U.S. Priest, Vietnam War Protester Daniel Berrigan Dies
Daniel Berrigan, a U.S. Jesuit priest famous for protesting against the Vietnam war, has died at the age of 94, reports said Saturday.
Berrigan rose to prominence when, together with his brother Philip, he led Catholic activists into draft board offices in Maryland, and then set the records on fire in a dramatic move that helped fuel a surge in protests around the United States.
The brothers were tried and convicted of destroying government property; when they were due to be imprisoned they went underground.
Released from prison in 1972 the left-leaning Berrigan, also a poet and playwright, continued to protest into his 80s.
Berrigan worked at institutions from Union Seminary, to Loyola University New Orleans, Columbia, Cornell, Yale and Fordham, the Jesuit university in the Bronx, New York.
He also wrote some 50 books including 15 volumes of poetry and won the Lamont Poetry Prize.
Source: Agence France Presse
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