Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University, President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See
2012

Kanihya Glover

Founder of Broken Concrete
2024

Francis Greene

Art historian
2013 | 2019

Brad Gregory

Associate Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
2010

Fr. David Grenier

Commissary of the Holy Land for the United States and editor of the Holy Land Review
2024

Fr. Sidney Griffith

Professor of Semitic Languages and Literature at the Catholic University of America
2012

Jakub Grygiel

Professor of politics, The Catholic University of America
2024

Most Reverend Borys Gudziak

Metropolitan Archbishop of Philadelphia of the Ukrainian Catholic Church
2023

Fabrice Hadjadj

Writer and philosopher
2014

Shadi Hamid

Columnist at The Washington Post and professor of Islamic studies, Fuller Seminary
2024

Michael Hanby

Professor of Biotechnology and Culture, Pontifical John Paul II Institute
2013

Ron Hansen

Novelist
2023

William Haslam

Former Governor of Tennessee
2022

Stanley Hauerwas

Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law, Duke Divinity School
2010 | 2019

Sarah Hemminger

Founder and CEO of Thread
2020

Carla Hendra

Founding Chairman, Global Strategy & Innovation at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
2011

Tony Hendra (1941–2021)

Writer and author
2013 | 2014

Sazan Hendrix

Influencer
2023

Dominic Higgins

Movie director
2022

Jon Hilsenrath

Senior writer for The Wall Street Journal
2023

Edward Hirsch

Poet and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2018

Rex Hohlbein

Founder of Facing Homelessness Seattle and the BLOCK Project
2020

Jennifer Hubbard

Mother of Catherine Violet murdered in the Sandy Hook massacre
2019

Annette Insdorf

Director of Undergraduate Film Studies, Columbia University
2015

Austen Ivereigh

Writer and journalist
2019

Tom Jones

Former astronaut
2016

Helen Joyce

Executive editor for events business of The Economist
2022

Dan Jusino

Founder and CEO of EMERGE, a re-entry, transitional work program for ex-inmates
2017

Joseph Kaboski

Professor of Economics, The University of Notre Dame
2017

Matthew Kaminski

Member of The Wall Street Journal's Editorial Board
2012

Tawakkol Karman

2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner
2024

Sayyid Mohammad Baqir al-Kashmiri

Chairman of the Imam Mahdi Association of Marjaeya
2018

Aaron Kheriaty

Professor of psychiatry, Irvine School of Medicine, University of California
2021

Gilbert King

Author and podcast producer/host
2024

Heather King

Writer
2023

Phil Klay

Author
2022

Harold Korell

Chairman of the Board of Southwestern Energy
2013

Lio Kuok-Wai

Pianist
2024

Maria Teresa Landi

Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD
2015 | 2017

Karen Le Billon

Author
2017

Anthony Lechich

Medical director of the Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center
2023

Tom Leopold

Writer and Comedian
2017

Mark Lilla

Professor of Humanities, Columbia University
2018

William A. Linton

Founder and CEO of Promega, Co-Founder/Executive Director Usona Institute
2019

Daniel Lipinski

Former U.S. Congressman
2022

Jonathan I. Lunine

Director, Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science
2019

Bishop Mark Maigida Nzukwein

Bishop of the Diocese of Wukari, Nigeria
2024

Matt Malone, S.J.

President & Editor in Chief of America Media
2017

Fr. Ryan Mann

Pastor, St. Basil the Great Catholic Parish, Brecksville, Ohio
2024

Paul Mariani

Poet
2019

"Blue Lou" Marini

Saxophonist, arranger, and composer
2011 | 2014

J.F. Martel

Writer, lecturer, and podcaster
2024

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin

Archbishop of Dublin
2012

Luca Matone

Astrophysicist, Member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration that detected gravitational waves
2017

Polly Matzinger

Immunologist, NIH
2017

Giuseppe Mazzotta

Sterling Professor of Humanities for Italian at Yale University
2020

Sergeant Conor McDonald

New York City Police Department, Patrol Service Bureau, son of the late New York City Police Department Detective Steven McDonald
2018

William McGurn

Columnist at the Wall Street Journal
2011

Jeremy McLellan

Comedian
2021

Stefanie Milam

James Webb Space Telescope deputy project scientist for planetary science
2023

Branko Milanovic

Senior fellow at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
2022

Kenneth Miller

Professor of Biology at Brown University
2011 | 2015

Andrea Moro

Professor of general linguistics, Institute for Advanced Study, Pavia, Italy
2024

Molly Morkoski

Pianist
2020 | 2021

Rachel Muha

Mother, founder of The Brian Muha Memorial Foundation
2024

Michael Naughton

Director of the John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought, University of Saint Thomas
2014

Jennifer Nedelsky

Professor of Law, University of Toronto
2015

Edward Nelson (1932–2014)

Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University
2009

Pedro Noguera

Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education, New York University
2014

Archbishop Amel Nona

Exiled Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, Iraq
2016

Martin Nowak

Professor of Biology and Mathematics, Harvard University
2015

H.E. Cardinal Seán Patrick O’Malley, O.F.M.

Archbishop of Boston
2011 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2023 | 2024

Mikhail Nikolayevich Odnoralov (1944 –2016)

Artist
2013

Karin Öberg

Professor of Astronomy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
2019

Martin Palous

President of the Václav Havel Library Foundation
2014

Diana Pardue

Chief, Museum Services Division, Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
2019

Fr. Matthew Pawlikowski

Retired senior chaplain at West Point Military Academy
2023

Marguerite Peeters

Director, Dialogue Dynamics
2024

Enrico Petrillo

Chiara Corbella’s husband
2019

H.E. Cardinal Christophe Pierre

Apostolic Nuncio to the United States
2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024

Christian Picciolini

Author
2020

Giulio Piscitelli

Photographer
2016

H.E. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
2016 | 2021 | 2023 | 2024

Jeff Pojanowski

Professor of law, University of Notre Dame Law School
2024

José Porro

System Analysis and Design Director
2017

Richard Potts

Director of the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian
2015

Fr. Javier Prades

President of the University of San Damaso, Madrid
2019

Anika Prather

Professor at Howard University
2021

Patrick Radden Keefe

Writer and investigative journalist
2022

Most Rev. Steven J. Raica

Bishop of Birmingham
2023

Rusty Reno

Managing Editor, First Things
2017

Raghuram Rajan

The Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
2021

Eugene Rivers

Pentecostal minister
2021

Jacqueline Rivers

Director of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies
2021

Massimo Robberto

AURA Observatory Scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute
2013 | 2019 | 2023

Fr. Gabriel Romanelli

Pastor of Holy Family Catholic Parish in Gaza
2024

Samuele Rosa

Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund
2022

Thomas Rosenstiel

Former executive director of the American Press Institute
2022

Jeffrey Sachs

Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University
2016

Ratna Sahay

Deputy Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, International Monetary Fund
2021

Dominick Salvatore

Director PhD Program in Economics, Fordham University
2009

Fr. Samir Khalil Samir, S.J.

Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Saint Joseph, Beirut
2014

Lisa Schiltz

Professor of Law, Thomas J. Abood Research Scholar, University of St. Thomas
2013

David Schindler (1943 –2022)

Dean Emeritus of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute at Catholic University of America
2014

Robert Senkewicz

Professor of History at Santa Clara University
2014

John Sexton

President of NYU
2010

Kimberly Shankman

Dean of Benedictine College
2015 | 2019

Timothy Shriver

Chairman of Special Olympics
2015

Jacob Siegel

Editor at The Tablet magazine and co-host of the “Manifesto!” podcast
2024

Sara Sievers

Associate dean of policy and practice, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
2018

Christian Smith

Wm. R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame
2015

Stephen Smith

Senior managing director of Brandywine Global
2023

Anne Snyder

Director of The Character Initiative at The Philanthropy Roundtable
2019

Etsuro Sotoo

Sculptor at Sagrada Familia
2018

Bryan Stevenson

Founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative
2022

Jon Stokes

Chief product officer, Symbolic AI
2024

Matt Stoller

Director of research at the American Economic Liberties Project and a visiting lecturer in the Department of History at Columbia University
2021

Julia Stoyanovich

Assistant professor of computer science and engineering at NYU
2020

Jennifer Strong

Journalist and podcast creator/host
2024

Lawrence E. Sullivan

Professor emeritus of theology and comparative world religions, University of Notre Dame
2020

Daniel Sulmasy

Professor of Medicine & Ethics, University of Chicago
2010

Matthew Taibbi

Author, journalist, and podcaster
2021

Charles Taylor

Philosopher and professor emeritus, McGill University
2021

Richard F. Thomas

George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics, Harvard University
2019

Archbishop Silvano Maria Tomasi

Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
2018

Charles Townes (1915 –2015)

Nobel Prize winner in Physics
2011

Mary Townsend

Assistant professor of philosophy, St. John’s University
2021

Fr. Marcel Uwineza, S.J.

Rwandan genocide survivor
2020

Chloé Valdary

Writer and entrepreneur
2023

Hans van Mourik Broekman

Principal, Liverpool College, Netherlands
2024

Jean Vanier (1928 –2019)

Founder of L'Arche communities
2015

Msgr. Erik Varden, O.C.S.O.

Bishop of Trondheim, Norway
2023

Giorgio Vittadini

Professor of statistics at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
2016 | 2020

Paul Vitz

Professor emeritus of psychology at New York University
2018

Michael Waldstein

Professor of Theology, Ave Maria University
2011 | 2017

John Waters

Author
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019

Joseph Weiler

University Professor at NYU School of Law
2011 | 2017 | 2018

Roy Wenzl

Journalist
2023

Andreas Widmer

Director of the Entrepreneurship Programs, Catholic University of America
2016

Fr. George Williams, S.J.

Chaplain for Saint Quentin State Prison death row
2020

Rowan Williams

Theologian
2022

Christian Wiman

Poet and Senior Lecturer, Yale Divinity School
2016 | 2024

John Witte

Professor of Law, Emory University
2015

Carolyn Yauyan Woo

President and CEO of Catholic Relief Services
2017

Stefano Zamagni

Professor of economics, University of Bologna and president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
2021

Krzysztof Zanussi

Movie Director
2012