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...Catholic Masses in the Boston area, priests pulled out a letter written by the local archbishop, Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, warning worshipers that anyone voting for a politician favoring abortion would incur some of the guilt for "this horrendous crime and deadly sin." The unnamed targets: pro-choice Congressional Candidates Barney Frank and James Shannon. The letter caused bitter debate about whether the church had improperly taken a hand in partisan politics, a frequent question throughout the U.S. during this election year. In April, for instance, a South Dakota priest wrote colleagues across the state urging them to support an anti...
When the Vatican ordered Massachusetts Democrat Robert Drinan, a Jesuit priest, to withdraw from public office last May, 15 politicians lunged for his seat in Congress. By August, polls indicated that Barney Frank, 40, a Harvard-educated former aide to Boston Mayor Kevin White and a popular state legislator for eight years, was the clear favorite. Frank had been endorsed by Drinan and Senator Edward Kennedy. Moreover, voters in the largely liberal district, which includes wealthy Boston suburbs and factory towns in central Massachusetts, liked the rumpled candidate's advocacy of more public spending on mass transit, senior citizens...
...enjoyed it--it's a chance to sit down and pull together my ideas in a coherent framework," Bok says. He has worked for the Boston city council and the current representative--State Rep. Barney Frank '61. But losing is not on Bok's mind this morning...
...other areas of the state, liberal politicians fighting off hard challenges need student volunteers at the polls today. State rep. Barney Frank '61, who demonstrated his effective brand of nuts-and-bolts liberalism for more than a decade in the State House, is trying to succeed Robert Drinan, the left-leaning priest ordered by the Vatican to leave politics. And in the other half of Middlesex county, incumbent Democrat James Shannon is trying to hold onto his job in the face of a conservative challenge from Robert Hatem. A letter from Boston's Cardinal Medeiros blasting both Frank and Shannon...
...Fourth Congressional District, liberal Barney Frank '61 faces conservative Waltham Mayor Arthur Clark in the Democratic primary. Next door, in the Fifth District, incumbent liberal Rep. James Shannon faces the more conservative Robert Hatem...