Word: berrigans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this week Philip Berrigan and Elizabeth McAlister were to be married...
...notion of wedding should come as no great shock. The campaign against the Viet Nam War is now all but over. Berrigan himself, writing in 1972, was beginning to argue that celibacy can be "an excuse to flee from the complexities of human love." Besides, the two peace rebels had grown closer together during months of shared adversity...
...smuggled letters revealed by the Government, Berrigan was almost embarrassingly lavish in his praise for Liz. "Your visit leaves me speechless, at least on paper though not in heart," he wrote. "You were so clear in your own mind, and confident. I knew implicitly that you were a vast help to the others-sense of history, human philosophy and tactics, courage, discipline...
...Philip Berrigan is a dashing, ruggedly handsome man whose huge ebullience rarely fails to infect those he meets. Elizabeth McAlister-one of twin daughters among the nine children of an immigrant Irish contractor-became a nun in 1959 while she was still in college, but went on studying to get a master's degree in art history. At 33 she is a bit more subdued than in her breathless revolutionary days before the Harrisburg trial. A few years ago, when her community shifted from long religious habit to optional civilian clothes, both Phil Berrigan and her sister nuns used...
Engagement Revealed. Father Philip Berrigan, 50, antiwar activist; and Sister Elizabeth McAlister, 33, who was convicted with Berrigan last year of smuggling mail into and out of a federal prison (see RELIGION...