On Thursday October 3rd 2013, in the offices of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, Cardinal Stanisław Ryłko, President of the Dicastery, conferred the decree approving the new statutes of the International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS-Pax Romana).
The association began in Fribourg (Switzerland) in 1921 as the “International Union of Catholic Students”, then spread across the whole world and is now present in more than eighty countries. This new decree is the result of a statutory revision allowing this long-standing ecclesial reality to conform its statutes to current canonical norms for associations of the faithful.
IMCS-Pax Romana works for the evangelisation of the university world, offering students a formation whose goal is the deepening of their personal faith in Jesus Christ, so that through their own testimony and an apostolate in the service of the university world they might play their part in building a more just society, enlightened by the Gospel and the Social Teaching of the Church.
IMCS-Pax Romana operates at national level in the many countries where it is present and is represented at with international organisations such as UNESCO and ECOSOC.
