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National Catholic Reporter Review of ‘The Gospel of Peace’ by Art Laffin, Jan. 2024

  Born from a four-decades long commitment to prayer, Eucharist, careful study of Scripture, Jesus...

Daniel Ellsberg, Prophet of Truth and Disarmament

Daniel Ellsberg, Prophet of Truth and Disarmament By Rev. John Dear A few months before he died on...

War Is the Ultimate Failure!

“War Is the Ultimate Failure!” By Rev. John Dear (Published on www.commondreams.org on...

Sr. Mary Lou Kownacki—“Mother of the Spirituality of Nonviolence”

Sr. Mary Lou Kownacki—“Mother of the Spirituality of Nonviolence”  By Fr. John Dear  (Jan. 2023) The...

Nonviolence Is Power: A Conversation with Rev. James Lawson

(I first met my friend Civil Rights leader Rev. James Lawson in the L.A. Jail in January, 1990 after...

Paul Farmer: the Saint with the Stethoscope

by Rev. John Dear (Celebrated Doctor and Founder of Partners In Health, which was 20,000 doctors and...

Pursuing Nonviolence

by Rev. John Dear “To me, nonviolence is the all-important virtue to be nourished and studied and...

A Hiroshima Grandmother’s Plea to Americans

By John Dear August 6, 2021 Recently, a peace activist friend told me about visiting a physical...

Dan Berrigan and His Fearless Nonviolence at 100

“One is called to live nonviolently,” Daniel Berrigan once wrote, “even if the change one works for...