John Joseph Egan, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJohn Joseph Egan
Roman Catholic priest, social activist
Date of Birth: 09-Oct-1916
Date of Death: 19-May-2001
Profession: priest
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About John Joseph Egan
- Monsignor John Joseph Egan (9 October 1916 – 19 May 2001) was an American Roman Catholic priest and social activist.
- After initially studying business at DePaul University, he transferred to Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary, completing his studies under the visionary rector Msgr.
- Reynold Henry Hillenbrand at the University of St.
- Mary of the Lake.
- He promoted racial integration and was one of the clergymen who marched with Rev.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- in the 1965 protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
- For many years he was a member of the board of trustees of the Industrial Areas Foundation.
- The Egan Urban Center at DePaul University is named in his honor.
- Egan's papers are housed in the manuscript collection at the University of Notre Dame Archives (see "Msgr.
- John Egan" or "John J.
- Egan Papers" at http://archives.nd.edu/collections/subjects.htm).
- The scope and background notes include an extensive list of his accomplishments. Father Egan was better known to his friends—both lay as well as clerical—as Jack Egan.
- Ordained for the Archdiocese of Chicago, he worked several years in its inner city.
- Saul Alinsky, godfather of broad-based community organizing, influenced the young priest.
- In turn, Father Jack later prevailed upon Alinsky to pen his book Rules for Radicals.
- [Told in a personal interview to Fr.
- Juan Romero of Los Angeles.] Father Jack accepted a position at the University of Notre Dame where he founded and directed CCUM, the Catholic Commity on Urban Ministry, dedicated to promote Catholic social teaching.
- One of Father Egan's unsung accomplishments of the early seventies was to deliver about 25 non-episcopal leaders of the Catholic Church in the country to a PADRES-sponsored meeting held at the Mexican American Cultural Center (now called Mexican American Catholic College) in San Antonio, Texas.
- The focus of the meeting was to garner greater recognition and respect for the "Hispanic Agenda" within the institutions of the Catholic Church in the United States.
- John Joseph Egan figures prominently in the 2009 book Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America by Beryl Satter.
- WFMT critic Andrew Patner interviewed Ms.
- Satter in April 2009.
- This interview can be downloaded from http://feeds.feedburner.com/critical_thinking and specifically discusses her discovery of Monsignor John J.
- Egan and his work with the Contract Buyers' League starting at 44:40 in the downloadable MP3 file. United Power for Action and Justice was created in part by Monsignor John J.
- Egan.
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