The Centesimus Annus Foundation’s prize for writing on Catholic social teaching is awarded to two Jesuit priests.
Father Patrick Riordan and Father Jaime Tatay will each receive the “Economy and Society” award from the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation. The award distribution ceremony will be in Rome presided over by Cardinal Pietro Parolin on 16 December.
The 20,000 euro award is granted every two years to works that stand out for their original contribution to the deepening and application of the Social Doctrine of the Church.
Riordan received the prize in recognition for his 2017 book “Recovering Common Goods”. The book is focused on the application of the principle of the common good in the public sphere.
The priest from the Jesuits’ Irish province is a senior fellow in Political Philosophy and Catholic Social Thought at the University of Oxford.
He previously worked in the Philippines for two years and served as a lecturer in political philosophy at the University of London.
Tatay, a Spanish Jesuit, was selected as a recipient of the 2021 prize for his 600-page book “Integral Ecology: The Catholic reception of the challenge of sustainability from Rerum Novarum 1891 to Laudato Si 2015”, published in Spanish in 2018. Pope John Paul II is the founder of this organization.