American Cardinals Dinner
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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 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 The Very Rev. 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 renowned 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 Fr. 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, Pennsylvania
- May 2, 2003 in San Francisco, California
- April 23, 2004 in Saint Paul--Minneapolis, Minn.
- January 28, 2005 in Miami, Florida
- April 28, 2006 in Washington, DC
- April 27, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada
