FR SWAT TEAM---ARMED WITH THE TRUTH AND DANGEROUS (action alert: Kerry allied with secularists)

FR SWAT TEAM ALERT | 4/12/03

[Fedora]

Thanks, Liz! Maybe we should have a thread documenting Kerry's history of alliance with secularists. Early in his career before he was with VVAW Kerry worked on the staff of Fr. Robert F. Drinan, a pro-abortion Jesuit who ran for political office despite being forbidden to do so by the Vatican. Drinan was at that time dean at Boston College Law School; Kerry's later actions supporting the Sandinistas against the Contras were coordinated with the liberation theology movement, which has a strong presence at Boston College (for more on liberation theology and its political ties, see Edmund W. Robb and Julia Robb, The Betrayal of the Church: Apostasy and Renewal in the Mainline Denominations). I'm sure there's more to that which could be documented.

[Liz]

I'll put your post on the Kerry Dossier thread which is an accumulation of everything Kerry.

However, I like the idea of a Kerry-secularist thread. This issue more than any needs to be promoted continuously.

[Fedora]

I like the idea of a Kerry-secularist thread. This issue more than any needs to be promoted continuously.

I'll see what I can dig up. Boston College would be a key--besides hosting Kerry's early antiwar ally Fr. Robert Drinan at the Law School, the left-wing element at Boston College was an influence on gay/lesbian theology (Mary Daly) as well as liberation theology in the late 60s and early 70s. A more recent example of the secularizing element at BC would be Thomas Groome (see Eamonn Keane, A Generation Betrayed and What Is VOTF's Real Agenda?). There are probably links there as well to Ted Kennedy and Tip O'Neill, another of Kerry's old political allies ("Today it would be hard to be a member of the Boston College community and not come into contact with some element of the legacy that Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. (Class of 1936) has left to the university.": Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. and Boston College).