LEADER 05429nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910969142903321 005 20230120094748.0 010 $a9780823240456 010 $a0823240452 010 $a9780823237401 010 $a0823237400 010 $a9780823233069 010 $a0823233065 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823237401 035 $a(CKB)2560000000053874 035 $a(PromptCat)40018673709 035 $a(MH)012643906-0 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000093439 035 $a(OCoLC)763538837 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse15099 035 $a(DE-B1597)555179 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823237401 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239543 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10436186 035 $a(OCoLC)698590926 035 $a(OCoLC)1178768833 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL737523 035 $a(OCoLC)915134804 035 $a(Perlego)535880 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239543 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC737523 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4704263 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4704263 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL818198 035 $a(OCoLC)1024272318 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000053874 100 $a20100806d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBob Drinan $ethe controversial life of the first Catholic priest elected to Congress /$fRaymond A. Schroth 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 393 p., [16] p. of plates )$cill. ; 311 08$a9780823233052 311 08$a0823233057 311 08$a9780823233045 311 08$a0823233049 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [359]-365) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. A New Beginning -- $t2. Breaking out from a World Frozen in Time -- $t3. Moving Up -- $t4. ??The World Turned Upside Down?? -- $t5. A ??New Politics?? Candidate -- $t6. The ??Miracle?? Election -- $t7. The Age of Less-Great Expectations -- $t8. Close Calls -- $t9. ??My conscience tells me . . .?? -- $t10. The Moral Architect -- $t11. Around the World -- $t12. Latin America, Israel, and the Last Campaign -- $t13. ??Hurt, bitter, and confused?? -- $tEpilogue: Resurrection -- $tNotes and Sources -- $tBibliography and Interviews -- $tIndex 330 $aRaymond 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 glimpse into the life of a priest-politician who saw advocacy of human rights as his call. Drinan defined himself as a ?moral architect? and was quick to act on his convictions, whether from the bully pulpit of the halls of Congress or from his position in the Church as a priest; to him they were as intricately woven as the clerical garb he continued to wear unapologetically throughout his elected tenure. Drinan?s opposition to the Vietnam War and its extension into Cambodia, his call for the impeachment of President Richard Nixon (he served on the House Judiciary Committee, which initiated the charges), his pro-choice stance on abortion (legally, not morally), his passion for civil rights, and his devotion to Jewish people and the well-being of Israel made him one of the most liberal members of Congress and a force to be reckoned with. But his loyalty to the Church was never in question, and when Pope John Paul II demanded that he step down from offi ce, he did so unquestioningly. Afterward, he continued to champion the ideals he thought would make the world a better place. He didn?t think of it in terms of left and right; as moral architect, he saw it in terms of right and wrong.This important book doesn?t resolve debate about issues of church and state, but it does help us understand how one side can inform the other, if we are listening. It has much to say that is worth hearing. 606 $aLegislators$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1969-1974 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1974-1977 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1977-1981 615 0$aLegislators 676 $a328.73/092 676 $aB 700 $aSchroth$b Raymond A$01796432 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910969142903321 996 $aBob Drinan$94464097 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress