Parolin Visits Kirill, Putin in Russia
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Single Issue: $1.00 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40030139 CATHOLIC JOURNAL Vol. 95 No. 11 August 30, 2017 Words and action Parolin visits Kirill, Putin in Russia Words must be met with action if the By Cindy Wooden meeting included “an exchange of expand our co-operation and Christian views on various themes, both bring us even closer together.” community VATICAN CITY (CNS) — international and relating to bilat - After a long morning meeting wants young Although he said planning a papal eral relations.” Aug. 22, the cardinal and Russian adults to trip to Russia was not on the Opening the meeting, Putin Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov become agenda, the Vatican secretary of told the cardinal, “I am very held a brief news conference, interested in state said his visit to Moscow was pleased to see that the dialogue telling reporters they had dis - church life, designed to build on the meeting continues between our churches,” cussed ongoing conflicts in says Frank Mercadante, exec - Pope Francis and Russian and he expressed his pleasure that Ukraine, Syria, Yemen, the Holy utive director of Cultivation Orthodox Patriarch Kirill had in Parolin had met Kirill. Land and Venezuela. Ministries in Chicago. Cuba in 2016. “There is no doubt that the Parolin said his meetings with — page 3 Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the common humanitarian values that government officials were de - Lonely nation secretary of state, visited Moscow the Holy See and the Russian signed to share “Pope Francis’ Aug. 21 - 24 and met with the Orthodox Church defend form the interest in bilateral relations be - For the first time in patriarch and Russian President foundation for relations between tween the Holy See and the Rus - Canada’s 150 years, the Vladimir Putin, as well as with the two churches and between sian Federation as well as his biggest single category of leaders of Russia’s Catholic com - Russia as a state and the Vatican,” concerns in the sphere of interna - munity. Putin said in his remarks. tional affairs.” households is people living The list of topics for the meet - Parolin told Putin, “I see a new “Obviously,” the cardinal said, by themselves. For the CNS/Paul Haring ings ranged from ecumenical dia - dynamic that has emerged over “the meeting offered an occasion church, this 21st-century Cardinal Pietro Parolin logue and inter-religious co-opera - the recent months and years in to discuss some concrete ques - reality is raising new tion to current world affairs and an hour together Aug. 23 at the relations between the two church - tions regarding the life of the pastoral challenges, climate change, he said in a series president’s residence in the Black es. I hope that all participants in Catholic Church in the Russian writes Michael Swan. of interviews before leaving Rome. Sea resort of Sochi, according to this process will continue work - — page 4 Parolin and Putin spent about the Vatican press office. The ing in this direction in order to — SOVIETS , page 13 FacetoFace FacetoFace Ministries Jesuit, indigenous paddlers form bonds to ‘last a lifetime’ reaches out to Catholic youth across Western By Deborah Gyapong tougher” than the paddlers “One of my biggest hopes for They forged “deep relation - Canada. Founded in 1999, thought it would be, said Erik the pilgrimage was (to develop) a ships” and formed “bonds that the team, currently led by OTTAWA (CCN) — Despite Sorensen, a Jesuit scholastic who sense of deep connection between will last a lifetime,” he said. Jon Courchene, ministered physical exhaustion, storms, directed the pilgrimage. The pil - the paddlers,” said Sorensen. “That to some 27,000 Catholic rough waters, food shortages and grims quickly learned to pray for was there in spades in the end.” — PILGRIMAGE , page 4 youth last year. waking up to slip into wet socks sunshine. — page 6 some mornings, Jesuit paddlers “It would rain (some days), Holocaust designed Parish reports said a more than 800-kilometre everything would be wet, your canoe pilgrimage fulfilled all gear wet, your clothes wet and by sane, educated men their expectations and more. nothing would dry for a couple of A summary of the Regina The group of about 50 pad - days,” Sorensen said. “Putting on archdiocesan parish reports dlers completed a 26-day odyssey wet socks in the morning is not a By Frank Flegel One of the participants, Ada confirms the obvious: fewer along a historic river route trav - pleasant experience.” Paez, teaches history at Arch bishop people are regularly attend - elled four centuries ago by But enduring those challenges REGINA — Four Regina M.C. O’Neill Catholic High School ing mass. But it also contains explorers and Jesuit martyrs, helped give purpose to the pilgrim - Catholic School Division teachers in Regina. “I always thought they a positive surprise in the including St. Jean de Brebeuf. age and strengthen bonds among took part in a summer course and had to be mad, insane, but they growth of youth ministry. They arrived Aug. 15 at a First the diverse group, which included tour of the infamous Holocaust were ordinary, intelligent men who — page 7 Nations reserve near Montreal. Jesuits, indigenous peoples, reli - concentration camps in Germany sat down at breakfast in Wannsee The pilgrimage was “definitely gious and laypeople, he said. and Poland. House and methodically planned After suicide what do about ‘the Jewish prob - It’s incumbent on us, the liv - lem.’ It was shocking. You look at these men: they had PhDs, they ing who love those who have were smart, they were not idiots, died by suicide, “to redeem and they came up with this plan. It their memories, . to not let makes you wonder: how?” the particular manner of their Paez has a degree in European deaths colour and taint the history and had previously visited goodness of their lives,” Dachau, one of the more infamous writes Ron Rolheiser, OMI. of the extermination camps. “I “Suicide is the least glam - thought I knew it all — I knew the orous and most misunder - names, I knew the facts, and I knew stood of all deaths. .” the places — but I never imagined — page 11 how organized everything was. Vatican II That was the most shocking thing: to be in the room in that beautiful ‘irreversible’ mansion where these men sat down over breakfast, brainstormed and The Catholic Church must came up with that.” continue to work to under - Wannsee House is now a stand the liturgical reforms of museum, one of several the group the Second Vatican Council visited along with some of the and why they were made, concentration camps. rather than rethinking them, Paez, Michelle Phair, Milos Pope Francis said. “After this Menhart and Patrick Reed made magisterium, after this long up the group of four from Regina. journey, we can affirm with It was part of a course of study certainty and magisterial CNS/Dominik Haake, courtesy of the Canadian Canoe Pilgrimage originally set up by the York, Ont., authority that the liturgical CANOE PILGRIMAGE — Canadian Jesuits organized the Canadian Canoe Pilgrimage from the end of Catholic School Division. The reform is irreversible.” July to mid-August as a means of reconciliation with people of the First Nations. The pilgrims paddled Regina Catholic School Division — page 16 from Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons, in Midland, Ont., and ended at Kahnawake Mohawk Territory on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. This photos shows them on a foggy day, Aug. 8. — WIESENTHAL , page 7 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS August 30, 2017 KCs focus on families at international convention By PM staff because of the government of Hun - gary. This example served as proof ST. LOUIS, MO — A family to the Knights of the impact of from Austin, Texas, that has shown returning families to their homes. special care for the homeless was The cost of resettling one fam - named the Knights of Columbus ily is around $2,000, the amount International Family of the Year the Knights are encouraging for 2017 during the Knights’ 135th councils, parishes and individuals annual international convention to donate. Aug. 1 - 3 in St. Louis. “These Christian communities The Knights also pledged to are a priceless treasure for the raise $2 million to assist families church,” Anderson said to the in returning to their homes in Knights attending the convention. Karamdes, a mostly Christian “They have every right to live.” town on the Ninevah Plain in The Knights have actively Iraq. Knights CEO Carl Anderson sought to provide humanitarian announced their pledge at the aid to Christians in Iraq, as well convention. as Syria and the surrounding In 2014, the Islamic State re - areas, donating over $13 million. moved hundreds of families of International Family of the Year religious minorities from their Larry and Beth Odom and their 10 homes in Karamdes. Just over two children typically carry supplies years later, the town, also known with them when they go out to as Karemlash, was liberated. give to those in need they en - “The terrorists desecrated counter. When fire destroyed the churches and graves and looted home of a single mom and her four and destroyed homes,” Anderson children, the Odoms took them said in his annual report. “Now into their home for five months. we will ensure that hundreds of “Larry and Beth have taught Christian families driven from their children to serve selflessly,” their homes can return to these said the application nominating two locations and help to ensure a the Odoms for the award. “Serv - CNS/Knights of Columbus pluralistic future for Iraq.” ing others is, for them, a privi - KNIGHTS FAMILY OF THE YEAR AWARD — Supreme Knight Carl Anderson, CEO of the Knights of The Knights are following the lege, not a burden.” Columbus, Texas State Deputy Douglas Oldmixon, third from right, Bishop Joe S.