Fr. Robert Drinan, SJ, served ten years in the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts—the same district, with a few changes, now represented by Barney Frank. In 1970, urged on by a cadre of anti–Vietnam War activists, Drinan made himself available to a progressive citizens’ caucus. They chose him to carry their antiwar cause into a very tough primary ba (...)
February 10, 2011
Books
Not Above Politics
Bob Drinan The Controversial Life of the First Catholic Priest Elected to Congress Raymond A. Schroth, SJFordham University Press, $32.95, 300 pp.
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