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Thus the former Jesuit seminarian with the classical world view who has been known chiefly for his studied Spartan life-style and talk about lowering expectations must be taken a bit more seriously in the Democratic scramble. TIME Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jess Cook herewith examines the Governor's record and his chances...
...Jesuit Father Daniel J. Berrigan and Noam Chomsky, well-known political activists of the '60s, spoke in Boston Saturday in an open discussion on "Politics As A Vocation: Why We Do What...
...several times been reprimanded by the Roman Catholic church for his use of illegal means of social protest, and has even been threatened with expulsion from the priesthood. Berrigan characterizes his current relationship with the Vatican as "an uneasy truce." He maintains, however, that his relations with the Jesuit hierarchy to which he is much more immediately responsible are excellent...
Berrigan says he last directly communicated with Pedro Arupe, the Jesuit Superior-General, while in a Washington D.C. jail last spring awaiting prosecution for digging a grave on the White House lawn in protest of U.S. nuclear armament policy. "The only problem with the grave we dug was that we left it empty. If we had filled it with little children, we might have been decorated," Berrigan commented...
Berrigan expresses his great pride in the part played by Jesuit priests in the anti-war movement during the sixties. He predicts that the Jesuit order will again take on a more activist role in America "within the next serveral years...