*, Bourget’s coadjutor. Pâquet’s fears regarding the new bishop’s factional loyalties proved to be real. Duhamel remained solidly in Bourget’s camp on the heated questions of the day concerning the clergy’s role

devoting themselves to the parish duties normally assumed by the secular clergy. In 1884 Dom Benoit became master of novices, director of studies, and the “principal adviser” to the superior, with whom he

. In politics Boucher was a thoroughgoing supporter of the authorities. Like the rest of the clergy, he had had his thinking shaped by the French revolution and counter-revolution. On 25 March

the Canadiens, and praised the seminaries run by the Catholic clergy, particularly the seminary of Quebec and the work of Abbé John Holmes

throughout the southern interior, assisting and supporting overworked priests while trying to attract new secular clergy to the region. In 1915 John Welch, provincial (vicar of missions) of the Oblates of Mary

. Having successfully petitioned the CCSS for reinstatement at Headingley, Corbett and his wife returned to Rupert’s Land in 1857. He launched a campaign of political agitation, instigating a clergy

 Desplantes. In 1788 Philippe-Jean-Louis was named dean of the chapter of Meung-sur-Loire and vicar general of Orléans. Then came the revolution and with it the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, which did away

-Hyacinthe who founded the local classical college, and his marriage with the pious Marie-Rosalie Papineau lend interest to the matter of his attitude to religion and the clergy’s influence. Dessaulles had

in French Canada. On 8 Dec. 1934 Forbes, inspired by Pope Pius XI, issued a pastoral letter inviting the clergy of his archdiocese to coordinate the “existing religious charities” so as to

governor’s authority, but of that of the clergy as well. On this latter point, Meneval reported that de Goutin and his friends “degrade [the] lives and characters [of the clergy] to the great contempt of

popularity with Anglican laymen in Toronto. At a time when most of the clergy in the Toronto diocese were high church, Grasett had a low church orientation, which he probably owed to his early training by

Missionary Society, he was the liaison between the local clergy and the headquarters in England. He was indefatigable in these duties as he was in the spiritual leadership of his parish. One last missionary

colonizer that Nicolas-Tolentin Hébert deserves attention. In the late 1840s the clergy was endeavouring to stimulate large-scale colonization in Canada East in order to slow down the exodus of its Catholic

clergy reserves question. Although a Methodist himself, Ketchum was no narrow sectarian. He attended St James’ Anglican Church when it was the only church in York, and, with gifts of land and money

areas where Anglicans were unattended by clergy of their own. In general, the Catholic priests were much more mobile, and more regular in their visits to outlying areas, than their Protestant counterparts

Plessis*’s determination to give the English-speaking Roman Catholics of the Maritimes a sufficient number of clergy. Several “carefully chosen” youths were sent to study in the seminaries of Lower

slow his advancement in the government. In 1828 he was appointed secretary receiver of the Upper Canada Clergy Corporation which administered the leasing of the clergy reserves. In the same year he

1885 had left him with a bitter taste. “Instead of doing the same thing as the American clergy, who not only gather information but sympathize with the workers, ours

freemasonry lodge, where he became senior warden in 1899. His masonic activities and ideas often got him into trouble with both the Roman Catholic clergy and several of his medical colleagues. Although Martigny

to get this important office, since the Canadian clergy felt it was time they were invited to take part in the administration of the church in Canada