Jean-Marie Faux SJ (9 November 1923 [1] – 2 May 2022) was Belgian Jesuit author, translator, professor, [2] and theologian. [3] [4] [5]
Faux was born in 1923. [6] He lived for thirty years in the small commune of Schaerbeek. During this time he became director of the Centre AVEC, a social and analysis center founded by the Jesuits in Brussels. [7] [8] [9] He then moved to Woluwe in 2006. When the community there ended, he moved to La Colombière. [8]
Faux was a professor at the Institut d’études théologiques (I.E.T.) in Brussels. [7] [10] In 1977 he published the study La foi du Nouveau Testament. [11] [12] In 2010 he published De la société multiculturelle au dialogue interculturel: étapes de la réflexion politique en Belgique for the Centre Avec. [13] [14] The same year he argued against the ban on the full veil. [15] In 2015 he translated Le recontre mondiale des mouvements populaires au Vatican from Italian into French. [16] [17]
Faux was involved in several associations working for human rights. [18] He was the general secretary of the Belgian MRAX, a movement against racism and xenophobia based in Brussels. [7] [18]
In 2018, he was still in charge of the Belgian Center AVEC. [7] Faux died on 2 May 2022 at the age of 98. [19]
Jean-Marie Faux SJ (9 November 1923 [1] – 2 May 2022) was Belgian Jesuit author, translator, professor, [2] and theologian. [3] [4] [5]
Faux was born in 1923. [6] He lived for thirty years in the small commune of Schaerbeek. During this time he became director of the Centre AVEC, a social and analysis center founded by the Jesuits in Brussels. [7] [8] [9] He then moved to Woluwe in 2006. When the community there ended, he moved to La Colombière. [8]
Faux was a professor at the Institut d’études théologiques (I.E.T.) in Brussels. [7] [10] In 1977 he published the study La foi du Nouveau Testament. [11] [12] In 2010 he published De la société multiculturelle au dialogue interculturel: étapes de la réflexion politique en Belgique for the Centre Avec. [13] [14] The same year he argued against the ban on the full veil. [15] In 2015 he translated Le recontre mondiale des mouvements populaires au Vatican from Italian into French. [16] [17]
Faux was involved in several associations working for human rights. [18] He was the general secretary of the Belgian MRAX, a movement against racism and xenophobia based in Brussels. [7] [18]
In 2018, he was still in charge of the Belgian Center AVEC. [7] Faux died on 2 May 2022 at the age of 98. [19]