Local Group Resources

PC New Mexico's Hiroshima Day Action

The following resources are excellent for new and existing Pax Christi groups.

For new groups just forming, you might consider these resources especially helpful:

On Pax Christi USA’s work to become an anti-racist, multicultural Catholic movement for peace with justice:

From Pax Christi USA’s groundbreaking process, The People’s Peace Initiative, an undertaking by 21 national Catholic organizations to define the challenges of peace for the 21st century:

Resources designed by members around the nation:

Three plays written by playwright and Pax Christi member, Jack Gilroy, made available for performance by churches, local groups, schools, etc.:

  • The Predator: A Jesuit college junior is being encouraged to serve the country in the military by her mother, an Air Force Major Drone Pilot, and a US Senator. Her mother pushes for an Air Force career path and her Senator visualizes drones as an economic answer to unemployment. Is there a relevant moral question?
  • Sentenced to Death For Not Killing: The Ben Salmon StoryBen Salmon, a WWI, Denver, Colorado Catholic, refused to partake in the killing of another human being. He was arrested, sentenced to death (reduced to 25 yrs hard labor) and tortured for his humanitarian and religious belief that killing is immoral.
  • Render to Caesar? The Story of Franz Jagerstatter:  Franz Jagerstatter, an Austrian Catholic peasant was the only person in his village who, in 1938, refused to support Nazi annexation. When he said no to induction into the German Army in 1943, Franz knew the justice of his conscience would be challenged by the power of the state.