Book Club: Against War: Building a Culture of Peace by Pope Francis
In June 2023, World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion each of four weeks of a new book by Pope Francis called Against War: Building a Culture of Peace.
While the Pope will not be joining us, the discussions will be
facilitated by the wonderful Marie Dennis. This small group WBW book
club is limited to 18 participants. We will mail each
participant a paperback copy of the book. (The sooner you sign up, the sooner the book goes into the ever-worsening postal service.) We'll let you know which parts
of the book will be discussed each week along with the Zoom details to
access the discussion.
SIGN UP HERE.
When:
- For one hour on four Tuesdays/Wednesdays, June 7, 14,
21, 28, 2023.
- The time is 20:00 UTC (similar to GMT), and
- Tuesdays at 10 a.m. in Honolulu, 1 p.m. in Los Angeles, 3 p.m. in
Mexico City, 4 p.m. in New York, 9 p.m. in London, and 11 p.m. in
Moscow, and
- Wednesdays at 8
a.m. in Auckland,
Where: Zoom (details to be shared upon registration)
This is a small group series with limited space of up to 18 people.
Sign up to reserve your spot and allow for enough time to receive the
book. We look forward to reading and discussing this important book with
you!
About the Book:
From the beginning of his papacy, Pope Francis has made concern
and action for peace and nonviolence one of his signature themes. From
his travels to Iraq and other war-torn regions to his prophetic homilies
in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he has called the world to pursue a
different path. Now, with the recent crisis in the Ukraine, his powerful
voice is more prophetic and necessary than ever. "Faced with the images
of death that come to us from Ukraine, it is difficult to hope. Yet
there are seeds of hope. There are millions who do not aspire to war,
who do not justify war . . . . Millions of young people who are asking
us to do everything possible and seemingly impossible to stop the war,
to stop all wars. It is in thinking first of all of them, of young
people and children that we must repeat together: Never again war! And
together we must commit ourselves to building a world that is more
peaceful because it is more just, where it is peace that triumphs and
not the folly of war; justice, and not the injustice of war; mutual
forgiveness, and not the hatred that divides and makes us see the other,
the person who is different from us, as an enemy." --Pope Francis
Here is a review of the book by World BEYOND War Executive Director David Swanson.
About Marie Dennis:
Marie Dennis is senior
advisor to the secretary general of Pax Christi International, the
global Catholic peace movement, and program chair of Pax Christi’s
Catholic Nonviolence Initiative. She was co-president of Pax Christi
International from 2007 to 2019 and is a Pax Christi USA Teacher of
Peace.
Marie worked for the Maryknoll Missioners from 1989
to 2012, including 15 years as director of the Maryknoll Office for
Global Concerns. She is author or co-author of seven books, editor of
Choosing Peace: The Catholic Church Returns to Gospel Nonviolence (Orbis Books, 2017) and co-editor of
Advancing Nonviolence in the Church and the World (Pax Christi International 2020).
Marie
was one of the primary organizers of two conferences on nonviolence and
just peace (2016 and 2019) that were cosponsored by the Vatican and Pax
Christi International. She served on the Vatican’s COVID 19 Commission
and was the National Catholic Reporter’s Person of the Year in
2016. She has previously served on the national boards of JustFaith
Ministries, the Alliance for Peacebuilding, Sojourners magazine and
several other organizations.
She is a lay woman, a secular
Franciscan, a mother of six and a grandmother of nine. She strives to
live simply and lightly on the earth, as well as to work for social
transformation. Before moving to Assisi Community in 1987, where she
continues to live, Marie and her family lived on and worked a 65 acre
organic farm in Virginia.
Buying one ticket below covers all four sessions plus the book.
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