Blogs and Articles

John Dear’s Keynote Talk at the Rome, Italy conference on Pope’s Leo’s call for an Unarmed and Disarming Peace – Sept. 10, 2026

Recovering the Doctrine of Gospel Nonviolence: Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount, and Pope Leo’s Call for an Unarmed and Disarming Peace By Rev. John DearCatholic Institute for Nonviolence September 10, 2026, Rome, Italy The night before he was killed Dr. King said “the choice is no longer violence or nonviolence; it’s nonviolence or non-existence.”...

Fr. Charlie McCarthy’s Talk on “The Nonviolent Jesus” at the Beatitudes Center, Sat. Feb. 14, 2026

Fr. Charlie McCarthy’s Talk on “The Nonviolent Jesus” at the Beatitudes Center, Sat. Feb. 14, 2026 On the Nonviolent Jesus -Emmanuel Charles McCarthy “In the beginning was the Word, And the Word was with God; And the Word was God. All things were made through Him and without Him nothing would have been made. In...

John Dear Talks Nonviolence with Joan Baez, October, 2025

“For Us, There’s Only the Trying:”: John Dear Talks Nonviolence with Legendary Singer Joan Baez Legendary singer and activist Joan Baez recently retired for touring but continues to speak out for justice, democracy, and peace. On October 18th, she sang to 100,000 people at the No Kings rally in San Francisco. On a recent episode...

Abolish Nuclear Weapons! The 80th anniversary of Hiroshima/Nagasaki at Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA, Aug. 9, 2025

Abolish Nuclear Weapons! The 80th Anniversary of Hiroshima/Nagasaki Rally at Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA, Aug. 9, 2025 Thank you, dear friends for gathering today and coming here regularly. When I think of 80 years under the nuclear threat, I reflect that we’ve never known anything but a world of nuclear weapons, where we could vaporize...

The Peacemaking Life of Pope Francis

A few years ago, three French peace activists met with Pope Francis and asked him for advice. “Start a revolution,” he said. “Shake things up! The world is deaf. You have to open its ears.” That’s what Pope Francis did — he started a nonviolent revolution and invited us all to join. I’m grateful for him...