1950 09 04: Mgr Cento: Closing address to YCW Priests Meeting

DISCOURS DE CLOTURE

à la Journée Sacerdotale de la J.O.C.

Prononcé par Son Excellence Monseigneur CENTO (4 septembre 1950.)

Débordant de joie, l’âme encore toute remplie des plus belle et douces impressions, l’Ambassadeur du Souverain Pontife se sent heureux de prendre la parole, à la clôture de cette Journée Sacerdotale, qui suit et couronne l’inoubliable et triomphale journée d’hier.

Les deux insignes orateurs officiels d’aujourd’hui ont, avec une éloquence touchante et une autorité indiscutable, envisagé magistralement le problème de l’Eglise et du prêtre face à la question ouvrière dans le monde, question qui prime, en ce moment, toutes les autres et constitue le plus grand souci de ceux qui ont conscience de la gravité de l’heure.

Je pense, je pense… Si hier, si aujourd’hui, assistait à nos séances le Pape Pie XI, du coeur blessé duquel s’était échappé un jour, la douloureuse phrase: “Le plus grand scandale du siècle est le fait que les masses ont déserté l’Eglise”! S’il était présent ici, son grand coeur se serait gonflé d’émotion, en constatant que cet affreux scandale est en train de perdre ses proportions alarmantes, grâce à l’avance incoercible d’une jeunesse nouvelle, la J.O.C.., qui marche sous le signe de la Croix.

Il avait prévu et pressenti sa mission, lorsque, dans sa mémorable Encyclique “Quadragesimo Anno”, il écrivait: “Nous apercevons, à la grande joie de notre âme, des phalanges serrées de jeunes travailleurs chrétiens, qui se lèvent à l’appel de la grâce divine et nourrissent la noble ambition de reconquérir au Christ l’âme de leurs frères”.

Et avec quel empressement affectueux il avait reçu, en 1929, ces mêmes phalanges de jocistes belges, qui, devant Lui, s’engagea à “rebâtir le monde”!

Mais cette satisfaction inexprimable, Dieu la réservait à sc successeur, le Pastor Angelicus, qui, lui aussi, a eu pour la J.O.C. des tendresses plus que paternelles, dont les documents saisissant ce que vous avez déjà fait en faveur de ces jeunes gens, sur lesquels nous formons de si grandes espérances.

Vous avez bien mérité de la cause catholique, vous êtes dignes d’être cités à l’ordre de l’armée.

Mais ces paroles s’adressent avant tout et surtout à vous, Monseigneur Cardyn, qui avez écrit un chapître d’importance exceptionnelles dans l’histoire contemporaine du Christianisme.

Vous vous êtes donné compte que la lutte des classes n’est pas seulement un fait, mais le fait décisif de notre époque. Enfant du peuple, vous en avez compris l’âme, les besoins, les aspirations; assoiffé du divin, vous avez voulu et su l’en imprégner, travaillant à supprimer la distance qui le sépare du Chris seul vrai vengeur de ses droits..

Pénétré de la doctrine des Encycliques, vous vous êtes dépensé sans compter, avec une ardeur inlassable, à ce qu’elles ne restassent pas lettre morte.

Un écrivain anglais, qui vous a consacré un essai très saisissant, Stanley James, le concluait par ces paroles solennel les: “Gloire à Dieu donc, pour nous avoir donné, dans une heure de si grande nécessité, une personnalité douée des qualités que réclamait le vingtième siècle!”

Laissez-moi vous dire que moi aussi et, j’en suis sûr, avec moi tous les assistants, nous nous unissons à cette voix de louange au Tout-Puissant, Le priant de vous conserver longtemps encore à la Belgique à l’Eglise, au monde.

Et maintenant, je me permets de vous donner une consigne. Je reprends celle de l’éminent Archevêque de Paris: “Continuez”. Mais cela se complèterait avec une formule chère à Pie XI:

 “Toujours plus et toujours mieux!”

SOURCE

Vatican Secretariat of State Archives

Belgium 384

1946 08 30: Cardijn speaks to seminarians at Notre Dame, Indiana

CARDIJN SPEAKS.

Presented here is the substance of the address made by Canon Joseph Cardijn to the seminarians at the Catholic-Action Study Week, Notre Dame, Indiana, on August 30, 1946.

My dear Fathers and my dear seminarians:

I thank you for your most kind reception and for this introduction. I am sorry that I cannot speak English, and I will try not to wound your ears this evening. It is a dream for me to be here, here in this University of Notre Dame, and here with you, so many seminarians from so many seminaries of the United States, I am so happy to meet you, and to congratulate you for this Study Week on Catholic-Action. You are the hope, and you must be the glory, of the Church of tomorrow. You, the priests and future priests, who must be able to understand the very root of Catholic-Action in order to solve the problem of our time, and one of the most important problems of all time. And in this time of revolution, this time of a new world, one of the most important problems of the Church is the labor problem. The problem of the working class over the world. It is not the problem of one country, or of one continent. It is the problem of the world. Will the Church be able to reconquer the laboring class? This is one of the greatest and most important problems of the Church: to conquer the doctrine of Moscow. The Church must reconquer the masses of the working class, must; today, tomorrow; it is not arbitrary; it is essential for the Church to reconquer the masses of the working class.

I WAS IN ROME from May 10th to May 20th of this year, and I spoke for a long time with the Pope himself, and with two secretaries of the Secretariat who are the most intimate collaborators with the Pope. They spoke for a very long time about the problem of the masses of the working class, and their problems.

In the course of the interview the Pope mentioned to me the reflection of the Cardinal-Bishop of Toulouse, who was in Rome to receive the hat of Cardinal. Two days earlier the Pope had received the Cardinal-elect who told him: “Holy Father, the greatest danger of the Church is that the masses of the working classes of the world know nothing, nothing, nothing, about the essential doctrines of the Church, and therefore we have communism.”

And the Pope said to me: “Is it possible, is it possible, that fifty-five years after Rerum Novarum, fifteen years after Quadragesimo Anno, the Cardinal says that the working classes know nothing about the doctrines of the Church on social justice?”

I met Cardinal Mercier, and I said to the Cardinal, “If I were thirteen years old and had to go to the factory, I would become corrupted!” There is only one way to save the masses of the working classes, not two! It is to form them! It is impossible that anything but corruption should be theirs in communism, socialism, etc. The one way is a movement of working youth who will form working youth for the problems of the working life and environment-to prepare for the future, to prepare for marriage, to prepare for the family. Christ can be crucified till the end of the world if you do not have a movement to form the mass of the working youth, to resolve in a Christian manner all the problems of their daily life. Nothing a priori, nothing invented, nothing capricious!

BUT THE PROBLEM OF THE DAILY LIFE! Am I a slave? A beast? I have an immortal soul! I must save myself for eternity! Here in the factory I have an apostolate, important, divine! Without that apostolate the Church cannot realize her aim! Without work, no religion, no society! The conversion of work, of working life, of an office, of a factory, of a shop in a center of corruption to a sanctuary, will help Christ to save humanity and the dignity of the human race, the honor of the world, of the significance of the girl, of marriage. It is the ONLY way, the ONLY way, the ONE way to combat error, communism. It is impossible that you save working youth in any other way.

WORKING-YOUTH ALONE CANNOT SAVE ITSELF. YOU MUST HELP! The masses cannot become Christian without that education. We priests, or future priest, without education, cannot become priests. Without a Christian university, a Christian college, you will not have Christian educated people. And what is impossible for the priests is impossible for the masses of the working youth. They must not only be educated to thirteen or fourteen, but from thirteen or fourteen to twenty-five. They must be taught the Christian conception of life, of work, of love, of marriage. They must be formed by apostles, missionaries of the working class!

There must be a movement-the Young Christian Workers. I started this movement thirty-four years ago, with poor young workers and working girls. All the priests laughed at me, and teased me, saying: “It is impossible for young boys and girls to Christianize the working classes.” I worked for fourteen years to form the leaders. I was on the point of being condemned because I was accused of dividing the youth. I went to the Pope. He told me, “I am not only pleased with your movement, but, I will it!” Since this time I have seen the Pope every year. It is always the same. This movement is necessary to the Church. It is not caprice. It is necessary to save the youth of the working class. Ten years after starting the movement, we had 100,000 members, 2,000 local sections, and over 10,000 militants. Each year they have a study week. They edit the “Young Worker.” And today, in fifty countries of the world, there is a movement of the Young Christian Workers. We were going to have in Rome an international congress, but the war came, and Belgium was occupied for four years, and 100,000 men were deported for work for the enemy. Many young workers were sent to concentration camps. And in Germany, more than 600 underground cells sprang up. A little box with consecrated hosts-and they, they themselves, gave Holy Viaticum to those who were to be killed!

THE GREATEST RESULT OF THE MOVEMENT IS THE CHRISTIAN FAMILIES, the Christian conception of love, of the conjugal life. There are new children for the apostles of the Church. My dear seminarians, we must get at the necessity of Catholic-Action, especially for working youth. Religion is not only Sacraments, is not only prayers; religion must be the human life supernaturalized. We must learn the love of Christ by the service of Christ. We must make the young workers apostles of the Church. The Church needs the apostolate of the working-men, in their environment, if she is to conquer communism, socialism, materialism. It is not sufficient to refute communism, but a positive Christian movement must be added. This alone can make the necessary apostolate of the working class today and in the future. My dear seminarians, this is impossible without chaplains, chaplains who can form these militants. Leaders are so necessary! In every parish there must be a local section of the Young Christian Workers, and in every country a national federation of local sections, and finally an international federation. I think, my dear seminarians, that now, today, it is possible to have a very strong international organization, stronger than the communists. Therefore many chaplains are necessary, and I am happy to see in the seminaries of the world today more and more seminarians who are preparing to be Catholic-Action chaplains.

From here I will go to London, and I will participate in a study week for all the seminarians in London. There, as in Belgium and France, more and more seminarians are preparing to be Catholic-Action chaplains, the salvation of the Church of tomorrow. We must be optimistic for the future. It will be difficult, but if we are persevering, we shall form the leaders the Church needs for the salvation of the working classes.

Therefore I ask your prayers for the movement, and I hope and pray that the Study Week here at Notre Dame will be successful in forming future chaplains of the movement.

COPY IN VATICAN SECRETARIAT OF STATE ARCHIVES

1946 06 15: Montini to nunciatures

English translation

SECRETARIAT OF STATE OF HIS HOLINESS
CIFRA OFFICE

No Circular

Telegram to


Ottawa


Washington

Costa Rica


Buenos Aires

Sent June 15, 1946

Canon Cardijn, general ecclesiastical assistant

of the “Jeunesse Ouvrière Chretienne” intends to travel to America next month to promote a Catholic youth workers’ organisation. He does not have a mandate from the Holy See, however, he has requested and received approval for his trip, which it is hoped will be useful.

I therefore ask Your Most Reverend Excellency to favour and recommend him to this Episcopate, which he intends to docilely support.

(For Washington, added: please also inform the Apostolic Delegate for Mexico)

Montini

Original Italian

SEGRETERIA DI STATO DI SUA SANTITA

UFFICIO CIFRA

No Circolare

Telegramma per 

Ottawa

Washington Costarica

Buenos Aires

Spedito il 15 Giugno 1946

Canonico Cardijn, assistente ecclesiastico generale

della “Jeunesse Ouvrière Chretienne” si propone prossimo mese fare viaggio America per promuovere organizzazione operaria giovanile cattolica. Egli non ha un mandato da parte Santa Sede, tuttavia egli ha chiesto et ottenuto approvazione suo viaggio, che si spera possa riuscire utile.

Prego pertanto Vostra Eccellenza Reverendissima volerlo favorire et raccomandarlo cotesto Episcopato, cui desideri egli intende docilmente assecondare.

(Per Washington, aggiunto: voglia avvertire anche Delegato Apostolico Messico)

Montini

1946 04 06: Pius XII to Cardijn

A Notre cher fils

JOSEPH CARDIJN

Aumônier Général de la J.O.C.

(Note à la main: L’originale nella II sessione)

La filiale et pieuse adresse, par laquelle, au nom des dirigeants et dirigeantes de la J.O.C. belge, vous avez voulu Nous donner un gage de votre reconnaissance et de votre dévouement, à l’occasion de l’élévation au cardinalat de Notre ancien Nonce Apostolique à Bruxelles, qui fut aussi votre protecteur et ami vénéré, ne pouvait manquer d’émouvoir vivement Notre coeur et d’accroître encore, si possible, à l’endroit de Nos chers fils et filles, les jocistes de Belgique, et de leurs guides si zélés, Notre sollicitude empressée et Notre paternelle affection.

Comment, en effet, ne prendrions-Nous pas une très vive complaisance à voir ces prémices chrétiennes du monde du travail grandir en mérites et en nombre, dans le champ du Père de famille et spécialement, comme Nous en a rendu témoignage Notre cher fils le Cardinal Clément Micara, au sein de la chère et fidèle Belgique, où l’esprit du Divin Sauveur anime avec tant de ferveur ces intrépides phalanges de jeunes travailleurs et de jeunes travailleuses?

De particuliers encouragements – et certes, Nous ne les leur ménageons pas sont bien dus à leurs aumôniers dévoués, dont on ne peut que souhaiter voir se multiplier aussi le nombre, pour répondre aux appels croissants qui montent d’une multitude de jeunes gens et de jeunes filles des usines et des ateliers, immense troupeau trop souvent sans pasteurs, et qui deviendrait dès lors la proie des mauvais bergers et des loups. Et à ce sujet Nous ne doutons pas que des rangs des Jocistes eux-mêmes, auxquels aura été inculqué, avec la beauté de l’idéal sacerdotal, le souci d’implorer de Dieu des prêtres, ne surgissent de plus en plus nombreuses les vocations qui réclament si impérieusement les conditions de l’Eglise dans la société moderne. A l’heure où s’édifie un monde nouveau, sur les ruines d’une guerre sans merci. Nous ne pouvons que former des voeux ardents pour que triomphe enfin la loi du Christ Jésus dans tous les secteurs de la société, comme entre toutes les nations, et notamment, grâce au providentiel ferment de la J.O.C., parmi les masses ouvrières de Belgique et des autres pays. Nous savons quelle place choisie vous occupez dans l’Action Catholique, à l’affermissement de laquelle a tant travaillé Notre prédécesseur Pie XI, de sainte et vénérée mémoire, et que Nous Nous sentons Nous-même si pressé de voir s’étendre et prospérer, pour le salut même et la paix du monde. Cette étroite collaboration du laïcat à l’apostolat hiérarchique, dans une intelligente et joyeuse obéissance à l’égard des Chefs spirituels, que l’Esprit-saint a placés pour régir l’Eglise de Dieu, est la garantie des surnaturels succès divinement promis aux hérauts de l’Evangile, dont les jocistes sont par leurs méthodes appropriées et l’esprit qui les anime, la vivante expression auprès de leur frères et soeurs du monde ouvrier.

Aussi est-ce de grand coeur que Nous vous envoyons, ainsi qu’à vos chers collègues d’apostolat, dirigeants et dirigeantes de la J.O.C. belge, et à tous Nos bien-aimés fils et filles, les Jocistes de Belgique et du monde, comme gage des meilleures faveurs célestes, la Bénédiction Apostolique,

Du Vatican, le 6 avril 1946.

PIUS PP. XII.

Vatican Secretariat of State Archives

1936 05 25: Pizzardo to Hemptinne: Cardijn is right, the lay apostolate is “true”

Giuseppe Pizzardo

partita ???

??? in senza

numero?

N° 1929/36

DU VATICAN, le 28 Mai 1936.

Mademoiselle,

Dans une conversation avec M.lle Van den Heuvel, j’ai pu comprendre exactement ce qu’elle visait dans son article: Elle voulait dire que une jeune fille ouvrière ou agricole ne pourrait fas faire dell’Action Catholique sans être inscrite dans sa propre organisation, ce qui est exactement vrai.

De même j’ai eu une conversation avec le Chanoine Cardijn, qui m’a expliqué le sens de son mot “apostolat laïc”. Le sens dans lequel il l’entend est aussi vrai. Par conséquent je Vous prie de retenir comme superflue la précisation que je Vous ai donnée pendant Votre séjour à Rome.

Mes hommages empréssés.

M.lle CHR. DE HEMPTINNE

Présidente des Jeunes

GAND

Firma Monsignor Segretario

SOURCE

Vatican Secretariat of State Archives, Belgio 193

1936 02 19: Micara to Pizzardo: Cardijn’s disproportionate self-confidence

Personal

Brussels, 19 February 1936.

His Excellency Rev. Mgr. G. PIZZARDO

Secretary for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs

Dearest Excellency,

1076/36

I received your letter along with the one you asked me to forward to Canon Cardijn. And since you tell me to do so if I see no difficulty, I allow myself to express my opinion frankly, although I feel embarrassed to do so. You know, however, that I may be wrong, but that I am guided only by the desire for good.

I remember that last August, after the J.O.C. Congress I sent you a confidential note. I enclose a copy, because even now, in conscience, I do not think I should change a single word, so much so that it remains the expression of the thoughts of those who know the Canon and the Belgian J.O.C. thoroughly. I add that after a conversation with Mr. Gedda, I had the clear impression that he thought come me.

The Canon is even too inclined, upon returning from his trips to Rome, to present himself here as the true interpreter of the Holy Father’s thought on the matter of C.A.

He will certainly publish your letter, which will undoubtedly be interpreted in this sense. It also seems to me that some passages place you almost below the Canon, while you are the spokesman for the mind of the Holy See. For example, when you tell him: “Je suis bien aise que la modeste brochure etc.,” and others.

All this leads one to think that the already disproportionate self-confidence of the Canadian Federation is being over-exaggerated and this is one of the reasons why the J.O.C. is losing ground in Belgium, frankly speaking: which is very sad.

Indeed :

a) There are 300,000 young workers here who work in industry and who would be of age to join the J.O.C.. Now this only groups together 30,000 of them.

b) The number of departures is now, every month, equal to or greater than the number of admissions.

c) The French-language J.O.C., which started the movement, had 15,000 members: in five years it dropped to 10,000.

d) There was a decrease of 2,000 members throughout the organisation after the August Congress.

The Canon is not unaware of this. The data I cite are accurate, and those who have devoted themselves wholeheartedly to the J.O.C. are somewhat distressed to see Cardijn continue to present things to his Superiors in an entirely overly favorable light, while the reality offers quite a few shortcomings.

They consider him as gâté (sic = satiated) with praise that he does nothing but reap with both hands.

The loss of ground of the J.O.C. is also attributed to the so-called “policy of prestige” of the Canon: Congresses, demonstrations, and similar things; while the persevering work of organization, of study circles and above all of serious trainingreligious is less cared for.

At the end of the letter: “Troisième question,” I will note that in Belgium there are thriving organisations of Catholic adults, founded by and in close union with the Episcopate (the “Fédération des Ouvriers chrétiens” and the “Syndicats chrétiens” count 300,000 members), and with priests as counselors and moral directors. Among these, I will mention their leader, Canon Colens, recently deceased, a truly distinguished man of superior intelligence and an exemplary spirit.

Relations between Canons Colens and Cardijn were constantly troubled by the fact that the former did not approve of the latter, especially because he noted that the vast majority of young people who had been members of the J.O.C. did not and do not join Catholic workers’ organizations.

Canon Colens has repeatedly complained bitterly to me about this matter, and, being older and more solid, he has presented his grievances to Canon Cardijn, who a few months ago had promised to make efforts in this direction. He had also made commitments regarding this matter to the leaders of Catholic adult workers’ organisations.

So far, however, the result has been practically nil due to the lack of time.

That being said, I would believe that the task that the Canon receives to organise the workers who must leave the J.O.C. is intended for the propaganda that he will carry out in America. I would instead see that it would be inconvenient if he intended to undertake an activity of this kind in Belgium, where, as I said, such organisations already exist, are flourishing and are conducted, as far as the moral and religious side is concerned, by priests delegated by the Bishops.

I have told you my thoughts frankly and I hope you will forgive me.

Please let me know, even with a simple telegram, whether I should send the letter back as is, or whether you prefer to send me another one.

Belgium

193

Italian original

Personale

Bruxelles, 19 Febbraio 1936.

A S.E. Rev.ma Mgr.G. PIZZARDO

Segretario per gli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

Carissima Eccellenza,

1076/36

Ho ricevuto la tua lettera insieme a quella che mi incarichi di rimettere al Can. Cardijn. E, visto che mi dici di farlo se non vi vedo difficoltà, mi permetto di esprimerti con franchezza il mio parere, quantunque mi senta imbarazzato a farlo. Tu sai pero che posso sbagliarmi, ma che non mi lascio guidare che dal desiderio del bene.

Ricordo che nell’agosto scorso, dopo il Congresso della J.O.C. ti inviai una nota confidenziale. Te ne accludo copia, poiché anche ora, in coscienza, non mi sembra dovrei cambiare una sola parola, talmente essa rimane l’espressione del pensiero di quanti conoscono a fondo il Canonico e la J.O.C. belga. Aggiungo che dopo un colloquio avuto col sig. Gedda, ebbi ne tta l’impressione che egli pensava come me.

Il Canonico è anche troppo inclinato, al ritorno dai suoi viaggi a Roma, di presentarsi qui come il vero interprete del pensiero del Santo Padre in materia di A.C.

–

Egli pubblicherà certamente la tua lettera che senza dubbio sarà interpretata in questo senso.Mi sembra anche che alcuni passaggi ti mettano quasi al di sotto del Canonico, mentre tu sei il portavoce della mente della S.Sede. Cosi per es. quando gli dici : “Je suis bien aise que la modeste brochure ecc. ” e altri.

Il tutto fa pensare che si esalta soverchiamente la fiducia, già cosi sproporzionata, che il Can.co ha in sé stesso e che cia, già è una delle cause che la J.O.C. in Belgio perde terrenax francamente terreno: cio’ che è molto triste.

Infatti :

·

a) Vi sono qui ben 300.000 giovani operai che lavorano nelle industrie e che sarebbero in età di far parte della J.O.C.. Ora questa non ne raggruppa che 30.000. –

b) Il numero delle dimissioni è ormai, ogni mese, uguale o superiore al numero delle ammissioni.

c) La J.O.C. di espressione francese che fu quella che inizio’ il movimento, contava 15.000 iscritti: in cinque anni essa èscesa a 10.000 -.

d) Per tutta la organizzazione dopo il Congresso di Agosto vi è stata una diminuzione di 2.000 membri. 

Il Canonico non ignora questa cosa. I dati che cito sono esatti, e delle persone che si sono date corpo ed anima alla J.O.C. soffrono un po’ di vedere che il Cardijn continua a presentare ai Superiori le cose sotto un aspetto del tutto e troppo favorevole, mentre la realtà offre non poche la cune. 

Lo considerano come gâté dagli elogi che non fa che mietere a piene mani.

La perdita di terreno della J.O.C. si attribuisce pure alla cosi detta “politique de prestige” del Canonico: Congressi, manifestazioni, e cose simili; mentre il lavoro perseverante di organizzazione, di circoli di studio e sopratutto di seria formazione religiosa è meno curato.

Alla fine della lettera: “Troisième question”, notero’ che vi sono in Belgio organizzazioni di adulti cattolici, fondate e in stretta unione con l’Episcopato, fiorenti ( la “Fédération des Ouvriers chrétiens” e les “Syndicats chrétiens” contano 300.000 membri ) e con sacerdoti come consiglieri e direttori morali. Tra questi citero’ il loro capo il Canonico Colens, testé defunto, uomo veramente egregio, di intelligenza superiore e uno spirito esemplare.

Le relazioni tra i Canonici Colens e Cardijn erano turbate costantemente dal fatto che il primo non approvava il secondo, sopratutto perché constatava che l’enorme maggioranza della gioventù che aveva fatto parte della J.O.C. non entrava e non entra a far parte delle organizzazioni operaie cattoliche.

Il Canonico Colens più volte si è amaramente lamentato anche con me di questo fatto e ha presentato, lui più anziano e più solido, le rimostranze del caso al Can. Cardijn, il quale qualche mese fa aveva promesso di fare degli sforzi nel senso voluto. Aveva anche preso impegni su questo coi dirigenti delle organizzazioni operaie cattoliche di adulti.

Finora pero’ il risultato è stato praticamente nullo a causa della scarsezza di tempo.

Cio’ posto, credrei che l’incarico che riceve il Can.co di organizzare gli operai che debbono lasciare la J.O.C. si intenda per la propaganda che egli farà in America. Vedrei invece un inconveniente se egli intendesse intraprendere un’attività in questo senso nel Belgio, dove, come ho detto, tali organizzazioni esistono già, sono fiorenti e condotte, per quanto riguarda il lato morale e religioso, da sacerdoti delegati dai Vescovi.

Ti ho detto francamente il mio pensiero e spero che tu mi scuserai.

Ti prego di farmi sapere anche con un semplice telegramma se debbo rimettere la lettera tale e quale, o se tu preferisci mandarmene un’altra.

SOURCE

Vatican Secretariat of State Archives

Belgio 193

1936 02 11: International meeting of jocist chaplains, Brussels

REUNION INTERNATIONALE des AUMONIERS JOCISTES.

1009/36

11-14 février 1936.

Présents:

BELGIQUE.

Monseigneur Picard aumônier général de l’A. C. J.B.

Abbé Mampeye       ” l’A.C.J.B.F.

Abbé Leclercq                   ” la J.U.C

Chanoine Cardijn ” la J.O.C.

Chanoine Cardolle fédéral   “la J.O.C. Liége.

Abbé De Rey “la J.O.C. Bruxelles.

Abbé Lerne “la J.O.C. Gand.

Abbé Beel ” la J.O.C. Bruges.

Abbé Baeyens “la J.O.C. Brabant-Wallon.

R.P. Arts du secrétariat général de la K.A.J

Abbé Kothen du secrétariat général de la J.O.C.

FRANCE.

R.P. Lalande aumônier général de l’A.C.J.F.

R.P.Desbuquois directeur de l’Action populaire.

Abbé Guérin aumônier général de la J.O.C.

R.P. Guichard “la J.O.C.F.

Abbé Hua ” la L.O.C.

Chanoine Liagre ” la L.O.C.F.

Abbé Bordet du secrétariat général de la J.O.C.

Abbé Dewitte aumônier fédéral du Nord.

R.P. Adrien de l’Ouest.

R.P. Bouche de l’Est.

Abbé Brazzola de Paris.

Chanoine Chevrot rédacteur à la Vie Catholique.

R.P. Merklen directeur de la Croix.

R.P. Sauvage des “Cahiers d’Action Religieuse et Sociale”.

R.P. d’Ouince des Etudes.

R.P. Rouzet rédacteur à “Sept” et à la “Vie Spirituelle”.

HOLLANDE.

Abbé Mommersteeg aumônier interdiocésain du Jonge Werkman.

Suisse.

Abbé Maréchal aumônier général de la J.O.C.

LUXEMBOURG.

Abbé Kohl aumônier général des Ligues ouvrières catholiques.

CONGO BELGE.

R.P. Gangler aumônier de la section jociste de Kinshasa.

ANGLETERRE.

Mr. Singleton (remplaçant le R.P. Manson, aumônier général de la J.0.C.

SOURCE

Vatican Secretariat of State Archives

Belgio 193

1936 02 08: Pizzardo to Cardijn: Planned visit to South America

SACRA CONGREGAZIONE DEGLI AFFARI ECCLESIASTICI STRAORDINARI

NUM. DI PROTOCOLLO 443/36

VATICANO, LI 8 Février 1936

Sospesa (Suspended)

A Monsieur

L’ ABBE’ CARDIJN

Aumonier général de la J.O.C. Belge

79 Boulevard Poincaré

BRUXELLES

Monsieur l’Abbé,

J’ai reçu avec plaisir votre lettre du 28 Janvier p.p. et je m’empresse de Vous remercier des aimables paroles qu’elle contient à mon endroit.

J’ai aussi sans tarder fait connaître au Saint Père votre projet de voyage de propagande dans l’Amérique méridionale pour mettre les bases d’une solide organisation ouvrière dans ces régions si gravement menacées du communisme et de la franc-maçonnerie.

En approuvant le zèle que Vous manifestez dans cette occasion Sa Sainteté a daigné approuver cette propagande aussi opportune qu’urgente comme aussi le but d’organiser l’apostolat en faveur de la classe ouvrière, et comme gage de Ses voeux paternels et de l’aide d’En Haut Elle Vous accorde de grand coeur la Bénédiction Apostolique.

SOURCE

Vatican Secretariat of State Archives

Belgio 193