In Honor of My Father, Tom Siemer, My Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Tom Siemer Self-Portrait with Greek Sailor Hat

Another Self-Portrait, Tom Siemer 

Dad put this in the paper Summer 2017

     You may copy this, sign it, and send it.  This is my father's last big hurrah, for those who have known him in his peace work for the last 40+ years!  He already has gotten this out to the Catholic world this summer, but I am helping him too!  Thanks Dad!  Pray for us!

One of Dad's many protest signs







Tom Siemer's painting of Dorothy Day





Added to this article Oct. 7, 2017  :  

        A group ICAN (the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) won the Nobel Peace Prize, announced yesterday, Oct. 6, see below.  Also, this group has begun a campaign to ban nuclear weapons in the world, and on Sept. 21, a high level Vatican diplomat at the United Nations signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in the name of Vatican City (and country), one of three countries to endorse or sign this.  This was after my father had a paid advertisment in a large Catholic paper!  Thank you, dear Holy Papa, for sticking your neck out for peace in the world!  Thanks, Dad!! Our daily rosaries that Mother Mary asked at Fatima "for world peace" are working!

       THIS FRIDAY there will be a BEAUTIFUL mass at St. Catharine Church (503 S. Gould) and procession of Mary to Christ the King Church.  That will last about 45 minutes and will be in Spanish and English. This Friday is the anniversary of the "Miracle of the Sun" at Fatima in Portugal.  Over 70,000 people witness the sun dancing and swiftly moving in the sky!  This procession is on the 100th anniversary of that day, so look up to the sky everyone on October 13th!

      After the section on the Nobel Prize will be a video on my favorite Spanish song to Mary.  It asks Mary to please come and walk with us.  

OSLO/GENEVA (Reuters) - A campaign group seeking a global ban on nuclear arms won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday [Oct. 6, 2017], given the award by a Nobel Committee that cited the spread of weapons to North Korea and said the risk was growing of nuclear war.

The award to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) was unexpected, particularly in a year when the architects of the 2015 nuclear deal between world powers and Iran had been seen as favorites for achieving the sort of diplomatic breakthrough that has won the prize in the past.

Supporters described the award as a potential breakthrough for a global movement that has fought to ban nuclear arms from the day the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in August 1945.

“Nuclear weapons are illegal. Threatening to use nuclear weapons is illegal. Having nuclear weapons, possessing nuclear weapons, developing nuclear weapons, is illegal, and they need to stop,” she told Reuters.

My father, Tom Siemer, has been working on this for over 40 years, lobbying and praying at most of the U.S. Catholic Bishop Conference places, driving his van around the country with signs, making his way to gatherings of Church leaders, giving talks, protesting, and discussing with all who would listen, the nonviolent cross and teachings of Christ, especially in regards to weapons of mass destruction of which he was a part for many years. 

Our Lady, Queen of Peace, Pray for us!

Here is the song!  Come, walk with us, Mary, walk with us!  We love you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubYEpijKuHI

One of Dad's many paintings of Our
Lady of Guadalupe

Mother Mary bothered to come six times to earth to warn the world to pray the rosary daily for world peace in 1917.  May we work for peace as hard as we pray for peace!  Thanks Dad for all you have done!