For 6,000 years man has been killing and enslaving their fellow man, not living for the next life.
For 2,000 years, the gospel is to be preached, promising a world of future peace in the Kingdom, and individual peace today in world with its powers and principalities run by the enemy.
I will put it this way.
I don’t think a priest’s goal is to be on the FBI Most Wanted List.
I don;’t think anybody has that as their “goal”!
Like the late Brent Bozell (pere), I think Daniel Berrigan’s ultimate allegiance was not in the category of politics,but of sanctity. I hope they will join hands and hearts in the Beatific Vision. Pray that I will be freed from my sins so I can join them there myself. It’ll be, by God, a good conversation.
A priest's goal ought to be to know God, love God and serve God in this world and to be happy forever with Him in the next. Baltimore Catechism #2 as to all of us, including priests. In addition, the priest ought to be saying Mass, administering the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church (other than matrimony in which the husband and wife are the ministers of the sacrament and baptism in which one need not be a priest to baptize anyone so long as the rules are observed). He ought to be providing spiritual direction (a technical term), moral guidance, comfort to the bereaved, charity to those in need, hope to those who lack hope, faith to those in doubt.
Abraham lived a lot longer ago than 2,000 years. So did Moses and the Old Testament prophets. They lived this life but also lived for the next life.
Killing one's fellow man may occasionally be necessary in narrowly circumscribed circumstances (self-defense, vicarious self-defense, necessity, legitimate just war, capital punishment scrupulously and sparingly applied, etc.
Enslaving one's fellow man seems never justified nowadays although St. Paul directed Timothy to return to his master and the ancient Romans bringing the Carthaginians to Rome in chains and slavery was morally preferable to slaughtering them to the last man, woman and child.
AND there were plenty of barbarians in the most recent 2,000 years (the late Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Roger Cardinal McPhony, Walter Cardinal Kaspar, Reinhard Cardinal Marx, the late Leo Cardinal Suenens are just five "leaders" of my Church who come immediately to mind and they are by no means alone). Margaret Sanger, Ted Kennedy, George McGovern (apologist for communist tyrants everywhere), Obozo, Comrade Grandma, Comrade Grandpa and so many, many others and those would kill off civility in public life.
If, priest or not, one had been named to a "Ten Most Wanted List" by the KGB or the Gestapo, it ought to have been a source of pride or at least of self-satisfaction. Ten years from now that may also be true if one is named to the FBI list, at least at the rate things are going.