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Daniel Joseph Berrigan SJ (May 9, 1921 – April 30, 2016) was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, Christian pacifist, playwright, poet, and author. Berrigan's protests against the Vietnam War earned him both scorn and admiration, especially regarding his association with the Catonsville Nine .
Fr. Daniel Berrigan wrote a play in free verse, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, about the trial. The version performed is usually an adaptation into regular dialogue by Saul Levitt. The play is based on a partial transcript of the trial. In 1972 a film version of the play was produced by Gregory Peck. It cost $300,000 and Peck "lost every ...
Daniel Cosacchi and Eric Martin, eds., The Berrigan Letters: Personal Correspondence between Daniel and Philip Berrigan (Orbis Books, 2016) Joseph Palermo, "Father Daniel Berrigan: The FBI's Most Wanted Peace Activist", in The Human Tradition in America Since 1945, edited by David L. Anderson, (Scholarly Resources, 2003)
Father Berrigan may refer to: Daniel Berrigan, American Catholic priest and peace activist, brother of Philip; Philip Berrigan, American Catholic priest and peace ...
Fr. Daniel Berrigan, [64] [65] Activist who was part of the Catonsville Nine and the Plowshares Movement. Fr. Virgil Blum , [ 66 ] Founded the Catholic League . Fr. George Coyne , [ 67 ] Former director of the Vatican Observatory .
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 ...
A horrifying video shows a masked man attempting to rip a six-year-old Hasidic Jewish boy out of the arms of his father in broad daylight as they walked down a Brooklyn sidewalk together Saturday.
On September 9, 1980, Daniel Berrigan (above), his brother Philip, and six others (the "Plowshares Eight") began the Plowshares Movement. They illegally trespassed onto the General Electric Nuclear Missile facility in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, where they damaged nuclear warhead nose cones and poured blood onto documents and files.