Ivy Hall - IIC Headquarters

The International Institute for Culture (IIC) is a non-profit educational and research center which seeks to promote international understanding through cultural means. Started in 1989 in response to the Holy Father’s call for the re-evangelization of culture, the IIC is engaged in international conferences, language and cultural programs, lectures series, educational seminars, art exhibits and musical performances which reflect the rich cultural heritage of the Catholic Church and which may serve to bring people to the Person of Jesus Christ.
 
The purpose IIC is not to advance the idea that it is possible to restore some ideal Christian past.  There never has been one.  Rather it is to look at the way in which the Faith has shaped cultures in the past and the culture in which we live today, the manner in which it preserved and elevated whatever was good and noble in any culture which it encountered and repudiated whatever debased the human spirit.  With such knowledge and with a commitment to the Redeemer of Culture we can begin working together to build the new “civilization of love.”