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Dear joseph,
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!
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Johnny
Zokovitch, Program Director
Pax Christi USA |
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Pax Christi USA | 532 West Eighth Street | Erie | PA | 16502 |
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  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.
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