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...move. Inside, they prowled through the rectory, poking into closets ("Father Phil, are you there?"), peering under beds ("Father Dan, are you there?"). One passageway was locked shut, and an agent barked an order to break the door down. Minutes later, in a closet, they found Fugitive Priest Philip Berrigan, 46, and Poet Dave Eberhardt, 28, both overdue to begin federal prison sentences for destroying Selective Service files. The two were marched off in handcuffs. The agents were unable to find Philip's elder brother and fellow fugitive, Poet-Priest Daniel Berrigan...
Thus last week, two of Christianity's happiest conspirators were separated, Philip Berrigan in a federal prison and Daniel Berrigan, for the moment at least, in hiding. Both had been scheduled to begin their sentences April 9 for draft board raids at Baltimore and Catonsville.* Both had decided, in Daniel Berrigan's words, "to resist this automatic claim on our persons" and to make at least one more public appearance before being jailed to protest the Viet Nam War, racism and the oppression of the poor...
...Daniel Berrigan, a director of Cornell United Religious Work, succeeded. In a two-hour appearance at a "freedom Seder" held at Cornell over the pre-Passover weekend, he spoke to some 10,000 students gathered for an "America Is Hard to Find" festival. Apparently because federal agents wanted to avoid a student riot, he was allowed to slip away. The following Tuesday his brother was to appear with Dave Eberhardt at an "Up from Under" rally at St. Gregory the Great-until the FBI stepped in. Philip Berrigan had made a considerable sacrifice for that unrealized moment of final resistance...
...BOOK Daniel Berrigan has produced from the court transcript of the nine is beautiful in its simple brilliance. In editing the testimony of the witnesses, jurors, judge, and defendants in the case, he has recognized and captured the lyrical poetry of common speech. Rightly, most of the book consists of the testimony of the nine. Each talks of the reasoning and the decisions that brought him to Catonsville. Yet the book is not unsympathetic to the problems of the witnesses, the prosecution, and the judge. In only a few lines by the draft board clerk named Mrs. Murphy, the tragedy...
...PHILIP BERRIGAN: Your honor, I think that we would be less than honest with you if we did not state our attitude. Simply, we have lost confidence in the institutions of this country, including our own churches...