Donald Dillbeck is scheduled to be executed on February 23 at 6 pm. How can you help? Use your voice to tell the Florida Executive Clemency Board and Governor DeSantis to stay the execution and commute Donald’s sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Click here to sign the petition. For our faithContinue reading “Florida Execution, February 23”
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Bread not Stones 2022 Campaign
PCUSA National Campaign to challenge our Nation’s Budget PrioritiesDespite the end of the Cold War in the 1990s, the U.S. has continued to operate out of the mentality that peace is assured through military might, the manufacturing of weapons, and investment in preparation for war. From prolonging the war in Ukraine to increasing fossil fuelContinue reading “Bread not Stones 2022 Campaign”
Statewide Pax Christi Florida Meeting – Wed. August 24th
You are invited to a Zoom meeting. When: Aug 24, 2022 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) We will be getting reports from those who attended the National Council and discussing plans for the coming year. As preparation please read (From the 50th National Assembly) Bishop Wester’s Keynote address and Bishop Stowe’s Homily (links below) https://paxchristiusa.org/2022/08/17/archbishop-john-westers-keynote-address-pax-christi-usa-national-conference/ (BishopContinue reading “Statewide Pax Christi Florida Meeting – Wed. August 24th”
John & Martina Linnehan Archives at UF Library
John and Martina Linnehan and the Florida Peace Movement Collection The archival material chronicling John and Martina’s involvement in the peace movement in Florida is housed at the PK Yonge Library of Florida History at the University of Florida. This information was relayed by James Cusick, UF archivist. Thank you to John Frank, who helpedContinue reading “John & Martina Linnehan Archives at UF Library”
Novena for Nuclear Disarmament
August 1 – 9, 2022 Created by two Pax Christi Maine members Our Holy Father, Pope Francis, spoke at the Peace Memorial in Hiroshima on Sunday, 24 November 2019: “In a single plea to God and to all men and women of good will, on behalf of all the victims of atomic bombings and experiments,Continue reading “Novena for Nuclear Disarmament”
PCF Letter to Florida Bishops re: Nuclear Disarmament
Pax Christi Florida sent the following letter to all of the Florida Bishops, urging them to join us in our prayer, study and action efforts to promote nuclear disarmament. A copy of “Living in the Light of Christ’s Peace”, a recent pastoral letter by Archbishop John C. Wester (Santa Fe) was included with each letter.Continue reading “PCF Letter to Florida Bishops re: Nuclear Disarmament”
Here’s a simple thing you can do right now to help stop nuclear war!
Here’s a very simple, easy thing you can do RIGHT NOW – or tonight or tomorrow – to help us move toward a day when nuclear war will no longer be a threat. It’s short, it’s easy, and it isn’t everything we’ll have to do, but it will be a step. Click on the link/buttonContinue reading “Here’s a simple thing you can do right now to help stop nuclear war!”
Urge FL Senators to Support GUN SAFETY Laws
Representing Florida, Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott both claim to be “pro-life”. Are not the lives of school children as valuable as the lives of the unborn? We must act for Gun Safety. Contact Senators Rubio and Scott and urge them to support: HR 8 – The Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021, and HR 1446 –Continue reading “Urge FL Senators to Support GUN SAFETY Laws”
Nonviolence Training
Nonviolence Training – Bystander Intervention Skills Saturday, May 14th, 11AM to 3:30PM (Eastern Time)The drumbeat of war has made our world community more tense, adding yet another layer of divisiveness and “Us vs. Them” thinking. As compassionate, concerned people of faith, we can do something. Meta Peace Teams, with Pax Christi USA, invites you toContinue reading “Nonviolence Training”
Report on our PCF Retreat
Re-imagining the Peace of Christ On the weekend of March 18–20, Pax Christi Florida members gathered in person for the first time since 2015 at the Chinsegut Retreat Center. Led by Dr. Mary Carter Waren, we explored what it could mean to be the Peace of Christ in 2022, using Pope Francis’ book “Let Us Dream, The PathContinue reading “Report on our PCF Retreat”