John Monsignor

October 9, 1916 (age 84)

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 Saint Mary of the Lake. He promoted racial integration and was one of the clergymen who marched with Review Martin Luther King, Junior. in the 1965 protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. 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 ). 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. 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. 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 Mississippi Satter in April 2009. This interview can be downloaded from and specifically discusses her discovery of Monsignor John Jay 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 Jay Egan.

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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 Saint Mary of the Lake. He promoted racial integration and was one of the clergymen who marched with Review

Martin Luther King, Junior. in the 1965 protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

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 ).

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.

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. 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 Mississippi

Satter in April 2009.

This interview can be downloaded from and specifically discusses her discovery of Monsignor John Jay 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 Jay Egan.

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Foreign many years he was a member of the board of trustees of the Industrial Areas Foundation.

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