ONE NOT LIKE CHRISTMAS OTHER
I find myself this year to let me be troubled by the ubiquity of Father Christmas in the media. It took so much space that the child Jesus was ignored in newspapers and on television. It's just if his name was mentioned. We have not celebrated the birth of this baby but rather the passage of a person who distributes gifts. The mystery of the incarnation is ignored in favor of the magic of Santa Claus has replaced the angels.
is probably one of the consequences of the attempted reinvention Quebec culture. The sociologist Jacques Beauchemin explains beautifully highlighting the evolution of the identity of our "being together", our culture, the idea we have of ourselves. From the crystallization of the French-Canadian culture in 1840, where fierce resistance manifested against the attempt to assimilate English advocated by the Durham report, Beauchemin is remaking our culture around 1960. This followed the leader in the 1950 trial of the French-Canadian culture characterized by what were the core values the French language, Catholicism and the rural world. Of French-Canadian, we became Quebec. Consequently, the city of Montreal and its suburbs now comprises half of Quebecers. The fight for the preservation of the French language has become politicized. Finally, the "pathological attachment to religion", according to Beauchemin, vanished. The trial
started in the 1950s attacked the lack of economic initiative of the French Canadians cherish their vocation farm near the city of Montreal to the west of St Lawrence, English and Protestant. No doubt that the Catholic Church has played a major role in this process which aimed to preserve the "culture and faith. For cons, the trial is still ongoing in the denunciation of all attempts at domination over individual liberties. What was considered the tenacity to face the threat as English is now considered an inhibitory effect or a collective paralysis.
undoubtedly very severe trial which began in 1950 against the alleged inaction of the French Canadians had a purpose. However, all was not so idle that sounds. In a long article entitled 'How I woke up from spiritual slumber and inched at a snail's pace to Rome, and published in the newspaper The Catholic Herald of 11 September 2009, Conrad Black, former owner of the newspaper "The Telegraph" , states as follows:
I saw the Catholic Church in Quebec, and subsequently elsewhere, deeply dedicated to the coming of the Kingdom of God, avoiding opportunistic zeal, anxious modernity without sacrificing the importance of faith, armed with intellectual arguments like, at least, those of Secular opponents or rivals, and almost always a champion of human rights ...
The predominance of the Church in education and health of Francophone Quebec has dominated for long without real opposition, but it has saved a lot in terms of wages for teachers and nurses. The Quebec government was able to devote a significant portion of its budget for what we call today the infrastructure. Duplessis has built thousands of schools, universities, Laval, Montreal and Sherbrooke as well as hundreds of hospitals and health clinics, thousands of kilometers roads, the first Canadian highway over 97% of rural electrification. Quebec has even been the pioneer of pensions for disabled and day services.
The period between 1944 until the death of Duplessis in 1959 were the only times when the economic progress of Quebec were higher than those of English Canada. Public works and social programs in Quebec fifties may seem unrelated to the merits of Catholicism, but the bishops and the clergy have been key collaborators in these years of rapid social change in addition to economic advancement.
French Canada was finally secularized (in the 60s), according to the wishes of English Canada. The difference is that education and health care provided in the same building for the same population coûtèrent 10 times more expensive to taxpayers. The new educators and medical staff were often on strike (remember the power of unions for years 70), tax and debt increase, birth rate sharply downward. Cultural rights of non-Francophones were redefined as privileges revoked.
The so-called "dark ages" now, and points more clearly than we thought. The analysis of Conrad Black has the merit to qualify as a defense counsel, the trial brought against the Church and its institutions.
Jacques Beauchemin believes that in 2010 we entered into a new identity crisis where we need to reinvent the culture of Quebec in 1960. Will we have to question the achievements of the Quiet Revolution through privatization and greater integration in the globalization of market economies? That he will soon be our Quebec identity? Fortunately, our mythical hockey team Montreal Canadiens still keep the flame of our "national" identity in both French Canadian, Quebec and Canada. Will we have more "tassels" our Habs in favor of the Quebec Nordiques for the emergence of a new identity? Unless you ask Santa!
Father Serge St-Arneault M. Afr
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