Wednesday, April 30, 2025
David Rubenstein Forum at University of Chicago
5:00 pm CT Reception
6:30 pm CT Dinner
1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Call Patrick L. Bittorf at 773.371.5417
or email pbittorf@ctu.edu.
ONLINE RAFFLE TICKET SALES WILL END ON TUESDAY, APRIL 23
Blessed are the Peacemakers honoree
Fr. Bryan Massingale
Bryan N. Massingale is a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. He received his doctorate in moral theology (S.T.D.) from the Academia Alphonsianum in Rome. He is Professor of Theological and Social Ethics at Fordham University, holding the James and Nancy Buckman Chair in Applied Christian Ethics and is the Senior Fellow at Fordham’s Center for Ethics Education. Massingale specializes in social ethics and teaches courses on Catholic Social Thought, African American religious ethics, sexual ethics, and racial justice. His professional passion is advancing a Black approach to Catholic theological ethics. His approach to social ethics focuses on the impact of religious faith as both an instrument of social injustice and a catalyst for social transformation. He is a former President of the Society of Christian Ethics and of the Catholic Theological Society of America, and a former Convener of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium. An award-winning scholar, teacher, and activist, Massingale is a leader in Catholic theology.
Diakonia honoree
Arne Duncan
Arne Duncan served as U.S. Secretary of Education from January 2009 through December 2015 as part of the Obama Administration. Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Duncan served as chief executive officer of Chicago Public Schools. From 2001 to 2008, Duncan won praise for uniting the city’s stakeholders behind an education agenda that included opening 100 new schools; expanding after-school, summer learning, early childhood, and college access programs; dramatically boosting the caliber of teachers; and building public-private partnerships around a variety of education initiatives.
He currently leads Chicago CRED, a nonprofit trying to achieve a transformative reduction in gun violence in Chicago. Through partnerships with local business leaders, community organizers, and nonprofit groups, Duncan aims to provide outreach, therapeutic, education, and employment opportunities for the young men most likely to be engaged in gun violence. He is also the managing partner at Emerson Collective, an organization dedicated to removing barriers so people can live to their full potential. Secretary Duncan graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1987, majoring in sociology. At Harvard he served as co-captain of the basketball team and was named a first team Academic All-American.
Arne serves on the boards of Ariel Investments, Communities in Schools, Eat, Learn, Play, Edmentum, Education Advancement, ESS, Howard University, My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, National Association of Basketball Coaches, Schoolhouse world, and Chairs The Hunt Institute.
BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS PREVIOUS HONOREES
2024
Sr. Donna Markham, OP, PhD
2023
Mr. Bryan Stevenson
2022
Young Alumni of CTU
2021
Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Christine Grady
2020
Cardinal Michael Fitzgerald, M. Afr.
2019
Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ
2018
Archbishop Christophe Pierre
2017
Ms. Monica McWilliams
2016
25th Anniversary of Trustee Dinner
2015
Dr. Paul Farmer †
2014
Rev. Donald Senior, CP †
2013
Mrs. Mary McAleese
2012
Mrs. Renée and Mr. Lester Crown Mrs. Shirley and Mr. Pat Ryan
2011
Monsignor Kenneth Velo
2010
Dr. Miguel Díaz
2009
The Jo ✡ and Newton Minow Family
2008
The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
University of Notre Dame
2007
Senator John C. Danforth
2005
One Voice Movement
2004
The Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago
2003
Mr. Steven Spielberg
2002
Cardinal Walter Kasper
2001
Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan
2000
Mr. John Hume†
1999
Ms. Leah Rabin ✡
1998
Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC †
1997
Bishop Raymond E. Goedert, D.D.
1996
Ms. Eunice Kennedy Shriver † Mr. R. Sargent Shriver, Jr. †
1995
Monsignor Michel Sabbah
1994
Mr. Kenneth Woodward
1993
Sr. Rosemary Connelly, RSM
1992
Ms. Margaret Roach