Daniel Berrigan, priest, poet, peacemaker, died 4/28/2016. Ordained a Jesuit priest in 1952 he found his distinctive vocation amidst the horrendous death toll of Vietnam. In 1968, with his brother Phil and seven others, he burned draft files in Catonsville with homemade napalm.
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"Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children...We could not, so help us God, do otherwise. For we are sick at heart, our hearts give us no rest for thinking of the Land of Burning Children."

Apr 30, 2019 · 4:02 PM UTC

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Less public, his work in a home for terminal cancer patients, and with AIDS patients during the height of the epidemic in the 1980s. "Peacemaking is hard, hard almost as war. The difference being one we can stake life upon, and limb and thought, and love." bit.ly/2vuw8SE
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
Gee! One of the best explanations of his actions.
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Love that picture of him being arrested!
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A fine poet, as the lines above proclaim. Such language -- "the fracture of good order".
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mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs… (if anyone wants a copy, please give me a shout)