Should a priest serve in Congress? Jesuit Robert Drinan did — until Pope John Paul II asked him not to.

Robert F. Drinan, S.J., was a prominent U.S. politician and a longtime law professor—but he found his identity in his priesthood and his Jesuit life more than under the Speaker's rostrum.

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