Berrigan was a Jesuit priest and anti-war activist famous for his radical spirituality. His participation in the Catonsville Nine, a group of Catholic activists who burned hundreds of Selective Service draft files to protest the war in Vietnam, put him on the FBI’s “most wanted list.” He founded the Plowshares Movement to protest nuclear weaponry in 1980; their actions of civil disobedience included damaging warhead nose cones and pouring blood on government documents at a General Electric nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. He was arrested numerous times and spent an estimated seven years in prison between 1970 and 1995. His later work was largely devoted to assisting AIDS patients.
In addition, Berrigan taught at Le Moyne College in Syracuse (1957 – 63), and was poet in residence at Fordham College (2000 – 16).
The author of over 50 books, Berrigan is the winner of the 1956 Lamont Poetry Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the 1988 Thomas Merton Award. He wrote poetry, plays, and nonfiction. His 15 books of poems include: Time Without Number (1957), Prison Poems (1973), And the Risen Bread (1998), and Essential Writings (2009). His books of prose include: Night Flight to Hanoi (1968), The Dark Night of Resistance (1971), Testimony: The Word Made Flesh (2004), No Gods But One (2009), and his autobiography, Two Dwell in Peace (1987).
He lived at this address in the 1970s with other members of the Catonsville Nine.
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