Tag: Frédéric Le Play
Georges Abrassart, a Belgian Sillonist priest
Born in 1883, Georges Abrassart was a Belgian priest credited by Henri Tonnet as being responsible for “forming the soul and spirit” of his brother, lay co-founder of the YCW, Fernand Tonnet.
Marc Sangnier, the Sillon and the YCW
My presentation for the 150th anniversary of the birth of Marc Sangnier.
See, judge, act… with the Laymen’s League of New York
In 1911, the Laymen’s League of New York organised social study groups using an early form of the see-judge-act.
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.
See Judge Act or Harvard Business School?
“What’s happening within the synod is we’re seeing a more inductive way of reflecting, starting from the true situation of people and trying to figure out what’s going on here,” said Archbishop Paul-André Durocher of Gatineau
The roots of the Suenens-Cardijn conflict
We have seen previously that Suenens-Cardijn tensions date back at least to 1953 when Suenens wrote to Legion of Mary founder Frank Duff reacting to what he interpreted as Cardijn’s criticism of the Legion of Mary.
