The following three candidates are listed on the ballot for the 2026 Pax Christi USA national council election. Current members of Pax Christi USA are eligible to vote here.

Originally from Kenya, Maryknoll Sister Susan Nchubiri, 54, is a staff member at the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns in Washington, DC. She has served in Palestine as an Ecumenical Accompanier with the World Council of Churches, and has worked as a community organizer in Haiti and Kenya. She has worked as a campus minister and pastoral caregiver to students, migrant workers, and prisoners in Hong Kong and the United States. Susan served on the Association for Sisterhoods of Kenya, Justice and Peace Commission, addressing issues of gender-based injustice and economic justice. She hopes to contribute her skills in intercultural living. She currently serves on the Pax Christi USA national council.

Vision: I envision Pax Christi continuing its courageous prophetic stance for justice, peace and nonviolence in our world filled with hate and division. I see Pax Christi continuing to gently enkindle the fire of compassionate love for every person, regardless of race, color, status, religion or politics.

A resident of Matteson, IL, Andrew Lyke, 73, is an African American Catholic who has been involved in Catholic Family Ministry since 1981, first as a volunteer marriage preparation minister, then as the Coordinator of Marriage Ministry for the Archdiocese of Chicago (from 1999 to 2009). He was the Director for the Office for Black Catholics from 2011 to 2015 and a founding member of “Dwell In My Love” Antiracism Task Force for 15 years. In retirement, he has has continued his antiracism advocacy, speaking at conferences, leading retreats, and presenting webinars for variety of Catholic organizations. A husband, father, and grandfather, he is an author of two books: “Marriage On A Lampstand: Exploring a New Paradigm for Modern Christian Marriage” (co-authored with his wife, Terri Lyke); and “A Private Collection of Heartfelt Thoughts.”

Vision: I’m an advocate for making better known Catholic Social Teaching (CST) tenets of our faith and the best kept secret in middle-class Catholic pews. CST is foundational to my efforts in Catholic anti-racist activism. It is also foundational to the work of Pax  Christi. The work of peacemaking, justice, and antiracism is anchored by these tenets, which justify the work.

Fr. Greg Walgenbach, 51, White, currently serves as Chaplain for the Office of Restorative Justice in the Diocese of Orange in California, where he is privileged to meet Jesus in incarcerated brothers and sisters and survivors of crime. Ordained in 2024 through the Pastoral Provision, having previously served as an Anglican priest, he is married to Claudia and they have four children. He previously served as Diocesan Director of the Office of Life, Justice, and Peace, for 13 years, the last four years of which he was also as the Director of the Mission Office. Throughout his tenure he worked consistently through organizing, formation, speaking, writing, and pastoral ministry to cultivate a spirituality of nonviolence, a consistent ethic of life, advocacy, and peacebuilding, grounded in the Gospel and Catholic social teaching, and helped alongside others to found the diocesan Anti-Racism Committee (for which seeds were planted and watered at the Pax Christi USA Anti-Racism training in 2016) and the diocese’s Pastoral Migratoria.

Vision: As a clergy participant in the Fifth World Meeting of Popular Movements in Rome, October 2025, I remain inspired by so many global witnesses of solidarity and what Pope Leo XIV called a “walking together [that] testifies to the vitality of the popular movements as builders of solidarity in diversity.” This, I believe, is good guidance for Pax Christi as we seek to live out our commitment to the call of Christian nonviolence and just peace. Again, Pope Leo from that same address: “The Church must be with you: a poor Church for the poor, a Church that reaches out, a Church that runs risks, a Church that is courageous, prophetic and joyful! What I consider most important is that your service be animated by love.” It is a confidence in this love supreme that enables our courageous, prophetic, and joyful witness to the importance of truth-telling in this and every time and to becoming what and who we are created truly to be.

Current members of Pax Christi USA are eligible to vote here.