Capuchin Archbishop Chaput To ReceiveBecket Fund's Canterbury Award
>> Friday, November 14, 2008
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty has announced it will award its highest honor, the Canterbury Medal, to Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M.Cap., at the organization's 15th anniversary dinner in Manhattan on May 7.
Each year, the Becket Fund awards the Canterbury Medal to the person who has "most resolutely refused to render to Caesar that which is God's." Past Canterbury Medalists include Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, Prison Fellowship founder Charles Colson, Gov. Mitt Romney and his wife Ann, financiers Foster Friess and Ted Forstmann, and former Ambassador to the Vatican James R. Nicholson.
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