Greetings of peace!
The Pax Christi USA intergenerational Peace Pairs program launched in February of this year to build mutual co-learning and accompaniment between peacemakers in their 20s and 30s and Ambassadors of Peace/founding members of our movement. Each of these seven pairs were invited to work on an outward-facing project. The two webinars below are the two of these projects.
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Sr. Annie and Beatrice's Peace Pair Project with Catholic Prison Ministries Coalition:
A Creative Way to Address Grief
December 7 at 1 p.m. ET
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At the Catholic Prison Ministries Coalition's December webinar, Annie Killian, OP, post-doctoral fellow in Public Humanities at the University of Notre Dame, & Beatrice Parwatikar, Pax Christi USA Ambassador of Peace, will discuss prison ministry as a way of peacemaking. Through ministry, they offer returning citizens & people who are incarcerated both a ministry of accompaniment and a space for them to address grief, especially in this holiday season.
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Annie Killian, OP is a postdoctoral fellow in Public Humanities at the University of Notre Dame and holds a Ph.D. in English from Yale. Her work involves community engagement and public scholarship for the Medieval Institute at Notre Dame. She's taught courses on nonviolence, social change, & the politics of lament and worked in prison ministry and education with the Wesleyan Center for Prison Education (CT), Kolbe House Jail Ministry (Archdiocese of Chicago), & the Moreau College Initiative at Holy Cross College, Notre Dame. She is passionate about the humanities’ power to foster introspection and dialogue for the common good. A Dominican Sister of Peace, she serves on the Pax Christi Young Adult Caucus leadership team.
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Beatrice Parwatikar is a former member of the Pax Christi USA National Council, founding member of the Pax Christi Anti-Racism Team, and an Ambassador of Peace. She is a published writer including the author of Hoping, Seeking and Demanding Justice: Reflections for Advent 2004. She is the board co-chair of Jubilee USA and has served as a board member of the Maryknoll Lay Missioners. She has served on the National Black Catholic Congress’ Social Justice Commission and is a member of INCITE (Women of Color Against Violence). She considers St. Louis Abbey her spiritual home and is a pastoral associate, as well as an accomplished workshop presenter and facilitator.
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As we conclude our 50th anniversary year, join Pax Christi USA founding member Joseph J. Fahey and Ambassador of Peace Janice Vanderhaar for an online conversation about the origins of our movement. The webinar will take place on Thursday, December 15 at 7:30 p.m. ET.
Ryan Di Corpo, co-coordinator of Pax Christi New York State, will moderate the discussion. For more information about the beginnings of Pax Christi USA, read Fahey's newest essay in The Journal of Social Encounters.
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Ryan Di Corpo is the managing editor of Outreach and co-coordinator of Pax Christi New York State. A graduate student at Northeastern University in Boston, his writings have appeared in America, The Washington Post, Boston College Magazine, Peace Review and American Catholic Studies.
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Joe Fahey is a founding member of Pax Christi USA and served as General Secretary from 1975-1978. Joe taught theology at Manhattan College from 1966-2016 and co-founded the B.A. in Peace Studies and the B.A. in Labor Studies. Joe is a Pax Christi USA Ambassador of Peace.
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Janice Vanderhaar is a Pax Christi Ambassador of Peace
and member of PCUSA since 1973. She was appointed the first coordinator of Pax Christi Memphis in 1974 and served two terms on the PCUSA National Council. She helped found the MK Gandhi Institute, and the Gerard A. Vanderhaar Symposium at Christian Brothers University.
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Join the Pax Christi Young Adult Caucus for an Advent mini-retreat on Dec. 17th
On Saturday, December 17th, the Pax Christi Young Adult Caucus (PCYAC) will be hosting an Advent mini-retreat online for young adults in their 20s and 30s. They'll be gathering on Zoom from 12:00-4:00 p.m. ET/9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. PT for individual and collective reflection.
Join (PCYAC) for an afternoon of prayer and faith-sharing as they ask, "how are we being called to claim responsibility for our beloved neighbor this Advent season?" Young adult leaders will share reflections on the path of migrants, immigrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, & the global family of dreamers who leave everything they have known to take a walk of faith.
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A special Advent message from Martin Sheen
If you can make a special contribution to our
close out our 50th anniversary in a strong position,
we'd be so grateful! Just click on the donation button
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Pax Christi USA
Weaving Threads of Peace for 50 Years
202-635-2741 | 415 Michigan Ave NE, Suite 240, Washington, DC 20017
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