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May 5, 2016

History will speak well of Fr. Daniel Berrigan

Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan, an early critic of U.S. military intervention in Vietnam who for years challenged the country's reliance on military might, died April 30 at 94. He is pictured in a 2002 photo in New York.

Before you get serious about Jesus, first consider how good you’re going to look on wood! Daniel Berrigan wrote those words and they express a lot about who he was and what he believed in. He died April 30 at age 94.

Published in Fr. Ron Rolheiser
May 2, 2016

‘Radical priest” Fr. Daniel Berrigan dead at 94

Daniel Berrigan arrested for civil disobedience outside the U.S. Mission to the U.N. in 2006.

NEW YORK – Fr. Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit priest and herald of the Catholic social justice movement whose name — along with his late brother, Philip, also a priest — became synonymous with anti-war activism in the Vietnam era, has died.

Published in International