Daniel Berrigan, Jesuit priest, poet, prophet, died 5 yrs ago, 4/30 2016. He was one of those great saints who come along to show a new way of being a follower of Jesus—in his case, as a link in the chain of blessed Peacemakers who acted as if the Sermon on the Mt. were true.

His famous words on behalf of the Catonsville 9: “Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise.”

But he showed that there is more to being a peacemaker than just opposing war. In his ministry to the dying (cancer and AIDS), in his eye for beauty, his capacity for friendship, he resisted the power of death and affirmed life in every way.

50 yrs ago at the the May Day protests in DC (the largest acts of civil disobedience in US history), 3 unlikely radicals go undetected: my father @DanielEllsberg (one month before publication of the #PentagonPapers), Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky.

They were not among the 12K arrested, but they were maced. "Wow, that's good Mace!" my father exclaimed, "As if I were a connoisseur. What I meant was that this was a product that really worked as advertised." Afterward they dispersed, my father to a lecture by McGeorge Bundy at