The F. Sadlier Dinger Award (NCCL)

2021 Sister Maureen Sullivan

Dominican Sister of Hope
Professor Emerita of Theology at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire
National Religion Consultant for William H. Sadlier, Inc.

2018 Dr. C. Vanessa White

Assistant Professor of Spirituality and Ministry
Catholic Theological Union in Chicago

2017 Maria H. Sedano, Director

Ministry Formation Institute
Diocese of San Bernardino

2016  Sister Mary Lou Barba, MCDP

Director of the Office for Religious
Diocese of Austin

2015 Kathy Hendricks

National Catechetical Consultant
William H. Sadlier, Inc.

2014 Maribeth Mancini

Director of Evangelization and Catechesis
Diocese of Rochester

2013 Donald R. Kurrre

Director of Religious Education
Diocese of Grand Island

2012 Carole M. Eipers, DMin

Vice President, Executive Director of Catechetics
Director of Research and Market Analysis
for Religion
William H. Sadlier, Inc.

2011 The National Conference for Catechetical Leadership

2010 Carol Augustine

Director, Division of Evangelization
and Catechesis
Archdiocese of Baltimore

2009 Jeanne D. Schrempf, Director

Office of Evangelization, Catechesis,
and Family Life
Diocese of Albany

2008 Most Reverend Richard J. Malone, Th.D.

Bishop of Portland
Former Episcopal Advisor
National Conference for Catechetical Leadership

2007 Anne Adams Comeaux

Director of Continuing Christian Education
Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston

2006 Sister Rosa Monique Peña, OP

Vicaress/General Councilor
Adrian Dominican Sisters

2005 Edmund F. Gordon

Secretary for Catholic Education
Director of Religious Education
Diocese of Wilmington

2004 Thomas P. Walters, PhD

Academic Dean
St. Meinrad School of Theology

2003 Gerard F. Baumbach, EdD

Director of Catechetical Initiatives
Institute for Church Life
Concurrent Professor, Dept. of Theology
University of Notre Dame

2002 Sister Edith Prendergast, RSC, DMin

Director, Office of Religious Education
Archdiocese of Los Angeles

2001  Gloria L. Durka, PhD

Professor of Religious Education and
Family Ministry
Fordham University

2000  Sister Maureen Shaughnessy, SC

Assistant Secretary for Catechesis and
Leadership Formation
Department of Education
United States Catholic Conference

1999 The Most Reverend Sylvester Ryan, DD

Bishop of Monterey
Former Episcopal Advisor
National Conference of Catechetical Leadership

1998 Maria Harris, PhD

National Consultant in Religious Education

Gabriel Moran, PhD

Professor of Religious Education
New York University

1997 Rev. John E. Pollard

Director, Office for the Catechism
National Conference of Catholic Bishops

1996 

Members of La Organización Nacional de Catequistas para Hispanos (NOCH)

1995

Priest Participants of the 1993
Symposium, the Priest as the
Empowerer of the Catechist

1994 Rev. Avery Dulles, SJ

Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion
and Society
Boston College
Fordham University
Bronx, New York

1993 Sister Catherine Dooley, OP, PhD

Associate Professor of Religion and
Religious Education
The Catholic University of America
Washington, D.C.

1992 James J. DeBoy, President

National Conference of Catechetical Leadership
Washington, D.C.

1991 Rev. Donald Senior, CP, STL, STD

President, Catholic Theological Union
Chicago, Illinois

1990

In Memory of Our Church’s 1989–1990 Martyrs of El Salvador and Nicaragua

1989 Most Rev. Raymond A. Lucker, STD

Episcopal Moderator
NCDD

1988 Sister Suzanne Hofweber, OP

Executive Director
NCDD

1987 Rev. Virgilio Elizondo, PhD, STD

Mexican American Cultural Center

1986 Sister Mary Charles Bryce, OSB

Author and Historian

1985 Rev. Mr. William J. Reedy

Author and Religious Educator

1984 Sister Ita Ford, MM

Maryknoll Missionary and Martyr

1983 Professor Thomas H. Groome

Theology and Religious Education
Boston College

1982 Sister Maria de la Cruz Aymes

Helpers of the Holy Souls
San Francisco, California

1981 Rev. Johannes Hofinger, SJ

Assistant Director for Catechist Formation
Diocese of New Orleans

1980

Rev. Wilfrid H. Paradis and
Sister Mariella Frye, MHSH
Project Directors
National Catechetical Directory