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“Nonviolence Is Courageous and Daring:” The Progressive Magazine Interviews Rev. John Dear. (June, 2018) (This interview was held at the Progressive magazine office in Madison, Wis., and conducted by Norman Stockwell, publisher of the Progressive. It was published in June, 2018 issue. (See www.progressive.org) Q: Let’s start out by talking a...

by Mark Lombard   Father John Dear is a priest of the Monterey, California Diocese and outreach coordinator for Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service, an independent, non-denominational 501(c)(3) organization founded by the Franciscan Friars of California in 1989. Calling himself a “pilgrim of peacemaking,” the 58-year-old activist, lecturer, and author/editor...

by Tom Boswell   Just prior to the December 2015 Climate Change Conference in Paris, Pope Francis warned a group of reporters that the world is on the brink of committing “suicide.” Less than a year later, Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election and then, after he took office, pulled out of...

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Peace Fest speaker urges US to disband its military, rely solely on nonviolent tactics By Tim Mekeel Lancaster, PA Lancaster News online September 24, 2017 The goals of nationally known peace activist John Dear go beyond the obvious. Dear, the keynote speaker at the inaugural Lancaster Peace Fest on Sunday...

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FOLLOWING THE PEACEFUL JESUS Renowned American nonviolence activist Fr. John Dear made a long-delayed pilgrimage to South Africa at the beginning of 2014, especially to visit Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu. Dear thinks that “we are all addicted to violence” and “war is the ultimate blasphemy, because...

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Forty-two people gathered at Ashley Pond in Los Alamos, New Mexico, on Sunday afternoon to commemorate this week’s 68th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and to protest continuing nuclear weapon development at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The peaceful protest was sponsored by Pax Christi Santa...

Father John Dear, sick with the flu, nonetheless delivered a passionate, spiritual speech on peace and nonviolence after receiving the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award Oct. 31 in Davenport. “Life is the Pacem in Terris journey,” Fr. Dear said, referring to the encyclical letter Pope John XXIII wrote...

As a Jesuit priest, peace activist, speaker and author, John Dear has devoted his life to nonviolence. He is the 40th, and most recent, recipient of the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award, which honors a person for their work in peace and justice in the world. In 2008...

Christian conservatives’ support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is well publicized, but there is also a long tradition in the U.S. of Christians using nonviolent direct action to oppose militarism. One of the current leaders of that nonviolent resistance is John Dear, a Jesuit priest who has been...

We speak with longtime anti-nuclear activist and Jesuit priest, Father John Dear, who coordinates the annual Hiroshima Day peace vigil at Los Alamos on August 1st. Dear has been arrested more than seventy-five times for acts of civil disobedience against war and nuclear weapons, including last week while protesting the...

“Priest Sentenced in Domenici Protest” Albuquerque Journal, Friday, January 25, 2008 (By Albq. Journal Staff, and Wire Report) Rev. John Dear was sentenced to 40 hours of community service and $510 in fines and fees for actions during an anti-war protest at the Santa Fe office of Sen. Pete Domenici...

Last September, nine of us tried to deliver a letter to Senator Pete Domenici’s office, asking him to help end the immoral U.S. war and occupation of Iraq. We entered the Santa Fe Federal Building and got as far as the elevator, when officials pulled the plug and shut it...

The birthplace of the nuclear bomb looks remarkably similar to some hill towns in Iraq, according to peace activist Kathy Kelly. Except those towns don’t have electricity, Kelly observed as she marched down Trinity Street in Los Alamos. It was Kelly’s first time in Los Alamos, even though she has...

For Father John Dear and the members of Pax Christi, a national Catholic peace movement, the decision on who should run Los Alamos National Laboratory for the next seven years doesn’t matter- nuclear weapons are immoral, period. That was the message Dear, a well-known advocate for nonviolence and nuclear disarmament...

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 the United States and as far away as Japan to this small mountain town- the birthplace of the atomic bomb...

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 Hiroshima, Japan, in an effort to hasten the end of World War II. All told, the various groups leading the...

“America” magazine associate editor George Anderson, S.J., interviewed John Dear in New York city on December 20, 2004, and later in January 2005. This interview is to be published in the Spring of 2005. What drew you to your present work in support of Gospel-based nonviolence? Even before joining the...

John Dear’s personal journey as a peace activist has taken him to a refugee camp in El Salvador, to Groton, Conn., where he paddled a canoe down the Thames River to protest the launching of a Trident nuclear submarine and to an Air Force base in North Carolina where he...

Mary Rutkovsky of Santa Fe wanted to honor the dead of Hiroshima , Japan , with dignity on Friday. After spending part of the 59th anniversary of the bombing of the Japanese city during World War II in Los Alamos, participating in a prayer vigil, she returned to Santa Fe...

Anti-nuclear activists and Catholic peace protesters gathered separately on the eve of the 59th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima , Japan , in an effort to bring greater accountability to the nation’s first nuclear weapons laboratory and to call on the country’s Catholics and religious leaders to adhere more...

Rev. John Dear’s peacemaker heroes — Christ, Gandhi, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Mister Rogers, Cesar Chavez — grace the walls of his rental hideaway. The activist Jesuit’s refrigerator also is plastered with nonviolence reminders, including a Mahatma quote: “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” Dear...

(Acts 5, Revelation 1, John 20:19-31) Today we have three readings about being Easter people. During the next few weeks, we’ll be hearing from the Acts of the Apostles, the book of Revelation and resurrection themes in the Gospel. If you haven’t read the Acts of the Apostles in a...

CIMARRON, NM— Rev. John Dear was no stranger to controversy before he arrived in New Mexico in 2002. And he’s found plenty since he got here. The 44-year-old Jesuit says he had been arrested more than 75 times for acts of civil disobedience and nonviolent peace protests across the country...

The Rev. John Dear, pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in Springer and an outspoken anti-war activist, makes no apologies for his run-in with a group of National Guard members last month. ” As a priest, I don’t want my people to get hurt or killed,” he said Tuesday. “Out of...

The United States war on Iraq is being fought for oil and not for democracy and “is a total disaster,” a Catholic priest said Thursday. “We have to continue to call for an end to the war and the occupation of Iraq, and for the immediate return of our own...

A true man of peace has come to Northeastern New Mexico. Jesuit priest, peace activist, organizer, lecturer and author Rev. John Dear, arrived in Springer in August to serve as pastor for Catholic churches in nine area communities: Eagle Nest, Angel Fire, Black Lake, Cimarron, Springer, Maxwell, Tinaja, Rayado and...

By Brendan Smith Journal Staff Writer For 20 years, the Rev. John Dear has fought for peace, using nonviolent protests and stints in jail as a personal struggle and testament against war. “War is terrorism, I think,” Dear said. “I believe war never works, and nonviolence is the way we...

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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 House Peacemaker Lecture held Feb. 12 at Panasci Chapel. Father Dear, 42, brought his friend and mentor, Father Daniel Berrigan...

The NATO bombings have been a tragic disaster since day one. Instead of stopping the violence, they have pushed a volatile region further into war and suffering. A Pentagon spokesperson said recently, ìIt is difficult to say that we have prevented one act of brutality.î But what the Pentagon didnít...

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 do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.î We could add today: bombings do not prevent...

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. There is no logic to such madness. Indeed, killing people never solves anything. It only increases the hostility, hatred and...

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 is over, you don’t hear much about peace demonstrations or the peace movement, and when you hear talk about religious...