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- Title
"Purified Socialism" and the Church in Saskatchewan: Tommy Douglas, Philip Pocock and Hospitalization, 1944-1948.
- Abstract
Committed respectively to programs of renewal and reform in their roles as bishop of Saskatoon and premier of Saskatchewan, Philip Pocock and Cooperative Commonwealth Federation leader T. C. "Tommy" Douglas took office only weeks apart during the summer of 1944. Eventually meeting in protracted discussions that would determine the fate of the province's Catholic hospitals under hospitalization, the government's new plan of "socialized medicine," Pocock saw the perfect opportunity to convince Catholics, long an "embattled minority" in Saskatchewan, of the need to relate with the secular world on grounds of fairness and equity. His "theology of engagement," however, was momentarily undermined by the actions of a local partisan priest. Rev. Eugene Cullinane, who proclaimed the party as offering a new, "purified Socialism" that was completely in harmony with the Church's social teaching. By situating Cullinane's overt politicization in the context of Pocock's advocacy of the Catholic healthcare under hospitalization, this paper seeks to widen the focus on Pocock's ultimate decision to expel the young priest from the diocese of Saskatoon while also exposing the heretofore underappreciated efforts of a significant Catholic leader at a central moment in Canadian history.
- Subjects
SASKATOON (Sask.); SASKATCHEWAN; SOCIALISM &; Catholic Church; POCOCK, Philip; DOUGLAS, T. C. (Thomas Clement), 1904-1986; CULLINANE, Eugene; CATHOLIC hospitals; HISTORY of socialism; HISTORY; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Études d'Histoire Religieuse, 2011, Vol 77, p23
- ISSN
1193-199X
- Publication type
Article