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John Dear
John Dear (born August 13, 1959) is an American peace activist, lecturer, author and Catholic priest residing in the Diocese of Monterey in California.
Dear has written 40 books on Jesus, peace and nonviolence, and has been arrested 85 times in acts of nonviolent civil disobedience against war, injustice, poverty, racism, executions, nuclear weapons, and environmental destruction. He is the founder and director of the Beatitudes Center, where he offers the "Nonviolent Jesus Podcast".
John Dear was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on August 13, 1959 and graduated magna cum laude from Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, in 1981. He then worked for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation in Washington, D.C.[citation needed]
In August 1982, Dear entered the Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, at their novitiate in Wernersville, Pennsylvania. He then spent two years studying philosophy at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York (1984–1986), during which time he lived and worked for the Jesuit Refugee Service in a refugee camp in El Salvador for three months in 1985.
For his period of regency, he taught at Scranton Preparatory School in Scranton, Pennsylvania, from 1986 to 1988. He then spent a year working at the Fr. McKenna Center, a drop-in center and shelter for the homeless, in Washington, D.C. From 1989 to 1993, he attended the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and received two master's degrees in theology from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.
He was ordained a Catholic priest in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1993, and began serving as associate pastor of St. Aloysius Church in Washington, D.C.
During his time teaching in Scranton in the late 1980s, he protested military recruitment at his school; in 1989 he protested the death of several Jesuits in El Salvador.
Dear founded Bay Area Pax Christi, a region of Pax Christi USA, the national Catholic peace movement. He began to arrange for Mother Teresa to intervene with various governors on behalf of people scheduled to be executed on death row.[citation needed]
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John Dear
John Dear (born August 13, 1959) is an American peace activist, lecturer, author and Catholic priest residing in the Diocese of Monterey in California.
Dear has written 40 books on Jesus, peace and nonviolence, and has been arrested 85 times in acts of nonviolent civil disobedience against war, injustice, poverty, racism, executions, nuclear weapons, and environmental destruction. He is the founder and director of the Beatitudes Center, where he offers the "Nonviolent Jesus Podcast".
John Dear was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on August 13, 1959 and graduated magna cum laude from Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, in 1981. He then worked for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation in Washington, D.C.[citation needed]
In August 1982, Dear entered the Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, at their novitiate in Wernersville, Pennsylvania. He then spent two years studying philosophy at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York (1984–1986), during which time he lived and worked for the Jesuit Refugee Service in a refugee camp in El Salvador for three months in 1985.
For his period of regency, he taught at Scranton Preparatory School in Scranton, Pennsylvania, from 1986 to 1988. He then spent a year working at the Fr. McKenna Center, a drop-in center and shelter for the homeless, in Washington, D.C. From 1989 to 1993, he attended the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and received two master's degrees in theology from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.
He was ordained a Catholic priest in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1993, and began serving as associate pastor of St. Aloysius Church in Washington, D.C.
During his time teaching in Scranton in the late 1980s, he protested military recruitment at his school; in 1989 he protested the death of several Jesuits in El Salvador.
Dear founded Bay Area Pax Christi, a region of Pax Christi USA, the national Catholic peace movement. He began to arrange for Mother Teresa to intervene with various governors on behalf of people scheduled to be executed on death row.[citation needed]
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