Cooper, like Berrigan, attended seminary and studied the Gospel, but he has modeled his life after Herod rather than Jesus. He has turned Trinity Church into a temple to greed. He is an appropriate priest for Wall Street. And on Monday, when activists appear in court because he and the other leaders of Trinity Church are determined to prosecute them, Cooper should consider removing the Christian cross from the sanctuary and replacing it with the true symbol he appears to worship -- the dollar sign.
"All we have is one another to sustain us," Berrigan told me. "Community is not magical. It means people are willing to be human beings together. And it means they are willing to pay the price for being human."
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