Images and photos from throughout 2015, including Pax Christi USA members and groups in action…
Photo by Zach Gibson. Over two dozen PCUSA groups took part in Way of the Cross events from Newark, NJ to Springfield, MO to Los Angeles, CA. This photo is from the Economic Justice Way of the Cross in Washington, D.C.
Fr. Sebastian Muccilli, d. February 16, 2015. Presente!
Pax Christi Southeastern South Dakota members Candace Grant and Mary Ann Garrigan witness against police brutality in front of the Federal Building on December 11, 2014.
Photo by Michael Alexander
This is the fourth year Blue Water PC has put up this billboard to promote peace, charity, and prayerful nonviolence. Councils of local Knights of Columbus and many local church and community members have been supportive. The billboard appears above the Chamber of Commerce building for one month beginning Dec. 23.
The Executive Committee, 2015-16
Women, Peace and Security Collective for Reflection and Action (Colombia)
Sr. Patty Chappell, SNDdeN, Executive Director of Pax Christi USA, speaks at the Oct. 23 press conference at the Washington National Cathedral following an interdenominational service, "Beyond Tolerance: A Call to Religious Freedom and Hopeful Action." Photo by Danielle Thomas/Washington National Cathedral
The Separation Wall in the West Bank
Pax Christi Texas members Sr. Ceil Roeger and Dave Atwood participate in "Fight for $15 Rally" in Houston.
Pax Christi Los Angeles members participate in a community prayer vigil to protest conditions at Los Angeles Men's Central Twin Tower Jail in September.
Photo credit: Maya Evans
Pax Christi Texas leader David Atwood; workshop presenter Sr. Patty Chappell, SNDdeN; and workshop participant Jerry Maynard at the We Grow Together workshop in Houston.
Pax Christi International members process along the Separation Wall in Bethlehem in the Occupied West Bank.
Tom Cordaro presents the history of racism in the United States with a timeline posted on the wall to which all participants were invited to add important events.
PC Texas member Jerry Maynard with Sr. Jamie Phelps, OP
Mike Walsh and Alice Soto of PC-Southern California at the American Pharmacists convention.
Prayer vigil for the three Muslim students killed in North Carolina, Washington DC, February 13, 2015. (Photo by Scott Wright)
Rosemarie Pace, PC Metro NY coordinator (center) at the Separation Wall in Bethlehem.
PC FL coordinator Nancy O’byrne photo at CNV Sackcloth & Ashes demo in NM.
Prayer vigil at the Cathedral in Los Angeles as the closing event of Campaign for Nonviolence and Pax Christi Los Angeles and Pax Christi Southern California’s support of Pope Francis’s call for end to nuclear weapons.
Lorrain Taylor of 1000 Mothers to Prevent Violence, recipient of the PC Northern California Peacemaker Award
Rev. John Rausch, glmy
At 2015 Pax Christi Texas Conference in San Antonio, Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez joined the group for a photo.
Pax Christi Spokane (WA) members
Bishop Sullivan Chapter of Pax Christi of Norfolk, Va. presented Prof. Robert Watson of Hampton University speaking on the history of slavery at Virginia Wesleyan University.
Ed and Kathleen Guinan
Sr. Patty Chappell, PCUSA ED; PCUSA Treasurer Don Levan; & Sr. Anne-Louise Nadeau, Program Director at Campaign Nonviolence conference in NM.
Pax Christi Florida held their state assembly in Tampa and protested drone warfare outside MacDill Air Force Base as a kick-off action for the Campaign Nonviolence Week of Actions.
People participate in a candlelight vigil at Marion Square near the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina(Brendan Smialowski/AFP)
Palestinian street art in Dheisheh camp.
The members of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo Photo: EPA/HO
Wilma Locke and Kathy McGinnis were part of the local planning team for the anti-racism workshop and attended themselves as well.
PC Sioux Falls (SD) members and others at Sen. Rounds office.
PC Long Island (NY) members rally outside Sen. Schumer's office.
Thomas Merton
Pax Christi International Secretary General José Henríquez addresses the world assembly via Skype from Amman, Jordan after being denied entry into Israel.
Pax Christi USA National Council 2015-16
Accepting PC-LI awards are Mercy Sister Camille D’Arienzo (L), on behalf of NCR Editor Dennis Coday and Yanira Chacón-Lopez, lay minister of St. Bridget Church in Westbury, NY.
Kathy O’Leary of Pax Christi New Jersey accepting a certificate from New Jersey Peace Action recognizing the Shrine of St. Joseph as an official “peace site.”
Sr. Esther, with Jean Sammon, at Pax Christi USA's prayer service at the MLK Center in Atlanta in 2013.
Jim and Shelley Douglass
Fr. Chris Ponnet of Pax Christi Los Angeles led a retreat for Maryknollers and Pax Christi members on peacemaking, nonviolence and stories of ministry in early June.
first vigil at the Moakley courthouse in Boston. The people: Katie Flaherty, Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the SS Francis and Therese Catholic Worker in Worcester, MA, me, Suzanne and Brayton Shanley of the Agape Community.
Pax Christi Orange County members Alice Soto, Lucille Martin and Mike Walsh at the monthly Orange County Peace Coalition vigil at the Orange Circle in Orange, CA,
Visiting Texas Senator Cornyn’s office in Dallas on the Iran deal are Joyce Hall, Pax Christi Dallas; Mavis Belisle, Nuclear Free World Committee; Bill Maxwell, Dallas Peace and Justice Center; Leslie Harris, CodePink, and Hadi Jawad, Middle East Peace Committee.
