Inside the Vatican: Top Ten People of the Year

Our "Person of the Year": Dr. Alice von Hildebrand

Each year, Inside the Vatican selects its "Top Ten" people of the year just past... For our first "newsflash" of 2011, we offer you profiles of 10 extraordinary people whose lives are signs of God's goodness in our fallen world

By Robert Moynihan

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Our "Top Ten" Selections

Again this year, as every year, we are pleased to publish our selections for the “Top Ten People of the Year." As always, the list is inadequate, since many deserving people were not chosen. But the list serves a purpose: it presents examples to all of us of heroic action, of courageous fidelity, of sacrificial love, of zeal for justice, in short, of virtue to be imitated.

We chose two women and eight men; we could just as easily have chosen eight men and two women. We have chosen humble missionaries who work in obscurity but who have brought the love of Christ to thousands around the world. And we have chosen Princes of the Church, cardinals who are close advisors of the Pope, who are carrying out important tasks of great delicacy with courage and energy.

All are Christians except one: Gary Krupp. Though Jewish, Krupp, together with his wife, has become one of the greatest defenders of Pope Pius XII.

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The "Top Ten" People of 2010

#1. Alice von Hildebrand — A Catholic philosopher who has defended the faith for a lifetime

#2. Father Pedro Opeka — A missionary in Africa for 30 years who has saved thousands from life on garbage heaps

#3. Jose Henriquez — The “spiritual guide” of the 33 miners who were buried, then saved, this year in Chile

#4. Wendy Wright — An American woman who is of the leading voices in the world in defending innocent life
 

#5. Brother Benedetto Possamato — An Italian religious who visits the world’s poorest nations and constructs clinics for those without medical care

#6. Gary Krupp — A  Jewish American who has emerged as the leading defender of Pope Pius XII

#7. Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci — A defender of the Church’s musical tradition

#8. Cardinal Velasio de Paolis — A leading canon lawyer, he is now carrying out the delicate task of renewing the Legionaries of Christ

#9. Cardinal Raffaele Farina — A Salesian scholar, he has brought to conclusion the historic 3-year restoration of the Vatican Apostolic Library

#10. Monsignor Brunero Gherardini — This Italian theologian is last and greatest living defender of the “Roman Tradition” in theology

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