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Cardijn Community Network empowers laypeople to transform society through the See-Judge-Act method, fostering justice, dignity, and collective action. Read more at www.facebook.com/groups/cardijncomm…

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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A timely webinar. australiancardijninstitute.substack.com/p/webinar-re...
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Webinar: Remembering Ivan Illich: 1926-2026
On the centenary of his birth
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A timely webinar. australiancardijninstitute.substack.com/p/webinar-re...
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Webinar: Remembering Ivan Illich: 1926-2026
On the centenary of his birth
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
We walk the Southern Way, sharing stories and quiet reflections. Each step brings us closer to Rome and inner peace. assisi.josephcardijn.com
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Institute for Christian Socialism (The Bias Magazine) @smashmammon.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Featured in Issue No.1: The socialism of production and the love ethic of Jesus. Land Sovereignty and the Struggle of Peasants in the Philippines. Student-Worker solidarity. Palestine & Mennonite activism. Order today: christiansocialism.com/submit-copy/ | Available 5/1
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
From dusty archives to lived faith, Frank Ardito’s YCW story reveals dignity, action, and the lasting formation of lay vocation. shorturl.at/45KEP
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Found in the Cardijn Library
I wonder how I can use this …?
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Join Thresholds of Transformation: a prayerful Laudato Si’ journey nurturing ecological conversion, listening, and hope for personal, communal, and systemic change. thresholdsoftransformation.org
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Thresholds of Transformation – TT Parent MiniSite
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Join the Pax Romana webinar exploring faith, culture and lay leadership in today’s world. Discover a movement, message and mission. australiancardijninstitute.substack.com/p/webinar-pa...
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Webinar: Pax Romana: A movement, a message
With Carles Torner and Anselmo Lee on Tue 10 Feb 2026 7pm AEDT
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
🌏 Creation Care Thursday | 26 Feb 🌱 Cardijn Community Australia encourages its members and partners to take part, joining Laudato Si’ Animators across Asia‑Pacific to reflect on movement building and the power of people acting together for change. 👉 Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Start the Year Strong: Forming Your Plan for 2026. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Many are asking the same question: What will 2026 require of us and how can we prepare for it well? We invite you to join us for Start the Year Strong: Forming Your Plan for 2026, a two-part gatherin...
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Transform Goliath not by striking him down, but by converting his heart through the courage, mercy, and hope of the Beatitudes. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Transforming the heart of Goliath
A Cardijn Reflection
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Black Catholic Messenger @blackcatholicmessenger.org · 25/01/2026
Amanda Gorman's "For Alex Jeffrey Pretti" laments the Saturday killing of a 37-year-old Minnesota ICU nurse by Border Patrol. The Catholic-raised poet is among many calling for national introspection as the Trump White House doubles down on violence. www.blackcatholicmes...
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Faithful America @faithfulamerica.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Join us for a National Faith Call to Action, Sunday, January 25, at 8 pm ET. Following the tragic killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota by ICE, people of faith across the country are coming together to lament, pray, and take action. Sign up now: bit.ly/nationalfait...
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Young and adult leaders unite to advance Cardijn’s vision, strengthening YCS, YCW and CCA collaboration through relational outreach, shared formation and renewed hope. cardijncommunityaustralia.org/strengthenin...
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Strengthening Cardijn’s Vision Today: How YCW, YCS and CCA Can Work Together
Joe Magri discusses how young and adult leaders are collaborating to further Cardijn’s vision by strengthening YCS, YCW, and CCA partnerships through outreach, shared development, and renewed…
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Center for Action and Contemplation @cac-org.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Mystical Sobriety is a self-guided online course that combines Dr. James Finley’s wisdom with a contemplative rhythm of practices. Enrollees will nurture inner healing and become more present in their daily lives. Discover Mystical Sobriety in 2026. buff.ly/CuF979e
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Institute for Christian Socialism (The Bias Magazine) @smashmammon.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
ICYMI: The latest in The Bias — Mennonite pastor Jay Bergen, subject of TikTok scrutiny, reflects on being arrested for Gaza solidarity and how faith-based direct action is reshaping religious resistance to US-backed violence in Palestine. christiansocialism.com/2026/01/02/u...
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Pax Christi USA @paxchristiusa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Pax Christi International expresses its deep concern about the new "Board of Peace," which risks masking power politics and geopolitical interests under the rhetoric of peace without addressing the structural causes of injustice and violence, among many other troubling aspects.
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Pax Christi International declaration on the so-called “Board of Peace”
On Thursday, January 22, President Trump announced the start of the "Board of Peace," which requires a $1 billion membership fee. According to Reuters, "US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the board's focus would be on making sure the plan for peace in Gaza was fulfilled but that it could also 'serve as an example of what's possible in other parts of the world.'"
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
All children and young people should become aware of their human dignity. They should have a sense of community and realise that no one can live all alone like a snail; their lives should be open to others —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Teachers, parents, and students should form a model community of love, collaboration, and mutual correction —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Pax Christi USA @paxchristiusa.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Last month, an intergenerational group of Pax Christi members visited the US-Mexico border. We'll share some reflections from this immersion trip over the next few weeks -- the first reflection is written by Pax Christi Young Adult Caucus member Jeanelle Wheeler.
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“The border is everywhere”: Peace Pairs pilgrimage of hope at the border 
By Michelle ShermanPax Christi USA staff In mid-December, an intergenerational group of Pax Christi USA members participated in an encuentro border delegation as part of the Jubilee Year of Hope. The 12 participants from across the United States are involved in local immigrant support and advocacy networks; several of the participants are immigrants themselves. The majority of the group were young adults (under 40) and almost all were part of the…
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Older Catholics are the backbone of evangelisation—mentoring, praying, serving, and witnessing faith across Australia. Their mission continues. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Elderly: Faithful to Our Baptismal Call and Mission of Evangelisation
Empowering Australia’s seniors as witnesses, mentors, and prayerful leaders in the Church’s mission today.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/01/2026
I am pretty damn proud to work with @australiainstitute.org.au, with people like @richarddenniss.bsky.social and @amyremeikis.bsky.social and @emmashortis.bsky.social et al. No slinking quietly into the background here - they're making a pretty necessary stand for what's right
To be clear, I have no idea how to define or measure what is “culturally sensitive”, and I respect the fact the Board acknowledged that “we also understand others will undoubtedly form different judgments.” I am one of those people.

But given how “culturally sensitive” it is for any writers’ festival to cancel a writer, I would have thought that the Board might have explained in more detail what it was that they thought was insensitive about a Palestinian woman speaking at an event that the public was free to attend or free to ignore.

While the Board were clear that they did not think Dr Abdel-Fattah or her writings were connected to the horrific massacre of Jewish people in Bondi “in any way”, South Australia Premier Peter Malinauskas seems to suggest something quite different, stating:

“I do not support the inclusion of those who actively undermine the cultural safety of others, who celebrate the death of innocent civilians, or those who doxx other artists simply because of their faith or cultural background.”

Given that no other author has been cancelled by the Board, and that the Board expressed no concern with Dr Abdel-Fattah or her writings, it is not clear why the Premier made reference to the benefits of cancelling speakers who “celebrate the death of innocent civilians”.

But what is clear is that the Board and the Premier both believe adults in Adelaide can’t be trusted to decide for themselves whether to wander over to hear the thoughts of an Australian academic of Palestinian origin, or whether to wander somewhere else.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
BREAKING: Adelaide Festival board has announced that SA Premier Peter Malinauskas will appear at Writers Week, with his hilarious new stand-up routine: 'How to Fuck-up a Festival'. An organizer said, "We thought it might be difficult to find a spot for him. But some spaces seem to have opened up."
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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
“Late on Sunday, the ABC exclusively confirmed that the board's chair, Tracey Whiting, had stepped down.” Call me crazy: but a Chair not standing by a Board decision may just suggest government-interference … Peter Malinauskas’ office smelling fishy. #AusPol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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Adelaide Festival board members, chair quit after author's cancellation from Writers' Week
The Adelaide Festival board's decision to cancel the appearance of Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah from this year's Adelaide Writers' Week has prompted further fallout, with several b...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
“Earlier today, South Australia's Premier Peter Malinauskas elaborated on his involvement in the matter, saying he offered his "clear and plain" opinion to the board but did not instruct it to change the Writers' Week schedule.” Disingenuous shite www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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Adelaide Festival board members, chair quit after author's cancellation from Writers' Week
The Adelaide Festival board's decision to cancel the appearance of Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah from this year's Adelaide Writers' Week has prompted further fallout, with several b...
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The citizen of heaven must first be a good citizen on earth. Those who want to take part in the promises of eternity must collaborate with God in justice and peace and love in this kingdom of earth —St Oscar Romero, Epiphany 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Leadership Roundtable @leadershipround.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Leaders today face similar moments: Do we cling to what we know, or step forward in faith? The Holy Family shows us that faithful leadership means trusting God—and moving anyway. #Catholicism #Epiphany #Trust #Faith
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Leadership Roundtable @leadershipround.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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Leadership Lessons from the Holy Family
During the season spanning Advent, Christmas, and the Epiphany, we read each year the story of the Holy Family — of Mary’s Annunciation, their perilous journey to safety, first to Bethlehem and later ...
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Pax Christi USA @paxchristiusa.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Johnny Zokovitch writes that, as we reel in grief in response to the current administration's ongoing atrocities, "shock seems to be what we need right now. Shock that causes us to dig in and cry out, 'No more!'”
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Blessed are the shocked 
By Johnny Zokovitch The voice in my head is tinged with a note of scorn. I find myself, like many, flattened and stunned by the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis earlier this week, gunned down by an ICE agent. I’m shocked as I stare at the footage of her attempting to drive away and the shots being fired. Yet the voice in my head is judgmental about my shock.
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J Moral Theology @jmoraltheology.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
"The question for religious voters now is what they actually believe.....Will it make any difference?" Don't look away.
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Rather than a voice lost amid the tumult of distortion, confusion, and manipulation of the news, the Church wants to be the voice of those who have no voice —St Oscar Romero, Baptism of the Lord, 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Any pilgrimage may be regarded as a work of the imagination. It exists as much in the mind and heart as it does in the body. pbranson.substack.com/p/my-twelfth...
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My Twelfth Stop on a Pilgrimage of Hope
Introduction
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Nate Tinner-Williams @natemup.com · 01/01/2026
"For many Black Catholics, the issue is not whether the Church moved to combat racial harm, but rather if the response was sufficient to meet the powerful wave of forces so adamant on preserving the status quo, keeping Black people out of mobility and access to opportunity."
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auscardijninst.bsky.social @auscardijninst.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Australian Cardijn Instititute Newsletter December edition out now: Christmas edition - Pact of the Catacombs and Gaudium et Spes at 60 - Cardinal Hollerich's challenge - Vocation & mission study day - AGM - Pax Romana - Life of Pope Leo australiancardijninstitute.substack.com/p/december-2...
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December 2025
Christmas edition - Pact of the Catacombs and Gaudium et Spes at 60 - Cardinal Hollerich's challenge - Vocation & mission study day - AGM - Pax Romana - Life of Pope Leo
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 25/12/2025
“Christ was poor at his birth, poor during the course of his life, and poor at his death.” ~ St. Bonaventure Source: Financial Times search.app/b6c34
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‘A lot of gold’: the business of dressing priests for Christmas
Family-run Watts & Co serves places of worship, UK state occasions such as coronations and even Hollywood studios
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Did not know that!
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Pax Christi USA @paxchristiusa.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Johnny Zokovitch writes that denouncing evil and challenging power is part and parcel of the prophetic vocation embraced by St. Susanna Parish in Massachusetts. Whether with words or a Nativity display, shocking one’s audience and thereby disturbing an unjust status quo is the coin of the prophet. 
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Shocked and disturbed this Advent 
By Johnny Zokovitch It is fitting that this week of Advent, we find ourselves poised between two Sunday gospels that feature John the Baptist. This past Sunday, Matthew introduces John in camel’s hair and leather belt, eating locusts and wild honey, preaching repentance in anticipation of the coming kingdom of heaven, and, most strikingly, taking the Pharisees and Sadducees to account, calling them a “brood of vipers” whose presence at his baptism in the Jordan River is more performative than substantial.
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Australia’s 10-year volunteering strategy aims to boost participation, inclusion, and impact through 11 bold objectives. Learn more! cardijncommunityaustralia.org/australias-n...
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Australia’s National Volunteering Strategy 2023-2033: Vision, Objectives, and 2024-2027 Action Plan
Australia’s 10-year volunteering strategy aims to boost participation, inclusion, and impact through 11 bold objectives. Learn more!
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
On Thomas Merton’s death anniversary: Drawing on Richard Pütz’s insights into the #MertonCardijn Option—a call to unite prayer, discernment, and social action in a world hungry for authenticity. www.facebook.com/groups/cardi...
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Redirecting...
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This was nine months after the assassination of Archbishop Romero and the Salvadoran civil war was underway. Find out more about these four inspirational martyrs, and watch the film Roses in December about the life of Jean Donovan at www.romerotrust.org.uk/martyrs/four...
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Four US Women – The Archbishop Romero Trust
Four US Women Religious Martyrs On December 2 nd  1980, four Catholic missionaries from the United States working in El Salvador were raped and murdered by five
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
On 2 December 1980, four Catholic missionaries from the United States working in El Salvador were raped and murdered by five members of the El Salvador National Guard. They were Maryknoll Sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, Cleveland Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel, and lay missionary Jean Donovan.
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Pax Christi USA @paxchristiusa.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Pax Christi USA 2022 Teacher of Peace Marie Dennis shares a reflection on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the martyrdom of the four US churchwomen in El Salvador. "They were faithful women, whose determination and hope reached out to meet the faith and courage of the Salvadoran people ..."
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Remembering the churchwomen, 45 years later
By Marie DennisPax Christi USA 2022 Teacher of PeaceDirector of Pax Christi International's Catholic Institute for Nonviolence Marie is currently on a delegation to El Salvador with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and the SHARE Foundation in commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the deaths of the four US churchwomen. On December 2, 1980, only nine months after the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, a horrific event occurred that brought the violence in El Salvador very close to home for many North American people of faith and forged a relationship of solidarity that has endured for 45 years.
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Join ACI & CCA AGMs this December. Strengthen the Cardijn mission, promote synodality, and empower lay apostles. Register now! cardijncommunityaustralia.org/calling-all-...
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Calling All Cardijn Supporters – Join Us for Our AGMs!
Join ACI & CCA AGMs this December. Strengthen the Cardijn mission, promote synodality, and empower lay apostles. Register now!
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Join Cardijn Community Australia AGM on 15 Dec. Build an adult Cardijn movement for the synodal Church and lay apostolate. cardijncommunityaustralia.org/reclaiming-t...
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Reclaiming the Lay Apostolate – Your Voice Matters
Join Cardijn Community Australia AGM on 15 Dec. Build an adult Cardijn movement for synodal Church and lay apostolate.
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This Advent, embrace hope and ecological conversion. Daily reflections inspire action for creation, justice, and the common good. cardijncommunityaustralia.org/advent-of-ho...
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Advent of Hope and Ecological Conversion
This Advent, embrace hope and ecological conversion. Daily reflections inspire action for creation, justice, and the common good.
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Join Cardijn Community Australia AGM on 15 Dec. Build an adult Cardijn movement for the synodal Church and lay apostolate. cardijncommunityaustralia.org/reclaiming-t...
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Reclaiming the Lay Apostolate – Your Voice Matters
Join Cardijn Community Australia AGM on 15 Dec. Build an adult Cardijn movement for synodal Church and lay apostolate.
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
In his 2025 Cardijn Lecture, Archbishop Costelloe advocated for a synodal Church grounded in Gospel values, emphasising the importance of every member's voice. cardijncommunityaustralia.org/cardijn-lect...
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Cardijn Lecture 2025: Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB Calls for a Gospel-Centred Synodal Church
Cardijn Lecture 2025: Archbishop Costelloe urges a synodal Church rooted in Gospel values—‘Every member has a voice.’
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Christ the King calls us to resist totalitarianism and Christian nationalism, embracing a reign of service, justice, and love. greglopez260882.substack.com/p/reflection...
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Reflection for the Feast of Christ the King
Resisting Totalitarianism and Christian Nationalism through Christ’s Servant Kingship
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
On the 60th anniversary of Apostolicam Actuositatem, Stefan Gigacz reflects on renewing lay mission for a synodal Church. cardijnresearch.substack.com/p/restarting...
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Restarting the clock on the role of lay people & lay movements
A reflection on the 60th anniversary of the Vatican II Decree on Lay Apostolate, Apostolicam Actuositatem
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Cardijn Community Network @cardijn.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
🎉 Joseph Cardinal Cardijn (13.11.1882 – 24.07.1967) 🕊️ “Each lay person has a mission, a vocation proper to them that is necessary for the realisation of the plan of love of God in the order of creation and redemption.” — Cardijn
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auscardijninst.bsky.social @auscardijninst.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
November ACI Newsletter out now: Combat exclusion: Leo - Vatican II at 60 - Pact of the Catacombs - Lay Mission Study Day - Cardijn Lecture - Dilexi Te - From factory floor to AI - Don O'Brien: Read and subscribe here: australiancardijninstitute.substack.com/p/november-2...
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November 2025
Combat exclusion: Leo - Vatican II at 60 - Pact of the Catacombs - Lay Mission Study Day - Cardijn Lecture - Dilexi Te - From factory floor to AI - Don O'Brien
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