Category: Apostolicam Actuositatem
Restarting the clock on the role of lay people & lay movements
The Vatican II Decree on the Lay Apostolate, Apostolicam Actuositatem, is one of the Council’s most overlooked documents. It’s time to rediscover its radical message.
2025: YCW centenary and other anniversaries
The biggest jocist anniversary of the year is indisputably the centenary of the official foundation of the Belgian Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne or JOC in 1925.
Cardijn slams the 1967 Vatican Council of the Laity
The Specialised Catholic Action movements laid out their vision for a representative laity body at the Vatican in an important document drafted in July 1964, just prior to the Third Session of Vatican II.
The Australian Plenary Council: A Cardijn perspective
For the first time in over 80 years, the Australian Catholic Church is holding a Plenary Council, which will take place over two sessions in October 2021 and July 2022. It has the potential to shape the Church’s role for perhaps the rest of this century.
Universal brotherhood and solidarity: Cardijn & JPII
It’s a hundred years this month since the birth on 18 May 1920 of Karol Wojtyla, now better known as St John Paul II. Remarkably, the Polish pontiff was the fifth and last 20th century pope known personally by Cardijn
Pietralata: The forgotten Mass and Message
If the Mass for the Poor and Pact of the (Domitilla) Catacombs have remained largely forgotten until recently – at least outside Latin America, Cardijn’s Worker Mass on 17 November 1965, hasve languished in even greater obscurity.
Breathtaking misconceptions about Cardijn and the See Judge Act
According to Canadian Fr Jim Sheppard SJ, Cardijn was extremely “apodictic,”which, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, means “expressing or of the nature of necessary truth or absolute certainty.”
See Judge Act: From John XXIII to Pope Francis
Great to see the Synod bishops following the See Judge Act method in their work as their Mid-Term Report shows. But as we’ve seen previously, there seems to be confusion in some minds over where the method came from.
