Father Drinan More Of A Leftist Than Barney Frank?

Father Robert Drinan, the Jesuit priest Barney Frank replaced in Congress in 1981, was asked to step down from government as part of a blanket request by Pope John Paul II that members of the clergy not hold elected office.

But most observers suspect the blanket request was inspired by Drinan, whose politics on many issues were pretty far to the left of Frank’s.

Before his death in 2007, Drinan used to joke that Barney Frank was the only member of Congress actually appointed by the Pope.

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