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 2021 nominees Fr. David Hyman, OFM Dr. Craig Ford, Jr. Fr. John Dear Bud Courtney and the New York Catholic Worker 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 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 See also Pax Christi International Peace Award Catholic peace traditions References External links Official webpage Pax Christi USA Peace awards Christian nonviolence