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Pax Christi USA is currently hiring for two staff positions: Bookkeeper and Office Manager. More information for both positions is below. BOOKKEEPER: Pax Christi USA, located in Washington, D.C., has an opening for a Bookkeeper. Pax Christi USA is a national non-profit organization that strives to create a world that reflects the Peace of Christ …

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Below is a link to the most recent email from our Global Restoration Committee: Kids’ Creation Care GReen Mail, “Caring for Mom’s – Including Mother Earth” For more on Global Restoration, click here.

by Colman McCarthy Pax Christi USA Ambassador of Peace In March 2004 Rosalie Riegle, a professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan from 1969 to 2003, was one of eight Catholic Worker peace advocates arrested for trespassing at Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base, the command center for the military’s entire nuclear arsenal. …

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Last year, JustFaith Ministries in collaboration with Pax Christi USA published an excellent resource for small groups entitled, Just Peacemaking Initiative: The Challenge and Promise of Nonviolence for Our Time.  In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Pope John XXIII’s encyclical Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth), JustFaith Ministries is now including in the module a Special Supplement: 50th …

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by Rev. Benjamin Urmston, S.J., Ph.D. The most distinctive contribution of Pacem in Terris is what we would call today a democratic world federation.  The best commentary on world order are statements of subsequent Catholic sources. John XXIII, Peace on Earth  1963 No. 137:  “Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions which cannot …

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