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...October 1969, James F. Cunningham, Paulist priest of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Chicago, announced that careless driving is a "serious sin against society, fellow man and God" and that "traffic safety is a religious and moral problem as well as a physical and educational one." Last April 15 in the Herald Traveler, Rabbi Judea B. Miller of the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis, objected to that paper's picturing grapes as part of Passover Feasts. He said the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis was supporting the California grape boycott, had determined it to be a religious and moral issue...
...church breaches that hallowed barrier between the forces of salvation and the forces of law and order, hammer blows are heard from the other side. Over there, things are getting very difficult, and it is well-settled that the priest is sometimes more effective than the soldier in holding the fort. And now we have those two new soul brothers, President Richard Nixon and Reverend Billy Graham...
...Third District, the Rev Robert Drinan, dean of Boston College Law School, rode an antiwar platform to become the first Catholic priest ever to be elected to Congress...
With about 50 per cent of the Third District vote counted, the Rev. Robert F. Drinan S.J., a Jesuit priest running as an antiwar Democrat, held a 5000-vote lead over his Republican opponent, John McGlennon, who has campaigned on a law and order platform. Drinan's opponent in the Democratic primary, hawkish incumbent Philip J. Philbin, trailed badly in his write-in campaign...
...perhaps, this analysis is needlessly and uselessly fastidious in the face of Drinan's assertion that, "It takes people maybe 24 to 48 hours to get used to a priest running for Congress. A friend told me that if they're real old fashioned, it takes 72 hours...