As a teacher, poet, priest, and prophet [Daniel Berrigan] challenged the authority of the walls that confined our college, country, and church. He made faith dynamic and yoked it to service and political activism. He disobeyed civil law, disconcerted his church superiors, allowed his poetry to drift dangerously close to propaganda, manipulated the national media like a skilled conductor, was hunted down, imprisoned, and wrote epistles from his cell. If he was saintly, he was also quite human.

Louis Masson, God Is Love: Essays From Portland Magazine by Brian Doyle