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Elizabeth McAlister, an ex-nun and the wife of Antiwar Activist Philip Berrigan, and Sister Judith Le Femina were shopping at the Sears, Roebuck store near Glen Burnie, Md. When they left, the store's detective said, they took with them, without paying, a $20.99 handheld electric power saw, a 690 package of sandpaper and a 190 package of picture hangers. Charged with shoplifting, the pair gave their address as Jonah House, Baltimore, a commune established by Elizabeth and Philip Berrigan for members of the peace movement. Elizabeth last faced a judge when she was convicted...
...camp outside town, marched with other supporters through Gainesville chanting "Jail Nixon, Free the Eight!" Past Conspiracy Celebrities Tom Hayden (the Chicago Seven) and Anthony Russo (the Pentagon papers) flew in to condemn the trial, and Lemmer's part in the proceedings recalled the key role of the Berrigan brothers' informer, Boyd Douglas...
...unusual these days for priests and nuns to get married, but to get married three times? That was the case with the Rev. Philip Berrigan, 49, and Sister Elizabeth McAlister, 33. They first wed one another "in trust and gratitude" in the spring of 1969. They were married again in January 1972 by "formalizing" their vows in a Danbury, Conn., prison cell. When TIME reported last week that they were about to be wed, Berrigan wasted no time denying the story as "absurd and untrue" on the ground that they were already married. Nonetheless, two days after his denial...
...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...