Bob Drinan : : The Controversial Life of the First Catholic Priest Elected to Congress / / Raymond A. Schroth.

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 demonstr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. A New Beginning
  • 2. Breaking out from a World Frozen in Time
  • 3. Moving Up
  • 4. ‘‘The World Turned Upside Down’’
  • 5. A ‘‘New Politics’’ Candidate
  • 6. The ‘‘Miracle’’ Election
  • 7. The Age of Less-Great Expectations
  • 8. Close Calls
  • 9. ‘‘My conscience tells me . . .’’
  • 10. The Moral Architect
  • 11. Around the World
  • 12. Latin America, Israel, and the Last Campaign
  • 13. ‘‘Hurt, bitter, and confused’’
  • Epilogue: Resurrection
  • Notes and Sources
  • Bibliography and Interviews
  • Index