Testimonials
What Popes have said about Cursillo
When Saint Pope John XXIII called for Vatican Council II to be held, Cursillo had already spread through five continents. The windows and doors were already open and the HolySpirit was working. By the time the Vatican Council II implementations were beginning, the Cursillo Movement had stretched from Mallorca, Spain, to 20 countries in five continents.
Pope Paul VI at the 1st World Ultreya in Rome:
"I am therefore delighted to join in your thanksgiving to the Lord for all He has done and never ceases to do in the Church through the Cursillo De Cristiandad.
Pope Paul VI recognized the value of the Cursillo Movement when he gave his blessing to its work in 1966.
"This method of Christian teaching commonly called Cursillos in Christianity extends already over a great number of the faithful and has produced abundant fruit: Christian renewal of the family life; vitalization of parishes; faithful observance of duties in private as well as public life. All this has filled with the greatest satisfaction the Bishops and the other shepherds of souls.
Saint Pope John Paul II also recognized the valuable gift of Cursillo:
". . .the Cursillo method aims at helping to transform in a Christian way the milieus where people live and work through the involvement of 'new men and women' who have become such from their encounter with Christ . This is the goal of a three day 'little course' on Christianity, in which a team of priests and lay people, supported by the prayer and sacrifices of the movement's other members, communicate the fundamental truths of the Christian faith in and especially 'living' way."