http://www.manhattan.edu/news/news_releases/092908_1.shtml
September 29, 2008
Jesuit Priest John Dear To Speak At Manhattan College
Dear is the former executive director of the fellowship of reconciliation.
RIVERDALE, N.Y. – John Dear, a Jesuit priest and former executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, will speak at Manhattan College and sign copies of his autobiography on Sunday, Nov. 14 at 4:00 p.m. in the Alumni Room of O’Malley Library. The event, sponsored by the College’s peace studies program, is free and open to the public.
A Persistent Peace: One Man’s Struggle for a Nonviolent World was released this past August, and copies will be available for sale during the event. The book follows Dear’s decades-long journey and spiritual growth, including his unpopular actions before government officials, military personnel and even hostile representatives of the Church.
Dear, well-known and loved in the Catholic peace and justice community, has worked with the homeless in Washington, D.C., New York City, Richmond, Va., and El Salvador, and at a human rights center in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He taught theology at Fordham University and has edited books about Henri Nouwen, Daniel Berrigan and Nobel Laureate Mairead Corrigan.
From 1998 through December 2000, Dear served at the helm of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the largest interfaith peace organization in the United States. From 2002-2004, he was a pastor of several parishes in northeastern New Mexico. Currently, he coordinates Pax Christi New Mexico and lectures to tens of thousands of people each year in churches and schools across the country.
Dear earned two master’s degrees in theology from the Graduate Theological Union in California. In 2008, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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