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When the Vatican ordered Massachusetts Democrat Robert Drinan, a Jesuit priest, to withdraw from public office last May, 15 politicians lunged for his seat in Congress. By August, polls indicated that Barney Frank, 40, a Harvard-educated former aide to Boston Mayor Kevin White and a popular state legislator for eight years, was the clear favorite. Frank had been endorsed by Drinan and Senator Edward Kennedy. Moreover, voters in the largely liberal district, which includes wealthy Boston suburbs and factory towns in central Massachusetts, liked the rumpled candidate's advocacy of more public spending on mass transit, senior citizens...
...others in the Boston area were upset with Medeiros for having crossed the line between church and state. When Worcester's Monsignor Leo Battista and 29 other Catholic clergymen asked Drinan to withdraw his endorsement of Frank, the priest refused. He warned the hierarchy that it risked damaging the church by involving itself in the race. Said he: "The authority of the church in parts of this district is dreadful...
...Robert Drinan (D-Mass.), forced to give up his political career by a Vatican edict earlier this year, continued to stump for Frank as his successor, pointedly ignoring the Medeiros letter...
...other areas of the state, liberal politicians fighting off hard challenges need student volunteers at the polls today. State rep. Barney Frank '61, who demonstrated his effective brand of nuts-and-bolts liberalism for more than a decade in the State House, is trying to succeed Robert Drinan, the left-leaning priest ordered by the Vatican to leave politics. And in the other half of Middlesex county, incumbent Democrat James Shannon is trying to hold onto his job in the face of a conservative challenge from Robert Hatem. A letter from Boston's Cardinal Medeiros blasting both Frank and Shannon...
...Pope's statement that holding an appointive office is acceptable, while holding an elective office is not, is contrary to Christian philosophy. In Father Drinan's 27 years as a priest, he must have discovered that the founder of his church was a man totally involved in and a part of the world he lived...