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Letter from Philip Berrigan to Daniel Berrigan, May(?) 1967
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Letter from Philip Berrigan to Daniel Berrigan, May(?) 1967
View smaller version of imageDivision of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection: Cornell University Library
Date: 1967-05
Date of Digitization: 2004
Source: Daniel and Philip Berrigan Collection at the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Original Dimensions: ?
Creator: Berrigan, Philip, 1923-2002
Description:
In the letter to his brother Dan, Philip Berrigan reports on his activities with the Peace Mission while living with the Josephite Fathers community in the Bronx and the latest news concerning both of them.

Transcription: 
go ahead to ordination, and in the matter of 
celibacy, going by his conscience. If an 
opportunity arises for marriage, so be it. 
There is many a priest who would marry 
him. It seems to me that this is a 
wiser (I hope) cause than embracing 
another Christian ministry. He has his 
community now - it is not exclusively 
Catholic, but he’s profoundly at home 
with it. But we’ll talk more of this 
later. 
	We’ll try to live with the vacuum of 
your absence during July. I have few 
commitments during the summer - the 
Lord seems to see to it that when some-
thing needs doing, the demands abroad 
lessen. Am extending to your love to all 
the brethren, as I will to the family. 
Have a great month. Peace and the kid’s 
love.
                                 In Christ 
                                     P.B.