ABOVE: Fr. Wayne with Bonnie Shafrin, director of the Lux Center.
Congratulations to Fr. Wayne Jenkins, SCJ, who was honored last week with the The Lux Center for Catholic Jewish Studies’ Building Bridges Award “for his continuing efforts to bring religious harmony into our world,” said Bonnie Shafrin, director of the Center, which is based at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology. The award was one of several distributed at the Sister Rose Thering Award Dinner. Other honorees included Dr. Steven Shippee, theology professor at SHSST, who was also a recipient of the Building Bridges Award, and Fr. David Cooper and Rabbi Ronald Shapiro with the Sister Rose Thering Award itself for their lifetime of contributions to furthering interreligious relations. Among those who spoke at the dinner was Dr. Richard Lux, SHSST professor emeritus, after whom the Lux Center is named.
“A Jew can be a Jew and a Roman Catholic can be a Roman Catholic as we share freely our faith stories with each other,” said Fr. Wayne during his acceptance speech. “Together, we can be a light in the darkness such as at Fort McCoy when we purchased new winter clothes for the Afghan refugees. More importantly, we can challenge together any acts of antisemitism and of anti-Judaism within the Greater Milwaukee area. Thank you for this award. Blessed be G-d forever!”
Click here to read Fr. Wayne’s full acceptance speech. Click here to view more photos of the Sister Rose Thering Award Dinner on the SHSST photo site.
