Speaker 1: What if I told you that fifty years ago, radical
Speaker 1: nuns and combat boots and wild haired priests became cat
Speaker 1: burglars in order to sabotage the draft. What if I
Speaker 1: told you they got so good at it they started
Speaker 1: trading blows with Jay Edgar Hoover. Some went to jail.
Speaker 1: I always say to people in jail as a nice
Speaker 1: place to have been from. Some betrayed their friends. They
Speaker 1: had guns drawn on us. Guns. I mean, we were
Speaker 1: known for being non violent, and two of them have
Speaker 1: the goddamned this love story you've ever heard in your life.
Speaker 1: It was this incredible moment of love ash first sight,
Speaker 1: just with both and then of course, I mean, my god,
Speaker 1: he's a priest. My name is Brendan Patrick Hughes. And
Speaker 1: this is divine intervention. This is the story of a
Speaker 1: small but mighty Catholic resistance to the war in Vietnam.
Speaker 1: Many of the things that we were about to do
Speaker 1: were not considered legal or patriotic. They weren't criminals. They
Speaker 1: will committed the acts of civil disobediu. It took a
Speaker 1: lot of guts Gonzo American patriots that faced down j
Speaker 1: at Garhoover's FBI I started to be followed very heavily
Speaker 1: by the FBI. At Gahova was furious. He was out
Speaker 1: of his mind. Somebody violated the FBI, and he wanted
Speaker 1: to bring the Catholic left to its knees and attempted
Speaker 1: to smash one institution after another. The Catholic Church was
Speaker 1: going through a revolution and the Pall Center was the
Speaker 1: main place of revolutionary firment while navigating the unbridled chaos
Speaker 1: of being young and in love. For those movements come
Speaker 1: out of love, They come out of people's love for
Speaker 1: their fellow men and women. I picked up the phone
Speaker 1: and my thought was, this is the most important phone
Speaker 1: call I'll ever make. My mind. He wanted so much
Speaker 1: in his life that somehow the priesthood refused to alle.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it, Brendan, it was Divine Intervention. Divine
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