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Article: Where peace is not an afterthought.(parish in Sioux City, Iowa, starts peace and justice committee)(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- September 3, 1999
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Rixner builds a model ministry in Sioux City
Peace is often the stepchild in parish peace and justice programs, according to Bernadette Rixner. But not at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Sioux City, Iowa, under Rixner's energetic leadership.
She and her husband, Jim, began family life on an Indian reservation at Standing Rock, S.D., where Jim was a social worker with the Indian Health Service. They arrived at Blessed Sacrament in 1975. The Vietnam War had Bernadette Rixner weighing her role in a church that could see abortion was wrong but not war.
Under those circumstances, while responding to a need to give her life to God, she felt she would "be ...