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2025

September 2025 – YCW & YCS martyrs – Cardijn & St Pier Giorgio – Construction workers – Gene editing

August 2025 – Cry of creation – Underpaid – Pope Francis – Catholic Action – Peter Cox

July 2025 – Leo XIII to Leo XIV – Pope Francis’ pastoral theology – Cardijn’s incarnational faith – Implementing synodality

June 2025 – YCW Centenary celebrations – First worker apostles – Pope Leo on lay apostolate – Race Mathews

May 2025 – Vale Francis, welcome Leo – YCW Centenary – Brian Gore – Oonah O’Shea

April 2025 – Easter – YCW Centenary – Lay people a leaven – Wage rise justified – Vietnam 50 years later – Laudato Si’

March 2025 – Cardijn & Pius XI – Working class hope – Understanding Pope Francis – Cybertech dangers – Lenten enquiries

February 2025: AI at work – Pope slams child labour – YCW founders – Housing for homeless- Cardijn a cardinal – Gustavo video

January: YCW Centenary – Child labour – Gutierrez webinar – Laudato Si’ at 10 – Jimmy Carter – McElroy to DC – Movements need support

2024

December: Christmas issue – Migration – Human trafficking – Cardijn’s Young Worker Faces Life – Lebanon

November: Lumen Gentium 60 – RIP Gustavo Gutierrez – Palestine – Climate change – Cardijn Lecture – Race Mathews – AGM

October: Domitilla Declaration – Rome – Synodality – Palestine – Lebanon – Cardijn Rediscovered

September: US partnership – Cardinal Pierre – Defend migrant workers – US Jesuit supported YCW – Martyrs in Guatemala

August: Truth & peace – Third World War – Uranium – Cardijn Community bishop – YCW heroes

July: Youth ministry – Discerning with see judge act – Co-responsibility – YCW centenary – Solidarity Burundi – RIP +Kevin Manning – World War II martyrs

June: Save the YCW Camp – This Worker Life – Rome Conference – Pope meets movements – Slovak JOC pioneer remembered

May: Martyr of the poor – Lay people are the 99% – Drought – Synodal co-responsibility

April: See judge act with Pope Francis – IYCS vision – May Day – Associative synodality

March: Myanmar refugees – Bishop Peter Cullinane – Cardijn on baptised role – IYCW & Women’s Day – Indigenous leaders

February: Lent – Migrants – Mental health – Laudate Deum – Cardinal Manning – Lucio Gera – Coffee & Donuts

January: +Eugene Hurley – YCW centenary begins – Jacques Delors – Fraternal economy – Viet YCW pioneer

2023

December: Christmas blessings – Christmas reading – Laudate Deum – Migrant exploitation – Cardijn Lecture

November: Reform or courageous cultural revolution? – 2023 Cardijn Lecture – Lay representation at the Vatican – Cardijn’s mum, Louise Van Dalen

October:  Laudate Deum – Synod Synthesis – Catacombs Mass – St Therese

September:  Pope praises Alinsky organisers – Laudate Deum – Is France a mission country?

August: Gutierrez – Freire – Angelelli – Romero – Accompanying the marginalised – Gentrification?

July: Where are the movements? – ACI AGM – The Good Shepherd – Léon Ollé-Laprune – The real YCW

June: Albert Nolan – Pacem in Terris – Suenens vs Cardijn – Voice to Parliament – Laypeople into Action – Bonhoeffer

May: Autonomous revolution – Catholics & Labor – Ocean heating – ‘Bankruptcy of evangelisation’ – YCW & Communion fast reform

April: Pacem in Terris – Cathonomics – Ethical AI – YCS & Vatican II – Rebel priests

March: Francis at 10 – Dignity of work – Marc Sangnier – YCS history – José Comblin

February: Women of Vatican II – Francis on lay apostolate – Integral human development – Working with refugees

January: Hour of the Working Class – Cardijn Reflections – Volunteering Enquiry – Richard Buchhorn – YCS against apartheid

Earlier editions

2022

December: Workers & the Church – Synod – Richard Buchhorn – Bob Wilkinson’s New Visions of Priesting

November: Bill Armstrong: Everything and Nothing – Cardijn Lecture: Cardinal Michael Czerny – See-Judge-Act Rice – Jocist Women Seminar – RIP Peter Maher

October: Cardijn Lecture: Cardinal Michael Czerny – Albert Nolan – Jocist Women Seminar – Prayers for Peter Maher

September: Worker Mission – Priesthood of the laity – Vatican restructures with see-judge-act – Jocist Women Leaders – Fr Hal Ranger

August: Agents of social change – The YCW’s missionary dimension – Plenary Council – Indigenous Science

July: Plenary priority for lay apostolate – Singapore YCW history – Cardijn & the Pact of the Catacombs

June: Plenary Council – Lumen Gentium 31 Forum – SJA and the Synodal Church

May: Cdl McElroy on SJA – Charles de Foucauld – Christian Worker Mvt – Le Sillon – Yves Congar – Pat Walsh on YCS

April: May Day – Fair pay – Hugh O’Sullivan – Jocist Women Seminar – RIP John Maguire

March: Empowering women – New lay roles – Ukraine solidaity – Bernie Docherty & Kevin Mogg

February: Lent Gospel enquiry – Impact of child labour – Remi De Roo – Bartolo Perez – New evangelisation

January: Pope Francis on See Judge Act – Catholic alternative to neo-liberalism – St Joseph the Carpenter – Jocist anniversaries 2022 – Exploited workers – Rutilio Grande beatification – Arizmendi Gathering

2021

December: Christmas – YCW formation – Gustavo Gutierrez – Argentinian jocist martyrs

November: Child labour – Bill Armstrong on YCW – Cardijn Lecture – Arizmendi – Ecclesial assembly

October: Change models – Pope Francis – Worker mission – Synod a turning point – Decent work

September: Lay apostolate council – Paulo Freire – Aus YCW 80 – Rafael Luciani – Volunteers needed

August: Planning our future – Synodality – Pierre Haubtmann – Richard Trumka – Guaranteed minimum income – Cardijn on worker organisation

July: Sr Nathalie Becquart on synodality – ACI future – Secularisation – Fr Mick Lowcock – Great strike 1917

June: Pandemic enquiry – IYCW and Pope Francis at ILO – Plenary Council – Ireland’s new Cardijn bishop

May: Rerum Novarum, Mater et Magistra – Timor Leste youth – Pope Francis’ ecology plan – Appalachian people’s pastoral

April: Rerum Novarum at 130 – Cardinal Cassidy – Review of Life – Fr Arizmendi’s Reflections

March: The Leaven in the Council – Oscar Romero – Combating People Trafficking – Biodiversity

February: Pope Francis – Fake News – Goodna Girls – IYCW

2020

December: New Year’s Eve Edition

November: Thanks, forgiveness and hope

October: Fratelli Tutti

September: Decent Work

August: AGM Edition

July: Cardijn in Ballarat

June: Black Lives Matter

May: Pentecost – Laudato Si’ – Marc Sangnier – John Paul II – John Maguire on Vatican II

April: Universal basic wage – Cardijn and John XXIII – Anglican worker priest

March: Brian Lawrence – Cardijn on peace – Romeo Maione – Future of work after Laudato Si’

February: Rutilio Grande, South Africa under apartheid, Future of work

January: Tonnet-Garcet 75 years – Fr Mike Deeb OP – Vietnam YCW history

2019

December 2019: Cardijn Mass – Enrique Angelelli – See Judge Act in NZ

July 2019: Foundation – Greg Crafter – Plenary Council Submission – YCW – Manoj Mathew