Abstract

This paper addresses the Canadian Roman Catholic episcopacy’s approach to such issues of public interest as immigration and minority rights between 1945 and 1965. The definition of the Church’s involvement in temporal matters, it is here argued, requires an understanding of the institutional interests of Catholicism and traditional Catholic approaches to governance. The conceptual framework offered by contemporary administrative and policy studies now better enables scholars of Catholicism to assess the social and political significance of the Church in this period. Catholic bishops were not indifferent to immigration or the rights of minority groups, but chose to address these matters by utilizing “discreet” channels of interaction consistent with corporatist governance. Quebec and Ontario are taken as illustrative examples of jurisdictions where Catholics were respectively the majority and a minority. Le present article traite de la maniere dont l’episcopat catholique canadien a envisage des questions d’interet public telles que l’immigration et les droits des minorites entre 1945 et 1965. La definition de l’intervention de l’Eglise dans les questions temporelles, soutient l’auteur, exige que l’on comprenne les interets institutionnels du catholicisme et les conceptions catholiques traditionnelles de la gouvernance. Le cadre conceptuel offert par les etudes contemporaines dans les domaines de l’administration et de la politique permet desormais aux specialistes du catholicisme de mieux evaluer la signification politique et sociale de l’Eglise au cours de cette periode. Les eveques catholiques n’etaient pas indifferents a l’immigration ou aux droits des groupes minoritaires, mais ils ont choisi d’aborder ces questions en empruntant des voies d’interaction « discretes », compatibles avec la gouvernance corporatiste. L’auteur utilise le Quebec et l’Ontario comme exemples de territoires ou les catholiques constituaient la majorite d’un cote et une minorite de l’autre.

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