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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Robert Drinan Has Passed Away (11:39 pm)

Lolita Baldor for AP reports:

WASHINGTON - The Rev. Robert Drinan, a Jesuit who — over the objections of his superiors — was the first Roman Catholic priest elected as a voting member of Congress, died Sunday.
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An internationally known human-rights advocate, Drinan was elected on an anti-war platform and represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House for 10 years during the turbulent 1970s.
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He opposed the draft, worked to abolish mandatory retirement and raised eyebrows with his more moderate views on abortion and birth control.
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He became the first member of Congress to call for the impeachment of Richard Nixon — although the call wasn’t related to the Watergate scandal, but rather what Drinan viewed as the administration’s undeclared war against Cambodia..

posted by Brian Zick

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