Some of the topics discussed at the 2025 Alliance for Responsible Citizenship ( ARC) Conference before more than 4,100 world leaders were the importance of rebuilding a civilization based on Judeo-Christian values, especially human dignity, marriage, good governance, sustainable energy, and free enterprise.
A group of about 15 Regnum Christi members of different vocations including Legionary Fathers Thomas Montanaro, Nathaniel Haslam, Mark Thelen, and Daniel Brandenburg, as well as lay members including Hans Peter & Lucia Hauser from Germany and Gregory Czempla from Poland, participated in the recent ARC Forum 2.0 leadership conference in London. Speakers included Jordan Peterson, Bishop Robert Barron, Arthur C. Brooks, Jeff Rosen and others.
This gathering was attended by 4,100 leaders from 96 countries. The conference focused on the importance of rebuilding a civilization based on Judeo-Christian values, especially human dignity based on being created in the image and likeness of God, marriage between a man and a woman, good governance, sustainable energy, and free enterprise.
For Fr. Thomas Montanaro, LC, director of the Legionaries of Christ’s Global Leadership Development Mission, the event and its methodology, with more than 150 exhibitors, “encouraged direct communication and networking among leaders. All of this culminated in a clear and powerful call to action. These days provided us with great inspiration about what we are called to do in the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi: to form leaders as apostles, as a team in a united, organized manner, and with a broad focus.”
Fr. Nathaniel Haslam, LC, noted that “it is heartwarming to see more than 4,000 leaders, men and women, from all walks of life committed to rebuilding civilization based on a biblical understanding of human dignity and marriage, as well as good governance, sustainable energy, and free enterprise.” He added that “given the mission of the Legionaries of Christ and Regnum Christi to form and launch Christian leaders and apostles, it was heartening to see so many leading the way into the future.”
Jorge Miguel Fabre Mendoza, Director of the Anáhuac Senior Management Institute , emphasized that “the evangelization of leaders is not being done through sentimentality or the things some believe appeal to young people. They are doing it through the demands of a life well lived. Through reason. Through the proposal to sacrifice for others and stop thinking about your own desires at every moment. And young people are clearly following them.”
The ARC 2.0 Forum is fostering the establishment of regional networks to further support local efforts. These networks attract people who are not very active in their faith. Attendees included politicians, business leaders, artists, authors, educators, entertainers, athletes, nonprofit leaders, as well as some 30 bishops and priests, in addition to many Protestant ministers.
Through participation in these types of forums, Regnum Christi aims to build connections for the potential development of joint evangelization projects, share experiences, and train people for pastoral work in each of the territories and apostolic works where they are present.
