Category: YCS
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Tributes to Pat Walsh
Tributes are flowing for human rights activist and former YCS chaplain, Pat Walsh, who died in Melbourne on 28 December 2025 after a short battle with cancer.
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YCW and YCS martyrs beatified at Notre Dame
Twenty YCW and YCS leaders, chaplains and seminarians were beatified alongside a group of Scouts and Catholic Action chaplains at Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, on Saturday 13 December 2025.
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Homily of Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich
This is the homily of Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, himself a former chaplain of the JEC and the JOC, at the beatification of the JOC martyrs, JEC members and scouts at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Saturday, 13 December, 2025.
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YCW & YCS martyrs beatified at Notre Dame
The Diocese of Paris has announced that 50 martyrs of the faith including more than twenty YCW and YCS leaders will be beatified at Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris on 13 December 2025.
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YCW & YCS and the Vietnam War
The April ACI webinar on 28 April 2025 with Claire Tran Thi LIen, Val Noone and Garry McDonald, will mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.
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Jimmy Carter’s ‘moral compass’
“It’s taken some time, but Carter, who died in Plains, Georgia, on Dec. 29, is now being recognised as one of our most consequential presidents,” writes Thomas Higgins, a former US YCS leader, who worked for President Carter’s White House administration.
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YCS students speak out
A new video showcases the enthusiasm of Young Christian Students (YCS) leaders at St Columba’s Catholic College, Springwood, New South Wales.
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Remembering Gustavo Gutierrez
Lay apostolic movement leaders around the world are expressing their appreciation for the life of the late Fr Gustavo Gutierrez, the Peruvian liberation theology pioneer, who died on 22 October 2024 at the age of 96.
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RIP Bishop Kevin Manning
Kevin Manning, the second Bishop of Parramatta, a strong supporter of the YCW and YCS, died peacefully on 15 July 2024, in Bathurst NSW at the age of 90.
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Another Indian Cardijn bishop
Pope Francis has named former Indian YCS chaplain, Father Prakash Sagili, as the Bishop of the Diocese of Khammam, South India, Radio Veritas Asia reports.
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Cardijn Lecture: Reform or Revolution? The English YCS in ’68
ACI is pleased to announce that the Cardijn Lecture for 2023 will be presented on Thursday 13 December 2023 by Dr Alana Harris from King’s College London.
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The YCS in the 1960s and its response to Vatican II
The life of the youth movements of the Catholic Church, and the Young Christian Students (YCS) in particular, cannot be disengaged from the events of Vatican II and the 1960s.
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YCS History: Towards a radicalised student movement
ATF Press will launch the next issue of Cardijn Studies featuring a collection of essays and interviews from those who were involved in the late 1960s through to the early 1980s in the Young Christian Student movement (YCS).
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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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South African YCS leaders against apartheid
Peter Sadie recounts this story in his new book, “Faith in our struggle: A memoir of hope.”
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Bob Wilkinson’s ‘New visions of priesting’
Jenny Brinkworth reviews a new book based on a series of interviews with Fr Bob Wilkinson with Hilary Regan.
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Jocist Women Leaders Seminar, Leuven
Featuring speakers from Belgium, France, the UK, Uruguay, Australia and the US, the Jocist Women Leaders Seminar took place at Leuven, Belgium on 27-28 October 2022.
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Albert Nolan: Priest, Activist, Author, and Renowned Theologian
Well-known South African Catholic priest, anti-apartheid activist and internationally renowned theologian and author Fr Albert Nolan has died at the age of 88.
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Jean Tyacke, unionist and YCW extension worker in South Africa
Jean has died in Johannesburg just a few days before her 95th birthday.
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Pat Walsh recalls his YCS formation
A unique vehicle to foster young laity and their contribution to the Church and world.
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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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IYCS 75th anniversary
Movement invites alumni to share their memories with short video clips
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Building social activism and personal formation
Brian Lawrence shares his reflections for an IYCS Online Global Training Session