Teacher of Peace Award

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

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