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Title: Catholic Problems in Western Canada

Author: George Thomas Daly

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

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CATHOLIC PROBLEMS IN WESTERN ***

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