Category: Cardijn
Formation in Catholic Social Doctrine
As we saw previously, Cardijn always wanted Catholic Social Teaching or Doctrine to be taught in the context of life and social reality. Moreover, he often regretted the fact that it was not taught more and better.
Jocist anniversaries in 2022
Time to begin compiling a list of jocist anniversaries for the new year of 2022 beginning with the 140th birth anniversary of Cardijn himself.
Cardijn, work and the worker
It was Joseph Cardijn, who in February 1960 first made the original proposal to John XXIII for an encyclical to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Rerum Novarum
Fernand Tonnet and Paul Garcet – 75 years
On 27 January this year, the world will commemorate the liberation by Soviet troops of the infamous camp at Auschwitz, where so many people perished during the Second World War.
2020 in anniversaries – Updated
To start the new year, here is a starter list of significant anniversaries that fall this year.
Listening to Cardijn – or not
Australian YCW chaplain, Fr Hugh O’Sullivan, once told me that when Cardijn first visited Australia in 1958, he was more impressed by Maria Meersman, who was then the vice-president of the International YCW, than by Cardijn himself.
Why did Cardijn’s writings go out of print?
Continuing on the theme of the literary eclipse of Cardijn, here is a list of the most recent published editions of Cardijn’s writings that I have been able to locate.
The literary eclipse of Cardijn
Here are several more Ngraph Viewer comparisons of references in the literature (Google Books) to Cardijn and to several of his Vatican II contemporaries, including Helder Camara, Cardinal Suenens, Congar, Chenu.
Cardijn’s influence as tracked in Google Books
Let’s track Cardijn’s influence over the years as measured by the frequency with which his name appears in published literature during his lifetime and up to the present.
Cardijn vs Mother Teresa on Amazon.com
Here’s a new measure of how Cardijn has fallen out of favour, namely how many Cardijn books there are for sale on Amazon.com.
No man is a prophet… in his own movement
Yesterday I was pleased to discover that all articles published in the Nouvelle Revue Théologique from 1958 to 2000 by the Belgian Jesuits are now online.
Cardijn and the ‘Co-operative Commonwealth’
Yesterday was a great day at the Melbourne Trades Hall where the Cardijn Community Australia organised its ‘Economics for the 99%: Co-operatives in Victoria’ conference.
Two Vatican II conferences
Finally published the slideshows of my recent presentations at two recent Vatican II commemorative conferences in the UK and the US.
Suenens vs Cardijn at Vatican II
I can’t remember when I first heard that there had been tension between Cardijn and the former archbishop of Malines-Brussels, the famous Cardinal Leon-Joseph Suenens.
Congar and Cardijn: A long collaboration
As he noted in his Vatican II Journal, the late French theologian Yves Congar worked closely with Cardijn to assist the latter in the drafting of his speeches to Vatican II.
Cardijn’s astonishing last letter to Paul VI
On 25 June 1967, four weeks before his death, Cardinal Joseph Cardijn, wrote his last letter to his old friend Pope Paul VI, requesting him to visit the JOC in France.
Cardijn the canonist
There is always something to surprise you in the Cardijn Archives. This week I discovered that on 9 November 1965 Pope Paul VI appointed him to the Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Code of Canon Law.
Cardijn’s homage to Gabrielle Petit
This week I found the actual text of Cardijn’s tribute to Gabrielle Petit in his archives. And here it is.
Easter Centenary for Cardijn, YCW
This Easter marks the centenary of Joseph Cardijn’s arrival to work in the parish of Our Lady at Laeken near Brussels.
Cardijn Research
Greetings! Welcome to this new blog which aims to focus on my research into the life and work of Joseph Cardijn, founder of the Young Christian Workers movement, later a Cardinal and Council Father at the Second Vatican Council.
