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Gerard Philips was a collaborator of Cardijn and the JOC from the early 1930s onwards. At Vatican II, he was the principal drafter of the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium and collaborated extensively on Gaudium et Spes and other conciliar documents.
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Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski founded the JOC in his home diocese of Wlocawek in 1932. He later authored a book on the theology of work.
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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's adjoint chaplain presents the YCW.
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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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A short biography by Paul (Cardinal) Poupard, who succeeded Mgr Haubtmann as rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris.
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Courte biographie par Paul (Cardinal) Poupard, qui a succédé à Mgr Haubtmann comme recteur de l'Institut catholique de Paris.
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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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This is the translated transcript of a video made by former IYCS, Pax Romana ICMICA chaplain, Antoine Sondag, in view of his impending death.
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Memoir by Fr Joe Falkiner o.p. of Mandela's speech in 1995.
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This is the translated transcript of a video made by former IYCS, Pax Romana ICMICA chaplain, Antoine Sondag, in view of his impending death.
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Homily for the funeral mass of Fr Antoine Sondag by Fr Robert Scholtus.
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L'homélie aux obsèques d'Antoine Sondag.
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Affiche d'Antoine Sondag, ancien aumônier de la JEC Internationale ainsi que Pax Romana MIIC.
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This is the translated transcript of a video made by former IYCS and Pax Romana ICMICA chaplain, Antoine Sondag, in view of his impending death.
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This is the translated transcript of a video made by former IYCS, Pax Romana ICMICA chaplain, Antoine Sondag, in view of his impending death.
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This is the translated transcript of a video made by former IYCS, Pax Romana ICMICA chaplain, Antoine Sondag, in view of his impending death.
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This is the translated transcript of a video made by former IYCS, Pax Romana ICMICA chaplain, Antoine Sondag, in view of his impending death.
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This is the translated transcript of a video made by former IYCS and Pax Romana ICMICA chaplain, Antoine Sondag, in view of his impending death.
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This is the translated transcript of a video made by former IYCS and Pax Romana ICMICA chaplain, Antoine Sondag, in view of his impending death.
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This is the translated transcript of a video made by former IYCS and Pax Romana ICMICA chaplain, Antoine Sondag, in view of his impending death.
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This is the translated transcript of a video made by former IYCS and Pax Romana ICMICA chaplain, Antoine Sondag, in view of his impending death.
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This is the translated transcript of a video made by former IYCS and Pax Romana ICMICA chaplain, Antoine Sondag, in view of his impending death.
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This is the transcript of a video made by former IYCS, Pax Romana ICMICA chaplain, Antoine Sondag, in view of his impending death.
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Le dernier testament d'Antoine Sondag, ancien aumônier de la JEC Internationale ainsi que Pax Romana MIIC.
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This is the translated transcript of a video made by former IYCS, Pax Romana ICMICA chaplain, Antoine Sondag, in view of his impending death.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rafael Tello was an Argentine JUC chaplain and founder of the "theology of the people."
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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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Scottish-born Fr Harry Stocks was a Canadian CSC missionary, who became a YCW chaplain in India.
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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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Monsignor José Vicente Salazar Arias (1913-1962), was the founder of the JOC in Costa Rica.
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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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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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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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Henri Roy was an Oblate of Mary Immaculate priest, who was also the founding chaplain of the Canadian JOC.
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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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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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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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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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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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Louis Putz was a German-born American CSC father, who learned the jocist method in France, and was a pioneer chaplain for the YCW, YCS and CFM movements in the USA.
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Ecuadorian Bishop Leonidas Proaño founded the JOC in Riobamba in 1954. Later he worked extensively with indigenous communities and was a Council Father at Vatican II.
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Mexican Jesuit Blessed Miguel Pro attended the first National Congress of the JOC in 1925 while studying in Belgium. He was later executed by the Mexican anti-clerical government on trumped up charges.
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Roger Poirier was a Canadian Oblate of Mary Immaculate, who became diocesan chaplain of the Montreal JOC and later the Quebec JOC.
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Gaston Pineau was a French priest, who was a chaplain to the JOC, JOCF, the Mouvement Populaire de Familles (MPF) and the Action Catholique Ouvrière (ACO).
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Jorge Parisotto was national chaplain to the Brazilian JOC during the dictatorship period of the 1960s and 1970s and later regional chaplain for the Americas.
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David Ogilvie-Forbes O.S.B. was an English Benedictine priest, who was also well-known chaplain to the YCW in Warrington.
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Hugh O'Sullivan was an Adelaide priest, who worked as Adelaide, Australian and International YCW chaplain.
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Yves de Montcheuil was a French Jesuit theologian, a JOC chaplain and a member of the French Resistance during World War II. He was captured and shot in August 1944.
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Carlos Mugica was an Argentinian Jesuit worker-priest, who was also a JEC chaplain. He was assassinated in 1974.
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Msgr Marvin Mottet, a former director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, started his life of social action following his youthful experience of YCS as a student at St Ambrose University in Davenport, Ohio.
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Fr Ted Mitchinson was an English YCW chaplain who also worked with the movement in South Africa. He also translated the Fiévez-Meert biography of Cardijn into English.
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Jean Ménard was member of the Canadian JEC, who later became a missionary priest and JEC chaplain.
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Marcos McGrath was a CSC father, who became archbishop of Panama City. At Vatican II, he was presided over the Signs of the Times Sub-Commission, which adopted the See-Judge-Act method.
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Fr RV Mathias was chaplain to the Indian YCW and later to the International YCW.
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Jean Margéot was the founder of the JOC in Mauritius.
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Cardinal Joseph Malula was a JOC and Ligue Nationale de Travailleurs Chrétiens chaplin in the former Belgian Congo. As a bishop he took part in Vatican II and participated in the drafting of Gaudium et Spes.
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Fr Frank Lombard was the founding chaplain of the Melbourne and Australian YCWs.
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Louis-Joseph Lebret was a French Dominican priest, who founded the Jeunesse Maritime Chrétienne (JMC) on the JOC model, and later helped draft Pope Paul VI's encyclical Populorum Progressio.
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Bishop Manuel was a major promoter of the JOC and other Specialised Catholic Action movements and a close collaborator of Cardijn at Vatican II.
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Fr Eugene Langdale was a pioneer of Catholic social work in England, who translated many of Cardijn's writings into English.
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Robert Kothen was president of a study circle of the Jeunesse Syndicaliste before entering the seminary. As a priest, he became Cardijn's assistant responsible for international relations during the 1930s.
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John F. Kelly was a Melbourne priest, who discovered the JOC through his reading of French literature. He translated many articles into English and edited the YCW Leaders Bulletin for many years.
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Jean Jadot was a Belgian JEC chaplain, who later became a Vatican diplomat. He also collaborated with Cardijn during Vatican II.
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Alberto Hurtado was a Jesuit pioneer of Catholic Action in Chile, who studied at Louvain.
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François Houtart was a JOC chaplain and close collaborator of Cardijn and the movement. As a peritus at Vatican II, he prepared the first draft of the introductory statement on the situation of people in the world for Gaudium et Spes.
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Archbishop Denis Hurley was a disciple of Cardijn and a significant ally at Vatican II.
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Fr Joseph Ho was national chaplain to the Singapore YCW.
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A Specialised Catholic Action chaplain in Namur, Belgium, Charles-Marie Himmer became the bishop of Tournai and a prominent supporter of Cardijn at Vatican II.
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Msgr Reynold Hillenbrand was national chaplain to the US YCW and noted liturgical reformer.
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Emile Guerry founded the JOC and the JAC in the Diocese of Grenoble. As archbishop of Cambrai, he continued to support the Specialised Catholic Action movements, including at Vatican II.
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Jacques Grand'maison was a Canadian JEC and JOC chaplain, who later became an advisor to the Canadian bishops.
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Palémon Glorieux was a prominent theologian, who co-founded the JOCF in the Lille diocese. He acted as advisor to Cardinal Achille Liénart at Vatican II.
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Once a member of the Sillon, Georges Guérin entered the seminary after World War I and became the founding chaplain of the French JOC.
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René Giraudet was a French Paris Foreign Mission priest who volunteered to serve in Germany under the compulsory labour service regime leading to his arrest for acting as a priest and eventual transfer to Bergen-Belsen and later his death.
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Lucio Gera was an Argentine priest and JOC chaplain, who became known as a founder of the "theology of the people."
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Jean-Marc Gaspoz was a Swiss Capucin priest, who served as a JOC chaplain in France, Seychelles and Zambia before becoming international chaplain of the IYCW.
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Cardinal Gabriel-Marie Garrone was an important promoter of Specialised Catholic Action as a seminary professor and later as archbishop of Toulouse and at Vatican II.
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Henri Godin was a French priest and JOC chaplain who co-authored a famous book "France: pays de mission?" (Is France a mission country?) and founded the Mission de Paris.
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Cardinal Josef Frings supported the establishment of the CAJ (German JOC) in the aftermath of World War II. He played a significant role at Vatican II.
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Archbishop Len Faulkner was a YCW chaplain in Adelaide, Australia, who later became episcopal delegate to the YCW for the Australian bishops.
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Rodolfo García Escamilla was the founder of the JOC and Christian Workers movements in Mexico and was murdered by a death squad in 1977.
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Victor Dillard was a French Jesuit, who was sent to Germany under the Compulsory Labour Service regime, where he acted as a chaplain to JOC and other Catholic Action groups before being arrested and eventually sent to Dachau where he died.
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Msgr Francisco Berisso was a well-known chaplain to the JOC in Avellaneda, Argentina.
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Bishop Emilio Antonio Di Pasqua was one of the founders of the JOC in Argentina.
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Bishop Emile-Joseph De Smedt worked closely with the Flemish jocist movements and was a significant ally of Cardijn at Vatican II.
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Leo Davis was a YCW and YCS chaplain from San Diego Diocese, who also founded the Cardijn Center there.
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Albert Danker was a South African Oblate of Mary Immaculate, who was chaplain to the South African YCW.
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Maryknoll Fr Tom Danaher was chaplain to the Hong Kong YCW and active in social ministry there.
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Msgr Jack Egan was a prominent chaplain of the YCW and CFM in Chicago, who also worked closely with Saul Alinsky and marched with Martin Luther King.
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New Zealand priest, John Curnow, was a prominent YCW chaplain, who went on to play an important role in other fields of social action and world development.
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Yves Congar was a French Dominican, who gave retreats to early JOC leaders and chaplains in France and Belgium, wrote extensively on the theology of the laity and played a key role at Vatican II.
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José Comblin was a Belgian-born theologian, who went to work in Brazil, where he became a JOC chaplain and a well-known liberation theologian.