Ruthless Church control of Publicly Funded, but Church controlled Health Care and Education was one of the inspirations for La Révolution tranquille / The Quiet Revolution. Today most people in developed countries, such as the UK, feel that Religions causes more harm that good, on balance. Quebec was a leader in that regard.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9volution_tranquille#.C3.89ducation
http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/readings/church.htm
http://umanitoba.ca/colleges/st_pauls/ccha/Back%20Issues/CCHA1996/Seljak.pdf

If the Clergy did not approve of you your access to education and health care was very limited. At the turn of the millenium we saw Canadian churches go all the way to the Supreme court trying to overturn 2 Newfoundland referendums giving a mandate to replace the archaic church run publicly funded school system with a modern secular school system. Times have changed.