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...COURSE, the people were more important than the events. Daniel and Philip Berrigan, brothers and priests, had come out a poverty-stiffused Minnesota childhood with a paradoxical gentleness. Philip, fatherly in his white crewent, had moved from civil rights work in New Orleans to anti-war organizing after the first Kennedy assassination. His belief in the Christianity he preached had made people uncomfortable because he wanted to act on that belief. His superiors had silenced him when they transferred him to Baltimore, but then the Pope spoke against the war, and Philip felt himself unmuzzled again...
Churchmen have been visible enough: Martin Luther King preaching his dream, Dan and Phil Berrigan raiding draft boards, William Coffin marching for peace, Father Groppi summoning his people out of the ghetto. Even so, the failure of the churches at large to deal with the social and psychological condition of mankind seems to many to reflect a decline of decision and direction. The prevalent eroticism in the arts, sexual permissiveness, the drug culture, the rise in crime and other violence, the increase in petty dishonesty ?all point to the erosion of the churches' moral authority. With gallows humor...
...always, we hear the analyzers explaining the meaning of what we see. We hear Father Daniel Berrigan say that we are witnessing the last days of Superman. Superman, who cannot live or give life, who cannot even imagine life...
...JOHN F. BERRIGAN...
...come for the records, the invaders emptied the contents of four filing drawers into wire rubbish baskets. Then they carried them out the door and burned hem in a nearby parking lot, starting the blaze with napalm they had whipped up from a recipe in an Army manual. The Berrigan brothers- Daniel, 47 and Philip, 44- had struck again...