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Dan Berrigan's stand at Cornell, through the eyes of a student

Daniel Berrigan, S.J., and friends, including the author. (Photos courtesy of the author; photo collage by Kevin Robles) America asked several authors to consider the life of Daniel Berrigan, S.J., on the fifth anniversary of his death. Joseph M. Cosgrove was Father Berrigan’s lawyer for the last 35 years of Dan’s life. You can read . “We have the sacraments,” Dan Berrigan, S.J., told me. “We have the sacraments and each other to see us through.” It was not what I’d expected to hear, at least not from Dan, just a few hours after my mother had died. But perhaps in contrast to...

. I never met Daniel Berrigan, S.J. Nevertheless, he has had a profound influence on the direction of my own life and on my convictions. I was in an editorial meeting with the staff of my college newspaper at Loyola University New Orleans in 2016 when I got a push notification from The New York Times. “Remembering Daniel Berrigan: A Penniless, Powerful Voice for Peace” identified Father Berrigan as a “Jesuit priest, poet, anti-war activist.” It had never occurred to me that those descriptors could all be applied to a single person. I was immediately drawn in. At the time, I was exper...

Sometimes people can work for justice and they become so doggone serious that it is kind of heavy to be with them. It was never heavy to be with Dan.

From Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States— Classic Archives: The Gulf of Tonkin con job and other covered up facts by mainstream media and historians Hal Ashby's Coming Home, with Bruce Dern and Jane Fonda among the leads was a powerful statement about the effects of the war in Vietnam on the home front. From 1964 to 1972, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world made a maximum military effort, with everything short of atomic bombs, to defeat a nationalist revolutionary movement in a tiny, peasant country—and failed. When the United States fought...