diff --git a/pmd/plugin.jelly b/pmd/plugin.jelly
index ff025c45..6ebfc1c6 100644
--- a/pmd/plugin.jelly
+++ b/pmd/plugin.jelly
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
 
     <j:choose>
       <j:when test="${sourcesPresent == 'true'}">
-        <pmd rulesetfiles="${maven.pmd.rulesetfiles}">
+        <pmd rulesetfiles="${maven.pmd.rulesetfiles}" printToConsole="${maven.pmd.console}">
           <formatter type="xml" toFile="${maven.build.dir}/pmd-raw-report.xml"/>
           <fileset dir="${pom.build.sourceDirectory}" 
             includes="${maven.pmd.includes}"
diff --git a/pmd/plugin.properties b/pmd/plugin.properties
index 0aaaf1de..a2e2ada4 100644
--- a/pmd/plugin.properties
+++ b/pmd/plugin.properties
@@ -41,4 +41,7 @@ maven.pmd.cpd.enable = false
 maven.pmd.cpd.minimumtokencount = 100
 
 # whether or not to run PMD on test files
-maven.pmd.check.tests = true
\ No newline at end of file
+maven.pmd.check.tests = true
+
+# Print the output to the console
+maven.pmd.console = false
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pmd/xdocs/changes.xml b/pmd/xdocs/changes.xml
index ed9b5229..5b0780ae 100644
--- a/pmd/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/pmd/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
   </properties>
   <body>
     <release version="1.8-SNAPSHOT" date="In SVN">
+      <action dev="aheritier" type="add" issue="MPPMD-13">New property "maven.pmd.console" to display pmd errors to the console.</action>
       <action dev="aheritier" type="fix">Do not generate links to JXR files if they are not created.</action>
       <action dev="aheritier" type="update">Use properties maven.jxr.destdir and maven.jxr.destdir.test to generate links from the PMD report to jxr files.</action>
       <action dev="aheritier" type="fix">Fix NullPointerException if pom.build.sourceDirectory or pom.build.unitTestSourceDirectory are not defined.</action>
diff --git a/pmd/xdocs/properties.xml b/pmd/xdocs/properties.xml
index 6ef8a7c2..3b124fc8 100644
--- a/pmd/xdocs/properties.xml
+++ b/pmd/xdocs/properties.xml
@@ -94,6 +94,13 @@
             Whether or not to run PMD on test sources. Defaults to true.
           </td>
         </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>maven.pmd.console</td>
+          <td>Yes</td>
+          <td>
+            Whether or not to display PMD errors to the console. Defaults to false.
+          </td>
+        </tr>
       </table>
     </section>
   </body>