Endres, Craycraft Earn Catholic Media Association Awards Again
06.28.24
Fr. David Endres
Mount St. Mary’s Seminary & School of Theology (MTSM) saw two of its faculty members honored again for their outstanding writing accomplishments over the past year at the 2024 Catholic Media Association (CMA) Awards, announced and presented in June in Atlanta.
Rev. David J Endres, Ph.D., the Dean of The Athenaeum of Ohio Mount St. Mary’s Seminary and Professor of Church History & Historical Theology claimed a pair of Book Award prizes for his work as Editor and a contributor for Slavery and the Catholic Church in the United States: Historical Studies. Along with serving as the publication’s editor, Fr. Endres contributed a pair of pieces for it, ‘An Antislavery Archbishop: John B. Purcell and the Slavery Controversy among Border State Catholics’ and ‘Contending with a Slaveholding Past: Slavery and U.S. Catholic Historiography’.
Slavery and the Catholic Church in the United States: Historical Studies took Second Place in the Book Award Anthology category and Third Place in the Book Award History category. This is the third-straight year Fr. Endres has claimed a prize in the Book Award Anthology category, earning First and Second Place last year for his work as Editor of Native American Catholic Studies Reader: History and Theology and First Place in 2022 for his work on Black Catholic Studies Reader: History and Theology. The latter also earned Honorable Mention in the Book Award History category in 2022. A complete listing of Fr. Endres’ publications can be viewed here.
Dr. Kenneth Craycraft
Kenneth Craycraft, Ph.D., J.D., the James J. Gardner Family Chair of Moral Theology and Professor of Moral Theology at MTSM, was part of three of awards, two of which came via his writing with The Catholic Telegraph, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati’s monthly magazine, and one with Our Sunday Visitor. Dr. Craycraft was among those honored as part of the Magazine Award Best Book Review Section, whose honorees also included MTSM priest alumni Fr. Kyle Schnippel and Fr. Jacob Lindle.
Dr. Craycraft also earned Honorable Mention in the Magazine Award Best Regular Column – Political Issues. This is the third-straight year his Catholic Telegraph column has earned a CMA Honorable Mention nod. His columns for The Catholic Telegraph can be read online, here.
For his column ‘Grace is Everywhere’ in Our Sunday Visitor, Dr. Craycraft got second place in the Newspaper Award Best Regular Column – Political Issues. The article can be read here.
The Catholic Media Association is an organization of Catholic publishers and media professional united in the action of servicing the Catholic Church. For more information, including the complete listing of 2024 award winners, click here.