Nearly 50 years after Dorothy Day spoke at Pax Christi USA’s first conference in 1973, the organisation has been awarded the inaugural Dorothy Day Peacemaker Award for its work promoting nonviolence and reconciliation.
Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, the Bishop President of Pax Christi USA, will receive the award on behalf of the organisation on 11 June at a special breakfast during the summer meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Louisville, Kentucky.
Johnny Zokovitch, the executive director of Pax Christi USA, highlighted Day’s connection to Pax Christi USA, and the involvement of many of its members in Day’s Catholic Worker Movement, as a large part of the reason for the award’s significance.
