Pax Christi Metro DC-Baltimore | 2006 Pax Christi National Conference

2006 Pax Christi National Conference

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
July 28 – 30, 2006

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Pax Christi NOVA members Alan Smigielski, Su Raposa and Irene Navatta.

Junior St-Vil (left) and Vladimir Laguerre of Pax Christi Haiti with Irene Navatta of Pax Christi Warrenton.

Pax Christi NOVA/DC Metro members (back row) Fr. Joe Nangle, Jack McHale, Irene Navatta, Alan Smigielski, Teresa Polk, (front row) Peggy Meyers, Judith Kelly, Su Raposa, Judy Coode.

Bishop Michael Goro Matsuura (Auxiliary Bishop of Osaka, Japan) and Pax Christi USA Bishop President Gambino Zavala (Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles).

05.Pittsburg skyline from Dequesne University.

Bishop Michael Goro Matsuura (Auxiliary Bishop of Osaka, Japan) addresses the assembly.

Fr. Bob Cushing of Augusta, Georgia. Fr. Bob was fired from his parish position (he has a new parish now) for calling for repentance for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagaski.

Composer Marty Haugen and Pax Christi Pentagon Area member Alan Smigielski.

Left to Right) Alan Smigielski, Marty Haugen, Su Raposa, Fr. Bob Cushing.

Eyes Wide Open Exhibit highlighting the Iraq War dead from Pennsylvania.

Metro DC Pax Christi members Su Raposa, Irene Navatta and Teresa Polk.

Fr. Joe Nangle, OFM (center) receiving Pax Christi Ambassador of Peace Award and blessing from (Left to Right) Marie Dennis, Bishop Gabino Zavala and Judy Coode.

Sr. Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB, Pax Christi USA 2006 Teacher of Peace Award receipient.

$Left to Right) NCR Reporter Patrick O\'\'Neill, Pax Christi Pentagon Area members Jack McHale, Su Raposa and Alan Smigielski.$

Left to Right) Pax Christi Pentagon Area members, Alan Smigielski, Su Raposa, Jack McHale, John Downing with Bruce Downing.

In this section:

On the Road to Peace

Activist recalls bloody train incident, nonviolent life in new book
On Sept. 1, 1987, one of the most dedicated peace activists in the nation sat down with friends on the train tracks outside the Concord Naval Weapons Station near the Bay Area in California to block a U.S. Navy Munitions train loaded with weapons bound for Nicaragua and El Salvador. read more […]
Raising the question of peace outside churches of all faiths
Last summer, 85-year-old Mennonite peace activist Peter Ediger decided to take his passion for peace to the churches in Las Vegas, where he lives. Peter works for Pace e Bene, the Franciscan nonviolence program. Like many of us, he's concerned that the churches in the United States are ignoring, if not blatantly rejecting, the nonviolence of Jesus. So h […]
What Martin Luther King Jr. can teach us about nonviolence
To mark Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, I've been reflecting on the principles of nonviolence that he learned during the historic yearlong bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. After Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus, broke the segregation law and was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955, the African-American leadership in Montgomery famously c […]