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...Ralph Connor's posthumous autobiography. Its 430 pages are about equally divided between bright accounts of the good times Ralph Connor enjoyed, and dull philosophizing about the spiritual value of his good times, both to himself and others. Born in 1860, the son of Scotch settlers in upper Quebec, a crusading preacher (his real name was Charles Gordon), Ralph Connor, became a novelist almost by accident. He wrote a story for a Canadian religious magazine, cut it up into three sections, kept adding chapters until it was long enough to be published as a novel, Black Rock...
...Voice of the People Forum," a letter attacking Jesus Christ, suggesting that he was the illegitimate son of Mary and a Roman soldier. The other publications, America thought, misled their readers on the Spanish war (three citations), birth control, ecclesiastical control in the Middle Ages, Fascism in Quebec, Catholic views on Mexico, the Church's oldtime attitude toward taking baths...
...Catholic Church is the largest in Canada, representing 41% of the popula tion, 85% in the French-speaking Province of Quebec. Last week a vehement protest against the Padlock Law was registered by a religious minority group, the Social Service Council of Canada, in which the principal Protestant churches participate. The council called the law "dangerously vague, beyond the authority of the Province of Quebec, contrary to the fundamental rights of a British citizen, contrary to public policy in Canada and menacing to the educational rights of religious minorities...