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Biography of Daniel J. Berrigan
Name: Daniel J. Berrigan
Birth Date: May 9, 1921
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Virginia, Minnesota, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: priest
Daniel J. Berrigan
Called "the priest who stayed out in the cold" and "holy outlaw," Father Daniel J. Berrigan (born 1921) never came to terms with the conservatism of the Catholic Church or with the militarism of the American nation. He lived his life as a militant servant of the Christian faith.Daniel Berrigan was born in Virginia, Minnesota, on May 9, 1921. His father was a socialist farmer and railroad engineer who wrote poetry and raised his six sons in the brawling, argumentative atmosphere of a small farm near Syracuse, New York. Daniel was the frailest of the boys and from childhood had determined to enter the Catholic priesthood. When he was 18 he joined the Society of Jesus--the Jesuits. In 1952, after 13 years of training ("a most unfinished man"), he was ordained a priest. His brother Philip had also become a Catholic priest, though of a different order."The priesthood," wrote Berrigan, was "a sheepfold …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…his due as a poet. He's been writing poems for more than 40 years--much of it collected in the 1998 publication, And the Risen Bread: Selected Poems, 1957-1997. In that same year, he published a narrative and commentary on the Old Testament's Book of Daniel. Entitled Daniel: Under the Siege of the Divine, Berrigan applies the message of this biblical work to contemporary culture. Associated Events Vietnam War, 1959-1975 Further Reading Two quite similar books have been written about Daniel and Philip Berrigan: Francine DuPlessix Gray, Divine Disobedience (1970), and Richard Curtis, The Berrigan Brothers (1974). For autobiography of a sort see Daniel Berrigan, Night Flight to Hanoi (1968); The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1970); and Time Without Number (1957). For a more recent account of the Berrigans' protests see Fighting the Lamb's War: Skirmishes With the American Empire: The Autobiography of Philip Berrigan. For an imformative interview with Father Daniel Berrigan see U.S. Catholic (August, 1996).
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