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Carmen Lansdowne, Very Rev. Stan McKay and Rev. Maggie Dieter. (Courtesy photo, Screenshot: The United Church of Canada/YouTube, Courtesy photo)</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="word-break: break-word; color: rgb(7, 7, 7); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 48px; padding: 0px 18px 9px;"><font color="#000000" face="playfair display, georgia, times new roman, serif" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-size: 29px;" class="">What do you think of Pope Francis’ apology to Indigenous people?</span></strong></font></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="word-break: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px;"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif;" class="">Hello, dear <em class="">Broadview</em> readers,</span></span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif;" class="">A week ago, <a href="https://broadview.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e7bb561f7f940952a3aaf474c&id=99c176b27e&e=a469a56538" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(4, 120, 156);" class="">Pope Francis apologized to an Indigenous delegation</a> for the Catholic Church’s role in the residential schools that harmed generations of First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples in Canada.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif;" class="">“I want to say to you with all my heart: I am very sorry,” Francis said in Italian during his final meeting with the delegates. “And I join my brothers, the Canadian bishops, in asking your pardon.”<br class=""><br class="">The Pope added he will come to Canada to help further the reconciliation process, although details of the visit have yet to be released.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif;" class="">The apology’s <a href="https://broadview.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e7bb561f7f940952a3aaf474c&id=f1396d51fa&e=a469a56538" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(4, 120, 156);" class="">reception has been mixed</a>, and in the week since, much has been written and discussed in relation to the historic event, with some applauding the Pope for this important step toward reconciliation, and others saying it’s not enough without action.</span></span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px;" class="">“Apologies can be hollow if they’re only words,” <a href="https://broadview.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e7bb561f7f940952a3aaf474c&id=14619e4076&e=a469a56538" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(4, 120, 156);" class="">said Chief Jason Henry</a> of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation, northeast of Sarnia, via CBC News. “Actions do speak louder than words, so that’s what I’m hoping for,” he said, adding that he would like to see the Catholic Church help finance the reinstatement of Indigenous languages, identity, culture, theology and worldviews.</span><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif;" class="">Others felt relief upon hearing words they’d been hoping to hear for decades.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif;" class="">“I hoped for it. I prayed for it. I dreamt for it. But I never expected to live and see and feel it,” <a href="https://broadview.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e7bb561f7f940952a3aaf474c&id=7f4db2aff6&e=a469a56538" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(4, 120, 156);" class="">Chief Wilton Littlechild</a> of Alberta’s Ermineskin First Nation told The Canadian Press.<br class=""><br class="">While the apology from the Pope is an important one for Indigenous people to hear, it’s clear from the variety of reactions that there are further steps both Francis and the Catholic Church need to make to truly further reconciliation. <br class=""><br class="">Soon after the apology was made, <em class="">Broadview</em>’s editorial intern, Emily Standfield, reached out to three Indigenous United Church leaders — Rev. Carmen Lansdowne, executive director of First United Church Community Ministry Society; Very Rev. Stan McKay, the first Indigenous moderator of The United Church and Rev. Maggie Dieter, United Church minister and former United Church of Canada's executive minister, Indigenous ministries and justice — for their reaction. <br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://broadview.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e7bb561f7f940952a3aaf474c&id=f123b625b3&e=a469a56538" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(4, 120, 156);" class="">Read their thoughts here</a>.<br class=""><br class="">Let me know: what do you think of Pope Francis’ apology? Does it go far enough or does he need to do more to help further the reconciliation process? What would you like to see him do when he comes to Canada?<br class=""><br class="">Please send me your thoughts, I’d love to read them.</span></span><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px;" class="">Email me at </span><font style="font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="mailto:c.tejada@broadview.org" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(4, 120, 156);" class="">c.tejada@broadview.org</a>.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif;" class="">Thanks for reading <em class="">Broadview </em>and take care, friends.</span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 9, 2022, at 1:33 PM, Arthur Blomme via craic <<a href="mailto:craic@lists.integralshift.ca" class="">craic@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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</table><p class="">Hi All</p><p class="">I promised to send out the link to the Sunday community virtual
Catholic liturgy Months ago but have been negligent in doing so.
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</p><p class="">Below find my reflection on the text of the Popes apology for the
treatment of the indigenous in Canada. <br class="">
</p><p class="BodyB" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:107%"><b class=""><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial
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Unicode MS"" lang="EN-US" class=""><br class="">
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Unicode MS"" lang="EN-US" class=""><br class="">
</span></b></p><p class="BodyB" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:107%"><b class=""><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial
Unicode MS"" lang="EN-US" class="">Reflection:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial
Unicode MS"" lang="EN-US" class="">by Arthur Blomme</span><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US" class=""></span></p>
<blockquote class=""><p class="Default"><b class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica
Neue"" lang="EN-US" class=""><span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="">
</span>Ideological Colonization</span></b><b class=""><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US" class=""></span></b></p><p class="Default"><b class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US" class=""> </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica
Neue"" lang="EN-US" class="">In recent weeks we are celebrating
the
long awaited apology of the Vatican for their treatment of
indigenous and first
nations of Canada. Core to this apology is Francis'
description of the
nature of the Church's sin in respect to their treatment of
the indigenous. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US" class=""></span></p><p class="Default" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica
Neue"" lang="EN-US" class=""> </span><i class=""><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica
Neue"" lang="EN-US" class="">Yet that tree, rich in fruit, has
experienced a tragedy that
you described to me in these past days: the tragedy of being
uprooted. The
chain that passed on knowledge and ways of life in union
with the land was
broken by a colonization that lacked respect for you, tore
many of you from
your vital milieu and tried to conform you to another
mentality.</span></i><i class=""><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica
Neue";color:gray" lang="EN-US" class=""> </span></i><i class=""><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica
Neue"" lang="EN-US" class="">In this way, great harm was done to
your
identity and your culture, many families were separated, and
great numbers of
children fell victim to these attempts to impose a
uniformity based on the
notion that progress occurs through </span></i><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Helvetica Neue"" lang="EN-US" class="">ideological
colonization, </span></i></b><i class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica
Neue"" lang="EN-US" class="">f</span></i><i class=""><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica
Neue"" lang="EN-US" class="">ollowing
programmes devised in offices rather than the desire to
respect the life of
peoples. This is something that, unfortunately, and at
various levels, still
happens today: ideological colonization. How many forms of
political, ideological
and economic colonization still exist in the world, driven
by greed and thirst
for profit, with little concern for peoples, their histories
and traditions,
and the common home of creation! Sadly, this colonial
mentality remains
widespread. Let us help each other, together, to overcome
it. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal" class="">(Pope Francis
Apology for Residential
schools)</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal" class=""><i class=""><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US" class=""></span></i></b></p><p class="Default"><i class=""><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US" class=""> </span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica
Neue"" lang="EN-US" class="">Francis here admits that the church
participated in what some liberation theologians call the
ideology of death.
The programs developed under this ideology did not "respect
the life
of peoples". Perhaps by understanding better the nature of
this
ideological sin we can better help each other as Francis says,
overcome it.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US" class=""></span></p><p class="Default"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica
Neue"" lang="EN-US" class=""> To demonstrate how deep this
ideology of
death exists in our world view one only has to consider what
Matthew Fox calls
the doctrine of discovery. At a very deep level, the beliefs
that make up
our worldview include the belief that Columbus discovered
America. This
belief is core to how we justify the colonization of much of
the planet by
Europe and Christendom. The individuals who founded the
dominant
Canadian Culture believed they were doing the right thing by
destroying the
Indian inside the child.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US" class=""></span></p><p class="Default"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica
Neue"" lang="EN-US" class=""> As a species we have an innate
reverence
for hierarchy which includes a moral hot button for
authority. Many of
our societies are structured with a small elite class who
control the
behaviour and aspirations of a much larger group who serve the
interests of the
small elite. The principle way that the masses are controlled
is through
ideology. Ideology is a shared set of beliefs or a story,
often referred
to as a narrative which justifies the vision and outcomes
desired by the elite.
Liberation theologians now recognize how the thinking of the
church serve the
elites in achieving their outcomes. This added wisdom of
church thought
leaders on how our faith can be manipulated into an ideology
of death equips us
to better develop a more fruitful relationship with creation.
At the same
time the tools afforded by surveillance capitalism in the
hands of wealthy
oligarchies create a greater capacity for small elites to
control larger
groups, putting us in greater jeopardy to ideologies of death.
Ideology is a
component of a power relationship in which one group has
power over
the other .</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US" class=""></span></p><p class="Default"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Helvetica
Neue"" lang="EN-US" class="">The three gospel passion
narratives use the Gospel of Mark as a source. In his gospel
Mark
identifies four sources of ideological "power over": the
Herodians(vassal authority of the Roman Empire), the scribes
and
pharisees , the Sadducee and lastly, the zealots represented
in the
character of Judas Iscariat. These different ideological
factions
who are normally at war with each other join forces to do away
with the
decolonizing prophet, Jesus.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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