Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rugby team will face another rough opponent when it takes on the Westmont Rugby Club of Montreal at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in its home opener on Soldiers Field. Eight graduate students, however, will bolster the ruggers' chances to better the one-win, three-loss record of their Bermuda trip...
...Church's servants should so distort the spirit of the Holy Year (any year, for that matter) with so grotesque an exhibition of bigotry . . . Jesuit Inventor Sergio de Gioia does little, if anything, to enhance his Roman collar. I think he disgraces it. WILLIAM FAHEY Seminary of Philosophy Montreal, Canada...
...stranger in the inner councils of the church. The son of a Quebec village storekeeper, ordained in 1929,416 went to Japan, proved himself an able administrator in directing the Sulpician Seminary at Fukuoka, later came back to Canada and taught at the House of Philosophy in Montreal. Since 1947 he has been rector of the Pontifical Canadian College in Rome where he was responsible for the guidance of Canadian priests studying at the Vatican, served as intermediary for important Canadians visiting the Pope. Said one Vatican insider: "I always thought he would be a bishop from the moment...
...friendly, tactful man, at home in English as well as French, Msgr. Léger seemed a perfect choice for bilingual Montreal. "It was like slipping a glove over a hand," a Vatican spokesman explained, "so easy when the glove fits well...
...Montreal, the largest diocese of predominantly Roman Catholic Quebec, Monsignor Léger has one of the most delicate church assignments in North America. After more than three centuries of close alliance, church & state in Quebec are seriously at odds on social issues...