Past Laetare Medal Winners
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2015Aaron Neville
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1963Admiral George W. Anderson Jr.
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1911Agnes Replier
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1925Albert Francis Zahm
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1929Alfred Emmanuel Smith
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2000Andrew McKenna
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1944Anne O'Hare McCormick
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1894Augustine Daly
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1982Cardinal John Francis Dearden
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1995Cardinal Joseph Bernardin
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2021Carla Harris
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1946Carlton J.H. Hayes
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1913Charles G. Herberman
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1903Charles Jerome Bonaparte
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1922Charles Patrick Neill
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2024Claire Babineaux-Fontenot
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1957Clare Boothe Luce
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1991Corrine Lindy Boggs
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2010Dana Gioia
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1891Daniel Dougherty
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1992Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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2006Dave Brubeck
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1993Donald R. Keough
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1972Dorothy Day
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1998Dr. Edmund Pellegrino
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2005Dr. Joseph E. Murray
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1981Edmund Sixtus Muskie
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1914Edward Douglas White
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1885Eliza Allen Starr
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1921Elizabeth Nourse
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1988Eunice Kennedy Shriver
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1909Frances Tiernan (Christian Reid)
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1935Francis Hamilton Spearman
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1962Francis J. Braceland, MD
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1965Frederick D. Rossini
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1945Gardiner Howland Shaw
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1956General Alfred M. Gruenther
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1940General Hugh Aloysius Drum
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1886General John Newton
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1950General Joseph L. Collins
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1896General William Starke Rosecrans
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1934Genevieve Garvan Brady
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1955George Meany
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1960George N. Shuster
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1985Guido Calabresi
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1942Helen Constance White
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1979Helen Hayes
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1892Henry F. Brownson
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1953I.A. O'Shaughnessy
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1949Irene Dunne Griffin
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1974James A. Farley
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1916James Joseph Walsh
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1954Jefferson Caffery
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1937Jeremiah Denis M. Ford
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2016Joe Biden & John Boehner
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1900John A. Creighton
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1902John Benjamin Murphy, M.D.
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1961John F. Kennedy
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1883John Gilmary Shea
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1933John McCormack
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1984John Thomas Noonan Jr.
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2020Kathleen McChesney
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2012Ken Hackett
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2014Kenneth R. Miller
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2025Kerry Alys Robinson
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1920Lawrence Francis Flick
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1927Margaret Anglin
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2008Martin Sheen
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1895Mary Anne Sadlier
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1899Mary Gwendolin Caldwell
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1915Mary V. Merrick
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1910Maurice Francis Egan
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1977Mike Mansfield
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2001Msgr. George G. Higgins
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1978Msgr. John Tracy Ellis
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2019Norman Francis
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1884Patrick Charles Keeley
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1966Patrick F. and Patricia Caron Crowley
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2007Patrick McCartan
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1976Paul Horgan
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1999Philip Gleason
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1964Phyllis McGinley
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2017Rev. Gregory J. Boyle, S.J.
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2004Rev. J. Bryan Hehir
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2002Rev. John Smyth
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1987Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C.
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1997Rev. Virgilio Elizondo
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1904Richard C. Kerens
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1936Richard Reid
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1959Robert D. Murphy
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1968Robert Sargent Shriver
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2022Sharon Lavigne
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1994Sidney Callahan
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1996Sister Helen Prejean
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2011Sister Mary Scullion, R.S.M., and Joan McConnon
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2018Sister Norma Pimentel, M.J.
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2023Sister Rosemary Connelly, R.S.M.
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2013Sister Susanne Gallagher, S.P.; Sister Mary Therese Harrington, S.H.; and Rev. James H. McCarthy
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1990Sister Thea Bowman (posthumously)
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1975Sr. Ann Ida Gannon, BMV
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1932Stephen J. Maher
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1897Thomas Addis Emmet
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1980Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill Jr.
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1898Timothy Edward Howard
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2026Timothy Shriver
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1989Walker Percy
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1923Walter George Smith
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1971Walter Kerr & Jean Kerr
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1901William Bourke Cockran
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1969William J. Brennan Jr.
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1917William Sheperd Benson
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1941William Thomas Walsh