Daniel Berrigan, S.J.

I am a Jesuit priest, functioning more or less at the edge of official approval, whether by church or state. I am also the author of some 60 books or poetry, scriptural reflections, biography, fiction.

My lifetime is marked bloodily on maps of the spirit as - wartime. I've pored over the map and violated its boundaries willfully, hundreds of times.

The barbarians are not at the city gates; they've been governing us for a long time. Failure to take this in account is surely part of our predicament.

Many have given up and disappeared in whatever inner emigration. But I see no reason to put my conscience on hold.

Copyright © 2009 by San Diego State University.

Authors of individual works retain copyright, with the restriction that subsequent publication of any text be accompanied by notice of prior publication in Fiction International.