Where:  Doubletree by Hilton Downtown
              315 4th Avenue North
              Nashville, TN 37219
(Call 1-800-222-8733 for reservations under:
The Nashville Diocesan Coucil of Catholic Women Block
no later than March 22, 2017!!)

Speakers:

Martha Hennessy
Seventh grandchild of Dorthy Day, she divides her time between family in Vermont and work at Maryhouse Catholic Worker.

She is 60, a retired occupational therapist, and grandmother of seven. She has been imprisoned protesting war and nuclear power/weapons, the use of drones, and the torture of prisoners in Guantanamo.

She has traveled to Russia, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Palestine to understand the effects of war on other peoples.

Martha travels and speaks on topics of life and work in community, Catholic Social Teaching, and peacemaking efforts in the tradition of the Catholic Worker movement.

Rev. John Dear
An internationally recognized voice for peace and nonviolence, he is a priest, pastor, retreat leader, and author. He has served for years as the director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the largest interfaith peace organization in the U.S. After September 11, 2001, he was a Red Cross coordinator of chaplains at the Family Assistance Center in New York, and counseled thousands of relatives and rescue workers. John has traveled the war zones of the world, been arrested some 75 times for peace, led Nobel Peace prize winners to Iraq, recently visited Afghanistan, given thousands of lectures on peace across the U.S., and served as a pastor of several churches in New Mexico.

His thirty-five books include; The Beatitudes Of Peace; The Nonviolent Life; Walking The Way; Thomas Merton Peacemaker; A Persistent Peace; Transfiguration; You Will Be My Witnesses; Living Peace; The Questions of Jesus; The God of Peace; Jesus the Rebel; Peace Behind Bars; Lazarus Come Forth! and Disarming the Heart. He has been nominated many times for the Nobel Peace Prize, including by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Senator Barbara Mikulski. He works for www.campaignnonviolence.org, is a priest of the Diocese of Monterey, California, and lives in New Mexico. See: www.johndear.org.

 

“He is not the God of disorder but of peace.”
-1 Corinthians 14:33

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