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Cardijn explains the importance of the role of the chaplain in the YCW.

Writing in a Spanish magazine, Cardijn attempts to explain his discovery of the problems of young workers and his call to the priesthood.

Cardijn submitted a written intervention for the Vatican II schema on the priesthood.

Cardijn reflects on the importance of continual recruitment for the YCW and the need to reach the masses by acting as "fishers of men."

Addressing a gathering of Dutch priests, Cardijn emphasises the need for collaboration between priests and lay people.

Cardijn explains the role of the JOC in this talk to French JOC chaplains.

This is perhaps Cardijn's earliest complete exposition of his conception of the specifically lay apostolate of lay people.