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Being a traditionalist Catholic from Massachusetts, I'm sure I have more of an axe to grind against Fr. Drinan's voting record and agitprop than most people, and I say "Good riddance!" as far as his continued tenure on this mortal coil is concerned. Nevertheless, my understanding of Matthew 7:1-5 makes it clear to me that it is not my business to judge anyone at all with respect to where they spend eternity. That's God's job. Verse 2, in fact, seems to indicate with alarming clarity that those who wish eternal damnation on others are thereby *asking* God to bestow the same thing on them. I'm probably in enough trouble already without heaping those kinds of coals on my own head.

Fr. Robert Drinan doubtless had a lot of 'splaining to do immediately upon departing this life, but it's our business to hope that, in spite of everything, he died in a spirit of final repentance, and God was merciful to him. To wish hell upon him for the manifest crimes he has committed makes a mockery of the power of God, who Himself said "though your sins be as scarlet, they will be made whiter than snow."

May God have mercy on him.