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Paul Turner - First Place, Author of the Year

Wisdom Commentary Series - First Place, in Scripture Series

 

COLLEGEVILLE, MINNESOTA (June 2025)—Liturgical Press is honored to be the publisher of 19 award-winning books recognized by the Catholic Media Association (CMA) last Friday at their annual conference in Phoenix. Liturgical Press authors received 24 awards in total at the event which recognizes the best in Catholic publishing.

Prolific liturgical author Paul Turner received four awards overall including First Place for Author of the Year.

Six first place designations went to Liturgical Press books overall, including First Place, Scripture - Series going to the Wisdom Commentary series edited by Barbara E. Reid, OP, a groundbreaking feminist Scripture commentary now in its tenth year of publication.

 

Liturgical Press books received the following awards from the Catholic Media Association:

 

First Place Awards:

• First Place, Author of the Year: Paul Turner
• First Place, Scripture – Series: Wisdom Commentary, General Editor Barbara E. Reid, OP
• First Place, Liturgy or Worship: Fire of Love, Water of Life: Exploring the Meaning and the Beauty of the Easter Vigil by Goffredo Boselli, Translated by Barry M. Hudock
• First Place, Scripture – Academic Studies: All My Springs Are in You: More Explorations of Great Biblical Texts by Gerhard Lohfink, translated by Linda M. Maloney
• First Place, Reference/Academic Studies: Sacred Times: A Guide to the General Roman Calendar and the Table of Liturgical Days by Paul Turner
• First Place, Grief and Bereavement: While I Breathe, I Hope: A Mystagogy of Dying by Richard R. Gaillardetz, edited by Grace M. Agolia

 

Second Place Awards:

• Second Place, Liturgy or Worship: Eucharistic Reservation: Holy Communion and Worship of the Eucharistic Mystery Outside Mass by Paul Turner
• Second Place, Pastoral Ministry – Parish Life: Virtue in Virtual Spaces: Catholic Social Teaching and Technology in the Enacting Catholic Social Teaching series by Louisa Conwill, Megan Levis, and Walter Scheirer
• Second Place, History of Theology, Church Fathers and Mothers: Becoming Fire: Through the Year with the Desert Fathers and Mothers, New and Revised Edition edited by Tim Vivian
• Second Place, Church Professional: A Seminarian’s Toolbox: Preparing for Parish Leadership edited by Patrick Stokely
• Second Place, Inclusion in the Church: Praying for Freedom: Racism and Ignatian Spirituality in America edited by Laurie Cassidy
• Second Place, Catholic Social Teaching: Virtue in Virtual Spaces: Catholic Social Teaching and Technology in the Enacting Catholic Social Teaching series by Louisa Conwill, Megan Levis and Walter Scheirer
• Second Place, The Future of the Church: Listening Together: Meditations on Synodality by Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe
• Second Place, Memoir: While I Breathe, I Hope: A Mystagogy of Dying by Richard R. Gaillardetz, edited by Grace M. Agolia

 

Third Place Awards:

• Third Place, Liturgy or Worship: Hearing Our Prayers: An Exploration of Liturgical Listening by Juliette J. Day
• Third Place, History of Theology, Church Fathers and Mothers: The Origins of the Canons of Hippolytus by Nathan P. Chase and Maxwell E. Johnson
• Third Place, Scripture – Popular Studies: Women in the New Testament by Catherine A. Cory with Little Rock Scripture Study staff
• Third Place, Catholic Social Teaching: Be Transformed: A Biblical Journey Toward a More Just World by Micah D. Kiel

 

Honorable Mentions:

• Honorable Mention, Ecumenism or Interfaith Relations: One Baptism—One Church?: A History and Theology of the Reception of Baptized Christians by Kimberly Hope Belcher, Nathan P. Chase, and Alexander Turpin
• Honorable Mention, Scripture – Academic Studies: Zechariah in the Wisdom Commentary series by Leslie J. Hoppe, OFM
• Honorable Mention, The Future of the Church: Reseeding Religious Life through Global Sisterhood, Edited by Susan Rose Francois, CSJP, and Juliet Mousseau, RSCJ
• Honorable Mention, Church Professional: Eucharistic Reservation: Holy Communion and Worship of the Eucharistic Mystery Outside Mass by Paul Turner
• Honorable Mention, Popular Presentation of the Faith: Formation of the Heart: The Why and How of Being a Catholic Today  by Raymond Friel
• Honorable Mention, Pastoral Ministry Catechetical: Called on the Way: The Daily Practice of Discipleship  by Kathleen A. Cahalan and Laura Kelly Fanucci

 

Liturgical Press Awards, By the Numbers:

• 24 total awards (3^rd winningest publisher)
• 19 total award-winning books with three books winning two awards each
• Six First Place Wins
• Swept Liturgy/Worship category with first, second, and third place awards going to Liturgical Press authors
• Paul Turner was honored with four awards:
  • First Place, Author of the Year
  • First Place, Reference/Academic Studies: Sacred Times: A Guide to the General Roman Calendar and the Table of Liturgical Days
  • Second Place, Liturgy or Worship: Eucharistic Reservation: Holy Communion and Worship of the Eucharistic Mystery Outside Mass
  • Honorable Mention, Church Professional: Eucharistic Reservation: Holy Communion and Worship of the Eucharistic Mystery Outside Mass

 

These winning titles are available directly from Liturgical Press and great booksellers. Visit litpress.org or call 800-858-5450. To see the full list of Catholic Media Association’s Book Award, visit the CMA website.

 

For more information please contact:

Michelle Verkuilen

mverkuilen@litpress.org

(320) 363-2227

COLLEGEVILLE, MINNESOTA (May 2025)—Liturgical Press is honored to be the publisher of six award-winning books chosen by the Association of Catholic Publishers (ACP) 2025 Excellence in Publishing Awards which recognizes the best in Catholic publishing.

Liturgical Press books received the following awards:

•  First place in Scripture: scholarly works: Be Transformed: A Biblical Journey toward a More Just World (Micah D. Kiel)
•  Tied for first place, spirituality: Thomas Merton in California: The Redwoods Conferences and Letters (Editor: David M. Odorisio)
• Second place, resources for ministry: Cultural Catholics: Who They Are, How to Respond (Maureen K. Day)
• Tied for second place, resources for liturgy: Sacred Times: A Guide to the General Roman Calendar and the Table of Liturgical Days (Paul Turner)
• Third place, Scripture, pastoral ministry: Women in the New Testament (Catherine A. Cory with Little Rock Scripture Study staff)
• Third place, Spanish: La Caja de Herramientas para Líderes Pastorales (Editado por Juan J. Molina y Patrick Stokely)
   

These winning titles are available directly from Liturgical Press and great booksellers.
Visit litpress.org or call 800-858-5450.

For more information please contact: 

Michelle Verkuilen

mverkuilen@litpress.org

(320) 363-2227

COLLEGEVILLE, MINNESOTA (June 2024)—Liturgical Press is honored to be the publisher of 15 award-winning books recognized by the Catholic Media Association (CMA) last Friday at their conference in Atlanta. Liturgical Press authors received 17 awards in total at the event which recognizes the best in Catholic publishing, including four with first place designations for their contributions to Church life, social justice, and academic study, along with multiple book awards in the Scripture – Academic and Reference/Academic Studies categories.

Liturgical Press books received the following awards at the 2024 Catholic Media Association Awards:

• First Place, The Future of the Church: Reforming the Church: Global Perspectives edited by Declan Marmion and Salvador Ryan
• First Place, Inclusion in the Church: Racism and Structural Sin: Confronting Injustice with the Eyes of Faith by Conor M. Kelly
• First Place, Scripture – Academic Studies: Wisdom Commentary: Tobit by Michele Murray
• First Place, Reference/Academic Studies: God’s Call Is Everywhere: A Global Analysis of Contemporary Vocations for Women by Patricia Wittberg, SC, Mary L. Gautier, Gemma Simmonds, CJ, with Nathalie Becquart, XMCJ
• Second Place, Scripture – Popular Studies: The Longest Psalm: Day-by-Day Responses to Divine Self-Revelation by Michael Casey, OCSO
• Second Place, Scripture – Academic Studies: Wisdom Commentary: Revelation by Lynn R. Huber and Gail R. O’Day
• Third Place, Liturgy: Further Issues in Eucharistic Praying in East and West: Essays in Liturgical and Theological Analysis edited by Maxwell E. Johnson
• Third Place, English Translation Edition: The Gregorian Melody: The Expressive Power of the Word by Alberto Turco
• Third Place, Pope Francis: Pope Francis on Eucharist: 100 Daily Meditations for Adoration, Prayer and Reflection by Pope Francis, compiled by John T. Kyler
• Third Place, Sacraments: Be Renewed: A Guide to the Sacrament of Reconciliation by Paul Turner
• Third Place, Catholic Social Teaching: Counting the Cost: Financial Decision-Making, Discipleship, and Christian Living by Clemens Sedmak and Kelli Reagan Hickey
• Honorable Mention, Mysticism: The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers: Volume 2: Th–Ō (Thêta–Ōméga) translated and introduced by Tim Vivian
• Honorable Mention, Liturgy: In Christ Now Meet Both East and West: On Catholic Eucharistic Action by Thomas O’Loughlin
• Honorable Mention, Church Professional: Counting the Cost: Financial Decision-Making, Discipleship, and Christian Living by Clemens Sedmak and Kelli Reagan Hickey
• Honorable Mention, Morality, Ethics, Christology, Mariology, Redemption: Racism and Structural Sin: Confronting Injustice with the Eyes of Faith by Conor M. Kelly
• Honorable Mention, Scripture – Academic Studies: The Most Important Words of Jesus by Gerhard Lohfink
• Honorable Mention, Reference/Academic Studies: Liturgy and Life Study Bible edited by Paul Turner and John W. Martens

These winning titles are available directly from Liturgical Press and great booksellers. Visit litpress.org or call 800-858-5450.

 

For more information please contact:

Michelle Verkuilen

mverkuilen@litpress.org

(320) 363-2227

COLLEGEVILLE, MINNESOTA (June 2024)—Liturgical Press is honored to be the publisher of six award-winning books chosen by the Association of Catholic Publishers (ACP) 2024 Excellence in Publishing Awards which recognizes the best in Catholic publishing.

Liturgical Press books received the following awards:

• First place, inspirational: A Retreat with Thomas Merton: A Seven-Day Spiritual Journey 
  (Esther de Waal, Liturgical Press)
• First place, liturgy: Liturgy and Life Study Bible (Edited by Paul Turner and John W. Martens,
  Liturgical Press)
• First place, theology: Reforming the Church: Global Perspectives (Edited by Declan Marmion and Salvador Ryan, Liturgical Press)
• Second place, resources for ministry: New Ways and Next Steps: Developing Parish LGBTQ+ Ministry (Francis DeBernardo, Liturgical Press)
• Third place, prayer: Come to Me, All of You: Stations of the Cross in the Voice of Christ
  (Amy Ekeh; Art by Gabrielle Rowell, Liturgical Press) 
• Third place, scripture: The Most Important Words of Jesus (Gerhard Lohfink, Liturgical Press)
   

These winning titles are available directly from Liturgical Press and great booksellers.
Visit litpress.org or call 800-858-5450.

For more information please contact: Michelle Verkuilen, associate marketing director
mverkuilen@litpress.org  (320) 363-2227