THE REVOLUTION THROUGH

IN Canada in 15 years the J.O.C. has enrolled 100,000 young men and women workers and multiplied Theist cells and has reached a point where the authorities in the Government confide to it imporiant missions like that of tie
tutelage of the young delinquents. le the United States there are already
200 J.O.C. sections scattered in most of the great cities. mostly among the employees and with an extraordinarily lively spirit of the Apostolate, but they have not yet reached the great masses of the people, except in San Francisco.
It is not yet a national movement and it is to this that they asphe in a country which will, to-morrow, have a decisive role to play in the world.
All over Latin America, in Mexico, the Argentine. the J.O.C. is established. In certain countries the organisation jt national life is already strong. as ill Costa Rica, in Nicaragua. in Colombia. in the Argentine and Uruguay. lit other countries there arc already one or more very influential centres recruited front the young people of the masses, as ill Salvador. on the Equator. Guatemala and in Chile. In others the seed has already been sown.
The great problem of the future of the wnrking-elasses requires the Joeist solution. The Pan-American Study Week at Costa Rica was the occasion and principal object of this journey. It was a great success and, I am sure. will have a Crest influence. Alt the Slates of the three Americas were represented. The Study Week dwelt on the problem or the young workers throughout the world and the Solution put forward by the 1.0.C., the formation of the militants, the kl-miciorst of the masses. influence in life and the professional and social activities and the necessary helps. All the chaplains made a report and discussed the situatiOn or the young woteers in their respective countries and moved resolutions, which they' promised Co bring to the notice of their bishops. The Canadian J.O.C. celebrates next year the 15th anniversary of its foundation. It has been decided to commemorate this anniversary by an international congress in which delegates of Theists from all countries of the world will take part. The delegates there will adopt the intemationel problem or the young workers and will demonstrate the power and influence of the J.O.C. in the world. It is to he a
congress, essentially representative which. through the young workers &Legated by their fellow-workers. will be able, in the real sense, to speak in the name of young workers of all countries.
Seminarist Study Weeks Particularly interesting during this journey weft! two Study Weeks of Seminarists. at which I was able to be present. The first was held at the famous University of Notre Dante. at Southbend, near Chicago. This is a marvellous place, with huge buildings for the different faculties, an immense park and special sports grounds. More than 150 seminarists were gathered there front August 25 to 31. They cante front ;15 different dioceses of the United States. The whole week was given over to the study of Catholic Action and in particular the J.O.C., and to the preparation of the seminarists for their future duties as chaplains of Catholic Action. • On my return journey I was able 10 be present in London for the second Study Week, for seminarists in all the dioceses of England, which was held during the tirst week in September. This Study Week was devoted exclusively to the Y.C.W. The mornings were given up to lectures and discussions on the problem of the -young worker and the different aspects of the Y.C.W. solution, the formation, the action and the organisation. The afternoons Were devoted to visits to the working-eltos districts and the eveoings to visits and meetings at' the sections.
The Problem of Work and the Problem of the Young Worker This svas the theme of all the lessons at ■aricius disestesions and interviews. This is a problem which is wotid-wide iind presents itself in all continents its the midet of the ice of the polar regions and in the swamps of the Equator: in the sprawling Cities and the wide plantations; for the white as well as the coloured man ; for the homelands as well as the colonies.
There are certain!), hodes of difference. which 'ire merely occidental, but the essvotiot root of the itroblem is: itmecurki ; the lack of dignity and respect of thy human person uml the human family: misery. facing excesire riches; an • inferiority complex and exploitation.
It is an urgent problem, with repercussions or Li most formidable nature. It is the future of civilisation and of humanity which is in question and this problem of the worker is insoluble without the solution of the problem of the youthful worker, the age at which y'outh leaves school and enters work light up to marriage; the age par excel. fence for education, for intellectual deproletarianisation." moral arid spiritual; the age for the formation of the personality and the immedinte preparation for the whole of life with all the problems which arise front life's surroundings (milieu) in which life has to be led, Face to face with this problem, national. urgent and world-wide, the Joeist solution is positive, realist and whole. It is a movement of the young workers themselves for their own formation. action and organisation. It is a school. service and representative body, in the life and the places where life has to be lived by the masses. A movement guided by directors and militants responsible and influential, united among themselves and with the masses of the people, locally, regionally and internationally which assures all " the workers' humanities" so indispensable in their emancipation.
International Linking in all countries and in the view of all audiences there appears the necessity for a powerful organic link between all the national J.O.C. organisations to present, to-day and in the future on the international level and among international institutiorss, the Joeist solution of the problem of the young worker. This necessity made itself felt of its own aceord from the very beginning of the J.O.C. movement. To that may be attributed the spontaneous growth of the J.O.C. internationally. The need to-day is pressing in face of all the moves and all the attempts which arc made on the international level which menace the Christian solution and help to niake triumpletnt the disastrous solutions for youth and the working-classes. Is ii necessary to add that this journey, over-speedy, enabled us to lay our bnr on other moblems equally painful?
The problem of the faintly--in. the face of the terrifying number of irregular unions and illegitimate children, The problem of peace—in front of passionate nationalism and personal and totalitarian governments.
The problem of progressive indn,striolism of countries almost exclusively agricultural before the war.
The problem of the coloured peoples —indigenous and others.
The problem of the popular educe. Bon of the metsses.
The problem of the perjury of the clergy.
AU these problems and many others are in the forefront everywhere: the
problem of the ley apostle; the problem of their taieity; or the formation
and organisation of the necessary lay
and for all problems; those who in their own lives show a clear conception or the Apostolatc.
The Church's Problem The whole of this jowney confirmed me in my conviction that there exists, both to-day and in the future, a great problem for the Church both in regard to religion and to civilisation: laicism, materialism, the new paganism; the organisation of the lay apostle, the organisation adapted for the national problems of life and the places in which life has to be lived, its institutions and its regimes.
The Christian revolution is the only efficacious and beneficent revolution. I have never ceased to repeat that we do not make a revolution through violence. through hate, through murder, through destruction. We are a revolution by the new youth and the new working-class with the new man and with the conception and mysticism of a new life. There and only there is salvation.
All the reforms of structure, however necessary they may be, are sterile without this interior renewal. I have never ceased insisting that there should be no negative solution, no attitude of anti-, neither anti-Communist, nor antiSocialist, but a positive attitude, realistic. constructive and conquering.
A living 'apostolic Christianity " to dissipate the darkness." There is only one means, one only. It is necessary to show the light; the Tight of truth, of justice and of charity. of the dignity of the human person and of the humart family. of the human worker and of human society.
The J.O.C. as it Exists in Belgium This was the cry to the demand made by all everywhere. We want the J.O.C. as you have it in Belgium. This simple phrase sums up our responsibility. A responsibility no longer national but international. 'The fate of the young worker and the working-class of the whole world is in our hands. How often have I trembled before this responsibility. If only our chaplains. and all our militant could be persuaded of it. It is the great grace that I ask for from God after this long journey. And now more than ever let us get OR with the work for the salvation of youth and working-class of the world.