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Daniel Joseph Berrigan

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Daniel J. Berrigan

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1921-05-09 （Virginia, Minnesota, US）
Died
2016-04-30 （Bronx, New York City, US (Murray-Weigel Infirmary, Fordham University)） age 94
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Religion
Catholic (Society of Jesus)
Residence History
Syracuse, New York (moved there in childhood) → Upper West Side, New York City → Hyde Park, New York (seminary)

Career

Occupations
Jesuit priest, peace activist, university educator, playwright, poet, author
Active Years
1946-2016
Influenced By
Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day (Catholic Worker movement), French Jesuits critical of Indochina social/political conditions
Influenced
Anti-war and peace activists (Catonsville Nine, Plowshares movement activists), Philip Berrigan (brother) and contemporaneous religious civil-disobedience activists

Education

St. Andrew-on-Hudson (Jesuit seminary, Hyde Park)
Degree: Bachelor's
Period: 1942–1946
Year of Graduation: 1946
Country: United States
Earned a bachelor's degree at a Jesuit seminary
Woodstock College
Degree: Master's
Period: 1950–1952
Year of Graduation: 1952
Country: United States
Received a master's degree (theology) and was ordained in 1952

Awards

Lamont Poetry Selection
1956
Work: Time Without Number
Organization: James Laughlin Award (related)
Result: 受賞
War Resisters League Peace Award
1974
Organization: War Resisters League
Result: 受賞
Gandhi Peace Award
1974
Organization: Gandhi Peace Foundation / Gandhi Peace Award committee
Result: 受賞後辞退
Thomas Merton Award
1988
Organization: Thomas Merton Center (or awarding body)
Result: 受賞
Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace Award (Pax Christi USA)
1989
Organization: Pax Christi USA
Result: 受賞
Courage of Conscience Award (The Peace Abbey Foundation)
1991
Organization: The Peace Abbey Foundation
Result: 受賞
Pacem in Terris Award
1993
Organization: Pacem in Terris Award committee
Result: 受賞
Honorary Degree (College of Wooster)
2008
Organization: College of Wooster
Result: 授与（名誉学位）

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Time Without Number

1956 Poetry

An early collection of poems addressing religious and ethical themes, questioning individual and social responsibility.

faithconsciencesocial justice

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

1970 Play / Drama

A play dramatizing the Catonsville Nine action and trial, exploring civil disobedience and religious conscience.

civil disobedienceconscienceanti-war
Adaptations
  • [Film] The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (film) (1972)

Sorrow Built a Bridge: Friendship and AIDS

1989 Essay / Memoir

Reflections on ministering to AIDS patients, addressing friendship, care, and social ostracism from a pastoral perspective.

AIDS carefriendshipsocial ostracism

Bibliography

  • Time Without Number
  • The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
  • Sorrow Built a Bridge: Friendship and AIDS
  • The Mission: A Film Journal

Adaptations

  • Film adaptation of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1972)
  • Appearance/consultation on the film The Mission (1986; cameo and consultant)
  • Featured in documentaries such as Investigation of a Flame and An Act of Conscience

Translations of Works

  • Major works translated into multiple languages (see bibliographies for details)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
religious, propheticdidactic yet poeticdirect, morally charged style
Recurring Motifs
consciencenonviolencesorrow and forgivenesssocial justice

Legacy

Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit priest, became an iconic figure in U.S. anti-war and nonviolent movements. His actions with the Catonsville Nine and the Plowshares movement influenced tactics of civil disobedience, and his poetry and plays brought religious and ethical debates into broader culture.

Museums

  • Daniel Berrigan Center (Benincasa Community) 133 W. 70th Street, New York, NY 10023, USA Opened in 2017

Academic Societies

  • Pax Christi USA (associated)

Archives

  • Daniel Berrigan Papers (Special Collections and Archives, DePaul University)
  • Daniel and Philip Berrigan Collection (Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections)

In Popular Culture

  • Featured on the cover of Time magazine (January 25, 1971)
  • His plays and actions have been the subject of films, documentaries, and songs

Quotes

  • But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of the truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?
    Source: Quoted on the cover of Time magazine (January 25, 1971) (1971)
  • I see an 'interlocking directorate' of death that binds the whole culture. That is, an unspoken agreement that we will solve our problems by killing people in various ways.
    Source: Interview by Lucien Miller, Reflections (Fall 1979) (1979)

Trivia

  • Participated in the Catonsville Nine action and became a leading figure in civil disobedience
  • Considered the first priest to appear on the FBI 'most wanted' list while evading imprisonment
  • Featured on the cover of Time magazine in 1971
  • His play The Trial of the Catonsville Nine was adapted into a film in 1972