Pax Christi USA

06/23/2026

Pax Christi USA is one of the supporting organizations for the Interfaith Action for Palestine (IAP) which is bringing together faith-rooted activists for a critical intervention this summer. Click the link below to learn how to join or support this action which will take place July 5-7 in Washington DC.

Interfaith Action for PALESTINE July 5-7, 2026 JOIN US IN dc Our interfaith coalition is taking on the largest pro-Israel organization in the countryThe Interfaith Action for Palestine (IAP) is bringing together a coalition of faith-rooted activist organizations for a critical intervention this summ...

06/23/2026

In DC? Join us tomorrow, June 24, for our short monthly prayer service outside ICE headquarters (500 12th St SW). It’s the feast day of John the Baptist, the prophet who spoke out against hypocrisy and who called for repentance.

06/23/2026

Listen to John Dear’s interview with Pax Christi friend Zoughbi Zoughbi!

On today’s new episode of “The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast,” I speak with one of the great peacemakers of our time, my friend Zoughbi Zoughbi of Bethlehem, Palestine, whom I first met in 1990.

Zoughbi is a lifelong Catholic Palestinian activist, organizer, and teacher of Gospel nonviolence. Long ago he founded the Wi’am Center, the Palestinian Conflict Transformation Center in the center of Bethlehem, where I’ve been several times. Wi'am is widely recognized as a place of nonviolent conflict resolution that helps Palestinians in the day to day struggle for justice and peace (www.alaslah.org) For the last few years, he has also served as the president of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, which is the oldest peace group in the world (www.ifor.org). Whenever you think you are working too hard for justice and peace, remember Zoughbi and get back to work! Listen in and be inspired!

*The podcast episodes are posted on Mondays, right away on NCR, Apple, Spotify, and many other major platforms including YouTube, substack.com, and posted to our website between 8am-9am PST

06/19/2026

On June 19, 1865, formerly enslaved people in Texas learned that the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed. We set aside this day each year to remember and to recommit ourselves to recognizing and defending the full dignity and freedom of everyone.

06/19/2026

Johnny Zokovitch reflects on his mentor Tom Cordaro's memoir, "Falling into God": "The explicit purpose of a book like this serves as an invitation to readers to mine the fertile ground of our own memories, experiences, and lives. 'If there ever was such a thing, the answer to the meaning of life is not in some ideology or theology; it is in our story. And it is in the telling of our story that we are saved,' Tom writes. 'So take your story seriously before it is over.....’”

by Johnny Zokovitch There is a distinct pleasure in reading a book written by someone you know well. Add gratitude to that pleasure when the book is written by someone who has mentored and shaped y…

06/18/2026

You still have time to sign this petition in support of the Christian community in Taybeh!

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/catholics-call-on-the-usccb-to-protect-taybeh?source=direct_link&

Join us in using our collective voice as Catholic faithful to call on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to use their voice and power to protect Taybeh. We urge the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to listen to the pleas of our brethren in Palestine, to speak prophetically and act m...

06/17/2026

Join us TOMORROW, June 18, for the second PAX Mass of 2026! We'll be joined by Fr. Gregory Chisholm, SJ. Mass starts at 8 PM Eastern/5 PM Pacific.

Join the Pax Christi USA community on Zoom on Thursday, June 18, 8 PM Eastern/5 PM Pacific for the second of four online PAX Masses for 2026. This month, our prayers will focus on the special inten…

06/16/2026

06/16/2026

For more than a year, Pax Christi New Jersey and other groups have held vigil outside Delaney Hall, the largest immigrant detention center on the East Coast, and have provided emotional, spiritual, and physical support to the families and loved ones of those being held inside. Join us for a webinar on Thursday, June 25 to learn more about this nonviolent resistance to state terror and how we can continue to show solidarity.

Please join Pax Christi USA for a webinar on Thursday, June 25, 7 PM Eastern on the role that faithful Catholics are playing in the solidarity movement with our neighbors who are being targeted by…

06/16/2026

A few Pax Christi members -- Marie Dennis, Jim Thomas, Jessica Sun, and Hannah Johns -- offer their reactions to Magnifica Humanitas. We welcome your reflections too. Stay tuned for details about a more in depth webinar on Pope Leo's first encyclical to be held in mid-July.

Last month, Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, On safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence. We invited a few Pax Christi members to reflec…