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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...
Rumors & Denials. Energetic Msgr. Léger was no stranger in the inner councils of the church. The son of a Quebec village storekeeper, ordained in 1929,416 went to Japan, proved himself an able administrator in directing the Sulpician Seminary at Fukuoka, later came back to Canada and taught at the House of Philosophy in Montreal. Since 1947 he has been rector of the Pontifical Canadian College in Rome where he was responsible for the guidance of Canadian priests studying at the Vatican, served as intermediary for important Canadians visiting the Pope. Said one Vatican insider: "I always thought...
...Montreal, the largest diocese of predominantly Roman Catholic Quebec, Monsignor Léger has one of the most delicate church assignments in North America. After more than three centuries of close alliance, church & state in Quebec are seriously at odds on social issues...
After the airline crash in Quebec last autumn which took the lives of three Kennecott Copper Corp. executives and 20 others (TIME, Sept. 19), investigators turned up shocking evidence. The crash was no accident; it was planned murder. To get rid of his wife, who was aboard the plane, a jeweler named Albert Guay had planted a dynamite bomb in the freight compartment. Last week a trial jury took just 14 minutes to find Guay guilty. The sentence: death by hanging...
...Outlander, by Germaine Guevre-mont. What happens when a careless, high-spirited wanderer settles down in a tiny, pious farm hamlet in Quebec. Good regional writing with nature as a major character (TIME, March...