The Bishop John England Award is given to publishers who have exercised and defended the First Amendment rights and prerogatives, freedom of the press and/or freedom of religion. Any publisher in the industry is eligible to be nominated including publishers who are members of the CPA.The recipient will be selected from nominees by a committee composed of Catholic Press Association past presidents. The winner is announced at the Catholic Media Convention held every year at the end of May.
According to the criteria outlined by the Awards Committee and accepted by the CPA board of directors, nominees for the award should “clearly have acted in their role as publisher; and clearly should have acted in defense of their publication or used their publication, in accordance with its mission, to defend the First Amendment rights of the publisher, the institution owning the publication, and/or the Church as a whole.”
Congratulations to the 2009 winner, Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk!
Archbishop Pilarczyk's bio:
Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk is the eight ordinary of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, he is a nationally prominent churchman, educator and author of popular books about Catholic themes. Ordained as a priest in 1959 and installed as archbishop in 1982, every major college and university in Cincinnati has awarded him an honorary degree. He has a strong interest in education and was Director of Educational Services for the archdioceses.
As The Catholic Telegraph’s publisher, he has remained faithful to the founder’s goal or Fenwich’s goal, “to communicate with a far-flung flock that reached from Kentucky to northern Michigan.” Through his widely read instructional series published regularly in the paper over the decades, he has taken seriously his role as the diocese’s primary educator, informing and evangelizing Catholics and supporting them in their faith through sometimes stormy times.
In 2001, with this support of new circulation endeavors, the paper increase weekly subscribers from 21,000 to 91,000. Today, while his 75th Birthday nears, he is an enthusiastic supporter of the newspaper’s new media endeavors; a weekly e-newsletter and the more comprehensive newspaper website that serves a complementary function to the weekly printed edition. He has also embraced the paper’s use of the multimedia functions on the web that have as their goal attracting and evangelizing many more people, particularly younger Catholics.
He has written more than a dozen popular books and many pamphlets and articles. His best selling books is Twelve Tough Issues: What the Church Teaches – and Why and his most recent book, When God Speaks and Live Letters.
Also nominated in 2009: Archbishop Daniel Buechlein and Archbishop Joseph Galante.
Nomination Deadline: January 30, 2010
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