Ratzinger Foundation

The Ratzinger Prize

• Reverend Professor Olegario González de Cardedal, a Spanish priest and Professor specializing in Dogmatic and Fundamental Theology at the Pontifical University of Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain;
• Reverend Professor Maximilian Heim, O.Cist. was born as Heinrich Josef Heim in Kronach on 14 April 1961. He earned his master in theology at the University of Vienna in 1987 and was ordained a priest at Heiligenkreuz in 1988. In 2003 Heim earned his PhD concentrating on the ecclesiology of cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. He went on to teach fundamental theology at the University of Heiligenkreuz. The awarded work is called Joseph Ratzinger: Life in the Church and Living Theology: Fundamentals of Ecclesiology. He is abbot of Heiligenkreuz monastery in Austria.
• Professor Manlio Simonetti was born in Rome on 2 May 1926. In June 1947 he completed his classical studies at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he became professor for Christian history in 1969. He was respected as an expert in Ancient Christian studies and Patristic Biblical interpretation. He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei.

• Reverend Professor Brian E. Daley, S.J., an American Jesuit who is Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana. He is a graduate of Fordham University and a Rhodes Scholar who entered the Society of Jesus in 1964 and was ordained to the presbyterate in 1970. He currently serves as executive secretary of the Catholic-Orthodox Consultation for North America.
• Professor Rémi Brague, a French professor emeritus of medieval Arabic Philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris, and is professor of philosophy or religion at the Ludwig- Maximilian University in Munich. He is married and has four children.

• Reverend Professor Richard A. Burridge, Dean of King's College London
• Professor Christian Schaller

• Anne-Marie Pelletier
• Waldemar Chrostowski

• Nabil el-Khoury, Lebanese theologian
• Mario de França Miranda, S.J., Brazilian theologian

• Ioannis Kourempeles
• Inos Biffi

• Professor Karl-Heinz Menke, a Catholic
• Professor Theodor Dieter, a Lutheran
• Maestro Arvo Pärt, an Orthodox classical music composer

• Professor Marianne Schlosser, a Catholic professor of Spiritual Theology at the University of Wien, and a member of the International Theological Commission and the Commission on the Female Diaconate.
• Mario Botta a Swiss Catholic architect who has designed multiple modern and postmodern religious buildings.

• Charles Taylor, a Canadian philosopher and professor emeritus at McGill University.
• Paul Béré, a Jesuit priest from Burkina Faso and the first African winner of the prize.