Cardijn’s triples and doubles

Cardijn often summarised his key ideas in the form of triples, the most famous of which of course is see, judge, act, and also doubles.

Here is a list of some of the most important ones, which feature in the various Classic Cardijn articles on this website.

Triples

The three truths: Faith, experience and pastoral method

See, judge, act

Serve, educate, represent

By, with and for young workers

Do before, do with, do after

Formation, action, organisation

Life, milieu, mass

Work, family, leisure

Divine origin, divine mission, divine destiny

Doubles

Temporal and eternal

Conscious and responsible