Category: Pontifical Council for the Laity
Jozef Michalik, architect of World Youth Day
As the first head of the Youth Section of the Pontifical Council for the Laity (PCL) during the mid-1980s, Jozef Michalik, the future archbishop of Przemsyl in south-western Poland, became one of the main architects of the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day events.
Fears for the ICO Conference… in 1967!
To understand the development of an organisation, it’s often useful to look at its origins. Thus, looking at the problems that developed between the Pontifical Council for the Laity (PCL) and the ICO Conference, it’s useful to look back at the origin of the former body.
Cardijn proposes a ‘Roman Centre’ for the lay apostolate
As Marguerite Fiévez told her biographers, Luc Roussel and Lamya Ben Djaffar, Cardijn would not have liked the proposed structure of the the Pontifical Council of/for the Laity created after Vatican II in 1967.
Cardinal Edward Cassidy and the IYCW
I’m not sure when I first heard of Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy, the Australian-born Vatican diplomat, who died on 10 April 2021, but it was long before Pope John Paul II appointed him as Substitute at the Holy See.
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.
