Records, 1938-1971.

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Records, 1938-1971.

Correspondence of national headquarters with local YCW groups all over the United States; subject files, training courses, answers to survey questionaires, financial records, reports, inquiry programs, manuals, mimeographed material, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, and papers of national chaplain Monsignor Reynold Hillenbrand and Caroline Pezzullo, president of the women's YCW, 1949-1953. With material on civil rights, credit unions, labor unions, Catholic Action, and the international Jocist (Young Christian Workers) movement founded by Canon Joseph Cardijn.

90 linear feet.10 linear in. of photographs.

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Jeunesse ouvrière chrétienne (France)

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Pezzullo, Caroline

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Hillenbrand, Reynold Henry, 1905-1979

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Rector of St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois, 1936-1944; pastor of Sacred Heart Church, Winnetka, Illinois, 1944-1977; national chaplain of Young Christian Workers, Young Christian Students, and Christian Family Movement, and leading figure in the Liturgical Movement. From the description of Papers, 1897-1979. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 23826591 ...

Cardijn, Joseph, 1882-1967

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Young Christian Workers

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An organization of the Catholic lay apostolate for young working people; it had parallel organnizations for men and women, a national headquarters, and local groups of leaders who would meet to read scripture, discuss and judge what they had observed in the workplace or neighborhood, and decide how to act to make their community more Christian, according to the teachings of papal encyclicals urging Catholic social action. From the description of Records, 1938-1971. (University of Not...