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C.A.L.L.  President, The Rev. Tex Hilbert

The Mercer County Shenango Valley Initiative partnered with Fr. Tex and Erie to help get C.A.L.L. started through his leadership and vision. We will miss him, and as important, pray for the leaders of C.A.L.L. to carry out the mission he envisioned for Erie and Western Pennsylvania.
 
Our prayers will also be directed to inspire another spiritual leader that will sacrifice time and energy to ensure that the social justice words will be turned into deeds in the region, and for the future of Western Pennsylvania.
 
Father Tex Hilbert has left a huge gap and we can't let him down. His family and friends should be very proud of his life work.
 
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 The Rev. Tex Hilbert

Published: February 23. 2007 9:34AM

 

 


The Rev. John "Tex" Hilbert, a well-known Roman Catholic priest and local advocate for social justice, has passed away. He was 72 years old.


 Fr. Hilbert had been recovering from knee-replacement surgery. He said in an interview that the rehabilitation was going well.

Since 1998, Hilbert was president or vice president of C.A.L.L , or Congregational Action to Lift with Love. The group spoke out against racial discrimination and other injustices in Erie.

Hilbert was also the Erie Cursillo's spiritual director. And he was a member of the board of Invest Erie, which has been trying to build a supermarket on Parade Street.

Hilbert was ordained in 1960. He taught at Gannon University from 1960 to 1963.

He was diocesan director of confraternity for Christian doctrine, or CCD, from 1963 to 1986, was diocesan campus ministry director from 1963 to 1982, and was a campus chaplain at Mercyhurst North East. 

Continue to watch the Congregational Action to Lift Lives (CALL) web site at www.eriecall.org and upcoming emails for further information about C.A.L.L.
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