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...even in a period when public activism of priests and nuns was at its peak, highlighted by the anti-war activities of such clerics as the Berrigan brothers and the Congressional election of Robert F. Drinan S.J. (D-Mass.), the ministers at Harvard encountered much resistance to their work...
With the Catholic left in retreat, at least one well-known Catholic-American maintains his activist stance. Jesuit Father Daniel J. Berrigan first captured the national spotlight eight years ago next month, when he raided the Selective Service office in Catonsville, Ohio, setting fire to a mass of draft records while solemnly reciting the Lord's Prayer. For Dan Berrigan today, the issues are different, but the basis for activism remains the same. In a speech at Harvard last month, Berrigan commented, "I am trying to take the seventies as I did the sixties, from the point of view...
...past, Berrigan has several times been reprimanded by the Roman Catholic church for his use of illegal means of social protest, and has even been threatened with expulsion from the priesthood. Berrigan characterizes his current relationship with the Vatican as "an uneasy truce." He maintains, however, that his relations with the Jesuit hierarchy to which he is much more immediately responsible are excellent...
Although he is devoted to his work, Nesson has had opportunities to work on other issues drawing national attention. In 1970 he worked on the appeal of contempt citations in the Chicago Seven cases, and was also successful in acquiring a parole for Daniel Berrigan, who had been imprisoned for burning draft records at Catonsville...
...writer in the U.S. Catholic press has been a more sulfurous advocate of rightist views in recent years than Jesuit Priest Dan Lyons, 55. He fought the cold war long after most Catholics had thawed. He attacked modernists, the Berrigan brothers and the liberal Catholic press. In 1970, when liberals were agitating for the right to marry and remain priests, he wrote: "The Church decided long ago that the celibate priest is more like Christ...