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National Conf - Save the date!

Dear joseph,
Conference 2010
Pax Christi USA is proud to announce the theme for this year's National Catholic Conference on Peacemaking: "Know Justice, Know Peace: Ending War at Home and Abroad." The theme reflects Pax Christi USA's understanding that the wars fought abroad (Afghanistan, Iraq, the Middle East, etc.) and the wars fought at home (violence against immigrants, on our streets, against the poor, etc.) are intimately connected and simply different faces of the power which the "domination system" exercises in our world.

Hard copy brochures for the conference will be available in the membership mailing many of you will receive later this month, and registration through the website should be up and running next week (April 12). Room registrations at the conference hotel will be done separately this year, directly through the hotel (see information below).

We're very excited about our roster of speakers for this year's conference, including Rev. Bryan Massingale (keynote), Jeremy Scahill (keynote), Megan McKenna, Jack Jezreel, Sr. Dianna Ortiz, Eric LeCompte, Adrienne Alexander, Brigitte Gynther, and members of the Pax Christi USA Anti-Racism Team. More speakers who are invited have yet to confirm, so keep an eye out on the website for new additions in the weeks to come.

WHEN: Friday, July 16 through Sunday, July 18 

WHERE: The Rosemont Hotel at O'Hare, 5550 N. River Road, in Rosemont, Illinois (near Chicago). 

Room reservations should be made directly through the hotel at 847-737-7553 or 877-520-7781, between the hours of 8am and 5pm CDT. Ask for the "Pax Christi USA group rate" associated with the conference. 

We look forward to seeing you this July in Chicago!

 
In Christ's peace,

Johnny Zokovitch, Program Director
Pax Christi USA
 
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Pax Christi Bishop Cites 'New Disarmament Moment'
National Catholic Reporter

New political circumstances are giving rise to "great hope" for "dramatic and fundamental changes in U.S. nuclear weapons policies," said Bishop Gabino Zavala of Los Angeles in an address March 11 that marked the start of a new disarmament campaign by Pax Christi USA, the Catholic peace organization. Zavala, auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles and bishop-president of Pax Christi, also called Catholics to see peacemaking as a "mandatory" vocation and argued that "Catholic social teaching and a vision of Gospel nonviolence can contribute to informing the policy debates and offer guidance for new directions for our nation with regard to war and peace."

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PAX CHRISTI USA Executive Committee

 

 

 

Bishop Gabino Zavala                                    16009 E. Cypress Ave., Irwindale, CA 91706-2122; 626-960-9344 (w)

Bishop President                                  626-962-0455 (fax) Secretary – Sylvia E-mail sylvia@sgpr.org

 

Judy Coode – Chair                            1456 B Fairmont St NW Washington DC 20009; 202-387-5259 (h)

                                                            202-756-4932(w) 202-425-0576 (cell); judycoode@verizon.net

 

Jeanette Rodriguez - Vice Chair         3532 NE 153rd Street #203, Lake Forest Park, WA  98155;

206-296-5324 (w) 206-296-5409 (fax) jrodrigu@seattleu.edu

 

Pearlette Springer – Vice Chair          778 Lincoln St, Gary IN 46402; 219-885-6628 (h)

                                                            219-769-9292 Ext 238 (w) 219-738-9034 (fax); pspringe@dcgary.org

 

Sr. Josie Chrosniak, HM - Treasurer    2218 West Blvd Cleveland, OH 44102 (216) 961-3169 (h); josiec@en.com

                                                           

 

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Dr. Arturo Chavez                                3115 West Ashby Place, San Antonio, TX 78228-5104; 210-732-2156 (w)

210-732-9072 (fax); achavez@maccsa.org

 

Donna Grimes                                     3211 Fourth St. NE, Washington DC  20017-1194

202-541-3372(w) 202-541-3329 (fax) 202-309-3644 (cell) dgrimes@usccb.org

 

John Kelly                                            560 N Street SW, Unit N-108, Washington DC, 20024

                                                            202-479-5166 (w) 202-270-9272 (cell), jkelly0271@yahoo.com

 

Diane Lopez Hughes                           1709 South Glenwood Ave, Springfield, IL 62704; 217-544-3997 (h)

                                                            217-899-2743 (cell); dianelopezhughes@gmail.com

 

Mary Pat O’Gorman                            6342 Pershing Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63130; 314-725-6655 (h) holtgreivemp@hotmail.com

 

Erin M O’Keefe                                    10576 Calhoun Road, Omaha, NE 68112

                                                            1201 Kearney St.  NE, Washington, DC 20017

                                                            402-415-9670 (cell); 67okeefe@cua.edu

 

Sr. Kathleen Pritty                                1081 Luther Road, East Greenbush, NY 10858; 518-477-6984 (h)

518-462-0899 (w); kprittyrsm@yahoo.com

 

Bill Quigley                                         7500 Dominican Street, New Orleans, LA 70118; 205-861-2709 (h)

                                                            duprestars@yahoo.com

 

Olga Sarabia                                      1000 S Valencia St. Alhambra, CA  91801; 626-284-4879(h)

osarabia2000@yahoo.com

 

08/08/2007

Gordon Zahn, Prophet of Peace

the cover of America, the Catholic magazine

W hen Gordon Zahn (1918-2007) began his own journey to pacifism, he was convinced of two things: first, that had he been educated in the traditional Catholic schools of his time, he would never have heard of pacifism; second—and he was given rather strong encouragement to think this way—that he was on the lunatic fringe of the church. But he was also convinced that the path of the early church was the correct one and that pacifism was the normative Christian position and that the just war theory was at best an attempt to justify what Realpolitik had already decided was necessary. For many a decade, Gordon followed the lonely road of preaching pacifism in the company of others on the edges of mainstream Christianity. But this was a determined lot, and Gordon, who despised meetings to the depth of his being, continued to show up whenever asked, attended meeting after meeting and was eventually successful in efforts with others to resurrect Pax Christi USA, establishing it as a premier American peace organization. 

War is always a defeat for humanity.
                                            ~Pope John Paul II