Daniel Berrigan, priest, poet, peacemaker, died 4/28/2016. Ordained a Jesuit priest in 1952 he found his distinctive vocation amidst the horrendous death toll of Vietnam. In 1968, with his brother Phil and seven others, he burned draft files in Catonsville with homemade napalm.
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"Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children...We could not, so help us God, do otherwise. For we are sick at heart, our hearts give us no rest for thinking of the Land of Burning Children."
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Less public, his work in a home for terminal cancer patients, and with AIDS patients during the height of the epidemic in the 1980s. "Peacemaking is hard, hard almost as war. The difference being one we can stake life upon, and limb and thought, and love." bit.ly/2vuw8SE
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Thanks for posting, . Did you now I did my senior project in college on Berrigan, including producing & acting in "The Trial of the Catonsville 9"?
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You would have loved this amazing recent production: transportgroup.org/project/the-tr all parts played by 3 Asian-American actors.
I was still living in Russia when he died. My thoughts at the time ... blog.canyoubelieve.me/2016/05/the-ha
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What a great courageous man! I once heard him talk about courage. It's not the absence of fear. It's doing what is right even when your knees are like jelly and your heart quivers with fear
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