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...inward questioning concerns the duty of a Christian when he finds himself confronted by public evil. Father Daniel Berrigan speaks...
...likely that the final nudge toward at least a temporary renunciation of Weatherman violence came from Radical Priest Daniel Berrigan. Last August, three days before he was arrested, Berrigan sent the outlaw band a brotherly and eloquent admonition, warning that "no principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being." Revolution is only "interesting" insofar as it "avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal." Berrigan urged the Weatherman to "do only that which one cannot not do," and reminded them that "the history of the movement in the last years, it seems to me, shows...
...revulsion over mindless bombing that has dampened the passion of the left. A pervasive fog of fatigue, fear and frustration has settled over the barricades. Radicals still insist that "repression" is everywhere, and as evidence they cite drug arrests, expulsions from schools and conspiracy trials. The arrest of the Berrigan brothers, says Harvard Crimson Staffer David Landau, looms as the newest example "of what the Government is prepared to do to kill the antiwar movement...
Even within the wide latitudes accorded drama at the present, Father Daniel Berrigan's The Trial of the Catonsville Nine is a play in name only. It is a documentary recital of evidence presented at the trial of Berrigan, his brother Philip and seven other Catholic defendants in connection with the napalm burning of draft records at Catonsville, Md. Insofar as it can be classified, Nine falls within the area of the theater of fact. The subjects discussed have particular pertinence for a U.S. audience: the maltreatment of blacks, the exploitation of the poor in Latin American countries...
Hand called conspiracy "the darling of the modern prosecutor's nursery." To convict Father Philip Berrigan of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger, for example, the Government need not prove that the antiwar priest and his five co-defendants ever approached the presidential adviser or even laid eyes on him. It must simply show that there was an agreement and that at least one conspirator took an overt step toward carrying out the alleged plot...