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Center for Music, Prayer and Ministry, and animator for the Cretin-Derham Hall Taize Prayer Community in Saint Paul [rescinded in 2020] 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.