[This essay was published in the fall of 2005 in a special book called “Moral Leadership,” edited by Daniel Deffenbaugh for Hastings College, Nebraska. For info, see: www.hastings.edu] One reason…
(Luke 9:28-36; Jonah 3:1-12) Homily for the feast of St. Therese of Lisieux By Fr. John Dear, S.J. Deacons Conference, Toronto, Canada October, 1, 2005. (Gospel passage: Luke 10:17-24) Dear…
[This essay is part of the forthcoming collection, "Creative Minister," celebrating the life and work of the popular spiritual writer, Henri Nouwen. It will be published in 2006 by Orbis…
[This essay is part of the forthcoming collection, "Creative Minister," celebrating the life and work of the popular spiritual writer, Henri Nouwen. It will be published in 2006 by Orbis…
LOS ALAMOS, NM- Sunflowers, ashes, songs and prayer were used to send one message here Saturday: Stop the bomb where it started. An estimated 500 people traveled from cities across…
Dear Friends, today we remember that sixty years ago our country drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and vaporized 140,000 people in a flash, reducing them to ashes. This morning,…
"Concluding Prayer Offered by Fr. John Dear After the Pax Christi New Mexico, Hiroshima Day Sackcloth and Ashes Action at Los Alamos, NM," August 6th, 2005 Dear friends, once again,…
A few weeks ago, a Jesuit friend from Ireland came to visit and we spent a few days sightseeing. At the end of his stay we went to Bandelier National…
(John Dear's keynote address to the National Conference on the Sacred Heart, on June 26, 2005, in Waltham, Massachusetts, to the association of religious congregations connected to the Sacred Heart.)…
Buddhists, Catholics and other proponents of peace and nuclear disarmament are massing this week to observe the 60th anniversary of the world's first nuclear attacks when the United States bombed…