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Pax Romana is the International Secretariate binding together Catholic University Students, organised in their respective national Federations, for all forms of common action.
From this definition, it is at once evident that one cannot in general become a member of Pax Romana individually. First the student joins the local Catholic Students’ Union or Group of the University to which he belongs, this Society in turn adheres to the National Federation of Catholic Students’ Societies of the country, and finally this National Federation adheres to the International Secretariate—Pax Romana.
Pax Romana is eleven years old. An attempt was made so far back as 1888 by the late Baron de Montenach, at that time President of the Swiss Group of Students, to found such a Secretariate, and indeed a constituent assembly was held in Rome in 1891, but it was found to be impracticable. It was not until July 21st, 1921, that Pax Romana was actually born in the small University town of Fribourg, Switzerland.
At this first meeting of Pax Romana, the Students’ Societies of twenty-three countries gave their adhesion and fifty members represented these groups or societies.’ Since the inaugural meeting of Pax Romana a series of annual congresses has been held. These assemblies have taken place in Fribourg 1922 (for a second time); Salzburg 1923; Budapest 1924; Bologna (the Holy Year) 1925; Amsterdam 1926; Warsaw 1927; Cambridge 1928; Seville 1929; Munich 1930; Fribourg 1931 (for the third time); and Bordeaux-Lourdes 1932. The numbers of the delegates attending have steadily increased, to the present high number of three hundred.
1 Definition given by Mr. Edward Bullough in a pamphlet Pax Romana, printed by Wm. J. Schneider & Bro., New York.
2 A resolution was however passed this year at the Bordeaux-Lourdes Congress-Pilgrimage that two classes of persons may now become individual members—the Anciens (old fellow workers in Pax Romana) and the Amis de Pax Romana, namely anyone interested and sympathising with it. Ordinary students must nevertheless become members in the way described in the text.
3 We may note here that in some countries, as for example Germany, there is more than one National Federation of Students' Societies. As the years go on, more and more of these are adhering to Pax Romana. It is, of course, the aim, object and hope of those who work for Pax Romana, that in time all such societies, the wide world over, will join.
4 The University Catholic Societies' Federation of Great Britain is made up of nineteen separate entities:—
5 Another Hungarian Federation, Emericana, has been accepted in principle and contacts have been made, which it is hoped will lead to affiliation, with a new Belgian, a Bulgarian and a French-Canadian Federation.
6 Out of all the Universities of England, Scotland and Wales, only four possess whole-time chaplains and chaplaincies of their own, namely Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
7 Examples must be taken from Universities in these islands, the better to make clear the contention of this article.
8 This topic was brilliantly dealt with in a lecture by Professor Halecki of Warsaw at the Fribourg Congress of Pax Romana in 1931.
9 Were all Universities to become Catholic again, the work of Pax Romana would be much eased by the fact that all discussions could be conducted in a universal language—Latin. This would not take away from the encouragement which Pax Romana gives to students to learn foreign languages. They would still wish to know as many as possible in order to converse fluently at meal times and at the social functions with their fellows in a variety of different languages. Happily a movement is already afoot to make more use of Latin in Pax Romana.
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