Biography of daniel berrigan

Daniel Berrigan Biography

Daniel and his brother Philip were for a time on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list for illegal, non-violent actions against war, and was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

History
Daniel Berrigan was born in Virginia, Minnesota, a Midwestern working class town.

His father, Tom Berrigan, was second-generation Irish-Catholic and proud Union man. Tom left the Catholic church when church leadership forebade Catholics from joining unions, but Berrigan remained attracted to the Catholic church throughout his youth.

He joined a strict Jesuit seminary directly out of high school, where he spent the next twenty years studying theology.

Protests against the War in Vietnam
Daniel Berrigan, his brother Philip Berrigan, and the famed theologian Thomas Merton founded an interfaith coalition against the Vietnam War, and wrote letters