Louie Vitale
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Fr. Louie Vitale, OFM (born June 1, 1932) is a Franciscan priest, activist, co-founder of Nevada Desert Experience. He has engaged in civil disobedience for nearly four decades in pursuit of peace and justice, and has been arrested more than 200 times. Vitale says that St. Francis, Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. provide him with inspiration.[1]
Father Vitale served as the provincial superior of the California Franciscan Friars from 1979 to 1988. Then he served as the pastor at St. Boniface Catholic Church in the tenderloin of San Francisco, California. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles.[1]
Recently, Father Vitale is involved in trying to raise awareness about issues of torture and the US involvement in it. To that end, he was arrested alongside Fr. Stephen Kelly, SJ at Fort Huachuca in Arizona in Nov 2006 in protest to torture [2]. His legal defense team included William P. Quigley.
Father Vitale, Kathy Kelly, Stephen Kelly, John Dear, Eve Tetaz, and others were also arrested in protest to UAV attacks in Pakistan at Creech Air Force Base on Wednesday April 9, 2009 [3].
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