Great Depression took a toll on the Province; Viator College was unable meets its financial obligations and closed in 1938. Members of the Province of Chicago served in large educational institutions, universities, chaplaincies, and parishes. The Chicago Province founded a school in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1961. A church was set up in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1955, where the Clerics taught at a newly opened high school. The French provinces re-organized gradually; their apostolic commitments remained unchanged. They became involved with parishes and collaborated with the diocesan clergy. In 1955, French members founded a school in Bouaké, Ivory Coast. The Clerics moved into Spain, slowly at first but more solidly after 1920. In spite of the interruptions caused by the Civil War (1936-1939), the local communities in Spain formed a vice-province in 1937; ten years later, they became a full-fledged province. Starting in 1957, Spain founded several establishments in Chile. 1960s-1970s Vatican Council II brought renewed emphasis on the questions and challenges that were present everywhere in the late 1960s. Problems within institutions and communities led many members to leave the Clerics of Saint Viator. Reflections that began at the 1969 and 1972 General Chapters resulted in the drafting of a renewed Constitution (1978) that refocused the organization on its mission and the religious life of the Clerics of Saint Viator. During the renewal process, the congregation decided to accept lay associates, both men and women, into the community. This had been part of Father Louis Querbes' original concept. The degree to which non-clerics participate varies among the local communities. 2000s In 2010 and 2011, the Clerics organized and hosted a Youth Congress in Arlington Heights, Illinois. In 2012, a number of former students of the Montreal Institute for the Deaf operated by the Viatorians in Montreal, Canada made public their claims of sexual abuse by priests at the institute. In 2016, the Clerics of St Viateur, who operated the institute, agreed to a $30 million (CAD) payment to settle the claims. The settlement was the largest ever awarded in Quebec for a sexual abuse case. As of 2018 the Clerics of St. Viator continue to provide education and shelter for youth. Viatorian schools Canada Collège Bourget (Rigaud, Quebec) Collège Champagneur (Rawdon, Quebec) Montreal Institute for the Deaf (Montreal, Quebec, closed) Chile Colegio San Viator de Ovalle (Ovalle) Colegio San Viator de Macul (Macul) Colombia Colegio San Viator (Bogotá) Parroquia