![]() ![]() ![]() In 1999, Simon left Fairfield to commit himself to Voices. ![]() State Department of their intent to break the economic sanctions against Iraq by personally delivering medicines to Iraq as often as possible.” And so was born Voices in the Wilderness. As Kelly tells the story, one evening she and Simon were among “eight people who determined not to leave a kitchen table … until they had drafted a letter informing the U.S. In December of 1995, he was in Chicago, visiting his friend Kathy Kelly, the very full-time peace activist. From 1986 to 1999, he taught ethics at Fairfield and published three books, Aquinas and Empowerment: Classical Ethics for Ordinary Lives in 1996, Nonviolence for the Third Millennium in 2000, and Virtuous Passions:The Formation of Christian Character in 2001.īut by the later years at Fairfield, he had taken the first steps along a different path. in divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (he had joined the Jesuits at 22), and and a second M.A. from Connecticut's Fairfield University, an M.A. Born in 1948 into a family of Lebanese immigrants in Connecticut, he grew up to pursue an academic life. Yet he didn't become a full-time activist until he was almost 50. He was the founding Director of Marquette University's Center for Peacemaking, dedicated to “exploring the power of nonviolence.” campaign that defied the sanctions against Iraq Simon led delegations to that country, delivering medicines and other necessities. Simon was the kind of pacifist who sees peace and justice as inextricably bound together he once defined nonviolence as “a commitment to work for justice so that violence is no longer necessary.” He was a co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness (now Voices for Creative Nonviolence), the U.S. He was 71 and had dealt for some six years with frontotemporal degeneration (also called frontotemporal dementia). Simon Harak SJ, the exuberantly pacifist Jesuit priest and onetime WRL Disarmament Coordinator, died November 3 in Campion Health Center, Weston, Mass. ![]()
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