Writings

Keeping alive the hopes of humanity

When I arrived in the camp in Noisy-le-Grand, I encountered families facing defeat, families with the words ‘suffering’ and ‘misery’ (…) Read more →

Published as an editorial in the Revue Igloos, No. 44, January-February 1969, this text was announced as a “reflection on (…) Read more →

Time is pressing
It is time to understand that there is no celebration that is not a celebration for all.
It is (…) Read more →

Since the end of the 1970s, and in particular during the Year of the Child in 1979, the (ATD) Fourth (…) Read more →

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

Just one month before October 17, “World Day for Overcoming Poverty”, this speech by Father Joseph Wresinski reminds us of (…) 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 →

“We need to be simultaneously in proximity to extreme poverty and distant from it. Proximity, because the poorest are our (…) Read more →