Dorothy Marie Hennessey, O.S.F., (March 24, 1913 – January 24, 2008) was a Roman Catholic Franciscan Religious Sister and activist involved with the Peace and Justice movement.
[1] As a young woman, she entered the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis of the Holy Family, based in Dubuque, Iowa.
She led protests at Fort Benning, Georgia, home of the Army's School of the Americas, a facility for training Latin American soldiers.
Hennessey believed that the School of the Americas teaches torture techniques to Latin American soldiers and that graduates of the program have been involved in atrocities, including the 1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador.
[4] It is named after a 1963 encyclical letter by Pope John XXIII that calls upon all people of good will to secure peace among all nations.