American Cardinals Dinner

The American Cardinals Dinner is an annual fundrasier to benefit The Catholic University of America. Each year, a different archdiocese hosts the Cardinals Dinner, a black tie event which traditionally features all or most of the eight cardinals who currently serve as residential archbishops of various U.S. dioceses. It is traditionally preceded by a mass at the local cathedral.

The 17th annual Dinner was held in Washington, D.C., at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center and was co-hosted by David M. O'Connell, C.M., President of the University and Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Chancellor of the University and then-Archbishop of Washington, D.C.. It raised nearly $1 million for scholarships.

It was attended by 650 people, including Cardinal Roger Mahony, Archbishop of Los Angeles, Cardinal William H. Keeler, Archbishop of Baltimore, Cardinal Adam Maida, Archbishop of Detroit, Cardinal Edward Egan, Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Justin Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia, Cardinal Seán O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal William Baum, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, and theologian Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J..

At the 2006 dinner a gift of $8,000,000 from the Knights of Columbus was announced to renovate Keane Hall and rename it McGivney Hall after Michael J. McGivney, the Knights' founder.

Past dinners include:

*December 12, 1989 in Washington, D.C.

*January 18, 1991 in New York, New York

*January 11, 1992 in Chicago, Illinois

*April 24, 1993 in Boston, Massachusetts

*April 16, 1994 in Washington, D.C.

*February 25, 1995 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

*April 19, 1996 in Los Angeles, California

*June 6, 1997 in Detroit, Michigan

*May 1, 1998 in Baltimore, Maryland

*April 23, 1999 in Boston, Massachusetts

*May 5, 2000 in Chicago, Illinois

*April 27, 2001 in New York, New York

*April 26, 2002 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvanoa

*May 2nd, 2003 in San Francisco, California

*April 23rd, 2004 in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota

*January 28th, 2005 in Miami, Florida

*April 28th, 2006 in Washington, D.C.

*April 27th, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada

*April 25th, 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts

* [http://cardinalsdinner.cua.edu/pastdinners/2001_NewYork.cfm April 27, 2001] in New York, New York

* [http://cardinalsdinner.cua.edu/pastdinners/2002_Philadelphia.cfm April 26, 2002] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

* [http://cardinalsdinner.cua.edu/pastdinners/2003_SanFrancisco.cfm May 2, 2003] in San Francisco, California

* [http://cardinalsdinner.cua.edu/pastdinners/2004_saintpaulminneapolis.cfm April 23, 2004] in Saint Paul--Minneapolis, Minn.

* [http://cardinalsdinner.cua.edu/pastdinners/2005_Miami.cfm January 28, 2005] in Miami, Florida

* [http://cardinalsdinner.cua.edu/ April 28, 2006] in Washington, DC

* [http://cardinalsdinner.cua.edu/dinner/ April 27, 2007] in Las Vegas, Nevada

External links

* [http://cardinalsdinner.cua.edu/ American Cardinals Dinner Official Site]