Cardinal Foley to receive special award from Christophers

Published: 2008-03-26

NEW YORK (CNS) -- U.S. Cardinal John P. Foley, grand master of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher, has been named the recipient of the Christopher Leadership Award by the Christophers. Cardinal Foley, along with television shows, movies and books that are deemed uplifting, will be honored April 10 at a Christopher Awards dinner in New York. Ordained a priest in 1962, Cardinal Foley has been involved in Catholic communications in its many forms. He served as editor of The Catholic Standard & Times, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, and for 23 years was president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communications, a post he held until 2007. Named an archbishop in 1984, he was made a cardinal last November. In his current position, he guides the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in the organization's support of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and its response to the needs of Catholics in the Holy Land.

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