Welcome To The Philadelphia Chapter of Pax Christi-USA

Philadelphia Catholic Peace Fellowship (CPF), founded in 1968, is a community of Christians who have joined together to bring a gospel-based perspective to peace, justice, and environmental issues. CPF serves as a forum where people who share these concerns can come together for prayer and discussion, education, mutual support, and collective action.

Catholic Peace Fellowship is a chapter of Pax Christi USA (paxchristiusa.org). Pax Christi-USA is part of the larger Pax Christi International movement.

Tom O'Rourke:
CPF's long-time leader and editor of the CPF Newsletter died in January 2001.The March 2001 CPF Newsletter is a Tom O'Rourke Memorial Issue. Dom Roberti, PhD, created the first Philadelphia CPF website and dedicated the website to Tom O'Rourke who had a profound impact on so many of us.
"We are vital participants in the long-term affairs of the earth. Our task, and our privilege,
is to help shape a future worthy of generations which succeed us."
Tom O'Rourke, CPF Newsletter, 9.10.97