Resources

Pax Christi Resources

  • Pax Christi USA Membership Brochure - for a downloadable membership brochure, click here.  20% of your membership donation to PCUSA will be returned to Pax Christi Florida to support the work of peace in our state and you will automatically become a member of Pax Christi Florida.
  • Gathered in Peace: Forming Pax Christi Communities - this free downloadable resources is designed to assist forming/newly formed local groups with their initial five meetings.  This guide provides a basic methodology for a peacemaking group and should be a resource for on-going, regularly scheduled meetings.  The contents include an introduction to Pax Christi, it history, priorities and peace education materials.  (49 pages in pdf format)
  • Vow of Nonviolence - an invitation to people of faith and conscience to signify a break with violence in all of its forms.  Groups and individuals taking this vow are commiting themselves to striving to live a life of nonviolence for a period of one year.  For a copy of the Vow of Nonviolence click here.
  • What Is Pax Christi? (pdf format)
  • Brothers and Sisters All - an information brochure about Pax Christi USA’s 20-year initiative to transform Pax Christi USA into an anti-racist, multi-cultural peace and justice movement. (brochure in pdf format)

Organizing Tools

Resources on Conscientious Objection

Resources on Immigration

Resources on the Death Penalty

Resources from Pax Christi USA

Resources from The Florida Catholic Conference

Resources from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Other Death Penalty Resources

  • Death Penalty Information Center - up to date reports of all state and national news relating to death penalty
  • I Was In Prison - faith-filled articles on life in prison; especially helpful for those in prison ministry of working on death penalty issues

Environmental Resources

  • NEW!  Challenge and Hope at this Kairos Moment - handout prepared by Mary Ann Holtz and shared at PCF’s 09 Assembly.

  • Listening to Earth: Faith and Action in a Time of Global Climate Crisis published by Pax Christi USA.  This is 5-session series available as a downloadable pdf resource.  $5.00 for copyright permission for 1-5 copies and $10.oo if you intend to print more.  To learn more or to order, click here.

  • Summary of Study of Resources Related to Current Global Environmental Crises by Mary Ann Holtz, St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S. Written July 2007 with Additions April 2008.  To read Mary Ann’s report, click here.

  • Ten Action Steps for Individuals and Families Responding to the Current Global Environmental Crises prepared by Pax Christi Florida member, Mary Ann Holtz, .  To read, click here.

  • U.S. Bishops Call for Moral Focus on Global Climate Change; New Report Demands Urgent Attention.  To read the statement and for other resources on this topic from the USCCB, click here. 

Resources for Children

Brochures and Booklets

  • A New Moment: An Invitation to Nonviolence - compiled by the Erie Benedictines for Peace, this is an important resource for those who want to learn more about nonviolence and disarming one’s heart.  Also a great resource for those who may be discerning, or have taken, Pax Christi USA’s Vow of Nonviolence.  (43 pages – pdf format)
  • Keeping Vigil - A Pax Christi USA Peaceweavings written by Nancy Small.  Admist the darkness of these times, the words of Jesus cry out to us with the urgent desire that resonated in his voice that long-ago night.  “Remain here, and watch with me.” (brochure in pdf format)
  • A Prophetic Church - A Pax Christi USA Peaceweavings written by Bishop Gabino Zavala, Bishop President of Pax Christi USA.  As the prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures spoke to the inhumanity of the “Empire” and called God’s people to a new vision and hope for humanity, so must the Church today. (brochure in pdf format)

Election Resources 

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