Word: berrigans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earlier days of his imprisonment for destroying draft records, the Rev. Philip Berrigan had strong views on the value of the Roman Catholic discipline of priestly celibacy. Married resisters, he noted, were not fully free to fight: they had to temper zeal with prudence and think of their families as well as their mission. Few of his fellow revolutionaries agreed with him more than Sister Elizabeth McAlister, an intense and idealistic admirer, who was convicted at Harrisburg last year, along with Berrigan, of smuggling letters into and out of a federal prison...
Which was not what Daniel Ellsberg, the Berrigan brothers, Jane Fonda, the black militants, welfare chiselers and the campus radicals and George S. McGovern desired. In that mood it was possible to justify means of opposition to the hostile encroachment of hated perceptions which under ordinary circumstances might be avoided." Quarreling with his own paper's critical stance on Watergate, Portland Oregonian Publisher Robert C. Notson painted past antiwar demonstrations as an apocalyptic threat to the country and the President's safety. "This then," Notson wrote, "was the context" for the Watergate bugging...
Throughout the week's proceedings, Ellsberg's chief counsel, Leonard Boudin, 60, also showed wear. Though a veteran of the trials of Dr. Benjamin Spock and the Rev. Philip Berrigan, Boudin has always been more at home with appellate procedures than in trial law, and he faltered in his questioning, so much so that Judge William Matthew Byrne himself frequently took up the line of inquiry. Reliant on a heart pacemaker, Boudin finally was ordered to rest by his doctor. The proceedings were suspended until this week, when Ellsberg is expected to take the stand again...
...Father Daniel Berrigan, S.J. (TIME cover, Jan. 25, 1971), convicted of destroying draft records, led the FBI on a merry chase up and down the Eastern seaboard, finally to be carted off, smiling, by two stern-faced agents. He was paroled from prison last year after serving 18 months...
...visited Daniel Lyons in New York City and Daniel Berrigan in Danbury prison. There are many more in the society who mirror the polarization. One of the most serious dichotomies that Arrupe must try to bridge is between those who patrol the corridors of power, still hoping to influence the conscience of the king, and those who have chosen to work for the only remedy they consider effective?the complete change of society. Many Third World Jesuits, despairing of a change of heart by developed nations, are growing more and more sympathetic to the idea of total change. One bewildered...