Theology Student Studying Daniel Berrigan’s Life Arrested for Protesting White Supremacist in Charlottesville

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In Charlottesville, more than 400 theologians, ethicists and religion scholars have asked the University of Virginia to drop charges against a theology student who was arrested for refusing to leave an office in the school’s law library where white supremacist Jason Kessler was doing research. Kessler organized last year’s deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville. The student, Eric Martin, defended his act of nonviolent civil disobedience. He said, “It was done with a rosary in my pocket. This is what it is for me to be a Christian, to resist things that are evil. White supremacy is evil.” Martin is a graduate student at Fordham University, where he is writing his dissertation on Father Daniel Berrigan.

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