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  Vanneufville and Vermeersch

  Cardijn recalls the help he received in Rome from French priest, Fr Gaston Vanneufville, and Belgian Jesuit canon lawyer and sociologist, Arthur Vermeersch.
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  Meeting with Pope Pius XI

  Cardijn recalls his providential first meeting with Pope Pius XI in Rome in 1925 in which the pontiff endorsed the JOC.
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  Difficulties

  Cardijn recalls the opposition that he and the embryonic JOC faced, not just in Belgium but also later in Rome.
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  The suffering workers of the world

  Cardijn's third speech to the assembled bishops of Vatican II.
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  On missionary activity

  A note by Cardijn on the Vatican II draft schema on missionary activity.
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  Note 34 - The lay apostolate

  As a Council Father, Cardijn's submitted a written intervention on lay apostolate to Vatican II since discussion in the Council plenary was already complete.
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  The future of the YCW depends on England

  Returning from the Americas in 1946, Cardijn stopped in the UK where he made a flying tour of several industrial centres.
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  Manchester Rally

  Cardijn speaks at a YCW Rally in Manchester, recalling his first visit there 55 years earlier.
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  The Church and the world of labour

  Notes prepared by Cardijn for Pope John XXIII to assist in the drafting of an encyclical for the 70th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, which became Mater et Magistra.
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  Quaerite primum

  Cardijn summarises the essentials of the YCW method in this wide-ranging talk to English YCW chaplains.
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  Priests and laity in the Church's mission

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

  The text of Cardijn's talk broadcast by the BBC Home Service.
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  The hour of the working class - Lecture 3 - The worker movement

  This is the third of Cardijn's famous 1948 Godinne lecture series.
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  Allocution of Canon Cardijn

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

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

  Cardijn summarises the whole YCW method in this 1938 article.
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  Sermon at the Lisieux Eucharistic Congress

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

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

  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.
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  The YCW and the parish

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