Robert f drinan biography of michael jackson

Drinan was born in the small town of Roslindale, south of Boston, in 1920, a second-generation Irish Catholic whose father was a once-prosperous builder who lost everything in the Depression.

Robert f drinan biography of michael jackson

He attended parochial elementary and public high school, and then enrolled at Boston College in 1938, which was then a far cry from the modern research university it would later become. In the late 1930s, the school still followed the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum, heavy on rhetoric, philosophy, religion, and the Greek and Latin classics, light on research and the sciences.

It was a fine if unmodern education and in some ways better than the undergraduate education many receive today, filled as it is with discrete but unconnected points of knowledge, heavy on specialization and short on intellectual synthesis.

In 1942, after graduation, Drinan joined the Society of Jesus, attended law school at Georgetown, another Jesuit institution, and then studied theology in Rome.

He was ordained a priest in 19