Past Jerome Award Recipients
2007
Origins, the CNS Documentary Service, became the sixteenth recipient of the Jerome Award. David Gibson, founding editor of the 36-year-old publication of Catholic News Service accepted the Award during the Jerome Award Luncheon on Thursday, April 12, 2007 at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel.
The Jerome Award recognizes outstanding contribution and commitment to excellence in scholarship which embody the ideals of the Catholic Library Association. The 2007 award recognizes the outstanding contribution of Origins to Catholic scholarship under the leadership of editor David Gibson.
Origins includes papal encyclicals, key bishops’ documents, and speeches of clergy and laity recounting major church events worldwide since 1971. It provides documentation on current developments in the church or affecting the church. It also provides information on a wide range of topics of interest to those working in the church or those who need to locate information about the church’s life and ministries.
David Gibson, Origins editor, was among the early lay people to receive a degree with a theology major. His master’s degree is in religious education. He also brought journalism experience to his position with Catholic News Service. In addition to Origins he edits other CNS products, including Faith Alive!, CNS columns, Catholic Trends newsletter, CNS supplement kits, and Viewpoints. Mr. Gibson comments that he takes “…great pride…that so many libraries keep all the editions of Origins together…” including his alma maters, St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota and The Catholic University of America. Mr. Gibson and his wife, Carla, have three daughters and five grandchildren.
2006
Jay P. Dolan, distinguished American scholar,visiting
lecturer, consultant, and professor emeritus at the University of Notre
Dame, has been named the 2006 recipient of the Jerome Award.
Mr. Dolan is the author of more than forty-five scholarly articles and
essays as well as the author or editor of over ten monographs,
among them The American Catholic Experience: A History from
Colonial Times to the Present (University of Notre Dame Press) which
is widely-recognized as the standard history of Catholicism in the United
States. His most work is In Search of an American Catholicism: A History
of Religion and Culture in Tension (Oxford University Press,
2002.), an interpretive study of the relationship between Catholicism and
American culture over the course of the past two hundred years.
Mr. Dolan also founded the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at Notre Dame in 1975 and was the director of the Center until 1993. He was honored with the Jerome Award on Thursday, April 20, 2006 in Atlanta at the annual CLA Convention.
2005
Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J. is Professor Emeritus, Department of Biblical Studies, of The Catholic University of America. He is a native of Philadelphia and joined the Society of Jesus in Wernersville, PA. He has served the Catholic Church as a priest for the past 54 years. His studies and scholarship have focused on Sacred Scripture. Much of this has been within the world of Catholic education, beginning as a Latin, Greek, and German teacher at Gonzaga High School in Washington, DC. Most recently, he has shared his expertise and insights on "The James Ossuary and Its Implications."
Fitzmyer's dedication to The Word has included serving as Associate Editor, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1963-71, 1978-79; Consulting Editor, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 1969-71; Editor, Journal of Biblical Literature, 1971-76; Editor, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1980-84.
