Book Extracts

Charity in the Fourth World – A Programme To Be Undertaken

A couple deprived of their love
Faith, hope and charity in the Fourth World: it seems that our meditation takes us (…) Read more →

Making a mockery of all efforts for the future
If the Son of God was made man in our time, (…) Read more →

A life without rhythm or meaning
Let us put ourselves in the presence of those men and women, those families and (…) Read more →

Any action is more complicated when one lives in a constantly changing situation in a remote, poorly served area, unaware (…) Read more →

-Between reform and revolution, which do you choose?
-Is this the right question? The poorest have seen so many reforms and (…) Read more →

One event from my childhood
left profound repercussions in my life.
It happened at a time when horrible poverty had hit our (…) Read more →

In his interview with Gilles Anouil, Father Joseph Wresinski recounts the beginnings of the ATD Fourth World Movement in the (…) Read more →

More than ever, rest, leisure and holidays are rightly considered as essential activities. In this 1986 text, Father Joseph Wresinski (…) Read more →

On 22 June 2021, Alwine de Vos van Steenwijk would have been 100 years old. This anniversary gives us the (…) Read more →

In the introduction of his book “The Poor are the Church”, after having evoked his childhood in the text “A (…) Read more →