Journet has been considered a figure of holiness and a candidate for canonisation; he has been accorded the title Servant of God.

Journet was raised to the rank of domestic prelate of his holiness on 13 August 1946 by Pope Pius XII.

He supported the documents Dignitatis humanae and Nostra aetate while also affirming the Church's traditional teaching on divorce.

[1] Journet was a close friend of the renowned philosopher Jacques Maritain, with whom he founded the theological journal Nova et Vetera in 1926.

A supporter of Socialist leader Miguel Arraes, the cardinal protested his imprisonment by the Brazilian military in the 1960s.