The Catholic World Report, Roger Kimball:
It is a nice coincidence that as I sit down to write about Daniel Berrigan, S.J., who died April 30 at age 94, I am gazing out over the house on Block Island where he hid out as a fugitive from justice in 1970. He was eventually apprehended by a posse of FBI agents posing as bird watchers and sent to jail for two years. It was his dearest wish. “One had to go to jail,” he wrote in 1968. “It was an irreplaceable need, a gift not to be refused.”
It was a gift that Daniel and his brother Philip (who died in 2002) were treated to frequently. The “Berrigan brothers”—even today the phrase epitomizes something essential about the rancid radicalism of the 1960s. And although it has been many years since the world paid attention to the sanctimonious antics of the brother priests, there was a moment when both were caught in the limelight of celebrity. Read the rest here.
