In 2001, I turned eighty. That same year, the twin towers fell in Manhattan, and another American saga of revenge opened. The state mobilized mightily, the Church fell in line. . . . The world has fallen to a brutal scramble, more atrocious, more thwarting to sane understanding than when we began the work of peacemaking. And our beloved Church? It has become the spiritual arm of thuggish warmongers.
— Daniel Berrigan, Lamentations