War against Iraq: A Defeat for Humanity

A Letter from National Religious Leaders to the American People and Our National Leaders

Whoever decides that all the peaceful means made available under international law are exhausted assumes a grave responsibility before God, his conscience and history.

-Vatican spokesperson Joaquin Navarro-Valls, March 18

AS OUR NATION embarks on a war against Iraq, a war which our religious traditions have almost unanimously characterized as unjust and immoral, we cry out with indignation at the senseless bloodshed and pledge to do everything possible to non-violently oppose and resist this war. All life is sacred, and we mourn the loss of any life - Iraqi or American, civilian or military. That the conflict has now begun does not make it any less unjust, nor the arguments made to justify it any more truthful

“In every age, the churches carry the responsibility of reading the signs of the times and interpreting them in the light of the gospel, if we are to carry out our task.” [Vatican II, Church in the Modern World] We believe we are at a crucial moment in history when the peace of the world is at stake.

In these past several months, religious leaders from around the world have spoken out regarding the imminence of war in Iraq. They have called upon their faith traditions in denouncing this violent and dangerous course. “It is inconceivable that Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior and the Prince of Peace, would support this attack against Iraq.” [General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church]

We are reminded of another crucial time in our nation’s history, when that great apostle of nonviolence, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., courageously and prophetically called for an end to the war in Vietnam, “A time comes when silence is betrayal,” he said. We believe that this new war, even more than in the case of Vietnam, threatens the very nature of our civilization.

Now that war has begun, we are, as Christians, compelled by the gospel to make a choice and to take a stand. Either we choose to be faithful to Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, and to do everything in our power to bear witness to his peace and to bring this war to an end, or we resign ourselves to the war and relinquish our responsibility to challenge our national leaders in pursuing this course of action.

To the leaders of our nation we say: In the name of God, in the name of the suffering Iraqi people and all peoples throughout the world whose cries for peace reach up to heaven, stop this war!

To our men and women in the military and their families we say: We pray for you and your safety, and pledge to do everything in our power to ensure your safe return.

To the Iraqi people we say: We mourn the loss of every precious life and we join you in your grief and ask for forgiveness.

To the faithful in our churches we say: Do not grow faint or lose hope. Now more than ever is the time to fervently pray for peace and to engage in prophetic and courageous public witness to call for an end to this senseless slaughter.

To the American people we say: Nothing is more patriotic than peace. Nothing is less patriotic than to pursue an aggressive and unjust war.

The issue at hand is no longer whether or not Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, or if it intends to use them. Regrettably, war has ruled out further inspections under United Nations auspices, an option that we have consistently supported over time.

The issue at hand today is whether the United States should be permitted to impose its will on the world regardless of the opinions of humankind.

By launching a preemptive strike - a crime against peace - the United States has established a precedent that threatens to destabilize the international peace and security framework that has functioned since the conclusion of World War II, opening the way for disregard of the United Nations Charter and international law by other nations.

By launching a war against Iraq and threatening to use nuclear weapons if attacked by chemical or biological weapons, the United States is advancing the clock toward nuclear Armageddon and encouraging other nations to develop nuclear weapons before they are attacked.

By bombing a city of five million people such as Baghdad, and risking countless civilian casualties in doing so - potentially a crime against humanity - the United States becomes even more vulnerable to further terrorist attacks against our cities and risks sowing further enmity among Christian, Jewish and Muslim peoples.

For all these reasons, we call most energetically on our nation’s leaders to cease this war immediately and to pursue the ways of peace, encouraging every means of international cooperation to achieve that end. There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

During this Lenten season, we deepen our desire and aspiration for peace through prayer, fasting, and bearing witness to peace, in whatever tradition we affirm it - paz, salaam, shalom - a peace based on truth, justice, respect for human life, and reconciliation between all peoples.

We pray for the peace that the world so needs, for the coming of the day when, “God will judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

Let us turn our hearts back to God - our Creator, the Prince of Peace, the Spirit of Life - who binds up all wounds, transforms hearts, and renews the face of the earth. Let us turn our hearts toward each other, regardless of the religious tradition or political persuasion we profess, and work to bind up the wounds of our nation and heal the divisions of the world so aggravated by injustice and war.

The hour is late, but it is not too late to change our course and to return to God and to the ways of peace.

SIGNERS

Catholics for a Peaceful End to War and Terrorism

c/o Pax Christi USA, 415 Michigan Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20017

Mary Ann Zollman, BVM, President, Leadership Conference of Women Religious

General Council, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers

Congregational Leadership Team, Maryknoll Sisters

Gerry G. Lee, President, Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful

Marie Dennis, Director, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns; Vice president, Pax Christi International

Rosanne Rustemeyer, SSND, Executive Director, U.S. Catholic Mission Association

Eric M. LeCompte, National Council Chair, Pax Christi USA

Dave Robinson, National Coordinator, Pax Christi USA

James E. Hug, S.J., President, Center of Concern

Ted Keating, S.J., Executive Director, Conference of Major Superiors of Men

The Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Americas, Institute Leadership Team

Kathy Thornton, RSM, NETWORK National Coordinator, NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby

Kevin Day, U.S. Catholic Mission Association

Anne Louise VonHoene, MMS, U.S. Catholic Mission Association

Cathleen A. Crayton, Vice Chair, National Council, Pax Christi USA

Jean Stokan, Policy Director, Pax Christi USA

Thomas P. Webb, Pax Christi USA, National Council Member, Chicago, IL

Beatrice Parwatikar, Pax Christi USA National Council

Fr. David A. Moczulski, OFM, Director, Franciscan Washington Office for Latin America

Maria Riley, OP, Center of Concern

Rowena Gono, Center of Concern

Margaret Swedish, Director, Religious Task Force on Central America and Mexico

Stan DeBoe, OSST, Justice and Peace Director, Conference of Major Superiors of Men

Scott Wright, Kathy Ogle, Co-Coordinators, Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean (EPICA)

Larry J. Goodwin, Associate Director, Africa Faith and Justice Network

Fr Chris Ponnet, Pastor St. Camillus, Co-Director Pax Christi Los Angeles, Leadership team, ICUJP-Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace.

The Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, Insititute Justice Team:

Sr. Marilee Howard, RSM

Sr. Susan Severin, RSM

Sr.Tina Geiger, RSM

Georgine Scarpino, RSM, President, Pittsburgh Regional Community, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas

Mary E. Hunt, Ph.D., Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER)

Janet Gottschalk, MMS, Medical Mission Sisters' Alliance for Justice

Kathleen McNeely, Program Associate, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns

Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, Regional Community of Providence

The Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, Burlingame, CA, Regional Community

Carol L. Ries, SNJM, Sisters of the Holy Names Justice and Peace Committee, NY Prov.

Robert R. Podzikowski Oak Park, MI, Plowshares Pax Christi

Joseph Nangle OFM

Rev. Kevin Queally, TOR, Mount Assisi Friary, Loretto PA

John P. & Karen N. Dwyer, Ph.D./Pax Christi Naples

Patricia Krommer C.S.J, Co-Director, Pax Christi USA, Los Angeles Chapter

Joyce V. Glenn, Pastoral Associate of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Omaha, Nebraska

Diane Lopez Hughes, Pax Christi Springfield

Chris Scholze, SFO, Acting Minister, Bl. John Duns Scotus, Secular Franciscan Order

Jenaro Rodriguez, Spanish teacher, St. Benedict Catholic School

Cathy Rowan, Corporate Responsibility Consultant

Rev. Eric Folkerth, Senior Pastor, Northaven United Methodist Church

Vivian F. Weaver, SFO, Blessed John Duns Scotus Secular Franciscans, Monroeville, PA, Secular Franciscan Order, Lady Poverty Region #68

The Sisters of Mercy, Regional Community of New Jersey

Leadership Team of the Regional Community of the Sisters of Mercy of New Jersey:

Sister Diane Szubrowski, RSM, President

Sister Barbara Ann Pavlik, RSM

Sister Anna Marie Saltzman, RSM

Sister Eileen Lowden, RSM

Rev. Mike Wright-Chapman, Coordinator of Ministries with Young People, North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church

Richard D. Davis, pastor of Peace Mennonite Church, Dallas, Texas

Sister Rita Panciera, RSM, Member of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas and Director, House of Prayer, Erie, PA

Michael Schreiner, Pax Christi - St. Louis University Chapter

Phyllis Turner Jepson, Director, Pax Christi USA, Local/Regional Development Office

Sister Corinne Kirsch, CSJ, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Catholic Campus Minister, Sisters of St. Joseph

Joy Anderson, Minister of Outreach, United Methodist Church, Richardson, Texas

Esther Martinez, Co-Pastor, Many Peoples Mennonite Fellowship

Eileen M. Charleton , Director, Mission Service Department, Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful

Eileen Purcell, José Artiga, Romero Foundation

Rev. David K. Farley, Pastor, Echo Park United Methodist Church, Los Angeles, CA

Beth Cioffoletti, Pax Christi Palm Beach local coordinator

Joseph Q. Raab, Ph.D., Chair, Religious Studies Department, Santa Catalina School

Rev. John Dear, S.J., Ambassador of Peace, Pax Christi USA

Megan McKenna, Ambassador of Peace, Pax Christi USA

Ruth Lucian, Westchester Chapter, Maryknoll Affiliates, Port Chester, NY

Armando Tasistro, Coordinator Pax Christi-Athens, Georgia

Paula Dodd Aiello, Pax Christi San Ramon, California

Florence Steichen, CSJ, Regional coordinator of MN Pax Christi USA

Catherine O'Neil, facilitator of local Pax Christi of Hendersonville, NC

Josh Boyer-Holt, associate pastor, Bachman Foundry of the United Methodist Church, Dallas, TX

Melissa Boyer-Holt, Director of Christian Formation, First United Methodist Church, Coppell TX

Faye Butler, Fremont Pax Christi

Rev. Stephen P. Judd, M.M., Maryknoll Language School, Cochabamba, Bolivia

Virginia M. Macagnoni, Professor Emerita (Education), UGA Catholic Center, Athens, GA

Fr. Vincent Petersen OFM Conv. - Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Ysleta, Texas

Judy Liteky, St. John of God Catholic Community, San Francisco, CA

Sue Morris, Co-chair, Springfield Pax Christi

Rev. Joseph R. Veneroso, M.M., Maryknoll Fathers & Brothers

Mary Ann Smith, MM, Maryknoll Sister

Jean E. Friedman, Pax Christi, Athens GA

Bernard P. Dauenhauer, Pax Christi, Athens GA

Helen Ortmann, Pittsburgh Area Pax Christi, Pittsburgh, PA

Father Leo Shea, M. M., Director of Mission Promotion, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers

Merle Nolde OSB, Coordinator, Pax Christi St. Cloud Minnesota

John P. & Karen N. Dwyer, Pax Christi, Naples Florida

Rev. Kathryn L. Warn, Pastor, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, PA

Jeffrey Crum, Student, Pax Christi

Peter Shell, Board of Directors, Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Sr. Dorothy Pagosa, SSJ-TOSF , Director for Social Justice

Phil Reed, M.Afr. Coordinator, Justice and Peace Office, Society of Missionaries of Africa, North American Province

Séamus P. Finn OMI, Justice/Peace & Integrity of Creation Office, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Anselma Knabe, SSMN, Sisters of St. Mary Non-Violence Committee

Miriam NeSmith, SSMN, Pax Christi Fort Worth Texas

Dennis U. Evans, MD, Physicians for Social Responsibility

Patricia Ridgley, SSMN, Sisters of St. Mary of Namur

Linda Donovan, Maryknoll Missioner, Santiago Chile

Maria Paz Abalos, Psychologist, Santiago, Chile

Sr. Anne Wootten, Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas

Sr. Julie McCarthy, MM, Maryknoll Sister, Santiago Chile

Sr. Cecelia Santos, Maryknoll Sister, Santiago, Chile

Sr. Helen Carpenter, Maryknoll Sister, Santiago, Chile

Sr. Meg Gallagher, Maryknoll Sister, Director of the Catholic Commission on Migration, Women’s Desk, Bangkok, Thailand

Bud Ryan, Pax Christi Santa Fe New Mexico

Mary Denevan, Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful, Oaxaca, Mexico

Jackie Dulle, Pax Christi USA, Santa Fe, NM

Rob Allan, Maryknoll Affiliate, Marlton, NJ

Louise Lynch, Pax Christi, Fremont , CA

John Farrell, S.J., Advisor for the Loyola Anti-War Network, Loyola University Chicago

Rev. Diane Pederson, Pastor, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, St. Cloud MN

John and Kate Parrish, Co-facilitators, Pax Christi Yakima Valley, WA

Maria M Dias, Young Adults of St Joseph's Mission Church Fremont, CA

Silvia Chiesa, Representative Pax Christi Burlingame; Pastoral Associate, St. Catherine of Siena Church, Burlingame CA

Darwin Aronoff, emeritus, Los Angeles City College

June Elizabeth Connolly, Pax Christi, Pittsburgh PA

Robert Osborne, Pittsburgh PA Pax Christi

Sr. Janet Srebalus, MM, Zellwood, FL

Jerry Woolpy & Tara Reed, Northwoods Peace Coalition, Minocqua, Wisconsin

Joseph P. Hovel, Pax Christi NorthWoods Wis.

Mary Carter Waren, Religious Studies Instructor, St Thomas University, Pax Christ USA

Teresa Wilson, The Grail, Peace Links, Pittsburgh PA

Susan Weissert, Coordinator, Maryknoll AIDS Task Force

Adeline Halfmann, member of Pax Christi Northwoods, Arbor Vitae, WI

Lynn Cibuzar, Pax Christi Twin Cities Chair, St. Paul, MN

Rev. Frederick L. Thelen, Pastor, Cristo Rey Catholic Church, Lansing, MI 48911

Rev. Joseph P. La Mar, M.M., Assistant Treasurer, Office of Corporate Responsibility

Jim Moffett, CFC, Coordinator, Pax Christi, Iona College, New Rochelle, New York

Fr. Bernard Survil, St Boniface Church, Penn, PA

Rae Ann O’Neill, Maryknoll Missioner in Guatemala

Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB

Rev. Tim Gollob, Pastor, Holy Cross Catholic Church, Dallas, TX

Kathleen Nolan, RSM Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, Brooklyn Region

Darius Larsen, pastor, University Lutheran Church of the Epiphany, St. Cloud, MN

Sharon Raynor, Orientation Coordinator, Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful

Rev. Thomas W. Smith, C.S.C., Holy Cross Mission Center, Notre Dame, IN

Jeffrey Brogan, Communications Coordinator, International Jesuit Network for Development, Washington DC

Rev. James W. Kofski, M.M., Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, Washington, D.C.

Sisters Teresa Alexander, Josephine Lucker, Marie Morgan, Cecelia Vandal, Maryknoll Sisters, El Salvador

Sr. Bernadette Bell RSM, Vice President, Institute of the Sisters of Mercy, Erie Regional Community

Susan Thompson, Medical Mission Sisters, Alliance for Justice

Jean Walsh, Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful

Joe Regotti, Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful

Christopher Barnitt, Director of Service Learning for Social Justice, Seton Hall Preparatory School

Patricia Pintens, Parish Director, St. Albert/St. Mary Parishes

Katie LeBlanc, Youth Minister, Holy Family, Amesbury, MA

Judy Moody, Pax Christi USA Local Leader

Cecilia Espinoza, Misionera, Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful

Mary McCartin and John Castellano, Lay Associates, Sisters of Mercy, Brooklyn Regional Community

Institute of the Sisters of Mercy, Dallas Regional Community

Judy Ress and David Molineau, Maryknoll Lay Missioners, Santiago Chile

Patty Driscoll-Shaw, Midwest Recruiter, Maryknoll Mission Association

Dan Driscoll-Shaw, CISA, Communities in Schools, East Aurora, IL

Rev. John T. Pawlikowski, OSM, Ph.D, Professor of Social Ethics, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, IL

Phyllis Turner Jepson, Director, Pax Christi USA, Local/Regional Development Office

Barbara Richardson, Administrative Assistant, Pax Christi USA Local/Regional Development Office

Charles Martin, for Pax Christi - Evansville, IN

Rev. Thomas Henehan, M.M., Maryknoll Father, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, Peoples Republic of China

Pilar Pages, Member of Pax Christ-Athens, GA

Jonah House in Baltimore: Sr. Ardeth Platte, O.P., Sr. Carol Gilbert, O.P., Susan Crane, Gary Ashbeck, Elizabeth McAlister

Joseph and Linda Michon, Maryknoll Mission Association

Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, Chicago Regional Leadership Team

Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls, MN Leadership Team:

Beatrice Eichten, OSF, Community Minister

Clara Stang, OSF, Assistant Minister

Ardis Cloutier, OSF, Assistant Minister

Jean Schwieters, OSF, Assistant Minister

Mary Pat Burger, OSF, Assistant Minister

Fred Goddard, Executive Co-coordinator, Maryknoll Affiliates

Elizabeth Westhoff, Development Assistant, Center of Concern

Jo Ann Heydron, Elder, First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto, California; Steering Committee, South Bay Sanctuary Covenant

Linda Vossler-Swan, St. John of God Catholic Church, San Francisco, CA

Jeffrey L. Pellegrino, Ph.D., Campus Minister/ Educator for Justice, St. Thomas More University Parish, Bowling Green, OH

Interfaith Stewards of Creation, Gallup, New Mexico

Fr. Tom Jackson, Order of Christian Workers, Tyler, TX

Joan Brown, OSF Ecological Ministry of Social Justice Office, Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico

Joan Leahigh, Director of Social Justice Office, Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico

Rose Marie Cecchini, MM, Director of Office of Peace, Justice and Creation Stewardship, Diocese of Gallup, New Mexico

Maria Aguirre, Lay missioner/Orientation Co-Coordinator, Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful

Debra G. Baker, Religious Studies faculty and advisor to student chapter of Pax Christi, Santa Catalina School, Monterey, CA

Sr. Connie Bielecki, Subprioress, Spiritual Life Institute of America

Bro. Wm. Timothy Raible, MM, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, Seattle, WashingtonFr. Bernard P. Byrne, MM, Lima, Peru

Charles Michaels, Coordinator, Pax Christi/Baltimore MD

Dee Rowland, Director, Peace & Justice Commission, Catholic Diocese of Salt LakeCity

Thomas J Rowan, Director of Spiritual Care, Providence Rest Nursing Home, Bronx, NY

Ann Oestreich, IHM, Congregation Justice Coordinator, Sisters of the Holy Cross, Notre Dame, IN

Congregation Justice Committee, Sisters of the Holy Cross, Notre Dame, IN

Lynn Houston, Chairperson, Maryknoll Affiliate Global Concerns Committee

Sister Veronica Kovach, Religious Sister of Mercy, Dallas Regional Community

Edward Singer, Pax Christi member, Defiance Area local group

Sister Laetitia Bordes, S.H., North American Representative, International Commission of Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation, Society of Helpers

Gustav A. Nystrom, Ph.D., vice-chair, Bay Area Pax Christi, vice-chair, Catholic Community of Pleasanton Social Justice Committee

Rev. Paul R. Masson, M.M., Maryknoll Mission Border Team El Paso-Ciudad Juarez

Mary Lou Ott, Nonviolent Peaceforce, St. Paul MN

Joanne Blaney, Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful

Michael Shaughnessy, Campus Ministry, Saint Ignatius College Prep, San Francisco, CA

Eileen White, GNSH, Leadership Council of the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart

Rev. Daniel M. Long, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pa

Janet Capone, OP, Prioress, for General Council, Adrian Dominican Sisters, Adrian, Michigan

Sister Annette M. Sinagra, OP, Adrian Dominican Sisters, Corporate Responsibility Analyst Portfolio Advisory Board

Catherine Williams, Lay Missioner, Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful

Sr. Margretta Wojcik, Pastoral Associate, Our Lady of Loretto, Redford, Michigan

Penny B. Jameson, Ph.D., Psychologist

James M. Halberg Weaver, Lay Missioner, Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful

Maureen Bridget Machirella, Maryknoll Affiliate

Ralph Shower, TSSF, Anglican Communion

Catherine C. Hoskins, Executive Director, Salt Lake Community Action Program

Stephen T. De Mott, MM, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, Lima, Peru

Leadership Team, Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, New York Province

Jim Petkiewicz, President, Community Links, Co-Founder T&C Imports

Sister Ann Wittman, Holy Cross Sisters, Ingenbohl, Switzerland and Merrill, Wisconsin

Sister Betty Sundry, CDP

Debbie Schnell, co-facilitator for Pax Christi New Jersey

Sister Honora Felix, Maryknoll Sister, Guatemala City, Guatemala

Sister Arlene Trant, Maryknoll Sister, Guatemala City, Guatemala

Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, Detroit Regional Community Leadership Team:

Linda Werthman, RSM

Judith Frikker, RSM

Margaret Platte, RSM

Gilmary Bauer, RSM

Pax Christi Holy Cross, College of the Holy Cross:

Katherine McElaney, Director, Office of the College Chaplains

Colleen Crowley, '04

Sara Janecko, '04

Adam Musser, ‘05

Francesca Errante, '05

Jennifer Harvey, '03

Patrick Tigue, '04

Jessica Nelson, '03

Sean Mullan, '06

Emily Capurso, '05

Meghan Griffiths, '04

Molly Bobek, '05

Michela Byrne, '05

Lee Imbriano, '03

Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, Regional Community of Detroit Leadership Team:

Linda Werthman, RSM

Margaret Platte, RSM

Judith Frikker, RSM

Gilmary Bauer, RSM

Richard Mary Burke, RSM, President, Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, St. Louis Regional Community

Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas: New Hampshire Regional Community Leadership Team

Sister Marilyn Gottemoeller, RSM, Vice President of the Regional Community of Cincinnati, Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas

The Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Americas, Regional Community of New York:

Suzanne Elliott, RSM, President

Patricia Vetrano, RSM, Vice President

Catherine Mary Cummings, RSM, Secretary/Treasurer

Sister Laurian Lasha, OSB, coordinator of Pax Christi Northwest Minnesota

The Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, Regional Community of St. Louis

Rev. Thomas J. Marti, MM, Maryknoll Fathers & Brothers

Randy and Susan Hinthorn, Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful, Oaxaca, Mexico

Congregational Justice and Peace Network of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary:

Mary Medved, SNJM, Washington

Lise Gagnon, SNJM, Montreal, Canada

Gloria Drouillard, SNJM, Ontario, Canada

Louize Smendziuk, SNJM Associate, Ontario, Canada

Ann Regan, SNJM, Florida

Jane Pattison, SNJM Associate, New York

Carole Strawn, SNJM, Oregon

Lorraine St. Hilaire, Manitoba, Canada

Sharon Francis, SNJM, California

Stacy Franklin, SNJM Associate, California

Eileen T. Lundy, Austin, Texas, cojourner (lay associate) with the Rochester Franciscan Community

Rev. Richard T. Sherman, Associate Pastor, St. Mary’s Parish, Park City, UT

Sister Patricia Schlosser OSF, Prison Ministry, Lutheran Social Services, Chicago

Sister Mary Kay Flanigan, OSF, Co-Coordinator, 8th Day Center for Justice

Rosemarie Pace, Coordinator, Pax Christi Metro New York

Tom Burns, MM, Maryknoll Society Justice and Peace Coordinator, Peru

Catherine Madden, Maryknoll Affiliate, Matagalpa, Nicaragua

Jack Sullivan, Catholic Priest, Washington, DC

Jeanine and Marc Boucher-Colbert, Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful, lay missioners, Paraíba , Brazil

Rev. Todd Evans, founder, Seeds of Learning

Sheila M. Matthews, Leadership Team, Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful, Maryknoll, NY

Sr. Margaret Rose, M.M., National Coordinator, Maryknoll Sisters Office of Social Concerns in Peru

Carroll Houle, M.M.

Mary Ellen Kerrigan, M.M.

Sister Rose Guercio, Maryknoll Sister in Korea

Rodney Brunelle, teacher, Bishop Blanchet H.S.

Albert Gelpi, Prof. of English emeritus, Stanford University

Sister Sue Reif, OSF, Albuquerque, NM

Chad Klapes, member of Great Barrington Catholic Worker

Mary E. Forrest, teacher, Palo Alto, CA

Timothy D. Cox

James D. McCavitt

Tere Pagés

Paulette Navarro, Culver City, CA

Mark Reedy, Palo Alto, California

Joyce Mannis, Winchester, MA

Frances M. Stainton

Robert T. Stainton

Carolyn Tkach

Betsy Shell, Belfast, Maine

Carole McCabe, Ann Arbor, MI

Tom and Carol Aageson, Santa Fe, NM

Lois Klee

Maurice Donovan

Jane Russell

Kathleen McCarthy, Yonkers, NY

Linda Klosky, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Celine V Woznica, Oak Park, IL, Mother

Richard Peerey, Carrsville, VA

Marty E. Coleman, Pasadena, CA

Jane Mashburn

Richard and Bernadette Grant

David Shawver

Valerie Fillenwarth, Indianapolis

Karen Thomas, Ann Arbor, MI, Mother

Maureen Dolan, Sudbury, MA