Category: France
Maxence Van der Meersch’s Fishers of People
Who knew that a famous French author, Maxence Van der Meersch, wrote a novel about the YCW of the 1930s in the northern French city of Roubaix?
Venerable Henri Caffarel, YCW chaplain and founder of the Teams of Our Lady
Pope Leo has approved a decree declaring venerable Henri Caffarel, a French YCW chaplain, who later founded the Teams of Our Lady movement.
Au revoir, Jacques Delors: From the JOC to the EU
Sad news of the death on 27 December 2023 of former European Commission president and architect of economic and monetary union of the European Union, Jacques Delors.
France, a mission country?
On 12 September 1943, a “bomb” exploded in France, Robert Dumont wrote of the initial publication of Henri Godin and Yvan Daniel’s classic work, France, pays de mission?.
A letter by Léon Ollé-Laprune
Another letter today, this time from my own collection of papers and documents, a letter written by the French philosopher, Léon Ollé-Laprune, a great influence both on Marc Sangnier and the Sillon movement as well as on Cardijn himself.
Alphonse Gratry: Precursor and prophet of Vatican II
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the death of French Catholic philosopher and theologian, Alphonse Gratry.
Jocist theologians Palémon Glorieux and Pierre Tiberghien
In 2017, the JOC in Lille in northern France celebrated the 90th anniversary of its foundation in 1927, which makes it one of the oldest movements in the world.
France, Belgium, Chile – a web of influence
One of the most famous Catholic books of the 20th century, France, pays de mission? created a sensation when it was first published at Lyons in wartime France in September 1943.
Cardijn and the baptism of Reims
“It was at Reims that the YCW of France received its baptism from the successor of St Remi,” Cardijn once said with reference to a 1927 conference at which he had spoken.
