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Chicago priest, Fr Bill Quinn was a chaplain to the YCW, YCS and CFM movements before becoming executive secretary to the US Bishops Committee on Migrant Workers.
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Albert Quirion was a pioneer chaplain of the JAC in Canada. In 1955, he was killed by hitchhikers he had picked up.
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Enrique Rau was a founding chaplain of the JOC in Argentina who also translated several of Cardijn's works into Spanish. As a bishop, he also participated in Vatican II.
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Jean Rodhain was a French JOC chaplain, later a prisoner of war in Germany, and the founder of Secours catholique now Caritas France.
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A historian by training, Luc Roussel was national chaplain to the JOC Wallon and a Christian Worker Movement as well as to the CSC Christian Trade Union federation.
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Henri Roy was an Oblate of Mary Immaculate priest, who was also the founding chaplain of the Canadian JOC.
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Maurice Roy was a chaplain to the JOC as well as a cousin of Canadian JOC founder, Henri Roy. As a bishop and cardinal, he supported Cardijn at Vatican II and later became president of the Pontifical Councils of the Laity and Justice and Peace.
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Mauro Rubio Repullés was a national chaplain of the Spanish JOC before becoming the bishop of Salamanca. He took part in Vatican II.
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Victor Salandini was a Californian priest who was chaplain to the YCW and worked closely with Cesar Chavez.
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Monsignor José Vicente Salazar Arias (1913-1962), was the founder of the JOC in Costa Rica.
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Archbishop Justin Simonds studied at Louvain where he became familiar with the JOC. As a bishop, he was appointed as Episcopal Chairman of the movement.
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Scottish-born Fr Harry Stocks was a Canadian CSC missionary, who became a YCW chaplain in India.
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Dom José Tavora was a Brazilian JOC chaplain, who became known as the "bishop of the workers." At Vatican II, he worked closely with Cardijn.
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Rafael Tello was an Argentine JUC chaplain and founder of the "theology of the people."
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Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte was an assistant diocesan chaplain to the Montreal JOC. He was also a chaplain to the Jeunesse Indépendante Catholique Féminine (JICF) and Mouvement des Travailleurs Chrétiens.
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Marcel Uylenbroeck was Cardijn's successor as international chaplain of the JOC Internationale and later secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity.
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Abel Varzim was a Portuguese priest who studied in Belgium where he met Cardijn. Upon his return, he founded the Liga Operária Católica (Catholic Workers League).
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Derek Worlock was an English priest, who worked closely with the YCW. He was a peritus at Vatican II and later the archbishop of Liverpool.
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Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) first met Cardijn on a visit to Belgium in 1947. They subsequently met several times in Rome. He was also close to Marcel Uylenbroeck and Pat Keegan.
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Joseph Wresinki was a French JOC leader, who became a priest and founded the ATD-Quart Monde movement to work with the "Third World in the First World."
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Mike Coleman was national president of the US YCW and later involved in the civil rights movement, urban redevelopment and international development.
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Jorge Oscar Adur was an Argentine JEC leader who became an Assumptionist priest and Specialised Catholic Action chaplain and who was kidnapped and "disappeared."
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Without an adult apostolate, all the efforts of young people will lead to a dead end.
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One of Cardijn's favourite axioms.
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Another classic Cardijn axiom.
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St Martin's Basilica, Halle, Belgium
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St Martin's Basilica, Halle, Belgium
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French JOC leader and member of the Resistance during World War II.
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Canadian Bishop Remi De Roo praises the Cardijn method.
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Ecuadorian Bishop Leonidas Proaño's experience as a young priest discovering Cardijn and the JOC.
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A new blog journeying with Cardijn and the Jocist Network of bishops, priests and lay people thru the Second Vatican Council
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French priest Pierre Haubtmann was a chaplain to the French JOCF, the Action Catholique des Milieux Indépendantes (ACI), national chaplain to the Action Catholique Ouvrière (ACO), and the principal compiler of Gaudium et Spes.
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A short biography by Paul (Cardinal) Poupard, who succeeded Mgr Haubtmann as rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris.
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Postcard illustrating the Centrale Jociste in Brussels
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Follow Cardijn's work at the Council day by day with this new blog.
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Fr Roberto Bolton García was a worker priest, chaplain to the Chilean JEC and a co-founder of the Christian Family Movement there.
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Carte postale de la JOC Suisse
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Cardijn sets out his conception of the role of former YCW leaders.
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Archbishop James Gleeson of Adelaide, was a key actor in promoting the development of the Cardijn movements in Australia.
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Cardijn with his school companions.
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Cardijn with other seminarians or students and professors, probably at Louvain.
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Cardijn's article following his return from England reporting on his contacts with English trade union leaders, including Ben Tillett, and various Christian organisations.
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Notes from a series of talks given by Cardijn to the Jeune Garde group of young men at Notre Dame parish, Laeken.
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In this early article, Cardijn explains his conception of a study circle.
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Cardijn analyses the demography of the Belgian female population and the problems facing various groups.
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Cardijn addresses a meeting of Christian trade unionists.
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Cardijn pays tribute to Belgian war heroine, Gabrielle Petit, executed by the occupying German forces.
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Invitation to memorial service and talk by Cardijn to commemorate Gabrielle Petit, the young woman executed by the German occupying forces for spying.
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Cardijn responds to criticism from Socialist leader, Jules Destrée.
