One comes away from reading about the Berrigans with a sense of “those were the days”. Those were the days when priests made headlines for going to jail for peace. Phil died in 2002, at 79, of cancer. Dan just died, at 94, on 30 April this year. He had been living for years in a Jesuit infirm­ary in New York City.

Dan was older by two-plus years. They were close growing up, in working-class towns, mostly Syracuse. Mother was deeply religious; father, Irish, socialist, and a union member. Dan was in seminary when Phil was drafted in 1943, after one semester in college. Dan’s theological studies and poetic sensitivities had an impact on the depth of Phil’s activism, and Phil’s passions often lifted Daniel out of the library.