Canada had an almost secret ethnolinguistic Catholic power struggle...
Ante D. Luvian@uncle_deluge
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Sep 23, 2025
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Canada had an almost secret ethnolinguistic Catholic power struggle in the early 20th century where the government would quietly support Irish bishops to Anglicize what had been a nearly entirely French speaking institution across the country
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Full article
cchahistory.ca/journal/CCHA19…
cchahistory.ca/journal/CCHA19…
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Catholicism had been almost synonymous with the French language but the influx of English speaking Irish immigrants poised an interesting opportunity to dismantle that cultural power bloc
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This is why Canadian Catholicism is largely the Irish guilt kind and not the continental siesta kind
𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯@atlanticesque
🇮🇪 Irish Catholics: No, you’ll never understand. Catholicism is a weight on the spirit, a rotting guilt that eats at one’s soul. It’s to be soaked in one’s own blood forevermore…
🇮🇹 Italian Catholics: Yea you get to do bad stuff but the priest forgives you so it’s all good
🇮🇹 Italian Catholics: Yea you get to do bad stuff but the priest forgives you so it’s all good
