Pacem in Terris Award

The Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award is a Catholic peace award which has been given annually since 1964, in commemoration of the 1963 encyclical letter "Pacem in Terris" (Peace on Earth) of Pope John XXIII. It is awarded "to honor a person for their achievements in peace and justice, not only in their country but in the world."[1]

The award was begun, in 1963, by the Davenport Catholic Interracial Council[2] of the Diocese of Davenport in the U.S. state of Iowa. Since 1976, the award has been presented each year by the Quad Cities Pacem in Terris Coalition. In 2010, sponsors of the award were the Diocese of Davenport, St. Ambrose University, Augustana College, Churches United of the Quad-Cities, Pax Christi, The Catholic Messenger, the Congregation of the Humility of Mary, the Sisters of St. Benedict, the Muslim Community of the Quad Cities, and the Sisters of St. Francis.[3]

Six recipients[4] have also received a Nobel Peace Prize.

Award winners

The following are the recipients:[1]

Other award winners

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Pacem In Terris (Peace On Earth) Award Recipients". Diocese of Davenport. http://www.davenportdiocese.org/socialaction/sapitrecipients.htm. Retrieved June 1, 2011. 
  2. ^ "Pacem In Terris". Diocese of Davenport. http://www.davenportdiocese.org/socialaction/sapaceminterris.htm. Retrieved June 1, 2011. 
  3. ^ Arland-Fye, Barb (May 19, 2010). "Peace activist Fr. John Dear to get Pacem in Terris Award". The Catholic Messenger (Davenport, IA). http://www.catholicmessenger.org/articles/2010/05/19/news/doc4bf40e0730eea126578341.txt. Retrieved June 1, 2011. 
  4. ^ Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, and Lech Wałęsa
  5. ^ The Odebrecht Foundation and Archbishop Hannan are not listed on the Diocese of Davenport's webpage that lists the awardees. "Pacem In Terris (Peace On Earth) Award Recipients". Diocese of Davenport. http://www.davenportdiocese.org/socialaction/sapitrecipients.htm. Retrieved 2011-08-07. 
Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award laureates

John Howard Griffin and John F. Kennedy (1964) • Martin Luther King, Jr. (1965) • R. Sargent Shriver (1966) • A. Philip Randolph (1967) • James Groppi (1968) • Saul Alinsky (1969) • Dorothy Day (1971) • Harold Hughes (1974) • Hélder Câmara (1975) • Mother Teresa (1976) • Thomas Gumbleton (1979) • Crystal Lee Sutton and Ernest Leo Unterkoefler (1980) • George F. Kennan (1982) • Helen Caldicott (1983) • Joseph Bernardin (1985) • Maurice John Dingman (1986) • Desmond Tutu (1987) • Eileen Egan (1989) • Mairead Maguire (1990) • María Julia Hernández (1991) • César Chávez (1992) • Daniel Berrigan (1993) • Jim Wallis (1995) • Samuel Ruiz (1996) • Odebrecht Foundation and Philip Hannan (1996) • Jim and Shelley Douglass (1997) • George G. Higgins (2000) Lech Wałęsa (2001) • Gwen Hennessey and Dorothy Hennessey (2002) • Arthur Simon (2004) • Donald Mosley (2005) • Salim Ghazal (2007) • Marvin Mottet (2008) Hildegard Goss-Mayr (2009) • John Dear (2010) • Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri (2011)