Tag: Ben Tillett
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.
Updated Jocist anniversaries 2023
We’re still at the beginning of 2023 but I’ve already missed one big jocist anniversary – the 150th anniversary of the birth of St Therese of Lisieux, patron saint of the YCW – so time to get to work.
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.
Was Cardijn a ‘Christian socialist’?
More than fifteen years ago when I first began researching Cardijn’s life and work, I decided to look up Ben Tillett, the British trade unionist whom Cardijn had held up as a model worker leader.
