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This paper identifies several impacts cultural transfers operated by Quebec missionaries from 1945 onwards had on their society and Church of origin, especially with respect to recent immigration. More specifically, it deals with the work achieved by the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) towards African immigrants through the Afrika Centre they found in Montreal in 1989. This case study exemplifies the dynamic relations that exist between Quebec missionary experience and the challenges posed to socio-ecclesial integration by a growing ethnocultural diversification of the Catholic population in Quebec. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes L'Entraide missionnaire from the perspective of its networks which became international over the course of the 1960s. This internationalization was most visible in the collaborations established with Third world theologians and practitioners. From 1968 onwards, L'Entraide radically changed its worldview, taking sides with the poor and marginalized. Notions like consciousness-raising, dialogue, inculturation, and liberation were at the heart of the organization's activities hundreds of Québécois committed to sociopolitical change and community organizations attended. Thus, L'Entraide acted as a catalyst for Québécois to become familiar with different schools of thought and practices, but also to integrate these new ways of thinking collectively about the contemporary world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What contribution did the Québécois missionary effort bring to the reception of Vatican II in Québec? To answer that, this paper focuses on the experience of members of four missionary institutes founded in Québec: the Missionnaires de l'Immaculée-Conception, the Missionnaires de Notre-Dame des Anges, the Société des Missions étrangères du Québec, and the Missionnaires du Christ-Roi, between 1945 and 1962. This paper analyses the missionaries' preconciliar experience of cultural and religious difference, and shows how it contributed to the emergence of a changing perspective on Christianity, the Church, and mission. Based on interviews conducted with missionaries, the institutes' archives, and secondary sources, this paper argues that parallels exist between shifts in the missionary field with respect to lay people, the local church, cultural and religious differences, and the way the Québec Church prepared itself for Vatican II. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]