sempre mencionava sua esposa em suas palestras.Rezemos por ele. Descanse em paz, grande Michael Novak, o mundo sentira muito sua falta.Vejam texto da Catholic University.Catholic University Remembers Michael Novak as Influential Thinker,Prolific Writer, and Beloved MentorPhoto byPatrick G. Ryan www.snarkinfested.com(Washington, D.C.) Michael Novak, groundbreakingauthor, philosopher, theologian, and faculty member of Catholic Universitys Tim and Steph Busch School of Businessand Economics since last August, is remembered at the Universityas one of the countrys most influential thinkers and a mentor to businessstudents and faculty, among many others.Novak, who died Feb. 17, 2017, at the age of 83,joined The Arthur and Carlyse Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurshiplast year as a distinguished visiting fellow. He taught Special Topics inManagement and gave a series of lectures on campus on the topic of humanecology.Novak, whose 1982 book The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism changed the public conversation about the benefitsof capitalism, was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in1994, and served as Ambassador to the UN Commission on Human Rights in 1981 and1982.Novak studied at Catholic University in 1958 and1959 and had lectured at the University several times prior to last yearsappointment. University President John Garvey remembered him as a man of greatintellectual honesty.Unlike some scholars, Michael Novak made it apoint to reflect on new and different topics, always with a fresh and dynamicperspective, Garvey said. We are immensely grateful that he could end hisacademic life as he began it, as a member of our community.Andreas Widmer, director of The Arthur and CarlyseCiocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship, recalled Novak as a mentor anddescribed him as the founding father of the discussion about the intersectionof faith and economic activity.My colleagues and I have been touched by hiskindness and humility. He was quick to encourage others and was generous withhis time, Widmer commented. You would never have known from working with himthat this was a man who had counseled popes and changed the course of history.It meant so much to me this past year to have Michael, who has long been amentor and friend, beside me as a colleague at Catholic University.In a 2014 address at Catholic University Novakdescribed the University as a sacred place and talked with fondness about thefaculty members he had studied under, among them Monsignor John Tracy Ellis,Monsignor Robert Trisco, Rev. Gene Burke, Monsignor Joseph Fenton, and Rev.Francis J. Connell.Upon his appointment to Catholic University as avisiting fellow, Novak commented on the Universitys commitment to promoteCatholic Social Doctrine as a means to human flourishing. If, as ateacher you want to reach the 1.2 billion Catholics in the world, many of whomare poor, where better to be?In 2006, Novak and his wife, Karen Laub-Novak,established two scholarship funds to support philosophy graduate students, onein his name for students working on the intersection of philosophy and religionor public policy and one in her name for students interested in the philosophyof beauty.The author of more than 50 books who was highlyregarded for his religious scholarship and intellectual independence, Novakshared his insights into the spiritual foundations of economic and politicalsystems and the moral ideals of democratic capitalism in syndicated columns