The storm of the great Jansenist controversy, which rent the Church
of France from top to bottom, had not spared the Colony, where it
had early caused trouble; for that controversy grew out of the
Gallican liberties of the national Church and the right of national
participation in its administrations and appointments. The Jesuits
ever fiercely contested these liberties; they boldly set the tiara
above the crown, and strove to subordinate all opinions of faith,
morals, education, and ecclesiastical government to the infallible
judgment of the Pope alone.
The Bishop and clergy of New France had labored hard to prevent the
introduction of that mischievous controversy into the Colony, and
had for the most part succeeded in reserving their flocks, if not
themselves, from its malign influence. The growing agitation in
France, however, made it more difficult to keep down troublesome
spirits in the Colony, and the idea got abroad, not without some
foundation, that the Society of Jesus had secret commercial
relations with the Friponne.
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