Essential writings from a modern prophet and peacemaker.

"Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of
paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of
the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise."

Daniel Berrigan is a Jesuit priest, poet, and peacemaker, whose words and
actions over the past 50 years have offered a powerful witness to the God of
Life. Fr. Berrigan, along with his brother Philip, was one of the Catonsville 9,
arrested and imprisoned in 1968 for destroying draft files in a protest against
the Vietnam War. But this was only one step along a journey of faith. Through
this selection from his many books, journals, poems, and homilies, a chronicle
of Fr. Berrigan's life and work unfolds, from the early steps in his vocation,
to his decision to cross the line and go to prison, his ongoing witness for…
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