Below is a list of recipients of the Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace Award. The Teacher of Peace Award is given annually to the person who, in our opinion, gives outstanding witness to the theme of Pope Paul VI’s World Day of Peace message, “To reach peace, teach peace.” Pax Christi began giving this award in 1978.
Click here to nominate someone as the 2013 Teacher of Peace (nominations due by May 11,2013.
For a complete list of 2012 nominees, click here.
1978 – Dorothy Day
1980 – Msgr. Paul Hanly Furfey
1982 – Mary Evelyn Jegen, S.N.D.
1983 – Eileen Egan and Gordon Zahn
1984 – Maura Clarke, Ita Ford, Dorothy Kazel and Jean Donovan
1986 – Hildegard and Jean Goss-Mayr
1987 – Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen
1988 – Lawrence Martin Jenco
1989 – Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
1990 – Joan Chittister, O.S.B.
1991 – Bishop Thomas Gumbleton
1992 – Dom Helder Camara
1993 – Colman McCarthy
1994 – Jim and Shelley Douglass
1995 – Jim and Kathy McGinnis
1996 – Helen Prejean, C.S.J.
1997 – Roy Bourgeois, M.M.
1998 – Kathy Kelly
1999 – Martin Sheen
2000 – Dianna Ortiz, O.S.U.
2001 – Fr. Louis Vitale, Liz Berrigan and Phil Berrigan
2002 – Fr. Peter Dougherty
2003 – William Quigley
2005 – Msgr. Ray East
2006 – Sr. Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB
2007 - Fr. John Rausch, Glmy
2008 - MJ and Jerry Park
2009 - Bishop Leroy Matthiesen
2010 – Jim Albertini
2011 – Colleen Kelly
2012 – Ruben Garcia
