PAX ROMANA / Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs USA

Our US Pax Romana intellectual-professional federation seeks as Members, Associate Members, and Friends those intellectuals, professionals, and university students who hunger for continuing spiritual and intellectual development, who share deep ethical concerns about the foundational crisis of modern culture, and who seek guidance for those concerns from Catholic Social Teaching.

In the United States there are two Pax Romana federations: 1) Pax Romana / Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs USA (CMICA) for intellectuals and professionals; and 2) the National Catholic Student Coalition / Pax Romana (NCSC) for university students. 

For our intellectual-professional federation known as PAX ROMANA CMICA-USA, there are four ways of sharing in our movement;

1.    REGULAR MEMBERSHIP:  Catholic Intellectuals and Professionals

       You are invited to apply to become a Regular Member.

2.    ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP:  Members of Other Faith Traditions

       You are invited to join as Ecumenical/Interfaith Associate Members.

3.    STUDENT ASSOCIATE:  University Students

       In preparation for future regular membership after graduation, you are invited to affiliate 

       with us as a Student Associate.

4.    FRIEND OF PAX ROMANA:  Donors Who Do Not Wish to Become Members

       You are invited to support our movement and become part of the Friends of Pax Romana.   

W H A T   D O E S   P A X   R O M A N A    O F F E R ?

Members, Associate Members, and Friends joining or supporting our US Pax Romana federation receive the following intellectual and spiritual benefits and opportunities:

Pax Romana Study Materials - valuable study materials on Catholic Social Teaching, created by the Pax Romana Center for International Study of Catholic Social Teaching.

Pax Romana Study Circles – the option of becoming part of or of forming a small Pax Romana study group for prayerful intellectual reflection on Catholic Social Teaching and its ethical wisdom as a guide for personal and societal life at every level from the local to the global.

Pax Romana USA Seminars - held annually in the United States on Catholic Social Teaching, with recent ones at the United Nations in New York and at St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida

Pax Romana World Assemblies - held every four years in a different region of the world, with presentations by leading international world intellectuals plus exposure trips to important sites, with the last three held in Assisi, Italy; Paris, France; and Warsaw and Krakow, Poland

Pax Romana International Symposia – held annually in the years between these World Assemblies in various countries around the world, with recent Symposia in Chennai, India; Washington DC; Lima, Peru; Porto Novo, Benin; the United Nations in New York City; and Rome, Italy

Pax Romana Websites - providing continuing education resources on Catholic Social Teaching for Catholic professionals, intellectuals, and university students

Pax Romana Magazine "The Notebook" - providing valuable articles on Catholic Social Teaching and the issues it addresses

Pax Romana Compendium Study Guide - soon to appear easy-reading guide to the Vatican’s recently published Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church

Pax Romana Study-Tours at United Nations Centers in New York and Europe - including dialogue with UN and NGO representatives, as well as dialogue with offices of papal nuncios at UN centers and also to Vatican offices

Pax Romana Academic Studies - studies related to Catholic Social Teaching and the issues it addresses

In sum, Pax Romana is an important and valuable resource for intellectuals, professionals, and university students wishing prayerfully to study Catholic Social Teaching in order to transcend the breakdown of late modern society and to plant the seeds for the breakthrough of a new global civilization based on ecological sustainability, human dignity, justice and peace, and spiritual meaning.