Monthly Reflections
Flee: A Homily from Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
“There will be no sane or peaceable future unless we are creating here and now a sane and peaceable present; in the very jaws of Leviathan.”
Burning with Hope, and Hope Alone
This year, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old active-duty airman, self-immolated in front of Washington’s Israeli Embassy last February in protest of the genocidal war in Gaza.
Unfurling Love from the Window
With thousands of innocent lives in the balance, promoters of peace should take advantage of this crucial opportunity to follow the young people.
Reading Phil Berrigan, awaiting springtime
The bounty of these words, the hard truth of them, their gravitational pull, may just be our best hope as autumn takes hold and we prepare for what feels an ominous time in the history of this world.
The poem Dan wrote me
“The nun knelt down / before the ghost train / snaking its cargo / breathlessly, noiselessly / like a hellish midair / mutant / through the night.”
On Prison and Dignity
Dan turns to me and says, “Keep smiling. When they’ve gotten your smile, they’ve gotten too much.”
Friends on a Raft in the Storm
January 22 marks a year since the death of Thich Nhat Hahn, the monk and Vietnamese Zen master so widely known as an anti-war activist and teacher of mindfulness – for him one and the same.
The work of nonviolent resistance is a way of life
Rigorous study, a prayer routine, a commitment to community, courageous acts of resistance and peace-making, feeding your neighbors, and right-relationship with Creation are stitched into the fabric of the week, folded into the flow of life.
For truth and reconciliation, we need spiritual maturity
Resistance, for Dan, was against the forces of evil that both result in the material death of too many and also the spiritual amnesia of those who collude with such forces.
A Letter from Unka Dan
With these threads, our uncle knits us into this ever expanding scarf of community, where we will be staggered by the beauty and the preciousness of creation, choked by the injustice and pain in our world, intoxicated by the power we have together and nourished by the liturgy of the Word.
Philip Berrigan, the Josephite who risked his life for justice
For me Philip Berrigan represents the very best of the priesthood—in that he was an ordained Catholic who committed himself to social action when the mood of the nation was anything but.
The Falling of the Scales
The scales began to fall from my eyes in late 2015 when, as a first-year Fordham student and freshly-minted volunteer at the nearby Jesuit retirement home, I met Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
Fr. Daniel Berrigan: The Pacifist Priest, Teacher and Prophet
I call him a prophet because he denounced not only his government and the rich but also denounced the Catholic Church and other denominations for their silence and failure to act.
Padre Daniel Berrigan, El Sacerdote Pacifista, Maestro y Profeta
Digo que es Profeta, porque denuncia no solo a su gobierno y la clase rica, sino también denuncia a la Iglesia Católica y las otras denominaciones por su silencio y falta de acción.