Video: Ellie Hidalgo: Robert M. Holstein Faith Doing Justice Award Acceptance Speech | Ignite 2023

BY ISN STAFF | August 1, 2023

The Robert M. Holstein Award is awarded by the Ignatian Solidarity Network each year to individuals who have demonstrated a significant commitment to leadership for social justice grounded in the spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus. Ellie Hidalgo was one of our two award winners at Ignite: A Celebration of Justice this year.

Ellie Hidalgo is co-director of Discerning Deacons, a project to engage Catholics in the active discernment of our Church about women in the diaconate and to contribute to the renewal of the diaconate for our times. Discerning Deacons is deeply engaged in the global synod process, helping to animate over 350 sessions that reached 9,000 people in the listening phase, and Ellie is committed to serving this bold, prophetic vision of a synodal Church that walks together as the people of God, in our faith-filled struggles for justice, dignity, and peace.