Pax Christi USA seeks 'Teacher of Peace' nominations

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March 2007

Pax Christi USA seeks 'Teacher of Peace' nominations
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Pax Christi USA seeks 'Teacher of Peace' nominations
Each year, Pax Christi USA honors an outstanding peacemaker with the Teacher of Peace Award, in the tradition of Thea Bowman, Cesar Chávez, Dorothy Day and Pope Paul VI. This award recognizes women and men whose lives and work exemplify the theme of Pope Paul VI’s World Day of Peace message, “To reach peace, teach peace.”

All nominations must be sent by email, faxed or postmarked by April 6, 2007 in order to be considered.

Eligibility criteria for nominations for the Teacher of Peace Award:

A living person
A Catholic individual or group
A United States citizen
Nationally recognized for their contributions to Catholic peace activities
A person who demonstrates an intentional and sustained effort to challenge and transform racist attitudes, notions and actions which continue to separate and oppress God’s people
Officers of Pax Christi USA should be considered ineligible until at least three years have elapsed since leaving office

Past recipients of this award who are still living and not eligible include:

Kathy Kelly; Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ; Jim and Shelley Douglass; Bishop Thomas Gumbleton; Dan Berrigan, SJ; Gordon Zahn; Fr. Louis Vitale, OFM; Fr. Peter Dougherty; Martin Sheen; Fr. Roy Bourgeois, MM; Jim and Kathy McGinnis; Colman McCarthy; Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB; Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen; Mary Evelyn Jegen, SND; Liz McAlister; William Quigley; Msgr. Ray East; and Sr. Dianna Ortiz, OSU.

To nominate someone for the Teacher of Peace Award, please click on the link below to download the nomination form, fill out the information, and return to Pax Christi USA by email (send to info@paxchristiusa.org with the subject line: Teacher of Peace Nominations; by fax, 814-452-4784, attn: Teacher of Peace Nominations; or by regular mail.

Click here to download the nomination form (PDF format).

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