Jean-Marie Faux
Belgian Jesuit author (1923–2022)
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Biography and work
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]
Bibliography
- French: Hertz et Hava Jospa, in : Jean-Philippe Schreiber (ed.), Hertz Jospa, juif, résistant, communiste, Editions Vie Ouvrière - Mrax, Bruxelles, 1997, 160 p. ISBN 2870033362 ISBN 978-2-87003-336-4