ken the collective consciousness of the Catholic population and to
give to Catholics that vision of their social responsibility and
religious solidarity and to keep it, by its organization, in a healthy
condition. It realizes that co-operation from the Church at large will
exist and maintain itself only if preceded, accompanied and upheld by a
strong and vigilant Catholic public opinion. In return public opinion,
once created in the ranks of our Catholic laity, will make the
_Extension Society_ a live-wire, a dynamic force of the Church in
Canada. Let us not forget, vision--and public opinion is the vision of
the multitude--is the first and primary of constructive forces.

To have Catholic action we must first create a Catholic mind.

A publicity campaign, followed by a dominion-wide drive for funds,
would be now in order. The spirit of giving and of giving for great
causes is in the air. A campaign of that nature--we have seen it often
during the war,--is in itself an education. It spreads information and
arouses the sense of duty.

From the clearness, breadth and depth of that vision will spring the
conquering spirit of united action. Forgetting then our lingual and
racial differences that have created in the past among us so many
unfortunate misunderstandings and have weakened our forces before the
enemy, we will rise to the level of our faith, to the creative powers
of true Catholicity.

The "Call of the West" has been heard. It comes to you with the
_burning problems_ of the _present_ . . . _praesentia tangens_ . . .
and the _vision of brilliant promises and heavy responsibilities_ of
the future . . . _furtra prospiciens_.

WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER?

[1] This Chapter formed the matter of a series of articles published in
the "Catholic Register" of Toronto. The Catholic Church Extension
Society republished them in pamphlet form with the following
introduction by Archbishop McNeil.

"The author of this pamphlet has lived in the West and has felt--I was
going to say--the need of Catholic co-operation, but that falls short
of the reality. Co-operation among Catholics is more than a means to a
missionary end. It is an essential part of Catholic life. Boundaries
of jurisdiction are conveniences and means to an end. In the first
centuries of the Christian era it was centres rather than
circumferences that marked divisions of work and of jurisdiction; but,
in any case, administrative divisions were neve