. They saw this requirement as a considerable saving for working-class families, who often had to buy new texts when their children changed schools. The Roman Catholic clergy were strongly opposed to

Christie of Westminster Presbyterian Church, where Hutchings was an office holder, resigned from the association. Pressure from the clergy did not move Hutchings, and both the strike and the union collapsed

decided he could be effective, even if his “flaming” revivals interfered with the work of the local clergy. To discipline him, the conference stationed him in 1890–91 to the Portage-du-Fort circuit, near

.” Before too long, Harris had acquired a public persona rare among the Catholic clergy of his day. He had transcended factionalism of all kinds, without sacrificing his own religious faith and Irish

function effectively as the opposition. Outside parliament, however, Gouin had to reckon with powerful pressure groups. On the one hand, the Catholic clergy was worried that he might try to reduce the

Division. The relationship between father and son was very close and their correspondence presents an interesting and theologically informed reading of the war. Unlike those clergy who baptized the war

Cleary*, who had died in February 1898. Kingston’s clergy were fearful that the Vatican might appoint the bishop of Waterford and Lismore, in Ireland, to succeed the Irish-born Cleary, instead of

American cities – had begun as the work of social reformers, women, physicians, and members of the clergy, only later being taken over by the government. In June 1915 Fortier took part in the

intransigent as some clergy. He could find no objection, for instance, to the textbooks prescribed by the council but denounced by Father Hippolyte Leduc and others

secular clergy and become bishop of Joliette and later archbishop of Ottawa. On 3 Sept. 1886 Forbes reached Maison-Carrée, the mother house and

them honest and faithful service. There was widespread public condemnation of the premier. Some of the harshest attacks came from the Protestant clergy

advertisers, but Edwards encountered considerable hostility from the clergy because of his excessive drinking and his frequent comments about liquor. During his two years at High River, he invented the

admitted, “It is a consolation for me to know that I am not a stranger to the diocese, that I am returning, as it were, to the home of my childhood, amongst kind and esteemed friends of the clergy and laity

, caused them to be viewed as undesirable. He severely criticized the Ukrainian intelligentsia and clergy for failing to educate the peasantry. He held up as role models those Ukrainian immigrants who strove

mission, son œuvre, a pamphlet published in Montreal in 1896, “Let us say in passing that a few of these bandits later became the leaders of the Conservative party and the idols of the clergy before

transferring to the secular clergy. Dandurand was clearly in the throes of a severe depression. He agreed to a trip to France as a diversion from his

from the Holy See, concurred that the lower clergy largely shared the views of the Montreal–Trois-Rivières group. The ideological tension that marked Pius IX’s pontificate and contemporary

renamed the Catholic Register and Church Extension. Both within its pages and without, he took up the cause of southern and eastern European Catholic immigrants, who lacked clergy and religious

clergy, the curé Joseph-Eugène Limoges, who would succeed him in 1922. There was no lack of work, for everything remained to be done. In 1913 the diocese

the Montreal Catholic schools. Calling for free and compulsory education, he directly opposed the Montreal clergy, whom he accused of proscribing those wanting to discuss educational concerns. He