Who Is My Neighbor? Who Is My Enemy? I wonder how many times Joseph Cardijn sat with this question. How many sleepless nights did he spend wrestling with it? How many times did he challenge his followers to sit with it as well? Your Neighbor: The Worker Nobody Sees For Cardijn, the answer was clear... Continue Reading →
Parables and the Medium is the Message
Parables and the Medium is the Message In teaching Social Justice, we should look to the art of creating parables, which remains important today because they serve as powerful teaching and communication tools that are focused on the cultural and generational lines of the people the parable is being shared with in story or visual... Continue Reading →
In Hiroshima this week: “Give me leaders and I will raise the world”
In Hiroshima this week, urgent peace delegations that include students, faculty, and staff from colleges and universities are gathering. Bishops from South Korea, Japan, and the United States are issuing a joint proposal on nuclear weapons, emphasizing the pressing need for their abolition. Cardinal McElroy: "Nuclear weapons must be abolished from the face of the earth."... Continue Reading →
Reflecting on Benedict of Nursia and Joseph Cardijn: Do we see the patterns?
Reflecting on both St. Benedict of Nursia (c. 480-547) and Joseph Cardijn (1882-1967), we come to SEE-Discern-ACT and the role they played as influential Catholic figures who made lasting contributions to Christian spirituality and practice. However, they lived in very different eras. As cultural historians, we seek patterns, trends, and key similarities among individuals during their period when they experienced a... Continue Reading →
The Intersection of between Technology and Axiology
You think more about Axiology than you realize As we evolve in the emerging world of autonomous technology, we find ourselves at the fascinating intersections between technology, axiology, and the See-Judge-Act method, which shows how our values influence the creation and application of technology. Technology and Axiology The philosophical study of values, known as axiology,... Continue Reading →
Two Remarkable Catholic Leaders Who Changed the World
Is it time for a contemplative revolution to change the world? Joseph Leo Cardijn: The Worker's Champion Imagine a young Belgian priest in the early 1900s, walking through the rough industrial neighborhoods where his childhood friends worked in mines and factories, taking on dangerous jobs. This was Joseph Leo Cardijn, born on a chilly November... Continue Reading →
Liberation Theology, combined with JOC, critiques power structures, such as Technology.
Liberation Theology, combined with JOC, critiques power structures, such as Those Related to Technology. When Joseph Cardijn founded the Young Christian Workers (JOC movement) in the 1920s, the concepts and understanding of Liberation Theology were not part of the vocabulary or the prevailing situation at that time. The JOC movement shares notable similarities with Liberation... Continue Reading →
Do we still hear the plea from Laudato Si’? By Julie Peller Ph.D.
Green Junction May 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’, on Care for our Common Home, his written plea to humanity to address environmental degradation through conversions of the heart. Like many Catholics, I expected significant shifts by church leaders toward care for creation after the release of this encyclical. National Catholic... Continue Reading →
In The Spirit of Discernment
In his book The Modern Apostle, Louis J Putz CSC shares some of the influences that Monsignor Cardijn had on his thinking: "Monsignor Cardijn happened upon a normal and natural formula, almost accidentally. From his seminary days, he had decided to dedicate all his life to the cause of the young workingman. He came from a... Continue Reading →
Joseph Cardijn, Viktor Frankl, Pope Francis and today’s Pope Leo XIV: See the connection?
Viktor Frankl wrote about "man's search for meaning." As cultural historians/AI Ethicists, we must understand the new Autonomous Revolution: a new search and discovery of meaning in life. Studying history, we see that this discovery occurred after the last two revolutions (agricultural and industrial). We also see it in cultural phase changes, such as in... Continue Reading →
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