Priest, poet, and Vietnam war protester Fr Daniel Berrigan dies, aged 94

Fr Daniel Berrigan, a Roman Catholic priest and peace activist who was imprisoned for burning draft files in a protest against the Vietnam war, has died. He was 94.

Fr Berrigan died peacefully at Murray-Weigel Hall, a Jesuit healthcare community in New York after a “long illness”, according to Michael Benigno, a spokesman for the Jesuits USA Northeast Province.

Fr Berrigan and his younger brother, the Fr Philip Berrigan, emerged as leaders of the radical anti-war movement in the 1960s.