Pax Christi South

As people who are involved in our world and who are committed to bringing the light of the Christian Gospel to our world, it is easy to get caught up in the tyranny off endless activity (Merton’s “laziness of action”)—another meeting, another issue, another campaign. Merton invites us to take an inner pilgrimage—a journey […]

Those who think there can be a just cause for measures that gravely risk leading to the destruction of the entire human race are in the most dangerous illusion, and if they are Christians they are purely and simply arming themselves with hammer and nails, without realizing it, to crucify and deny Christ. . . […]

How long, O God?
How long, O God?

Reading James H. Cone’s book, God of the Oppressed, has stirred some reflections. Cone’s basic thesis is that we cannot talk about God independent of our own history and context both past and present. He also says that God is bigger than our talk about God. As Jesse Manibusan says in one song, “God is […]

For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears. Their end is destruction; their god is the belly; and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and […]

What happened in 1945 is history; however, it does provide instruction for us today. In 2002, the United States opted out of the Antiballistic Missile Treaty. The United States is still a signatory to the Nuclear Anti-Proliferation treaty. Under that treaty, the United States may continue to maintain and upgrade its nuclear weapons. The 2007 […]

[What follows is the first of two bulletin inserts our Pax Christi group prepared for our church bulletins this past weekend and next weekend. Today, let us pray that such a savage use of WMDs will never again occur.]
August 6, 2007 marks the 62nd anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. August […]

[We are all called to be prophets.]
I heard the gentle whisper—
“Speak out!”
Speak out? I know not what to say.