• Catholic Priest, nuclear arms opponent, anti-American activist
• Co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness
• Co-founder of Plowshares, a group that vandalizes weapons facilities and military bases
• Member of 8th Day Center for Justice
• Signatory of the Not In Our Name anti-war statement

Born in 1937 (the sixth of ten siblings in what he calls "a family that struggled financially"), Father Bob Bossie is a Catholic Priest and a longtime nuclear arms abolitionist, anti-war protester, and anti-American activist. He co-founded Voices in the Wilderness and Plowshares, and has been a staff member of the 8th Day Center for Justice since 1980.

In the 1950s Bossie served in the U.S. Air Force, where he helped to maintain weapons systems, including aircraft loaded with nuclear cargoes. "I have reflected sadly," he writes, "that in those nine years with the military, no one in church, family, school or society questioned me if my actions were moral or not."

Bossie was ordained in 1975 and is a member of the Priests of the Sacred Heart, a Roman Catholic apostolic community whose members perform parish and social justice work in the U.S., South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He credits his 1979 trip to Latin America, "where the struggles of those who were poor became a challenge to my faith," as being the catalyst for his subsequent work. Specifically, Bossie blames American greed for the economic hardship that exists in many nations, stating that "one need only pick up a newspaper and read that the U.S. consumes well over 30% of the world's resources and that the disparity between rich and poor, even in the U.S., is growing by leaps and bounds." These global inequities, Bossie reasons, are ultimately to blame for much of the violence taking place in various parts of the world.

Reflecting on the "spiritual journey" he began in 1979, Bossie writes: "I have allied myself with those of like mind and spirit, Christians, Muslims, Jews, atheists and communists, for it is by their fruits that you will know them. I have also found myself violating the laws of the land through nonviolent acts of civil resistance against nuclear weapons, sanctions against the Iraqi people and economic oppression. Some of these actions have resulted in my being sent to jail."

In 1991 Bossie was a member of the international "Gulf Peace Team" that situated itself between the opposing forces to register its condemnation of the imminent Gulf War.

In addition to casting the U.S. as an aggressive, warlike nation, Bossie has also denounced its purportedly endemic "racism, sexism, [and] classism." He has characterized American efforts to develop an anti-missile defense system as both unrealistic and unwise. And he has accused President Bush of lying about his reasons for attacking the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Bossie was signatory to the 2002 Not In Our Name document condemning not only the Bush administration's "stark new measures of repression," but also its "unjust, immoral, illegitimate, [and] openly imperial policy towards the world."

Bossie was a signatory to the 2000 document "End the U.S./UN Sanctions Stop the U.S. War Against  the People of Iraq," which denounced "the murder of innocent people by our hands -- people who happened to be in the way of the economic or political interests of the U.S."; stated that "it is not the Saddam Husseins of the world that pose the biggest threat to the people of the world, it is the U.S. as it ... protects it own interests"; alleged that "the U.S.-imposed sanctions on the people of Iraq are killing 5,000 children a month"; called for "an immediate end" to the "immoral and illegitimate … sanctions war against the people of Iraq"; and declared opposition to "all U.S. interventions, overt or covert, in the sovereign affairs of other nations." Bossie's fellow signers included Philip Berrigan, Carl Dix, Howard Zinn, and numerous members of such organizations as Veterans for Peace, Witness for Peace, Voices in the Wilderness, the Communist Party USA, Pastors for Peace, and Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

In 2003, one of Bossie's former Voices in the Wilderness co-members revealed the following: "[W]e -- like the Iraqi regime -- were always antagonistic towards the Oil-for-Food program (known sometimes as UNSC Resolution 986). One Voices founder, Bob Bossie, in a group meeting to evaluate the program, determined: 'The biggest problem [Voices] face[s], as I see it, is Resolution 986.' The reason was explained by founding member Chuck Quilty, [who said]: 'The problem [Voices] saw right away was that 986 would be used by the United States to say that humanitarian problems in Iraq were taken care of and allay any of those who might be concerned that sanctions were killing innocent people.' They abhorred the program because it improved the lot of ordinary Iraqis, and therefore, diminished U.S. culpability. To be perfectly frank, we were less concerned with the suffering of the Iraqi people than we were in maintaining our moral challenge to … 'violent' U.S. foreign policy ... For example, had we been truly interested in alleviating the suffering in Iraq, we might have considered pushing for an expanded Oil-for-Food program. Nothing could have interested us less."

Bossie is a supporter of World Can't Wait, an intiative founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party.