September 11, 2018
The Register Archive: Catholics on edge of war pray for ‘fortitude’
When Britain declared war on Germany on Sept. 3, 1939, it was just a formality that Canada would follow suit, which it did a week later. As the war clouds darkened and Canadian troops prepared for the Second World War, Archbishop of Toronto James McGuigan issued a pastoral letter, published in The Register on Sept. 7, 1939:
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