RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The Reverend Daniel Berrigan has been called to eternal life by the wisdom of God at the age of 94; and
WHEREAS, The Chicago City Council has been informed of his passing by Alderman Edward M. Burke; and
WHEREAS, The Reverend Daniel Berrigan was a Jesuit priest, educator and poet who helped shape the peace movement waged against the Vietnam War during the 1960s; and
WHEREAS, The Reverend Daniel Berrigan was one of the Catonsville Nine, a group of activists jailed for burning draft files in 1968; and
WHEREAS, The Reverend Daniel Berrigan credited Dorothy Day, the founder of The Catholic Worker newspaper, with introducing him to ideas that would later greatly influence his life of activism; and
WHEREAS, Raised in Syracuse, New York, the Reverend Daniel Berrigan was the son of a trade union member; and
WHEREAS, The Reverend Daniel Berrigan joined the Jesuit Order after completing high school and graduated from St. Andrew-on Hudson and earned a master's degree from Woodstock College in Baltimore, Maryland; and
WHEREAS, As a seminarian, the Reverend Daniel Berrigan wrote poetry and his work was published after it caught the attention of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Marianne Moore; and
WHEREAS, The Reverend Daniel Berrigan authored 40 books, including Time Without Number which won the Lamont Poetry Prize; and
WHEREAS, Throughout his life, the Reverend Daniel Berrigan remained active in protests and pacifist causes and in 1980 helped found the anti-nuclear Plowshares Movement; and
WHEREAS, The hard work, sacrifice and dedication of the Reverend Daniel Berrigan serve as an example to all; and
WHEREAS, The Reverend Daniel Berrigan will be dearly missed and fondly remembered by his many relatives, friends and admirers; and
WHEREAS, To his beloved family, the Reverend Daniel Berrigan imparts a legacy of faithfulness, service and dignity; now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED, That we, the Mayor and the members of the Chicago City Council, assembled th...
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