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Title: Catholic Problems in Western Canada

Author: George Thomas Daly

Release Date: May 11, 2006 [EBook #18378]

Language: English

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Produced by Al Haines

Catholic Problems

in

Western Canada

By

George Thomas Daly, C.SS.R.

With preface by the Most Reverend O. E. Mathieu,
  Archbishop of Regina

TORONTO: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD., AT ST. MARTIN'S HOUSE

Permissu Superiorum

ARTHUR T. COUGHLAN, C.SS.R., Provincial.

Imprimatur

EDWARD ALFRED LEBLANC, Bishop of St. John, N.B.

St. John, N.B., December 8th, 1920.

Copyright, Canada, 1921

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED

TORONTO

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

TO

THE CATHOLIC HIERARCHY

OF CANADA.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART 1.—RELIGIOUS PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 1.—THIS CALL OF THE WEST

A Call from the West—The Call of the Catholic Church in the West—The
Response of the East—The Specific Object of the Catholic Church
Extension Society.

CHAPTER 2.—BRIDGING THE CHASM

The Catholic Church Extension Society in Canada—Its Principles and
Policy.

CHAPTER 3.—PRO ARIS ET FOCIS

The Ruthenian Problem—A Religious and National Problem—Its
Phases—Its Solution.

CHAPTER 4.—WHY? WHAT? WHO?

The necessity of a Field Secretary for the Organization of our
Missionary Activities.

CHAPTER 5.—PLOUGHING THE SANDS

The Church Union Movement; its Causes and Various Manifestations—The
Protestant and Catholic View-point.

CHAPTER 6.—"THEM ALSO I MUST BRING" (Jo, v, 16)

The Apostolate to non-Catholics; its Obligation—What have we
Done?—What Can we Do?

CHAPTER 7.—PROS AND CONS

Obstacles that Impede. . . . Circumstances that Help the Work of the
Church in Western Canada.

PART 2.—EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 8.—WHY SEPARATE?

A Moral Reason—A Social Reason—A Political Reason—A National
Reason—A British Reason—A Religious Reason . . . for our "Separate
Schools."

CHAPTER 9.—A WINDOW IN THE WEST

A Crusade for Better Schools in Saskatchewan: Its History—Its
Lessons—An Invitation and a Warning.

CHAPTER 10.—UNICUIQUE SUUM

Principle on which should be Based the Division of Company-taxes between Public and Separate Schools.

CHAPTER 11.—DREAM OF REALITY

Higher Education in Western Canada—Duty of the Hour—University
Training, Condition of Genuine leadership—For Catholics Higher
Education means Higher Catholic Education—The Concerted Action of all
Catholics in Western Canada can make a Western Catholic University a
Reality.

PART 3—SOCIAL PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 12.—BEYOND BERLIN

After-war Problems from a Catholic view-point—Reconstruction—The Duty of the Hour.

CHAPTER 13.—"WHOM DO MEN SAY THAT THE SON OF MAN IS?" (Matt. xvi, 13)

Public Opinion and the Catholic Church—What is Public Opinion—Its
Power—How it is Formed—The Catholic Church in its Relation to Public
Opinion—Our Duties to Public Opinion.

CHAPTER 14.—"TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE" (Jo. viii, 32)

Facts—Principles—Policy of the Catholic Truth Society—Its Value for the Church in Western Canada.

CHAPTER 15.—A SUGGESTION

Importance of the Catholic Press—Requisites for its Success in the
West.

CHAPTER 16.—THE NEW CANADIAN

Immigration—Are we Ready for it?—Outline of a Plan of Action.

CHAPTER 17—"UT SINT UNUM"

A Catholic Congress of the Western Provinces, the Ultimate Solution of all their Problems—What is a Congress?—Its Utility—Its Necessity—Tentative Programme of a General Congress.

CHAPTER 18.—"ULTIMA VERBA"

APPENDIX

I.—AMERICANIZATION

A Thought-compelling and Illuminating Article, by L. P. Edwards, in
"New York Times," on Problems that Confront Canada also.

II.—THE FAD OF AMERICANIZATION

By Glenn Frank in the "Century," June, 1920.

III.—AMERICANIZATION WORK MUST PROCEED SLOWLY

By Rev. D. P. Tighe, "Detroit News," Aug. 24, 1919.

PREFACE

Letter of the Most Reverend O. E. Mathieu,
  Archbishop of Regina, to the Author

REVEREND G. DALY, C.SS.R.,
  St. John, N.B.

Dear Father,—

Quebec Province claims you as her son. There you lived for many years; there you learned to admire the peaceful life and to appreciate the genuine happiness of our patriarchal families; there you were an eyewitness of the "bonne entente" and noble rivalry which exist between the ethnical groups that go to make up its population.

At various times your sacred ministry has brought you in touch with the other Eastern Provinces of our broad Dominion. A keen observer, you readily grasped existing conditions and the mentality of the various elements of our Canadian Population.

The year 1917 found you laboring in our beloved Province of Saskatchewan, as Rector of our Cathedral. For three years you lived with us. The possibilities of our great West soon appealed to your enthusiastic heart. The various problems which here engage the attention of the Church fired your soul with noble ambition. I shall never forget the good you