Tag: Pat Keegan
Universal brotherhood and solidarity: Cardijn & JPII
It’s a hundred years this month since the birth on 18 May 1920 of Karol Wojtyla, now better known as St John Paul II. Remarkably, the Polish pontiff was the fifth and last 20th century pope known personally by Cardijn
Identifying Council participants
Marguerite Fievez and Jacques Meert report that there were 22 former national YCW chaplains among the 2500 odd bishops of Vatican II.
The role of Marie-Louise Monnet
Marie-Louise Monnet, founded the JIC – the Jeunesse Indépendente Chrétienne Féminine (Young Christian Business Women) in France in 1931 after meeting Cardijn and Belgian YCW leaders at Lourdes.
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.
