Richard McSorley
Richard McSorley was a Jesuit priest and peace studies Professor at Georgetown University.
In 1964 he was unofficially assigned by Robert F. Kennedy to give counsel to his sister-in-law, Jacqueline Kennedy at Georgetown University. Five years later Bill Clinton asked him to say a prayer for peace at St. Mark's Church. McSorley founded the Center for Peace Studies at Georgetown.
He had a PhD in Philosophy from Ottawa University and he taught philosophy at Scranton University attracting crowds to his courses. He is the author of the following books:
- It's a Sin to Build a Nuclear Weapon
- New Testament Basis of Peacemaking
- Peace Prospects for Three Worlds
- Kill? For Peace?
- The More the Merrier.
He founded The Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House in Washington, DC.
According to Philip Berrigan, McSorley gave him the homemade napalm recipe that the Catonsville 9 used to burn draft records. McSorley found in a Special Forces handbook in the Georgetown University Law Center library.
On and off for years he stood in the middle of the Georgetown University campus, protesting its ROTC program, by holding a sign saying "Should we teach life + love or death + hate?"