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