Category: JOC Internationale
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.
Drop the ‘judge’ in the see judge act? Or not!
“A big changeover has taken place in the reflection of the Church over the last years,” according to Bishop Emeritus Lucas Van Looy of Ghent, who claims that Pope Francis has dropped the “judge” from the see-judge-act!
Pepe & Amalia Palacio and Enrique Angelelli: Synodality in action
Today, 11 December 2021, marks the 46th anniversary of the abduction by security forces of José Serapio “Pepe” Palacio, an Argentinian JOC leader, later a trade unionist and leader of the Workers Catholic Action and finally the first lay collaborator of the IYCW.
2021 in anniversaries
As the new year dawns, it’s time to glance at the significant anniversaries Cardijn and Cardijn-movement anniversaries that are coming up in 2021.
The Pontifical Council for the Laity de-recognises the IYCW
Remembering the 40th anniversary of Bishop Angelelli’s death on 4 August 1976, I can’t help but think of another event, another kind of death, that occurred 30 years ago today on 4 August 1986.
80th anniversary of the JOC Internationale
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the first International Congress held in Brussels from 25-29 August 1935.
