 Daniel Berrigan at the Third Annual Staten Island Freedom & Peace Festival, Oct. 28, 2006 Daniel Berrigan, S.J. (born May 9, 1921) is an internationally renowned poet, American peace activist and Roman Catholic priest. Daniel and his brother Philip performed non-violent actions against war and were for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (500x752, 625 KB) I took this picture on Oct. ...
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Philip Berrigan Philip Berrigan (October 5, 1923 – December 6, 2002) was an internationally renowned American peace activist, Christian anarchist and former Roman Catholic priest. ...
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Daniel Berrigan was born in Virginia, Minnesota, a Midwestern working class town. His father, Thomas Berrigan, was second-generation Irish-Catholic and proud Union man. Tom left the Catholic Church, but Berrigan remained attracted to the Church throughout his youth. He joined the Jesuits directly out of high school in 1939 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1952. He now resides in New York City and sometimes lectures at Fordham University. Virginia is a city located in St. ...
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Berrigan appears briefly in the 1986 film, The Mission, directed by Roland Joffé and starring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons. He plays a Jesuit priest and also served as a consultant on the film. Roland Joffé in a TV interview Roland Joffé (born November 17, 1945) is a British film director who started out directing television. ...
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Protests against the War in Vietnam Berrigan, his brother Philip, and the famed Trappist monk Thomas Merton founded an interfaith coalition against the Vietnam War, and wrote letters to major newspapers arguing for an end to the war. Philip Berrigan Philip Berrigan (October 5, 1923 – December 6, 2002) was an internationally renowned American peace activist, Christian anarchist and former Roman Catholic priest. ...
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In 1969, Philip Berrigan was arrested for non-violent protest and sentenced to six years in prison. Afterwards, Daniel Berrigan seriously considered taking more direct action against the war. Howard Zinn, professor emeritus at Boston University, invited Berrigan to accompany him on a trip to Hanoi to negotiate the release of three U.S. pilots held prisoner by the North Vietnamese. Although the mission had a high chance of success, it was opposed by the FBI on the grounds that it violated their policy of non-negotiation with North Vietnam. J. Edgar Hoover went so far as to publicly call Zinn and Berrigan "traitors". U.S. planes even bombed locations where they were scheduled to be. Despite the opposition, three pilots were returned home. They were the first American POWs released unharmed by the North Vietnamese. The lack of acknowledgement and appreciation by the U.S. government helped to radicalize Berrigan. Howard Zinn Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian, social critic and political scientist. ...
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In 1969, Berrigan decided to participate in a more radical non-violent protest. A local high-school physics teacher helped to concoct homemade napalm. Nine activists, who later became known as the Catonsville Nine, walked into the draft board of Catonsville, Maryland, and removed 378 draft files, which they brought outside and burned. The Catonsville Nine, who were all Catholic, issued a statement: Secondary education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...
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"We confront the Catholic Church, other Christian bodies, and the synagogues of America with their silence and cowardice in the face of our country's crimes. We are convinced that the religious bureaucracy in this country is racist, is an accomplice in this war, and is hostile to the poor." It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Christianity. ...
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Berrigan was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison, but he refused to serve his time. Instead, he went underground, living discreetly among like-minded individuals. The FBI, to its great embarrassment, was not immediately able to apprehend Berrigan, although he frequently showed up briefly at public events, made impromptu speeches, and went back into hiding. During this time Berrigan was also interviewed for a documentary titled "The Holy Outlaw," by Lee Lockwood. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal police force which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ...
Eventually, the FBI managed to find and arrest Berrigan. He was released from prison in 1972. After his release from prison, Berrigan spent time in France meeting with Thich Nhat Hanh, the exiled Buddhist monk peace activist from Vietnam. Thich Nhat Hanh Thích Nhất Hạnh (born 1926) is an expatriate Vietnamese Buddhist monk, peace activist, and prolific author in English. ...
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The Plowshares Movement On September 9, 1980, Berrigan, his brother Philip, and six others (the "Plowshares Eight") began the Plowshares Movement when they entered the General Electric Nuclear Missile Re-entry Division in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania where nose cones for the Mark 12A warheads were made. They hammered on two nose cones, poured blood on documents and offered prayers for peace. They were arrested and initially charged with over ten different felony and misdemeanor counts. On April 10, 1990, after nearly ten years of trials and appeals, the Plowshares Eight were re-sentenced and paroled for up to 23 and 1/2 months in consideration of time already served in prison. Their legal battle was dramatically re-created in Emile de Antonio's 1982 film In The King of Prussia, which starred Martin Sheen and featured appearances by the Plowshares Eight as themselves. September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). ...
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Since this action over seventy Plowshares actions have taken place around the world against weapons of war, several involving Berrigan himself.
Among the Plowshares Eight was Father Carl Kabat, a fellow Catholic priest who is currently in prison. Kabat is the subject of the original play And Carl Laughed, written by two teachers at Clayton High School, in Clayton, MO. The play will debut this summer, performed by students from the school, at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Other activism Berrigan has spoken out on many issues since then, and has been involved in many protests. He has led protests against American destabilization of Central America, the 1991 Gulf War, the Kosovo War, the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He is also a prominent pro-life activist. He had been a guest speaker at Regis High School, a Jesuit college preparatory school in Manhattan. Map of Central America Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. ...
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Further reading Berrigan later wrote the play The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, which ran on Broadway for 29 performances in 1971 and was made into a movie in 1972.
Berrigan also wrote many books, including
- Words Our Savior Gave Us (Springfield: Templegate, 1978, ISBN 0-87243-081-2);
- Prison Poems (Greensboro: Unicorn Press, 1973, ISBN 0-87775-049-1);
- Hole in the Ground: A Parable for Peacemakers (Minneapolis: The Honeywell Project, 1987, ISBN 0-9619003-1-8);
- And the Risen Bread: Selected Poems 1954-1997 (New York: Fordham University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-8232-1821-X);
- Daniel: Under the Siege of the Divine (Farmington, PA: Plough Publishing House, 1998, ISBN 0-87486-952-8); and
- Uncommon Prayer: A Book of Psalms (1998, ISBN 1-57075-193-5). Absurd Convictions, Modest Hopes. Geography of Faith. Time Without Number (won the Lamont Prize). Night Flight to Hanoi. Trial Writings (with Tom Lewis).
- The Raft Is Not the Shore: Conversations Toward a Buddhist/Christian Awareness, Daniel Berrigan/Thich Nhat Hanh, Orbis Books, 2000, ISBN 1-57075-344-X
- Swords into Plowshares: A chronology of plowshares disarmament actions 1980-2003 Edited by Arthur J. Laffin (2003, ISBN 0-9636224-8-X);
The documentry film Investigation of a Flame is about the Berrigan Brothers and the Catonsville Nine. http://www.investigationofaflame.com/
Awards and recognition See, too, Murray Polner and Jim O'Grady, "Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Life and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan," (Basic Books, 1997) and Westview (1998. Since 1958, the War Resisters League Peace Award has been awarded by the 1923 founded organization War Resisters League. The organization stipulates nonviolence in the sense of Mahatma Gandhi. ...
The Thomas Merton Award has been awarded since 1972 by the Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Social Justice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. It is named after Thomas Merton and is given annually to national and international individuals struggling for justice. ...
The Pacem in Terris Award has been awarded annually since 1964 in commemoration of the Encyclical Pacem in Terris of Pope John XXIII by Davenport (Iowa) Diocese. ...
The Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace Award is given out annually by the organization Pax Christi USA, a Catholic peace organization, to an individual who has exlemplified Pope Paul VIs World Day for Peace message: To reach peace, teach peace. ...
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