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.
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.
See #62.
Delchiante:
Are you completely comfortable with the deaths of so very many women, children, disabled at Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I understand the rationalizations of speeding the surrender without having to slug it out, inch by inch, conquering the Japanese Archipelago with perhaps a million American military casualties and probably even more Japanese civilian casualties BUT was there no intermediate path to show off to Tojo (and particularly, if possible, the all too sheltered Emperor Hirohito) the power of the atomic bomb on an offshore uninhabited or evacuated island? The normally quiet as a churchmouse Hirohito (a living god in the minds of the Shinto majority in Japan) directly ORDERED Tojo and the Japanese government to unconditionally surrender after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I suspect Hirohito would have done exactly the same if he were convinced of the power of our atomic bombs BEFORE they were dropped. In that event, many innocents would have lived.
See also the firebombing of Tokyo and of Dresden. If we had lost the war, our Army Air Corps leaders would have been the ones hanged as "war criminals." Intentionally killing innocent civilians in large numbers, if allowable at all, must be only a very last resort after all other options have been exhausted.
As to the draft, a better name would have been the Selective Slavery System (in manifest violation of the 13th Amendment which outlawed not only slavery but also "involuntary servitude).
No longer would grandstanding politicians have to convince young men to risk life and limb in service to the grandstanding politicians' cause. NO! Now they could be forced into involuntary service. Many of the young voluntarily signed up for Gulf Wars I and II without a draft because they were personally convinced of the justice for which they would fight.
Without the draft, there would either have been no VietNam War (unlikely option) or Lyndon Johnson would have prosecuted that war promptly, massively, and quite finally (far more likely option) or no one would have signed up voluntarily for service.
I despise the phony "moral equivalency" of the late and unlamented Joseph Cardinal Bernardin's "seamless garment" abomination (a rationalization for Catholics to be voting Demonrat while minimizing their guilt in doing so. I can, however, see how the gullible are taken in by it. Maybe Fr. Dan Berrigan was just gullible and let his good heart get in the way of common sense on matters military and of gummint spending.
Mrs. Don-o:
Once again, thanks for your intervention on behalf of the late Fr. Berrigan and yet more expressions of justice and common sense. God bless.