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...January 19 demonstration will begin at the Park St. subway station at 11:30 a.m. Protesters will then march to Government Center for a rally where Rev. Phillip Berrigan will speak...
...coffee-house theologians, and all the things which play such a critical role in his analysis. It is only by "going underground" that we can achieve genuine spiritual experience which will in turn lead to a critical and prophetic attitude toward the evils of this world. For Wills, the Berrigan model of the Church is the best...
...roads." Reformers of the past-from Savonarola to John Henry Newman-suffered or were silenced in their time but eventually prevailed. "It has always been the task of the prophetic church to redeem the kingly church," Wills concludes. "As Pope Innocent needed St. Francis, Paul VI needs Dan Berrigan...
Last April a jury in Harrisburg, Pa., was unable to reach a verdict on whether the Rev. Philip Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth McAlister had been guilty of an elaborate conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger, blow up heating tunnels in Washington's federal buildings and raid draft boards. The only offense the jury agreed upon was that Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth had smuggled letters in and out of the federal prison at Lewisburg, Pa., during the summer of 1970 when Berrigan was imprisoned there...
Smuggling letters in and out of prison is an offense that is most often winked at. In the past, the few defendants who have been convicted on the charge have usually been put on probation. But when Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth came up for sentencing last week, Federal Court Judge R. Dixon Herman gave the priest a Draconian two years in prison-to run concurrently with the six years he is serving for his role in draft-board raids in 1967 and 1968. Judge Herman sentenced Sister Elizabeth to a year and a day in jail...