Word: berrigans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several speakers at the service, including Catholic priest Phillip Berrigan, reinforced their solidarity with the five defendants in the Federal conspiracy case, by stating that they too aided, abetted, and counseled, young men to resist the draft...
...Joseph R. Berrigan Jr., chairman of the department of history at Loyola University...
...liberalizing spirit of the Second Vatican Council has so far had little impact on the status of Roman Catholic priests, who remain firmly under their superiors' thumbs. In November, the Jesuits invoked their society's vow of obedience to send Father Daniel Berrigan out of the country for a while because of his outspoken stand against the Viet Nam war (TIME...
...Pauw's plight differed from Berrigan's in that he had openly challenged church policy and conciliar directives, whereas Berrigan had embarrassed his superiors in a secular matter. But both cases showed that priests are much like privates when it comes to higher orders...
...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...