Category: Le Sillon
Cardijn and Dorothy Day speaking live in Australia
Two live recordings of JOC founder, Joseph Cardijn, and Catholic Worker founder, Dorothy Day, speaking in Australia during their visits to Australia in 1966 and 1970 respectively have just been posted online.
Another earlier Sillon magazine
Thanks to the Institut Marc Sangnier and France’s Bibliothèque Nationale, the complete collection of Marc Sangnier’s famous journal, Le Sillon, is now online on their Gallica website.
Love, friendship and social action
One day I (or someone) must go through Cardijn’s writings to analyse what he said about love and friendship. I’m confident that there will be quite a bit.
25th August – a day of meaning
It was only when I went to work for the International YCW that I learnt that 25 August was celebrated as the “birthday” of the movement.
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.
Pat Keegan – not such a bland speech to Vatican II
Pat was the first lay person to address V2, and I think he was the first lay person in history to address an ecumenical council of the Church.
Paul Dabin – Conscious and responsible
Paul Dabin was a Belgian Jesuit who died too young on 14 June 1949 at the age of only 58. In 1941, he published Le sacerdoce royal des fidèles dans les livres saints.
