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Young Christian Workers
The Young Christian Workers (YCW; ) is an international youth organization founded by the Catholic priest Joseph Cardijn in Belgium as the Young Trade Unionists. The organization adopted its present name in 1924. Is it regarded as the most influential wing of the Catholic Action movement. Its French acronym, JOC, gave rise to the then widely used terms ''Jocism'' and ''Jocist''. In 1925, the JOC received papal approbation, and in 1926 spread to France and eventually 48 other countries. History As a young man, Joseph Cardijn blamed the death of his father, a mineworker, on harsh labor conditions. Working-class Belgians of the era tended to see the Church as serving the interests of the aristocracy, and some old friends considered Cardijn a traitor; he thus decided to devote his career to "reconciling his Church with the industrial workers of the world." After entering seminary and being ordained, Cardijn was first made an assistant priest in the Brussels suburb Royal Laeken in ...
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