From the ArcaMax Publishing, Religion & Spirituality Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/religionandspirituality/s-348171-817864
U.S. television personality Oprah Winfrey has presented the Lincoln
Leadership Prize to her friend Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South
Africa.
The event took place Tuesday night at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in
Chicago. Among the guests at the gala were Chicago Mayor Richard M.
Daley, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Chicago Roman Catholic
Cardinal Francis George, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
The award is bestowed upon "those singular individuals who accept the
responsibilities imposed by history and demanded by conscience."
Tutu, 76, was recognized for his activism and work in helping to end
apartheid in South Africa.
"What if he'd settled on medicine or on teaching rather than his third
career choice, the ministry?" the Sun-Times quoted Winfrey as saying
in her introduction. "Without Archbishop Tutu, how would South Africa
be different? How would the world be different?"
"There is a great deal of evil in the world and we ought not pretend
that isn't the case," Tutu said. "And yet you discover there's a great
deal of good as well."