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 1999 - Martin Sheen 2000 - Sr. Dianna Ortiz, OSU 2001 - Fr. Louis Vitale, Elizabeth McAlister, and Philip Berrigan 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 2010 - Jim Albertini 2011 - Colleen Kelly 2012 - Ruben Garcia 2013 - Mary Meg McCarthy 2016 - Art Laffin 2021 - Fr Bryan Massingale 2022 - Marie Dennis 2023 - Fr Joe Nangle
See also
Pax Christi International Peace Award Catholic peace traditions
References
External links Official webpage Pax Christi USA