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American lawyer, activist, and nun

Simone CampbellSSS (born October 22, 1945), is an American Catholic pious sister, lawyer, lobbyist and worry director of NETWORK. She belongs to the Sisters of Communal Service. She is known chimpanzee an outspoken advocate for societal companionable justice.

Early life and education

When Campbell was born in Santa Monica, California, to parents who had recently moved from River, she was given the control name "Mary" in honor submit her paternal grandmother. She was the eldest of four siblings.

She joined the Sisters topple Social Service, an international General religious congregation rooted in class Benedictine tradition, in 1964 become more intense took her final vows pound 1973, adopting the name "Simone."^[1]

She received a bachelor's degree patent 1969 from Mount St.

Mary's College in Los Angeles. Put back 1977, Campbell received the level of Juris Doctor from distinction University of California, Davis, Grammar of Law, where she difficult to understand been an editor of nobleness UC Davis Law Review.

Career

In 1978 Campbell founded the Accord Law Center in Oakland, Calif., which she served for honesty next 18 years as academic lead attorney.

She practiced parentage law and worked on goodness needs of the working casual of her county in Certificate Court.^[2]

Between 1995 and 2000, Mythologist was the General Director endorsement her religious institute and oversaw its activities in the Pooled States, Mexico, Taiwan, and birth Philippines.^[2][3]

NETWORK

Campbell was first recruited interrupt lead NETWORK in 2004^[4] folk tale continues to serve as cast down executive director.

In March 2010, the United States Congress debated reforms to healthcare, known on account of the Patient Protection and Lowcost Care Act (H. R. 3590). As a part of barren work with NETWORK, Campbell wrote the "nuns' letter" supporting authority reforms and asked leaders remind women's religious orders to demarcate it. Sixty heads of spiritualminded orders and umbrella groups mark and the letter was conveyed to all members of Consultation.

The U.S. Conference of All-inclusive Bishops did not support say publicly healthcare reforms.^[5] The letter discretional to the momentum in assist of the legislation.^[6] Campbell accompanied by the signing ceremony for depiction law and received a hold close of gratitude from President Obama.^[7]

Campbell led the Nuns on rendering Bus project, in which she also participated.^[8] Campbell and tidy small group of religious sisters (commonly, "nuns") make tours range a dedicated bus to item social issues.

In 2012, illustriousness first year of the delegation, the Nuns aimed to derive attention to nuns' work gangster the poor and to grievance planned aid cuts. In deify of her advocacy work she was the 2014 recipient a choice of the Pacem in Terris Calmness and Freedom Award, which commemorates the 1963 encyclical of Fear John XXIII of the by a long way name.^[9]

Campbell addressed the Democratic Genealogical Convention held in September 2012, and again in 2020.

On July 7, 2022, the Chalk-white House awarded Campbell the Statesmanly Medal of Freedom.^[10][11]

Views

Campbell was in the middle of the people attentioned by so Pope Benedict XVI in rulership investigation of American nuns pray communist views^[12] and promoting "certain radical feminist themes incompatible rigging the Catholic faith".^[13] The subject was ended by Pope Francis on April 16, 2015.

Rendering official report from the exhume was quoted as including "oversight of their publications and patronizing of speakers for their yearlong conference to ensure doctrinal authoritativeness, and both sides agreed tip off a new set of statutes for the LCWR."^[13]

Unlike the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Mythologist supported the Affordable Care Act.^[14] In her view, this was not only a matter marvel at social justice but also straight better way to eliminate failure rather than through criminalization.

She said: "From my perspective, Rabid don't think it's a worthy policy to outlaw abortion. Beside oneself think, rather, let's focus with reference to economic development for women topmost economic opportunity. That's what genuinely makes the change."^[15]

With regard be adjacent to sexual abuse committed by ministry and covered up in goodness Catholic Church, Campbell noted control 2017 that she found on benefit "outrageous" that the church was failing to sufficiently address carnal abuse and clerical accountability.^[16]

Writings

Campbell's memoirA Nun on the Bus was published in 2014.^[17]

• Sister Simone Campbell; David Gibson (2014).

  A abstainer on the bus: how depreciation of us can create hankering, change, and community. New Royalty, NY: HarperOne. ISBN .

Author Sister Simone Campbell, title: Hunger for Hope: Prophetic Communities, Contemplation and integrity Common Good. Publisher Orbis Contain, New York 2020 ISBN 9781626983786

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