Past Laetare Medal Winners
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2015
Aaron Neville
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1963
Admiral George W. Anderson Jr.
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1911
Agnes Replier
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1925
Albert Francis Zahm
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1929
Alfred Emmanuel Smith
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2000
Andrew McKenna
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1944
Anne O'Hare McCormick
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1894
Augustine Daly
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1982
Cardinal John Francis Dearden
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1995
Cardinal Joseph Bernardin
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2021
Carla Harris
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1946
Carlton J.H. Hayes
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1913
Charles G. Herberman
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1903
Charles Jerome Bonaparte
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1922
Charles Patrick Neill
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1957
Clare Boothe Luce
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1991
Corrine Lindy Boggs
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2010
Dana Gioia
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1891
Daniel Dougherty
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1992
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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2006
Dave Brubeck
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1993
Donald R. Keough
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1972
Dorothy Day
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1998
Dr. Edmund Pellegrino
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2005
Dr. Joseph E. Murray
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1981
Edmund Sixtus Muskie
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1914
Edward Douglas White
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1885
Eliza Allen Starr
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1921
Elizabeth Nourse
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1988
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
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1909
Frances Tiernan (Christian Reid)
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1935
Francis Hamilton Spearman
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1962
Francis J. Braceland, MD
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1965
Frederick D. Rossini
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1945
Gardiner Howland Shaw
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1956
General Alfred M. Gruenther
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1940
General Hugh Aloysius Drum
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1886
General John Newton
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1950
General Joseph L. Collins
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1896
General William Starke Rosecrans
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1934
Genevieve Garvan Brady
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1955
George Meany
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1960
George N. Shuster
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1985
Guido Calabresi
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1942
Helen Constance White
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1979
Helen Hayes
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1892
Henry F. Brownson
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1953
I.A. O'Shaughnessy
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1949
Irene Dunne Griffin
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1974
James A. Farley
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1916
James Joseph Walsh
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1954
Jefferson Caffery
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1937
Jeremiah Denis M. Ford
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2016
Joe Biden & John Boehner
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1900
John A. Creighton
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1902
John Benjamin Murphy, M.D.
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1961
John F. Kennedy
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1883
John Gilmary Shea
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1933
John McCormack
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1984
John Thomas Noonan Jr.
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2020
Kathleen McChesney
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2012
Ken Hackett
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2014
Kenneth R. Miller
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1920
Lawrence Francis Flick
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1927
Margaret Anglin
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2008
Martin Sheen
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1895
Mary Anne Sadlier
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1899
Mary Gwendolin Caldwell
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1915
Mary V. Merrick
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1910
Maurice Francis Egan
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1977
Mike Mansfield
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2001
Msgr. George G. Higgins
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1978
Msgr. John Tracy Ellis
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2019
Norman Francis
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1884
Patrick Charles Keeley
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1966
Patrick F. and Patricia Caron Crowley
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2007
Patrick McCartan
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1976
Paul Horgan
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1999
Philip Gleason
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1964
Phyllis McGinley
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2017
Rev. Gregory J. Boyle, S.J.
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2004
Rev. J. Bryan Hehir
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2002
Rev. John Smyth
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1987
Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C.
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1997
Rev. Virgilio Elizondo
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1904
Richard C. Kerens
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1936
Richard Reid
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1959
Robert D. Murphy
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1968
Robert Sargent Shriver
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2022
Sharon Lavigne
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1994
Sidney Callahan
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1996
Sister Helen Prejean
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2011
Sister Mary Scullion, R.S.M., and Joan McConnon
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2018
Sister Norma Pimentel, M.J.
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2023
Sister Rosemary Connelly, R.S.M.
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2013
Sister Susanne Gallagher, S.P.; Sister Mary Therese Harrington, S.H.; and Rev. James H. McCarthy
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1990
Sister Thea Bowman (posthumously)
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1975
Sr. Ann Ida Gannon, BMV
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1932
Stephen J. Maher
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1897
Thomas Addis Emmet
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1980
Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill Jr.
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1898
Timothy Edward Howard
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1989
Walker Percy
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1923
Walter George Smith
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1971
Walter Kerr & Jean Kerr
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1901
William Bourke Cockran
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1969
William J. Brennan Jr.
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1917
William Sheperd Benson
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1941
William Thomas Walsh