A RELIGIOUS STRIFE IN MONTREAL.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1880, 12 January 1875, Page 3

A RELIGIOUS STRIFE IN MONTREAL.

jLt the present time almost every nationality, with the exception of the United States, has a religious controversy on hand, The people of Canada have one which has already created some bitterness of feeling, and which threateas to cause still more. Despatches this afternoon contain a reference to it. It seems that some months ago there died in Montreal a French Canadian named Guiberd, whose family possessed a grave in the Catholic cemetery of that city. When the friends of the deceased wished to bury him in the family lot the clerical authorities refused permission, upon the ground that Guiberd, having been initiated into Freemasonry, and dying without renouncing iti was excommunicated from tbe church. The Masoas of Montreal, acting for the friends of the deceased, applied to the Dominion courts, and the Supreme Court expressed an opinion that the Catholic clergy alone were the arbiters in the dis§ute. An appeal was taken from this ecisionto ihe Privy Council of England, and this tribunal has reversed the decision of the Canadian courts, acd issued an order''for the interment of Guiberd in the cwsecrated ground of the Catholic ceme&ry. This decision was read by the Catholic curd of the cemetery on Sunday last, who announced that" he would go to jail rather than permit the burial in the cemetery. What measures will be taken to enforce the decision of the English Privy Council remains to be seen.—Evening Bulletin.