Friends of Franz and Ben have produced a tri-fold brochure on Ben Salmon giving a brief outline on Ben's life and witness, which also contains information on this website, the Ben Salmon Tombstone Fund, and the Ben Salmon Speakers Bureau. Please download through the link above and disseminate this brochure as widely as you can. Thanks.
Ben wrote much, and conversely much has been written about Ben.

The most thorough biography of Ben Salmon is Unsung Hero of the Great War: Life and Witness of Ben Salmon by Torin R. T. Finney, 1989, Paulist Press. This biography is now available for reading online at Unsung Hero.

ALL SAINTS Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time by Robert Ellsberg, 1999, The Crossroad Publishing Company. Ben Salmon is the entry for February 15, pp. 77-79 (Ben Salmon died February 15, 1932). 

Eleven Modern Mystics and the Secrets of a Happy, Holy Life by Victor M. Parachin, 2011, Hope Publishing House. Chapter 3 is entitled: 'Ben Salmon, Catholic Conscientious Objector of the "Great War"', pp. 25-33.

"Ben Salmon: Catholic conscientious objector of the Great War" by Victor M. Parachin is posted at https://www.osv.com/OSVNewsweekly/InFocus/Article/TabId/721/ArtMID/13629/ArticleID/16867/Ben-Salmon.aspx.
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The Spring 2007 issue, Volume 6.1 of the sign of peace, Journal of the Catholic Peace Fellowship was devoted to the Life and Witness of Ben Salmon. Available at http://www.catholicpeacefellowship.org/downloads/March_2007.pdf.
Other issues of the sign of peace can be found at http://www.catholicpeacefellowship.org/wp/wordpress/resources/sign-of-peace/
"Ben Salmon and the Army of Peace", Fr. John Dear, SJ., posted at http://ncronline.org/blogs/road-peace/ben-salmon-and-army-peace

"Imprisoned war resister rooted in Catholic faith," Jack Gilroy, posted at https://www.ncronline.org/news/justice/imprisoned-war-resister-rooted-catholic-faith.

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"The Life and Witness of Benjamin Joseph Salmon," Fr. Daniel Berrigan, biography posted at http://www.jonahhouse.org/archive/BenSalmon.htm


Lazarus, Come Forth!: How Jesus Confronts the Culture of Death and Invites Us Into the New Life of Peace by John Dear, 2011, Orbis Books. Contains a chapter entitled, "13. Ben Salmon, Dorothy Stang, and Oscar Romero: Three who fulfilled Jesus' Commandments."
Sentenced to Death for Not Killing: The Ben Salmon Story, a play by Jack Gilroy. Jack's script is available here.

Rosalie Riegle reported on the prayer vigil at Ben's gravesite in Hospitality, the newsletter of the Open Door Community in Baltimore, MD. Her article is on pg. 8 of the July-August 2017 edition and begins: "Ben Salmon stands alone in a bare and rocky desert. His eyes are clear, his gaze steadfast, his purpose firm. He knows what “Thou shalt not kill” means and ..."
Fr. John Heagle, chair of the Gospel Nonviolence Working Group of the Association of US Catholic Priests, writes in the June 8, 2022 online issue of the National Catholic Reporter asking Could a new eucharistic prayer help reclaim the nonviolent Christ? Heagle references many prophets of peace and highlights "the prophetic courage of one solitary man": Ben Salmon and calls on us all to celebrate Ben's truism that there is no such thing as a just war.
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Photos of Ben and his family are in the Gallery.
Video Resources
The Romero Theater Troupe presented this Scene in Pueblo, Colorado in May, 2013. (Semillas de Colorado in English is Seeds of Colorado.)
On youtube.com can be found two interviews of Maryknoll Sister Elizabeth Salmon, Ben and Elizabeth Salmon's youngest daughter. Sister Elizabeth is continuing the family tradition of promulgating peace.


On the 100th anniversary of US entry into WW1, the Friends of Franz and Ben held a workshop at Catholic University in Washington, DC followed by a march to the Catholic Conference of Bishops and the Archdiocese for Military Services headquarters.

Professor Michael J. Baxter presented a public lecture on Ben Salmon on the evening of November 11, 2020. The evening's online presentation was hosted by DePaul U's William Cavanaugh discussed Ben with Prof. Baxter after the lecture and relayed questions from the audience.


You can watch the lecture and discussion at your leisure with the YouTube video to the left or with the Vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/481417014.

Both of these videos were recorded and posted by the Center for World Catholicism & Intercultural Theology at DePaul University.