Daniel Berrigan, Jesuit Priest, Anti-war Activist, Dies at 94

The Rev. Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit priest, poet and peace activist, "died peacefully" Saturday at the age of 94 after a "long illness," a spokesman for the Jesuits USA Northeast Province said. Berrigan died at Murray-Weigel Hall, a Jesuit health care community in New York City, said spokesman Michael Benigno. Berrigan, along with his younger brother the Rev. Philip Berrigan, became a leader of the radical anti-war movement in the 1960s. The Berrigan brothers were...

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