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John Dear

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John Dear (born August 15, 1959) is an American Catholic priest, Christian pacifist, vegetarianism advocate, author and lecturer, and a former member of the Society of Jesus. [1]

48 relations: Baltimore, Ben Salmon, Berkeley, California, Bruce Friedrich, Christian pacifism, Christian vegetarianism, Civil disobedience, Clark County, Nevada, Consistent life ethic, Daniel Berrigan, Derry, Desmond Tutu, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, Elizabeth McAlister, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Fordham University, Goldsboro, North Carolina, Graduate Theological Union, Henri Nouwen, James W. Douglass, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, Joan Chittister, List of peace activists, Mother Teresa, National Catholic Reporter, New Mexico, Nobel Peace Prize, Nonviolence, North Carolina, Novitiate, Nyack, New York, Pacem in Terris Award, Pax Christi, Philip Berrigan, Plowshares movement, Priesthood in the Catholic Church, Provincial superior, Regency (Jesuit), Richmond, Virginia, Scranton Preparatory School, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Society of Jesus, The Bronx, Thomas Gumbleton, Wernersville, Pennsylvania.

Baltimore

Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.

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Ben Salmon

Benjamin Joseph Salmon (1888–1932) was an American Christian pacifist, Roman Catholic, conscientious objector and outspoken critic of just war theory, who believed no war could be morally justified.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California.

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Bruce Friedrich

Bruce Gregory Friedrich (born August 7, 1969) is co-founder and executive director of The Good Food Institute (GFI).

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Christian pacifism

Christian pacifism is the theological and ethical position that any form of violence is incompatible with the Christian faith.

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Christian vegetarianism

Christian vegetarianism is a Christian practice based on effecting the compassionate teachings of Jesus, the twelve apostles, and the early church to all sentient or living beings through vegetarianism or, ideally, veganism.

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Civil disobedience

Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government or occupying international power.

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Clark County, Nevada

Clark County is located in the U.S. state of Nevada.

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Consistent life ethic

The consistent life ethic, or the consistent ethic of life is an ideology that opposes abortion, capital punishment, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.

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Daniel Berrigan

Daniel Joseph Berrigan (May 9, 1921April 30, 2016) was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, and poet.

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Derry

Derry, officially Londonderry, is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fourth-largest city on the island of Ireland.

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Desmond Tutu

Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born 7 October 1931) is a South African Anglican cleric and theologian known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist.

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Duke University

Duke University is a private, non-profit, research university located in Durham, North Carolina.

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Durham, North Carolina

Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Elizabeth City, North Carolina

Elizabeth City is a city in Pasquotank County, North Carolina, in the United States.

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Elizabeth McAlister

Elizabeth "Liz" McAlister (born November 17, 1939) is an American peace activist and former nun of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary.

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Fellowship of Reconciliation

The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FoR or FOR) is the name used by a number of religious nonviolent organizations, particularly in English-speaking countries.

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Fordham University

Fordham University is a private research university in New York City.

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Goldsboro, North Carolina

Goldsboro is a city in Wayne County, North Carolina, United States.

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Graduate Theological Union

The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) is a consortium of eight private independent American theological schools and eleven centers and affiliates.

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Henri Nouwen

Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen, (January 24, 1932 – September 21, 1996) was a Dutch Catholic priest, professor, writer and theologian.

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James W. Douglass

James W. "Jim" Douglass (born 1937) is an American author, activist, and Christian theologian.

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Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University

The Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University is a Jesuit Seminary that is a school of Santa Clara University and one of the member colleges of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, California.

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Joan Chittister

Sister Joan D. Chittister, O.S.B. (born April 26, 1936) is a Benedictine nun, author and speaker.

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List of peace activists

This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods.

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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa, known in the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu,; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary.

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National Catholic Reporter

The National Catholic Reporter (NCR) is an American newspaper which reports on issues related to the Roman Catholic Church.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.

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Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

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Nonviolence

Nonviolence is the personal practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Novitiate

The novitiate, also called the noviciate, is the period of training and preparation that a novice (or prospective) monastic, apostolic, or member of a religious institute undergoes prior to taking vows in order to discern whether he or she is called to vowed religious life.

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Nyack, New York

Nyack is a village located primarily in the town of Orangetown in Rockland County, New York, United States.

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Pacem in Terris Award

The Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award is a Catholic peace award which has been given annually since 1964, in commemoration of the 1963 encyclical letter Pacem in terris (Peace on Earth) of Pope John XXIII.

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Pax Christi

Pax Christi International is an international Catholic peace movement.

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Philip Berrigan

Philip Francis Berrigan (October 5, 1923 – December 6, 2002) was an American peace activist and Roman Catholic priest.

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Plowshares movement

The Plowshares movement is an anti-nuclear weapons and Christian pacifist movement that advocates active resistance to war.

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Priesthood in the Catholic Church

The ministerial orders of the Catholic Church (for similar but different rules among Eastern Catholics see Eastern Catholic Church) are those of bishop, presbyter (more commonly called priest in English), and deacon.

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Provincial superior

A provincial superior is a major superior of a religious institute acting under the institute's Superior General and exercising a general supervision over all the members of that institute in a territorial division of the order called a province—similar to but not to be confused with an ecclesiastical province made up of particular churches or dioceses under the supervision of a Metropolitan Bishop.

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Regency (Jesuit)

The regency is a period lasting two to three years during the formation of a candidate to the Society of Jesus following his initial admission to the Society during the two years of novitiate.

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Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Scranton Preparatory School

Scranton Preparatory School is a co-educational Jesuit high school located in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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Scranton, Pennsylvania

Scranton is the sixth-largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania behind Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie and Reading.

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Seymour Johnson Air Force Base

Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Goldsboro, North Carolina.

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Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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Thomas Gumbleton

Thomas John Gumbleton (born January 26, 1930) is a retired Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit.

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Wernersville, Pennsylvania

Wernersville is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dear

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