Cardinal Sin, Cory receive awards from authors;
Scenes of Sin 2 book launched Aug 24

All the recipients of the Catholic Authors Award in the past 13 years are in turn honoring the author of the award, Jaime L. Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila, in a special tribute dubbed as "Authors with Sin" on August 24, a week before his 75th birth anniversary.

The Catholic Authors Awardees have called the special honor, the “Lumen Christi Award,” in "recognition of Cardinal Sin’s written (and spoken) word and what it has done for the Church in the Philippines and the Filipino people."

For the first time also, the Catholic Authors Award will only have one honoree, President Corazon C. Aquino, who is being recognized also for her own written (and spoken) word and how it has positively affected—and continues to affect—the tide of Philippine history.

The awarding ceremonies on Sunday, August 24 at 5 p.m. at the Archbishop’s residence, Villa San Miguel in Mandaluyong City, will also be highlighted by the launching of the updated “Scenes of Sin” coffeetable book, a pictorial chronicle by photographer Noli I. Yamsuan of the almost three decades of Cardinal Sin’s life as archbishop of Manila. The book is being published by the Catholic Book Center. Yamsuan has added a new chapter to the original book also entitled Scenes of Sin, released in 1999 to mark Cardinal Sin’s 25th year as archbishop of Manila.

Archbishop Angel Lagdameo of the Archdiocese of Jaro, which the Cardinal served before he moved to Manila in 1974, and Mrs. Aquino, will present the Lumen Christi Award to Cardinal Sin on behalf of the Catholic Author Awardees.

The accompany book to the Lumen Christi Award, entitled “Sin in Word and in Deed,” which contains selected writings on Cardinal Sin by previous Catholic Authors Awardees, will also be presented to the Cardinal.

Catholic Authors Awardee Fr. Carlo Magno Marcelo, composer of the Jubilee Song and the theme song of the World Meeting of Families and other popular songs, will give a special performance of a song he especially composed for the Cardinal.

The Catholic Authors Award was established in 1989 by the Asian Catholic Publishers, Inc., upon the initiative of Cardinal Sin to honor men and women who promote the values of the Gospel in their writings, compositions, and their work in the communications field. In the past 13 years, the awards have encouraged more priests, religious men and women and laypeople to venture into more active participation in communications through the publication of books and other materials.

Archbishop Lagdameo will celebrate Mass at 4 p.m. before the program for the awardees, their families, and the guests.