Tag: Pope John XXIII
The Australian Plenary Council: A Cardijn perspective
For the first time in over 80 years, the Australian Catholic Church is holding a Plenary Council, which will take place over two sessions in October 2021 and July 2022. It has the potential to shape the Church’s role for perhaps the rest of this century.
Mater et Magistra endorses the See Judge Act
On 15 May 1961 – 60 years ago this week – Pope John XXIII published his new encyclical, Mater et Magistra, Mother and Teacher, commemorating the 70th anniversary of Rerum Novarum.
Cardijn, work and the worker
It was Joseph Cardijn, who in February 1960 first made the original proposal to John XXIII for an encyclical to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Rerum Novarum
Cardijn and Paul VI: Empowering young workers.
My article on “Cardijn and Paul VI: Empoweing young workers,” first published on Social Policy Connections.
Cardijn and Blessed Paul VI: a 30 year partnership
Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Blessed Paul VI, had already been working for several months as an official at the Vatican Secretariat of State when Cardijn first arrived in Rome for his first and famous meeting with Pope Pius XI
See Judge Act: From John XXIII to Pope Francis
Great to see the Synod bishops following the See Judge Act method in their work as their Mid-Term Report shows. But as we’ve seen previously, there seems to be confusion in some minds over where the method came from.
Cardijn and the ‘Co-operative Commonwealth’
Yesterday was a great day at the Melbourne Trades Hall where the Cardijn Community Australia organised its ‘Economics for the 99%: Co-operatives in Victoria’ conference.
Cardijn “revolutionised” theology: Archbishop Denis Hurley
Joseph Cardijn “revolutionised all our catechetics and most of our theology” said the late South African Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban in a 1986 interview.
Karol Wojtyla channels Cardijn
In his book ‘Sources of renewal’ on how to implement Vatican II, young Polish Bishop Karol Wojtyla only cites by name one Council participant besides Popes John XXIII and Paul VI.
‘Vatican II canonised Cardijn’: Aussie bishop
A new blog post at CathNews today: ‘The saint at Vatican II’ on Cardijn’s role at the Council.
