Pacem in Terris Award
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The Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award is a Catholic peace award which has been given annually since 1964, in commemoration of the 1963 encyclical
letter "Pacem in Terris
" (Peace on Earth) of Pope John XXIII
. It is awarded "to honor a person for their achievements in peace and justice, not only in their country but in the world."
The award was begun, in 1963, by the Davenport Catholic Interracial Council of the Diocese of Davenport in the U.S. state
of Iowa
. Since 1976, the award has been presented each year by the Quad Cities
Pacem in Terris Coalition. In 2010, sponsors of the award were the Diocese of Davenport, St. Ambrose University, Augustana College
, Churches United of the Quad-Cities, Pax Christi
, The Catholic Messenger, the Congregation of the Humility of Mary, the Sisters of St. Benedict
, the Muslim
Community of the Quad Cities, and the Sisters of St. Francis.
Six recipients have also received a Nobel Peace Prize
.
Encyclical
An encyclical was originally a circular letter sent to all the churches of a particular area in the ancient Catholic Church. At that time, the word could be used for a letter sent out by any bishop...
letter "Pacem in Terris
Pacem in Terris
Pacem in Terris was a papal encyclical issued by Pope John XXIII on 11 April 1963. It was the last encyclical drafted by John XXIII, who died from cancer two months after its completion ....
" (Peace on Earth) of Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII
-Papal election:Following the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, Roncalli was elected Pope, to his great surprise. He had even arrived in the Vatican with a return train ticket to Venice. Many had considered Giovanni Battista Montini, Archbishop of Milan, a possible candidate, but, although archbishop...
. It is awarded "to honor a person for their achievements in peace and justice, not only in their country but in the world."
The award was begun, in 1963, by the Davenport Catholic Interracial Council of the Diocese of Davenport in the U.S. state
U.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...
of Iowa
Iowa
Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
. Since 1976, the award has been presented each year by the Quad Cities
Quad Cities
The Quad Cities is a group of five cities straddling the Mississippi River on the Iowa–Illinois boundary. These cities, Davenport and Bettendorf and Rock Island, Moline, and East Moline , are the center of the Quad Cities Metropolitan Area, which, as of 2010, had an estimated population of...
Pacem in Terris Coalition. In 2010, sponsors of the award were the Diocese of Davenport, St. Ambrose University, Augustana College
Augustana College (Illinois)
Augustana College is a private liberal arts college located in Rock Island, Illinois, United States. The college enrolls approximately 2,500 students. Covering of hilly, wooded land, Augustana is adjacent to the Mississippi River...
, Churches United of the Quad-Cities, Pax Christi
Pax Christi
-History:Pax Christi was established in France in 1945 as a reconciliation work between the French and the Germans after the Second World War. In 2007, it existed in more than 60 countries...
, The Catholic Messenger, the Congregation of the Humility of Mary, the Sisters of St. Benedict
Order of Saint Benedict
The Order of Saint Benedict is a Roman Catholic religious order of independent monastic communities that observe the Rule of St. Benedict. Within the order, each individual community maintains its own autonomy, while the organization as a whole exists to represent their mutual interests...
, the Muslim
Islam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
Community of the Quad Cities, and the Sisters of St. Francis.
Six recipients have also received a Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
.
Award winners
The following are the recipients:- 1964 John Howard GriffinJohn Howard GriffinJohn Howard Griffin was an American journalist and author much of whose writing was about racial equality. He is best known for darkening his skin and journeying through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia to experience segregation in the Deep South in 1959...
and John F. KennedyJohn F. KennedyJohn Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
(posthumously) - 1965 Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1966 R. Sargent Shriver
- 1967 A. Philip RandolphA. Philip RandolphAsa Philip Randolph was a leader in the African American civil-rights movement and the American labor movement. He organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly Negro labor union. In the early civil-rights movement, Randolph led the March on Washington...
- 1968 Father James GroppiJames GroppiFather James Edmund Groppi was a Roman Catholic priest and noted civil rights activist.-Early years, education, ordination as priest:...
- 1969 Saul AlinskySaul AlinskySaul David Alinsky was a Jewish American community organizer and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing, and has been compared in Playboy magazine to Thomas Paine as being "one of the great American leaders of the nonsocialist left." He is often noted...
- 1972 Dorothy DayDorothy DayDorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and devout Catholic convert; she advocated the Catholic economic theory of Distributism. She was also considered to be an anarchist, and did not hesitate to use the term...
- 1974 Senator Harold HughesHarold HughesHarold Everett Hughes was the 36th Governor of Iowa from 1963 until 1969; he had been a Republican earlier in his life. He also served as a Democratic United States Senator from 1969 until 1975.-Background:...
- 1975 Dom Hélder CâmaraHélder CâmaraDom Hélder Pessoa Câmara was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Olinda and Recife.He was known as the 'Bishop of Corum' and took a clear position with the urban poor....
- 1976 Mother TeresaMother TeresaMother Teresa , born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu , was a Roman Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India, in 1950...
of Calcutta - 1979 Bishop Thomas GumbletonThomas GumbletonThomas John Gumbleton is a retired Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit.-Education and career:...
- 1980 Crystal Lee SuttonCrystal Lee SuttonCrystal Lee Sutton , formerly known as Crystal Lee Jordan, was an American union organizer and advocate who gained fame during the early 1970s. She was fired from her job at the J.P...
- 1980 Bishop Ernest Leo UnterkoeflerErnest Leo UnterkoeflerErnest Leo Unterkoefler was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Charleston from 1964 to 1990.-Biography:...
- 1982 George F. KennanGeorge F. KennanGeorge Frost Kennan was an American adviser, diplomat, political scientist and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War...
- 1983 Helen CaldicottHelen CaldicottHelen Mary Caldicott is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate who has founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, war and military action in general. She hosts a...
- 1985 CardinalCardinal (Catholicism)A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...
Joseph Bernardin - 1986 Bishop Maurice John DingmanMaurice John DingmanMaurice John Dingman was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Des Moines from 1968 to 1986.-Early life & Ministry:...
- 1987 Archbishop Desmond TutuDesmond TutuDesmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid...
- 1989 Eileen EganEileen EganEileen Egan was a journalist, Roman Catholic pacifist and 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...
- 1990 Mairead Corrigan MaguireMairead CorriganMairead Maguire , also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a Northern Irish peace activist. She co-founded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Community of Peace People, an organisation dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in...
- 1991 María Julia HernándezMaría Julia HernándezMaría Julia Hernández was a prominent human rights advocate who tried to speak for victims of the civil war in El Salvador. She was the founding director of Tutela Legal, the human rights office of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Salvador.Hernández was born in San Francisco Morazán,...
- 1992 Cesar ChavezCésar ChávezCésar Estrada Chávez was an American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers ....
- 1993 Father Daniel BerriganDaniel BerriganDaniel Berrigan, SJ is an American Catholic priest, peace activist, and poet. Daniel and his brother Philip were for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for their involvement in antiwar protests during the Vietnam war....
- 1995 Jim WallisJim WallisJim Wallis is an American evangelical Christian writer and political activist. He is best known as the founder and editor of Sojourners magazine, and of the Washington, D.C.-based Christian community of the same name....
- 1996 Bishop Samuel Ruiz García
- 1996 Odebrecht FoundationOdebrecht FoundationThe Odebrecht Foundation was created by Norberto Odebrecht, a Brazilian engineer and businessman who in 1944 founded the Odebrecht company, in order to provide company members benefits that the Brazilian Social Security system either did not provide or only could cover partially from 1965.In 1988...
and Archbishop Philip M. Hannan - 1997 Jim Douglass and Shelley Douglass
- 1998 Sister Helen PrejeanHelen PrejeanSister Helen Prejean, C.S.J., is a Roman Catholic religious sister, a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph, who has become a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty.-Death row ministry:...
, CSJ - 1999 Adolfo Pérez EsquivelAdolfo Pérez EsquivelAdolfo Pérez Esquivel is an Argentine sculptor, architect and pacifist. He was the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize.-Biography:Pérez Esquivel was born in Buenos Aires to a Spanish fisherman who emigrated to Argentina...
- 2000 Monsignor George G. HigginsGeorge G. HigginsMsgr. George Gilmary Higgins was a renowned labor activist. He is known as the "labor priest," and has been a moving force in the Roman Catholic church's support for the late Cesar Chavez and his union movement....
- 2001 Lech WałęsaLech WałęsaLech Wałęsa is a Polish politician, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist. A charismatic leader, he co-founded Solidarity , the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland between 1990 and 95.Wałęsa was an electrician...
- 2002 Sisters Gwen HennesseyGwen HennesseySister Gwen Hennessey, O.P., is a Roman Catholic Dominican Sister and activist. She was born on a farm in Buchanan County, Iowa, the thirteenth child of Anna Killias Hennessey and Maurice Hennessey...
and Dorothy HennesseyDorothy HennesseySister Dorothy Marie Hennessey, O.S.F., was a Roman Catholic Franciscan Sister and activist. Hennessey was born in Manchester, Iowa. The 13 Hennessey siblings — Dorothy Marie Hennessey was the eldest — grew up on an Iowa farm. She was 19 years older than her younger, natural sister, Sister Gwen...
, OSFFranciscanMost Franciscans are members of Roman Catholic religious orders founded by Saint Francis of Assisi. Besides Roman Catholic communities, there are also Old Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, ecumenical and Non-denominational Franciscan communities.... - 2004 Rev. Arthur SimonArthur SimonArthur Simon ) is founder and president emeritus of Bread for the World, where he served for almost two decades.-Career:...
- 2005 Donald MosleyDonald MosleyDonald Mosley is a co-founder of the Habitat for Humanity organization. Mosley was a Peace Corps volunteer in Malaysia and a regional director in South Korea. With a background in history, math, engineering and anthropology, he helped launch Habitat for Humanity in the 1970s...
- 2007 Bishop Salim GhazalSalim GhazalSalim Ghazal was a bishop in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. He was the auxiliary bishop of the Patriarchate of Antioch from 2001-2005.-Biography:...
- 2008 Monsignor Marvin MottetMarvin MottetMarvin Mottet is a 20th and 21st century Catholic priest in the Diocese of Davenport in the US state of Iowa. He is noted as an advocate of social justice causes.-Early life & Education:...
- 2009 Hildegard Goss-MayrHildegard Goss-MayrHildegard Goss-Mayr 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 studyed Philosophy in Vienna and New Haven.In 1958, she married Jean Goss , a French...
- 2010 Father John DearJohn DearJohn Dear is an American Catholic priest, Christian pacifist, author and lecturer. He has been arrested over 75 times in acts of nonviolent civil disobedience against war, injustice and nuclear weapons.-Studies:...
- 2011 Bishop Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini ImeriÁlvaro Leonel Ramazzini ImeriÁlvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri is a bishop of the Catholic Church in Guatemala. He has served as the fourth bishop of the Diocese of San Marcos since 1988.-Biography:...