Pax Christi Springfield Illinois

Our group originated in the mid-1980's. With the 1987 Springfield Diocesan Project: Year of Peace, member involvement was diverted from our local Pax Christi into this educational effort. Eight hundred Catholics across the diocese participated in a course on the U.S. Bishops' Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response. 

In our world today, where violence is prevalent and dollars are being channeled away from human needs and towards an ever-increasing military budget, we sense a great lack of understanding on the part of many Catholics about Christ's challenge to be nonviolent peacemakers. Pax Christi

Springfield's goal is to prayerfully support and encourage the workings for peace by Catholics in light of the words of the Jesus, the Holy Father and Church teachings. 

Above: Pax Christi members gather for a prayer and potluck at Washington Park in June.

PAX CHRISTI USA 

Pax Christi USA strives to create a world that reflects the Peace of Christ by exploring, articulating, and witnessing to the call of Christian nonviolence. This work begins in personal life and extends to communities of reflection and action to transform structures of society of society. PCUSA rejects war, preparations for war, and every form of violence and domination. It advocates primacy of conscience, economic and social justice, and respect for creation. 

Pax Christi USA commits itself to peace education and, with the help of its bishop members, promotes the gospel imperative of peacemaking as a priority in the Catholic Church in the United States. Through the efforts of all its members and in cooperation with other groups, PCUSA works toward a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world.