19 Facts About John Dear

John Dear was born on August 13,1959 and is an American Catholic priest, peace activist, lecturer, and author of 35 books on peace and nonviolence.

John Dear has spoken on peace around the world, organized hundreds of demonstrations against war, injustice and nuclear weapons and been arrested 85 times in acts of nonviolent civil disobedience against war, injustice, poverty, nuclear weapons and environmental destruction.

John Dear has served as the director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and currently serves as the founder and director of the Beatitudes Center for the Nonviolent Jesus.

John Dear was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on August 13,1959.

John Dear then worked for the Robert F Kennedy Memorial Foundation in Washington, DC.

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John Dear then spent two years studying philosophy at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York, during which time he lived and worked for the Jesuit Refugee Service in a refugee camp in El Salvador for three months in 1985.

John Dear was ordained a Catholic priest in Baltimore, Maryland on June 12,1993, and began serving as associate pastor of St Aloysius' Church in Washington, DC.

John Dear founded Bay Area Pax Christi, a region of Pax Christi USA, the national Catholic peace movement, and began to arrange for Mother Teresa to intervene with various governors on behalf of people scheduled to be executed on death row.

John Dear was arrested in scores of nonviolent civil disobedience actions against war, injustice and nuclear weapons—from the Pentagon to Livermore Laboratories in California.

John Dear was jailed, tried and convicted of two felony counts, and served seven-and-a-half months in North Carolina jails and four-and-a-half months, under house arrest in Washington, DC, followed by 3 years probation.

Immediately after September 11,2001, John Dear served as a Red Cross coordinator of chaplains at the Family Assistance Center in Manhattan, and personally counseled thousands of relatives and rescue workers.

In 2006, John Dear led a demonstration against the US war in Iraq in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In January 2014, John Dear left the Jesuits and wrote about his leaving in the National Catholic Reporter, saying that the Society of Jesus has turned from its commitment to social justice, and that he would not be permitted to work for peace and disarmament.

John Dear then joined the Diocese of Monterey, California where he remains a Catholic priest.

John Dear formerly wrote a weekly column for the National Catholic Reporter and the Huffington Post.

John Dear is featured in several other books and featured in a wide variety of US publications, including The New York Times and The Washington Post.

John Dear is featured in the DVD documentary film, The Narrow Path, and the subject of John Dear on Peace, by Patti Normile.

John Dear has received several peace awards, including the 2010 Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award, from the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa; and the Courage of Conscience Award, from Peace Abbey in Boston, Massachusetts.

John Dear has been nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize, including a nomination in January 2008 by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and later by Senator Barbara Mikulski.