Images and photos from throughout 2015, including Pax Christi USA members and groups in action…
Photo by Michael Alexander
Wilma Locke and Kathy McGinnis were part of the local planning team for the anti-racism workshop and attended themselves as well.
Palestinian street art in Dheisheh camp.
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.
Prayer vigil for the three Muslim students killed in North Carolina, Washington DC, February 13, 2015. (Photo by Scott Wright)
Thomas Merton
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.
Lorrain Taylor of 1000 Mothers to Prevent Violence, recipient of the PC Northern California Peacemaker Award
Pax Christi USA National Council 2015-16
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.
Sr. Esther, with Jean Sammon, at Pax Christi USA's prayer service at the MLK Center in Atlanta in 2013.
Ed and Kathleen Guinan
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,
PC Sioux Falls (SD) members and others at Sen. Rounds office.
Sr. Patty Chappell, PCUSA ED; PCUSA Treasurer Don Levan; & Sr. Anne-Louise Nadeau, Program Director at Campaign Nonviolence conference in NM.
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 credit: Maya Evans
At 2015 Pax Christi Texas Conference in San Antonio, Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez joined the group for a photo.
Mike Walsh and Alice Soto of PC-Southern California at the American Pharmacists convention.
The Executive Committee, 2015-16
People participate in a candlelight vigil at Marion Square near the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina(Brendan Smialowski/AFP)
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
Jim and Shelley Douglass
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.
PC FL coordinator Nancy O’byrne photo at CNV Sackcloth & Ashes demo in NM.
PC Long Island (NY) members rally outside Sen. Schumer's office.
The Separation Wall in the West Bank
The members of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo Photo: EPA/HO
Pax Christi International members process along the Separation Wall in Bethlehem in the Occupied West Bank.
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.
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.
Pax Christi International Secretary General José Henríquez addresses the world assembly via Skype from Amman, Jordan after being denied entry into Israel.
Women, Peace and Security Collective for Reflection and Action (Colombia)
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.
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.
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.
Rosemarie Pace, PC Metro NY coordinator (center) at the Separation Wall in Bethlehem.
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.
Rev. John Rausch, glmy
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.
Pax Christi Spokane (WA) members
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.”
PC Texas member Jerry Maynard with Sr. Jamie Phelps, OP
Pax Christi Texas members Sr. Ceil Roeger and Dave Atwood participate in "Fight for $15 Rally" in Houston.
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.
Fr. Sebastian Muccilli, d. February 16, 2015. Presente!