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...chase had to end soon, and the hunted as well as the hunters knew it. For four months Father Daniel Berrigan, the self-designated "peace criminal," refused to surrender to the "war criminals," as he describes the Government. He had drawn a 31-year jail sentence for his part in destroying Selective Service records, and to him, that penalty was as "illegal" as the Viet Nam War itself...
They seek him here, they seek him there, but Jesuit Priest Daniel J. Berrigan, 49, has become a sort of Scarlet Pimpernel of the antiwar underground. Last week he popped up-uninvited but welcomed-at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, Pa., to preach peace. The renegade reverend, who last April was supposed to start a 3½-year sentence for destroying draft records, urged the churchgoers to "refuse to pay taxes, and to aid and abet and harbor people like myself so that a solid wall of conscience confronts the warmakers." Before federal agents got wind...
...good many of the district's older residents who might otherwise favor Philbin are finding Drinan's liberal stance palatable because of his Roman collar. Says Drinan, former provost of Boston College and dean of the law school: "I'm not Father Groppi or Dan Berrigan. T don't burn draft records or take to the streets. I believe in working within the law for change. People listen to what I have...
...statement from Father Daniel Berrigan, one of the Catonsville 9, was read by Zinn and called on fellow "bums, freaks, students and countrymen" to make the most of the strike...
...Berrigans contend that revolution must begin with profound personal change, because other human development is impossible without it. They recognize that a violent society can invite equally violent revolution, but they do not counsel it. In his new book, No Bars to Manhood, Daniel Berrigan suggests the temptations that the revolutionary must face. Excerpts...