THE PRIOR MONK AND RELIGIOUS SIGNS IN 2019
THE PRIOR MONK AND RELIGIOUS SIGNS... By Bernard Bujold - The debate on religious symbols that is currently raging in Quebec in the spring of 2019 confronts us with the universal question: what is religion and what is its role in today's society? The Quebec debate is very serious and it could have a profound influence on the future of our society in the coming decades, but the discussion is also a little worrisome, because it shows that the time of my childhood is becoming more and more distant... During this period of my life, religion was not complicated, because we had only two: Catholic and Protestant. Each organization tolerated the other, as long as we displayed our beliefs among ourselves in our respective villages where each religion had its church and cemetery. It was a beautiful time! Personally, I sort of grew up in a Catholic presbytery in the Gaspé Peninsula because my aunt was the priest's servant and I would visit her several times a day as my pare...