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Times for Confronting Injustice

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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. Sources with Abbreviations xiv
  4. Supplemental Texts xv
  5. Foreword: Witness and Wisdom xvii
  6. Preface xxiii
  7. Introduction xxix
  8. Prologue: Worlds on Fire xli
  9. Part I: A Catholic Trying to Be a Christian, 1957–67
  10. Christ in Our Midst 1
  11. What’s It Going to Be with You? 5
  12. The Freedom Rides 7
  13. JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis 9
  14. The Nature of Christian Witness 11
  15. Segregation and the Nuclear Arms Race 13
  16. Questioning the Christian “Credo” 15
  17. I Will Take My Stand, Come What May 17
  18. Peace Is the Duty of Our Time 19
  19. Faithful Enough to Suffer, Daring Enough to Serve 23
  20. The Priest and Society 26
  21. Liberation from the Pathology of War 28
  22. Pacifist or Peacemaker 29
  23. The Gospel Means Peacemaking 31
  24. Part II: Resisting the Vietnam War, 1967– 73
  25. Diary from the Baltimore City Jail 35
  26. Christianity and Revolution Are Synonymous 40
  27. Trying to Serve Love 43
  28. Times for Confronting Injustice 46
  29. All of Us Are Prisoners 48
  30. We Claim a Higher Law 54
  31. The Christian Roots of Protest 56
  32. After the Trial, Hope 58
  33. Truth Creates Its Own Room 60
  34. Liberation from Fear 64
  35. Acts of Faith 65
  36. Our Responsibility to Each Other 66
  37. We Have Trouble with Surrender 68
  38. The Sinless One Continues to Haunt Me 70
  39. Following the Man of Calvary 75
  40. Resistance Is Essential 77
  41. Withstanding the Attacks 80
  42. Marriage with Liz 82
  43. Smear and Ridicule 85
  44. The USA v. Philip Berrigan 86
  45. Revolution, Berrigan Style 87
  46. Obeying God’s Word Can Get You Killed 88
  47. We Constitute the Church in Chains 89
  48. Fasting in Prison 95
  49. Resistance, Liberation, and Fear 97
  50. Prayer, Risk, and Generosity 99
  51. The Strength and Faith of Liz 101
  52. Renewing Wedding Vows 103
  53. Truth and Peace Mean Resistance 104
  54. An Enemy of the State 106
  55. Our Acts Are Nonviolent 107
  56. On Self- Pity While in Prison 109
  57. What We Do to the Vietnamese, We Do to Ourselves 110
  58. The Plastic Goliaths 116
  59. Acquittal 118
  60. To Create Hope Is to Wrestle with Death 120
  61. Dealing with the “Blahs” in Prison 124
  62. Thanksgiving 1972 126
  63. Finally Free...for a While 127
  64. Part III: Community, Plowshares, and the Bomb, 1973–2002
  65. Paying Dearly for Our Love 129
  66. Religion and Politics 134
  67. A Ministry of Risk and Liberation 136
  68. Disarm or Dig Graves 140
  69. Resisting Nuclear Suicide 143
  70. A Leaflet at Christmas: Christ or the Bomb 145
  71. A Time When No Leader Can Buy Us 147
  72. The Kenosis of Christ 149
  73. Fools on Christ’s Account 151
  74. Thoughts from Alexandria Jail 153
  75. Prophecy and Life 155
  76. Hostage to the Bomb 159
  77. Back to the Pentagon 160
  78. We Cannot Be Silent if We Want Peace 162
  79. Letter from Prison to Dorothy Day 164
  80. A Call to Faithfulness 166
  81. Naming the Beast 168
  82. Tribute to Liz 169
  83. Liz in Prison 171
  84. Beating Swords into Plowshares 172
  85. Liz Resists the Arms Race, Again 177
  86. Disarming the Nuclear Navy— and Ourselves 183
  87. Empire and the Super- rich 186
  88. Free Enough to Go to Jail 189
  89. Commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. 192
  90. Isaiah in North Carolina 194
  91. Hellholes, Courts, Jails: A Triple Source of Resistance 197
  92. Suffering Servanthood 200
  93. Working for the Long Haul 203
  94. My Roots Are in the Church 205
  95. “From Prison, Old Militant Struggles On” 206
  96. Reliance on Community 207
  97. Ash Wednesday Action 209
  98. Agenda for Renewal 212
  99. No Freedom without Love 215
  100. Loving Our Enemies 217
  101. We Aren’t Doing OK by Ourselves 220
  102. A Harvest of Death 224
  103. The Trial of Depleted Uranium 227
  104. God Becomes Light to Us 229
  105. The Healing Act of Forgiveness 231
  106. Doing Good and Resisting Evil 233
  107. Time for a National Strike 236
  108. Notes from Prison on 9/11 238
  109. Final Journal Entries 2002 241
  110. Phil’s Last Statement, Unfi nished, November 2002 243
  111. Afterword 245
  112. Acknowledgments 253
  113. Contributors 255
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