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Pax Christi USA Collected Records
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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Pax Christi USA is the national Catholic peace movement. Its approximately 14,000 members work for nonviolence and advocate peacemaking as a priority of the Catholic Church in the U.S. Headquartered in Erie, Pennsylvania, it publishes peace education literature and develops ministry programs to create a more peaceful, just and sustainable world. Pax Christi USA was founded in 1972 as an outgrowth of Pax Christi International, which has its International Secretariat in Brussels, Belgium.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.
Organization
Subject
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History -- Sources
- Church and Social Problems -- Catholic Church -- History -- Sources
- Christianity and justice -- Catholic Church -- History -- Sources
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources
- Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History -- Sources
- Publisher
- Swarthmore College Peace Collection