Andrew Greeley
Andrew Greeley
Andrew M. Greeleywas an American Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and popular novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 February 1928
CityOak Park, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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The role of Mary the Mother of Jesus is to reflect the woman and the love of God.
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The storyteller is like God, the storyteller creates these characters. Falls in love with them, and then they won't act right.
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I was never a teenager. I became a teenager in Christ the King and I never grew out of it. More seriously... as I'm always serious as you know, there weren't teenagers in the late 1930s and early 1940s. There were adolescents. But by the time I was ordained and was dumped into Beverly, there were teenagers.
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One Hispanic woman... was telling me about her religion, and all she was talking about were the parties, the festivals.
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Why does God permit us whom he loves to die? And you know what I say, where was God at the World Trade Center? He was there weeping for his fractured children. That's not a direct answer to the question but it's the best I could do. God suffers with us.
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You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.
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There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s.
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It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.
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Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?
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The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.
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The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work and that some element of creativity should be required as a condition for ordination.
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I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.
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I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
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It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.