On Tuesday, Jan. 17th, 18 of us climbed the steps of the US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. to protest the death penalty. We unfurled a huge thirty-foot long banner…
Today, Pope Francis released the annual World Day of Peace Message for January 1, 2017, called "Nonviolence-A Style of Politics for Peace." This is the Vatican's fiftieth World Day of…
Like millions of other concerned people, I've followed the standoff at the Standing Rock Sioux Nation in North Dakota for months. The good people of Standing Rock, including the Dakota,…
(John Dear gave this talk at the Call to Action National Conference, in Albuquerque, NM, on November 12, 2016) Now that Donald Trump is going to be the president and…
(After Fr. John Dear's talk, a panel responded with there reflections, then questions from the audience. The Panel included a city council member; a state senator; the district attorney; the…
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…
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,…