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 The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

peace Peace is a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such as war) and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups. ...

organization, to an individual who has exemplified

Pope Paul VI Pope Paul VI ( la, Paulus VI; it, Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, ; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his ...

World Day of Peace The World Day of Peace is an annual celebration by the Catholic Church, dedicated to universal peace, held on 1 January, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. Pope Paul VI established it in 1967, being inspired by the encyclical ''Pacem in Terri ...

message: "To reach peace, teach peace."

Recipients

* 1978 -

Dorothy Day Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social and anarchist activism. She was perhaps the best-known ...

* 1980 - Msgr.

Paul Hanly Furfey Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) * Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...

* 1982 - Sr. Mary Evelyn Jegen, SND * 1983 -

Eileen Egan Eileen Egan (1912–2000) was a journalist, Roman Catholic activist, and co-founder of the Catholic peace group, American PAX Association and its successor Pax Christi-USA, the American branch of International Pax Christi. Starting 1943 she remaine ...

and

Gordon Zahn Gordon Zahn (born Gordon Charles Paul Roach; August 7, 1918, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – December 9, 2007, in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) was an American sociology, sociologist, pacifist, professor, and author. Early life Born out of wedlock, Zahn ...

* 1984 - Four U.S. missionaries murdered in El Salvador in 1980: Sr.

Maura Clarke Maura Clarke (January 13, 1931 – December 2, 1980), was an American Catholic Maryknoll sister who served as a missionary in Nicaragua and El Salvador. She worked with the poor and refugees in Central America from 1959 until her murder in 1980 ...

, Sr.

Ita Ford Sister Ita Ford, M.M. (April 23, 1940 – December 2, 1980) was an American Catholic Maryknoll Sister who served as a missionary in Bolivia, Chile and El Salvador. She worked with the poor and war refugees. On December 2, 1980, she was beaten, r ...

, Sr.

Dorothy Kazel Dorothy Kazel (June 30, 1939 – December 2, 1980), was an American Ursuline religious sister and missionary to El Salvador. On December 2, 1980, she was beaten, raped, and murdered along with three fellow missionaries – Maryknoll Sister ...

and Sr.

Jean Donovan Jean Marie Donovan (April 10, 1953 – December 2, 1980) was an American lay missionary who was beaten, raped, and murdered along with three fellow missionaries—Ita Ford, Maura Clarke and Dorothy Kazel—by members of the military of El Sal ...

* 1986 - Jean Goss and

Hildegard Goss-Mayr Hildegard Goss-Mayr (born 22 January 1930, Vienna) is an Austrian nonviolent activist and Christian theologian. Life and commitment Daughter of Kaspar Mayr, founder of the Austrian branch of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, she studi ...

* 1987 - Archbishop

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 Washingt ...

* 1988 - Fr.

Lawrence Jenco Servite Father Lawrence Martin Jenco (27 November 1934 – 19 July 1996), a native of Joliet, Illinois, United States, was an American Catholic priest famous for being held hostage in Beirut, Lebanon by Islamic radicals. He was held captive for 5 ...

* 1989 - Fr. Daniel Berrigan, SJ * 1990 - Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB * 1991 - Bishop

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 Vatic ...

* 1992 - Dom

Hélder Câmara Hélder Pessoa Câmara (7 February 1909 – 27 August 1999) was a Brazilian Catholic archbishop. A self-identified socialism, socialist, he was the Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife, Olinda and Recife, serving from 196 ...

* 1993 -

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 ...

* 1994 -

James 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 (disambiguat ...

and

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, Washingt ...

* 1995 -

Jim 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 ...

and

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 playe ...

* 1996 - Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ * 1997 - Fr. Roy Bourgeois, M.M. * 1998 -

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 p ...

* 1999 -

Martin Sheen Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. He first became known for his roles in the films ''The Subject Was Roses'' (1968) and ''Badlands'' (1973), and later achieved wid ...

* 2000 - Sr. Dianna Ortiz, OSU * 2001 - Fr. Louis Vitale,

Elizabeth McAlister Elizabeth McAlister (born November 17, 1939), also known as Liz McAlister, is an American peace activist and former nun of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary. She married Philip Berrigan and was excommunicated from the Catholic Church. McA ...

, and

Philip Berrigan Philip Francis Berrigan, SSJ (October 5, 1923 – December 6, 2002) was an American peace activist and Catholic priest with the Josephites. He engaged in nonviolent, civil disobedience in the cause of peace and nuclear disarmament and was ...

* 2002 - Fr. Peter Dougherty * 2003 - William P. Quigley * 2005 - Msgr. Ray East * 2006 - Sr. Mary Lou Kownacki * 2007 - Fr. John S. Rausch, GLMY * 2008 - MJ Park and Jerry Park * 2009 - Bishop

Leroy Matthiesen Leroy Matthiesen (June 11, 1921 – March 22, 2010) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Amarillo in Texas from 1980 to 1997. Biography Early life Leroy Matthiesen was bor ...

* 2010 - Jim Albertini * 2011 - Colleen Kelly * 2012 - Ruben Garcia * 2013 - Mary Meg McCarthy *2016 - Art Laffin *2021 - Fr Bryan Massingale *2022 - Marie Dennis

2021 nominees

* Fr. David Hyman, OFM * Dr. Craig Ford, Jr. * Fr.

John Dear John Dear (born August 13, 1959) is an American Catholic priest, peace activist, lecturer, and author of 35 books on peace and nonviolence. He has spoken on peace around the world, organized hundreds of demonstrations against war, injustice and nu ...

* Bud Courtney and the New York

Catholic Worker ''Catholic Worker'' is a newspaper published seven times a year by the flagship Catholic Worker community in New York City. The newspaper was started by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin to make people aware of church teaching on social justice. His ...

* Sharon and David Halsey-Hoover * Marie Dennis * Patti Sills-Trausch * Fr. Bryan Massingale, Ph.D. * John August Swanson * Sr. Ann Scholz, SSND * Sr. Constance Kozel, RSM * Frank Cordaro *

Pádraig Ó Tuama Pádraig Ó Tuama is an Irish poet, theologian and conflict mediator. Early life and education Ó Tuama was brought up in a Catholic family in County Cork, Ireland. His first language is English. He also speaks Irish. Ó Tuama received his Ba ...

* M. Shawn Copeland, Ph.D. * Sr. Lynn Marie Welbig, PBVM * Sr. Norma Pimentel * Kings Bay Plowshares 7 * Sr. Linda Bessom, SND * Kim Redigan * Alvin L. Brooks * Fr. Frank Kelly * Brian Terrell * Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy * Pat Ferrone * John and Carrie Schuchardt * Fr. Frank O’Loughlin * Frank Breen * Francisco Cardoso Gomes de Matos * Carolyn Townes, OFS * Douglas Kasper * Fr. Chris Ponnet

References

External links

Official webpagePax Christi USA
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Recipients

2021 nominees

See also

References

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