ISA Wins Anew in Catholic Book Competition
The Institute of Spirituality in Asia (ISA) has again won in the Jaime Cardinal Sin Catholic Book Awards (CSCBA).
On September 17, 2017, Church of the Poor: The Spirituality of Bishop Julio Xavier Labayen received the best book award in the Ministry Category.
Church of the Poor… is actually a double winner because it was also a finalist in Spirituality Category.
From Elders to Children, a co-publication of ISA with the Maryknoll Environmental Sanctuary in Baguio City, was also a finalist this year, this time in the Children’s Category.
The five books of Bro. Karl Gaspar, CSsR. published by ISA contributed to
his being the Lifetime Achievement Awardee for this year, the first time that the Cardinal Sin Catholic Book Awards gave to a non-Jesuit awardee.
The ISA publications cited are: To be Poor and Obscure: A Spiritual Sojourn of a Mindanaon (2004); Mystic and Wanderers in the Land of Perpetual Departures (2008); The Masses are Messiah: Contemplating the Filipino Soul (2010); Desperately Seeking God’s Saving Action: Yolanda Survivors’ Hope Beyond Heartbreaking Lamentations (2014). This book garnered 2 awards from the Cardinal Sin Book awards and the Catholic Mass Media Awards namely: Best in Spirituality and best in Ministry; and Panagkutay: Anthropology & Theology Interfacing in Mindanao Uplands (The Lumad Homeland) (2017).
The Jaime Cardinal Sin Book Awards is a project under the Catholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA).
The 2017 awarding ceremony was organized by the Asian Catholic Communicators, Inc. at the SMX Convention Center of the Mall of Asia during the 38th Manila International Book Fair held September 13-17, 2017.
Receiving the awards on behalf of ISA was Fr. Rico Palaca Ponce, O.Carm. Ph.D., the executive director.