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  • Pax Christi MN State Assembly 2009

    Posted on July 13, 2009 by admin
    September 26, 2009
    9:00 amto4:00 pm

    Choosing the Non-Violent Way of Compassion
    Saturday, September 26, 2009
    St. Frances Cabrini Church, Minneapolis, MN

    Keynote by Michael Crosby

    Michael Crosby is a Capuchin Franciscan. He lives in community with other friars in a downtown Milwaukee parish that serves the urban poor, homeless and marginated.

    Schedule of Events
    9:00  Registration
    9:30  Opening prayer and Welcome
    10:00 Morning Keynote
    11:45 Lunch
    12:30 Pax Christi USA
    1:00  First Afternoon Keynote
    2:30  Break/Socializing
    3:00  Second Afternoon Keynote
    4:00  Closing prayer and Announcements

    For more information and to register, please print out the Pax Christi MN 2009 State Assembly and mail in.

    Co-sponsored by St. Frances Cabrini Justice and Peace Coalition.

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  • PC Members Receive Caritas Award

    Posted on May 12, 2009 by admin

    April 6, 2009Joe and Marilyn Schmit

    On April 6, 2009, Joe and Marilyn Schmit received the Caritas Award from the College of St. Benedict and St. Johns University.  Each year a distinguished Saint John’s Alumnus and a Saint Benedict’s Alumna and two upper class students – one from each campus – are selected to receive this award for their commitment to social change and social justice.

    The Schmits have spent their entire 52 years of married life working for social justice on a local, national and global level. They pressured their elected representatives in the 1980s to stop funding the contra rebels in Nicaragua and spoke out against the production of land mines and nuclear weapons. Marilyn was arrested three times for protesting aid to the contra rebels and is a member of Women Against Military Madness. She gave 30 talks after her trip to Nicaragua in 1985. Joe raised eyebrows at a San Francisco physics conference in 1985 when he asked his colleagues for a moment of silence on the 40th anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, Japan. Currently, Joe is an electrician for Habitat for Humanity, and has done taxes for low income and elderly people for 18 years. They both actively support efforts to close the School of the Americas, Fort Benning, Ga., provide supplies for needy school children in Nicaragua and struggling families in Mexico, and sponsor the Marilyn Scholl Schmit Scholarship for Peace Studies at CSB.

    Congratulations to Joe and Marilyn!

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  • Twin Cities Prayer and Meditation Gatherings

    Posted on April 15, 2009 by admin
    April 25, 2009
    9:00 amto10:30 am

    PC Twin Cities invites you to join them for their upcoming Meditation and Prayer Gathering

    Saturday, April 25
    St. Joan of Arc Parish Center, 4537 3rd Ave. So. Minneapolis

    These gatherings are open and welcoming to all who wish to join for reflection and prayer.  If you would like to volunteer to facilitate one of their upcoming monthly prayer/meditation gatherings, please let PC Twin Cities know and they would be happy to add you to their schedule.

    Darlene White will facilitate and has provided the following reflection piece.

    Leaning on God

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  • The Spirituality of Dorothy Day’s Pacifism

    Posted on April 12, 2009 by admin
    April 20, 2009
    7:00 pmto9:00 pm

    April 20, 2009
    University of St. Thomas, OEC Auditorium, St. Paul Campus

    Presented by Dr. Anne Klejment, historian, and author of works on Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement, co-editor of American Catholic Pacifism: Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker, and recipient of the 1997 Pax Christi USA Book Award.

    Co-sponsored by the Department of History, the Program in Justice and Peace Studies, and the Women’s Studies Program.

    Free parking for this event in the H parking area (Cretin and Summit).

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  • Fifth Annual Growing Peace Conference

    Posted on April 5, 2009 by admin
    April 18, 2009
    9:00 amto4:30 pm

    St. Michael’s Multipurpose Room
    1600 South Marian Road (Entrance F)
    Sioux Falls, S.D.

    Bishop Tom Gumbleton, longtime national and international activist in the peace movement and founding bishop president of Pax Christi USA, will be the featured speaker at the fifth annual Growing Peace South Dakota Pax Christi conference.

    Registration begins at 9:00 a.m. A freewill donation will be collected for the conference fees, and there will be a $7 charge for lunch. The event is open to the public and all those interested in peace and justice are encouraged to attend.

    This annual conference is sponsored by the Presentation Sisters’ Social Justice Team and Pax Christi chapters including: Aberdeen, West River, and Southeastern South Dakota and Estherville, Iowa.

    For more information, please contact:

    Growing Peace Conference Info

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