[swordfish71]

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.

[Aussie Dasher]

Drinan should be excommunicated for his lifetime of bringing the Church into disrepute, and leading souls into grave error.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Tom DeLay's father was in the act of dying after a freak accident, and the DeLay family let him die. The Times compares this to starving a woman to death.

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.

[StAnDeliver]

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.

[LibFreeOrDie]

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.)

[nickcarraway]

ping

[DaveTesla]

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[Lancey Howard]

Just as reporters are more comfortable calling soon-to-be-killed human fetuses "blastocysts," so they prefer calling a disabled human like Schiavo a "vegetable." Reporters helped launch the abortion movement with euphemisms denying the humanity of children, now they help the euthanasia movement pick up speed with euphemisms denying the humanity of the disabled and the elderly.

BUMP!

[Lancey Howard]

As always, thanks for the ping.
George is the best columnist going these days and this is another masterpiece.

[Lancey Howard]

I think this column deserves a few bumps.

[maryz]

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!"

[Mo1]

My nephew went to a big $$$ private school taught by Jesuit priests

By the time he graduated he announced to the family he was now an agnostic

[Truth666]

MR. RUSSERT:  Father Drinan, do you think it was appropriate for Congress to be involved in this matter?

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.

[madprof98]

. . . priests appear on television in proportion to their willingness to upend Catholic teachings . . .

The real scandal is that these people have been allowed to use their "ordained-and-still-in-good-standing" status to spread lies. It's even worse than the claim of the death-loving politicians that they are "practicting Catholics" because they show up for communion photo-ops at election time.

[Aquinasfan]

Drinan was apparently Tim Russert's idea of a sturdy Catholic authority on this matter.

Yeah, so much for the media's Mr. Integrity. He's not like the others. Riiiiight.

The reliance on euphemism was almost nonstop.

To put it kindly, liberals are confused in their thinking. Yet their propaganda campaign is so ingenious and effective, that it can only be diabolically inspired.

[Antoninus]

"Father" Drinan should have been defrocked and excommunicated a long time ago. The press is expert at using self-hating Catholics as spokespeople for the Church. It's like using a Holocaust-denying rabbis to speak on behalf of the Jewish community.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP

[Truth666]

"The media's instinctual use of "authorities" who are frauds -- the Drinans who clog their rolodexes (priests appear on television in proportion to their willingness to upend Catholic teachings) "
Don't blame the media. Blame the line: Cardinal Cushing and the Pope that put him in place, and santions his actions.

[murphE]

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