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http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0%2C3604%2C858240%2C00.html

Philip Berrigan

Former priest and American peace activist whose radical anti-war campaigns repeatedly landed him in jail

Christopher Reed
Thursday December 12, 2002
The Guardian

After finishing his last prison sentence almost exactly a year ago, septuagenarian Philip Berrigan ruefully admitted that doing time was "really a younger person's job". Yet up to the last Berrigan, who has died of cancer aged 79, was still proselytising for peace.
In a statement issued through his wife Elizabeth McAlister on the US Thanksgiving Day holiday at the end of November, the former priest said: "I die with the conviction, held since 1968 ... that nuclear weapons are the scourge of the Earth."

Philip was one half of the famous and militant Roman Catholic Berrigan brothers - Father Daniel Berrigan was the other - who waged a ceaseless campaign against the Vietnam war and were frequently seen on television and in the newspapers being carted off to jail. Philip spent one third of the last three decades behind bars for numerous acts of civil disobedience and estimated his arrests at more than 100
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