Posted on 03/28/2005 10:48:23 PM PST by nickcarraway
Nick:
Drinan was and is a fool. The only one that matches him is Andrew Greeley.
Any one who has serious health problems or disablities (myself included here) had better be very worried about the Drinans of the world. Drinan and his ilk have forgotten what a priest is--they are too busy doing the lecture circut to reflect on the meaning of the collar they wear.
They, like Judas, have traded it for a few pieces of silver. However, far from paying the bill ike even Judas did,, those who are in extremis (like Terri) are the ones that pay the piper.
When I was in Montana, Drinan came up in a conversation with A Jesuit I dopke with at Saint Ignatius Mission. This Jesuit was the old style---a real gutsy fellow.
In short, he actually HATED Drinan. Moreover, he said he deserved Excommunication for his views and votes.
It was refreshing to hear.
It's interesting to me that liberals are parading the DeLay situation as if there's any link to Terri of any kind.
The difference between letting a parent who's dying, die and parents having to watch a child starved to death against their wishes is - in human terms - truly incalculable.
Let the old fool speak (and remove all doubt that he is indeed, a fool). He is an albatross to the Left; a Last Century sophist without conscience. He tends no flock but like-minded fools.
As a BC grad, I've always been disgusted by Drinan.
Accepting an award from the ABA, he said: "the purpose of law is to protect the powerless from the powerful." Apparently the powerless does not include the disabled.
Trivia: Who dropped out of the Massachusetts Congressional race back in the early 70's to let Drinan run? (Answer: His initials are JFK.)
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Even if DeLay had done something wrong to his father, it still wouldn't be an excuse to do something wrong to terri.
Actually, I think Fr. Drinan may be worse. Fr. Greeley was ordained just a year after Fr. Drinan, although, since he was a Jesuit, he had a much longer education. Despite that, Greeley usually come off as smarter, even if he chooses to ignore it.
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As always, thanks for the ping.
George is the best columnist going these days and this is another masterpiece.
I think this column deserves a few bumps.
Yeah, Jesuits usually take 11 or 12 years become finally ordained (including 2 as a novitiate, I think) Jesuits were usually pretty well-educated as you have said
The diocesians are about 27 or so (a year or two either way)
In any event, both D and G are dangerous.
1970 : (MASSACHUSETTS : JOHN KERRY RUNS FOR CONGRESS; ABORTS RUN AFTER A MONTH) For Kerry, politicizing the nation's war effort for partisan purposes was the right thing to do, in contrast to the violent revolutionary designs of colleagues who were out to destroy the system. Kerry didn't want to take down the establishment. He wanted to take it over. His aborted, monthlong 1970 congressional campaign was a victory for him politically, as it landed him on television's popular Dick Cavett Show, where he came to the attention of some of the central organizers of the antiwar/pro-Hanoi group known as Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW).
VVAW was a numerically small part of the protest movement, but it was extremely influential through skillful political theater, the novelty of uniformed combat veterans joining the Vietniks, and a ruthless coalition-building strategy that forged partnerships with the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), its Trotskyite rival, the Socialist Workers Party, and a broad front that ranged from pacifists to supporters of the Black Panthers and other domestic terrorist groups.--- "Kerry Exploits Vets for Hanoi," By J. Michael Waller, www.insightmag.com
MARCH 1970 : (MASSACHUSETTS : KERRY DROPS OUT OF CONGRESSIONAL RACE TO MAKE ROOM FOR 'FATHER' ROBERT F. DRINAN; KERRY BECOMES CHAIRMAN OF THE ANTIWAR PRIESTS' POLITICAL CAMPAIGN) Kerry drops out of the Fourth District congressional race to make way for antiwar activist Father Robert F. Drinan, dean of Boston College Law School, and later becomes chairman of Drinan's campaign. Drinan defeats pro-war incumbent Philip Philbin in the Democratic primary and goes on to win the general election. ------ From WinterSoldier Timeline , http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/index.php?topic=Timeline
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Maybe it's encouraging that they had to dredge up Drinan -- on the Sunday Talk Show thread, the common response was "I thought he was dead!"
REV. ROBERT DRINAN: No, I don't. I think it's rather well settled at the state level, and it's rather well settled also in Catholic theology. I would recommend that the viewers look at the Web site of the Catholic Hospital Association. For years, they have been developing a coherent philosophy on this matter and the Holy See in the last year seem to have been a bit more conservative, which is understandable. It's a terrible, terrible, agonizing thing. But I think that all the judges that heard it, 20, 25 judges, we have the most certainty that we can have in this difficult situation.
If only they also believed that the "agony" of abortion (or gun control, or CC laws) was also a state's rights issue. That would be an enormous victory for our side. But they're leftists, so they pick and choose what arguments to make on what issues, regardless of their inherent inconsistency.
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