1. Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
Gerry Lee
Director
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns

2. Goals and Outcomes Dialogue Practice Experience Spirituality
NON- VIOLENCE
Experience
Spirituality

3. Father Francisco de Roux, SJ in Colombia
“We were considered suspicious” “decided to execute us” “We understood Jesus’ peace” “Our purpose was to accompany” “We kept looking for peace” “to demonstrate a way” “If we took the risk”

4. Outcome Document
“An Appeal to the Catholic Church to Re-Commit to the Centrality of Gospel Nonviolence”
“We commit to …understanding…practice… nonviolence…just peace.”
“We call on the Church we love to”…

5. Call on the Church to… “be a living witness”
Continue developing CST, encyclical
Integrate Gospel nonviolence
Promote practices & strategies
Initiate global conversation
No longer use just war theory
Lift up prophetic voices
“be a living witness”

6. Catholic Nonviolence Initiative
What’s next?
Catholic Nonviolence Initiative