* reacted harshly to what it considered an illegal strike, but the Catholic clergy was divided on the issue. Wearing a scraggly beard, Trudeau played a small role, marching in a head-cloth and shorts. The

Neveu. Neveu, who was hospitalized at the time, asked him to go to Japan and set up a grand séminaire in Fukuoka for training the Japanese clergy. Verdier, who also encouraged the Canadians in

by the war. In Quebec the church was divided on his support for social welfare. Right-wing clergy opposed it, but he was indifferent to their arguments. From time to time, as a senior minister, St

would resign if the clergy’s campaign against the bill continued. His departure would have led to Bouchard, who had an anticlerical reputation, being sworn in as premier. Despite opposition, the Act

minorities, as outside influences harmful to the people. By flattering voters’ nationalism, he was able to preserve his alliance with the clergy, rural classes, and business community, and to advocate a model

wanted to raise funds among the Catholics of his diocese to build English-language Catholic secondary schools. This affair, which was followed closely by the nationalist elite, the clergy, and Quebec

Ontario, would be born three years later. In the spring of 1932 a group of clergy and laymen wished to nominate him as the first lay moderator of the United Church of Canada, an election he would stand an

national pride and the desire to take possession of their land. At the same time, they revealed nostalgia for a simpler era when the Roman Catholic clergy were universally respected and guided their flocks

leading evangelical, who immediately declined. The synod then adjourned for two months after establishing a committee of laity and clergy to bring forward names to be considered. Worrell, a theological

personal connection to God and rejects creeds, clergy, and hierarchy. By 1933 she was serving on the executive of the Ontario Labor Party and was vice-president of the Toronto Labor Party. She initially

together and prepare them for a life of activism for the good of religion and the homeland.” Backed by the highest levels of the Catholic clergy and inspired by Henri

 8, ser.2 (diocesan registrar), vol.6, no.2 (clergy index); General Synod Arch. (Toronto), GS75-106 (Council for Social Service). GRO, Reg. of births, Camberwell (Surrey), 16 June 1871. LAC, R1463

relationship with the senior clergy in the diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe and the archdiocese of Montreal, including Canon Le Pailleur, enabled them to secure several contracts for religious buildings. New

the competing bodies of Anglo-Catholics and evangelicals within the church. In his charge to the 1909 Algoma synod he said, “Our clergy ought to be considerate, avoiding extremes, not given to forcing

clergy: a history of theological education at Knox College, Toronto, 1844–1994 (Montreal and Kingston, Ont., 1995). H. R. Krygsman, “Freedom and grace: mainline Protestant thought in Canada, 1900

prevent him from maintaining a good relationship with the clergy and religious communities. Yet he soon abandoned this kind of social debate to devote himself to more pragmatic and useful medical tasks. His

on a local initiative to increase the participation of the secular clergy in foreign missions. Rather than limiting their efforts to providing new recruits for missionary institutes of European origin

certificate his father was a shoemaker, but according to the city directories he was a driver. Gérard quickly attracted attention because of his piety and intellectual ability so the clergy in his parish helped

to maintain the reputation of the organization, particularly before the Roman Catholic clergy. His criticism of the quality of teaching in francophone Catholic colleges, which he had voiced the

up the Société de la Colonisation de l’Alberta to assist the clergy of the diocese of St Albert who, since the 1890s, had been attempting to draw French Canadian and Franco-American settlers