Category: YCW History
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.
YCW Centenary History Project
ACI has called for contributors to a new volume of Australian YCW to mark the forthcoming centenary of the movement in 2025.
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.
Jean Boulier’s “I was a Red Priest” and the Holocaust
Book review of the English translation of YCW pioneer, Fr Jean Boulier.
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.
Jean Tyacke, unionist and YCW extension worker in South Africa
Jean has died in Johannesburg just a few days before her 95th birthday.
Book: To Jurong with Love
Tang Lay Lee tells the story of the Singapore YCW.
Russ Tershy: YCW and Peace Corps pioneer
Russ Tershy also co-founded the Center for Employment Training in San José, California, a model of its kind.
Webinar: A priest for workers
Fr Joe Falkiner op recalls his work with the YCW under South Africa’s apartheid regime in our next ACI webinar on Tuesday 12 July 2022.
Charles de Foucauld canonised
The desert saint inspired many early Jocist leaders and chaplains
Remembering Fr Hugh O’Sullivan: 25th anniversary
Join us for an exceptional event in Adelaide on the weekend of 28-29 May.
Tipping the world on its head
Former YCW leader, Kevin Peoples, recalls how the movement transformed him into a “lay apostle.”
Making life beautiful: The Jocist Women Leaders project
A new ACI project
Vale Fr Kevin Mogg AM
A legendary YCW chaplain in Melbourne
Campion Society webinar: Video
Watch the video and read the report of our webinar with Colin Jory and Richard Doig
RIP Bartolo Perez, IYCW president and Vatican II lay auditor
Died at the age of 96 on 21 January 2022
Webinar marks YCW 80th anniversary
Former YCW Bill Armstrong AO and current YCW president Marilyn Bellett share their experiences
Street Level Disciple
Former US YCW leader Frank Ardito Jr recalls his efforts to combat racism and violence on the streets of Chicago.
Blessed Stefan Wyszynski, YCW founder in Poland
Beatified on 12 September 2021
Australian YCW celebrates 80 years
This month marks the 80th anniversary of the formal establishment of the YCW in Melbourne, the first Australian diocese in which the movement was launched.
Righteous of the Nations
The Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Centre has recognised four Belgian JOC leaders and a chaplain as “Righteous of the Nations” for the roles in protecting and saving Jews and resisting the Nazi occupation during World War II.
Des Tobin: Writer, speaker, YCW fulltimer
Des Tobin has variously been a failed student, a springboard diver, a discontented apprentice panel beater, a junior pole-vaulter, a VFL and Olympic Australian Rules footballer, a YCW extension worker, and a successful business executive in the funeral industry.
Lessons from a township that resisted apartheid
Can people on the wrong end of power change the world by working together? Or are the moments when the powerless take control of their own lives doomed to be snuffed out?
World War II martyrs on both sides
World War II in Europe ended 75 years ago in May 1945. Right to the end, however, JOC and JEC leaders continued to die in Nazi concentration camps.
