Monday, January 29, 2007

Rev. Robert F. Drinan, S.J. , Dead at 86

Georgetown University mourns the death of Professor Robert F. Drinan, S.J., who passed away on Sunday, January 28 after battling pneumonia and congestive heart failure. He was 86.

“We are deeply saddened by the loss of Father Robert Drinan,” said Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia. “Over the course of his distinguished career as priest, lawyer, public servant, activist, and scholar in Washington and around the world he touched and inspired innumerable lives. Father Drinan’s commitment to human rights and justice will have a lasting legacy here at Georgetown University and across the globe. Father Drinan’s deep dedication to his Church, his family, his colleagues, his students and the entire community will be dearly missed.”

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Drinan was the first Catholic priest elected to the U.S. Congress, who criticized his Catholic brothers and sisters for “seeking to impose” their pro-life views on the rest of the nation, the "priest" who celebrated Mass for Pelosi...and Teddy Kennedy said that Drinan was "one of the finest people ever to serve in Congress"...

Of course, Drinan was an outspoken defender of abortion rights which made him one of the "go to guys" for so-called spiritual "enlightenment" by professed Catholic politicians.

Hopefully, Drinan repented of his apparent rejection of the Church's teaching on abortion. May God have mercy on his soul.

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Catholic World News has some historical insights here.

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