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This co-authored paper results from a presentation on September 23, 2022, at the Société canadienne d'histoire de l'Église catholique annual conference on the reform of the constitutions of religious communities in light of the Second Vatican Council. It is based on an analysis of the articles published in Vie des communautés religieuses (VCR). Founded in 1942, VCR is the leading French-language journal dedicated to consecrated life in North America. The journal constitutes a material of primary importance for measuring the impact of the transformations the Second Vatican Council brought about in the religious congregations of Quebec and French-speaking Canada. From 1942 to 1980, the articles attest to a subtle but profound attention to the constitutions, which are approached from the predominant angle of theology. But it is, above all, the theological context of the time, i.e. the adaptation and renewal of religious life to modern times, a title taken up by the decree Perfectae caritatis, that provides the key to reading the reform of the constitutions of religious institutes in the articles published by VCR. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the history of Catholics nuns before and after secularization. It mentions observation of the "silence" of women researchers who agree with multiple studies that have measured the impact gender of the COVID-19 pandemic in the research community. It also mentions editorial board of the journal "Études d'histoire" nun launched a call for papers on the theme of secularism in Quebec.

Maintenant is a French Canadian Catholic paper created by the Dominican Order and published from 1962 to 1975 in collaboration with laypeople. Its authors belong to the circle of Catholic intellectuals critical of the Church’s institutional presence in Quebec in the 1950s and 1960s. The present article seeks to present their analysis of Quebec’s religious decline and highlights how their theological ideas influence their stance in favour of the secularization of the province’s public institutions. Through this, it will become evident that secularization is Maintenant’s answer to the religious crisis of the 1960s and 1970s; its authors see it as the only way forward for Catholicism in the modern age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to provide an overview of the history of French-Canadian missionary journals in the twentieth century. Three periods shape this history of missionary journals: the multiplication of journals for informing and propagating the faith (1900-1944), the challenges of the missionary press (1945-1960) and the questioning in relation with a wider process of secularization (1961-2000). This overview provides a better understanding of the apostolic activities of the French-Canadian Church emphasizing the material and ideological transformations of these publications. Beyond the projected image, the proselytism, the prejudices and the racism that they convey, these journals retrace the evolution of the Catholic Church and its missionary movement as well as the evolution of Quebec society and its relationship to foreign societies and cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper compares the topic of exile found in Saint-John Perse and Yvan Goll's peotry in the catholic journal La Nouvelle Relève (1941-1948). Pulled from the archives and communications of three French-Canadian mediators (Simone Aubry-Beaulieu, Paul Beaulieu and Louis-Marcel Raymond), it explains the exchanges of these poems within a network of francophone journals in the Americas. The author puts these cultural trades in a new international perspective brought forward by the uncertainty of the Second World War and suggests that they are timed with the emergence french-speaking literature in communities around the world. French-Canadian mediators (Simone Aubry-Beaulieu, Paul Beaulieu and Louis-Marcel Raymond), it explains the exchanges of these poems within a network of francophone journals in the Americas. The author puts these cultural trades in a new international perspective brought forward by the uncertainty of the Second World War and suggests that they are timed with the emergence french-speaking literature in communities around the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through the concept of popular religion, this paper highlights the essential contribution of secular subjects for the Catholic education of Quebec's prospective elites. By a careful analysis of Catholic contents from 170 textbooks, we will show that all education contributes to the moulding of model, pious and informed Catholic elites. Thus, the Catholic school of the turn of XXth century reconciles a type of popular religion with a decidedly elite teaching. We will argue that the results of this training play a decisive role in the sustainable authority of Catholicism throughout much of the XIXth and XXth centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to shed light on the more playful dimension of the Association catholique de la jeunesse canadienne-française (ACJC) by analysing activities of the Langevin Circle. The Langevin Circle was established in 1910 in the parish of La Nativité, in Hochelaga (Montreal, Quebec). While belonging to the very militant and combatant ACJC, its activities left some room for moments of leisure and fun. Its members expressed both a desire for ideological purity and a playful spirit that is characteristic of youth. In order to better highlight these two facets, the present paper focuses on the first ten years of the circle's existence (1910-1920), since our interpretations can rely on information garnered from the circle's magazine, La Semence, as well ACJC archives. Our research uncovers an organization that was more festive and recreational than has been assumed to date. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the socio-political ideas conveyed by Pax Romana in the Province of Quebec. Although this organization presented itself as a simple base of exchange between Catholics, the Federation of Fribourg did not limit itself to planning very general meetings in various places and promote an abstract dialogue between nations : it also disseminated a specific ideology. It offered a conceptual framework and a certain political orientation to those who participated in its activities. By revisiting its ideological background and identifying who were its most important promoters, this paper underlines the forms of exchange that structured Pax Romana from the inside and, by the same token, helps to locate its members on a particular map of the Catholic intellectual world from 1930 to 1950. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the relative significance given to the religious founding figures of Montreal and of Nouvelle-France in general, as well as what sort of representations are proposed of these figures, in the teaching books of Quebec's Ethics and Religious Culture Program in those chapters where religious heritage is addressed. We shall try to identify the essential qualities of the memory that is transmitted to today's young generations of the religious project which was that of Quebec's original settlers, in today's profondly secularized Quebec society, as well as to what extent the deep motivations driving these founding figures can be understood today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the early stages of the Missionary Sisters of our Lady of Africa (White Sisters), from the point of view of women. From a feminist and gender studies perspective, this study illustrates how socio-ecclesial roles assigned to women give them (or not) a peculiar character, in the context of the foundation of a missionary institute. The relations of these women with their founder, as well as with the White Fathers, who also bear the weight of socio-ecclesial roles imposed on them as men, are analysed. Concepts of authority and obedience are considered as well as the effects of the shock from the missionary experience itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Louis Veuillot, well-known among the ultramontane journalistic circle, was also a recognized writer. In colleges, his texts were included into the curriculum of colleges and also in activities outside classrooms. This paper studies the integration of Veuillot's works in literary and religious education for three periods, 1840-1871,1910-1930 and 1950-1970. Whereas Veuillot was not a part of the curriculum in the nineteenth century, the beginning of the twentieth century was the golden age of Veuillot's distribution in colleges, especially during the centennial celebrations in 1913. In these years, the writer became an example for young people, yet the 1950's spelled the end of his teaching. Nevertheless, during a few decades, Louis Veuillot was part of the literary culture among college students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of a case study on French language Catholic school choice in Orleans, Ontario. Starting with the results of a series of semi-structured interviews conducted with parents who chose a French language Catholic school for their children, a typology of French language Catholic school choice is presented in order to contribute to the understanding of the cultural and identity ties Franco-Ontarian parents maintain with Catholicism. Following a brief historical overview of the relationship between identity and Catholicism in French Ontario, as well as an outline of the Franco- Ontarian schooling context and of school choice in a cultural perspective, the relationship Franco-Ontarians now hold with Catholicism as a cultural religion will be examined through the question of school choice [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Catholic Church's contributions to French language minority groups throughout North America are numerous, but to what extent has the Church left its mark on these groups' historic accounts ? This paper investigates the clergy's pioneering role in the emergence of a French-Canadian historic discourse in northern Ontario, paying special attention to its involvement with the newly-founded Société historique du Nouvel Ontario in 1942. The publications of two of its prominent members, Lorenzo Cadieux and Stéphane Côté, will be examined in depth. By relating their historical accounts to the broader regional historiography, we hope to gain a better understanding of the emergence, in the society's early years, of an identity discourse firmly rooted in the past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper identifies several impacts cultural transfers operated by Quebec missionaries from 1945 onwards had on their society and Church of origin, especially with respect to recent immigration. More specifically, it deals with the work achieved by the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) towards African immigrants through the Afrika Centre they found in Montreal in 1989. This case study exemplifies the dynamic relations that exist between Quebec missionary experience and the challenges posed to socio-ecclesial integration by a growing ethnocultural diversification of the Catholic population in Quebec. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When Bishop Charbonneau arrived in Montréal, the situation of immigration was a unique occasion to express his social convictions and his open mind on matters of housing and catholic action network. His pragmatic attitude was different from the ideological attitude of traditional nationalists. This paper first reviews how perspectives adopted on immigration had changed since the economic crisis of 1929, leading Charbonneau and the catholic action movements to pay attention to the concrete and human aspects of housing. Meanwhile, a real fight of power took place between the network of specialised movements of catholic action, approved by the archbishop, and more nationalistic associations like Association catholique de la jeunesse canadienne (ACJC), under Jesuit leadership since the beginning of the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes L'Entraide missionnaire from the perspective of its networks which became international over the course of the 1960s. This internationalization was most visible in the collaborations established with Third world theologians and practitioners. From 1968 onwards, L'Entraide radically changed its worldview, taking sides with the poor and marginalized. Notions like consciousness-raising, dialogue, inculturation, and liberation were at the heart of the organization's activities hundreds of Québécois committed to sociopolitical change and community organizations attended. Thus, L'Entraide acted as a catalyst for Québécois to become familiar with different schools of thought and practices, but also to integrate these new ways of thinking collectively about the contemporary world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the first actions of the Ordre de Jacques Cartier, a secret society founded in 1926 by a group of French Canadian functionaries in Ottawa. To get out of despair to survive and fight the constant opposition to recognize the right to use French at school and at church, those men decided to use the tools used by their adversaries. They opted for a new leadership, a discret action in the frame of a secret society with an authoritarian superior council, the chancellerie, and local cells, the commanderies. Their first revendications were for use of French, just representation in civil, politic and religious fields, in civil service, and also in school board, and University of Ottawa. The action of Ordre, will soon spread among Canada français, as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]