Daniel Berrigan

Daniel Joseph Berrigan was an Jesuit priest antiwar activist Christian pacifist playwright poet and author His active protest against the Vietnam War earned him both scorn and admiration especially regarding his association with the Catonsville Nine It also landed him on the Federal Bureau of Investigations most wanted list the firstever priest on the list on the cover of Time magazine and in prison For the rest of his life Dan remained one of the United States leading antiwar activists In 1980 he cofounded the Plowshares movement an antinuclear protest group that put him back into the national spotlight He was also an awardwinning and prolific author of some 50 books a teacher and a university educator