Catholic Press Association Book Awards go to Seven Notre Dame Press Titles

The 2019 Catholic Press Association Book Awards were announced during the Catholic Media Conference, June 18-21, 2019, in St. Petersburg, Florida. This year’s winners include seven titles published by the University of Notre Dame Press. We are proud to represent these important works and distinguished authors whose books have been recognized in diverse categories such as theology, history, memoir, and religious art.

The winning titles include:

First Place, Theology: Theological and Philosophical Studies

The Kingdom of Man: Genesis and Failure of the Modern Project by Rémi Brague (Catholic Ideas for a Secular World series)

First Place, Newly Canonized Saints

Óscar Romero’s Theological Vision: Liberation and the Transfiguration of the Poor by Edgardo Colón–Emeric

Second Place, Coffee Table Book/Religious Art

The Place Called Notre Dame Photos by Matt Cashore, Text by Kerry Temple

Second Place, History

Soldiers of a Different Cloth: Notre Dame Chaplains in World War II by John F. Wukovits

Third Place, Memoir

Beyond East and West by John C. H. Wu

Honorable Mention, Theology: Morality, Ethics, Christology, Mariology, and Redemption

The Architecture of Law: Rebuilding Law in the Classical Tradition by Brian McCall

Honorable Mention, Catholic Social Teaching

Of Labour and Liberty: Distributism in Victoria, 1891–1966 by Race Mathews

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