Catholic Action, is the restoration of this apostolic sense in the Christian soul. It is the divine life elevate ing the whole of human life without rejecting anything. Labour, business, education: everything must be brought into the Christian way of do something about it. They made up their minds that they would live their Faith and put it into practice among their friends, that they would extend their influence to their comrades in the factories, and not only in the place where they lived, but throughout all of Belgium. In 1920 there were two hundred of them. In 1925, six hundred delegates from branches of the organization they had founded attended their Congress in Brussels. In 1930 there were six thousand delegates meeting in Namur and in 1937 more than eighty thousand young men and women of the working classes, representatives of their fellows in the factories, the mines, and the mills of twenty-four different countries came to their Paris Congress. This is the Jeunesse Ouvriere Catholique, J. O. C. It is one phase of Catholic Action, Each country, each local group must work Ouf its own methods and its own technique according to its own needs, its own peculiar temperament and traditions. The needs of Mexico City are not those of Liverpool, but the end in both is to establish the reign of Christ: the methods must vary.
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