Date

Location

Theme

Speakers

Pax Romana Milestones

July 1921

Fribourg,
Switzerland

1st World Congress


August 7-9, 1922

Fribourg, Switzerland

2nd World Congress


18- 20 September, 1923

Salzburg, Austria

3rd World Congress


1

Budapest, Hungary

4th World Congress


5-8 September, 1925

Bologna

5th World Congress


September, 1926

Amsterdam

6th World Congress


August, 1927

Warsaw, Poland

7th World Congress


August, 1928

Cambridge, Oxford, and London England

8th World Congress
Examination, from the triple point of view, historical, philosophical and ethical of the causes of the divorce between the spirit of the world today and that of Catholicism

Fr. Fulton Sheen (USA)

1929

Seville, Spain

9th World Congress
"Doctrinal Value of Catholicism from the Cultural Point of View"


August, 1930

Munich, Germany

10th World Congress


1931

Fribourg

11th World Congress
"The University and the Catholic Student"


1932

Bordeaux, France

12th World Congress
"International and Social Order"


August, 1933

Luxembourg

13th World Congress
"Social Work of the University Student"


1934

Rome, Italy

Catholic Students' Pilgrimage to Rome
"Catholic Action in the University"

Welcomed by Pope Pius XI

1935

Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, and Prague, Czechoslovakia

14th World Congress
"New Man in a New Age"


25 July to August 2, 1936

Salzburg, Austria

15th World Congress

"The mission of the Catholic university people in contemporary culture"

"The mission of Catholic Action within the framework of Pax Romana - religious, philosophical, cultural, professional and social formation-."


28 July to 3 August 1937

Paris, France

16th World Congress "Unemployment among University Graduates" "Experiences of student in their social work"

At the same time as the World Exhibition of the Catholic Press

30 April to May 1, 1938

Vaduz, Liechtenstein

Pax Romana Inter-Federal Assembly


22 to 28 August, 1938

Ljubljana, Yugoslavia

17th World Congress "The Catholic Student in Face of the Problem of Communism"
"Attitude to Adopt to Block Communist Penetration into Student Circles"

Dr. Miha Krek

Cyril H. Lott

Fr. Joseph Cardijn

Robert Regout, SJ

Pierre-Henri Simon

August 27th - 1 September 1939

Washington, DC and New York, USA

18th World Congress "The Role of the University in Catholic Action"






June, 1946

Salamanca, Spain

19th World Congress

"The great problems of the hour on moral as well as social and cultural planes and, deduced from this, the future of Pax Romana: the apostolate in university circles, the affirmation of the rights of the individual in the face of abusive interventions of the State and the perils menacing Christianity"


10 - 19 March, 1946

Lima, Peru

Second Inter-American Pax Romana Assembly


27 August to 5 September 1946

Fribourg, Switzerland

20th World Congress - The Jubilee Congress "The Christian Duty of the University Student"

Foundation of YCS

April, 1947

Fribourg


Foundation of ICMICA

April 3 to 10, 1948

SPA, Belgium

Inter-Federal Assembly

NNCF Admitted

1949

Mexico

Inter-Federal Assembly


19 to 26 August, 1950

Amsterdam

21st World Congress

"The Catholic Intellectual and the World Order"
"The Meaning of Liberty and the University of Today?"

Vittorino Veronese

Joseph Piller

Richard Pattee

E. Reut-Nicolussi

Joaques Leclercq

P. Hoenen, SJ

Oscar Helecki

Most Rev Leon Ommel

Douglas Hyde

Louis Raeymaeker

Roger Millot

Josef Kalin

Francis Sheed

Louis Joesph Lebret, OP

August 29 - August 31st

Rome

Holy Year Pilgrimage of Students to Rome


1951

Rheims, France

30th Anniversary of Pax Romana

Join IMCS and ICMCIA meetings

Msgr Roncalli (Apostolic Nuncio) later Pope John XXIII participated

1952 (Mon: Aug 26-29, Q Aug 31 - Sept 1)

Montreal, and Quebec, Canada

22nd World Congress "The Mission of the University"


1952

Toronto, Canada

Inter-Federal Assembly

Same location with ICMICA

28 July to 3 August 1953

Krabbelsholm, Denmark

Inter-Federal Assembly






1953

Bossey, Switzerland

Joint IMCS-WSCF Ecumenical Meeting


15-22 August 1954

Flüeli, Switzerland

Inter-Federal Assembly "The Christian Student and the Practice of International Understanding"


December, 1954

Madras, India

Asian Students Seminar


18-31 March 1955

Nottingham, England

23rd World Congress

"From University to Life: Problems of the Young Graduate"

Joint with ICMICA

1956

Geneva, Switzerland

IMCS Formation Seminar at the UN in Geneva


1956

Vienna, Austria

Inter-Federal Assembly


August, 1957

San Salvador, El Salvador

"Civic Responsibility of the Student"


December, 1957

Ghana

First Pan African Seminar


1957

Rome

World Congress of the Lay Apostolate


August 31 September 6th. 1958

Vienna, Austria

24th World Congress "The meaning of freedom and the University Today"

Cardinal Koenig, Cardinal Tisserant, Dr, Luther Evens (UNESCO DG)

1958

Eichstätt, Bavaria

Inter-Federal Assembly


1959

Manila, Philippines

"The present impact of the Great Religious on the lives of Men in the Orient and Occident." This was attended by Hindus, Buddhists, Shintoists, Muslims, Jews, Orthodox, Protestants, and Catholics.

Pax Romana IMCS, ICMICA and UNESCO Sponsored

1959

Manila, Philippines

"Social Responsibility of the Student"


1960

Lisbon, Portugal

Inter-Federal Assembly "The formation of international conscience"


1961

Fribourg, Switzerland

Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the founding of Pax Romana


July, 1962

Montevideo, Uruguay

25th World Congress "Social Responsibility of the University and University people"


1964

Washington, DC

Inter-Federal Assembly "Christianly in an Age of Transition"

Robert F. Kennedy (USA Secretary General)

Tom Mboya (Kenya Minister of Justice)

Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, SCS (President of the University of Notre Dame)

Rafael Caldera (future President of Venezuela)

August Vanistendael (IFCTU and Auditor of Vatican II)

Bernard Cardnial Alfrink (Utretch)

1967

Bochum, Germany

Inter-Federal Assembly


July, 1971

Fribourg Switzerland

Inter-Federal Assembly - Celebration of IMCS' 50th year

"Liberation - How?"


August, 1975

Lima, Peru

28th Inter-Federal Assembly

"Christian Commitment in a World in Crisis"


1978

Valladolid, Spain

29th Inter-Federal Assembly

Held with IYCS World Council

Adoption of CPP

August, 1982

Montreal, Quebec

30th Inter-Federal Assembly






1991

Hong Kong

Inter-Federal Assembly

Joint Inter-Federal Assembly with IYCS World Council





1995

Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast

1st IMCS International Committee

Joint with IYCS International Committee

August, 1999

Strasburg, France

2nd International Committee

Joint with IYCS International Committee

August 2003

Barcelona, Catalonia

3rd International Committee

Joint with IYCS International Committee

July 2007

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

4th International Committee



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