Pax Christi Award Recipients
As the highest honor awarded by Saint John’s, the Pax Christi Award recognizes those who have devoted themselves to God by working in the tradition of Benedictine monasticism to serve others and to build a heritage of faith in the world.
2023: | Donald Jackson, Artistic Director and Principal Illuminator, and the team of calligraphers and artists responsible for writing and illuminating The Saint John’s Bible | |
2017: | Marty Haugen, liturgical composer, workshop presenter, performing and recording artist, and author | |
Father Michael Joncas, artist-in-residence and a fellow in the Center for Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas | ||
David Haas, director of The Emmaus Center for Music, Prayer and Ministry, and animator for the Cretin-Derham Hall Taize Prayer Community in Saint Paul [rescinded in 2020] | ||
2013: | Richard Frechette, priest, physician and missionary with Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH), also called Our Little Brothers and Sisters | |
2010: | John Paul Lederach, professor of international peacebuilding at the University of Notre Dame | |
2009: | Rev. John P. Foley, SJ, executive chairman of the Cristo Rey Network | |
His Eminence Walter Cardinal Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity | ||
2008: | Most Reverend Elias Chacour, Archbishop of Akka, Haifa, Nazareth and Galilee | |
2007: | Archbishop Michael Louis Fitzgerald, M. Afr. | |
2006: | Most Reverend Harry J. Flynn | |
Abbot Primate Notker Wolf, OSB | ||
His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church | ||
2005: | Doctor Martin E. Marty | |
His Beatitude Ignatius IV Hazim | ||
2004: | Reverend John “Jack” Everett Davis | |
2003: | Doctor John R. Page | |
2002: | Most Reverend John Kinney | |
2001: | Mr. Douglas A. Johnson | |
2000: | Most Reverend Samuel Ruiz Garcia | |
1998: | Mr. Richard T. Proulx | |
1997: | Presiding Bishop Emeritus David W. Preus | |
Abbot Placid Reitmeier, O.S.B. | ||
1996: | His Eminence Joseph Cardinal Bernardin | |
1995: | Ms. Mary Jo Copeland | |
1994: | Ms. Amy Grant | |
1993: | Reverend Baldwin Dworschak, O.S.B. | |
1992: | Abbot Primate Jerome Theisen, O.S.B. | |
1990: | Reverend Leonard Eugene Boyle, O.P. | |
Mr. Edward Simeon Skillin | ||
Mr. Harry C. Piper, Jr. | ||
1987: | Doctor Albert Cook Outler | |
1986: | Sister Emmanuel Renner, O.S.B. | |
1985: | Reverend Robert Sperry Bilheimer | |
1984: | Reverend Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B. | |
1983: | Most Reverend John R. Roach | |
1982: | Doctor Gordon Charles Zahn | |
1981: | Abbot Dom Basilio Penido, O.S.B. | |
1978: | Most Reverend James Steven Rausch | |
1977: | Most Reverend Jean Jadot | |
1976: | Most Reverend David J. Du Plessis | |
1975: | Most Reverend Dr. Per Lonning | |
His Eminence Leo Josef Cardinal Suenens | ||
1974: | Most Reverend Basil Christopher Butler | |
1973: | Reverend Colman J. Barry, O.S.B. | |
His Holiness Abuna Theophilos | ||
1971: | Doctor Dana L. Farnsworth, M.D. | |
Right Reverend Monsignor George C. Higgins | ||
1970: | Most Reverend Ernest L. Unterkoefler | |
Reverend Andrew J. Young | ||
1969: | His Eminence George Bernard Cardinal Flahiff | |
Right Honorable Lord Caradon | ||
1968: | Most Reverend Johannes G. M. Willebrands | |
Reverend Eugene Carson Blake | ||
1967: | Most Reverend John F. Dearden | |
Lady Barbara Ward Jackson | ||
1966: | Most Reverend Paul J. Hallinan | |
Doctor Jaroslav J. Pelikan | ||
1965: | Honorable George N. Shuster | |
Reverend John Courtney Murray, S.J. | ||
1964: | Reverend Frederick R. McManus | |
Honorable Eugene J. McCarthy | ||
1963: | Honorable Ignatius A. O’Shaughnessy | |
Most Reverend Peter W. Bartholome |
The Pax Christi Award was not presented in 1972, 1979-80, 1988-89, 1991, 1999, 2011-12, 2014-16 and 2018-23.