Posted on 01/28/2007 6:46:44 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Yes, I can say that and just that. Because I know I need all the mercy He can offer and so I wouldn't hope for any other person to be denied it.
Agreed. We need to not sound like the DU. He was a political foe and misguided but each man's death is to be mourned.
Worse. He was an enemy of the Church.
Still worse. He was an enemy of God . . . by his own choice.
Why is it the Jesuits that are always so screwed up?
Massachusetts is a sink.We went from Drinan to Barney Frank,who couldn't move fast enough to live in the right congressional district after Drinan was finished.
One of our idiot pols wants to offer graduating students $10,000.00 towards a house purchase to keep them in Massachusetts.
What a state !!!!
And you might want to bring St Francis Xavier with you.
If we make the assumption that the founder of the Jesuit order is in heaven, I do wonder what he would think of this latest entrant to the spritiual plane...
May Drinan find justice in his eternal disposition.
A lot of them are liberal. Intellectual arrogance has put some of them on a collision course with the Vatican.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/08/wjes08.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/08/ixworld.html
http://www.cwnews.com/offtherecord/offtherecord.cfm?task=singledisplay&recnum=2627
(I was raised by Jesuits - Boston College grad, '68.)
B.C. is totally liberal now. I can't stand reading the alumni magazine. Although students still have to take a few theology courses to meet core requirements, what they call "theology" now could be taught by any lib nutjob. You know, courses that have the words "social", "peace", and/or "justice" in their titles.
The poor man needs our prayers...imagine, he is now having to confront the aborted babies whose lives he helped end.
A Maryknoll, a Fransician and a Dominician were walking down a road, They were in a lively discussion as to which order was the best. A piece of paper floated from the sky.
Written on the paper:
"All my sons are equal!"
Signed, GOD,SJ
Earth's poulation -1
Hell's population +1
He needs prayers. When I think of Father Drinan, I think of millstones.
Worse: most of them are scams, because they still draw money even from loyal Catholics who don't know what their schools have become.
As the March for Life was gearing up with Archbishop Wuerl playing a leading role, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, the influential editor of First Things magazine wrote on the First Things site about the Pelosi situation. "When the aforementioned Nancy Pelosi orchestrated a four-day gala in Washington celebrating her familial, ethnic, and-very explicitly-Catholic identity, people were alert to what would be said by the new archbishop of Washington, Donald Wuerl," wrote Fr. Neuhaus. "He said nothing. Part of the festivities was a Mass at Trinity College, a Catholic institution in Washington. The celebrant of the Mass was Father Robert Drinan, a Jesuit who, more than any other single figure, has been influential in tutoring Catholic politicians on the acceptability of rejecting the Church's teaching on the defense of innocent human life. Asked by a reporter, Archbishop Wuerl responded that Fr. Drinan has 'faculties' in Washington, meaning he is authorized to celebrate the sacraments. That was it."
I wonder if his successor in Congress, Representative Barney FWANK is going to be allowed to give the eulogy - or will the honor go to a good Catholic Senator from Massachusetts instead?
Kerry or Kennedy?
That was my first thought when I saw it on the news. Death is always solemn, and perhaps moreso the more we tremble for the deceased's fate. But God is the true judge.
It seems to me Drinan was the originator -- or at least the popularizer -- of the infamous "personally opposed, BUT . . ." Of course, that was just a transitional position, a way station -- does anybody even bother to say it anymore?
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