Posted on 01/28/2007 6:46:44 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Former Massachusetts Rep. Father Robert Drinan holds up a copy of the 1974 impeachment report of President Nixon while testifying on Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearing in this Dec. 8, 1998 file photo. Drinan, a Jesuit who - over the objections of his superiors - became the first Roman Catholic priest to serve as a voting member of Congress, died Sunday. . (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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I'll say it again:
I have absolutely NO sympathy for Drinan.
I'm glad he's dead.
He was an enemy of this country.
He will not be missed.
He was another commie who posed as a Catholic.
No, he won't. He'll be remembered among practicing Catholics for teaching a whole mob of Democrat politicians that baby-killing is perfectly OK with God.
It would be interesting to see how Drinan is explaing to the Lord Jesus how he strongly supported Bill Clinton's veto of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act in 1996, along with his consistent support for so-called 'abortion rights'.
A little less political grandstanding, and a little more evangelizing for lost souls would have been a more productive use of Drinan's time on this Earth.
Thanks! and Dang , I used search too, looks like titles were not close tho the author is same.. I hate when newssites rename stories.
I agree, his actions over the years make one wonder about some Massachusetts voters.
"He was an enemy of this country."
Worse. He was an enemy of the Church.
Barring Priests from being involved in politics, period. John McLaughlin chose politics and ended up seeking laicization. Drinan probably felt he could do more damage to the Church by remaining a Priest than in becoming just another leftist puke on Capitol Hill. Incidentally, Drinan was replaced in Congress by one Barney Frank.
I am conflicted here. My dislike of this person is struggling mightily with my desire for propriety in observing courtesy for his family in his passing.
I guess I will extend his family the courtesy of not speaking ill of him at this time.
He probably qualifies as "Worst Jesuit Ever," and there has been a lot of competition over the past 40 years.
A major improvement.
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Sorry, I don't feel bad. He set a terrible precedent - setting the Democrat Party over the teachings of the Church - and led many people astray. I hope he's got a good explanation right about now.
God is merciful, but He is also just. I'd say Drinan is in a lot of trouble right now.
If he was pro abortion he should have been thrown out of the priesthood by the Holy Father.
And the rich man said, Send Lazarus to my brothers that they do not end up here in torment. But even shouls a man be sent from the grave to them they will reject the truth. Father Drinan lack spiritual discernment; since there was 'no king' in his heart, he did what was right in his own eyes and furthered the slaughter of alive unborn children. Yes, he's in a heap of trouble.
called for the desegregation of Boston public schools during the 1960s. . .
he urged the Catholic Church to condemn the war as "morally objectionable."
what Drinan viewed as the administration's undeclared war against Cambodia. . .
he testified against the impeachment of another president: Bill Clinton . . .
He served as president of the Americans for Democratic Action, crisscrossing the country giving speeches on hunger, civil liberties, and the perils of the arms race.
In other words, he dressed up cranky, pro-Soviet positions as Catholic teaching when they weren't, while publicly dissenting from the actual teaching of the Church. And when finally told to shut up by the Pope, he gave an object lesson, not of respect and obedience, but ungracious, half-hearted compliance.
All in all, like many old, and now dying members of his once-heroic order, he lined up consistently with the enemies of God and man. We pray that he made a sincere, death-bed confession we never heard about, or that all his life he had suffered from some irremediable condition that made him unaware of what he was doing. Otherwise, this priest is in hell.
Perhaps we could just pray 'May God have mercy on his soul'.
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