Family background, experiences during World War II as artilleryman; education at Holy Cross; decision to join Josephite Order of Roman Catholic Church, ordination to priesthood; involvement with civil rights movement in Washington, D.C., New Orleans and Baltimore; teaching in Catholic schools; non-violent opposition to Vietnam War: destruction of draft documents at Catonsville, MD., serving jail se ntences, going underground; marriage and excommunication; peace activism and Plowshares movement; communal life at Jonah House; relationship of religious ethics and politics, liberation theology
Pacifists--United States; Catholic ex-priests; Civil rights--Religious aspects; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements; Excommunication; Religious ethics; Liberation theology; Berrigan, Philip; Catholic Church Education
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1985
Physical Description
232 pages
Note (Biographical)
Peace activist
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Biographical interview
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit