Heading to war with Iraq is a grave mistake. It can only lead to catastrophic consequences for the suffering people of Iraq, other suffering people around the world and ourselves.…
The following is the text of a talk by John Dear to one thousand people at the Call to Action national conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Saturday, September 15, 2001,…
Speech by John Dear at October 13th, 2001 Rally Against Star Wars Washington Square Park, New York, New York (Over 100 rallies occurred October 13th across the country and the…
In those days John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the desert of Judea and saying, Repent, for the reign of heaven is at hand!î It was of him that the…
"IN THE NAME OF THE GOD OF PEACE" Speech at Rally Against Star Wars, in front of the White House, Sunday, June 10, 2001, Washington, D.C. Dear Friends, the God…
My friend and Jesuit brother, Bill McNichols from New Mexico, tells the story when he was in tertianship in Texas and a young Jesuit from Poland raised his hand and…
[The following advertizement was placed in the New York Times on July 28, 2000 by the Fellowship of Reconciliation. John Dear and Susan Sarandon contacted nationally recognized people to speak…
From Violence to Nonviolence (From The God of Peace: Toward a Theology of Nonviolence) In 1988, I traveled with a delegation of North American Christians to a remote village in…
In 1988, I traveled with a delegation of North American Christians to a remote village in El Salvador in response to an invitation to stand in solidarity with the suffering…
Peace is possible. That was the overriding optimism brought by Father John Dear, SJ, as he came to Syracuse's Le Moyne College for the second annual Rev. Daniel Berrigan, SJ/International…