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Teacher Of Peace Award
The Teacher of Peace Award (previously called the Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace Award) is a peacemaker award given out annually by Pax Christi USA, a Catholic peace organization, to an individual who has exemplified Pope Paul VI's World Day of Peace message: "To reach peace, teach peace." Recipients * 1978 - Dorothy Day * 1980 - Msgr. Paul Hanly Furfey * 1982 - Sr. Mary Evelyn Jegen, SND * 1983 - Eileen Egan and Gordon Zahn * 1984 - Four U.S. missionaries murdered in El Salvador in 1980: Sr. Maura Clarke, Sr. Ita Ford, Sr. Dorothy Kazel and Sr. Jean Donovan * 1986 - Jean Goss and Hildegard Goss-Mayr * 1987 - Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen * 1988 - Fr. Lawrence Jenco * 1989 - Fr. Daniel Berrigan, SJ * 1990 - Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB * 1991 - Bishop Thomas Gumbleton * 1992 - Dom Hélder Câmara * 1993 - Colman McCarthy * 1994 - James and Shelley Douglass * 1995 - Jim and Kathy McGinnis * 1996 - Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ * 1997 - Fr. Roy Bourgeois, M.M. * 1998 - Kathy Kelly * 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pax Christi
Pax Christi International is an international Catholic peace movement. The Pax Christi International website declares its mission is "to transform a world shaken by violence, terrorism, deepening inequalities, and global insecurity." History ''Pax Christi'' (Latin for Peace of Christ) was established in France in 1945 through the inspiration of Marthe Dortel-Claudot and Bishop Pierre-Marie Théas. Both were French citizens interested in reconciliation between French and German citizens in the aftermath of World War II. Some of the first actions of Pax Christi were the organisation of kindness pilgrimages and other actions fostering reconciliation between France and Germany. Although Pax Christi initially began as a movement for French-German reconciliation, it expanded its focus and spread to other European countries in the 1950s. It grew as “a crusade of prayer for peace among all nations.” Pax Christi was recognized as “the official international Catholic peace movemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Hunthausen
Raymond Gerhardt Hunthausen (August 21, 1921 – July 22, 2018) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Helena in Montana from 1962 to 1975 and as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Seattle in Washington State from 1975 to 1991. Biography Early life and education The oldest of seven children, Raymond Hunthausen was born in Anaconda, Montana, to Anthony Gerhardt and Edna Marie (née Tuchscherer) Hunthausen. His parents owned and operated a local grocery store. He grew up helping with the grocery business and working in the Tuchscherer brewery. Nicknamed "Dutch", Hunthausen received his early education from the Ursuline nuns at the parochial school, and excelled both academically and athletically during high school. Hunthausen attended Carroll College in Helena, majoring in chemistry and graduating ''cum laude'' in 1943. He considered pursuing a career as a chemical engineer or as a fighter pilot for the United States Air Force ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Kelly
Kathy Kelly (born 1952) is an American peace activist, pacifist and author, one of the founding members of ''Voices in the Wilderness'', and, until the campaign closed in 2020, a co-coordinator of ''Voices for Creative Nonviolence''. As part of peace team work in several countries, she has traveled to Iraq twenty-six times, notably remaining in combat zones during the early days of both US–Iraq wars. From 2009 to 2019, her activism and writing focused on Afghanistan, Yemen, and Gaza, along with domestic protests against US drone policy. She has been arrested more than sixty times at home and abroad, and written of her experiences among targets of US military bombardment and inmates of US prisons. Biography Early life and education, 1953–1978 Kelly was born in 1952 in Chicago's Garfield Ridge neighborhood to parents Frank and Catherine Kelly. She attended St. Paul-Kennedy "shared-time" high school, which split her days between a Catholic institution where she was given the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Bourgeois
Roy Bourgeois (born January 27, 1938 in Lutcher, Louisiana) is an American activist, a laicized Roman Catholic priest, and the founder of the human rights group School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch). He is the 1994 recipient of the Gandhi Peace Award and the 2011 recipient of the American Peace Award and also has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Ordained to the priesthood in 1972 in the Roman Catholic Church's Maryknoll society of apostolic life's Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers (The Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America), Bourgeois was canonically dismissed forty years later, on October 4, 2012, from both the Maryknolls and the priesthood, because of his participation on August 9, 2008, in what was, according to the Roman Catholic Church, considered an invalid ordination of a woman and "a simulated Mass" in Lexington, Kentucky. Early life Bourgeois was born in Lutcher, Louisiana. He grew up in a Catholic working-class family, and attended the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Prejean
Helen Prejean ( ; born April 21, 1939) is a Catholic religious sister and a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty. She is known for her best-selling book, '' Dead Man Walking'' (1993), based on her experiences with two convicts on death row for whom she served as spiritual adviser before their executions. In her book, she explored the effects of the death penalty on everyone involved. The book was adapted as a 1995 film of the same name, starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. It was also adapted as an opera, first produced in 2000 by the San Francisco Opera. She served as the National Chairperson of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty from 1993 to 1995. She helped establish The Moratorium Campaign, seeking an end to executions and conducting education on the death penalty. Prejean also founded the groups SURVIVE to help families of victims of murder and related crimes. Early life and education Helen Prejean was born in Baton Rouge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy McGinnis
Kathy is a feminine given name. It is a pet form of Katherine, Kathleen and their related forms. Kathy may refer to: In sports *Kathy Bald, Canadian freestyle swimmer *Kathy May, American tennis player *Kathy Radzuweit, German volleyball player *Kathy Smallwood-Cook, British Olympic athlete *Kathy Sheehy, American water polo player *Kathy Tough, Canadian volleyball player *Kathy Watt, Australian female cycle racer *Kathy Weston, American middle distance runner * Kathy Foster (basketball), Australian basketball player In television and film *Kathy Bates, American actress and director *Kathy Burke, British actress *Kathy Garver, American television, stage, screen, and voice actress *Kathy Greenwood, Canadian comedian and actress *Kathy Griffin, American stand-up comedian ** ''Kathy'' (TV series), a talk show hosted by Griffin *Kathy Hilton, American actress, celebrity and socialite *Kathy Long, American actress, kickboxer and mixed martial arts fighter *Kathy Staff, British actress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim McGinnis
Jim or JIM may refer to: * Jim (given name), a given name * Jim, a diminutive form of the given name James * Jim, a short form of the given name Jimmy * OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism * ''Jim'' (comics), a series by Jim Woodring * ''Jim'' (album), by soul artist Jamie Lidell * Jim (''Huckleberry Finn''), a character in Mark Twain's novel * Jim (TV channel), in Finland * JIM (Flemish TV channel) * JIM suit, for atmospheric diving * Jim River, in North and South Dakota, United States * Jim, the nickname of Yelkanum Seclamatan (died April 1911), Native American chief * ''Journal of Internal Medicine'' * Juan Ignacio Martínez (born 1964), Spanish footballer, commonly known as JIM * Jim (horse), milk wagon horse used to produce serum containing diphtheria antitoxin * "Jim" (song), a 1941 song. * JIM, Jiangxi Isuzu Motors, a joint venture between Isuzu and Jiangling Motors Corporation Group (JMCG). * Jim (Medal of Honor recipient) See also * * Gym * Jjim * Ǧīm * Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelley Douglass
James W. "Jim" Douglass (born 1937) is an American author, activist, and Christian theologian. He is a graduate of Santa Clara University. He and his wife, Shelley Douglass, founded the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo, Washington, and Mary’s House, a Catholic Worker house in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1997 the Douglasses received the Pacem in Terris Award. Theology of nonviolence Douglass is an author on nonviolence and Catholic theology, with many books and essays to his credit. Four of his monographs, published from 1968 to 1991, were reprinted in 2006 by theology publisher Wipf & Stock. Douglass's 2008 book, ''JFK and the Unspeakable'', discusses the John F. Kennedy assassination as a conspiracy ordered by unknown parties and carried out by the CIA with help from the Mafia and elements in the FBI to put an end to Kennedy's effort to end the Cold War after the Cuban Missile Crisis. ''JFK and the Unspeakable'' was first published by Orbis Books in Maryknoll, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James W
James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (other), various kings named James * Saint James (other) * James (musician) * James, brother of Jesus Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * James the Red Engine, a character in ''Thomas the Tank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colman McCarthy
Colman McCarthy (born March 24, 1938 in Glen Head, New York), is an American journalist, teacher, lecturer, pacifist, progressive, anarchist, and long-time peace activist, directs the ''Center for Teaching Peace'' in Washington, D.C. From 1969 to 1997, he wrote columns for ''The Washington Post''. His topics ranged from politics, religion, health, and sports to education, poverty, and peacemaking. '' Washingtonian'' magazine called him "the liberal conscience of ''The Washington Post''." '' Smithsonian'' magazine said he is "a man of profound spiritual awareness." He has written for ''The New Yorker'', ''The Nation'', ''The Progressive'', ''The Atlantic'', ''The New York Times'', and ''Reader's Digest''. Since 1999, he has written biweekly columns for ''National Catholic Reporter''. Peacework Since 1982, he has been teaching courses on nonviolence and the literature of peace. In the fall semester of 2006, he taught at seven schools: Georgetown University Law Center, American Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hélder Câmara
Hélder Pessoa Câmara (7 February 1909 – 27 August 1999) was a Brazilian Catholic archbishop. A self-identified socialist Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the e ..., he was the Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife, Olinda and Recife, serving from 1964 to 1985, during the Brazilian military government, military dictatorship in Brazil. He was declared a Servant of God in 2015. Câmara was an advocate of liberation theology. He did social and political work for the poor and for human rights and democracy during the military regime. Câmara preached for a church closer to the disfavoured people. He is quoted as having said, "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist." Early life and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gumbleton
Thomas John Gumbleton (born January 26, 1930) is an American social activist and retired prelate of the Catholic Church. Gumbleton served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit from 1968 to 2006. According to Gumbleton, the Vatican forced him to resign as auxiliary bishop when he publicly supported passage of a state legislative bill in another diocese without the approval of that diocese's bishop. Biography Early life Born in Detroit in 1930, Gumbleton attended Sacred Heart Seminary High School in that city. He then studied at St. John's Provincial Seminary in Plymouth, Michigan, and also the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1952, a Master of Divinity in 1956, and a Doctor of Canon Law in 1964. On June 2, 1956, Gumbleton was ordained to the priesthood in Rome by Cardinal Edward Mooney for the Archdiocese of Detroit. In 1968 Gumbleton was appointed as vicar general for the Archdiocese. Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit On M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
