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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...
...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...
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...