Notre Dame's Cushwa center to receive Georgetown's Cushing medal

Published: 2004-08-18

NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS) -- The University of Notre Dame's Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism will be honored with the Richard Cardinal Cushing Medal for the advancement of church research during Oct. 6 ceremonies at Georgetown University in Washington. The medal, named in honor of the Boston cardinal who died in 1970, is awarded annually by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, based at Georgetown, to people or institutions which have "advanced church research both through their understanding of its uses and their active support of it." Timothy Matovina, director of the Cushwa center, will receive the medal on behalf of the center. The center was established in 1975 and was endowed in 1981 with a gift from the Charles and Margaret Hall Cushwa family of Youngstown, Ohio.

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