History
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 – 2015 Niall M. Kennedy KCSG, Ireland                                                                    2015 – 2021  Eddie Prah. KSG Ghana                                                                            2021 –         Seamus Mc Donald KSG 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 Vatican 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
• 50th Anniversary of the Second Vatican Council
• The New Evangelisation