Tag: Bishop Helder Camara
Cardijn and Paul VI: Empowering young workers.
My article on “Cardijn and Paul VI: Empoweing young workers,” first published on Social Policy Connections.
Plus ça change: Synod bishops battle the See Judge Act
Several working groups at the current Synod on the Family are questioning the utility of the method for an “ecclesial document”, according to press reports.
Listening to Cardijn – or not
Australian YCW chaplain, Fr Hugh O’Sullivan, once told me that when Cardijn first visited Australia in 1958, he was more impressed by Maria Meersman, who was then the vice-president of the International YCW, than by Cardijn himself.
French influence in Latin America and on Vatican II
Last week I met and interviewed 99 year old Chilean Archbishop Bernardino Piñera, who interpreted for Cardijn during the latter’s first trip to Chile in 1946 before later becoming national chaplain to the JOC.
