Pax Christi USA Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace Award
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The Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace Award is given out annually by the organization Pax Christi USA
, a Catholic
peace
organization, to an individual who has exemplified Pope Paul VI
's World Day for Peace message: "To reach peace, teach peace."
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...
, a Catholic
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
peace
Peace
Peace is a state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility, peace also suggests the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, prosperity in matters of social or economic welfare, the...
organization, to an individual who has exemplified Pope Paul VI
Pope Paul VI
Paul VI , born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, who had convened the Second Vatican Council, he decided to continue it...
's World Day for Peace message: "To reach peace, teach peace."
Recipients of the Teacher of Peace Award
- 1978 - 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...
- 1980 - Msgr. Paul Hanly Furfey
- 1982 - Mary Evelyn Jegen, S.N.D.
- 1983 - 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...
and Gordon Zahn - 1984 - Maura ClarkeMaura ClarkeSister Maura Clarke, M.M., was an American Roman 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 death in 1980...
, Ita FordIta FordIta Ford, M.M. was a Roman Catholic Maryknoll Sister missionary to Bolivia, Chile and El Salvador. She worked with the poor and war refugees. On December 2, 1980, she was tortured, raped, and murdered, along with fellow missionaries Maura Clarke, M.M., laywoman Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel,...
, Dorothy KazelDorothy KazelDorothy Kazel was an American Ursuline nun and missionary to El Salvador. On December 2, 1980, she and fellow missionaries Ita Ford, Jean Donovan and Maura Clarke were raped and murdered by members of the military of El Salvador.-Life and work:Kazel was born Dorthea Lu Kazel to Lithuanian American...
and Jean DonovanJean DonovanJean Donovan was an American lay missionary who was murdered with three nuns in El Salvador by a military death squad while volunteering to do charity work during the civil war there.-Life:... - 1986 - Jean GossJean GossJean Goss was a French nonviolent activist.- Youth and conversion :Son of an Opera barytone, who lost his voice during the First World War, Jean Goss was forced to work since the age of de 12 in Paris, before to be hired in a French railway Company in 1937...
and 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... - 1987 - Archbishop Raymond HunthausenRaymond HunthausenRaymond Gerhardt Hunthausen is a retired American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Helena from 1962 to 1975 and as Archbishop of Seattle from 1975 to 1991.-Early life and education:...
- 1988 - Lawrence Martin Jenco
- 1989 - Daniel Berrigan, S.J.Daniel 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....
- 1990 - Joan Chittister, O.S.B.Joan ChittisterSister Joan D. Chittister, O.S.B., is a Benedictine nun, author and speaker.She is a member of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, Pennsylvania, where she served as prioress for 12 years. Sister Chittister writes a web column for the National Catholic Reporter, "From Where I Stand"...
- 1991 - Bishop Thomas GumbletonThomas GumbletonThomas John Gumbleton is a retired Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit.-Education and career:...
- 1992 - Dom Helder Camara
- 1993 - Colman McCarthyColman McCarthyColman McCarthy , an American journalist, teacher, lecturer, pacifist, an 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...
- 1994 - Jim and Shelley Douglass
- 1995 - Jim and Kathy McGinnis
- 1996 - Helen Prejean, C.S.J.Helen 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:...
- 1997 - Roy Bourgeois, M.M.Roy BourgeoisRoy Bourgeois is an American activist. He was ordained a priest in the Maryknoll order of the Roman Catholic Church and is founder of the human rights group SOA Watch or the School of the Americas Watch....
- 1998 - Kathy KellyKathy KellyKathy Kelly is an American peace activist, pacifist and author, a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, one of the founding members of Voices in the Wilderness, and currently a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. She has been described as "probably the most respected leader in the...
- 1999 - Martin SheenMartin SheenRamón Gerardo Antonio Estévez , better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an American film actor best known for his performances in the films Badlands and Apocalypse Now , and in the television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2006.He is considered one of the best actors never to be...
- 2000 - Dianna Ortiz, O.S.U.Dianna OrtizSister Dianna Ortiz is an American Roman CatholicUrsuline nun.A native of the state of New Mexico, while serving as a missionary in Guatemala in 1989, she was abducted by members of the Guatemalan military and brutally tortured. Among other torments she states being exposed to were gang-rape and...
- 2001 - Fr. Louis Vitale, Elizabeth McAlister and her husband Philip BerriganPhilip BerriganPhilip Francis Berrigan was an internationally renowned American peace activist, Christian anarchist and former Roman Catholic priest...
- 2002 - Fr. Peter Dougherty
- 2003 - William P. QuigleyWilliam P. QuigleyWilliam P. Quigley is a law professor and Director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University New Orleans. He was named the Pope Paul VI National Teacher of Peace by Pax Christi USA in 2003...
- 2005 - Msgr. Ray EastRay EastRaymond Eric East was an English cricketer who played for Essex County Cricket Club.One of the most popular characters to play county cricket in recent times, East is remembered as much for his on field wit as his fine slow left arm spin bowling...
- 2006 - Sr. Mary Lou Kownacki
- 2007 - Fr. John S. Rausch, Glmy