Catholic Library Association

2013 Aggiornamento Award Recipient Announced

For the last twenty years Sister has been employed by Renewal Ministries, a Catholic evangelistic organization, based in Ann Arbor, MI.  Sister has participated in evangelistic missionary work in 30 some countries giving retreats, parish missions, and conferences.  She is also the host of a popular daily radio program, Food for the Journey, heard over 100 Catholic radio stations in the US and available online at renewalministries.net

Sister Ann Shields was born in Lewistown, PA in 1939, the oldest of four children. She graduated from high school, Mount Aloysius Academy, Cresson, PA, in 1957, and entered religious life that same year.  A teacher for seventeen years in grade schools, high schools and college, and serving as a college campus minister, Sister Ann, in 1975, was invited to Franciscan University of Steubenville to join a team gathered by Father Michael Scanlan to create a deeper environment of faith on campus.  As an editor for New Covenant Magazine, Sister wrote on topics of spiritual growth, authoring, in addition, with Father Michael Scanlan, TOR, And Their Eyes were Opened.

Aggiornamento Award recipients

2013 Sr. Ann Shields, Renewal Ministries

2012 Reverend Anthony F. Rigoli, OMI

2011 Reverend Robert Barron

2010 Oregon Catholic Press (website)(read more)

2009 Allan Figueroa Deck, SJ

2008 Monsignor Joseph M. Champlin

2007 Reverend Andrew M. Greeley (website)(read more)

2006 RENEW International (website)(read more)

2005 Edwina Gateley (website)(read more)

2004 Reverend William J. Bausch

2003 Gabe Huck

2002 Reverend Robert J. Hater

2001 Maureen Gallagher

2000 St. Anthony Messenger Press

1999 Liguori Publications

1998 Pauline Books and Media

1997 Scepter Press

1996 Bishop Thomas J. Welsh

1995 Our Sunday Visitor

1994 Resource Publications

1993 Anthony Scannell, OFM Cap.

1992 Phyllis Vos Wezeman

1991 Twenty-Third Publications

1990 Monsignor Philip J. Murnion

1989 Sister Mariella Frye

1988 Orbis Books

1987 Matthew R. Wilt

1986 Mary Page Irwin

1985 Monsignor Charles Dollen

1984 Jane Hindman

1983 Claudia Carlin, IHM

1982 Reverend Angelo U. Garbin

1981 Bernadette Young

1980 Reverend Vincent Schneider