Posted on 01/28/2007 6:24:15 PM PST by Jim Noble
Oh, sure, there are plenty of good priests. They just don't stick out the way some of the dissenters do.
Priests aren't supposted to get heavily involved in politics. Drinan was forced to quit as a congressman, but he continued to dissent from the sidelines.
The Vatican clamped down on political involvement of priests and forced several to leave political office because of the insanity of "liberation theology" in South America (now pretty well discredited) and the bad example of that priest in Haiti whose coup against Baby Doc Duvalier was idiotically supported by clinton and carter.
HaHa, I believe you are correct.
Eternal rest.
I would take this as not being a good sign from Heaven for Pelosi.
im an ex GOP catholic priest
ex-GOP or ex-Catholic priest?
"Pleased to meet you... hope you guess my name..."
Father Pavone (Priests for Life). I'm not absolutely sure - well, yeah - I would bet he votes Republican. On the other hand, I told him that I really think he sounds like a Baptist preacher.
He spoke at the Texas Rally for Life in Austin, Saturday. Once again, I am humbled by the power and logic of the man.
RIP. I hope he repented of some of his positions at the end... :-|
May God have mercy on him. He did a great deal of harm in his life, but so do we all.
ex Catholic Priest Reagon Democrat turned to GOP in 1992 left active ministry 93
In haste induced by the imminence of death or in great futility for eternity. Lucifer, no doubt, has special fun with the souls of those priests who are sent to hell.
For him, not really..he was as left wing as they come
Most of the Catholics in Congress are Democrats. Democrat machines in the large cities have been dependent upon Catholics since the 1820s.
He's a great priest.
question, do you have any news reports etc that document that he counsled Cuomo? I would love to know if there is a direct connection. In terms of pro-abortion figures, there is indeed Kennedy and Kerry, Nancy Pelosi etc, but Cuomo seemed to have taken on a life of his own with the Notre Dame speech.
I don't know for sure whether Drinan ever directly counseled Mario Cuomo, although I imagine they traveled in similar circles. Mario Cuomo gave his famous speech at Notre Dame, so he was probably also influenced by the dissent that centered there, with Fr. Hesburgh, the leader of the Land o' Lakes movement that undermined and perhaps destroyed the Catholic colleges, and Fr. Richard McBrien, the dissenting heretic who was chairman of the Theology Department and a chief corrupter of the American Theological Association.
But Drinan was influential because he was one of the earliest to take this kind of position--not of outright dissent, but of speaking out of both sides of his mouth, staying in the Church while constantly undermining the teachings of the Church, most notably on contraception and abortion.
Drinan also demonstrated that it was possible to be a heretic but use doublespeak, and that the Church seemed reluctant to discipline such behavior.
Here's an article with some of the historical background:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/politics/pg0020.html
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