Tag: Pope Paul VI
Cardijn slams the 1967 Vatican Council of the Laity
The Specialised Catholic Action movements laid out their vision for a representative laity body at the Vatican in an important document drafted in July 1964, just prior to the Third Session of Vatican II.
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.
Louis-Joseph Lebret: Architect of Populorum Progressio
How did the Cardijn method come to be used in the drafting of Populorum Progressio?
Reconsidering the See Judge Act in Populorum Progressio
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Pope Paul VI’s landmark encyclical “On the development of peoples,” commonly known by its Latin title, Populorum Progressio
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
Cardijn’s astonishing last letter to Paul VI
On 25 June 1967, four weeks before his death, Cardinal Joseph Cardijn, wrote his last letter to his old friend Pope Paul VI, requesting him to visit the JOC in France.
Cardijn the canonist
There is always something to surprise you in the Cardijn Archives. This week I discovered that on 9 November 1965 Pope Paul VI appointed him to the Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Code of Canon Law.
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.
