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  • 2025: Lay people and lay movements in a synodal Church
  • 2024: Marc Sangnier et Le Sillon
  • 2024: Cardijn & the lay apostolate movements at Vatican II
  • 2024: Peter Maurin, Le Sillon, Cardijn and the YCW
  • 2024: Lay apostolic movements & lay apostolate: From Vatican II to the Synod on Synodality
  • 2024: The Cardijn contribution to a synodal Church
  • 2024: Tomislav Kolakovič, Silvo Krčméry and the Slovak JOC
  • 2024: Origins and sources of the Cardijn movements
  • 2022: Alphonse Gratry: Precursor and prophet of Vatican II
  • 2014: The Cardijn vision and method: Lay people as agents of personal and social transformation
  • 2013: Young People for Development & See Judge Act

Research Papers

  • Joseph Cardijn, Georges Guérin et le réseau jociste à Vatican II
  • Joseph Cardijn, Georges Guérin and the Jocist Network at Vatican II
  • Two JOC theologians from Lille: Pierre Tiberghien and Palémon Glorieux
  • Deux théologiens de la JOC lilloise : Pierre Tiberghien et Palémon Glorieux
  • Cardijn’s trinomials: A vision and method of lay apostolate formation
  • Cardijn’s vision of lay apostolate and its significance for youth ministry
  • Cardijn in the historiography of Vatican II
  • Lay people transforming their lives and the world
  • Cardijn and Congar at Vatican II
  • Joseph Cardijn, Vatican II and the New Evangelisation
  • Lay people transforming their lives and the world
  • Alberigo and Komonchak’s History of Vatican II
  • New shockwaves – Rediscovering Cardijn’s vision
  • Redécouvertes et remous à propos de Cardijn
  • Healing the Fractured Memory of the Lay Movements
  • Democracy at Vatican II
  • The excommunication of Fr Tissa Balasuriya o.m.i.
  • The Sillon and the YCW
  • Le Sillon et la JOC
  • Pour une compréhension renouvelée du Sillon
  • Avant l’Action catholique : Le Sillon et la JOC
  • La personne consciente et responsable dans le monde
  • Recognition of the IYCW in the Catholic Church

Videos

  • Cardijn and the Cooperative Movement

Book Reviews

  • Race Mathews’ Of Labour and Liberty

La Croix International

  • 2018: Revisiting a proposal for a Vatican commission on youth issues
  • 2018: Revisitando uma proposta de uma Comissão do Vaticano sobre questões da juventude
  • 2018: From the Vatican II ‘Church of the Poor’ group to the Synod meet on young people
  • 2018: Método Ver-Julgar-Agir para o Sínodo dos Jovens
  • 2018: Angelelli, first martyr of Vatican II
  • 2018: Angelelli, o primeiro mártir do Vaticano II
  • 2018: Cardinal Cardijn’s decisive influence on Vatican II

Eureka Street

  • 2007: ‘See, judge, act’ more than truth by consensus
  • 2007: Catholic-inspired Bayrou seeks to break French left-right mould
  • 2007: World Youth Day’s ecological conversion opportunity

UCANEWS

  • 2023: The laity’s share in the Church’s mission
  • 2016: Catholic workers decry downside of development in Asia
  • 2013: Father Tissa: the great communicator

Other press articles

  • 2012: Cooperatives and Catholic social teaching
  • 1998: Synod for Oceania: Mistake or opportunity?
  • 1989: Celebrating May Day with India’s unemployed
  • 1989: The emerging picture of ‘the Ugly Australian’
  • 1981: Cardijn lives

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March 2026

Cardijn Research

Venerable Henri Caffarel, YCW chaplain and founder of the Teams of Our Lady

New website

Le Sillon in Belgium

This new mini-site will progressively the story of the Sillon’s influence in Belgium, including the Sillon group at Liège.

Posted on 01/03/202602/04/2026Author sgigacz.aci@gmail.comCategories Uncategorized

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