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A document prepared for the YCW Bureau meeting in Rome in November 1954
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Guidelines for YCW missionary teams in Congo
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Criteria and questions for evaluating and choosing candidates for jocist missionaries to Africa
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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.
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A 1933 report by the Belgian JOC on its Service for the Unemployed
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This is a 1933 report on the activities of the Belgian YCW's Service for the Sick
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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.
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Fr Henri Caffarel was a French JOC chaplain who later founded the Equipes de Notre Dame (Teams of Our Lady). He served as a peritus at Vatican II. Pope Leo XIV declared him venerable on 23 March 2026.
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Talk by Cardijn to Priests' Training Week organised by the Belgian JOC on the theme "We priests and the growing dechristianisation of working youth" '"Nous, prêtres et la Déchristianisation croissante de la jeunesse travailleuse) Namur, Belgium, December 1948.
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Bernard Morizot was a French YCW leader sent to Germany under the Compulsory Work Service regime, where he continued to organise young workers, leading to his arrest and deportation to Buchenwald Concentration Camp. On 20 April 1945, he was shot on the evacuation route from the camp. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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French YCW leader sent to Germany under the Compulsory Work Service system. He continued to organise young workers and was arrested and sent to Dachau and Mauthausen where he died on 25 April 1945. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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Jean Perriolat was a French YCW leader sent to Germany under the Compulsory Work Service regime where he continued to organise workers, leading to his arrest and deportation to Mauthausen Concentration where he died. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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French YCW leader sent to Germany under the Compulsory Work Service regime where he continued to organise clandestine YCW groups for which he was arrested and sent to Waltendstet-Hallendorf Disciplinary Camp where he died. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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French YCW leader sent to Germany under the Compulsory Work Service system, where he continued to oragnise young workers, leading to his arrest and deportation to a series of concentration camps until his death on 27 March 1945. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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French YCW leader sent to Germany under the Compulsory Work Service system, where he continued to organise young workers, leading to his arrest and deportation to a series of concentration camps. He died after 24 January 1945 and was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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Italian-born French YCW leader sent to Germany under the Compulsory Work Service system, where he continued to organise workers, leading to his arrest and deportation to and eventual death in a concentration camp. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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Canadian-born French priest, who was sent to Germany under the Compulsory Work Service regime, where he continued to serve workers, leading to his arrest and deportation to the Zoschen concentration camp, where he died. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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French YCW leader sent to Germany under the Compulsory Labour Service scheme, where he continued to organise Catholic Action groups, leading to his arrest and deportation to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp where he died. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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French YCW leader sent to Germany under the Compulsory Work Service scheme, where he continued to organise workers, leading to his arrest and deportation to Gotha Concentration Camp where he died. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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André Parsy was a French YCW leader, who was sent to Germany on Compulsory Labour Service. There he helped organised YCW teams leading to his arrest after which he was sent to Spergau Disciplinary Camp then to Zoschen. He died in hospital on 26 December 1944 and was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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René Ponsin was a French YCW leader who was sent to Germany under the Compulsory Labour Service scheme. He started Catholic Action activities there and launched a Scout group, leading to his arrest.
He was sent to Buchenwald Concentation Camp in February 1944 and died of a gunshot wound while on an evacuation march. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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Maurice Grandet was a French YCW leader, who was sent to Germany under the Compulsory Labour Service scheme. There he organised young workers leading to his arrest after which he was sent to Buchenwald Concentration Camp where he died on 12 October 1944. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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Bernard Lemaire was a French YCW leader, who was sent to Germany under the Compulsory Labour Service Scheme, where he organised young workers. He was eventually arrested and sent to Buchenwald Concentration Camp where he died on 11 October 1944. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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Sara Salkahazi was a Slovak-born Hungarian sister, who helped launch the Girls YCW in Hungary. She was executed for her work hiding and saving Jewish refugees from capture by Nazi forces.
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Conferencia que François Houtart iba a pronunciar en el Consejo Internacional de la JOC en Aquisgrán Alemania en el año 2016. No pudo asistir, por lo que la envió en un video.
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This is a talk by François Houtart to the IYCW International Council in Germany in 2016. As he was unable to attend personally, the talk was delivered by video.
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Letter to the author of a biography of martyred French YCW leader, Marcel Callo.
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Born in Vierzon (Cher) on 20 February, 1921, Jean Tinturier was a seminarian, who trained as a mill operator in order to be sent to Germany to work with the compulsory labour service (STO) workers. He recruited Blessed Marcel Callo to his apostolic activities and was himself sent to Gotha concentration camp where he died on 16 March 1945, three days before Marcel.
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Colbert Lebeau was a Scout and YCW leader from Châtellerault in western France. Sent to Germany under the compulsory labour service (STOà, he was arrested, imprisoned and sent to Zöschen concentration camp where he died on 3 January 1945.
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Theresa Lim Chin Chin was a Malaysian YCW leader and member of the national executive during the mid 1970s. In 1987, she was detained without trial and tortured under the Internal Security Act during Operation Lalang.
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Jean Chavet was a French YCS leader from Lyon, who was sent as a forced labourer to Germany. He was later arrested and imprisoned for his Catholic Action activities and sent to Mauthausen, where he died on 24 April 1945.
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Jean Préhu was a Scout and JEC (YCS) leader, who was a prisoner of war, who helped organise other prisoners, leading to his deportation to Buchenwald.
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Jean Lépicier was a JOC leader from Angers, who was called up for STO (forced labour service) in Germany in 1943. Arrested for his jocist activities in March 1944, he died at the Buchenwald concentration camp on 3 March 1945.
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Pierre de Porcaro was a French YCW chaplain who went to work in Germany under the forced labour scheme and was martyred for his work, dying in the Dachau concentration camp.
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Born on 25 May 1941, André Jarlan was a French YCW and Christian Worker Movement (ACO) chaplain, who went to work as a fidei donum priest in La Victoria, Santiago, Chile, where he was killed by police on 4 September 1984.
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Meeting of 56 priests from various Walloon dioceses to discuss the proposed statutes of the Young Christian Workers and to plan its organisation.
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Article by Cardijn's collaborator, Fr Joseph Arendt SJ, explaining the see-judge-do method.
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Cardijn's speech to the 1938 Congress of the Belgian Association of Catholic Youth (ACJB)
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Tribute to Joseph Cardijn by the Denis Hurley Centre on the 50th anniversary of Cardijn's death
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Receive Cardijn Reflections in your inbox twice a week!
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Cardijn explains the concept of Specialised Catholic Action, particularly in relation to the lay apostolate and the YCW
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Quotation from French philosopher, Simone Weil
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Episcopal Ministry. 1966: Gestures for Peace. The last dream. Collaborator of Paul VI.
July 1967: The Last Call.
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Philippines YCW leader, who became vice-president of the International YCW from 1961-64.
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Caroline Pezzullo was a US YCW leader of the 1950s and 1960s, who went on to do extensive work in the field of world development.
