Vatican, 08 October, 2022 / 12:30 pm (ACI Africa).
A French Jesuit and an American legal scholar were named the recipients of this year’s Ratzinger prize on Friday.
The Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Foundation announced on Oct. 7 that Jesuit Father Michel Fédou and Joseph H. H. Weiler will receive the prize from Pope Francis on Dec. 1.
The Ratzinger Prize was launched in 2011 to recognize scholars whose work demonstrates a meaningful contribution to theology in the spirit of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Bavarian theologian who became Benedict XVI.
Father Michel Fédou, SJ, (left) and Professor Joseph H. H. Weiler. Fondazioneratzinger.va
Fédou has been teaching dogmatic theology and patristics at Centre Sèvres, a Jesuit institution in Paris, since 1987. He is a member of several theological organizations and commissions regarding ecumenical dialogue with Lutherans and Orthodox Christians, according to a Vatican communiqué.