List of Catholic activists
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Below is a partial list of mostly United States-based Roman Catholic activists:
- Stanisław Adamski - Polish priest and workers' activist.
- Carl A. Anderson, current Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus
- Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo-Nobel Peace Prize winning Archbishop linked to East Timorese independence.
- William Bennett
- Daniel Berrigan ([1])
- Rev. Philip Berrigan, Josephite priest
- Leonardo Boff, Liberation Theology activist ([2])
- Bernadette Brady, Vice-President of the Catholic League (U.S.)'s Board of directors
- Joseph I. Breen, deceased; movie censor for Catholic Church (starting 1934)
- Orestes Brownson, convert who spoke in favor of Catholicism, and against socialism in numerous works.
- Patrick 'Pat' Buchanan
- William F. Buckley, Jr. - founder National Review; author of God and Man at Yale
- José Burgos - Filipino priest and independence activist
- Archbishop Raymond Burke
- Ernesto Cardenal - priest linked to the Sandinista National Liberation Front ([3])
- Hugh Carey, former NY State Governor; member of the Catholic Campaign for America
- César Chávez(deceased) - Mexican American labor and social activist
- Linda Chavez, on Catholic League Board of Advisors([4])
- Rev. Charles Coughlin (deceased) - Anti-Semitic radio priest
- Dorothy Day (deceased) - Founded Catholic Worker movement ([5])
- Alfred Delp, Jesuit involved in resistance to Nazi Germany([6])
- William A. Donohue - Head of Catholic League's Board of Directors
- Rev. Robert Drinan, deceased - former U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
- Rev. Philip Eichner, on Catholic League Board of Directors([7])
- Black Elk, convert - Spiritual leader of his people ([8])
- Mike Ferguson, Congressman from New Jersey and former Executive Director of the Catholic Campaign for America.
- Edwin Feulner - Helped found Heritage Foundation
- Maggie Gallagher - Columnist opposed to Same-sex marriage, assisted suicide, abortion, and pornography ([9])
- Mary Ann Glendon - Catholic League Board of Advisors([10])
- Dolores Bernadette Grier, African-American convert - refused to join NAACP due to her staunch opposition to abortion rights
- Scott Hahn - convert; Catholic apologist ([11])
- Helen Hull Hitchcock - Conservative convert and opponent of ordination of female priests
- Deal Hudson - convert; founder Crisis, a magazine for conservative Catholics (fell out of grace due to a scandal)
- Saint Alberto Hurtado- Member of the Society of Jesus who was active in the labor movement in Chile ([12])
- Karl Keating - Catholic writer and apologist who created Catholic Answers
- Charles Kekumano (deceased) - activist Hawaiian priest
- Alan Keyes - Catholic League Board of Advisors([13]).
- Laurence Kudlow, convert; television journalist and economist
- Bowie Kuhn (deceased) - Ave Maria Mutual Funds
- Archbishop William Joseph Levada, Vatican-based conservative
- Angelo Liteky - former priest, soldier, activist
- Juli Loesch - Operation Rescue activist (raised Catholic; left church and then returned)
- Rev. Daniel Lord, S.J., deceased; movie censor for Catholic Church in 1920s and early 1930s
- Alphonse J. Matt Jr., current publisher of The Wanderer, a Catholic fundamentalist paper founded in 19th Century by his family
- Rev. Richard McBrien, liberal theologian
- Rev. C. John McCloskey, III, STD, Opus Dei activist; helps to convert influential individuals (Robert Novak, Larry Kudlow, Sam Brownback, et al)
- Norma McCorvey, convert; activist pro-lifer (who originally was "Roe" in Roe v Wade
- Rev. Sean McManus - County Fermanagh-native Irish nationalist and political activist; created MacBride Principles
- Thomas Monaghan - multimillionaire (from Domino's Pizza) who established ([14]) Ave Maria Radio,, ([15]) and the Ave Maria School of Law
- Mother Angelica, created Eternal Word Television Network
- Dr. Bernard Nathanson, convert; went from pro-choice doctor to anti-abortion activist
- Tadeusz Pacholczyk, anti-stem cell and pro-life Catholic priest
- Frank Pavone ([16]) - Priests for Life
- Michael Novak, conservative activist and writer; on Board of Ave Maria Mutual Funds ([17]) and the Catholic League ([18])
- Kate O'Beirne - Conservative writer and pundit; on Catholic League Board of Advisors ([19])
- Georges Pire - "Peace University" and Nobel Peace Prize for work with refugees ([20])
- Sister Helen Prejean - anti-death penalty activist (portrayed in movie Dead Man Walking by actress Susan Sarandon)
- Martin Quigley, deceased - leading movie censor for Catholic Church (starting 1934)
- Patrick Reilly, Cardinal Newman Society
- Jane Sullivan Roberts, Feminists for Life (wife Supreme Court Chief Justice John Glover Roberts, Jr.)
- Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador, assassinated
- Phyllis Schlafly - Conservative anti-ERA, anti-abortion activist; Board of Ave Maria Mutual Funds ([21]) and the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration
- Bishop Bernard Sheil, deceased - known as "Labor's bishop" or "the people's bishop"
- Jaime Cardinal Sin, deceased - involved in People Power Movement in The Philippines
- Dr. Janet E. Smith - conservative educator and theologian; taught at University of Dallas
- Mitch Snyder, deceased - convert; advocate for the homeless
- Dinesh D'Souza - Conservative writer and columnist; on Catholic League Board of Advisors ([22])
- Sister Dorothy Stang - Roman Catholic nun murdered in Brazil for helping the landless and poor
- Sister Rose Thering - During Vatican II helped in exonerating Jews from Christ's death; social and human rights activist
- Christopher West, ([23]) Theology of the Body speaker and promoter.
- Paul Weyrich, ultraconservative political activist; left Roman Catholic church over Vatican II, and is a Melkite Catholic deacon ([24])
- Charles M. Wilson (Catholic activist) - connected to EWTN
- George Weigel - Catholic writer and papal biographer; Catholic League Board of Advisors ([25])
- Thomas V. Wykes, Jr. - Co-founded Catholic Campaign for America
