| Cardinal Wright Award |
Prof. Douglas Bryce Farrow
Professor of Theology and Christian Thought, McGill University |
Bio
Prof. Douglas Bryce Farrow
Douglas Farrow is Professor of Theology and Christian Thought at McGill University in
Montreal and sometime holder of the Kennedy Smith Chair in Catholic Studies. He taught
formerly in England at King’s College London and has lectured widely in North America and
Europe. His recent books include Ascension Theology (T&T Clark 2011), Desiring a Better
Country (McGill-Queens 2015), and Theological Negotiations: Proposals in Soteriology and
Anthropology (Baker Academic 2018). He is also author of a volume on the Thessalonian letters in the Brazos Theological Commentary series (forthcoming).
Professor Farrow writes in religious and secular journals across a variety of fields. He is a
member of the Academy of Catholic Theology and a number of other scholarly societies, coeditor of the Ashgate/Routledge Great Theologians series, and serves on the advisory board of Nova et Vetera (English edition). Besides teaching theology and ethics at McGill, he engages in New York with the work of the Institute on Religion and Public Life and of Evangelicals and Catholics Together, as with the Cardus Religious Freedom Institute in Ottawa. He received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal for his contributions to public discourse on significant social issues. His personal story is told in Canadian Converts.
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| Cardinal O’Boyle Award |
Most Rev. Terrence Prendergast, S.J.
Archbishop, Archdiocese of Ottawa |
Bio
Most Rev. Terrence Prendergast, S.J.
Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, S.J., is a native of Montreal.
A specialist on the Gospel of Mark, he taught New Testament Scripture at the Atlantic School of Theology, Halifax, NS (1975-1981), and at Regis College, Toronto, ON (1981-1995). At the latter, he was Rector of the Jesuit Community (1981-87), then Dean of Theology (1991-95).
He spent sabbatical years at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome (1987-88) and the École biblique de Jerusalem (1994-95), and a year as visiting professor at Campion College, University of Regina (1988-89).
From 1994 to 2003 he wrote a weekly Scripture column in Toronto’s Catholic Register and published three volumes based on these columns about the Sunday readings: Living God’s Word: Reflections on the Sunday Readings for Year A, B and C (Toronto/Montreal: Novalis, 2010-2012).
Named an auxiliary bishop in Toronto in February 1995, he was transferred to Halifax as archbishop in 1998, and as Apostolic Administrator was also responsible for the Yarmouth Diocese from 2002 to 2007. Named by Pope Benedict XVI as 10th bishop and 9th archbishop of Ottawa, Canada’s national capital, in May 2007, and in January 2016, he took on duties as Apostolic Administrator and in April 2018, 9th Bishop of the Diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall, uniting Ottawa and Cornwall “in persona episcopi.”
Archbishop Prendergast has been a vigorous and engaged advocate for life issues and active in inter-religious dialogue and, as a member of the Vatican’s Vox Clara Committee, liturgical reform.
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| Fr Albert Lacombe Award (Canadian Chapter) |
Hon. Graydon Nicholas
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Bio
Hon. Graydon Nicholas
The Honorable Graydon Nicholas is a member of the Maliseet nation, was born in 1946 and raised on the Tobique Reserve in New Brunswick, one of ten children. He was the first aboriginal person to earn a law degree in the Atlantic Provinces and served as president of the Union of New Brunswick Indians from 1980 to 1988. In 1991 he was appointed as a Provincial Court Judge, and in 2009, as the first aboriginal person to serve as Lieutenant-Governor, the Queen’s Representative in New Brunswick. Mr Nicholas was named Chair of the Native Studies program in 1989 and in 2015 to the Endowed Chair in Native Studies at St Thomas University in Fredericton, NB, a position he will hold until 2020. He has also been named to the Order of New Brunswickand the Order of Canada. Mr Nicholas and his wife, Beth, have been members of the Christian Life Communities since 1984 and have served as National Presidents of CLC Canada. He is a Fourth Degree member of the Knights of Columbus and has served as a Supreme Director, and currently serves as a Supreme Warden. He was also named as the Knights’ representative to the Our Lady of Guadalupe Circle, a Catholic coalition of Indigenous people, bishops, clergy, religious and the laity, engaged in renewing and fostering relationships between the Catholic Church and Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
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