It’s still crazy: the Prime Minister, François Legault, is criticized for having said that the water is wet.
Oh no, excuse me, he pointed out that Quebec had a Catholic culture, which is another obvious fact.
We may be secular, atheist or have made, like me, our apostasy, we cannot deny that Catholicism is at the heart of the cultural DNA of Quebec. It’s obvious like the nose in the middle of the face… or the cross in the middle of Mount Royal.
SACRAMENT!
If Catholicism wasn’t at the heart of Quebec culture…
– The room The fairies are thirstyby Denise Boucher, would she have caused such a scandal in 1978 because of her representation of the Virgin Mary?
– Would Denise Bombardier have titled A childhood with holy water the story of his childhood?
Would she speak there of “the omnipotence of the Roman Catholic Church”, and would she quote this sentence that the sisters and brothers repeated: “The immodesty, it begins with the feet and it goes up. Don’t forget to wear stockings.
– Would our TV series be sprinkled with consecrations, host, christ, tabernacle, ciborium, chalice, virginity and baptism?
– Would La Chicane have sung: “I have misery, oh calvary”?
— Would Michel Tremblay have written Saint Carmen of the Hand? In his most famous play, would we have witnessed this scene where the sisters-in-law kneel in front of the radio to recite their rosary?
— Would Denys Arcand have directed the film in 1989 Jesus of Montreal, about an actor who plays the Passion of Christ at St-Joseph’s Oratory? As Georges Privet wrote at the time: “Arcand pinpoints the hypocrisy of the Church, dusts off the Christ imagery, celebrates the passion of the actors and makes a timid but moving profession of faith for the redemptive power of art”.
– Ozias Leduc (1864-1955), whom the Art Canada Institute describes as “one of the most important and versatile painters of the first half of the twentieth century in Quebec”, would have created more than one hundred fifty paintings for churches in Quebec?
– Would Benoit Pilon have directed in 2021 The Vinland Clubwith Sébastien Ricard, on Brother Jean and his influence on a boys’ college in the late 1940s?
– Would Lyne Charlebois have shot the film last fall with Sylvie Moreau and Mylène Mackay Tell me why these things are so beautifularound the letters exchanged between Brother Marie-Victorin and Marcelle Gauvreau, a film which should be in theaters this fall?
– Would Léa Pool have directed in 2015 Augustine’s Passion about a music lover in a 1960s Catholic convent?
– Could we find on the Bonjour Québec website, devoted to Québec tourism, a whole section on religious heritage with about ten pages of suggestions for churches and museums of a religious nature?
GO IN PEACE
If Catholicism were not at the heart of Quebec culture… Would Christian Bégin have titled his comedy show The deadly sins? would he animate There are people at mass? And would he have titled his new program of “confessions”, shot at the Val Notre-Dame Abbey, which begins this Friday at Télé-Québec… The great mass?