Media Coverage

The Washington Post
THIS JUST IN...
March 23, 2007

A team of VIPs is meeting today in a secret downtown location to select the winner of the Opus Prize, a $1 million award to an unsung humanitarian. Sadly, you can't throw your own hat in the ring. Contenders for the prize, now in its fourth year, were suggested by anonymous 'spotters,' a la the mysterious MacArthur 'genius' grants, before going to the judges tapped by Catholic University, which is overseeing the 2007 award: Tim Russert, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Tony Williams, Diane Rehm, Tim Shriver, Wolf Blitzer, George Stephanopoulos, James Billington, Catholic Health Association CEO Sister Carol Keehan and former White House faith-based initiatives honcho James Towey. How did they ever manage to get so many bigwigs in the same place? Well, some are teleconferencing in.