![]() ![]() “Dan Berrigan spent much of his life in various lions’ dens - at home as a child when his father was in a rage, in paddy wagons and prisons, in demonstrations that were targets of violent attack, in a city under bombardment, in urban areas police would describe as hazardous - yet remarkably he lived to be ninety-four, dying peacefully in bed, though he bore many invisible scars and scratches.” ![]() The events of the world can be symbolized by the biblical account of the prophet Daniel placed in the lion’s den. His latest entry follows All Is Grace on Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, and Living With Wisdom on Thomas Merton, Trappist monk but concerned with the events of the world. A Biography and Memoir of Daniel Berrigan (Orbis Books, 2017) his biographies of persons with whom he interacted in Roman Catholic nonviolent efforts. Jim Forest continues here in At Play in the Lion’s Den. ![]() Life and gentleness and community and unselfishness are the only order we recognize.” (The Trial of the Catonville Nine ) In a time of death, some men, the resisters, those who work hardily for social change, those who preach and embrace the truth, such men overcome death, their lives are bathed in the light of the resurrection, the truth has set them free… We say: Killing is disorder. ![]()
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