Bishops In West-Flanders And Catholic Press: The problem of developing a catholic press existed in the deeply catholic province of West-Flanders as it existed elsewhere in Belgium, but it was tackled more energetically by the bishops of Bruges than by some of their collègues. Mgr. Boussen, the first bishop of the new see of Bruges, was first of all an opponent of the ideas of Lamennais. This goes to explain that if he wanted a catholic newspaper in his bishopric, it was at least to some extent to interfere with the fight between conservative and progressive catholics.