George Thomas Daly - Catholic Problems in Western Canada

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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

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

A Call from the WestThe Call of the Catholic Church in the WestThe
Response of the EastThe Specific Object of the Catholic Church
Extension Society.

The Catholic Church Extension Society in CanadaIts Principles and
Policy.

The Ruthenian ProblemA Religious and National ProblemIts
PhasesIts Solution.

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

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

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

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

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

A Crusade for Better Schools in Saskatchewan: Its HistoryIts
LessonsAn Invitation and a Warning.

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

Higher Education in Western CanadaDuty of the HourUniversity
Training, Condition of Genuine leadershipFor Catholics Higher
Education means Higher Catholic EducationThe Concerted Action of all
Catholics in Western Canada can make a Western Catholic University a
Reality.

After-war Problems from a Catholic view-pointReconstructionThe Dutyof the Hour.

Public Opinion and the Catholic ChurchWhat is Public OpinionIts
PowerHow it is FormedThe Catholic Church in its Relation to Public
OpinionOur Duties to Public Opinion.

FactsPrinciplesPolicy of the Catholic Truth SocietyIts Value forthe Church in Western Canada.

Importance of the Catholic PressRequisites for its Success in the
West.

ImmigrationAre we Ready for it?Outline of a Plan of Action.

A Catholic Congress of the Western Provinces, the Ultimate Solution ofall their ProblemsWhat is a Congress?Its UtilityItsNecessityTentative Programme of a General Congress.

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

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

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

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 thegenuine happiness of our patriarchal families; there you were aneyewitness of the "bonne entente" and noble rivalry which exist betweenthe ethnical groups that go to make up its population.

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

The year 1917 found you laboring in our beloved Province ofSaskatchewan, as Rector of our Cathedral. For three years you livedwith us. The possibilities of our great West soon appealed to yourenthusiastic heart. The various problems which here engage theattention of the Church fired your soul with noble ambition. I shallnever forget the good you have done in the parish committed to yourcare. I shall be ever grateful for the zeal with which you devotedyourself, heart and soul, to the guidance of those under your charge.You found your happiness in making others happy, remembering thatkindly actions alone give to our days their real value. Your priestlyheart understood that when one is in God's service he must not becontent with doing things in a half-hearted way or without willingsacrifice.

But the voice of your Superiors called you to another field of action,and with ready obedience you hastened to the Eastern extremity of theDominion. I can assure you, dear Father, that, though absent, yourmemory is still fresh among us. Your old parishioners of Holy RosaryCathedral, and others with whom you came in contact through missionsand other work throughout the Province, have kept a fond and faithfulremembrance of your Reverence. The citizens of Regina who are not ofour Faith still remember the noble efforts you always put forth topromote good will and concord in the community at large. Your charityproved to them that we were not born to hate but to love one another.It affords me great pleasure to see that since you left the West youhave continued to have its welfare at heart, its problems ever presentin your thought. For you tell me that you are just about to publish abook on "Catholic problems in Western Canada."

The West, you have known, studied and loved. The tremendous obstacles,as well as the great possibilities which there face the Church at thiscritical hour of our history, have left on your mind a lastingimpression. You fully realize, dear Father, that our Western problemsare not sufficiently known by the Catholics of the East. Were theimportance of these issues fully appreciated by all, a greater interestwould be taken in regard to their immediate solution. Catholicsthroughout the Country, you rightly state, are obliged to further theinfluence of Holy Mother Church in our Western Provinces, which willcertainly be called upon within a very near future to play a mostimportant part in our Dominion.