Category: Vatican
Revisiting Cardijn’s proposal for a Pontifical Commission on youth issues
In 1962, as the First Session of the Second Vatican Council drew near, Cardijn wrote to the Holy See proposing the establishment of a pontifical youth commission.
Lamennais, Cardijn and the two Cardinal Micara’s
When the emerging YCW was under attack in 1925, with Mechelen-Brussels Cardinal Mercier threatening to close it down, Cardijn launched an appeal to Rome, to the pope with the aid of nuncio, Clemente Micara.
