Saturday, May 7, 2016

Daniel Berrigan

This blog made no reference to the death of Fr Daniel Berrigan on Saturday, April 30.

Today's Irish Times carries an obituary on the great man. He was 94.

The obit cites what he said of his father: "an incindiary wothout a cause," a subscriber to Catholic liberal periodicals and the frustrated writer of poems of no distinction.

"We grew inured, as the price of survival, to violence as a norm of existence. I remember, my eyes open to the lives of neighbours, my astonishment at seeing that wives and husbands were not natural enemies."

He believed the church condoned his father's treatment of his mother.

He was a Jesuit priest, who played a significant role in changing US policy on the Vietnam war.

A shining light. A great man.

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