Rev. Daniel Berrigan, the renown anti-war activist, award-winning poet, author and Jesuit priest, who inspired religious opposition to the Vietnam war and later the U.S. nuclear weapons industry, died at…
The Church's Turn Toward Nonviolence By Rev. John Dear (April 2016) For its first three centuries, Christianity required the practice of active nonviolence as taught by Jesus. The early Christians…
"And so this is Christmas, and what have you done?" That's the question which John Lennon puts to us in his famous Christmas song. In the chorus, he gets right…
That Friday evening I was just beginning to lead a weekend retreat at the Kirkridge Retreat Center in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, when we received word about the terrorist attacks in…
"Hope and healing, peace and justice!" That's what Pope Francis called us to this morning as he addressed Congress. "Summon the courage and the intelligence to resolve today's many geopolitical…
Bob Dylan and America's 70-Year Nuclear Nightmare Dear Friends, A few years ago, Bob Dylan gave a powerful interview to Rolling Stone. The editor asked about his recent music,…
Los Alamos sits above the second poorest county in the U.S. and is located in New Mexico, one of the poorest states in the country. The land was originally stolen…
Though the world continues to explode with violence of every kind, we continue to walk the road to peace and practice Gospel nonviolence. It remains the only solution. This month,…
The death of unarmed Freddie Gray in police custody and the subsequent riots in Baltimore demonstrate the profound systemic injustice in our country, as well as the complete misunderstanding and…
"The God of peace is never glorified by human violence," Thomas Merton wrote long ago. Likewise, John Dear adds, "The God of peace is always glorified by human nonviolence." In…