About Pax Christi Illinois

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Pax Christi Illinois is a regional chapter of Pax Christi USA, a national Catholic peace and justice movement with over 18,000 members including over 140 bishop members, 400 sponsoring religious communities and over 300 local groups around the country. Pax Christi USA is a section of Pax Christi International, the Catholic Peace Movement. For more information go to www.paxchristiusa.org.

Together we strive to create a world that reflects the Peace of Christ by exploring, articulating and witnessing to the call of Christian nonviolence. This work begins in personal life and extends to communities of reflection and action to transform structures of society. Pax Christi rejects war, preparations for war, and every form of violence and domination. It advocates primacy of conscience, economic and social justice and respect for creation.

Pax Christi commits itself to peace education and, with the help of its bishop members, promotes the gospel imperative of peacemaking as a priority in the Catholic Church in the United States. Through the efforts of all its members and in cooperation with other groups, Pax Christi USA works toward a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.

Pax Christi Illinois
1910 Maple Ave
Lisle, IL 60532

To contact us: Sister Karen Nykiel, OSB
Phone: 630-632-2216
Fax: 630-969-4839
Email: srknykiel@aol.com

Pax Christi Illinois Local Group Representatives & State Leaders:

Sr. Karen Nykiel, OSB     Pax Christi Illinois State Coordinator

Stephen P. Newton, C.S.C.      Pax Christi Central Chicago

Jean Jordan      Pax Christi Servants, Downers Grove

Lucy de Barbaro      Pax Christi St. Thomas the Apostle, Naperville

Lorna Miressi      Living Stones Pax Christi, Wayne

John & Rose Bagley      Pax Christi DuPage

Diane Lopez Hughes     Pax Christi Springfield

Tom Cordaro      Pax Christi USA Ambassador of Peace, Aurora

Local Groups

A Community of Peacebuilders:

Pax Christi Chicago Central
Pax Christi CTU
Pax Christi DuPage
Pax Christi LaGrange
Pax Christi Servants
Pax Christi Springfield
Pax Christi St. Gertrude's Parish


Membership

Members of Pax Christi USA automatically become members of our Illinois chapter.

For information on how to join, please visit Pax Christi USA.

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