p. 244 | GONE TO CANOSSA

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 22, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 16.

GONE TO CANOSSA.

The Canadian Government has “gone to Canossa,” and stands hat in hand before the Pope. To explain, a few facts need to be stated and put together. The Eastern Province of Canada is mainly French in respect to race, and Romish in respect to religion and only moderately loyal in respect to political relation to Great Britain. Soon after the conquest of Canada, the estates owned by the Jesuits were confiscated by the British Government, and when in 1773 the order of Jesuits had been suppressed by Pope Clement all claims of the Jesuits to their possessions were extinguished. But in 1814 Pope Pius re-established the order, and since then Roman Catholic authorities have been demanding of the Province of Quebec that compensation should be made to the Jesuits. At last the Quebec Government has struck a bargain with the Pope, by which $400,000 is awarded to the Jesuits in consideration of this old-time claim. This act of the Provincial Government could not go into effect without the consent and support of the Dominion Government; but this has now been given.—The Advance.