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Believing that 50% of young people are intellectually unprepared for marriage, 20% financially unready, Father Roy put his Jocist candidates through exhaustive preparation, weeded them from 400 to 105 couples. The chosen ones he sent to lectures, both in mixed and segregated groups, on the medical, economic, social and ethical aspects of marriage. After the weddings, Father Roy hoped that many of the couples would postpone honeymooning for three months, rather than get acquainted in a hotel room. Average age of the men-all of them employed at around $25 a week-was 26, of the women, who were...
...Jocism began in Belgium 20 years ago when a young priest (now a canon), Rev. Joseph Cardijn, formed a small Catholic workers' group. Jocism grew much like other isms - in cells (always with priests as nuclei) from which zealous apostles, called "militants," proselytized. Today, there are 90,000 Jocists in Belgium, 100,000 in France, a total of 500,000 in Europe, of whom one-sixth are militants. Jocism recruits mem bers at 14, asks their resignations when, they marry or reach 25. Like all militant organizations, from the Jesuits to the Comintern, the Jocists put their leader ship...
Canon Cardijn has repeatedly summed up JOC's program: "Every Jocist has a Divine mission from God, second only to that of the priest, to bring the whole world to Christ." French-speaking workers in New Hampshire formed the first Jocist group in the U. S. A Catholic college student of Glendale, L. I., Vincent J. Ferrari, is launching the movement on a wider front, under the supervision of an able Paulist father, Rev. Paul Ward. Four Jocist study groups have been started. Jocist Ferrari, no worker himself, last week appeared minded to modify the thoroughly radical temper...
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