Pax Christi NJ Upcoming Events

October 5th – Pax Christi St. Joe’s & Network will present Faithful Citizenship & The Platform for the Common Good, St. Joseph’s, East Rutherford 5 to 7 PM in the school cafeteria


October 12th –IRATE(the Interfaith Refugee Action Team - Elizabeth) and Pax Christi NJ will march with the flags of the nation to honor our immigrant heritage and protest the treatment of immigrants held at the Elizabeth Detention Center. We will assemble on Progress Street, just off Dowd Avenue in Elizabeth at 1:30 pm and march two blocks to the Detention Center where we will hold a vigil to remember those who are being held inside and at similar facilities across the country.


October 14th – “The Healing of Memories” sponsored by Pax Christi NJ and The Haiti Solidarity Network of the Northeast. In April 1990, while living in exile from South Africa, Fr. Michael Lapsley became a victim of the violence of apartheid when he received a letter bomb. He lost both his hands, an eye, and his eardrums were shattered. He is now an international advocate for reconciliation, forgiveness and restorative justice. 7:30pm - 9:30pm St. Patrick's Theater, 509 Bramhall Ave., Jersey City, NJ

January 24th – Pax Christi NJ’s Annual Retreat at St. Mary’s in Colt’s Neck.


March 28th – Pax Christi NJ Annual Assembly at Felician College in Lodi NJ. The theme is disarmament and demilitarization. The keynote speaker is Joshua Casteel, a former interrogator at Abu Ghraid turned conscientious objector and recent convert to Catholicism.