Each year at the Annual Convention of the Catholic Press Association, Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, announces the winners of the "Bernardin-O'Connor Award for Pro-life Journalism."

Click here to see the winners announced at the 2007 convention

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Click here to see the winners announced at the 2004 convention

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The purpose of this award, instituted in 2002, is to recognize and promote effective journalistic coverage of issues related to the sanctity of human life. Named after Joseph Cardinal Bernardin and John Cardinal O'Connor, the award is meant to highlight the fact that the Church embraces a consistent ethic of life, and that there is no basis for a dichotomy between "social justice" issues and "right to life" issues. There can be no social justice if the right to life itself is not secured, and there can be no effective safeguarding of the right to life if the human person is not treated with dignity at every stage of development and in every circumstance.

--Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, The Consistent Ethic of Life and Health Care Systems, Foster McGaw Triennial Conference, Loyola University of Chicago, May 8, 1985.

--Archbishop John J. O'Connor, Human Lives, Human Rights, October 15, 1984.

The Bernardin-O'Connor Award for Pro-life Journalism is given for outstanding contributions in three categories:

• Best Overall Pro-life Feature

• Best Human Interest Pro-life story

• Best Feature Analysis of a Pro-life news event

Deadline to receive submissions is March 1 of each year. All submissions must be from accredited Catholic newspapers, and must have been published between January 1and December 31 of the previous year.

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