission to Samaritan Place is McCain in 2008. that Trinity Manor found her way into sation with its residents. One prac - no different in that regard. CPAS Do not hold your breath for at Stonebridge in administration and tical example of how Trinity employs an equitable process that statistics on the Muslim vote in Saskatoon recently ultimately leadership Manor has listened is the ways in must be adhered to, and that 2016. celebrated its second of a health region in which they tend to health care process determines who is admit - Though the Muslim population anniversary. On Oct. 8, Montreal before coming needs — they are attentive to when ted to long-term care facilities in of the nation is growing, and 2014, Trinity Manor opened to Saskatchewan. It’s evident someone is transitioning from Saskatoon, but the staff from despite robust get-out-the-vote its doors — a two-year project of to me that one of the key reasons independent living to more assisted Trinity Manor and Samaritan efforts among Muslim Ameri - Emmanuel Care that culminated in for Trinity Manor’s success is due care, they make it a policy to Place make it a priority to main - cans, they still represent less than creating a private residential retire - to having the right person at the always accompany residents to and tain open and strong lines of com - one per cent of the electorate. ment community in Saskatoon — helm. I watched as amazing peo - from the hospital, and in an envi - munication to make transitions as But the numbers are in for the offering both independent and per - ple envisioned this project, and ronment where medication errors seamless as they can. religiously unaffiliated, who now sonal care suites (174 in total). then built the building, but the can be a serious concern, they have At the heart of any healthy account for a quarter of U.S. Today, they are at 100 per cent bricks and mortar are just that added licensed nursing care to the community are good leaders, adults but do not tend to vote as a without the right person in place to team to help with monitoring. good listeners and good neigh - bloc: 68 per cent voted for Clinton build a community. Finally, Trinity Manor is a suc - bours — congratulations to all and 28 for Trump. Kary is executive director for Suzanne takes little credit and cess because they are amazing those at Trinity Manor for your RNS Editor-in-Chief Jerome the Catholic Health Association points to a unique advantage they bridge-builders. They know how successes, and may God bless Socolovsky contributed to this of Saskatchewan. had from the outset — the sisters to offer space and comfort for pri - you in the years to come! report. November 16, 2016 FEATURE Prairie Messenger 13 Witness to Gospel requires all churches together

By Marie-Louise Ternier- one who makes the claim to total Gommers fullness. Just because the “full - ness of the church” subsists in the The month of October was Roman Catholic Church, it does eventful on the global ecumenical not follow automatically that it front, in no small way thanks to lives each aspect of that fullness Pope Francis. A man of action, to its best. Some aspects have and cognizant of the power of gathered dust in obscure corners gesture and relationship, Francis of the church’s own archives; spent October 2016 — inaugurat - other aspects have withered ing the 500th anniversary of the because of neglect. In fact, the Reformation — in key encounters Roman Catholic Church’s failure with leaders from the Orthodox to live that fullness to the full is Church, the Anglican Commu - precisely what may have given nion, and the Lutheran World rise to other traditions, some of Federation (LWF). which live these aspects better Archbishop of Canterbury and more faithfully, as articulated Justin Welby and LWF President eloquently in paragraph 4 of the Bishop Mounib Younan both Decree on Ecumenism ( Unitatis signed joint statements with Pope Redintegratio ). Could it be that Francis; a joint statement with the ordaining women is one of those Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill aspects? was signed earlier this year. Each The fruit of ecumenical learn - statement confesses the sins of CNS/Nigel Roddis, Reuters ing leads to a realization that we conflict and strife over the past ECUMENICAL GIFTS — Anglican priests in York, England, are pictured in this 2014 photo. “The fruit of need all churches together in 500 years (1,000 years in case of ecumenical learning leads to a realization that we need all churches together in order to provide a full and order to provide a full and com - the Orthodox), reaffirms Christ’s complete witness to the Gospel,” writes Marie-Louise Ternier-Gommers. “If we could truly realize how plete witness to the Gospel. For own animating and salvific pres - much we need each other, then the gifts and graces of one tradition, including ordained women, can serve the neglect of one church could ence in one another’s traditions, to guide and hold accountable the other traditions.” well be the strength of another, and commits its leaders and and vice versa. If we could truly members to new paths of joint ments at the highest ecclesial lev - to keep the negative at bay. Dan Father with this question in other realize how much we need each witness, prayer and mission. els has clout and raises the bar to O’Grady, a psychologist, has quarters. other, then the gifts and graces of Without glossing over disagree - a new level. Many are bursting been quoted as saying that “our That is too bad, for the posi - one tradition, including ordained ments still present, each state - with joy and relief, praise and negative and critical thoughts are tive ecumenical steps of the past women, can serve to guide and ment includes a clear commit - thanks to God at this monumental like Velcro, they stick and hold; 50 years can nevertheless provide hold accountable the other tradi - ment to address these differences development in the Body of whereas our positive and joyful some important solace, however tions. by “walking together” as one Christ. Not everything is re - thoughts are like Teflon, they small. Let me try to tease out a My personal response to Pope Body of Christ. solved, to be sure, but our con - slide away.” A bit of this hap - few. Francis’ reiterating the ban on the These are no small matters. flict-ridden world is in dire need pened in the aftermath of these It is a monumental step for ordination of women is simple: If This is history in the making. of concrete global examples of momentous ecumenical gather - church traditions, which have women are not to be ordained, Publicly signing formal agree - reconciliation and healing. ings. When interviewed by jour - shared literally centuries of suspi - then please tell God to stop call - The Christian family has a par - nalists aboard the papal plane cion, judgment and conflict, to ing us. God’s calling activity in ticular responsibility in this returning from Lund, Sweden, acknowledge Christ’s saving the heart and mind of a faithful Ternier-Gommers, MDiv, a regard as we claim to follow our Pope Francis once again reiterat - action in one another’s faith and Roman Catholic woman is a mys - well-known author and preacher, Lord and role model, God’s own ed the Roman Catholic ban on spirituality, liturgy and mission. In terious and challenging dance, retreat leader, spiritual director Son Jesus Christ, who came to the ordination of women. In - other words, Christ is present and one rarely chosen at will by the and facilitator, lives in Humboldt, “reconcile the world to himself” stantly social media erupted with active in those ecclesial communi - woman herself and despite her Sask. She is currently preparing (2 Cor 5:19) and that “all may be knee-jerk reactions, expressing ties which have developed sepa - fear and resistance. Rather, it is a for ordination in the Anglican one” (Jn 17:21). outrage and profound disappoint - rately from Rome. This acknowl - dance in which we women (yes, I Church of Canada. She blogs at While many positive steps are ment in some quarters and dis - edgement is extended to several speak from personal experience) https://graceatsixty.wordpress.com being made, however, it is hard may over pestering the Holy major traditions that ordain feel seduced (in the loveliest women, i.e. the Anglican and sense of that word) by a divine Lutheran churches. Rome does Partner who fuels our human 2016 GUEST LECTURER: not consider itself to have the desire for fullness and surrender, authority to change its teaching on for wholeness in priestly ministry Margaret Somerville women’s ordination. However, despite the official teaching of the Rome has never claimed that their The Song of Death, the Lyrics of church, a dance which is surpris - own prohibition precludes that ingly recognized by the faith Euthanasia versus The Song of Life, Christ can work through ordained community despite the prohibi - the Lyrics of Love and Hope women in other traditions. tion from on high to do so. People Even acknowledging that the know a priest when they experi - fullness of the church subsists in ence one. the Catholic Church (Par. 8, There is an authenticating Lumen Gentium ) may be accept - power that emerges when one able to other Christian traditions. has lived with such a deep divine The same paragraph in Lumen Margaret Somerville is Samuel Gale calling for a lifetime, a calling Gentium adds that “many ele - that will not rest until it is con - Professor of Law Emerita, Professor ments of sanctification and of Emerita in the Faculty of Medicine, and summated in ordination. Yes, I truth are found outside of its visi - have moved into another room in Founding Director Emerita of the Centre ble structure. These elements, as the Christian household to pur - for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill gifts belonging to the Church of sue this priestly ordination. But I University, Montreal. In 2016 she returned Christ, are forces impelling have not left the Christian house - to Sydney, Australia to become Professor toward catholic unity.” hold. The tradition I have em - of Bioethics in the School of Medicine at But the burden of proof and of braced, with valid differences in the University of Notre Dame Australia. greater responsibility rests on the some key aspects, is nevertheless endowed with many of the gifts and charisms as the one which gave birth to and nurtured my 28th Annual To advertise in the calling so well in the first place, Michael Keenan Memorial Lecture thereby affirming the words in Thursday, November 24, 7:30 pm. Guest Lecturer Margaret Somerville will speak Prairie Lumen Gentium. Fr. O`Donnell Auditorium, STM to the societal factors that led to changes in If the ecumenical agreements euthanasia legislation and the strategies used of the past 50 years mean any - Reception to follow Messenger to implement it. call thing, it is that denominational The annual Keenan Lecture honours the memory and achievements of STM’s first Dean, Dr. Michael Keenan. moves such as mine are no longer 306-682-1772 the scandal they once were. I am or fax convinced of one thing: Christ is 306-682-5285 still leading me, and guiding me, email: and will continue to bless my stmcollege.ca [email protected] journey. What’s more, Rome’s best ecumenical insights now agree with this. 14 Prairie Messenger EDITORIALS November 16, 2016

Teens face new challenges of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., and jumped to 34 per cent in 2015 from 24 per cent in his co-authors said in the Nov. 14 issue of the journal 2013. The survey showed 86 per cent of students The recent suicide of six girls aged 10 to 14 in Pediatrics. were on social media daily. About 16 per cent spend northern Saskatchewan has caught the attention of all They list cyberbullying as a major concern. five hours or more a day on social media. Canadians. “Cyberbullying may have increased more dramati - Robert Mann, co-lead investigator of the Ontario Everyone is anxious to understand what the cally among girls than boys,” they write. “As com - survey, comments: “We often think of the adolescent problem is and what are the solutions. pared with adolescent boys, adolescent girls also now years as the prime of life where you’re young, you’re Archbishop Murray Chatlain of Keewatin-Le Pas use mobile phones with texting applications more healthy, and these data are telling us for many young says he has seen far too many young people from frequently and intensively and problematic mobile people that’s not the case.” northern communities take their lives. Some of the phone use among young people has been linked to The survey noted that levels of high distress underlying factors, he said, include a sense of despair depressed mood.” increase significantly in the later teens, to an average in the north and a lack of hope and purpose. Dr. Sandra Mendlowitz, a psychologist in the of nearly 41 per cent of students in Grade 12. He is encouraging local community leaders to child and youth psychiatry outpatient program at Cyberbullying is prevalent on social media. The reach out to their youth. More has to be initiated on Toronto’s Sick Kids Hospital, blames social media more time young people spend on social media sites, the local level, he says, including church programs. for the rise in teen depression and anxiety. She said the greater the risk of cyberbullying, CAMH Recent American and Canadian studies suggest having a social media presence is important in teens’ researchers say. About 22 per cent of students report some answers to this epidemic. CBC News reported lives. being cyberbullied. that teen depression is on the rise in the U.S. and “You can have a number of likes and dislikes that Social media’s power to scrutinize how we look depression is a growing deadly threat. many teenagers see as destroying their sense of self,” and to permanently publicize embarrassing moments One of the drivers of this trend, the U.S. Mendlowitz said in an interview with CBC News can be a liability if young people forget to live in the researchers say, may be increased cellphone use Network. “That’s why it’s important to be careful moment, says a child and adolescent psychiatrist at among teens and girls in particular. They looked at about posts and how you’ll handle the responses,” CAMH. Dr. Corine Carlisle advocates practising data from national surveys on drug use and health she said. mindfulness to manage strong emotions before from 2005 to 2014 for teens aged 12 to 17 and young In July, the Centre for Addiction and Mental young people turn to social media. She also suggests adults aged 18 to 25. Health (CAMH) reported that a survey of more than adults need to model how to manage stress to teens. The 12-month prevalence of major depressive 10,000 Ontario students in Grades 7 to 12 during the These are practices the church also advocates: episodes increased in adolescents from 8.7 per cent 2014 - 15 school year suggested that youth experi - practising mindfulness and being good role models. in 2005 to 11.3 per cent in 2014, Dr. Ramin Mojtabai encing moderate to serious psychological distress — PWN Bolen responds to criticism of CCCB’s withdrawal from KAIROS

By Archbishop Donald Bolen, menical collaboration wherever action, without what we consider different decision-making struc - “the bishops’ decision to abandon Regina possible, including in the pursuit sufficient attention to searching for tures. There are faith foundations KAIROS is a defeat for social of justice. Like him, I wish the a common understanding of the to how and why a church acts as justice in Canada,” adding that In two recent issues of the relationship between the bishops’ underlying biblical and theological it does. To compromise those for “the ability of Christian faith Prairie Messenger, my friend Joe conference and KAIROS was principles involved; 2) an expediency’s sake would be of groups to speak together publicly Gunn took issue in a very strong such that it could continue and be approach to ‘consensus’ which long-term benefit to no one. on a range of issues has now been way with the CCCB’s recent strong into the future. often effectively translates into a Ecumenical efforts the world dealt a massive blow.” decision to withdraw from That said, the CCCB’s strug - decision made by the majority, in over in recent decades have I would put it this way: the KAIROS, an ecumenical social gles with KAIROS structures, contrast to our understanding of taught us again and again that it is inability at this time for KAIROS justice coalition of churches and policies, strategies and functioning ecumenism in which the concerns tremendously difficult to create and the CCCB to resolve their church agencies of which the are long-standing. A letter sent by of each participating church are structures by which churches can differences is a defeat for ecu - CCCB had been a founding mem - CCCB President Douglas Crosby fully taken into account; 3) the act together in such a way that menical social justice work in ber. As one engaged in the estab - to the members of KAIROS, lack of a mechanism by which a each one’s polity, decision-mak - Canada, is deeply disappointing, lishment of KAIROS 15 years announcing the conference’s with - participating member can opt in or ing structures, and social teaching and hopefully is a stimulus for ago, Joe has particular reason to drawal, articulated some of these out of specific KAIROS projects.” are well reflected, such that the further efforts and conversation. be frustrated and disappointed. concerns: “1) the paramount Bishop Crosby’s letter notes integrity of their faith shines forth Bishop Crosby’s letter noted Like him, I have also been emphasis (KAIROS) gives to pro - that these concerns have been in their actions. The creation and appreciation for the opportunity to committed to the pursuit of ecu - jects, advocacy and immediate raised numerous times over the maintenance of such healthy ecu - collaborate with KAIROS in past years, but that regrettably, menical structures is a cause wor - numerous life-giving and grace- Thinking outside the lab efforts by all concerned have failed thy of our greatest efforts. filled initiatives over the years, to find a means to address them Our witness to the world asks adding the CCCB’s particular adequately. Bishop Crosby’s letter it of us. The Lord who prays that gratitude for the special attention to help us all live longer doesn’t say that KAIROS is func - we be one and who summons us given by KAIROS to indigenous tioning in a wrong way; it is “a to justice asks it of us. rights and to the environment. The By Ted Bruce and David Peters, in life expectancy since the early valid way of operating” but is But it is not easy to achieve. letter added that this decision Vancouver 1900s are not a result of medi - “incongruent with the type of over - To say that KAIROS’ methodolo - “does not affect our church’s and EvidenceNetwork.ca cines. Instead, they’re thanks to sight and consultation re quired by gy is not compatible with the our conference’s ongoing commit - public health measures. Catholic bishops engaged in a decision-making practices or role ment to ecumenism, social justice, The life expectancy of Cana - Instead of curing disease, pub - given ecumenical venture.” of a national conference of bish - dians has lengthened significantly lic health measures work on pre - Christian churches have very ops is not a copout. Joe noted that — OTHER , page 15 in the last century, but we need to venting disease by addressing fac - spend more on public health ini - tors that create illness: social, eco - tiatives to continue this trend. nomic and physical environments, The Canadian Public Health personal health practises and Association (CPHA) recently cel - access to health services. ebrated the fact that the average Examples that have signifi - lifespan of Canadians has in - cantly affected life expectancy creased by more than 30 years over the decades include im - since the early 1900s. That’s proved nutrition and housing, something we can all celebrate. clean drinking water, hygienic If you asked Canadians why sewage disposal, safe deliveries of life expectancy in our country babies, vaccination programs, continues to rise — now 79 years tobacco policies, workplace safe - for men and 83 for women — ty, better education and higher many might attribute it to ad- standards of living, to name a few. vances in medicine, such as new Here’s a modern example: pharmaceutical research and sur - Statistics Canada showed that gical interventions. Scientists from 1981 to 2011, life expectan - working in labs, in other words. cy in Canada increased by 6.2 Most would be surprised to years. The largest gain was due to learn that 25 of the 30 added years the decline of cardiovascular deaths — and public health initia - tives had a significant role. Bruce served as chair of Addictive nicotine, second- CIHR’s Institute of Population hand smoke and smoking during and Public Health. Peters is pro - pregnancy contribute to cardiovas - fessor and chair of the Depart - cular disease. Public health initia - ment of International Health at tives paved the way for effective CNS/Yonhap, EPA Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School tobacco taxation and smoking re- NUNS, PRIESTS MARCH IN SOUTH KOREA — Nuns and priests walk with others through the streets of Public Health. www.troy of Gwangju, South Korea, Nov. 7, to call for South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s resignation over an media.com — LAWS SHIFT , page 15 influence-peddling scandal involving her longtime confidante Choi Soon-sil. November 16, 2016 LETTERS Prairie Messenger 15

CCCB ends historic role in withdrawal from KAIROS

The Editor: As the Canadian they wanted was a veto on the Christianity as a living, transfor - Conference of Catholic Bishops board of directors, which holds mative faith. withdraws from KAIROS, they on to consensus as its goal, with a Pope Francis, speaking of ecu - end a historic role in ecumenism majority vote if needed. menism in 2015 at the Basilica of that began with the inter-church From its origin, the founding St. Paul Outside-the-Walls, said: coalitions of the 1970s. Very sad church and church-related organi - “When the Son of Man comes, he news for many Catholics. zations agreed that KAIROS be will find us still discussing! We CCCB was once proud of this considered a special program of need to realize that, to plumb the work and funded it very gener - the United Church, enabling tax depths of the mystery of God . . . ously. Their funding will be credit receipts for donors. we need to encounter one another reduced to zero by the end of KAIROS policy and program and to challenge one another 2017, a pulling away that began themes are set by all members, under the guidance of the Holy years ago. together; and the United Church Spirit. . . .” Over the years, the bishops has never interfered with the poli - Now, it’s up to Catholics in have disagreed with some posi - cies, or projects of KAIROS. parishes and dioceses to continue tions that call for change — on With vision and courage, their faithful ecumenical engage - such issues as fossil fuels and cli - KAIROS responds to the call of ment in KAIROS, inspired by P. Paproski, OSB mate change, for instance. When Jesus that we carry his love into visionary religious communities a moment or two they were present at the table as action for the poor and the whose engagement and leadership policies were being developed, oppressed — here in Canada and remains vital. — Mary Corkery, In the palm of my hand they helped shape them. What around the world. KAIROS is Toronto I hold you Disappointed with pope’s view on women’s ordination for a moment or two Hoping to delay Your The Editor: I have to say I that “this teaching is an infallible paring, someone being right so departure am disappointed and bewildered part of Catholic tradition.” The someone else has to be wrong. for a moment or two by Pope Francis’ recent statement good OSUs and RNDMs taught That hasn’t worked well for us regarding women’s ordination. In me that there were only two thus far; conceding (dying to self) After giving me more than light of what we had been hear - “infallible” statements, both in isn’t something we easily gravi - I’d dreamed of ing regarding the discussion ref erence to Mary (egad, a tate toward. for a moment or two about women deacons, I thought woman) and neither one had any Maybe the Body of Christ By Denise Young some movement was on the way. bearing on my eternal salvation. needs to remain broken/fragment - The quote: “St. Pope John Paul II The six additional beatitudes ed to keep our hearts soft and ten - had the last clear word on this are fitting for our time. The last der, other-oriented, to keep EGO and it stands” totally surprised one makes me wonder if there at bay so we can revel in the mys - Laws shift public behaviour me. Alpha and Omega? Who ever will be “full communion” tery of the Cosmic Christ. Merton knew that John Paul II was between Christians. It seems to got it right; we ARE all ONE. — “Omega”? me that for that to happen there Jacklynne Guimond, Fort Continued from page 14 Consider diabetes, a chronic I was equally surprised to read will be a lot of competing, com - Frances, Ont. illness projected to increase in strictions in many work and living Canada from affecting 2.4 million KAIROS brings churches together to work for justice and peace spaces — initiatives backed by in 2008 to 3.7 million by 2018. population health research. Most This could raise health care costs The Editor: The cry of those and care of the earth. Church alone; it is the project of significantly, population health by $4.7 billion in 2020. Another made poor, a cry which includes Thank you also to the United 72 religious communities and 10 evidence supported legislative chronic condition is obesity, the Earth, is louder than ever. Church of Canada, who since the Christian churches and organiza - changes so that today, tobacco afflicting 30 per cent of Cana - That Christians and all people of early 2000s, has assumed the tions. products include health warnings dians and 10 per cent of Canadian goodwill try to work even more responsibility of issuing tax I applaud the fact that the and can’t be sold to minors. children. Yet another chronic ill - closely is imperative. More than receipts to KAIROS donors. Until CCCB participates in the Cana- All these public health mea - ness, cardiovascular disease, is ever I am grateful for KAIROS, Refuge Juan Moreno was granted dian Council of Churches. I am sures led to a seismic shift in how estimated to cost $7.6 billion. Canada’s largest faith-based charitable status, the United deeply saddened that the CCCB Canadians view smoking and Public health research, along social justice organization, for Church did the same for this has decided to leave KAIROS their health, saving countless lives with basic and clinical sciences, bringing together religious com - Montreal emergency shelter for especially at this time in global and reducing health care spending has a significant role to play in munities and Christian church es refugee claimants. KAIROS is history. — Maura McGrath, on premature illness. finding solutions. in the mission of justice, peace not a project of the United CND, Montreal With such a high rate of return For example, public health — in life expectancy and dollars research is gaining better under - saved — you would think Canada standing of the food system, barri - Other Catholic groups active in KAIROS would invest heavily in public ers to accessing healthy food and health research. the effects of marketing unhealthy Continued from page 14 More importantly, the CCCB’s “will be more effective when they Sadly, this isn’t the case. foods. Research shows that food withdrawal from KAIROS make it together, and when they Last year, the research budget marketing predominately promotes and interchurch collaboration”; doesn’t need to be interpreted as a are seen to be united in making it. of the Canadian Institutes for unhealthy choices and this signifi - and there are abundant examples divorce, and doesn’t need to be Hence they will want to do every - Health Research (CIHR) was cantly impacts children’s diets. of the conference’s continuing one. The CCCB’s letter leaves thing together that is allowed by $973 million. Less than eight per This research provides guidance commitments in that regard. room for joint engagement on their faith” (para. 162). cent of that budget — $81.9 mil - on how families should get infor - Finally, Bishop Crosby’s letter future initiatives: “We would A few days ago in Rome, Pope lion — went to population health mation about food and how food reiterated the value of ecumenical hope that in the future there Francis pointed us back to the research, with the bulk going to marketing should be restricted. co-operation in the work of social would be not only a continuing Lund Principle of 1952, namely biomedical and clinical research. Public health research also justice, and expressed gratitude exchange of information between that Christians should do all Investments in clinical inter - shows how urban design can en- that Catholics will continue to be KAIROS and our conference, but things together except where deep ventions aimed at curing disease courage active, healthy life styles. officially represented on also consideration about occa - differences require that we act are important but public health Changing policies on urban densi - KAIROS (through Development sional co-operation on a project- separately. What he could certain - research should not be largely ty and transportation will make the and Peace and through Catholic to-project basis.” ly have added, and has said else - overlooked in the process. healthy choice the easiest one as religious communities). Those needn’t be idle words. It where, is that this requires hard In fact, biomedical sciences we encourage walk ability in cities. Joe’s letter referred to CCCB’s is for KAIROS to discern whether work, a patient and persevering should work with public health Such public health strategies withdrawal from KAIROS as ini - it desires such collaboration, and commitment to dialogue when research — to address issues like could change outcomes for the tiating an “ugly divorce.” I would for the CCCB to be open to that there are differences, and an abid - emerging infectious diseases, anti - interrelated conditions of dia - like to think that when the dust possibility. ing attentiveness both to the microbial resistance and chronic betes, obesity and cardiovascular settles, even those deeply com - The Catholic Church’s Ecu - world’s needs and to the Lord’s diseases like obesity, for example. disease all at once. mitted to KAIROS, including Joe, menical Directory guiding its desire that his disciples be one. But that can’t happen if we forev - It’s time for Canada to think could come to see that it is ecumenical activities states that May those guide the works of er put public health research in the outside the lab — and invest more unhelpful to say that all the prob - the effort of Christians in re - KAIROS and of the bishops’ con - back seat instead of the driver’s in public health and the research lems were on one side. sponding to the world’s needs ference into the future. seat. that supports it.

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By Carol Glatz based in Washington, D.C., were Some of the skills and medical The bulk of the work that looking to strengthen co-opera - care that are key to saving lives, needs to be done is communica - VATICAN CITY (CNS) — tion with the Catholic Church in they said, include: hygienic deliv - tion by teaching and reinforcing The lives of one million new - these efforts. And they also were ery conditions; resuscitation changes in behaviour through borns could be saved by encour - asking the Vatican to consider tools; better nutrition and immu - friends, family and faith leaders, aging simple practices like wash - launching an “interfaith partner - nization for pregnant mothers; she said. ing hands, exclusively breastfeed - ship” at an April meeting in urging caregivers to seek medical Not only do members of a ing, keeping umbilical cord Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where help when a newborn shows signs faith community frequently have stumps clean and wrapping ministers from all 25 low-income of a fever; consistent skin-to-skin consistent and one-on-one contact babies warmly and closely to the target countries will come contact with or “wearing” infants, with families, the faith communi - caregiver, said representatives of together with other faith leaders especially those who are low- ty “is a trusted source,” Fox said. USAID. to look for ways to save infants’ weight or prematurely born; using They can get the word out In 2015, 2.7 million newborns lives. an antiseptic on umbilical cord through radio spots, sermons, died within one month of birth, So far, USAID’s maternal and stumps; and immediate and counselling or implementing new three-fourths of them within the child survival programs have exclusive breastfeeding. procedures at health clinics, she first week of life, the representa - resulted in nearly 2.5 million Pablos-Mendez said if children said. tives told Catholic News Service more children surviving and can make it to their fifth year, Trust is extremely important Nov. 8. 200,000 maternal deaths averted they “enter the safest period” in when trying to get people to Ariel Pablos-Mendez, assistant since 2008 in priority countries, life, between the ages of 6 and 10, change their behaviour or do administrator at the USAID glob - according to a USAID report in and increase their overall chances something new, Fox said. For al health bureau, and Elizabeth 2015. of survival. example, doctors might come to Fox, director of the bureau’s By expanding and supporting The first 1,000 days in a an area to vaccinate children, but office of health, infectious dis - interventions that have proven to child’s life are crucial for brain parents won’t show up if they eases and nutrition, were in Rome be successful, Pablos-Mendez development and building “social don’t trust or believe in what is for meetings with Vatican offi - and Fox said another one million connections” through touch and being offered. cials. newborn lives could be saved affection from caregivers, Fox She said foreign health and aid CNS/Piyal Adhikary, EPA The agency’s representatives, over the next five years. said. agencies learned a lot from the INFANT HEALTH IN INDIA — Ebola outbreak in western Africa A woman carries her child near a in 2014, especially in what they hospital in Kolkata, India, in this Pope asks forgiveness from homeless did wrong by not listening to and 2013 file photo. In 2015, 2.7 mil - consulting with communities first lion newborns died within one By Junno Arocho Esteves by men and women of the church of pilgrims had risen to 6,000. when trying to implement prac - month of birth because of poor “purifies us and helps us to be lieve While donors from across tices to stop infections. health practices. VATICAN CITY (CNS) — once again that at the heart of the Europe contributed to help pay Looking directly at thousands of Gospel is the great message of the costs of travel and accommo - Ancient works of mercy homeless and marginalized per - poverty and that we — Catholics, dations, Le Forestier said pilgrims sons, Pope Francis asked for their Christians, all of us — must form were also asked to give a small forgiveness for failures to recog - a church that is poor for the poor.” contribution as “a way for them still relevant today: pope nize their dignity and alleviate “All men and women from any to participate and a way for them their suffering. religion must see in the poor the to be responsible for their deci - By Junno Arocho Esteves prisoned, the pope said that visit - “I ask your forgiveness if I message of God who comes close sion to attend this jubilee.” ing those who are incarcerated is have ever offended you with my to us and made himself poor to Le Forestier told CNS that the VATICAN CITY (CNS) — “above all, an invitation to not be words or for not having said accompany us in life,” he said. idea for the jubilee celebration for Visiting the sick and the impris - anyone’s judge” and a reminder something that I should have,” The audience kicked off the the homeless and excluded be - oned are works of mercy that not that while prisoners are paying the the pope said Nov. 11 during an final jubilee celebration before came a reality when Etienne only benefit the suffering and the price for their crimes, they “will audience with pilgrims attending the conclusion of the Holy Year Villemain, founder of Lazare — abandoned, but benefit the visi - always remain loved by God.” special Year of Mercy events for of Mercy Nov. 20. The pilgrim - an association that assists the tors who are enriched by being “I think often of the impris - people who are homeless or oth - age was organized by Fratello home less — wrote to Pope with those who suffer like Christ, oned, I think of them often, I erwise socially excluded. (Brother), a French association Francis asking for a jubilee cele - Pope Francis said. carry them in my heart,” he said. Pope Francis, speaking in the which organizes and hosts events bration for homeless people. While the works of mercy are “I feel they are all in need of name of all Christians, asked their for people in situations of exclu - “At the very beginning, I ancient, they still are relevant closeness and tenderness because forgiveness for times when they sion. thought the idea of a jubilee for today for those who are deprived the mercy of God works wonders. were not treated with the dignity François Le Forestier, spokes- homeless people was a bit mad” of freedom and “suffer one of the How many tears I have seen fall the Gospel says they have. person for Fratello , told Catholic because it would be too compli - greatest hardships of human from the cheeks of prisoners who “I ask your forgiveness for all News Service Nov. 8 that over cated to organize, Le Forestier beings,” the pope said Nov. 9 at have never cried in their lives; the times that we Christians stand 4,000 homeless and socially ex - said. Due to logistical challenges, his weekly general audience. and this is only because they feel before a poor person or a situa - cluded persons from 22 different the event was organized solely for When the living conditions welcomed and loved.” tion of poverty and look the other European countries were expected European countries in the hopes “often devoid of humanity” in Departing from his prepared way,” the pope said. to attend the jubilee celebration in that it would lead to an annual which many prisoners are housed text, Pope Francis recalled a visit The forgiveness of those who Rome. Three days later, the asso - worldwide pilgrimage to Rome are added to the equation, “then it from a group of prisoners from have felt unloved and unwanted ciation’s website said the number for the homeless. is indeed the case that a Christian Padua after the Holy Year cele - should feel the need to do every - bration for prisoners Nov. 6. thing to restore their dignity,” he The pope asked them where said. they were going before returning Continuing his series of talks to Padua, and they said they want - on the works of mercy, the pope ed to visit the ancient Mamertine began with visiting the sick and jail where Sts. Peter and Paul had highlighted Jesus’ ministry as an been imprisoned. example of the Christian duty to “It’s beautiful. Hearing this did be close to them, especially since me much good. These prisoners “they often feel alone.” wanted to go in search of the Simple gestures such as smil - imprisoned Paul,” the pope said. ing, caressing or shaking their “Even there, in prison, they hand, he added, can go a long prayed and evangelized.” way for those who feel aban - Pope Francis called on Chris - doned. tians not to fall prey to “indiffer - “Do not leave sick people ence” and instead follow Christ’s alone!” he said. “Let us not pre - footsteps and “become instru - vent them from finding relief and ments of God’s mercy.” for us to be enriched by the close - “We all can be instruments of ness to suffering. Hospitals are the God’s mercy and this would do us true ‘cathedrals of suffering,’ more good than to others because where, nonetheless, the strength of mercy passes through a gesture, a charity that supports and proves word, a visit. And this mercy, it is compassion becomes evident.” an act to restore joy and dignity,” Turning his focus to the im - the pope said.

The universe is full of magical things patiently CNS/Alessandro Di Meo, EPA waiting for our wits to grow sharper. VATICAN CELEBRATES WITH HOMELESS — Pope Francis blesses a pilgrim during a special audience — Eden Phillpotts with homeless people in Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Nov. 11.