V2+50 launches canonise Cardijn campaign

The Cardijn Community International is launching a campaign for the canonisation of YCW founder Cardinal Joseph Cardijn following its Vatican 2+50: A Cardijn Perspective conference in Manila from 11-14 October.

A committee will begin work towards the canonisation immediately, CCI convenor Stefan Gigacz said in a statement.

“Cardijn played a key role at the Second Vatican Council as a member of the Pontifical Commission on Lay Apostolate and later at the Council itself,” Mr Gigacz said.

“As recalled by former IYCW President Ms Betty Villa in her video presentation, Cardijn insisted that the Council should recognise the specific role of lay people in the world acting consciously and responsibly to transform the world in the ordinary circumstances of life.

“His See Judge Act method was endorsed by the Vatican II Decree on the Lay Apostolate, Apostolicam Actuositatem, and was adopted in the drafting of the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes.

After the Council, Cardijn's method formed the basis of the “new evangelisation” process launched by the Latin American bishops at Medellin in 1968.

¨"It is extremely heartening to hear that, in his address to the Synod of Bishops, Chilean Bishop Pedro Ossandon Buljevic again emphasised the See Judge Act method as integral the process of 'new evangelisation'," Mr Gigacz added.

Conference speakers included former Caritas Asia director, Fr Bonnie Mendes, Indian professor Fr X. Selvaraj SJ, Attorney Aurora Santiago, President of the National Council of the Laity of the Philippines, and Fr Marlon Lacal of the Association of Major Religious Superiors of the Philippines.

In other major decisions, the conference also adopted resolutions to prepare an international survey into the social impact of Vatican II among grassroots Catholics around the world, the results of which will be shared at a global conference to be held in India in 2015.

Full details of the conference will be available shortly on the conference website: www.vatican2plus50.com

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Synod bishops endorse See Judge Act

Bishop Pedro Ossandon Buljevic

Auxiliary Bishop Pedro Ossandon Buljevic of Santiago de Chile endorsed the See Judge Act method as a tool for the new evangelisation in an address to the Synod of Bishops in Rome last week.

"How can we propose the Biblical animation of life in the Spirit?" Bishop Buljevic asked.

People must learn "to permanently discern the signs of the times, according to the Holy Spirit in the service of the Kingdom of God," explained.

"This involves incorporating a discipline that teaches us to dialogue in truth and charity with the culture of Holy Scripture and in accordance with the teaching of the Church."

The Church must promote "the encounter with Christ, from the Trinitarian spirituality of communion, in the discernment in the Spirit," Bishop Buljevic said, referring to the see-judge-act method as outlined in the Aparecida Document adopted by the Latin American bishops in 2007.

In another address to the Synod, former YCS member and President of the Pontifical Council for Justice & Peace, Cardinal Peter Turkson took up Blessed John Paul II’s description of the Catholic Social Teaching as “an instrument of evangelisation”.

Quoting Blessed John XXIII's Cardijn-inspired ncyclical Mater et Magister, Cardinal Turkson said that “it is not enough merely to formulate a social doctrine. It must be translated into reality”.

“Evangelization would not be complete if it did not take account of the unceasing interplay of the Gospel and of man's concrete life, both personal and social," Cardinal Turkson continued.

"Testimony to Christ's charity, through works of justice, peace and development, is part and parcel of evangelization, because Jesus Christ, who loves us, is concerned with the whole person.”

Cardinal Turkson's presentation followed a wave of interventions by the Latin American bishops who brought with them a strong focus on the reality of poverty in their continent and the outcome document from the last meeting of Latin American Bishop in Aparecida (available at www.celam.org/aparecida.php )," noted IYCS Secretary General Devett O'Brien.

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Synod Bulletin 14 - 13.10.2012

Synod Bulletin

See Judge Act an instrument of the new evangelization (Media Blog, ACBC)

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