John Dear

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Full Name	John Dear
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	Aug 13, 1959(1959-08-13)
Age	65
Country	United States
Birth City	Elizabeth City
Horoscope	Leo

John Dear Biography

John Dear is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on August 13, 1959 in Elizabeth City, United States. Dear Born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina on August 13, 1959. He earned his Magna Cum laude in Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, in 1981. Then, he was employed by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation in Washington, D.C.

At the period, Dear founded Bay Area Pax Christi, one of the regions within Pax Christi USA, the national Catholic peace movement. He also began to make arrangements to allow Mother Teresa to intervene with governors in support of those who were who were scheduled to be executed in death-row. He was ordained as a Catholic pastor at Baltimore, Maryland on June 12, 1993. He was appointed an associate pastor of St. Aloysius the church situated in Washington, D.C.

From 1998–2001, Dear served as executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the largest interfaith peace organization in the United States, based in Nyack, New York. In 1999, he led a delegation of Nobel Peace Prize winners on a peace mission to Iraq, and also an interfaith delegation to Palestine/Israel.

Immediately after September 11, 2001, 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. From 2002–04, he served as pastor to five parishes in the high desert of northeastern New Mexico, and founded Pax Christi New Mexico, a region of Pax Christi USA.

Through the time, Dear was arrested in a variety of civil disobedience actions to protest injustice, war and nuclear weapons ranging from to the Pentagon from the Pentagon to Livermore Laboratories in California. On the 7th of December 1993, Dear was snatched up along with three others at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, North Carolina, for hammering at an F-15 fighter that was nuclear-capable bomber. He was detained for a year, tried, and convicted of two counts of felony and sentenced to 8 months North Carolina jails and nearly an entire year under residence arrest at Washington, D.C. As part of the Plowshares disarmament movement they argued they were fulfilling the Isaiah’s directive for them to “beat swords into plowshares,” as well as Jesus’s command to “love your enemies.”

John Dear Net Worth

John Dear is one of the richest Author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Dear 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

John Dear (born August 15 1959) is an American Catholic priest, Christian vegetarianist, pacifist writer and lecturer and past member of the Society of Jesus. He has been detained more than 75 times for actions of civil disobedience that are nonviolent against injustice, war and nuclear weapons in the context of his “consistent ethic of nonviolence”. Dear was nominated numerous time in the past for his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, in January 2008 by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and most recently along with Leo Rebello for the 2015 award.

In the summer of 1982 Dear joined into the Society of Jesus which is also known as the Jesuits in their Novitiate located at Wernersville, Pennsylvania. The following year, he was learning philosophy and studies in Fordham University in the Bronx, New York (1984-1986) and was employed and lived with the Jesuit Refugee Service in a refugee camp in El Salvador for three months in 1985. In the time of his regency and teaching, he was at the Scranton Preparatory School located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, from 1986 until 1988. He also spent a time volunteering at the Fr. McKenna Center which is which is a drop-in centre and shelter for homeless people situated in Washington, D.C. From 1989 until 1993, he was a student at his Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and received two master’s degrees in theology at Berkeley’s Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.

From 1994–96, Dear served as executive director of the Sacred Heart Center, a community center for low-income African-American women and children, in Richmond, Virginia. In the Spring of 1997, he taught theology for one semester at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. From 1997–98, he lived in Derry, Northern Ireland, as part of the Jesuit “tertianship” sabbatical program, and worked at a human rights center in Belfast.

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Dear was dismissed from the Jesuit Order on December 20, 2013. He claimed that it was due to his Provincial Superiors’ change of direction from the commitment to working for peace and justice which had been part of the ethos of the Society of Jesus when he entered.

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Is John Dear Still a Catholic priest?

For now, Dear remains a priest , though he said he is “not sure if I will remain a priest.” He cannot function as a Catholic priest unless a bishop gives him permission to do so. Dear said he is continuing to work for peace and justice with other organizations.

Who is John Dear Gandhi?

John Dear is an internationally known author, activist and teacher of peace and nonviolence. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Senator Barbara Mikulski, and several others. He calls people to practice Gospel nonviolence, in the tradition of Gandhi and Dr.

Why did John Dear leave the Jesuits?

In December 2013, Dear was dismissed after thirty-two years by the Jesuit order for being what his order called “obstinately disobedient.” But he continues his work as a priest in the diocese of Monterey, California, and as nonviolence outreach coordinator for the activist group Pace e Bene.