(for the UN Chronicle Magazine, Number 3, 2000) On November 19th, 1998, I witnessed the UN General Assembly issue one of its greatest challenges since the Declaration on Human Rights…
Speech at Anti-War Rally, Washington Mall Armistice Day, November 11th, 1998, Washington, D.C. Today's gathering is about memory and honor. We gather to remember the end of World War I…
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. taught, ìadding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can…
We should not have bombed Iraq (this past week). We should not kill Iraqi people in order to send a message to Saddam that he should not kill Iraqi people.…
(A reflection offered at the Ash Wednesday Pax Christi prayer service and demonstration at the Ministry of Defense, London, England, on February 25th, 1998.) Now, now -- it is the…
Gandhi needs no further introduction. John Dear may. As the first Roman Catholic priest to head the FOR, John brings a cornucopia of gifts that can only energize and extend…
John Dear was interviewed by Daniel Zwerdling on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” for their feature segment on August 20, 1994 DANIEL ZWERDLING, Host: Now that the Cold War…
"Just as the God who has life sent me and I have life because of God, so the one who feeds on me will have life because of me." (John…
(From "THE GOD OF PEACE: TOWARD A THEOLOGY OF NONVIOLENCE) Though Jesus commanded his followers to love their enemies and though the early Christians went to their deaths rather than…
(From "THE GOD OF PEACE: TOWARD A THEOLOGY OF NONVIOLENCE) Roman Catholic social teaching on justice and peace dates back over one hundred years. In the past thirty years, this…