Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Page 80 Page 81 Page 82 Page 83 Page 8410 Plough Quarterly • Autumn 2016 says: “Blessed are the peacemakers, they are the sons and daughters of God. . . . You have heard it said, thou shall not kill; I say to you, do not even get angry. . . . You have heard it said, an eye for an eye; but I say to you, offer no violent resistance to one who does evil. . . . Love your enemies.” Nowhere does he say: “ . . . but if your enemies are really bad, and you meet these seven conditions, kill them.” There is no just war theory, there are no exceptions. During the closing hours we debated, approved, and released a statement calling on Pope Francis to write an encyclical that would formally reject the just war theory once and for all and return the Church to the nonviolence of Jesus. The statement offers four points: that Jesus was nonviolent; that there is no just war; that nonviolence works; and that the time has come for the Church to apply and teach nonviolence at every level around the world. To quote some highlights: “We live in a time of tremendous suffer- ing, widespread trauma and fear linked to militarization, economic injustice, climate change, and a myriad of other specific forms of violence. In this context of normalized and systemic violence, those of us who stand in the Christian tradition are called to recognize the centrality of active nonviolence to the vision and message of Jesus; to the life and practice of the Catholic Church; and to our long-term vocation of healing and reconciling both people and the planet. . . . who inspired religious opposition to war and nuclear weapons, died April 30, just a week shy of his ninety-fifth birthday. Berrigan was my greatest friend and teacher for over thirty-five years. We traveled the nation and the world together, went to jail together; I edited five books of his writings. In one of our first conversations he said to me, “The whole point is to make one’s life make sense in light of the gospel, to get your life to fit into the story of the gospel.” During his lifetime Berrigan published over fifty books of poetry, essays, and scripture commentaries, but he will be remembered best for the day he lit the match that ignited wide- spread national protest against the Vietnam War. On May 17, 1968, along with his brother Philip and seven others, Berrigan burned draft files in Catonsville, Maryland, with homemade napalm to protest the war. “Our apologies, good friends,” he wrote, “for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the Photograph courtesy of Jim Forest 10 Plough Quarterly • Autumn 2016 R E M E M B E R I N G Daniel Berrigan J O H N D E A R Apart from the Vatican conference on peacemaking, April 2016 also marked the passing of one of the great peacemakers of our age. Daniel Berrigan, the renowned antiwar activist and Jesuit priest