Posted on 04/30/2016 6:36:14 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
The Rev. Daniel Berrigan, a Roman Catholic priest and peace activist who was imprisoned for burning draft files in a protest against the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 94.
Berrigan died at Murray-Weigel Hall, a Jesuit health care community in New York City after a "long illness," according to Michael Benigno, a spokesman for the Jesuits USA Northeast Province.
"He died peacefully," Benigno said.
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He was more a pacifist. More like John Woolman than Karl Marx.
John Woolman (1722-1772). I remember reading of John Woolman the Quaker, many years ago. This was of his vision of heaven and his description of the horrors of exploitation in South America. This of the hapless indigenous people forced to labour in the mines.
Further to this I perused Wikipedia and read of his conversion to being kind to animals. All this a long way from the days of the anti-war activities. I trust that the healing might begin one day. I have seen too much tragedy in my life time.
That appears to be the consensus of opinion here. :-)
I don’t understand that either. *shrugs*
Fortunately we are not the ones to decide on who will be where for eternity.
I read he was also jailed for protesting at abortion clinics. So at least he was seamless garment.
To the now flame broiling Daniel Berrigan: F*** you b*tch!!!
Sincerely,
Vietnam vet 1971-72
I thought that old commie was already dead. Although I did like his character in Doonesbury.
Thank you for your service!
Thanks, man. That always means something.
From 1992 NY times article-
Father Berrigan explained in an interview: “I was fairly anxious not to appear as an anti-abortionist but someone who can speak for the bishop’s metaphor of the seamless garment of life. Our group wanted to show that we were trying to cherish life across the board. This is not a single-issue group.”
Asked if he would participate in future anti-abortion demonstrations, Father Berrigan said he had a busy schedule protesting everything from “Star Wars” research to what he called “the continuing war against children” resulting from international economic sanctions against Iraq.
The war on the unborn, 55 million plus dead, on this priest’s watch, and he is worried about Iraq.
Meanwhile, this man has been living in NYC, and in NYC, in I think 2012, more black babies were aborted than born.
His comments on burning draft papers-
“Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children,” Berrigan wrote at the time of the destruction of draft files. “How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?”
He picked his communist/socialist cause and ran with it. And surprised other communists and socialists when he made a cameo at an abortion clinic.
I mean it all; you are a hero!
This is one old commie who did die, many years too late. And his BROTHER PHIL WAS JUST AS RED. GOOD RIDDANCE TO MARXIST TRASH.
Just did my job, like millions of us did. Thanks.
Are yoiu responding to the John Woolman part?
Let him rot in hell
He was given time to repent. I hope he used it wisely. We should all pray that we receive the same gift.
Or, is it really "preyed" on them, at the behest of his demonic masters......
May the Berrigan clan be cursed for all eternity.
Daniel Berrigan surprised people by coming out against the Ortega dictatorship in Nicaragua, too. Berrigan called out Ortega for racist repression of the Miskito Infians.
Real human beings are always capable of doing surprising things. Berrigan was much more interesting than the cardboard cut-out commie being so zestfully damned to hell on this thread.
I hope he had a good and repentant death in the Savior’s arms, which is what I would want for myself.
“”He died peacefully,” Benigno said”
Too bad.
L
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