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The Controversial Life of the First Catholic Priest Elected to Congress

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Raymond Schroth's Bob Drinan: The Controversial Life of the First Catholic Priest Elected to Congress shows that the contentious mixture of religion and politics in this country is nothing new. Four decades ago, Father Robert Drinan, the fiery Jesuit priest from Massachusetts, not only demonstrated against the Vietnam War, he ran for Congress as an antiwar candidate and won, going on to serve for 10 years.

Schroth has delved through magazine and newspaper articles and various archives (including Drinan’s congressional records at Boston College, where he taught and also served as dean of the law school) and has interviewed dozens of those who knew Drinan to bring us a life-sized portrait. The result is a humanistic profile of an intensely private man and a gl

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Father Drinan, ex-congressman, dead at 86

WASHINGTON – Jesuit Father Robert F. Drinan, the first Catholic präst 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 man the world a better place,” said T. Alex Aleinikoff, dean of the Georgetown University lag 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 Tr

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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 ämne 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 papper 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 film recordings are not available for playback due to format impe