Paul Leingang is an Evansville resident.
The Association of U.S. Catholic Priests will present one of two Saint John XXIII awards to Paul Leingang on June 26 during the association’s annual assembly in San Antonio, Texas. (Paul is a non-ordained member of the Glennon-Kenrick ordination class of 1969.) The award is named in honor of Pope John XXIII who convened the Second Vatican Council. This award recognizes individuals who have significantly promoted the spirit of Vatican II through their witness, ministry, and spirituality.
The second of two Saint John XXIII awards in 2025 will go to Ruben Garcia, director of Annunciation House, a nonprofit shelter system. Garcia has welcomed migrants and refugees arriving in El Paso for nearly fifty years.
The AUSCP issued the following release.
Since the founding of the AUSCP in 2011, Paul has been a devoted, resolute, and professional communicator of the mission of AUSCP and a herald of our Good News with the public in the spirit of the synodal council. He has been a faithful and dedicated communications link, web editor, and media advisor for the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests.
Paul’s professional life has focused on writing, reporting, broadcasting, and publishing. His broadcasting responsibilities have included beat reporting, radio anchoring, and management, including a stint as news director for WHBF AM FM TV in Rock Island, Illinois. He won a national award for his regularly scheduled noon radio newscast from United Press International and served as president for one term of the Illinois Associated Press News Broadcasters Association.
Paul was director of communications for the Catholic Diocese of Evansville, Indiana, and newspaper editor and columnist for The Message, a Catholic weekly published in Evansville from 1987 to 2012. His weekly column received a national award from the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada.
Paul will retire from the AUSCP at the end of June.
