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Ever since Monsignor Joseph Charbonneau's sudden resignation last month (TIME, Feb. 20), Quebec has been wondering who would take his place in Montreal's red brick archbishop's palace. When Rome announced Charbonneau's successor last week, he turned out to be a man whom few had thought of: Monsignor Paul-Emile Léger, 45, a native Quebecker who had spent half of his religious career outside Canada. So unexpected was his appointment that on the day of the announcement only one French newspaper in Montreal could produce his photograph...
...with church approval, defied the government last year when it supported a violent strike against the Quebec asbestos companies which the Duplessis regime declared illegal. The church's Sacerdotal Commission on Social Studies has openly condemned provincial labor legislation; "labor priests" have acted as strike leaders. When Archbishop Charbonneau resigned "for reasons of health," the rumor persisted, despite official denial, that the church had eased him out because he had carried his pro-labor policy...
...Christians. Msgr. Léger, who had not been directly involved in the Quebec struggle, had a chance to bring about better church relations with Premier Duplessis. At the same time the church made it sharply clear that his appointment was in no way a repudiation of Charbonneau (who last week was made a Roman count and a special assistant to the Pope). In a 35,000-word pastoral letter, a summary of which was read last Sunday from Roman Catholic pulpits in the province, Quebec's bishops firmly restated the church's principles on labor. Echoing...
Painful Conflict. Though the Vatican termed stories of intervention by Duplessis "ridiculous," its spokesman noted that the archbishop's resignation "automatically dispels what had become a painful conflict of opinion between ecclesiastic and civil authority." Msgr. Antoniutti, charged with settling the conflict, had put his problem to Charbonneau. The archbishop said he could not draw back from his pro-labor stand, but added that his health had been poor and that he had been intending to resign. Said the Vatican statement: "The greatest possible freedom was left Charbonneau in taking the decision, which was entirely...
Just how far the church cared to go in dispelling painful conflicts remained to be seen in the appointment of Archbishop Charbonneau's successor. Meanwhile there were unofficial reports in Quebec City that a pastoral letter, signed by all the bishops of the province and approving the Social Action principles of Quebec's liberal clergy, was being prepared for reading in the churches of the province within a month. That would strengthen the stand of such other pro-labor prelates as the outspoken Rev. Georges-Henri Levesque, dean of Laval University's faculty of social sciences, Sherbrooke...