Azione sociale o azione religiosa? La Fédération internationale de la Jeunesse catholique dagli anni Cinquanta al Sessantotto

The essay reconstructs the history of the Fédération internationale de la jeunesse catholique (Fijc) and its female branch, the Fédération mondiale des jeunesses féminines catholique (Fmjfc), which were the expression of Catholic youth laity in the Fifties and Sixties, involving thousands of youths mostly from Europe, the United States and Latin America and becoming places of construction of a global thought. The purpose of this essay is to bring to light some elements of the complex path of transformation of the cultural paradigms of Catholic youth in search of new models of social action.