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...conservatives, the real problem is not political activism but the loss of discipline and intellectual rigor that set in during the experimental '60s. At that time, many younger Jesuits were influenced as much by the radical politics of Antiwar Activist Father Daniel Berrigan as they were by the society's venerable manual, Spiritual Exercises. As Catholic Historian James Hitchcock of St. Louis University sees it, a "self-probing, inward-looking, almost narcissistic" mentality has crept into the order today. Liberals contend that they are only trying to do what Jesuits have always done: make the church...
January 28--Three Harvard lawyers help anti-Vietnam War activist Daniel Berrigan win parole after his conviction for burning draft cards...
...back, it seems to me I could not have accepted Catholicism in any way if I had not ditched all it was. There's so much within the church as an institution that's incredibly contradictory to the message it's supposed to be proclaiming." Paraphrasing his friend Daniel Berrigan, he says, "I'd love to leave it, but where else would...
...common American, penchant for Government intervention, tolerance of Communist totalitarianism and its fatuous call for revolution. Intellectually at any rate, they soon had their adversaries on the run; many of the most voluble leftists of the period have faded from the polemical scene: Noam Chomsky, Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Staughton Lynd, Jerry Rubin, Andrew Kopkind ("Morality, like politics, starts at the barrel of a gun"). The Commentary crowd, meanwhile, carries on the battle with undiminished gusto...
...Daniel Berrigan, radical Jesuit: What the Pope has on his mind is what I have on my mind, the hideous nuclear arms race. He is not afraid to show his heart in the midst of a heartless world, a world of executioners, of mannequins and robots who coldly calculate the extinction of human beings. The great powers turn their backs. They say, "Aren't these fine sentiments?" But John Paul spoke to people, not to governments ... This is not to say that he sees the mote in his own eye. His views of women are old fashioned, and they...