Single Issue: $1.00 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40030139 CATHOLIC JOURNAL Vol. 95 No. 41 April 11, 2018 Bishop disappointed Vigil memorializes Humboldt tragedy Saskatoon Bishop Mark Hagemoen has expressed his By Blake Sittler solidarity with those who are disap - HUMBOLDT, Sask. — On the pointed that night of April 6, just south of Pope Nipawin, an accident between a semi-truck and a bus broke the Francis will heart of every parent in Sas - not be com - katchewan. ing to Around 5 p.m., a semi-trailer Canada to collided with the bus carrying the apologize Humboldt Broncos hockey team, for the church’s involvement their coaches, statistician, athletic in the residential schools trainer/therapist, and play-by-play system. “I recognize that media personality. Fifteen people the recent letter to the were killed and 14 remain in vari - ous states of recovery. indigenous peoples In the 48 hours that followed of Canada . is a disap - the crash, local, national and inter - pointment to many people national media covered the story, in our community,” describing the men who were lost. said Hagemoen. The city of Humboldt was — page 3 shaken to its foundation. But tragedy destroys and then draws CNS/Jonathan Hayward, Reuters Welcoming together: on Sunday, April 8, they BRONCOS MOURN — Mourners pray during an April 8 vigil at Elgar Petersen Arena in Humboldt, newcomers rose as a community and gathered in the Elgar Petersen Arena and Saskatchewan, to honour members of the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team who were killed in a fatal Uniplex. bus accident. Lynne Lacroix, director of “This is a community event Broncos, Kevin Garinger in a lies of the Humboldt Broncos.” as at St. Augustine Church up the Recreation and Community that has been orchestrated by an radio interview Sunday. “This is The liturgy was live-streamed, street. Development with the City inter-ministerial organization,” not about (the Broncos) tonight, broadcast, and watched in loca - of Saska - said president of the Humboldt this is about supporting the fami - tions across the province as well — POWERFUL SIGN , page 8 toon, says the city has Holiness means being loving, not boring, pope says a direct role to play in By Cindy Wooden hortation on “the call to holiness Saying he was not writing a think that holiness is only for welcoming in today’s world.” theological treatise on holiness, those who can withdraw from or - immigrants VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis signed the exhor - Pope Francis focused mainly on dinary affairs to spend much time and “breaking down God calls all Christians to be tation March 19, the feast of St. how the call to holiness is a per - in prayer,” he wrote. But “that is barriers to integration.” saints — not plastic statues of Joseph, and the Vatican released it sonal call, something God asks of not the case.” — page 7 saints, but real people who make April 9. each Christian and which requires “We are all called to be holy by time for prayer and who show lov - Much of the document was a personal response given one’s living our lives with love and by Hope denied ing care for others in the simplest written in the second person, state in life, talents and circum - bearing witness in everything we gestures, Pope Francis said in his speaking directly to the individual stances. “Once upon a time, when new document on holiness. reading it. “With this exhortation I “We are frequently tempted to —HOLINESS , page 19 we arrived here, we simply “Do not be afraid of holiness. It would like to insist primarily on took their land. Then, start - will take away none of your ener - the call to holiness that the Lord Blessed Oscar Romero: ing over 150 years ago, we gy, vitality or joy,” the pope wrote addresses to each of us, the call that took their children. In 2018, in Gaudete et Exsultate (Rejoice he also addresses, personally, to the saint of silence we’re taking away the hope and Be Glad), his apostolic ex - you,” he wrote near the beginning. of sincere reconciliation,” Blessed Oscar Romero, destined for sainthood, lived a dangerous life writes Joe Gunn. while standing up for the weak. It cost him his life 38 years ago, but he — page 9 left behind a spirit of activism that resonates far beyond his San Remember the boys Salvador home. By Michael Swan bishop had turned parts of the San “I didn’t know anyone on The Catholic Register Salvador cathedral complex over to that fatal bus,” writes Sharon campesinos — poor farmers — Butala, “But I was born in For Francisco Rico-Martinez, who were flooding the city looking Nipawin and lived 65 years Archbishop Oscar Romero may for refuge from a rampaging army in Saskatchewan. My head is well be the saint of silence. as the country descended into what full of hockey stories . As a young law student at the would be a 12-year civil war that and I know the road . .” University of El Salvador, Rico killed more than 75,000 people. — page 10 met twice with Romero to talk with His sermons on Sunday mornings him about people who were disap - were broadcast live, nationally on Pioneer life pearing as the right-wing military the radio. It was the one media out - government cracked down on let the army could not censor or Abbot Bruno Doerfler, OSB, unions, peasants and students in intimidate. was a pillar of St. Peter’s 1979. What went into those Sunday “For me at that particular sermons was long days spent lis - Colony, serving as its co- CNS/Paul Haring founder in 1903. Archivist moment, Romero was too conser - tening to delegations and individu - PAPAL EXHORTATION ON HOLINESS — Archbishop Angelo De vative for me. Romero was not a als who came to their archbishop Paul Paproski, OSB, shares Donatis, papal vicar for the Diocese of Rome, holds a copy of Pope revolutionary,” recalled Rico, who looking for help finding their excerpts of letters written Francis’ exhortation, Gaudete et Exsultate (Rejoice and Be Glad), as he came to Toronto from El Salvador missing family members or hop - from 1903 - 1919. leaves a news conference on the exhortation at the Vatican April 9. Also as a refugee. ing to bury their dead. — page 14 pictured are Greg Burke, Vatican spokesperson, left, and Deacon Adam But for the radical young stu - “What impressed me was his Hincks, SJ, from Canada. Hincks, who is an astrophysicist specializing dents, even a conservative Romero silence,” Rico said. “So he was lis- in the history of the universe, said some features of Ignatian spirituali - was useful because he could chal - ty shine through in the document. lenge the government. The arch - — CANONIZATION , page 5 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS April 11, 2018 Mideast patriarchs want ‘resurrection of hearts’ BEIRUT (CNS) — In Easter He noted that Iraq “is the cradle messages, Catholic patriarchs of of civilization,” but has been trans - the Middle East evoked the hope formed to a country of disasters. of the Resurrection. “The Iraqi people seek securi - “Today’s world needs the res - ty, stability as well as social, eco - urrection of hearts,” said Leba - nomic and cultural prosperity,” nese Cardinal Bechara Rai, patri - Sako stressed. “Therefore, these arch of Maronite Catholics. He tragedies must not lead us to give called for a rekindling of love and up and to despair but rather to compassion. look at these events through the Rai prayed for the displaced eye of faith, in addition to a histor - and the abducted to return to their ical and political way of analysis.” homelands and for wars to end in He encouraged the faithful to Syria, Iraq, the Palestinian territo - unite and collaborate to build trust ries and Yemen, consolidating “a and “work hand-in-hand to put an just, comprehensive and lasting end to our suffering.” peace” in the region. Sako also urged all Iraqis to He also warned that Lebanon’s vote in the country’s parliamentary difficult economic, social and liv - elections set for May 12, referring ing conditions threatened to desta - to it as “our golden opportunity for bilize the country’s internal change and to ensure a bright steadiness. He said he hoped future for our people.” Lebanon’s parliamentary elec - He expressed his hope for a tions May 6 — the first such elec - CNS/Vasily Fedosenko, Reuters civil state in which the law pro - tions since 2009 — would “bring EASTER VIGIL IN BELARUS — A Catholic priest celebrates an Easter Vigil March 31 in the village of tects and applies to everyone responsible and conscious states - Belagurna, Belarus. equally. men.” “Religion is for God and must Of Lebanon’s existing popula - Ignace Joseph III Younan, in his than three years in exile from “The message of Resurrection be protected from politicization tion of nearly four million, Easter message from Beirut, Islamic State. this year is to do good; to be and distortion. Religion respects approximately 40 per cent are spoke about the suffering of “When we believe that Jesus bridges for dialogue, reconcilia - persons and does not enslave Christian. Under the country’s Eastern Christians “from the pain rose from the dead, we declare the tion and to be peacemakers,” he them, and the God in whom we power-sharing system, Lebanon’s of persecution, uprooting and hor - hope and joy that we, too, will,” said, urging the faithful to be “a believe is a loving and merciful president is a Maronite Catholic, rific events for years,” especially he said. gateway to grace and blessings.” Creator,” the patriarch stressed.