Daniel Berrigan, anti-war priest, dies at 94
Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit priest and herald of the Catholic social justice movement, died April 30 at age 94.
Berrigan gained worldwide attention in May 1968 when he and his younger brother, Philip, who was a Josephite priest, along with seven other Catholics seized draft records from a Selective Service office in Catonsville, Maryland. The group doused the files with homemade napalm in a parking lot outside of the draft office and torched them while joining hands in prayer.
The Berrigan brothers were convicted in a federal trial and released on their own recognizance in 1970. They then went into hiding. Berrigan was eventually arrested by the FBI and sent to federal prison. He was released in 1972.
