
Notre Dame Theologian Wins Prestigious Ratzinger Prize
Cyril O’Regan is the first Irishman to receive the coveted award named for the late Pope Benedict XVI.
Cyril O’Regan is the first Irishman to receive the coveted award named for the late Pope Benedict XVI.
“The legacy of Pope Benedict XVI is alive and will continue to bear important fruits to the path of the Church,” Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said at the event.
The noted French philosopher, who rubbed shoulders with the future pope in the years following Vatican II, discusses the main aspects of his legacy as well as misunderstandings surrounding his thought and work.
Candidates for the prize are chosen by the scientific committee of the Ratzinger Foundation and presented to the Pope, who approves the winners.
German philosopher Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz discusses secularism, feminism, gender theory and the need to create a new theology promoting the complementarity of masculinity and femininity.
Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz, a specialist on the German philosopher Edith Stein, and Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger, an Old Testament theologian from Germany, were presented with the 2021 Ratzinger Prize by Pope Francis in an award ceremony at the Vatican on Nov. 13.
Jean-Luc Marion, prominent Catholic philosopher and recipient of the 2020 Ratzinger Prize, discusses the great stakes of our time, from secularization and nihilism to the crisis of the Church and the coronavirus pandemic.
An African theologian and an award-winning Canadian Catholic philosopher received the Ratzinger Prize this year.
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