Daniel Berrigan

Berrigan was born in Virginia, Minnesota, the son of Thomas Berrigan, a second-generation Irish Catholic and active trade union member, and Frieda Berrigan (née Fromhart), who was of German ancestry.{{cite web|title=Daniel Berrigan – United States Census, 1930|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4RN-QQL|website=FamilySearch|access-date=May 1, 2016|archive-date=May 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512190819/https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4RN-QQL|url-status=live}} He was the fifth of six sons. His youngest brother was fellow peace activist Philip Berrigan.{{cite news|last1=Lewis|first1=Daniel|title=Philip Berrigan, Former Priest and Peace Advocate in the Vietnam War Era, Dies at 79|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/08/us/philip-berrigan-former-priest-peace-advocate-vietnam-war-era-dies-79.html?pagewanted=all|access-date=May 1, 2016|work=The New York Times|date=December 8, 2002|archive-date=February 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214002658/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/08/us/philip-berrigan-former-priest-peace-advocate-vietnam-war-era-dies-79.html?pagewanted=all|url-status=live}}

At age 5, Berrigan's family moved to Syracuse, New York.{{cite web|last1=Faison|first1=Carly|title=Guide to the Daniel Berrigan Papers|url=http://www.catholicresearch.net/data/ead/html/dep-dpu_ead_mss0098.html|website=CatholicResearch.net|access-date=May 1, 2016|date=2014|archive-date=October 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019195242/http://www.catholicresearch.net/data/ead/html/dep-dpu_ead_mss0098.html|url-status=live}} Berrigan was devoted to the Catholic Church throughout his youth. He joined the Jesuits directly out of high school in 1939 and was ordained to the priesthood on June 19, 1952.{{cite news|last1=Roberts|first1=Tom|title=Daniel Berrigan, poet, peacemaker, dies at 94|url=http://ncronline.org/news/people/daniel-berrigan-poet-peacemaker-dies-94|access-date=May 1, 2016|work=National Catholic Reporter|date=April 30, 2016|archive-date=October 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191020073225/https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/daniel-berrigan-poet-peacemaker-dies-94|url-status=live}} In 1946, Berrigan earned a bachelor's degree from St. Andrew-on-Hudson, a Jesuit seminary in Hyde Park, New York.{{cite web|title=Danial J Berrigan – United States Census, 1940|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQL6-679|website=FamilySearch|access-date=May 1, 2016|archive-date=May 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509203537/https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQL6-679|url-status=live}} In 1952 he received a master's degree from Woodstock College in Baltimore, Maryland.

Berrigan taught at St. Peter's Preparatory School in Jersey City from 1946 to 1949.{{cite news|last1=Schmidt|first1=Margaret|title=Peace activist Father Berrigan dies, taught at St. Peter's Prep in '40s|url=http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2016/04/peace_activist_father_berrigan_dies_taught_at_st_p.html|access-date=May 1, 2016|work=The Jersey Journal|date=April 30, 2016|archive-date=October 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019194820/http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2016/04/peace_activist_father_berrigan_dies_taught_at_st_p.html|url-status=live}}

In 1954, Berrigan was assigned to teach French and theology at the Jesuit Brooklyn Preparatory School.{{cite book | title=New York Times Encyclopedic Almanac | publisher=New York Times, Book & Educational Division| year=1970 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dVMnAQAAIAAJ | access-date=April 23, 2018 | page=31 | quote=Back in New York, Berrigan taught French and theology for three years at the Jesuits' Brooklyn Preparatory School. | archive-date=February 5, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200205121747/https://books.google.com/books?id=dVMnAQAAIAAJ | url-status=live }}{{cite encyclopedia | article=Berrigan, Daniel | last=Siracusa | first=J.M. | title=Encyclopedia of the Kennedys: The People and Events That Shaped America: The People and Events That Shaped America | publisher=ABC-CLIO | year=2012 | isbn=978-1-59884-539-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PEojQDou7MIC&pg=PA67 | page=67 | access-date=April 23, 2018 | archive-date=May 1, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160501133319/https://books.google.com/books?id=PEojQDou7MIC | url-status=live }}{{cite book | last=Curtis | first=R. | title=The Berrigan Brothers: The Story of Daniel and Philip Berrigan | publisher=Hawthorn Books | year=1974 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MCFDAAAAIAAJ | access-date=April 23, 2018 | page=33 | archive-date=May 3, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503172949/https://books.google.com/books?id=MCFDAAAAIAAJ | url-status=live }}{{efn|According to Marsh and Brown, it was French and philosophy.{{cite book | last1=Marsh | first1=J.L. | last2=Brown | first2=A.J. | title=Faith, Resistance, and the Future: Daniel Berrigan's Challenge to Catholic Social Thought | publisher=Fordham University Press | series=Fordham University Press Series | year=2012 | isbn=978-0-8232-3982-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cYCeo5CjYNQC&pg=PA3 | access-date=April 23, 2018 | page=3 | archive-date=March 1, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301164040/https://books.google.com/books?id=cYCeo5CjYNQC&pg=PA3 | url-status=live }}}} In 1957 he was appointed professor of New Testament studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. The same year, he won the Lamont Prize for his book of poems, Time Without Number. He developed a reputation as a religious radical, working actively against poverty and on changing the relationship between priests and lay people. While at Le Moyne, he founded its International House.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dolphinsonline.org/s/445/16/interior.aspx?sid=445&gid=43&pgid=15&cid=292&ecid=292&ciid=0&crid=0&newsid=78|title=Alumni & College News|website=www.dolphinsonline.org|access-date=May 3, 2022|archive-date=March 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304152824/https://www.dolphinsonline.org/s/445/16/interior.aspx?sid=445&gid=43&pgid=15&cid=292&ecid=292&ciid=0&crid=0&newsid=78|url-status=live}}

While on a sabbatical from Le Moyne in 1963, Berrigan traveled to Paris and met French Jesuits who criticized the social and political conditions in Indochina. Taking inspiration from this, he and his brother Philip founded the Catholic Peace Fellowship, a group that organized protests against the war in Vietnam.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/01/daniel-berrigan-priest-and-peace-activist-dies-aged-94|title=Daniel Berrigan, priest and anti-Vietnam war peace activist, dies|work=The Guardian|date=May 2016|access-date=December 14, 2016|archive-date=September 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190907110521/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/01/daniel-berrigan-priest-and-peace-activist-dies-aged-94|url-status=live}}

On October 28, 1965, Berrigan, along with the Reverend Richard John Neuhaus and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, founded an organization known as Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam (CALCAV). The organization, founded at the Church Center for the United Nations, was joined by the likes of Doctor Hans Morgenthau, the Reverend Reinhold Niebuhr, the Reverend William Sloane Coffin, and the Reverend Philip Berrigan his brother, among many others. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who delivered his 1967 speech Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence under sponsorship from CALCAV, served as the national co-chairman of the organization.

From 1966 to 1970, Berrigan was the assistant director of the Cornell University United Religious Work (CURW), the umbrella organization for all religious groups on campus, including the Cornell Newman Club (later the Cornell Catholic Community), eventually becoming the group's pastor.{{cite web|first1=Daniel|last1=Aloi|url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April06/berrigan.0406.html|title=From Vietnam to Redbud Woods: Daniel Berrigan launches events commemorating five decades of activism at Cornell|date=April 4, 2006|work=Cornell Chronicle|access-date=December 1, 2007|archive-date=August 16, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070816110212/http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April06/berrigan.0406.html|url-status=live}} Berrigan was the first faculty advisor of Cornell University's first gay rights student group, the Student Homophile League, in 1968.{{cite web|first1=Brenda|last1=Marston|url=https://alumni.cornell.edu/event/cugala-reunion-2020-the-first-american-university/|title=CUGALA Reunion 2020 The First American University|date=June 6, 2020|work=Cornell University|access-date=June 6, 2020|archive-date=June 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615021906/https://alumni.cornell.edu/event/cugala-reunion-2020-the-first-american-university/|url-status=live}}

Berrigan at one time or another held faculty positions or ran programs at Union Theological Seminary, Loyola University New Orleans, Columbia, Cornell, and Yale. His longest tenure was at Fordham (a Jesuit university located in the Bronx), where for a brief time he also served as poet-in-residence.{{cite web|title=Dissenter Poet in Residence: The Rev. Daniel Berrigan, S.J.|url=http://legacy.fordham.edu/campus_resources/enewsroom/inside_fordham/inside_fordham_archi/march_2003/in_focus_faculty__re/dissenter_poet_in_re_10604.asp|website=Inside Fordham Online|access-date=May 1, 2016|date=March 2003|archive-date=May 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503172953/https://www.fordham.edu/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=http://digital.library.fordham.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/RAM/id/24809/rec/1|title=Peace activist Daniel Berrigan to teach poetry course|last=Guerierro|first=Katherine|date=November 6, 1997|access-date=October 18, 2016|archive-date=May 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503173004/https://digital.library.fordham.edu/digital/collection/RAM/id/24809|url-status=live}}

Berrigan appeared briefly in the 1986 Warner Bros. film The Mission, playing a Jesuit priest. He also served as a consultant on the film.{{cite news|last1=Raftery|first1=Kay|title=Father Berrigan Talks About His Film Mission The Jesuit And Noted Peace Activist Discussed His Role In The Making Of A Major Motion Picture|url=http://articles.philly.com/1993-03-25/news/25952314_1_father-berrigan-jesuits-peace-activist|access-date=May 2, 2016|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=March 25, 1993|archive-date=June 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601160338/http://articles.philly.com/1993-03-25/news/25952314_1_father-berrigan-jesuits-peace-activist|url-status=dead}}{{cite book|last1=Berrigan|first1=Daniel|title=The Mission: A Film Journal|date=1986|publisher=Harper & Row|location=San Francisco|isbn=978-0-06-250056-4|edition=1st|oclc=13947262|url=https://archive.org/details/missionfilmjourn00berr}}

{{Blockquote | style=font-size: 100%; | But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of the truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?|Berrigan, quoted on the cover of Time (January 25, 1971){{cite magazine|title=The Nation: The Berrigans: Conspiracy and Conscience|magazine=Time |date=25 January 1971|volume=97|issue=4|page=18|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904636,00.html|access-date=1 May 2016|issn=0040-781X|archive-date=May 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507110700/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904636,00.html|url-status=live}}}}

Berrigan, his brother and Josephite priest Philip Berrigan, and Trappist monk Thomas Merton founded an interfaith coalition against the Vietnam War and wrote letters to major newspapers arguing for an end to the war. In 1967, Berrigan witnessed the public outcry that followed from the arrest of his brother Philip, for pouring blood on draft records as part of the Baltimore Four.Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement (2008) Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Cambridge University Press, p48 {{ISBN|978-0-521-71767-0}} Philip was sentenced to six years in prison for defacing government property. The fallout he had to endure from these many interventions, including his support for prisoners of war and, in 1968, seeing firsthand the conditions on the ground in Vietnam,{{Cite web |title=Finding Aid for Daniel Berrigan Papers |url=https://libguides.depaul.edu/ld.php?content_id=10135847 |website=DePaul University Special Collections and Archives Department |access-date=May 3, 2022 |archive-date=March 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303111636/https://libguides.depaul.edu/ld.php?content_id=10135847 |url-status=live }} further radicalized Berrigan, or at least strengthened his determination to resist American military imperialism.{{cite news|title=Father Daniel Berrigan, Anti-War Activist & Poet, Dies|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2016/4/30/father_daniel_berrigan_anti_war_activist|access-date=May 1, 2016|work=Democracy Now!|date=April 30, 2016|archive-date=May 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160501004446/http://www.democracynow.org/2016/4/30/father_daniel_berrigan_anti_war_activist|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2016/5/2/in_2006_interview_fr_dan_berrigan|title=In 2006 Interview, Fr. Dan Berrigan Recalls Confronting Defense Secretary McNamara over Vietnam War|work=Democracy Now!|access-date=May 4, 2016|archive-date=May 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160503232820/http://www.democracynow.org/2016/5/2/in_2006_interview_fr_dan_berrigan|url-status=live}}

Berrigan traveled to Hanoi with Howard Zinn during the Tet Offensive in January 1968 to "receive" three American airmen, the first American prisoners of war released by the North Vietnamese since the US bombing of that nation had begun.{{cite book |title=Who Spoke Up? American Protest Against the War in Vietnam 1963–1975 |author=Nancy Zaroulis |author2=Gerald Sullivan |publisher=Horizon Book Promotions |year=1989 |isbn=0-385-17547-7}}{{cite book |title=You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train |author=Howard Zinn |author-link=Howard Zinn |publisher=Beacon Press |year=1994 |isbn=0-8070-7127-7 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/youcantbeneutral00zinn/page/126 126–38] |url=https://archive.org/details/youcantbeneutral00zinn/page/126 }}; new ed. 2002

In 1968, he signed the Writers and Editors War Tax Protest pledge, vowing to refuse to make tax payments in protest of the Vietnam War.{{cite news|title=Writers and Editors War Tax Protest|work=New York Post|date=January 30, 1968}} In the same year, he was interviewed in the anti-Vietnam War documentary film In the Year of the Pig, and later that year became involved in radical non-violent protest.

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Daniel Berrigan and his brother Philip, along with seven other Catholic protesters, used homemade napalm to destroy 378 draft files in the parking lot of the Catonsville, Maryland, draft board on May 17, 1968.{{cite web|title=The Catonsville Nine original 5/17/68 footage|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3NM3xaNuLk|website=Waging Non-Violence|access-date=May 1, 2016|date=May 17, 1968|archive-date=May 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160501072338/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3NM3xaNuLk|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Olzen|first1=Jake|title=How the Catonsville Nine survived on film|url=http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/how-the-catonsville-nine-survived-on-film/|access-date=May 1, 2016|work=Waging Non-Violence|date=May 17, 2013|archive-date=May 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504171540/http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/how-the-catonsville-nine-survived-on-film/|url-status=live}}{{cite court|litigants=United States v. Moylan|vol=1002|reporter=417 F. 2d|opinion=|pinpoint=|court=Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit|date=1969|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8977019992891102745&hl=en&as_sdt=2,5|access-date=May 1, 2016}} This group, which came to be known as the Catonsville Nine, issued a statement after the incident:

{{Blockquote | style=font-size: 100%; | We confront the Roman Catholic Church, other Christian bodies, and the synagogues of America with their silence and cowardice in the face of our country's crimes. We are convinced that the religious bureaucracy in this country is racist, is an accomplice in this war, and is hostile to the poor.}}

Berrigan was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison,{{cite court|litigants=Berrigan v. Norton|vol=790|reporter=451 F. 2d|opinion=|pinpoint=|court=Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit|date=1971|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13888286856727862807&hl=en&as_sdt=2,5|access-date=May 1, 2016}} but went into hiding with the help of fellow radicals prior to imprisonment. While on the run, Berrigan was interviewed for Lee Lockwood's documentary The Holy Outlaw. The Federal Bureau of Investigation apprehended him on August 11, 1970, at the home of William Stringfellow and Anthony Towne on Block Island. Berrigan was then imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, until his release on February 24, 1972.{{cite news|url=http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cornell?a=d&d=CDS19701218.2.15&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------|title=Grand jury indicts two for hiding Dan Berrigan|agency=Associated Press|work=Cornell Daily Sun|volume=87|number=63|date=December 18, 1970|page=3|access-date=May 8, 2017|archive-date=September 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929044916/http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cornell?a=d&d=CDS19701218.2.15&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------|url-status=live}}

In retrospect, the trial of the Catonsville Nine was significant, because it "altered resistance to the Vietnam War, moving activists from street protests to repeated acts of civil disobedience, including the burning of draft cards". As The New York Times noted in its obituary, Berrigan's actions helped "shape the tactics of opposition to the Vietnam War."

File:NLN Dan Berrigan.jpg outside the US Mission to the UN in 2006]]

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On September 9, 1980, Berrigan, his brother Philip, and six others including Anne Montgomery RSCJ, Elmer Maas, Carl Kabat, John Schuchardt, Dean Hammer, and Molly Rush (the "Plowshares Eight") began the Plowshares movement. They trespassed onto the General Electric nuclear missile facility in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, where they damaged nuclear warhead nose cones and poured blood onto documents and files. They were arrested and charged with over ten different felony and misdemeanor counts.{{cite court|litigants=Com. v. Berrigan|vol=226|reporter=501 A. 2d|opinion=|pinpoint=|court=Pa: Supreme Court|date=1985|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6991323227073321014&hl=en&as_sdt=2,5|access-date=May 1, 2016}} The story is partly told in the book ARISE AND WITNESS: Poems by Anne Montgomery, RSCJ, About Faith, Prison, War Zones and Nonviolent Resistance, published in 2024.{{Cite book |title=ARISE AND WITNESS: Poems by Anne Montgomery, RSCJ, About Faith, Prison, War Zones and Nonviolent Resistance |date=15 September 2024 |publisher=New Academia/SCARITH |isbn=979-8-9900542-4-0 |editor-last=Laffin |editor-first=Arthur |location=Washington, DC |editor-last2=Sargent |editor-first2=Carole}} On April 10, 1990, after ten years of appeals, Berrigan's group was re-sentenced and paroled for up to {{Nowrap|23¹/₂}} months in consideration of time already served in prison.{{Cite web |title=A History of Direct Disarmament Actions - The Ploughshares movement originated in the North American faith |url=http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/issue42/articles/a_history_of_direct_disarmament.htm |website=coat.ncf.ca |access-date=May 1, 2016 |archive-date=June 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616182821/http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/issue42/articles/a_history_of_direct_disarmament.htm |url-status=live }} Their legal battle was re-created in Emile de Antonio's 1982 film In the King of Prussia, which starred Martin Sheen and featured appearances by the Plowshares Eight as themselves.

{{Blockquote | style=font-size:100%; | I see an 'interlocking directorate' of death that binds the whole culture. That is, an unspoken agreement that we will solve our problems by killing people in various ways; a declaration that certain people are expendable, outside the pale. A decent society should no more have an abortion clinic than The Pentagon." — interview by Lucien Miller, Reflections, vol. 2, no. 4 (Fall 1979)Democrats for Life: Pro-Life Politics and the Silenced Majority, Kristen Day, p.61}}

Berrigan endorsed a consistent life ethic, a morality based on a holistic reverence for life.{{cite web | last=Gibson | first=David | title=Daniel Berrigan, anti-war priest, dies at 94 | website=Religion News Service | date=April 1, 2016 | url=http://religionnews.com/2016/05/01/daniel-berrigan-anti-war-priest-dies-at-94/ | access-date=January 17, 2017 | archive-date=January 18, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118053913/http://religionnews.com/2016/05/01/daniel-berrigan-anti-war-priest-dies-at-94/ | url-status=live }}{{cite web | last=Goldman | first=Ari L. | title=Religion Notes | website=The New York Times | date=February 8, 1992 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/08/us/religion-notes.html | access-date=January 17, 2017 | archive-date=January 18, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118052731/http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/08/us/religion-notes.html | url-status=live }}{{cite web|title=Consistent Life Individual Endorsers As of January 9, 2017|url=http://www.consistent-life.org/clsigners.pdf|website=Consistent Life Network|access-date=January 17, 2017|archive-date=March 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305064806/http://www.consistent-life.org/clsigners.pdf|url-status=live}}{{cite web | agency=Associated Press | title=Fr Daniel Berrigan, anti-war and pro-life campaigner, dies aged 94 – CatholicHerald.co.uk | website=CatholicHerald.co.uk – Breaking news and opinion from the online edition of Britain's leading Catholic newspaper | date=May 2, 2016 | url=http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/05/02/fr-daniel-berrigan-anti-war-and-pro-life-campaigner-dies-aged-94/ | access-date=January 17, 2017 | archive-date=January 18, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118052228/http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/05/02/fr-daniel-berrigan-anti-war-and-pro-life-campaigner-dies-aged-94/ | url-status=live }} As a member of the Rochester, New York-area consistent life ethic advocacy group Faith and Resistance Community, he protested via civil disobedience against abortion at a new Planned Parenthood clinic in 1991.

Berrigan said of pastoral care to AIDS patients:

{{Blockquote | style=font-size: 100%; | We deal with very many gay Catholics who have felt terribly hurt and misused by the church. There are some people who want to be reconciled with the church and there are others who have great bitterness. So I try to perform whatever human or religious work that seems called for.{{Cite news|title=Jesuit Priest's Varied Causes Include Helping AIDS Victims|last=Mullen|first=Thomas|date=June 2, 1990|work=Richmond Times-Dispatch |via=Access World News}}}}

Berrigan published Sorrow Built a Bridge: Friendship and AIDS reflecting on his experiences ministering to AIDS patients through the Supportive Care Program at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center in 1989.{{Cite book|title=Sorrow Built a Bridge: Friendship and AIDS|last=Berrigan|first=Daniel|publisher=Fortkamp Publishing Company|year=1989|location=Baltimore}} The Religious Studies Review wrote, "the strength of this volume lies in its capacity to portray sensitively the impact of AIDS on human lives."{{Cite journal|year=1991|title=Notes on Recent Publications|journal=Religious Studies Review|volume=17|issue=2|page=150}} Speaking about AIDS patients, many of whom were gay, The Charlotte Observer quoted Berrigan saying in 1991, "Both the church and the state are finding ways to kill people with AIDS, and one of the ways is ostracism that pushes people between the cracks of respectability or acceptability and leaves them there to make of life what they will or what they cannot."{{Cite news|title=AIDS Attitudes Appall Activist Daniel Berrigan|last=McClain|first=Kathleen|date=October 11, 1989|work=The Charlotte Observer (NC)|via=Access World News}}

File:NLN Frida and Dan Berrigan.jpg, at the Witness Against Torture event held in NYC's Lower East Side on December 18, 2008]]

Although much of his later work was devoted to assisting AIDS patients in New York City, Berrigan still held to his activist roots throughout his life. He maintained his opposition to American interventions abroad, from Central America in the 1980s, through the Gulf War in 1991, the Kosovo War, the US invasion of Afghanistan, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He was also an opponent of capital punishment, a contributing editor of Sojourners, and a supporter of the Occupy movement.{{cite news|url=http://truth-out.org/news/item/9712-daniel-berrigan-americas-street-priest-stands-with-occupy|title=Daniel Berrigan, America's Street Priest, Stands With Occupy|author=Chris Hedges|date=June 11, 2012|access-date=June 12, 2012|archive-date=June 15, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615194031/http://truth-out.org/news/item/9712-daniel-berrigan-americas-street-priest-stands-with-occupy|url-status=live}}{{cite journal|last1=Roberts|first1=Tom|title=Soon 75, Berrigan's is still an edgy God|journal=National Catholic Reporter|date=January 26, 1996|volume=32|issue=13|issn=0027-8939}}{{cite book | last=Schneider | first=N. | title=Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse | publisher=University of California Press | year=2013 | isbn=978-0-520-95703-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LOIQc_ALD8YC&pg=PA117 | access-date=May 7, 2017 | page=117}}

P. G. Coy, P. Berryman, D. L. Anderson, and others consider Berrigan to be a Christian anarchist.{{cite book | last=Coy | first=P.G. | title=A Revolution of the Heart: Essays on the Catholic Worker | publisher=Temple University Press | year=1988 | isbn=978-0-87722-531-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4dG87jxGDFcC&pg=PA299 | access-date=May 7, 2017 | page=299}}{{cite book | last=Labrie | first=R. | title=Thomas Merton and the Inclusive Imagination | publisher=University of Missouri Press | year=2001 | isbn=978-0-8262-6279-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t12f0wcvn6wC&pg=PA207 | access-date=May 7, 2017 | page=207}}{{cite book | last=Berryman | first=P. | title=Our Unfinished Business | publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | year=2013 | isbn=978-0-307-83164-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UEBq1LfB5loC&pg=PT221 | access-date=May 7, 2017 | page=221}}{{cite book |author-link=Angela Davis | last=Davis | first=A.Y. | title=If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance | publisher=Verso Books | series=Radical Thinkers | year=2016 | isbn=978-1-78478-770-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T2adCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT80 | access-date=May 7, 2017 | page=80}}{{cite book | last=Anderson | first=D.L. | title=The Human Tradition in America Since 1945 | publisher=Scholarly Resources | year=2003 | isbn=978-0-8420-2943-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WrP8xRB7DxYC&pg=PA88 | access-date=May 7, 2017 | page=88}}

• January 25, 1971: Featured on the cover of Time along with his brother Philip.{{cite magazine|url=https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19710125,00.html|title=Rebel Priests: The Curious Case of the Berrigans|date=January 25, 1971|magazine=Time |at=Cover |access-date=May 1, 2016|archive-date=July 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724081927/http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19710125,00.html|url-status=live}}
• Adrienne Rich's poem "The Burning of Paper Instead of Children" makes numerous references to the Catonsville Nine and includes an epigraph from Daniel Berrigan during the trial ("I was in danger of verbalizing my moral impulses out of existence").{{Cite web|url=https://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/99/jrieffel/poetry/rich/children.html|title=Adrienne Rich experiment|website=www.sccs.swarthmore.edu|access-date=May 4, 2016|archive-date=August 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810142257/https://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/99/jrieffel/poetry/rich/children.html|url-status=live}}
• It is frequently claimed that "the radical priest" in Paul Simon's song "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" refers to or was inspired by Berrigan
• Lynne Sachs's documentary film Investigation of a Flame is about the Berrigan brothers and the Catonsville Nine.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316035/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl|title=Investigation of a Flame (2003)|work=IMDb|access-date=July 1, 2018|archive-date=October 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019194823/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316035/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl|url-status=live}}
• Berrigan appeared briefly in the 1986 Roland Joffé film The Mission, which starred Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons.
• Berrigan's play The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1970) premiered at the Lyceum Theatre in New York City on June 2, 1971. The original cast featured the talents of Biff McGuire, Michael Moriarty, Josef Sommer, Sam Waterston, and James Woods, among others. Gordon Davidson received a 1972 Tony Award nomination for his direction of the play.
• The Trial of the Catonsville Nine was adapted in a 1972 film of the same name, produced by Gregory Peck and starring Ed Flanders as Berrigan.
• Berrigan is interviewed in Emile de Antonio's 1968 Vietnam War documentary In the Year of the Pig.
• Berrigan is featured in Emile de Antonio's 1983 film In the King of Prussia, also starring fellow activist Martin Sheen.
• Berrigan appears in the 1997 documentary film An Act of Conscience, narrated by Sheen. In the film, Berrigan visits the contested home of war tax resisters Randy Kehler and Betsy Corner.{{cite news|last=Anderson|first=John|date=May 4, 1998|title=The IRS Plays Tax and Consequences|url=https://newspapers.com/article/newsday/140135927/|newspaper=Newsday|location=New York, New York|page=B7|access-date=February 7, 2024|via=Newspapers.com}}
• Berrigan's oral history is included in the 2006 book Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s by Jeff Kisseloff.{{cite journal |last1=Bush |first1=Vanessa |title=Kisseloff, Jeff. Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s |journal=Booklist |date=October 1, 2006 |volume=103 |issue=3 |publisher=American Library Association |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A152935485/AONE |access-date=April 12, 2022 |via=Gale |archive-date=May 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503173003/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&id=GALE%7CA152935485&v=2.1&it=r&userGroupName=anon%7E73fb5424 |url-status=live }}
• Berrigan's involvement with the Catonsville Nine is explored in the 2013 documentary Hit & Stay.
• The Chairman Dances album Time Without Measure, a nod to Berrigan’s Time Without Number, includes the song “Catonsville 9 (Thomas and Marjorie)” about the protest and the group’s expected arrest and imprisonment.{{cite web |last1=Roden |first1=Renée Darline |title=This band wrote a song in honor of Dorothy Day. Now their album could help make her a saint. |url=https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2021/11/29/dorothy-day-canonization-chairman-dances-241923 |website=America: The Jesuit Review |date=November 29, 2021 |publisher=America Press Inc. |access-date=15 February 2025}}{{cite web |last1=Doyle |first1=Jon |title=The Chairman Dances - Time Without Measure |url=https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2016/09/01/the-chairman-dances-time-without-measure/ |website=Various Small Flames |date=September 2016 |access-date=15 February 2025}}
• Dar Williams' song "I Had No Right" from her album The Green World is about Berrigan and his trial.
• In the 2022 television adaptation of the podcast Slow Burn, an anti-war protester brings up the Berrigan brothers.{{cite web|url=https://www.salon.com/2022/04/24/gaslit-review-starz-watergate/|last=Stine|first=Alison|date=April 24, 2022|work=Salon.com|title=The best parts of Starz's Watergate series "Gaslit" are the characters history cast aside|access-date=May 1, 2022|archive-date=May 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220501202101/https://www.salon.com/2022/04/24/gaslit-review-starz-watergate/|url-status=live}}

Berrigan died in the Bronx, New York City, on April 30, 2016, at Murray-Weigel Infirmary, the Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University. Since 1975,{{cite web|title=Daniel Berrigan Papers (1961–2009)|url=http://www.catholicresearch.net/data/ead/html/dep-dpu_ead_mss0098.html|website=Special Collections and Archives, DePaul University|access-date=May 1, 2016|format=Finding aid|location=Chicago, Illinois|archive-date=October 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019195242/http://www.catholicresearch.net/data/ead/html/dep-dpu_ead_mss0098.html|url-status=live}} he had lived on the Upper West Side at the West Side Jesuit Community.{{cite news|last1=Goldman|first1=Ari L.|title=A Landlord Tries to Evict Jesuit Group|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/17/nyregion/a-landlord-tries-to-evict-jesuit-group.html|access-date=May 1, 2016|work=The New York Times|date=April 17, 1989|archive-date=June 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602064238/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/17/nyregion/a-landlord-tries-to-evict-jesuit-group.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite journal|last=Wylie-Kellermann|first=Bill|date=September 2016|title=Death Shall Have No Dominion: Daniel Berrigan of the Resurrection|journal=CrossCurrents|volume=66| issue = 3|pages=312–320|doi=10.1111/cros.12199|s2cid=171433961 }}

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• 1956: Lamont Poetry Selection
• 1974: War Resisters League Peace Award{{cite web|url=https://secure.serve.com/resist/wrl_peaceawards.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610210132/https://secure.serve.com/resist/wrl_peaceawards.htm|title=WRL Peace Awards|archive-date=June 10, 2007}}
• 1974: Gandhi Peace Award (accepted then resigned){{Cite web|url=http://www.gandhipeaceaward.org/award-laureates/|title=Award Laureates|access-date=May 3, 2016|archive-date=May 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504233153/http://www.gandhipeaceaward.org/award-laureates/|url-status=dead}}
• 1988: Thomas Merton Award
• 1989: Pax Christi USA Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace Award{{cite web|url=https://paxchristiusa.org/2016/04/30/obituary-fr-daniel-berrigan-s-j-pax-christi-usa-teacher-of-peace-passes-away-at-age-94/|title=OBITUARY: Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J., Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace, passes away at age 94|work=PAX CHRISTI USA|date=April 30, 2016|access-date=May 4, 2016|archive-date=June 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624011542/https://paxchristiusa.org/2016/04/30/obituary-fr-daniel-berrigan-s-j-pax-christi-usa-teacher-of-peace-passes-away-at-age-94/|url-status=live}}
• 1991: The Peace Abbey Foundation Courage of Conscience Award{{Cite web|url=http://www.peaceabbey.org/list-of-award-recipients/|title=List of Award Recipients | The Peace Abbey FoundationThe Peace Abbey Foundation|access-date=May 3, 2016|archive-date=May 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180518195158/http://www.peaceabbey.org/list-of-award-recipients/|url-status=live}}
• 1993: Pacem in Terris Award
• 2008: Honorary Degree from the College of Wooster{{Cite web |title=Honorary Degrees List July 2021 |url=https://wooster.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Honorary-Degrees-by-Name.pdf |website=wooster.edu |access-date=May 3, 2022 |archive-date=May 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503173047/https://wooster.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Honorary-Degrees-by-Name.pdf |url-status=live }}
• 2017: Daniel Berrigan Center at Benincasa Community, 133 W. 70th Street, New York, NY 10023

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• {{Cite magazine |last1=Coles |first1=Robert |title=A Dialogue With Radical Priest Daniel Berrigan |magazine=Time |volume=97 |issue=12 |page=28 |date=March 22, 1971 |issn=0040-781X }}
• Jim Forest, At Play in the Lions' Den: A Biography and Memoir of Daniel Berrigan (Orbis Books 2017)
• Francine du Plessix Gray, Divine Disobedience: Profiles in Catholic Radicalism (Knopf, 1970)
• [http://libguides.depaul.edu/ld.php?content_id=10135847 Daniel Berrigan Papers] (finding aid) Special Collections and Archives, DePaul University
• Murray Polner and Jim O'Grady, Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Brothers in Religious Faith & Civil Disobedience (Basic Books, 1997 and Westview Press, 1998)
• [http://libguides.depaul.edu/ld.php?content_id=10135849 Murray Polner Papers], DePaul University Special Collections and Archives (notes and documents from writing Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Lives & Times of Daniel & Philip Berrigan)
• Daniel Cosacchi and Eric Martin, eds., The Berrigan Letters: Personal Correspondence between Daniel and Philip Berrigan (Orbis Books, 2016)
• Van Allen, Rodger. “What Really Happened?: Revisiting the 1965 Exiling to Latin America of Daniel Berrigan, S.J.” American Catholic Studies 117, no. 2 (2006): 33–60. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44194888.

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• [http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM04602.html Daniel and Philip Berrigan Collection, 1880–1995] at Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
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