Arts announcement: A Catholic Journey: Paul Martin Sr., Religion, and Politics, November 30

[Sherilee Diebold-Cooze]

Greg Donaghy, PhD
A Catholic Journey: Paul Martin Sr., Religion, and Politics
2012-2013 John J. Wintermeyer Lecture
November 30, 2012
C.L. Siegfried Hall @ St. Jeromes | 7:30-9:30p.m.
Free Parking | Wheelchair Accessible

Catholicism defined the private life and public career of Paul Martin Sr. (1903-1992), one of Canada's leading politicians in the decades after World War Two. As a young man, he rejected the classical conservatism of a junior seminary in Québec, embracing instead the more tolerant version of Catholicism he encountered during the 1920s at St. Michael's College in the Protestant University of Toronto. Professor Donaghy will explore Martin's early faith experiences, and examine the resulting philosophy of social justice and political change that drove this young Catholic to challenge the status quo in Depression Canada.


Greg Donaghy received his PhD from the University of Waterloo in 1998 and became Head of the Historical Section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 2003. He is also adjunct professor in the Department of History, St. Jerome's University. Dr. Donaghy has edited six volumes in the series Documents on Canadian External Relations, as well as several collections of essays on post-war Canada, including (with Patricia Roy) Contradictory Impulses: Canada and Japan in the 20th Century (2008). His recent publications include the collection, Canada and the Hungarian Revolution: A Documentary Perspective (2004), for which Dr. Donaghy was awarded a Medal of Freedom in 2006 by the Hungarian Government.