USA presents Our Annual Momentum Event 2011 Peace

Reconciliation:& Spiritual Reflections A Decade After 9/11 Pax Christi USA 1225 Otis Street, NE Washington, D.C. 20017 September 8, 2011 www.paxchristiusa.org University of America [email protected] Washington, D.C. 202.635.2741 www.paxchristiusa.org Tonight’s Program Refreshments and Social Silent Auction Welcome to Washington DC Pax Christi Welcome by Josie Chrosniak, HM, USA Chairperson of the National Council & Call to Prayer: Litany Opening Song: Musicians from Our Lady Queen of Peace Congratulations to Colleen Kelly on “A Litany for Justice” The Presentation of the 2011 Teacher of Peace Award to Colleen Kelly 14 F Street / Northwest / Capitol Hill / Washington DC / 20001 by Marie Dennis, 202-543-5433 / www.kellysirishtimesdc.com Co-President of Pax Christi International

Reflection by Pax Christi USA’s 2011 Teacher of Peace “A Litany for Justice Continued” Calligraphy by Michael Noyes Introduction of Keynote Speaker: by Ronaldo Cruz, Pax Christi USA, Interim Director

Keynote Address Pax Christi USA would by Jim Wallis like to thank you for Dialogue: Questions and Answers your contribution to our “A Litany for Justice Continued” Momentum Event 2011

Introduction of PCUSA Staff and Interns Silent Auction

Closing Song: Musicians from Our Lady Queen of Peace 0 East 4th Street #18, Richmond, VA 23224 | 804-943-1522 1-800-210-3300 | [email protected] | www.michaelnoyes.com Pax Christi USA Dear Pax Christi USA, In a world that settles differences by armed violence and defines “justice” as “revenge,” Pax Christi USA dares to break the cycle of violence by Thank you for your 40 years of service and witness fostering reconciliation. to our nonviolent, active Savior and Christ, Jesus of Pax Christi USA is the national Catholic peace movement, reaching Nazareth! more than half a million Catholics in the United States each year. Our membership includes more than 130 U.S. bishops, 800 sponsors, 650 Let us reflect on these words of Benedict XVI: religious communities, 75 high school and college campus groups, and 350 local groups. “Christ does not conquer through the sword, The work of Pax Christi USA begins in personal life and extends to but through the Cross. communities of reflection and action to transform structures of society. He wins by conquering hatred; Pax Christi USA rejects war and every form of violence and domination. He wins through the force of His greater love. It advocates primacy of conscience, economic and social justice, and The Cross of Christ expresses his ‘no’ to violence. respect for creation. Pax Christi USA commits itself to peace education In this way, it is God’s victory sign, and, with the help of its bishop members, promotes the Gospel imperative which announces Jesus’ new way.” of peacemaking as a priority in the in the United States. Through the efforts of all its members and in cooperation with other groups, May our local Catholic parishes share Jesus’ new way Pax Christi USA works toward a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world. by establishing Pax Christi chapters and teaching our Pax Christi USA is a section of Pax Christi International, the international children and adults about the nonviolent Jesus and Catholic peace movement with consultative status at the United Nations. successful nonviolent movements! We are now a member of the Anybody “up” for funding the 1st Pax Christi school? Combined Federal Campaign!

CFC is the world’s largest and most successful Pax Christi! annual workplace charity campaign, Pledges made by Federal civilian, postal and military Richard DeBona donors during the campaign season support eligible non-profit organizations that Rockville, MD Help support provide health and human service benefits Pax Christi USA throughout the world. CFC #16815 Jim Wallis Jim Wallis is a bestselling author, We celebrate public theologian, speaker, and international commentator on ethics Pax Christi USA, and public life. He recently served on the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood its members and staff Partnerships and currently serves as the chair of the Global Agenda Council on Faith for the World Thank you for Economic Forum. His latest book is Rediscovering Values: On Wall your commitment to the Street, Main Street, and Your Street -- A Moral Compass for the New Economy. His two previous books, The Great pursuit of peace with justice Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post–Religious Right America and God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It were both and to the healing power New York Times bestsellers. He is president and CEO of Sojourners where he is editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine, which has a combined print and of reconciliation. electronic media readership of more than 250,000 people. Jim frequently speaks in the United States and abroad. His columns appear in major newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe . He frequently appears on radio and television, as Blessings on a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News – on shows such as Meet the Press, Hardball, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The O’Reilly Factor, and on your work as National Public Radio. He teaches a course on “Faith, Social Justice, and Public Life” at Georgetown University and has also taught at Harvard University. you make the He has written 10 books, which include Faith Works: The Soul of Politics: A Practical and Prophetic Vision for Change; Who Speaks for God? A New Politics transition to of Compassion, Community, and Civility; and The Call to Conversion. Jim Wallis was raised in an evangelical family in the Midwest. As a teenager, your new his questioning of the racial segregation in his church and community led him to the black churches and neighborhoods of inner-city Detroit. He spent his headquarters. student years involved in the civil rights and antiwar movements. While at Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, Jim and several other students started a small magazine and community with a Christian commitment to Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns social justice which has now grown into a national faith-based organization. www.maryknollogc.org In 1979, Time magazine named Jim Wallis one of the "50 Faces for America's Future." Colleen Kelly Socially ReSponSible inveSting Teacher of Peace 2011 Raymond James Financial Services Colleen Kelly (Bronx, New York) is a family Member: RINRA/SIPC nurse practitioner, and one of the founding members of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. On September 11th, R. McCarthy 2001, Colleen’s Bill was at a breakfast Executive Financial Advisor conference at Windows on the World and was killed during the terrorist attacks. 2547 Sutcliff Terrace Inspired by decades of non-violent Brookeville, MD 20833 response to deadly conflict, Colleen met several other like-minded family members in 301-774-7069 December 2001, eventually forming September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. The Toll Free 866-265-9387 organization takes its name from the Martin Luther King quote, “Wars make poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.” The group has over 200 family members and was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace prize. In January, 2003, Colleen joined a person-to-person Peaceful Tomorrows Pax Christi Long Island delegation to Iraq to learn about the conditions facing civilians in the aftermath of two wars, sanctions, and the threat of new military action there. In 2006, for the fifth anniversary of 9-11, Peaceful Tomorrows hosted more than thirty celebrates !!!! family members of victims of political violence from around the world who had consciously chosen to respond non-violently. Participants included atomic bomb survivors; families affected by violence the vision and the voice in Bali; Beslan, Russia; Madrid; Chile; Algeria; Rwanda; South Africa, Uganda and Israel/Palestine. This new international group aims to support families recently affected by the loss of a loved one, and to channel grief to break of cycles of violence. Peaceful Tomorrows current work focuses on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, supporting religious tolerance and diversity, restoring Colleen Kelly the Rule of Law, and calling attention to the issue of civilian casualties around the globe. Colleen lives in the Bronx with her three teenage children, working at a and Montefiore school health clinic inside a large Bronx high school. Both ‘jobs’ have greatly helped her practice conflict resolution! Families for Peaceful Tomorrows

Pax Christi Michigan Silent Auction extends our sincere congratulations to Colleen Kelly, Please be sure to visit our Silent Auction and bid on the 2011 recipient of the Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace Award exciting offers we have available! and founding member of September 11th Families for Our auction items range from books, artwork to dinners Peaceful Tomorrows. AND MORE! Your life and your witness calls us to passionately continue our work for peaceful tomorrows by insisting on ending our involvement in all wars, reversing the direction of our corporate-backed government Some of our aution items include: and recommitting ourselves to work for the Common Good, so that all people may live together justly, peacefully and nonviolently on this planet. We grieve your loss from the Twin Towers tragedy and pray for Signed copies of Sixty Years, Sixty Voices: Isreali and your continued healing. Palestinian Women Thanks to Dave Robinson for your 20 years of inspired and dedicated work & congratulations to PCUSA on the move to your new D.C. office! Three tickets to a Orioles-Red Sox game including pre-game picnic with Fr. Joe Nangle

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Two membership to Cinema Art Fairfax, Virginia Film Club www.peacexpeace.org Our 20,000 women peacebuilders in 120 countries Traditional Brazilian Dinner welcome Pax Christi USA to DC and congratulate Colleen Kelly of Peaceful Tomorrows, Pax Christi USA’s 2011 Teacher of Peace. Bidding will be open during our opening reception and again after the program has ended

Look for Sixty Years, Sixty Voices: Israeli and Palestinian Women in the Silent Auction.

Congratulations Jim Wallis Pax Christi USA’s and Colleen Kelly for guiding us in the way to peace! Teachers of Peace The Teacher of Peace Award is given annually to the person who, in our opinion, gives outstanding witness to the theme of Pope Paul VI’s World Day of Peace message, “To reach peace, PAX CHRISTI teach peace.” PENTAGON AREA 1978 – 1980 – Msgr. Paul Hanly Furfey Witnessing to the 1982 – Mary Evelyn Jegen, S.N.D. Peace of Christ 1983 – and Gordon Zahn in the Shadow 1984 – , , of the Pentagon Pax Christi Metro New York and Jean Donovan 371 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY 10014 CONGRATULATIONS TO 1986 – Hildegard and Jean Goss-Mayr 212-420-0250; [email protected]; PAX CHRISTI USA & 1987 – www.nypaxchristi.org; COLLEEN KELLY! 1988 – Lawrence Martin Jenco and now on Facebook, too! 1989 – , S.J. 1990 – Joan Chittister, O.S.B. 1991 – Bishop 1992 – Dom Helder Camara 1993 – Colman McCarthy Thank you, Dave! 1994 – Jim and Shelley Douglass 1995 – Jim and Kathy McGinnis 1996 – Helen Prejean, C.S.J. 1997 – , M.M. Congratulations, Colleen! 1998 – 1999 – 2000 – Dianna Ortiz, O.S.U. 2001 – Fr. , Liz Berrigan and Phil Berrigan 2002 – Fr. Peter Dougherty 2003 – William Quigley 2005 – Msgr. Ray East 2006 – Sr. Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB Pax Christi 2007 - Fr. John Rausch, Glmy 2008 - MJ and Jerry Park Pacifi c Northwest 2009 - Bishop Leroy Matthiesen 2010 – Jim Albertini 2011 – Colleen Kelly The Things That Make for Peace Pax Christi USA Statement on the Anniversary of 9-11 Ten years ago, just scant hours after our nation witnessed the tragic events of September 11th, Pax Christi USA released a statement which said, in part:

We recognize that as the reality of the magnitude of loss becomes clear, our nation’s grief will soon move toward rage. As people of faith and disciples of the nonviolent Jesus, we must be willing, even now in this darkest moment, to commit ourselves and urge our sisters and brothers, to resist the impulse to ven- geance. We must resist the urge to demonize and dehumanize any ethnic group as ‘enemy.’ We must find the courage to break the spiral of violence that so many in our nation, we fear, will be quick to embrace. (Pax Christi USA’s Official State- As we work to break the cycles of violence in ment on 9-11, published on September 12, 2001)

On Sunday, September 11, 2011, the tenth anniversary of 9-11, as we gather the world, one step at a time, one teacher at to celebrate the Eucharist together, a question will be put to us: a time and one lesson at a time, we at Could anyone nourish anger against another and expect healing from the Lord? Can anyone refuse mercy to another, yet expect pardon for one’s own sins? (Sirach 28:3-4) September 11th Families for Peaceful These past ten years, we have witnessed the failure of policies built on ven- Tomorrows remain inspired by geance. Our elected leaders manipulated our grief and fear to justify foreign policy decisions which had little to nothing to do with the tragedy of 9-11. Our nation was ensconced in a culture of fear, where the scapegoating of peoples, the work of Pax Christi. the fanning of religious intolerance, and the curtailing of civil rights served the needs of political expedience. We have been witnesses to the dark places where our government’s response to 9-11 led our nation—the justification of torture, the moral bankruptcy of pre- September Eleventh Families for emptive war, the daily reports of innocent civilians killed as collateral damage, the deaths of thousands of U.S. service personnel, and the stealing of our na- Peaceful Tomorrows tional wealth to pay for wars abroad as our children, our elderly, and the most vulnerable are left to suffer at home. P.O. Box 1818 Today, as we acknowledge the ten year anniversary of 9-11, there can be no Peter Stuyvesant Station doubt that responding with war and violence can neither console us in our grief nor achieve the security for which we long. New York, NY 10009 In the weeks following 9-11, Pax Christi USA proclaimed that very message, Email: [email protected] and challenged our political leaders to seize this moment for peace by establish- Phone: 212-598-0970 ing justice for all peoples throughout the world. Until we commit our own nation to the pursuit of peace and justice for the entire human family, we should not www.peacefultomorrows.org be surprised when the violence suffered by those living on the other side of the http://911stories.org/welcome world—as well as those living on the wrong side of town—eventually engulfs us all. Ten years have passed, but we believe that the opportunity is still with us. Let us start, now, today, in Washington, D.C. and in every city and town across this land, in our schools and our places of worship and within our own homes. Let us write a new chapter and create a new legacy for all those whose lives were shattered on 9-11. Let each one of us decide what it is that we can do to create a legacy which heals instead of harms. Let us begin with the assurance that such healing will come if we make economic, political and social justice for all our top priority. On Sunday, September 11, 2011, at the responsorial, Catholics will sing in churches throughout our nation:

Our God is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and rich in compassion. God pardons all our iniquities, heals all our ills, redeems our lives from destruction, and crowns us with kindness and compassion. (Psalm 103)

This anniversary offers us an opportunity to reflect the values of the God to whom we have given our allegiance. Let us remember those who were lost and memorialize this day by committing our lives to “the things that make for peace”—drawing closer to those who suffer, cultivating understanding in the midst of suspicion, finding truth in the arguments of those with whom we dis- agree, embracing some measure of personal sacrifice today to make a better world for our children and grandchildren tomorrow. Let us gather one decade from now—not amidst the ruins of all that has been torn down—but in the midst of that new world of peace and security for all which we have built up together.

Save the Date! Pax Christi USA National Conference 2012 Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Pax Christi USA

July 20-22, 2012 The Catholic University of America Washington, D.C.

More information available soon at www.paxchristiusa.org! PAX CHRISTI MINNESOTA STATE ASSEMBLY Sept 16-17, 2011 Friday keynote by Coleen Rowley (7-9pm) Pax Christi USA offers interns: “Ethics and Social Psychology Responsible for Good People Doing Wrong” - Placement in Washington, D.C. (Coleen is a former FBI Special Agent and one of Time Magazine’s Persons of the Year in 2002.) - Long Term or Short Term Internships Saturday Workshops (8:15am-3:30pm) - Monthly Stipend and Health Insurance “Breaking the Culture of Silence; Choosing a Nonviolent Path” Secrets of Faith & Hope in Haiti Sexual Violence in the Military Creative Nonviolence in Afghanistan Victims of Torture New Intern Positions Freedom Riders 50th Anniversary Breaking Free From Human Trafficking

Available Fall 2012! Location: Pax Christi Catholic Church 4135 18th Avenue NW Rochester, MN 55901 Pax Christi offers internships in: Registration Form: available on-line at http://www.paxchristimn.org/ - Development - Publications & Design - Grassroots Organizing - Strategic Planning - Youth & Young Adult - Administration - Research and Policy Work - Web Design The St. Francis of Assisi Pax Christi group, Derwood, MD For more information: Contact Sister Dianna Ortiz, OSU, welcomes Pax Christi USA Pax Christi USA Deputy Director to Washington, DC. [email protected] 202-635-2741 www.paxchristiusa.org We pray that you will increase the spirit of the Prince of Peace and his gospel message of non-violence in the Nation’s Capital. We look forward to helping you with this mission. Acknowledgements Pax Christi USA would like to thank all those who made tonight’s event The Pax Christi community possible. We are truly appreciative of your efforts.

at The Catholic University of America Leia Tenuta St. Rose of Lima, Lori Liebesman The Cardinal Catering Gaithersburg, MD Catherine Davis Pax Christi at the Catholic University of America welcomes the National Pax and Isaac Farias Pax Christi USA would also like to thank the 2011 Momentum Host Committee for their hard work in making this event a success. We appreciate Christi office to the your efforts in selling tickets, soliciting auction items and program ads, and for all of the many other ways you have helped make this evening a success. Washington D.C. area. The coming of the peaceful kingdom of God can only be attained through the efforts of all of us, guided by the Holy Spirit. We thank you for your efforts to further this cause by your efforts for the Momentum event.

Pax Christi USA Momentum Host Committee

Chuck Michaels Bob Cooke We appreciate Pax Christi Charles McCarthy Jim Noonan John Reed Jean Stokan and Scott Wright USA and its years of effort to Larry Callahan Evelyn Mercantini Margaret Nuzzolese Jack McHale Dennis Duffy Marie Dennis promote the gospel message of Donna Grimes Judith Kelly Paul Magno Mary Liepold peace and justice through non Tony Langbehn Bob and Ann More Richard DeBona Dave and Mary Kate Ryner Jack and Joan McCarthy Joe Nangle violent means. Jennifer Svetlik Luann Mostello and Art Millholland Mike Rodgers Ron Cruz Aetna Thompson Eli McCarthy Nuala Cohen

The Center of Concern offers our warm congratulations to Colleen Kelly PAX CHRISTI for her graced witness METRO DC-BALTIMORE to a truly Christian 9/11 response WELCOMES our grateful respect to Jim Wallis for his tireless prophetic ministry PAX CHRISTI USA for peace with justice NATIONAL STAFF our profound thanks to Pax Christi USA TO as it approaches forty years of faithful peacemaking WASHINGTON, DC. our grieving with all whose lives have been wounded or destroyed May God prosper anywhere in the world our work together for peace during the ten-year violence of the country’s response to 9/11 in the heart of the empire! and our sincere prayer for the nation that we may learn CONGRATULATIONS in the decade ahead TO to walk in the ways of peace, forging a world community of justice in love. COLLEEN KELLY, 2011 Teacher of Peace. Center of Concern • 1225 Otis Street, NE • Washington, D.C. 20017 P: 202.635.2757 • F: 202.832.9494 • Email: [email protected] www.paxchristimetrodc.org www.coc.org