Called "the priest who stayed out in the cold" and "holy outlaw," Father Daniel J. Berrigan (born 1921) never came to terms with the conservatism of the Catholic Church or with the militarism of the American nation. He lived his life as a militant...

Daniel Berrigan, SJ, was born in Virginia, Minnesota, one of six sons in a devout Roman Catholic family. He grew up in Syracuse, New York, and entered the Society of Jesus in 1939, recounting in his autobiographical No Bars to Manhood (1970), "I was...

Daniel J. Berrigan Born May 9, 1921 Virginia, Minnesota Philip F. Berrigan Born October 5, 1923 Two Harbors, Minnesota Jesuit priests and peace activists Daniel and Philip Berrigan were both ordained as Jesuit priests in the 1950s. They became adherents...

Daniel Berrigan, S.J. (born May 9, 1921) is a poet, American peace activist, and Roman Catholic priest. Daniel and his brother Philip were for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for committing acts of vandalism including destroying...

"I don't like being pessimistic but it's the first time in my long life I feel like a person without a country," Jesuit Fr. Daniel Berrigan told Catholic News Service in a recent interview. He criticized the U.S. military campaigns in Afghanistan and...

In the early church, followers of Rabbi Christ the lawbreaker were known not as Christians--originally a term of derision first used in 70 A.D.--but as rebels who practiced nonviolence and the compassionate communism of sharing wealth according to need. Imprisonment was often the...