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Before the Vatican Council, bishops could have censured an outspoken priest without hearing a word of public complaint. But shortly after Berrigan's departure, a group of students from Fordham picketed New York's chancery headquarters on Madison Avenue, bearing signs that read "Honesty in the Church" and "St. Paul Was a Rebel." More than 1,000 Catholics-including a number of nuns and Jesuit priests-signed an "open letter" to the chancery and to Berrigan's superiors that appeared as an advertisement in the New York Times. The co-signers did not impugn the motives...
...week the Very Rev. Joseph T. Cahill, president of St. John's University on Long Island, fired 28 faculty members, including three priests,* for protesting the school's policy on academic freedom, tenure and curriculum policy. Ten of the ousted teachers had publicly expressed their sympathy for Berrigan. "Neither the reasons for the action nor the identities of the persons involved will be discussed publicly," said Cahill...
Preaching & Picketing. Berrigan, who was born in Two Harbors, Minn., and raised in Syracuse, has a considerable reputation as a skillful lyric poet. He taught English and Latin at Brooklyn Prep and theology at the Jesuits' Le Moyne College in Syracuse, where one of his students in 1963 was David Miller, the arrested draft-card burner. Since 1964 he has been an associate editor of Jesuit Missions magazine, a pleasant job that gives him plenty of time to travel and write...
Within the society, Berrigan has always been considered something of a radical. He has preached and picketed on behalf of civil rights. Earlier this year his Jesuit superiors reprimanded him for reciting more of the Mass in English than the council's liturgical reforms currently permit. A pacifist, he is a sponsor of the Catholic Peace Fellowship. Last October he joined Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, the leading theologian of Conservative Judaism, and Lutheran Pastor Richard John Neuhaus of Brooklyn, as a co-chairman of Clergy Concerned, whose aim is to question the morality of U.S. action in the Viet...
...unfettered clerics. Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike could not astonish anyone now, no matter what he says, and Baptist Minister Martin Luther King has inspired many clergymen to think that their natural habitat is the civil rights demonstration. But there is no comparable liberty within Catholicism. Thus the Berrigan case raises the question, unanswered by the Vatican Council, of the limits of clerical obedience, and the deeper issue once posed by Swiss Theologian Hans Küng: "How is the church's message of freedom to be regarded as credible by men if she herself does not show herself...