Nominations Now Open for PCMA Peacemaker Awards – Due September 1

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Nominations for this year’s Peacemaker Awards, Adult and Youth categories, are now open! 

This award is given to outstanding peacemakers who embody the ideals of Pax Christi. Nominees need not be members of Pax Christi and may be as young as 16, or older. Nominations may be submitted by PCMA members, teachers, campus ministers, parish pastoral leaders, youth ministers, family members or friends who have been inspired by the nominee.

2024 Peacemaker Award Nomination Form

2024 John Leary Youth Peacemaker Award Nomination Form

List of awardees since the award’s inception in 1992

Deadline for submission is September 1. 

Video Now Available for Back from the Brink’s webinar: “A Conversation with Annie Jacobsen”

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If you missed this timely webinar featuring a conversation with the author of the best-selling book Nuclear War, it’s now available to stream on YouTube! Ms. Jacobsen was joined by Archbishop John C. Wester (Archdiocese of Santa Fe); Eddie Laiche (a high school senior at John Burroughs High School in Burbank, CA and co-founder of Students for Nuclear Disarmament) and Dr. Ira Helfand (BftB Steering Committee member and a leader of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons). The event was moderated by Denise Duffield (BftB Steering Committee member and Associate Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles).