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Boston Jesuit priest Robert Drinan, in also declaring the issue a non-issue, gives a curious reason. In his race for the Third Congressional District seat, he cited the federal Constitution: "No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any office of public Trust under the United States." But were ecclesiastical officials in the minds of the drafters of that language...
...confusion engendered by this citation of Drinan in support of his candidacy recalls an 1899 Supreme Court case, Bradfield v. Roberts . Bradfield, in the cause of church-state separation, tried to prevent Roberts, the U.S. Treasurer, from granting funds to Providence Hospital in Washington,. D.C., because the hospital was run by Roman Catholic nuns under the auspices of their church. Bradfield lost. The Court held that the hospital's incorporation papers made no mention of the religion of the incorporators and that, legally speaking, five women who happened to be Roman Catholic nuns but who were acting solely and simply...
Throughout the campaign, Drinan stressed economic issues, but insisted upon speaking out on Vietnam as well. Throughout the campaign, he said that ideological anti-Communism is, but should not be, the cornerstone of American foreign policy...
...Father Drinan is opposed in the November election by Republican State Representative John McGlennon. McGlennon is a supporter of the Nixon Vietnam policies and won his primary by a margin of better than 3-1. Father Drinan is also threatened by a Philbin write-in candidacy. Declaring last week that he would not allow himself to be thrown out of Congress by the "New Left," with its money and power, Philbin announced that he would seek re-election...
...district is overwhelmingly Democratic and Independent, with approximately 100,000 Independents, 80,000 Democrats and 40,000 Republicans. Drinan has a very good chance of winning, but his supporters are not over-confident and they are taking the combined Philbin-McGlennon threat very seriously...