Winners of the John Courtney Murray Award

• 2009: David Bakewell Burrell
• 2008: Lisa Sowle Cahill
  Lisa Sowle Cahill
  Dr. Lisa Sowle Cahill is a central figure in contemporary Roman Catholic Theological Ethics.She first became known in the 1980s with her studies on gender and sexual ethics, but now she has extended her work to social and global ethics...
  
  
• 2007: Virgilio Elizondo
  Virgilio Elizondo
  Virgilio Elizondo is a Mexican American, Roman Catholic priest who divides his time between his parish in San Antonio, Texas, and teaching at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. He is a major theologian in liberation theology and Hispanic theology. He has been named by Time...
  
  
• 2006: Sandra M. Schneiders
  Sandra M. Schneiders
  Sandra M. Schneiders, I.H.M., is professor emerita in the Jesuit School of Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.She has published numerous works on spirituality, feminism, and theology....
  
  
• 2005: Robert Schreiter
• 2004: Elizabeth A. Johnson
• 2003: Michael A. Fahey
• 2002: Kenan Osborne
• 2001: Agnes Cunningham
• 2000: Michael J. Buckley
• 1999: Ladislas Orsy
  Ladislas Orsy
  -Early life:Fr. Orsy was born on July 30, 1921 in Hungary. He entered Society of Jesus, Budapest in 1943 and was ordained to priesthood in 1951 at Leuven .-Education:...
  
  
• 1998: David Hollenbach, S.J.
• 1997: Anne Carr
  Anne Carr
  Sister Anne Carr was a feminist theologian at the University of Chicago Divinity School, where she was the first female permanent member of the faculty....
  
  
• 1996: David N. Power
• 1995: John T. & Denise Carmody
• 1994: Francis A. Sullivan
  Francis A. Sullivan
  Francis Aloysius Sullivan, S.J. is an American Catholic theologian and a Jesuit priest. He is best known for his research in the area of ecclesiology and the magisterium.- Early Life and Jesuit Formation :...
  
  
• 1993: Kilian P. McDonnell
• 1992: Margaret A. Farley
• 1991: Thomas F. O’Meara
• 1990: Frederick R. McManus
  Frederick R. McManus
  Monsignor Frederick Richard McManus was an influential figure in the 20th century liturgical movement in the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as a peritus on the liturgy at the Second Vatican Council. He presided at the first English Mass in the United States in 1964 in St. Louis. He...
  
  
• 1989: Patrick Granfield
• 1988: The Most Rev. Richard J. Sklba
  Richard J. Sklba
  Richard John Sklba is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1987: Walter H. Principe
• 1986: Gregory Baum
  Gregory Baum
  Gregory Baum, OC is a Canadian theologian.Born in Berlin, Germany, he came to Canada from England in 1940. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and physics in 1946 from McMaster University, a Master of Arts degree in mathematics in 1947 from Ohio State University, and a Th.D...
  
  
• 1985: Zachary J. Hayes
• 1984: Monika Hellwig
  Monika Hellwig
  Monika Hellwig was a German-born United States-based British academic, author, educator and theologian. A former nun, she left her order to pursue her career, which would lead to her being named as President/Executive Director of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities .-Early life...
  
  
• 1983: William J. Hill
• 1982: George J. Dyer
• 1981: Gerard S. Sloyan
• 1980: David W. Tracy
• 1979: Bernard Cooke
• 1978: Edward Kilmartin
• 1977: Frederick E. Crowe
• 1976: Richard. P. McBrien
  Richard McBrien
  Richard Peter McBrien is the Crowley-O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is a priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford and the author of several controversial books and articles discussing Catholicism. He is most well known for his authorship of Catholicism...
  
  
• 1975: Carl J. Peter
• 1974: George H. Tavard
  George Tavard
  Reverend George H. Tavard was an ordained member with the order of the Augustinians of the Assumption, and lectured extensively in the areas of historical theology, ecumenism, and spirituality.- Early life :...
  
  
• 1973: Bernard J.F. Lonergan
  Bernard Lonergan
  Fr. Bernard J.F. Lonergan, CC, SJ was a Canadian Jesuit priest, philosopher, and theologian widely regarded as one of the most important Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century....
  
  
• 1972: Charles E. Curran
  Charles Curran (theologian)
  The Rev. Charles E. Curran is a moral theologian. He currently serves at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, as the Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values.-Biography:...