Vatican City, 16 November 2015 (VIS) –
At midday today in the Holy See Press Office, a press conference was
held to present the “Ratzinger Prize”, instituted by the “Vatican
Foundation: Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI”, to be awarded on 21
November to Professor Nabil el-Khoury, Lebanon, and Fr. Mario de
Franca Miranda, S.J., Brazil. The speakers at the conference were
Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, S.J., member of the
Foundation's Scientific Committee, Msgr. Giuseppe Scotti, president
of the Foundation, and Professor Pietro Luca Azzaro, executive
secretary.
Nabil el-Khoury is professor of
philosophy and comparative literature at the Lebanese University in
Beirut, where he has taught since 1977, and at the University of
Tubingen, Germany. He is the translator into Arabic of the Opera
omnia of Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI. He has held courses at the
Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen, the Catholic University of
Eichstatt-Ingolstadt, the Johannes Gutenburg University of Mainz, and
the University of Freiburg in Germany, and the University of Salzburg
in Austria.
Fr. Mario de Franca Miranda, S.J. began
teaching in the theological faculty of the Pontifical Catholic
University (PUC) in Rio de Janeiro in 1974, and served as ordinary
professor of systematic theology and subsequently in the Jesuit
faculty of theology in Belo Horizonte, where in 1990 he was appointed
as academic rector. He returned to the PUC in 1993, where he served
as dean of the faculty from 2001 to 2003. In recent years he has
devoted himself to ecclesiological studies. He has given courses in
various dioceses throughout Brazil, and has collaborated extensively
with the Conference of Brazilian Bishops. He has also served as a
member of the International Theological Commission in the Vatican
under during two periods between 1992 and 2003, under the direction
of the then-cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
In his discourse, Archbishop Luis
Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, S.J., emphasised that with its decision
this year, the Foundation continues to broaden its horizons. “Indeed,
from the beginning the Ratzinger Prizes have been granted to
theologians of various nationalities: Italy, France, Spain, Germany,
Great Britain, Poland and the United States, and by virtue of the
ecumenical spirit that inspires the Foundation, this important award
has also been given to some representatives of other Christian
confessions. This year both prizewinners are Catholics, but neither
of them belongs to the so-called 'Western world'. ... With these two
figures, the list of theologians who have deservedly received the
Ratzinger Prizes is further enriched not only quantitatively, but
also qualitatively”.
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