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by bcadmin | Sep 9, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, nuclear disarmament, Pax Christi, United Nations | 0 |
Four weeks of debate – during a review conference for a treaty widely viewed as a cornerstone of nuclear disarmament – resulted in no consensus on how to move forward despite the efforts of the Holy See, disarmament advocates and non-nuclear nations.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 26, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Pax Christi, U.S. Military | 0 |
Beatrice Parwatikar, a Pax Christi USA ambassador of peace, has publicly questioned defense expenditures for years. She discussed them at a workshop during Pax Christi USA’s 50th anniversary conference in early August.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 14, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Nonviolence, Pax Christi | 0 |
For more than 50 years, Marie Dennis has been asking herself as a white middle-class woman who once worked for the U.S. Navy how she could respond as a Catholic to the cries for justice of people around the world.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, News, nuclear disarmament, Obituary, Pax Christi, Protests | 0 |
Oblate Father Carl Kabat, who routinely described himself as a “fool for Christ” for his many faith witnesses challenging U.S. nuclear weapons policy, died Aug. 4 at his religious order’s Madonna Residence in San Antonio. He was 88.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Catholic Worker Movement, News, Obituary, Pax Christi | 0 |
Deacon Tom Cornell, a co-founder of Pax Christi USA as well as the Catholic Peace Fellowship and a decadeslong associate of Catholic Worker co-founder Dorothy Day, died Aug. 1. He was 88.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 23, 2022 | anti-racism, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Economic justice, News, Pacem in Terris, Pax Christi, Racial justice | 0 |
Fifty years ago as the Vietnam War raged and the nuclear arms race remained in high gear, visions of a U.S. Catholic peace movement were taking shape, looking to help the Catholic Church become a peace church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 24, 2022 | Father Byron, Father J. Michael Byron, Father Wozniak, J. Michael Byron, News, Obituaries, Pax Christi | 0 |
J. Michael Byron was a young business professional working for a bank and climbing the corporate ladder when he met Father Tim Wozniak in 1982 at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis. He asked to meet with Father Wozniak, and that conversation was part of a journey that led Byron to the priesthood.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 20, 2022 | Father J. Michael Byron, Local News, News, Pax Christi | 0 |
Pax Christi is holding a prayer service 7 p.m. May 20 at the parish. It will also be livestreamed. “Refreshments will be served after to ensure that we have time to talk, grieve and share,” Bishop said in the message.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 31, 2022 | Bosnia Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Featured, Hungary, Moldova, News, Pax Christi, Peace caravan, Pope John XXIII Community, Ptak Warsaw Expo center, Refugees, Romania, Sarajevo, Slovakia, the Focolare movement, U.N., U.N. Refugee Agency, U.S. & World News, Ukraine, UNHCR, UNICEF | 0 |
More than 4 million people have fled Ukraine in the past five weeks, and half of them are children, said two U.N. agencies.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 18, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Catholic Worker Movement, Church in Europe, just war, News, Pax Christi, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
CNN is reporting that Russia is relying more heavily on “so-called ‘dumb’ bombs than on its arsenal of precision-guided munitions” in its war on Ukraine, adding, “These indiscriminate weapons kill scores of civilians.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 11, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Migrants, News, Pax Christi, Religious Sisters | 0 |
On paper, some call them “missing,” but many families of the migrants know it’s likely that they’re dead.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 28, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic social teaching, Church in the US, justice and peace, News, Pax Christi, USCCB | 0 |
The U.S. bishops’ pastoral letter “Economic Justice for All” turned 35 years old in November, but in the view of some panelists at a Nov. 22 forum on the pastoral’s anniversary, its release seems like much longer ago.
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