April 30, 2016 |  | | BREAKING NEWS | | The Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan has died at 94. He helped shape the Vietnam War protest movement and went to prison for it. | Saturday, April 30, 2016 8:38 PM EDT | | | The Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan, a Jesuit priest and poet whose defiant protests helped shape the tactics of opposition to the Vietnam War and landed him in prison, died on Saturday in New York City. He was 94. | | The United States was tearing itself apart over civil rights and the war in Southeast Asia when Father Berrigan emerged in the 1960s as an intellectual star of the Roman Catholic "new left," articulating a view that racism and poverty, militarism and capitalist greed were interconnected pieces of the same big problem: an unjust society. | | Father Berrigan; his brother Philip, a Josephite priest; and their allies took their case to the streets with rising disregard for the law or their personal fortunes. A defining point was the burning of Selective Service draft records in Catonsville, Md. | | Read more » | ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's Breaking News Alert newsletter. | | Copyright 2015 The New York Times Company | 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 | | |
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