Category: Cardijn
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Video: Cardijn Lecture 2025 – Archbp Tim Costelloe
Archbishop Tim Costelloe SDB of Perth, will present the Cardijn Lecture for 2025 on Thursday 13 November.
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YCW celebrates centenary in Brussels
Australian Young Christian Workers joined international YCW members, past and present, in Belgium to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the movement.
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Video: Cardijn, Pius XI and the YCW
This month’s ACI webinar with Stefan Gigacz on 11 March 2025 marks the centenary of Cardijn’s landmark first meeting with Pope Pius XI when the pontiff gave his enthusiastic approval to the emerging movement of the Young Christian Workers (YCW).
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Webinar: Marc Sangnier, the Sillon and the YCW
ACI secretary, Stefan Gigacz, will present our April webinar marking the 150th anniversary of the birth on 3 April 1873 of Marc Sangnier, founder of the French democratic movement, Le Sillon, which had such a great influence on Cardijn and the YCW.
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See clearly, judge well and decide: Léon Ollé-Laprune
This month marks the 125th anniversary of the death of French philosopher, whose work inspired the French democratic movement, Le Sillon, founded by Marc Sangnier, as well as Cardijn himself.
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Cardijn’s Hour of the Working Class
Join us on 11 February for the first ACI webinar of the year with US Catholic Social Teaching specialist, John Médaille.
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Cardijn Lecture with Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ
Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ, prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, will deliver the 2022 Cardijn Lecture, addressing the theme “Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis.”
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Cardinal Michael Czerny: Siblings All, Sign of the Times
Join the Cardijn Lecture 2022 on 14 November.
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Cardijn’s greatest battle: Lay apostolate vs apostolate of the faithful
Marking the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Council, Stefan Gigacz outlines struggle to make understood the concept of the specifically lay apostolate.
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Fr Hal Ranger, reluctant to retire at 87
Senior Toowoomba priest, Fr Hal Ranger credits Cardijn with his reluctance to retire, ABC News reports.
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Invitation: Cardijn Memorial Mass Sunday 24 July
Commemorating the 55th anniversary of his death.
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The Pact of the Catacombs and the Pietralata Message
A new ACI website explaining the role of Joseph Cardijn and Helder Camara in these events.
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An evolving missiology: The Franciscan Missionaries of Mary
In her PhD thesis, Sr Heather Weedon fmm explains how the congregation makes use of the see-judge-act.
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Plenary misses Francis’ wider vision
It overlooks the secular mission of lay people, writes Fr Bruce Duncan CSsR.
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RIP +Bill Wright: From YCS to bishop of Maitland-Newcastle
Bishop Bill died of lung cancer on 13 November 2021, Cardijn’s birth anniversary
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The worker mission
Australian Plenary Council by Fr Jim Monaghan, vicar-general of Port Pirie Diocese, and long-time chaplain to YCW and YCS movements.
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ACI’s 3rd anniversary: Planning our future
ACI president, Brian Lawrence, reflects on our progress and sets out a vision for the future
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Cardijn, Vatican II and the 21st century
Stefan Gigacz addressed the theme “Cardijn, Vatican II and the 21st Century” at the second ACI Study Circle meeting held at Catholic Theological College, Melbourne, on Monday 12 November 2018.
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Greg Crafter speaks
Former YCW fulltimer and Minister of Education in South Australia, Greg Crafter AO, addressed the ACI foundation meeting on 19 August 2018.
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A program of Christian democracy
“This is the Christian Democratic program presented by Fr Cardijn to the readers of the new daily, Le Démocrate,” wrote Marc Walckiers in his 1981 doctoral thesis on Young Cardijn.
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The doctrinal foundations of the YCW
Joseph Cardijn presented an expanded version of his famous Three Truths talk at the 1950 YCW International Congress