Marie Dennis

Marie Dennis is co-president of Pax Christi International, the global

Catholic peace movement, a position she has held since 2007 and
now shares with Bishop Kevin Dowling from South Africa. She is
also a Pax Christi USA Ambassador of Peace.
Marie was previously director of the Maryknoll Office for Global
Concerns, charged with bringing the global experience of Maryknoll
missioners into the process of shaping public opinion in the United
States and policies of the U.S. and other governments, the United
Nations and international financial institutions. She worked for
Maryknoll from 1989 to 2012.
Marie holds a masters degree in moral theology from Washington
Theological Union and honorary doctorates from Trinity Washington
University and Alvernia University. She is a lay woman, a mother of
six and a grandmother. She is author or co-author of seven books,
including Oscar Romero: Reflections on His Life and Writings and St.
Francis and the Foolishness of God.
Marie has visited many parts of the world, including countries in
conflict, for Maryknoll and Pax Christi International in the last few
years: Thailand, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, the Philippines,
China, Colombia, Croatia, Poland, Sudan and South Sudan, Iraq,
Honduras and Haiti. Earlier she participated in peace delegations to
Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, El Salvador and Guatemala and
election observer delegations to Zimbabwe, Mexico and Haiti.
Marie now serves on the steering committee of the Catholic
Peacebuilding Network and as a contributing editor to Sojourners
magazine. She has previously served on the White House Task
Force on Global Poverty and Development; the advisory committee
of Orbis Books; and the national boards of JustFaith Ministries,
Sojourners magazine, the Washington Office on Latin America, the
Latin America Working Group, the International Resource Center,
the Washington Office on Africa and the Jubilee USA Network.
She has lectured at many universities and conferences over the past
35 years on topics ranging from Catholic social teaching to U.S. foreign
policy, peace and reconciliation, the global economy, climate change,
migration and the nuclear arms race. She has prepared and
participated in panels and workshops at the United Nations and the
U.S. Congress.

Marie was a founder of the ecumenical Center for New Creation,

dedicated to education and action for social justice and peace; the
Washington (DC) Area Community Investment Fund, which makes
loans for affordable housing and small businesses in low-income
communities; Assisi Community committed to shared simple living and
work for social transformation; and the Jubilee USA campaign for
cancellation of overwhelming and unjust debt of impoverished
countries.