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Philip Francis Berrigan SSJ (October 5, 1923 – December 6, 2002) was an American peace activist and Catholic priest [1] [2] [3] with the Josephites. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He engaged in nonviolent, civil disobedience in the cause of peace and nuclear disarmament and was often arrested.
Frida Berrigan, named for her paternal grandmother, [4] was born on April 1, 1974, in Baltimore, Maryland to Elizabeth McAlister and Philip Berrigan, a former nun and priest turned radical Catholic peace activists. [5] [6] They lived in the Jonah House community, which they co-founded. [7]
Elizabeth McAlister (born November 17, 1939 [1]) is an American peace activist and former nun of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary. [2] [3] [4] She married Philip Berrigan and was excommunicated from the Catholic Church.
Father Berrigan was serving time in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, in central Pennsylvania. Boyd Douglas, who eventually would become an FBI informant and star prosecution witness, was a fellow inmate. Douglas was on a work-release at the library at nearby Bucknell University. Douglas used his connection with Berrigan to convince some ...
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They were also sentenced to a total of 18 years in jail and fined $22,000. Mary Moylan, Philip Berrigan, Daniel Berrigan and George Mische failed to report for the beginning of their sentences. Daniel Berrigan caused considerable embarrassment to FBI by giving sermons at various events while a fugitive.
As a peace protester, on October 17, 1967, Eberhardt entered the Selective Service Board at Baltimore's Customs House with Father Philip Berrigan, Tom Lewis, and a United Church of Christ pastor, Rev. James L. Mengel III, to protest the Vietnam War. [10] [11] [12] They combined their own blood and poultry blood, pouring it over draft records. [13]
Those involved included Father Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit priest, his brother Philip Berrigan, a former Josephite priest, and artist Tom Lewis. The social revolt and labor unrest in France spread as the number of striking laborers reached 100,000 employees of dozens of factories.