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.

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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

The peacemakers, those who put an end to violence, who lay down the sword, who work for harmonious relationships, who break the patterns of hatred, who love even their enemies, will be called ‘children of God,’ the ultimate blessing. These ‘children of God,’ be they Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Middle East, or we gathered here, are mandated by our great religious traditions to be peacemakers.
JOSEPH CARDINAL BERNARDIN, A BLESSING TO EACH OTHER