Catholic Action for Faith and Family Dr. Horvath

Roman Catholic movement

Catholic Activity was the name of many groups of lay Catholics who were attempting to encourage a Catholic influence on lodge. They were especially active in the nineteenth century in historically Catholic countries that fell under anti-clerical regimes such as Spain, Italian republic, Bavaria, France, and Belgium. Adolf Hitler ordered the murder of Erich Klausener, head of a Catholic Activity grouping in Nazi Federal republic of germany, during the Night of the Long Knives. Cosmic Action is non a political political party in and of itself; however, in many times and places, this distinction has become blurred. Since Globe State of war II the concept has ofttimes been eclipsed by Christian Democrat parties that were organised to gainsay Communist parties and promote Cosmic social justice principles in places such as Italian republic and West Germany.^[1]

Catholic Activity generally included diverse subgroups for youth, women, workers, etc. In the postwar catamenia, the various national Catholic Action organizations for workers formed the World Movement of Christian Workers, which remains highly active today as a voice within the Church and in gild for working class Catholics.^[2]

History [edit]

The Cosmic Action movement had its ancestry in the latter role of the 19th century every bit efforts to counteract a rising in anti-clerical sentiment, especially in Europe.^[iii]

A multifariousness of diverse groups formed under the concept of Catholic Activeness. These would include: the Young Christian Workers, the Young Christian Students; the Cursillo movement, RENEW International; the Legion of Mary; Sodalities; the Christian Family Movement; various community organizing groups similar COPS (Communities Organized for Public Service) in San Antonio, and Friendship House in Harlem, an early influence on Thomas Merton.^[3]

Examples [edit]

Around 1912, every bit a curate in a parish in Laeken, on the outskirts of Brussels, Joseph Cardijn, who defended his ministry to help the working grade, founded for the young seamstresses a co-operative of the Needleworkers' Trade Union. In 1919 he started the "Young Trade Unionists". In 1924, the proper noun of the arrangement was inverse to "Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne", the Young Christian Workers.^[4] JOC grew quickly throughout the world; its members were often known as "Jocists" (the motility was ofttimes called "Jocism"). Past 1938, there were 500,000 members throughout Europe;^[v] in 1967, this had increased to 2,000,000 members in 69 countries.^[v]

The emblems of Acción Católica Mexicana displayed on altar walls in the temple of Fábrica-María village, Otzolotepec, Mexico. In the 20th century the movement was enthusiastically supported by the workers of the local textile industry.

A fruit of the contemporary Cosmic Action movement, the International Catholic Marriage of the Printing UCIP was founded in Belgium in 1927. A twelvemonth later the Organization Catholique Internationale du Cinéma (OCIC) came into being in The Netherlands, and the Bureau Cosmic International de Radiodiffusion (BCIR), in Deutschland. It became Unda in 1946. These professional Catholic lay associations, working in the world of the professional media, wanted to unite their efforts confronting the secularization of society. On the one hand, they were aware that the press and the new media of radio and cinema were contributing to secularization. On the other mitt, they also believed that past engaging in the secular media, they could utilize them as a new means of evangelization. Efforts had to be made to evangelize the secular mass media, or at least to insert the values of the Gospel into them. Every bit a result of the merger of the Catholic media organizations OCIC and Unda, a new organization was founded in 2001 in Rome chosen SIGNIS.^[half-dozen] In 2014 the Vatican suggested that SIGNIS should likewise integrate the members of the former International Catholic Union of the Press (UCIP), which a few years earlier had lost its recognition by the Holy See as an official Cosmic organization.^{[ citation needed ]}

Australia [edit]

The National Borough Quango is an Australian Catholic Activity group formed in 1957 out of the Australian Catholic social studies move under the leadership of B.A. Santamaria. Precursors to the NCC were active in the Australian Labor Party, but were expelled from the party by less conservative members during the 1955 Labor Split. The expelled members of the political party went on to form the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist) and the subsequent Autonomous Labor Party.^[7]

Chile [edit]

In Chile, Catholic Action was the name of a nationwide youth movement. Under the aegis of Saint Alberto Hurtado it was responsible for the founding of the Chilean Merchandise Union Association.^{[8] [9]}

Italy [edit]

Azione Cattolica is probably the most active Cosmic Action group yet effectually today. Catholic Action was particularly well suited to Italy where Cosmic party political activeness was impractical, firstly under the Anti-Clerical Savoyard government from 1870 until about 1910^[10] and afterward nether the Fascist regime which prohibited independent political parties.

The present clan Azione Cattolica was founded in 1867 past Mario Fani and Giovanni Acquaderni with the name of Società della Gioventù Cattolica Italiana (Italian Catholic Youth Society), then reformed during the Mussolini regime when the association was structured into 4 sectors and was called Azione Cattolica.^{[eleven] [12] [thirteen]}

Catholic Action in other countries [edit]

Catholic Action was organised in many other countries, including:

• Argentina (even so active)^[14]
• Brazil (see Alceu Amoroso Lima)^[15]
• Canada (see Catherine Doherty)
• Croatia (run across Croatian Catholic movement)^[sixteen]
• France (see La Croix)
• Republic of ireland (encounter Legion of Mary)
• Malta (Azzjoni Kattolika Maltija)
• Mexico (Acción Católica Mexicana)^[17]
• New Zealand
• Poland (Run across Aleksander Primal Kakowski)
• Portugal
• Philippines (come across Roman Cosmic Archdiocese of Manila)
• South korea
• Espana (even so active),^[18] where information technology gave rise to Cursillo under the proper name Hermandad Obrera de Acción Católica^[nineteen]
• United Kingdom
• United States (See Friendship House, Catholics for the Common Adept and Cosmic Worker Motion)

See also [edit]

• Bartolome Blanco Marquez, Youth leader of Cosmic Action and martyr of the Castilian Civil War
• Student Catholic Action
• Political catholicism
• Cosmic social teaching
• Manuel Aparici Navarro
• Pascual Abaj
• Corporatism

Notes and references [edit]

1. ^ Tom Truman, Catholic Action and Politics (London: The Merlin Press, 1960).
2. ^ "World Movement of Christian Workers", Zenit, September 10, 2006
3. ^ ^{a b} Nieli, Bruce. "A return to Cosmic Action", United states of america Catholic, June 30, 2015
4. ^ ^{a b} "Catechism Joseph Cardijn", Catholic Authors
5. ^ ^{a b} "Religion: Jocism". Time. 26 September 1938. Archived from the original on August 26, 2010. Retrieved ii March 2013.
6. ^ Peter Malone (ed.), The Emergence of SIGNIS (Brussels: 2009).
7. ^ James Franklin, "Catholic Idea and Catholic Action: Dr Paddy Ryan Msc.," Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society (1996) 17:44-55 online.
8. ^ Ana Maria Bidegain, "From Catholic Action to Liberation Theology: The Historical Process of the Laity in Latin America in the Twentieth Century" (newspaper #48 Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, 1985)
9. ^ Brian H. Smith, The Church and politics in Republic of chile: challenges to modern Catholicism (Princeton University Printing, 2014)
10. ^ For example in the encyclical Custodi di quella fede Pope Leo Thirteen asked Catholics to become more involved in forms of Catholic Action away from the "Masonic" state: "Masonry has confiscated the inheritance of public charity; fill the void, then, with the treasure of individual relief." Para xviii, Custodi di Quella Fede
11. ^ Gianfranco Poggi, Catholic Action in Italy (Stanford University Printing, 1967)
12. ^ Albert C. O'Brien, "Italian Youth in Disharmonize: Cosmic Activeness and Fascist Italia, 1929-1931." Catholic Historical Review (1982): 625-635. in JSTOR
13. ^ Kertzer 2014, p. 55-56, 101-102, 125=126, 158-169.
14. ^ http://www.accioncatolica.org.ar/
15. ^ Scott Mainwaring, The Catholic church and politics in Brazil, 1916-1985 (Stanford Academy Press, 1986)
16. ^ Marker Biondich, "Radical Catholicism and Fascism in Croatia, 1918–1945 1." Totalitarian movements and political religions eight.2 (2007): 383-399.
17. ^ http://www.accioncatolicamexicana.internet
18. ^ http://www.accioncatolicageneral.es/
19. ^ Jones, Anny Brooksbank (1997). Women in Contemporary Spain . Manchester Academy Press. ISBN9780719047572.

Sources [edit]

• IL FERMO PROPOSITO (On Cosmic Action in Italian republic), Pius X, 1905
• Kertzer, David I. (2014). The Pope and Mussolini: The Hush-hush History of Pius Xi and the Ascent of Fascism in Europe. Oxford University Printing. ISBN9780198716167.

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