21 Facts About Daniel Berrigan

Daniel Joseph Berrigan was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, Christian pacifist, playwright, poet, and author.

Daniel Berrigan was an award-winning and prolific author of some 50 books, a teacher, and a university educator.

At age 5, Daniel Berrigan's family moved to Syracuse, New York.

In 1946, Daniel Berrigan earned a bachelor's degree from St Andrew-on-Hudson, a Jesuit seminary in Hyde Park, New York.

Daniel Berrigan was devoted to the Catholic Church throughout his youth.

Daniel Berrigan joined the Jesuits directly out of high school in 1939 and was ordained to the priesthood on June 19,1952.

Daniel Berrigan taught at St Peter's Preparatory School in Jersey City from 1946 to 1949.

In 1954, Daniel Berrigan was assigned to teach French and theology at the Jesuit Brooklyn Preparatory School.

Daniel Berrigan developed a reputation as a religious radical, working actively against poverty and on changing the relationship between priests and lay people.

From 1966 to 1970, Daniel Berrigan was the assistant director of the Cornell University United Religious Work, the umbrella organization for all religious groups on campus, including the Cornell Newman Club, eventually becoming the group's pastor.

Daniel Berrigan was the first faculty advisor of Cornell University's first gay rights student group, the Student Homophile League, in 1968.

In 1967, Daniel Berrigan witnessed the public outcry that followed from the arrest of his brother Philip, for pouring blood on draft records as part of the Baltimore Four.

Daniel Berrigan traveled to Hanoi with Howard Zinn during the Tet Offensive in January 1968 to "receive" three American airmen, the first American prisoners of war released by the North Vietnamese since the US bombing of that nation had begun.

Daniel Berrigan was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison, but went into hiding with the help of fellow radicals prior to imprisonment.

Daniel Berrigan was then imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, until his release on February 24,1972.

Daniel Berrigan endorsed a consistent life ethic, a morality based on a holistic reverence for life.

Daniel Berrigan published Sorrow Built a Bridge: Friendship and AIDS reflecting on his experiences ministering to AIDS patients through the Supportive Care Program at St Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center in 1989.

Daniel Berrigan maintained his opposition to American interventions abroad, from Central America in the 1980s, through the Gulf War in 1991, the Kosovo War, the US invasion of Afghanistan, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Daniel Berrigan was an opponent of capital punishment, a contributing editor of Sojourners, and a supporter of the Occupy movement.

Anderson, and others consider Daniel Berrigan to be a Christian anarchist.

Daniel Berrigan died in the Bronx, New York City, on April 30,2016, at Murray-Weigel Infirmary, the Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University.