Olive Branch Interfaith Peace Partnership

at St. Aloysius Church

Bishop Martin D. Holley, Auxiliary Bishop of Washington Archdiocese will preside at the Mass.

Witness of War: Joshua Casteel is a Conscientious Objector who served 8 years in the US Army, including as an interrogator at Abu Ghraib. He is a playwright and author. A member of the Catholic Peace Fellowship, he traveled to Rome to discuss the theory of just war with Vatican officials, including Pope Benedict XVI.

Speaker: Sister Anne Curtis, RSM, just returned from visiting Iraqi refugees in Syria and Lebanon. She served as a lobbyist for six years at NETWORK, a national Catholic social justice lobby, and on Pax Christi USA's National Council.

St. Aloysius is located North Capitol and I Sts., NW, Washington, D.C. (900 Block of North Capitol St. NW; 19 “Eye” St.) Metro: take the Red Line to Union Station. Upon departing the front of Union Station walk to the right for about 2 blocks until you come to North Capitol St.; make a right onto North Capitol St. and walk 5 or 6 blocks until you reach St. Aloysius Church.