Cardinal Francis George, O.M.I. Honors Influential Chicagoans During 2011 Rerum Novarum Awards

Chicago native Colleen Dolan, director of Communications and Public Relations of the Archdiocese of Chicago (left to right), with Rector/President of St. Joseph College Seminary Very Rev. Peter Snieg, and Glenview resident Bill Yacullo, vice president of the Board of Advisory at St. Joseph College Seminary, at the recent 21st Annual Seminary Salute to Labor, Business, and Government. This year’s recipients of the 2011 Rerum Novarum Awards were Dan McLaughlin, Mayor of Orland Park and executive director of the Plumbing Council of Chicagoland and the Plumbing Contractors Association, selected to represent government, Jorge Ramirez, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, selected to represent labor, and John McDonough, president and CEO of the Chicago Blackhawks, selected to represent business. The Rerum Novarum Awards, presented by St. Joseph College Seminary at Loyola University of Chicago, honor men and women in labor, business, and government who have proven outstanding in their support of the following ideals: respect for the dignity of the human being and human labor, the right to organize, and the right to a living wage.  For more information about St. Joseph College Seminary and the Rerum Novarum Awards, please call Dawn Zamora at (773) 973-9722.