Pax Christi Pennsylvania
an unarmed and disarming peace
Pax Christi PA is the state coalition of local Pennsylvania chapters of Pax Christi USA, a section of Pax Christi International, the official Catholic peace movement. Pax Christi is Latin for “the peace of Christ.”
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- Thursday Theology of Gospel Nonviolence (5)
“Members of Pax Christi, mindful of the stockpiles of horrendous weapons assembled from their taxes, are also mindful of the need to show repentance for their complicity in the evils of the time.” – Eileen Egan, co-founder of Pax Christi USA, in Peace Be With You (Orbis Books, 1999), 246. - #SolidaritySaturday: Pax Christi PA Weekly Round-Up (Feb. 28th 2026)
Hello friends, Here are a few items from the news this past week for our collective prayer, study, and action this #SolidaritySaturday from Pax Christi PA: - Thursday Theology of Gospel Nonviolence (4)
“During the experience of years spent in the debris of modern war, I became aware of a dread reality the fact that modern war does not merely interrupt, but reverses every work of mercy. Each side in war shares in this reversal, and one side cannot refuse to practice the reversal without losing the war.… Read more: Thursday Theology of Gospel Nonviolence (4) - Pax Christi PA Letter to Bishops of Pennsylvania on Militarism
Between Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and this week, the members of Pax Christi Pennsylvania, a new coalition and network of Pax Christi chapters in the Commonwealth, drafted a letter to 1). introduce the local chapters to the bishops of Pennsylvania, and 2). point out how, in the past eight weeks, some serious… Read more: Pax Christi PA Letter to Bishops of Pennsylvania on Militarism - #SolidaritySaturday: Pax Christi PA Weekly Round-Up (Feb. 14th 2026)Hello friends, Here are a few items from the news this past week for our collective prayer, study, and action this #SolidaritySaturday from Pax Christi PA:
- Thursday Theology of Gospel Nonviolence (3)
“Those who are called upon to fight a war have access, even in modern times, only to the arguments of their own nation-state. Thus they are fed on the depredations and dreadful wrongs committed by their opponents. When the United States embarked on an armed incursion into Panama, the entire enterprise was formally labeled ‘Just… Read more: Thursday Theology of Gospel Nonviolence (3)