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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...

Remembering Father Daniel Berrigan, a Prophet of Peace — Rise Up Times Advice to parents, teachers, priests, ministers, et al: The young people will be different if you are different. They are moved by example, as I have been.

Family watching television, 1958. Photograph by Evert F. Baumgardner. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Source: National Archives and Records Administration. A few years ago I had a conversation with a close friend of mine about the experience of watching older films on TV with my parents. I’d be sitting there, deeply involved with something by John Ford or Sam Peckinpah or King Vidor, and my father would make a comment about the color of the military uniforms being incorrect, or the fact that it looked like it was clearing up outside. These remarks were made in such a way that a response was ...

Paul Elie, a senior fellow in Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, is the author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own (2003) and Reinventing Bach (2012). 

. 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...