Paul Marx

Paul Benno Marx, OSB (May 8, 1920 – March 20, 2010) was an American Roman Catholic priest and Benedictine monk, family sociologist, writer, and one of the leaders of the anti-abortion movements.

He was professed on 11 July 1942 and ordained on June 15, 1947. Marx started the Sociology Department at Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota in 1957 and headed it as a department chair until 1970. Marx was the driving force in creating the local universitarian Human Life Center, furthermore the anti-abortion organizations Human Life International and Population Research Institute. He was a spiritual mentor for his successor at PRI, Steven W. Mosher.

Marx regularly edited material about natural family planning and led HLI until 1999. Other recognitions gained by the monk of Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville include the Cardinal John J. O'Connor Pro-Life Award from Legatus (2003), Family Life International'''s "Faithful for Life Award" (2004) as well as PRI's Founder's Award. Former US President Ronald Reagan once stated in a letter to Marx:

Books The life and work of Virgil Michel. Dissertation, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1957. Virgil Michel And The Liturgical Movement. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1957. The Death Peddlers: War on the Unborn. Front Royal, Virginia: HLI, reprint, 1998. Death without dignity: Killing for mercy. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2nd edition, 1978, ; later in the modified version And Now Euthanasia: HLI, 2nd edition, 1985. Confessions of a Profile Missionary: The Journeys of Fr. Paul Marx. Gaithersburg, Maryland: HLI, 1988. Fighting for Life: The Further Journeys of Fr Paul Marx. HLI, 1989. The Apostle of Life. HLI, 1990. The Flying Monk (Still Fighting for Life). HLI, 1990. The Warehouse Priest. HLI, 1993. Faithful for Life– autobiography. HLI, 1997. The Pro-Life Wisdom of Fr. Paul Marx: The Apostle of Life'' – a collection of comments. HLI, 2008.