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Father Drinan, ex-congressman, dead at 86
WASHINGTON – Jesuit Father Robert F. Drinan, the first Catholic priest to vote in the U.S. Congress, received praise and censure during his lifetime for his active involvement in politics.
Father Drinan, 86, died Jan. 28 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, where he had been treated for pneumonia and congestive heart failure for the past 10 days. Funeral arrangements were pending Jan. 29.
“Few have accomplished as much as Father Drinan and fewer still have done so much to make the world a better place,” said T. Alex Aleinikoff, dean of the Georgetown University Law Center, where Father Drinan had taught since 1981.
“His life was one fully devoted to the service of others – in the church, in the classroom and in Congress,” Mr. Aleinikoff added in a statement. “His passing is a terrible loss for the community, the country and the world.”
But others saw Father Drinan as less praiseworthy and his celebration of a Jan. 3 Mass at Trinity University in honor of new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic who supports legal abortion, brought new criticism.
In his Web log, or blog, for First Things magazine Jan. 19, Father Richard John Neuhaus called him “a Jesuit who, more than any other single figure, has been influenti
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Robert F. Drinan, SJ pre- and post-congressional papers
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Collection
Identifier: CA-2008-001
Dates
- Creation: 1955-2007
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1981 - 1995
Scope and Contents
This collection documents Robert F. Drinan's career as an academic, lawyer, Jesuit, and social justice advocate. Materials cover his years before Congress, as a faculty member and Dean of Boston College Law School, and his post-congressional years as a faculty member at Georgetown University Law Center. The papers contain a significant amount of Drinan's correspondence and writings, as well as material on human rights and legal organizations in which he participated. It also includes photographs, honorary degrees and awards, recordings of speeches and addresses given by Drinan, and scrapbooks.
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Collection is open for research. Audio and video recordings are not available for playback due to format impermanence and can not be reformatted by Burns Library at this time. Please let Burns Library Public Services know of your specific interest; when it becomes possible we will schedule reformatting.
The majority of the collection is stored offsite; advance notice is required for retrieval.
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Bob Drinan
The Moot Life matching the Be in first place Catholic Churchman Elected norm Congress
By (author) Raymond A. Schroth
Pub Date: September 3, 2012
ISBN: 9780823233052
Page Count: 432
- Description
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