Oh yeah! I wanted to say this is a really cool Wiki article: Father Berrigan. A piece of history we all should know.
Protesting Vietnam, they issued this statement:
"We confront the Catholic Church, other Christian bodies, and the synagogues of America with their silence and cowardice in the face of our country's crimes. We are convinced that the religious bureaucracy in this country is racist, is an accomplice in this war, and is hostile to the poor."
What an indictment! Even if you disagree you have to respect their passion and directness. And the fact that they were so much more than words, but their words in and of themselves are like fire. They burned war draft documents. They also broke into a place that built nuclear warheads and poured blood all over them.
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