Jesuit Daniel Berrigan (Full disclosure: I know him a bit; was arrested with him a few times – and how’s that for name-dropping!) turned 89 back in May. When he was interviewed on his birthday, and asked about his life, he said “Well, it hasn’t been boring.”
I saw him at the Pax Christi stations o the Cross in NYC this past Good Friday, and he looked frail.
But here is the quote, which was in the weekly email of Peace and Life Connections:
Reflections(Amherst, Mass.), vol. 2, no. 4 (Fall 1979), 1-2.“I come to the abortion question by way of a long, long experience with the military and the mainline violence of the culture, expressed in war . . . So I go from the Pentagon and being arrested there, to the cancer hospital, and then I think of abortion clinics, and 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.”
Berrigan in October, 2006 –
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