Category: Catholic Action
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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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Student leaders to be canonised
Pope Francis has announced the canonisation in 2024 of two young Catholics, Italian student leader, Pier Giorgio Frassati, and Carlo Acutis, a teenage digital technology devotee.
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Barron highlights vocation of the 99%
Bishop Robert Barron, founder of Word on Fire ministries and bishop of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota in the USA, has said that he emphasised the vocation of lay people during the First Assembly of the Synod on Synodality in Rome in October 2023.
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Webinar: Catholic social justice and the Labor Party 1900-1940
Emeritus Professor James Franklin will address the subject “Catholic social justice and the Labor Party 1900-1940” at our next ACI webinar on Tuesday 13 June.
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Venerable Eduardo Pironio, precursor of Pope Francis
Co-editor of the Argentine Notas de Pastoral Jocista