L'APOSTOLAT DANS V OUEST CANADIEN

Le 17 octobre dernier Mgr McNeil, archevêque de Toronto, donnait, devant la Catholic Women's League de Montréal, une conférence sur les besoins de l'Église dans le Nord-Ouest du Canada. Les jours suivants plusieurs journaux résumaient les paroles du distingué prélat d'une façon assez étrange. Voici, par exemple, ce que le Leader de Régina et la Free Press de Winnipeg publiaient en termes identiques. La Gazette de Montréal, dans son numéro du 18 octobre, contenait les mêmes expressions dans un compte rendu beaucoup plus' détaillé :

Says Roman Catholic Church has failed. Archbishop of Toronto déclares it has not held Immigrants. That th Roman Catholic Church in Canada had failed during the las 80 years in a great national problem vitally affecting it — that of immigration — ivas admitted by the most Rev. McNeil, archbishop of Toronto, in an address on "the needs of th Canadian west", given before the Catholic Women's Leagu hère this afternoon. His Grâce declared that the Church wa losing thousands of its people annually in western Canada, a that of the large Catholic immigration from Galicia, some te years back, 50,000 had departed from their ancient faith. H added that the late Archbishop Langevin, of St-Boniface, Man. had sent priests over to Galicia and had spent $100,000 in th work. The resuit had been largely faillir e."

La Gazette disait : The sum of $100,000 had been sperâ to promote the work, y et they were forced to confcss they had e

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