History of the International Council of Catholic Men – Unum Omnes
September 1948: Costituent Assembly in Lourdes
December 1950: Decisions on name and rules
Presidents:
- 1950 – 1951 Luigi Gedda, Italy
1951 – 1954 Jean Le Cour Grandmaison,France
1954 – 1964 Otero Navascues, Spain
- 1964 – 1972 Henri Rollet, Belgium
1972 – 1975 Johannes Wissborn, Germany
1975 – 1978 Ferd Niehaus, USA
1978 – 1991 Johannes Farnleitner, Austria
1991 – 1997 Anton Röösli, Switzerland
1997 – 2003 Heinz–Josef Nüchel, Germany
- 2003 – 2009 Alejandro Madero, Argentina
- 2009 – Niall M. Kennedy KCSG, Ireland
Former and present themes:
- Vocations of catholics to work in the international field
- Studies and implementation of encyclics
- Studies and implementation of the documents of Vatikanum II
- Development of Catholic Action
- Solidarity with the Third World and the Persecuted Church in communism
- Study and implementation of Christifideles Laici, 1988
(document on laity)
- Development of a structure of Unum Omnes
- Regional conferences
- Church on the way into a United Europa
- The role of the father in a christian family
- Establishment of formation centers
- Seminars for leaders from Middle – and Eastern - European countries (in Schmochtitz, Germany)
- Spreading of Catholic Social Teaching
- New brochure of Unum Omnes
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