Word: drinan
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...same principle explains the Pope's controversial demand that priests and sisters give up political careers. The effects in North America: Jesuit Father Robert Drinan of Massachusetts left the U.S. Congress; Father Bob Ogle is no longer a member of the Canadian Parliament; and, in a reverse decision, Sister Arlene Violet decided to quit her order to serve as Rhode Island's new attorney general...
...able to head off the more drastic alternative: an amendment limiting the court's authority to interpret the Constitution. "With all the heat for a constitutional amendment, the court may say, 'Let's ease up and allow a moment of meditation,'" says Jesuit Father Robert Drinan, professor of law at Georgetown University and a former Democratic Congressman...
...Harvard, the week was relatively quiet. The only activities here were a speech last Sunday by former Massachusetts congressman Father Robert Drinan and Wednesday's "Star Wars" debate between Edward Teller and Nobel laureate Hans Bethe...
...combination of anti-Communist and pro-military ideas has led to a basic alteration of the human rights policies that the Congress had adopted under the Carter Administration," said Father Robert Drinan, a former Congressman and president of Americans for Democratic Action...
...Drinan also assailed the Reagan Administration for being more concerned with "cultivating friends" than denouncing human rights violators, and he cited the Administration's recent decisions involving multi-national bank loans to Argentina and El Salvador as an example of its "dismal record...