Daniel Joseph Berrigan (May 9, 1921 – April 30, 2016) was an American

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priest,

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activist,

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, playwright, poet, and author. Berrigan's active protest against the

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earned him both scorn and admiration, especially regarding his association with the

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. It also landed him on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's "most wanted list" (the first-ever priest on the list), on the cover of ''Time'' magazine, and in prison. For the rest of his life, Berrigan remained one of the United States' leading anti-war activists. In 1980, he co-founded the Plowshares movement, an

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protest group, that put him back into the national spotlight. Berrigan was an award-winning and prolific author of some 50 books, a teacher, and a university educator.

Early life

Berrigan was born in

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, the son of Thomas Berrigan, a second-generation

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Catholic and active trade union member, and Frieda Berrigan (née Fromhart), who was of German ancestry. He was the fifth of six sons. His youngest brother was fellow peace activist

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. At age 5, Berrigan's family moved to

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. In 1946, Berrigan earned a bachelor's degree from

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, a Jesuit seminary in

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. In 1952 he received a master's degree from

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, Maryland. Berrigan was devoted to the

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throughout his youth. He joined the Jesuits directly out of high school in 1939 and was ordained to the priesthood on June 19, 1952.

Career

Berrigan taught at St. Peter's Preparatory School in

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. In 1957 he was appointed professor of New Testament studies at

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, New York. The same year, he won the Lamont Prize for his book of poems, ''Time Without Number''. He developed a reputation as a religious radical, working actively against poverty and on changing the relationship between priests and lay people. While at Le Moyne, he founded its International House. While on a sabbatical from Le Moyne in 1963, Berrigan traveled to Paris and met French Jesuits who criticized the social and political conditions in Indochina. Taking inspiration from this, he and his brother Philip founded the Catholic Peace Fellowship, a group that organized protests against the war in Vietnam. On October 28, 1965, Berrigan, along with the Rev.

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and Rabbi

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, founded an organization known as Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam (CALCAV). The organization, founded at the Church Center for the United Nations, was joined by the likes of Dr.

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, the Rev.

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, the Rev.

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, and the Rev.

, among many others. The Rev. Dr.

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, who delivered his 1967 speech '' Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence'' under sponsorship from CALCAV, served as the national co-chairman of the organization. From 1966 to 1970, Berrigan was the assistant director of the

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), eventually becoming the group's pastor. Berrigan was the first faculty advisor of Cornell University's first gay rights student group, the Student Homophile League, in 1968. Berrigan at one time or another held faculty positions or ran programs at Union Theological Seminary,

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, Columbia,

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, and

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. His longest tenure was at Fordham (a Jesuit university located in the Bronx), where for a brief time he also served as poet-in-residence. Berrigan appeared briefly in the 1986

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film '' The Mission'', playing a Jesuit priest. He also served as a consultant on the film.

Activism

Vietnam War era

Berrigan, his brother and Josephite priest

, and

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monk

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founded an interfaith coalition against the

and wrote letters to major newspapers arguing for an end to the war. In 1967, Berrigan witnessed the public outcry that followed from the arrest of his brother Philip, for pouring blood on draft records as part of the Baltimore Four.''Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement'' (2008) Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Cambridge University Press, p48 Philip was sentenced to six years in prison for defacing government property. The fallout he had to endure from these many interventions, including his support for

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and, in 1968, seeing firsthand the conditions on the ground in Vietnam, further radicalized Berrigan, or at least strengthened his determination to resist American military imperialism. Berrigan traveled to

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with

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during the

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in January 1968 to "receive" three American airmen, the first American prisoners of war released by the North Vietnamese since the US bombing of that nation had begun. In 1968, he signed the

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pledge, vowing to refuse to make tax payments in protest of the Vietnam War. In the same year, he was interviewed in the anti-Vietnam War documentary film ''

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'', and later that year became involved in radical non-violent protest.

Catonsville Nine

Daniel Berrigan and his brother Philip, along with seven other Catholic protesters, used homemade

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to destroy 378 draft files in the parking lot of the

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, draft board on May 17, 1968. This group, which came to be known as the

, issued a statement after the incident: Berrigan was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison, but went into hiding with the help of fellow radicals prior to imprisonment. While on the run, Berrigan was interviewed for Lee Lockwood's documentary ''The Holy Outlaw''. The

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apprehended him on August 11, 1970, at the home of

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and Anthony Towne on

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. Berrigan was then imprisoned at the

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until his release on February 24, 1972. In retrospect, the trial of the Catonsville Nine was significant, because it "altered resistance to the Vietnam War, moving activists from street protests to repeated acts of civil disobedience, including the burning of draft cards". As ''The New York Times'' noted in its obituary, Berrigan's actions helped "shape the tactics of opposition to the Vietnam War."

Plowshares movement

On September 9, 1980, Berrigan, his brother Philip, and six others (the "Plowshares Eight") began the Plowshares movement. They trespassed onto the

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nuclear missile facility in

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, where they damaged nuclear warhead nose cones and poured blood onto documents and files. They were arrested and charged with over ten different felony and misdemeanor counts. On April 10, 1990, after ten years of appeals, Berrigan's group was re-sentenced and paroled for up to months in consideration of time already served in prison. Their legal battle was re-created in

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's 1982 film ''

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'', which starred

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and featured appearances by the Plowshares Eight as themselves.

Consistent life ethic

Berrigan endorsed a

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, a morality based on a holistic reverence for life. As a member of the

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-area consistent life ethic advocacy group ''Faith and Resistance Community'', he protested via civil disobedience against

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at a new

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clinic in 1991.

AIDS activism

Berrigan said of pastoral care to AIDS patients: Berrigan published ''Sorrow Built a Bridge: Friendship and AIDS'' reflecting on his experiences ministering to AIDS patients through the Supportive Care Program at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center in 1989. The ''Religious Studies Review'' wrote, "the strength of this volume lies in its capacity to portray sensitively the impact of AIDS on human lives." Speaking about AIDS patients, many of whom were gay, ''The Charlotte Observer'' quoted Berrigan saying in 1991, "Both the church and the state are finding ways to kill people with AIDS, and one of the ways is ostracism that pushes people between the cracks of respectability or acceptability and leaves them there to make of life what they will or what they cannot."

Other activism

Although much of his later work was devoted to assisting AIDS patients in New York City, Berrigan still held to his activist roots throughout his life. He maintained his opposition to American interventions abroad, from Central America in the 1980s, through the

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in 1991, the

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, the

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, and the

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. He was also an opponent of capital punishment, a contributing editor of ''

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'', and a supporter of the

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. P. G. Coy, P. Berryman, D. L. Anderson, and others consider Berrigan to be a

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In media

* January 25, 1971: Featured on the cover of ''

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'' along with his brother Philip. *

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's poem "The Burning of Paper Instead of Children" makes numerous references to the Catonsville Nine and includes an epigraph from Daniel Berrigan during the trial ("I was in danger of verbalizing my moral impulses out of existence"). * It is frequently claimed that "the radical priest" in

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's song "

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" refers to or was inspired by Berrigan * Lynne Sachs's documentary film ''

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'' is about the Berrigan brothers and the Catonsville Nine. * Berrigan appeared briefly in the 1986

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film '' The Mission'', which starred

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and

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. * Berrigan's play ''The Trial of the Catonsville Nine'' (1970) premiered at the Lyceum Theatre in New York City on June 2, 1971. The original cast featured the talents of

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, and

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, among others. Gordon Davidson received a 1972 Tony Award nomination for his direction of the play. * ''The Trial of the Catonsville Nine'' was adapted in a 1972 film of the same name, produced by

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and starring

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as Berrigan. * Berrigan is interviewed in

's 1968 Vietnam War documentary ''

''. * Berrigan is featured in

's 1983 film ''

'', also starring fellow activist

. * Berrigan's oral history is included in the 2006 book '' Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s'' by Jeff Kisseloff. * Berrigan's involvement with the

is explored in the 2013 documentary '' Hit & Stay''. *

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' song "I Had No Right" from her album '' The Green World'' is about Berrigan and his trial. *In the

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television adaptation of the podcast '' Slow Burn'', an anti-war protester brings up the Berrigan brothers.

Death

Berrigan died in

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, New York City on April 30, 2016 at Murray-Weigel Infirmary, the Jesuit infirmary at

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. Since 1975, he had lived on the

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at the West Side Jesuit Community. Dan Berrigan 1

Awards and recognition

* 1956:

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* 1974:

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* 1974:

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(accepted then resigned) * 1988:

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* 1989: Pax Christi USA Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace Award * 1991: The Peace Abbey Foundation Courage of Conscience Award * 1993:

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* 2008: Honorary Degree from the

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* 2017: Daniel Berrigan Center at Benincasa Community, 133 W. 70th Street, New York, NY 10023

Notes

References

External links

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*
Berrigan Brothers And The Harrisburg Seven Trial, 1970–1989
at the

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Daniel and Philip Berrigan Collection, 1880–1995
at Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,

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Daniel Berrigan Papers
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Catonsville Nine

Plowshares movement

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AIDS activism

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In media

Death

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See also

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