Prison Journals of a Priest Revolutionary by Philip Berrigan

Ignatius, a thirty-day silent retreat spent two years studying philosophy went on to teach at St. With his classmates, he made the Spiritual Exercises of St. Andrew-on-the-Hudson, near Poughkeepsie, New York in August, 1939. After high school, Berrigan applied to the Society of Jesus, the Catholic religious order known as “The Jesuits.” He entered the Jesuit novitiate at St. His family subsequently moved to Syracuse, New York, where the boys grew up attending Catholic grade schools.

He was arrested hundreds of times since then in protests against war and nuclear weapons, spent two years of his life in prison, and was repeatedly nominated for the Nobel peace prize.ĭaniel Berrigan was born on in Virginia, Minnesota, the fifth of six boys to Thomas and Frieda Berrigan. priest ever arrested in protest of war, at the national mobilization against the Vietnam war at the Pentagon in October, 1967.

He has long been in declining health.ĭan Berrigan published over fifty books of poetry, essays, journals and scripture commentaries, as well as an award winning play, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, in his remarkable life, but he was most known for burning draft files with homemade napalm along with his brother Philip and eight others on May 17, 1968, in Catonsville, Maryland, igniting widespread national protest against the Vietnam war, including increased opposition from religious communities. He died of natural causes at the Jesuit infirmary at Murray-Weigel Hall in the Bronx, New York. nuclear weapons industry, has died at age 94, just a week shy of his 95th birthday. Daniel Berrigan, the renowned anti-war activist, award-winning poet, author and Jesuit priest, who inspired religious opposition to the Vietnam war and later the U.S. By Guest columnist, John Dear, Catholic priest, peace activist, author of “The Nonviolent Life,” (Full article at: ”

Prison Journals of a Priest Revolutionary by Philip Berrigan