Cardijn addresses a meeting of teenage JOC leaders in Dunkirk.

Without an adult apostolate, all the efforts of young people will lead to a dead end.

One of Cardijn's favourite axioms.

Another classic Cardijn axiom.

Cardijn sets out his conception of the role of former YCW leaders.

Cardijn's article following his return from England reporting on his contacts with English trade union leaders, including Ben Tillett, and various Christian organisations.

Notes from a series of talks given by Cardijn to the Jeune Garde group of young men at Notre Dame parish, Laeken.

In this early article, Cardijn explains his conception of a study circle.

Cardijn analyses the demography of the Belgian female population and the problems facing various groups.

Cardijn addresses a meeting of Christian trade unionists.

Cardijn pays tribute to Belgian war heroine, Gabrielle Petit, executed by the occupying German forces.

Cardijn responds to criticism from Socialist leader, Jules Destrée.

Cardijn writes an article introducing a new progressive magazine, Le Démocrate.

This is Cardijn's emotional speech of welcome to Marc Sangnier, the founder of the French democratic movement, Le Sillon.

Cardijn explains the work of the JOC in terms of formation, action and organisation.

Meeting of 56 priests from various Walloon dioceses to discuss the proposed statutes of the Young Christian Workers and to plan its organisation.

Responding to criticism, Cardijn outlines the role of the JOC in the parish.

Cardijn's speech at a 1926 University Social Week in Belgium.

This is the first systematic presentation of the See-Judge-Act in the first edition of the Girls YCW Manual (Manuel de la JOCF) 1926.

Preparing for the coming of Christ

Cardijn celebrates the establishment of the first Jocist Centre at Rue des Palais, Brussels.

Cardijn presents his wishes for the Jocist movement in 1929.

Cardijn sets out the objectives for JOC teams for 1930.

Cardijn's introduction to the new chaplains' magazine for the JOC and JOCF

Cardijn explains the role of the JOC as the transformation of life, milieu (environment) and mass.

Cardijn's talk to the Social Week at Reims in 1933 in which he explains the role of the JOC in transforming life, milieu (environment) and mass.

Cardijn writes to Fr Arthur Vermeersch SJ to ask his advice on an internal paper he wrote seeking to present the YCW and to respond to critiques.

This is a 1933 report on the activities of the Belgian YCW's Service for the Sick

A 1933 report by the Belgian JOC on its Service for the Unemployed

This is an internal paper drafted by Cardijn to develop responses to various criticisms of the YCW movement and sent to his mentor Fr Arthur Vermeersch SJ.

Cardijn's reflections on the sacrament of confession (reconcilation), penitence and mercy.

Cardijn's opening speech for the First International Congress of the JOC in 1935.

Cardijn's keynote speech to the First International Congress of the JOC in 1935, introducing the Three Truths Dialectic.

Cardijn's third talk to the First International Congress of the JOC in 1935.

Cardijn's talk to seminarians who attended the First International Congress of the JOC in 1935.

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

Cardijn reflects on the role of lay working people in transforming life, milieu and world.

Cardijn offers a one-page summary of jocist principles on the eve of the first JOC International Congress in 1935

Cardijn's talk at the Eucharistic Congress at Lisieux in 1937.

Cardijn summarises the whole YCW method in this 1938 article.

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

Cardijn's speech to the 1938 Congress of the Belgian Association of Catholic Youth (ACJB)

Cardijn explains the concept of Specialised Catholic Action, particularly in relation to the lay apostolate and the YCW

Cardijn's address to the 1938 conference of Pax Romana in Bled, Yugoslavia.

Cardijn's speech to the international conference of the JEC or YCS in Yugoslavia in 1939.

Cardijn explains the JOC as a response to modern forms of paganism, understood as Communism and Nazism.

Preface to a brochure for YCW leaders and militants on prayer

Cardijn offers a brief outline of his theology of work.

Cardijn addresses a rally in Liverpool.