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Paul Mayer, 82, Ex-priest and Peace Activist Dies. By Paul Vitelo, NYTimes, 11/29/13. “Paul Mayer, a Jewish-born former Roman Catholic priest who was at the forefront of peace and social justice campaigns for five decades, for a time working closely with the radical pacifist priests Philip and Daniel Berrigan, died on Nov. 22 at his home in East Orange, N.J… His son, Peter, said the cause was brain cancer.  Mr. Mayer converted to Catholicism as a teenager and gave up the priesthood in 1968 to marry a former nun. But he said he still considered himself a priest — just as he still considered himself a Jew…In an unpublished memoir he completed shortly before his death, he recalled his arrest in December 2011 during the Occupy Wall Street protest: ‘I found myself climbing a 15-foot linked iron fence to cast my lot with this visionary youth movement that was sweeping the planet.’”