Category: Rerum Novarum
Cardijn and Catholic Social Doctrine
Someone recently asked me about the relationship between the Cardijn or jocist method and Catholic Social Teaching, or as Cardijn preferred to call it, Catholic Social Doctrine. Let’s explore how that relationship developed over the years.
The dignity, rights and priority of labour
Evaluating the influence of an important 1874 speech by Manning, The dignity and rights of labour, on Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical, Rerum Novarum.
Cardinal Manning and the origins of Rerum Novarum
English Cardinal Henry Manning (1808-1892) was probably a major inspiration for Pope Leo XIII’s groundbreaking Catholic Social Teaching encyclical, Rerum Novarum, argues writer Russell Sparkes in the Tablet.
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.
Cardijn and the theology of work in Mater et Magistra
Let’s take a look at Cardijn’s theology of work present in the encyclicals of Popes Leo XIII, Pius XI, and John XXIII.
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
Marc Sangnier – 70 years
I can’t let today pass without mentioning that it is the 70th anniversary of the death of Marc Sangnier, founder of the French movement, Le Sillon, and who died on Pentecost Sunday, 28 May, 1950.
Cardijn’s proposal to John XXIII
Sixty years ago today on 13 April 1960, Cardijn wrote to Pope John XXIII enclosing a 5000 word note entitled “L’Eglise face au monde du travail” – “The Church and the world of work/labour.”
Cardinal Maurice Roy and parish democracy
On my website, I have already started to trace how the phrase “conscious and responsible” based on the Sillon definition of democracy slowly began to emerge into Catholic social teaching.
