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Pax Christi
USA strives to create a world that reflects the Peace of
Christ by exploring, articulating, and witnessing to the
call of Christian nonviolence. This work begins in personal
life and extends to communities
of reflection and action to transform structures of society.
Pax Christi USA rejects war, preparations for war, and every
form of violence and domination. It advocates primacy of
conscience, economic and social justice, and respect for
creation.
Pax Christi USA commits itself to peace education and, with
the help of its bishop members, promotes the gospel imperative
of peacemaking as a priority in the Catholic Church in the
United States. Through the efforts of all its members and
in cooperation with other groups, Pax Christi USA works
toward a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world.
Pax Christi is a section of Pax
Christi International, the Catholic peace movement.
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Christi USA Priority Areas: |
Spirituality
of Nonviolence and Peacemaking:
Pax Christi USA promotes Christian nonviolence on the personal,
communal, national and international levels. Believing in
the gospel call to conversion as found in the Beatitudes,
Pax Christi USA denounces and resists the evils of violence
while striving to reflect the Peace of Christ.
Disarmament, Demilitarization and Reconciliation with Justice:
Pax Christi USA members promote nuclear, conventional and
domestic disarmament, an end to the international arms trade,
economic conversion to a non-military economy, conscientious
objection, and nonviolent alternatives to war. Pax Christi
USA promotes the just reconciliation of enemies through the
United Nations and other channels.
Economic and Interracial Justice
in the United States:
Pax Christi USA joins the struggle against economic injustice,
militarism, and environmental destruction which are particularly
harmful to those who are poor, minorities, children, and women.
Pax Christi USA works toward eliminating racist structures
in the Catholic Church and the country, working toward equality
of all people.
Human Rights and Global Restoration:
Pax Christi USA promotes universal human rights, both at home
and abroad, through solidarity with oppressed and marginalized
people struggling for dignity. Pax Christi USA rejects every
form of political and economic domination over others and
fosters a reverence for all creation.
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