Young Christian Workers

In the years after the First World War, he began to organize young Catholic workers in the Brussels area to evangelize their colleagues; the group was named Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne.

[3] Time Magazine, reporting on a Paris rally with 75,000 members in 1938, quoted Cardijn as telling his followers, "Every Jocist has a Divine mission from God, second only to that of the priest, to bring the whole world to Christ.

[citation needed] In England, the first section of the YCW was set up by Fr Gerrard Rimmer in February 1937 at St Joseph's Church in Wigan, Lancashire.

Thanks to its work with young people, the England branch is a member of The National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS).

[citation needed] In 2020, at their National Council, the Australian movement distanced itself from an exclusively Christian definition of faith to accommodate common values and shared beliefs from the broader culture.

Joseph's imperative, to "bring the whole world to Christ",[9] is now interpreted as a call to "forge traditions and expressions of spirituality that speak to our multi-cultural and multi-faith identity and to engage in interfaith dialogue in all our communities".