Berrigan was one of seven Catholic priests who used napalm to burn draft cards in 1968 in protest against the Vietnam War, according to the National Catholic Reporter.
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He died Saturday in NY after a “long illness” a spokesperson for the Murray-Weigel Hall, a Jesuit health community, told the AP.
The Rev. Berrigan was already well-known for taking part in numerous acts of civil disobedience, such as leading protests against American involvement in the Vietnam War in the 1960s, Cosgrove said.
Berrigan, along with his younger brother the Rev. Philip Berrigan, became a leader of the radical anti-war movement in the 1960s.
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“I was blown away by the courage and effrontery, really, of my brother”, Fr Berrigan recalled in a 2006 interview on the Democracy Now radio program. He wrote more than 50 books, and his first volume of poetry, “Time Without Number”, won the Lamont Prize in 1957.
In 1970 Father Berrigan spent four months living underground as a fugitive from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Asked in the interview with America magazine for an inscription for his gravestone, Berrigan said: ‘It was never tiresome. Berrigan also wrote a play, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine.
Released from prison in 1972 the left-leaning Berrigan, also a poet and playwright, continued to protest into his 80s.
The men found common philosophical ground on many issues and formed a friendship that lasted until the Rev. Berrigan died at 94, Cosgrove said on Sunday. Philip Berrigan served about 2.5 years. Both were arrested that year after entering a General Electric nuclear missile facility in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and damaging nuclear warhead nose cones.
Philip Berrigan died in 2002.
Fr Berrigan moved into a Jesuit residence in Manhattan in 1975.
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The two were featured on the cover of Time Magazine in 1971. “It is very rare to sustain a movement in recognizable form without a spiritual base”.
