This year marks the 40th anniversary of “The Challenge of Peace: God’s Promise and Our Response,” the 1983 letter of the U.S. Catholic bishops on questions of war and peace.
Catholics face ‘new moment’ for church teaching on war and peace, cardinal says
Activists arrested for protest outside U.N. mission appear in N.Y. court
The activists blocked the door in an act of civil disobedience in front of the mission in New York while diplomats from around the world gathered for a U.N. review conference on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
Longtime peace educator Marie Dennis is Pax Christi USA’s Teacher of Peace
For more than 50 years, Marie Dennis has been asking herself as a white middle-class woman who once worked for the U.S. Navy how she could respond as a Catholic to the cries for justice of people around the world.
Religious leaders must inspire humanity to renounce violence, pope says
Pope Francis said, “religious leaders, have a duty to awaken in humanity the firm resolve to renounce violence and to build a culture of peace.”
In a violent world, some find Gospel nonviolence a worthy alternative
More people are seeking alternatives in a world beset by violence whether through war, domestic abuse, rising crime and shootings, income inequality, racism, or disrespectful rhetoric in politics and social media.
‘No more war’: Pope continues his teaching on Gospel nonviolence
Modern popes have been clear voices for peace, but Pope Francis is moving closer to a broad embrace of nonviolence and a declaration that modern warfare is so deadly and sophisticated that the traditional “just war” theories cannot apply.
Road to victory is always path of nonviolence, says head of Sant’Egidio
The path of nonviolence is always the road to victory.
Archbishop calls for renewed focus on Rev. King’s call to nonviolence
The upcoming 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. prompted Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori to write a pastoral letter on the civil rights leader’s principles of nonviolence.