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Challenge for the Church

1972 27 min
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In Québec, as elsewhere, some venerable old church buildings fell to the wreckers' hammer to make way for urban development. What is said about the role of the Roman Catholic church and the priesthood is recorded in frank, perceptive interviews, including one with a young working priest who laid aside the robes of the past to don the garb of the modern generation.

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Challenge for the Church
  • Adieu Alouette
    Adieu Alouette
    1972 10 films
    This documentary TV series explored Quebec in the 1970s, focusing on culture and moving beyond an antiquated, folkloric view of the province.

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In Québec, as elsewhere, some venerable old church buildings fell to the wreckers' hammer to make way for urban development. What is said about the role of the Roman Catholic church and the priesthood is recorded in frank, perceptive interviews, including one with a young working priest who laid aside the robes of the past to don the garb of the modern generation.

  • director
    William Weintraub
  • script
    William Weintraub
  • producer
    Ian McLaren
    Jean-V. Dufresne
  • photography
    Jean-Pierre Lachapelle
  • sound
    Jacques Drouin
    Joseph Champagne
    Jacques Chevigny
  • editing
    Claude Duquette
  • sound editing
    Bernard Bordeleau
    Karl Duplessis
  • narrator
    Pierre Nadeau

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