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In this section you will find the foundational structure of our movement plus information and links for our priority areas. You will also find access to various resources that will help to keep you informed on peace and justice issues.

Statement of Purpose

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.

Pax Christi Priorities

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.

Please visit our Programs/Campaigns section for more on the work of this priority.
Also please visit our Books & Publications section for prayer, study & action resources in this area.
Interested in networking with others who are doing work in this area? Go to our Links and Where We Are sections and build community with others.

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.

Please visit our Programs/Campaigns section for more on the work of this priority.
Also please visit our Books & Publications section for prayer, study & action resources in this area.
Interested in networking with others who are doing work in this area? Go to our Links and Where We Are sections and build community with others.

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.

Please visit our Programs/Campaigns section for more on the work of this priority.
Also please visit our Books & Publications section for prayer, study & action resources in this area.

Interested in networking with others who are doing work in this area? Go to our Links and Where We Are sections and build community with others.

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.

Please visit our Programs/Campaigns section for more on the work of this priority.
Also please visit our Books & Publications section for prayer, study & action resources in this area.

Interested in networking with others who are doing work in this area? Go to our Links and Where We Are sections and build community with others.

Ways we try to keep you informed

Join Pax Christi USA's free email Rapid Response Network (RRN) to get our up-to-date statements, action alerts, new resources, notices, etc.

Please link to our Books & Publications section to find sales items available for use in your peace and justice programs. We also produce the following for the use of our members.

CATHOLIC PEACE VOICE
Our quarterly newspaper, the Catholic Peace Voice is sent to all members of Pax Christi USA. The Catholic Peace Voice provides cutting edge news, information and analysis on global peace and justice issues as well as resources for networking and taking action. Take a look at excerpts from our latest issue of the CPV and access a table of contents for four previous issues.

Executive Editor: Dave Robinson
Managing Editor: Johnny Zokovitch
Letters to the Editor can be sent to: johnnypcusa@yahoo.com

THE ORGANIZER
The Organizer is a resource newsletter provided to all local and regional Pax Christi leaders throughout the United States. Individuals can also receive The Organizer for a small annual shipping and handling contribution. This paper provides resources for organizing, prayer, study and action and tips for Pax Christi leaders and fellow activists. The Organizer also provides a networking page called "Around The Nation" describing Pax Christi events happening throughout the U.S. The motto for The Organizer is "What we cannot do alone, we can do together!" The editor of The Organizer is Phyllis Turner Jepson. Link to the Where We Are section for more information on local and regional groups in the U.S. and how to become more involved.

LOCUSTS AND WILD HONEY
The Young Adult Forum publishes the newsletter Locusts and Wild Honey edited by PCUSA Young Adult Forum Coordinator Johnny Zokovitch. Locusts and Wild Honey includes articles on current issues through the lens of young adults, provides information on upcoming young adult activities, and offers tips on young adult organizing. Link to the Young Adult Organizing section for more information and how to get involved.

ANNUAL REPORT
Thanks to our faithful supporters we have been able to accomplish much in the past year. Please click here to view our annual report for 2002. - pdf document