At 119 Wellington Street West in Toronto, in the heart of the business district of the city, one hundred years ago this month, Father Alfred Burke was organizing the headquarters of The Catholic Church Extension Society of Canada. There were just three little rooms, dark, wood-panelled and a bit musty, occupied by the staff of three, and later four priests, whose job it was to make the Society work.
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