Single Issue: $1.00 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40030139 CATHOLIC JOURNAL Vol. 95 No. 6 June 21, 2017 Battling poverty Pope condemns the evils of ‘corruption’ With submissions to the Canadian Poverty Reduction By Junno Arocho Esteves organized crime and the Mafia. cials, heads of movements, vic - Vatican also said the conference Strategy due June 30, Among the participants of the tims, journalists, scholars, intellec - studied the possibility of “excom - Catholic leaders and ecu - VATICAN CITY (CNS) — meeting were 50 anti-Mafia and tuals and several ambassadors, the munication for corruption and menical organizations are Christians and non-Christians anti-corruption magistrates, as Vatican said. pushing federal politicians must join the fight against corrup - well as bishops and Vatican offi - In a June 17 statement, the — PROMOTE , page 15 hard to produce a serious tion, which tears apart the bonds legislative plan to lift nearly that unite humanity, Pope Francis five million Canadians out of said. poverty — one that includes Corruption “reveals such strong targets and timelines. anti-social conduct” that it “dis - — page 3 solves the pillars upon which soci - Spirit-inspired ety is founded: coexistence among people and the vocation to develop Sacred Heart Parish in it,” the pope wrote in the preface Virden, Man., hosted the to a new book. 69th annual convention of “Corruption breaks all of this the Manitoba Provincial by replacing the common good with a particular interest that cont - CWL June 2 - 3, with the aminates every general outlook,” theme, “Women Inspired by he wrote. “It is born of a corrupt the Spirit Respond heart and is the worst social to God’s Call.” plague because it generates seri - — page 6 ous problems and crimes involv - Lay Formation ing everyone.” The new book, Corrosion , was Graduates of Lay Formation written by Cardinal Peter Turkson, programs were recently prefect of the Vatican Dicastery anointed and sent forth in for Promoting Integral Human several celebrations in Development, and Vittorio V. Saskatoon and Regina. Alberti, an Italian philosopher. — pages 6 and 7 The book’s release coincided with the Vatican’s first “International STEM scholarship Debate on Corruption.” Anne Wicks The meeting, sponsored by the SUMMER — Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. For those Regan Wilson, a Grade 12 dicastery and the Pontifical few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and student at Holy Cross High Academy for Social Sciences, the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. You School in Saskatoon, has looked at corruption as a global can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. Summer just opens the door and lets you out. been award - problem and at its connections to — Deb Caletti ed a presti - gious STEM (sci ence, Homeless youth are a prime target for trafficking technology, engineering By Jean Ko Din ticipated in the study, Toronto and cent had been trafficked for other is Canada’s largest youth shelter, and math) The Catholic Register Vancouver were included as the forced labour and three per cent serving as many as 250 young scholarship two Canadian locations for Cove - were trafficked for both sex and people a day. to pursue a degree in TORONTO (CCN) — Canada’s nant House. As a result, the study labour. This means that one in five The majority (53 per cent) of mechanical engineering at homeless youth population is is heavily influenced by data homeless youth have experienced homeless youth that participated the U of S. younger and more diverse than gathered in American cities. some sort of human trafficking. in the study identifies as African, — page 7 their American counterparts, but “It’s not necessarily a reflec - “It’s not unusual for young peo - African American or black. Other they are just as vulnerable to be - tion of our Canadian experience,” ple when they hit the streets to be major ethnic groups include white Challenge and hope coming trafficking victims. said Rivers. lured and to be targeted by preda - (19 per cent) and Latino (10 per Bruce Rivers, executive direc - Rivers said that the study tors and by pimps,” said Rivers. cent). Five documentaries reveal tor of Covenant House Toronto, found many common trends that “And they’ll do whatever they can “There would be a higher per - mounting evidence of threats said that as more research and speak to both the Canadian and to engage with these young people centage of white youth and a lower to the planet’s life-support more data is collected, they better American situation. and to get them en gaged to the percentage of black youth (in systems and human civiliza - understand the factors that put The study found that 91 per point where they’re providing sex - Toronto),” said Rivers. “There tion — from climate change, homeless youth at risk of being cent of youth interviewed be tween ual favours for people and generat - would be more diversity in terms of an accelerating rate of forced into a life of slavery. the ages of 17 to 25 have been ing income for that pimp.” the Asian population in To ronto and extinctions, and population “Because we had noticed that approached by strangers offering What is different about To - there would be more Aborigi nals, growth leading to scarcities, there is a trend up of young wom - work that was too good to be true. ronto, Rivers said, is the charac - especially in other parts of Canada.” migrations and conflicts, en that are coming to our atten - About 14 per cent were victims teristics of the city’s homeless writes Gerald Schmitz. tion, we decided to take a step of sex trafficking, while eight per youth. Covenant House Toronto — TRAFFICKING , page 5 — page 9 back and have a studied look at Sacred water this,” said Rivers. In an effort to better protect the Wellness centre unique in Canada Water should be seen by vulnerable on the streets, Cove - authentic believers as an nant House International recently By Derrick Kunz the school — took shape 10 years and services. entry point toward many released a study that reveals the ago at St. Mary’s. Today, St. Mary’s Wellness justice concerns: wetland extent of the problem. SASKATOON — Repre sen ta - Responding to the needs of and Education Centre includes a preservation, healthy living, “Labour and Sex Trafficking tives from Greater Saskatoon children and families in the city’s variety of strategic partnerships opposition to destructive Among Homeless Youth” study Catholic Schools, the University core neighbourhoods, where chil - and professional on-site health mining practices and extrac - was published April 17. Re - of Saskatchewan College of Medi - dren’s health services were ab - services that complement the edu - tive industries that destroy searchers from Loyola University cine’s Department of Pediatrics, sent, the three organizations saw cational focus on literacy and essential aquifers, respect New Orleans and the Field Centre and the Saskatoon Tribal Council an opportunity to improve both numeracy support. Services are for indigenous livelihoods for Children’s Policy, Practice & recently signed a memorandum of health and educational outcomes housed in a world-class learning and traditional knowledge, Research collectively interviewed understanding to celebrate and of students and community mem - environment supported by corpo - writes Joe Gunn. more than 900 youth in Covenant enhance a 10-year partnership. bers. Groups worked together to rate sponsorships and strong com - House shelters across 13 cities in An innovative, community- open Canada’s first in-school munity supports. — page 13 the United States and Canada. based model of well-being — pediatrics clinic, offering a num - Among the 13 cities that par - bringing the doctor’s office into ber of children’s health programs — RISK , page 8 2 Prairie Messenger INTERNATIONAL NEWS June 21, 2017 An unloved heart leads to hatred and violence: pope By Junno Arocho Esteves cause of the hot Roman weather. to love his children, has that kind “They are in the Paul VI hall and of unconditional love for each VATICAN CITY (CNS) — we are here,” the pope told the person, the pope said. “God does Violence and hatred often are crowd in the square. “But we are all not even bind his benevolence to signs that a person is unhappy together; we are connected by the our conversion; if anything that is and feels unloved and unwanted, Holy Spirit who always unites us.” a consequence of God’s love.” Pope Francis said. In his talk, the pope focused Recalling his time as archbish - In today’s world, people — on the certainty of hope that op of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the especially children and youth — comes from feeling loved as chil - pope said he saw God’s uncondi - often feel that unless “we are dren of God. tional love reflected on the faces strong, attractive and beautiful, When men and women do not of mothers who went to the local no one will care about us,” the feel loved, he said, they run the prison to visit their children. pope said June 14 during his risk of succumbing to the “awful “I remember so many mothers weekly general audience. slavery” of believing that love is in my diocese who would get in “When an adolescent is not or based solely on one’s appearance line to enter the prison. So many does not feel loved, violence can or merits. mothers who were not ashamed. arise. Behind so many forms of “Imagine a world where Their child was in prison, but it social hate and hooliganism, there everyone begs for reasons to was their child and they suffered is often a heart that has not been attract the attention of others and so many humiliations, “the pope CNS/ L’Osservatore Romano recognized,” he said.