Career
He has been a Catholic priest since he was ordained on 9 August 1981, in Damascus, Syria. He has served as Spiritual Director and Rector of Saint Gregory the Theologian Melkite Catholic Seminary in Newton, Massachusetts and is now a Retreat Director. He left the Notre Dame in 1969, resigning in protest.
He has directed retreats and spoken throughout the world on the issue of the relationship of faith and violence, and the Nonviolent Jesus and His Way of Nonviolent Love of friends and enemies.
In 1990 he initiated the July 16 Twenty-Four Hours Day of Prayer for Forgiveness and Protection with Our Lady of Mount Carmel at Trinity Site in the New Mexico desert. July 16 is the feast day of Our Lady of Mountain.
Carmel, as well as, the day in 1945 when the first atomic bomb was detonated at Trinity Site. He was the keynote speaker at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, for the 25th anniversary memorial of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Junior. at that spot.
He has written popular articles and theological essays on the subject of violence, religion and the nonviolent love of friends and enemies that Jesus taught.
His Civil Defense/Digital Video Disc series, Behold the Lamb, is a presentation on the matter of the nonviolent Jesus and his way of nonviolent love of friends and enemies.
