The International Institute for Culture (IIC) is a non-profit educational and research center that seeks to promote international understanding through cultural means. Started in 1989 in response to Pope John Paul II’s call for the re-evangelization of culture, the IIC is engaged in international conferences, language and cultural programs, lecture series, educational seminars, art exhibits and musical performances that reflect the rich cultural heritage of the Catholic Church, and that may serve to bring people to the Person of Jesus Christ.
 
The purpose of the 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 Faith has shaped cultures in the past and the culture in which we live today, how it preserved and elevated whatever was good and noble in any culture that it encountered, and repudiated whatever debased the human spirit.  With such knowledge and a commitment to the Redeemer of Culture, we can begin working together to build the new “civilization of love.”