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Physician with a Protestant Conscience 2006 CCHA Programme 2006 Michael Power, Welland, Ontario Canadian Catholic Historical Conference From Frontier Priest to Urban Pastor: Father Seventy-Third Annual Meeting Edmund Burke Kilroy. 29 May – 31 May 2006 Jane Barter Moulaison, University of Winnipeg York University, , Ontario Work, Vocation, and Ministry: Theologies of Call in the United Church of Canada, 1945-1980.

Monday, May 29, 2006 10:30 – 10:45 am Break

Joint Banquet Canadian Society of Church History Schulich School of Business Executive Learning Centre - Private Dining Room 5:30 – 8:30 pm

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Vanier College Room VC104

8:45 am Welcome and Announcements Richard Lebrun prepares his presentation discussing Linda Wicks, CCHA President seventy years of CCHA publications.

9:00 – 10:30 am Vocation and Ministry, 10:45 – 12:00 pm The CCHA: Founder, Joint Session with the Canadian Society of Journals, and Bibliographies Church History CHAIR: Mark McGowan CHAIR: Peter Meehan Glenn Wright, Ottawa James F. Kenny, Founder of the Canadian Sharon M. Bowler, OISE/UT Catholic Historical Association Dr. Jonathan Woolverton: A 19C Canadian 2 Spring 2006 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XX, Number 1

Richard Lebrun, St Paul’s College/UM Theological Education at the University of St The CCHA Journals, Seventy Years of Scholarship Michael’s College Through the Eyes of a Woman Religious Brian Hogan, Hamilton Reflections on a Forty Year Bibliography of Elizabeth Smyth, OISE/UT Canadian Religious History The Sisters of St Joseph as a Learning Organization: Rethinking the Creation of St 12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch (on your own) Joseph’s College, Toronto

1:30 – 3:00 pm Canadian Catholicism in Times of Conflict CHAIR: John Fitzgerald James Trepanier, University of Ottawa For God and Country: Reaction to the Knights of Columbus Catholic Army Huts Campaign, 1918

Laurence Gottlieb, University of Ottawa Catholic Unions and Catholic Associations in Quebec during the 1920s

Brian Watson, Carleton University, Ottawa How Silent was the Catholic Church? English- Canadian Catholicism and the Jewish Plight during the Nazi Era Elizabeth Smyth ponders the re-creation of St Joseph’s College in Toronto.

3:30-4:30 pm Annual Mass for the Deceased 10:30 - 10:45 am Break Members, Scott Religious Centre 10:45 - 12:00 pm Religious Congregations and 5:00 –7:00 pm President’s Reception 20th Century Challenges CHAIR: Rosa Bruno-Jofré

Wednesday, May 31, 2006 Debra Nash-Chambers, University of Guelph Vanier College The Sisters of St Joseph and Institutional Room VC 104 Adaptability in Guelph, Canada West, 1861-2002: Benevolence, Medical Care and the Pendulum of 9:00 – 10:30am Perspectives on Women Civic Affairs Religious and Education CHAIR: Elizabeth McGahan Robin S. Gendron, Dalhousie University Canada’s University: The Dominican Order, Mechtilde O’Mara CSJ, St Michael’s Canadian Aid, and the National University of College/UT Rwanda The Role of the Sisters of St Joseph of Toronto in the Post-Secondary Educational Sector 12:00 - 1:00 pm Book Launch and CD Sale

Ellen Leonard CSJ, St Michael’s College/UT 1:00 – 2:00 pm Lunch 3 Spring 2006 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XX, Number 1

2:15 - 3:15 pm CCHA Annual General Meeting McGowan participated in the National and Elections Catholic Mission on the Vision National Television Network. End of Conference Terence Fay published two articles on Asian historical spirituality at Manila and Bangkok: “Postmodern Spirituality in the Making: Coast to Coast Filipino Catholics at the End of the Century,” in Budhi (Quarterly of Manila University), 9: 1 & 2 (2005), 163-203 and “Dialogue on Differing Asian Spiritualities: Filipinos and Jacqueline Gresko is taking early retirement Thais, for Projña Vihära: Journal of from Douglas College and will teach part time Philosophy and Religion, Assumption at Corpus Christi College on the campus of St University of Bangkok (Thailand), Vol. 5: 2 Mark’s College at the University of British (2004). Columbia. Her research interests will continue on the Catholic Sisters and Japanese in Elizabeth McGahan of University of New British Columbia and the Passion Plays of the Brunswick in Saint John has accepted to First Nations and Oblates in British Columbia, serve as chair for two years on the Advisory 1880-1920. Board of H-Catholic.

Paul Laverdure of Yorkton SK published the December issue of the Redemptorist North American Historical Bulletin which included an overview of “The Institute for the Study of Redemptorist History in North America,” and “The Status of the General History of the CssR.” Notices

Margaret Sanche of St Thomas More College in Saskatoon SK has accepted to The CCHA Announces an Undergraduate serve as the CCHA representative on the Canadian Catholic History Prize Advisory Board of H-Catholic for one year. The James F. Kenny PRIZE will be awarded The Champlain Society has announced the annually for the best essay written by an publication of Travels Around Great Slave undergraduate university student on the Lake and Great Bear Lakes, 1862-1882 by history of English-speaking Catholicism in Émile Petitot. Paul Laverdure, Jacqueline Canada. Moir, and John S. Moir have translated, edited, and introduced the 19C volume of the An essay of 2500 to 5000 words must Oblate priest Émile Petitot who describes his be submitted by undergraduate students on explorations and observations of the some aspect of English-speaking Catholicism Aboriginals around Great Slave Lake and in Canada. The author must be a part-time or Great Bear Lake. a full-time undergraduate student in a degree programme at an accredited university or The Academic Vice-President of the college. The essay must have been written to University of St Michael’s College, Mark meet the requirement of an undergraduate 4 Spring 2006 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XX, Number 1

credit course during the current academic The CCHA announces the launch of two year. CD-Roms. The first contains 71 volumes of Historical Studies from 1933 to 2004 Submissions: Entries shall be submitted by including Report (1933-1965), Study course instructors no later than 30 June Sessions (1966-1984) and Historical Studies 2007. No instructor shall submit more than (1985-2004). The second CD-Rom contains two entries. Essays must be typed and the first edition of the Bibliography of Canadian should not indicate the instructor’s comments Religious History, 1964-2005, compiled by Brian or grade. Essays may also be submitted Hogan. Both CDs can be purchased at the electronically. annual conference for the discount price of $25, or for $35 from Valerie Burke, CCHA Adjudication: Entries will be judged by a Corresponding Secretary, P.O. Box 398, panel under the direction of the Vice- Kleinburg ON, L0J 1C0. President. The winner will be announced in the autumn of 2007. * * * * The reward will be a prize of $500. Paul Laverdure announces the launch of * * * * two new books at the CCHA Conference The Archives of the Roman Catholic on 31 May 2006: Archdiocese of Toronto (ARCAT) is proud to announce the launch of its new 1. Eternal Memory! Father Delaere website! (1868-1939) and Canada's Ukrainian Catholic Church by Jozef De Vocht, CSSR. Yorkton: http://www.archtoronto.org/archives> Laverdure & Associates 2005. Softcover, 350 The website provides access to information pages & 50 illustrations. $29.95. The launch on the services and programs that are price $20.00. This book is sponsored by the provided by the Archives including Reference, Redemptorists. Genealogy, and Sacramental Records searching.

In addition, the site presents the history of the Archdiocese of Toronto, including biographies of each of Toronto's Archbishops and Bishops. In the future, we plan to highlight the histories of particular parishes, clergy, and events that have had an impact on the Archdiocese. Stay tuned.

We hope you can celebrate this launch with us by exploring our new site! Any questions, comments or suggestions may be directed to [email protected] Marc Lerman Director of Archives * * * * 5 Spring 2006 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XX, Number 1

2. Travels around Great Slave and Great Jesuit to hold public office in Ontario, Bear Lakes 1862-1882 by Emile Petitot. maintaining jurisdictional independence of Trans & ed. Paul Laverdure, Jacqueline Moir, Catholic boards, lobbying against umbrella John S. Moir. Toronto: Champlain Society boards under the jurisdiction of the public 2005. Hardcover, xxxiv,454, $100 boards, obtaining subsidies for Ontario Separate School Athletics), but also with Matthews himself. He is an ardent Blue Jays’ Book Reviews fan, “Irish and Catholic to the core,” a “workhorse,” “resilient,” without “guile,” meticulous (when Cardinal Carter “misplaced” Jesuit in the Legislative Gallery: A Life of a 12-page brief four years after it was given to Father Carl Matthews, SJ. Michael Power. him, Matthews was able to find a copy for Welland, Ontario, 2005. ix, 184. $20 him) and an “upstart Jesuit.”

There have been a number of articles recently on two educational issues that faced Ontario separate schools in the 1960’s, namely financial parity (with public schools) and completion (to Grade 13), including the author’s own A Promise Fulfilled: Highlights in the Political History of Catholic Separate School in Ontario (2002). A Life of Father Carl Matthews SJ, Jesuit in the Legislative Gallery now adds to this growing list. Michael Power narrates the historical biography through Matthew’s eyes and recollections by utilizing his personal papers, debates from the Legislature of Ontario, and numerous articles edited and written by Matthews for Catholic and OECTA publications. From these sources we meet a man who is extremely well-versed in Catholic school history and who was a pioneer in collecting and analyzing facts and statistics on Catholic schools. In this way, Matthews was able to Dates are used extensively and play government politics at their own game of intelligently. In the chapter entitled statistics. “Completion at Last! Alleluia!” Power cleverly parses how Bill 30 became law and Fr Biographical writing plays a very large Matthews’ involvement in the process. The role in this work. Power introduces Matthews “Carl and Bill” (Davis, then Minister of as a boy and the familial and Jesuitical Education) letter exchanges let the influences in his formation as a Jesuit, and as participants speak for themselves, and show an advocate for Catholic school parity. Fr Matthews as a dogged digger into Davis’ Power’s treatment of Fr Matthews is profound politics. The imagery is war-like: “on the and intimate. Not only does the reader battlefield of separate school politics … become familiar with Matthews’ Matthews was a good soldier … this was a accomplishments during completion (the first bombshell (in reference to an amendment to 6 Spring 2006 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XX, Number 1

Bill 30 that would require separate schools to February 16, 1928, Les Costello was the hire non-Catholic teachers after 10 years.” product of the northern mining towns. As a The war imagery reminds readers just how youngster, his formidable hockey skills were important financial parity and completion noticed by professional scouts and in 1944, were to Catholics in Ontario. In the 1960’s, he was invited to complete his high school many Catholic boards were so impoverished education at St Michael’s College School in they were almost on the verge of collapsing. Toronto and to pursue his hockey career with The separate school debate of the 1960’s St Michael’s Majors. Success soon followed was a battle that Fr Matthews was not willing and in 1947, Les Costello reached the hockey to lose. pinnacle when he signed a professional hockey contract with the Toronto Maple While a social history is lacking in this Leafs. He played five games with the Leafs in work, a political history is not. A sociological the playoffs in the spring of analysis might better explain the sudden 1948, and the following year, only fifteen surge in students attending separate schools regular season games before he was in the 1960’s. The photographs augment the despatched to Toronto’s farm team in text. The reader sees Fr Matthews with his Pittsburgh. It was not what Les expected, the family, biological and religious, and with his pursuit of his hockey dream left him peers and associates. Jesuit in the unfulfilled. After another year in the minors, Legislative Gallery is intended for both he gave up the professional life to enter the popular and scholarly audiences. Through it seminary in the fall of 1950. the reader becomes acquainted with a lesser- known player at a critical time in separate Fr Costello never relinquished his love school politics in Ontario. of hockey and this was a key factor in his decision to join Brian McKee, a friend and Christine Lei, Hamilton, Ontario fellow priest, in 1963 to organize the Flying Fathers. This small group of priests and * * * * laymen have entertained thousands with their clownish on-ice antics while raising enormous Les Costello: Canada’s Flying Father. sums for a multitude of good causes. Yet this . Ottawa: Novalis, 2005. 151, book is more about Les Costello than it is illus., bibliography. $19.95 about the hockey playing Flying Fathers. Above all, it is an interesting account of one man’s journey within the priesthood. Fr Fr Les Costello is an attractive subject Costello was devoted to the less fortunate, for a biography – a young Catholic lad from a the sick, the unemployed, the broken-hearted modest, working class background finds and he never missed an opportunity to help recognition in professional hockey, but a life those who could not help themselves. In a time of work as a parish priest. He was a few short years, he became a legendary talented athlete, a one-of-a-kind maverick figure in and beyond the parishes in which he with an earthy sense of humour, an individual served; he was a priest like few others and who spent most of his life in the church where lived the Gospel message every day, caring his particular brand of individualism was often little about his own comfort if it meant sharing frowned upon by his superiors and even what he had with others. Fr Costello was a some of his peers. character, on and off the ice and is portrayed, not as a saint (because he wasn’t one), but Born in South Porcupine, Ontario, on as a priest who loved nothing better than 7 Spring 2006 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XX, Number 1

helping those who were down and out. She briefly sketches the perceived political uncertainties for Roman Catholics in The author, Charlie Angus, is NDP Germany in the early twentieth century which Member of Parliament for -James prompted the Prussian Union of Ursulines to Bay and has several books to his credit, explore sites in North America as possible including histories of Cobalt and Timmins. He foundations, or as places of refuge, if they has also worked as a journalist and magazine were faced with another Kulturkampf. At the editor and he used these skills to research same time that the German Ursulines were the life of Fr Les. He interviewed about two pondering their future, an appeal arrived from dozen people who knew Fr Costello well, Fr Paul Hilland, the Oblate pastor of St including members of the Costello family and, Joseph’s Parish in Winnipeg, seeking the in doing so, has captured the spirit and services of German-speaking sisters to teach humanity (and the humour) of Fr Les. the children in his German immigrant parish. In response nine sisters were recruited from Fr Costello was a unique individual in three different Ursuline monasteries, among every way, eccentric yet lovable and them Mother Clementia Graffelder of immensely popular on and off the ice. Charlie Cologne, the future co-founder of the Prelate Angus tells a good story in this convincing Ursulines of Saskatchewan. They arrived in and readable biography of Canada’s best- Winnipeg at the end of August 1912, known Flying Father. We need more popular prepared to teach in the parish school but Canadian Catholic history; there are so many also hoping to establish an academy in their good stories to be told, and this is one of new city. Despite their disappointment upon them. learning that they could not open an academy, they continued to teach at St Glenn Wright, Ottawa Joseph’s.

* * * * * In 1915 when Fr Joseph Riedinger, OMI, a native of Alsace Lorraine who had Where to Now? The Story of the Ursuline been the assistant at St Joseph’s in Sisters of Prelate 1919-2003. Sister Winnipeg, became the resident priest at a Magdalen Stengler, OSU. Saskatoon, parish in Grayson, Saskatchewan, he asked Saskatchewan: The Ursuline Sisters of for sisters. Mother Clementia and two sisters Prelate, 2004. i-ix, 288. illus., appendices. originally from the Schweidnitz monastery Hardcover $44.95. ISBN 0-9734988-0-3 joined Riedinger in Grayson. Difficulties arose on this mission which occasioned Mother Clementia’s return to St Joseph’s in Winnipeg This study joins the growing number of in 1917. By the end of the war Mother congregationally produced histories that have Clementia was on the move again. The appeared during the last two decades. Sister situation in Winnipeg turned dangerous after Magdalen Stengler, OSU, begins the story of WWI as anti-German feelings ran high. The her community, the Prelate Ursulines, by Archbishop worried for the safety of his tracing its historical journey from Angela German sisters and in February 1919 sent all Merici’s sixteenth century Company of St of them back to Grayson, including Mother Ursula to the founding of the Cologne Clementia. Two months and another parish monastery in 1639, and finally to its eventual later Mother Clementia, with Sister Thekla destination at Prelate in 1919. Bonus who had arrived from the Cologne monastery, as well as Mother Luitgardis 8 Spring 2006 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XX, Number 1

Kratochwill from the Schweidnitz monastery autonomous community having the right of joined Fr Riedinger at his new appointment in self government and all the responsibilities, Prelate, Saskatchewan. Kratochwill was including financial, for the foundation. named superior as the Prelate foundation was intended to become a dependency of the One has a sense of the personal Schweidnitz monastery. challenges faced by these early pioneer sisters at Prelate. For example, of the five Stengler’s detailed account of the sisters who were eventually a part of the fluidity in personnel transfers and parish founding group only Mother Clementia development conveys the daunting remained as the others left for health and challenges encountered in establishing and personal reasons. Poignantly, Sr Thekla staffing missions on the Canadian prairies Bonus returned to Germany in 1934 at age during the settlement of “the last, best, West.” 64 to spend her declining years in Cologne where she lived through the wartime bombing Enthused that he had a parish and of the Cologne monastery. sisters, Riedinger immediately began construction of the convent school complex As an institutional study, the story of on land purchased from the CPR. Before the Prelate Ursulines provides a window on Riedinger had completed the convent, word Saskatchewan’s social, sectarian and came in July 1919 that the Schweidnitz demographic history. Many of the geographic monastery could not afford to take on Prelate locations served by the early sisters are no as a dependency, and that Mother Clementia longer on the map, a consequence of the and Sister Thekla were to return to their province’s shrinking population base. Of monastery in Cologne while Mother course, the sisters’ teaching experiences Kratochwill was to return to Grayson. mirror another side of settlement in the province. In addition to working in poorly All three stayed at Prelate, however, furnished and under-supplied schools, the while Fr Riedinger began negotiations with sisters contended with the realities of Cologne to have the sisters remain and to sectarianism, most acutely during the years of have Cologne take on Prelate as a the Anderson Government from 1929 to dependency. By January 1920, the Cologne 1934, which had been elected on the platform motherhouse agreed to allow Mother of getting the “nuns” out of the schools. Clementia and Sr Thekla to continue on at Prelate. In mid 1921 Riedinger traveled to Too, in the living quarters at many of Cologne to convince the superior there of the the small three-person country missions needs in Prelate. When she heard that the (comprised of two teaching sisters and a Bishop of Regina would grant permission for sister assigned as the home manager), Prelate to become an independent foundation privacy was minimal. On more than one if it had four professed sisters, she agreed to occasion sisters had to share bedrooms and assign two additional sisters to the new beds, as well as walk a good distance to the foundation. More important in July 1922 outhouses. For sisters at other convents such Cologne officially accepted Prelate as a as in Dollard, Saskatchewan in the mid-1960s dependency, formally appointing Mother where they lived in the basement, “teaching Clementia as superior, a position that she meant going upstairs and seeing the would hold for the next 20 years. Eighteen daylight.” months later in February 1926 the Cologne monastery declared Prelate to be an 9 Spring 2006 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XX, Number 1

Perhaps the most discouraging overseer of all major decisions taken by the experiences, however, were delivered by community and that “Father Joseph some of the pastors. In Revenue, Riedinger,OMI, who is thanked for his good Saskatchewan, the convent and school were work, is to be replaced with another priest, as located one kilometer from the church and so chaplain of the Prelate house of the Sisters , the sisters had to walk that distance to attend by the local Ordinary, and he is forbidden the 7:30 am Mass before breakfast and the henceforth to be involved in any way start of their teaching day. The pastor, John whatsoever, in the matters of the Institute.” Rheidt, OMI, a former officer in the German army, cautioned the sisters not to arrive Following this report Fr Joseph before 7:25 am because “five minutes before Riedinger was asked by the Oblate provincial the event is punctuality for a soldier.” to leave Prelate in 1941, and Mother Consequently, if they had not timed their walk Clementia was removed as general superior. precisely in all kinds of weather they would The Abbot appointed Sr Bernarda Lauer as “...wait at the locked gate, their bodies her successor for one year. Sr Annette Feist shaking from the cold, until he appeared with was then appointed by Gertkin in 1943, and the key” (174). Photographs throughout the reappointed by him in 1946, in 1950, and in book showing sisters standing against snowy 1958. If one of his goals had been to set in backgrounds underscore the insensitivity of motion diversified leadership at the top in this “pastor.” Rheidt appears to have been an contrast to Mother Clementia’s continuous exception but clearly the relationships twenty years at the Prelate helm, his between women religious and their priest co- reappointments of Sr Feist are puzzling and workers led to some strained moments. not entirely clear from this study. Perhaps Gertkin felt that the congregation was A crisis arose in 1932 when questions controlled too closely by Riedinger and were raised in Cologne regarding the Mother Clementia. She, too, was asked to reception of documents from the Diocese of leave Prelate, which she did, spending one Regina granting diocesan approval for the year each in two of the sisters’ other Prelate foundation. Upon investigation in missions. She returned to Prelate in 1944 at Regina no documents could be found to age 62. confirm the autonomy of the Prelate foundation. By 1940 the Apostolic Delegate Gertkin died in 1960 and was had stepped in and appointed Severin succeeded as visitor to Prelate by Fr Van Gertkin, OSB, Abbot of the Benedictine Belleghem, SJ, who recommended that the Abbey in Muenster, Saskatchewan, to community be placed again under the examine the situation. He requested three authority of the local bishop and that it documents from Mother Clementia: the prepare for a General Chapter with elections ecclesiastical recognition, the financial as soon as possible. The first General account of the past five years, and the Chapter of April 1961 initiated what would community register. A year later in 1941 she become a series of Chapters in the produced two, but not the Church approval. community’s collective life. Sr Annette Feist who had served since 1943 was elected for a Abbot Gertkin interviewed each sister six-year term in a community of 147 and made recommendations to the Sacred members. Congregation for Religious in Rome, advising major changes at Prelate, among them, that Similar to other religious communities, the Abbot-Delegate [himself] would be the the Prelate Ursulines received the 1965 10 Spring 2006 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XX, Number 1

Decrees of Adaptation and Renewal of membership in the community through a Religious Life and in their post-Vatican II program of “Extended Membership.” Known Chapter of 1967 the sisters discussed as the “Charter of Ursuline Companions” this proposed changes to the habit, as well as plan “described the Ursuline Companion as a revisions of the Holy Rule and Constitutions, non-vowed person who was called to share in and governance issues. Similar to other the Ursuline charism and in a specific ministry communities some members of the Prelate for a designated period.” Companions had to Ursulines found these changes difficult to be practicing Catholics in good health and be manage. By 1971 the sisters had undertaken of an appropriate age to undertake specific a revision of the 1954 constitutions which ministries. The proposal involved a two-year some felt indicated “a new spirit of ownership formation program but it was abandoned as of our lives.” That year also the generalate it did not attract members. As described in offices were moved from Prelate to this study, the program seems to have Saskatoon, a more central and urban location offered lay Catholics an opportunity for affording the Ursulines a wider range of social deeper involvement within the community. and intellectual contacts. All of these Since the Ursulines had established an changes, Stengler knowingly observes, were Associate Program in 1983 it would have “upsetting the delicate balance between the been interesting to learn why an “Extended security of the known and the insecurity of the Membership” through a “Charter of Ursuline unknown.” Companions” was proposed four years later? One wonders if it failed because a A decade of renewal had raised Companion may have been seen by the laity another question, specifically how to maintain as being either not quite an Ursuline or an a sense of community across a range of “enhanced” Associate. diverse ministries. During the 1970s vocations declined dramatically. As the With each Convention (or Chapter) the congregation was ageing each retiring Prelate Ursulines seemed to be drawn teaching sister was more than likely to be organizationally more and more into secular replaced by a lay teacher. Teaching was no processes. In 1991 a new approach to longer the communal ministry. At the General community elections was initiated. Convention in 1979, communal living was Candidates for leadership positions had to endorsed but living singly was approved as give short speeches on what they had to offer needed. From 1959 to 1976 the gradual for leadership. The author writes that most transition from the traditional habit to secular found it an open approach. But readers may dress became one of the most emotional ask about the possible awkwardness of issues at the Conventions. having a sister-candidate present even a short “campaign” speech while also having to Until 1987 Mother Clementia had been endure the objectification that comes with any recognized as the sole founder of the form of public presentation, especially when community. At the 1987 Convention the the electors were those with whom she lived Prelate Ursulines apparently reclaimed their and (presumably) would continue to be living history by declaring that their community had with after the election. been co-founded by Mother Clementia and Fr Riedinger…and in so doing presumably made In 2000 the first reunion of Ursulines a comment on the 1941 recommendations of and former Ursulines, now referred to as Abbot Gertkin. Also at this Convention a Ursuline Companions, was held. Here, as proposal came forward to broaden lay elsewhere in this book, the author is to be 11 Spring 2006 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XX, Number 1

commended for addressing some of the more Stengler touches on some of these, although difficult dimensions of the community’s readers may wish that more had been said. history. Sister Stengler notes that the reunion This limitation to the contrary, an turned into “an unexpected healing event overwhelming impression remains after when some of the Ursuline Companions reading this book: the largely German and spontaneously shared how the ‘graced’ German-Canadian daughters of the Prelate weekend helped them to let go of distressing Ursulines were integral in forging and memories.” Such recollections serve to sustaining a Catholic presence on the remind the reader that the Prelate Ursulines prairies. were and are a group of individuals living in community…with all that this can imply. Elizabeth W. McGahan, University of New Brunswick – Saint John Campus A thread running through the later decades of this history speaks to the varied * * * * * roles within the Church which the Ursulines embraced at the end of their communal Slovenia 1945: Memories of Death and ministry of teaching. As pastoral assistants Survival After World War II. John Corsellis many were called upon to officiate at funerals and Marcus Ferrar. London: I. B. Taurus & and baptisms and a few served as parish Co. Ltd., 2005. xi, 276 pp. administrators … all of which was done in the context of declining numbers of priests. One This book provides a compelling sister served as Chancellor of the Diocese of narrative of the flight of Slovenian Displaced Calgary. In their later ministries the Prelate Persons out of their homeland, after World Ursulines provide a visible example of War II, through the refugee camps of central expanded roles for the laity and, particularly Europe, to their eventual destinations in for women, within Catholicism. Ireland, Canada, Australia, and Argentina. Of interest to Church historians will be the Occasionally the two-section structure manner in which Catholicism was integral to of the book makes it cumbersome to follow refugee life. Moreover, the book focuses on the narrative because of the need to move specific families, including the Ambrozics, between the story section and the places of among whom was counted the current ministry section. Thematic discussions within Cardinal Archbishop of Toronto. This book specific time periods might have reduced helps to fill a gaping lacunae in Canadian instances of repetition. Too, most readers immigration history — the story of the DPs. In would have welcomed a discussion on the addition to Milda Danys monograph on the mechanisms that emerged to handle the Lithuanians, Slovenia 1945 provides new status distinctions between the teaching insights into post-war Catholic migration from sisters and the home managers within the Europe. larger houses and particularly within the Mark McGowan, St Michael’s College three-person missions of the earlier years. Also, one suspects that the investigation * * * * conducted by Abbot Gertkin revealed more than appeared in this study. Fire Upon the Earth: The Life and Times of Michael Anthony Fleming, OSF. Brother Today the title “Where to Now?” may J.B. Darcy, CFC. St John’s: Creative be a metaphor for questions facing many Publishers, 2003. xxii, 286. $34.95. apostolic communities. By implication Sister 12 Spring 2006 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XX, Number 1

Brother Darcy is one of the most Salvucci, Claudio R. Native American knowledgeable historians of the Church in Spirituality: Extracts from the Jesuit Relations eastern Newfoundland and an intrepid Bristol: Evolution Publishing, 2005. pp. 400. researcher. In Fire Upon the Earth, he reconstructs the life of Michael Fleming, who Scorgie, Glen. "The French Canadian served as Vicar Apostolic and Bishop of Missionary Society: A Study in Evangelistic Newfoundland from 1830 to 1850. This book Zeal and Civic Ambition," Fides et Historia 36 is a vivid, readable, and fast-paced retelling (1) 2004: 67-81. of the Bishop’s challenge in building the Church in an outpost of the Empire where the Trigger, Rosalyn. "Irish Politics on Parade: Catholic Church faced a shortage of priests The Clergy, National Societies, and St and discrimination from Colonial Officials and Patrick's Day Processions in Nineteenth- the local Protestant establishment. Scholars Century Montreal and Toronto," Histoire will be disappointed that the book’s intriguing Sociale/Social History 37 (74) 2004: 159-200. quotations and controversial sections are without thorough endnotes, although the Vocht, Jozef De CSSR. Eternal Memory! author includes a helpful glossary of principal Father Delaere (1868-1939) and Canada's characters and a useful bibliography. The Ukrainian Catholic Church (Yorkton: book provides a useful complement to John Laverdure & Associates 2005) softcover, 350 E. FitzGerald’s excellent doctoral dissertation pages & 50 illustrations. on Fleming.

Mark McGowan, St Michael’s College

Current Publications Spring 2006

Grace, Robert J. "A Demographic and Social Profile of Quebec City's Irish Populations, 1842-1861," Journal of American Ethnic History 23 (1) 2003: 55-84.

Kobrle, Kim. High School Education in a Wartime Camp: The Story of Notre Dame High School, 1943-1947. Port Coquitlam BC, 2005. $19.95 For a copy: [email protected] or phone 604 943-0611.

Lotz, Jim. Moses Coady The Human Giant: Canada's Rural Revolutionary. Ottawa: Novalis, 2006. pp. 143. CCHA members visiting the Ukrainian Cathedral in Winnipeg in 2004. 13 Spring 2006 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XX, Number 1

FHSS Congress (formerly “the Learneds”) at a Obituary different Canadian university each year. He often packed up his car and drove to the conference, regardless of the distance facing him. In 1992, for Monsignor Joseph O’Neill, 1915-2005 example, at the age of 77, he drove from his parish at Brechin (near Lake Simcoe), across seldom used secondary roads in New Brunswick (the scenery!), to his destination: Prince Edward Island. He stayed at a local convent in Charlottetown, celebrated Mass for its community daily, attended sessions at the Congress, and golfed (his other non-ecclesiastical passion). At the end of the Congress, a few of us attended Mass at St Dunstan’s Cathedral, to discover that the pastor was getting relief the following week, thanks to a priest from Ontario--the ubiquitous Joe O’Neill.

The Calgary Congress, in 1994, was even more memorable for me. As was his custom, “Father Joe” attended sessions of many societies CCHA, Canadian Historical Association, Feminist Studies, among others. In the course of his travels, he was confronted by several law students from In September 1982, a dozen or so UofT the People’s Republic of China, who thought this graduate students squeezed into a tiny seminar older “professor,” in his patent black turtle neck, room to learn from Professor John Moir in his might know something about The Bible. In his “famous” course--Canadian Religious Traditions. hospitable way Joe “adopted” these students. By At one end of the table sat Dr. Moir and at the day he attended the Congress; by night he other a sixty-seven year old ball of fire we “kids” conducted Bible study in his dorm room with knew as “Father Joe.” What the Reverend Joseph Bibles secured from a local Catholic parish. It was O’Neill shared with us was a passion for religious just another adventure in the rich and varied career history and the fact that he was beginning course of a truly remarkable human being. work in pursuit of a PhD. Having just completed an MA on English Methodism and one of its Joseph H. O’Neill was born in Hamilton, controversial leaders, Jabez Bunting (1779-1858), 8 June 1915. He studied at the University of Father Joe was planning to undertake a study of Toronto, the University of Ottawa/St Paul’s social action within the Catholic Church in University, and St Augustine’s Seminary. He was Ontario. He was knowledgeable, exacting, ordained to the priesthood on June 2, 1939, and personable, and filled with the charm of an Irish served his entire career in the Archdiocese of shanachie. He never finished the dissertation, but Toronto. He worked in several Toronto and GTA he wrote several essays, delivered numerous talks, parishes, but was best known as a pastor in the and left a lasting impression on everyone he met. northern/eastern zone of the Archdiocese, including terms of service in Orillia, Beaverton, He was a regular participant in the annual Penetanguishene, Pickering, and Brechin. He was sessions of the Canadian Catholic Historical chaplain to the CWL and never lost interest in the Association, which meets in conjunction with the questions germane to the role of women in the 14 Spring 2006 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XX, Number 1

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