Five months after the “Plowshares Eight” performed a peace witness at the G.E. plant in King of Prussia, Pa., its members—including the Rev. Carl Kabat—were found guilty of burglary, criminal mischief and criminal conspiracy. Father Kabat is profiled here.
Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
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In the eyes of my friend Daniel Berrigan, all humanity was a sacrament
Sacraments were important to Dan, but for him seven were simply not enough.
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I never met Daniel Berrigan. But he showed me as a young Catholic a different way to live out my faith.
Learning of the witness of Daniel Berrigan, S.J., sparked me to make many of the choices that led me to be a journalist and an activist.
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Paul Elie: Daniel Berrigan was a fierce critic of the United States. He was also a great American.
Can we imagine Daniel Berrigan’s portrait, all gussied up, unfurled above the high altar of St. Peter’s? I know I can; but on his centenary it is more than enough to envision this great American’s visage on view in a gallery in the nation’s capital.
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‘He loved my Cajun jokes!’ Sister Helen Prejean on Daniel Berrigan
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.
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Celebrating the Eucharist with Daniel Berrigan: ‘A Communion I will never forget’
On the fifth anniversary of the death of Daniel Berrigan, S.J., a close friend and colleague looks back on a poignant moment in their work together.
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James Martin on Daniel Berrigan: A Jesuit for the long haul
Dan may have been a “radical,” but he was also a man committed to his Jesuit vows.
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Podcast: When protesting is a spiritual practice
This week on Jesuitical, Zac and Ashley talk with Nathan Schneider about the legacy of Occupy Wall Street 10 years later and his friendship with the Jesuit priest and activist, Dan Berrigan.
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Martin Sheen: How Mother Teresa, Dan Berrigan’s lawyer and I fought to end the Gulf War
The carnage unleashed in the Persian Gulf compelled me to act yet again in hopes that somehow the bloodletting would end.
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Review: Jim Forest’s new memoir delves into his ‘unusual conscience’
Jim Forest’s memoir functions as both a personal history and a snapshot of a tumultuous era in American society—the 1960s—when Forest solidified his opposition to unjust war and his faith in active nonviolence.