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
years yesterday lasts
One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.
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I mean, I'm a Chicago Irishman, I know how to finesse things. So at least, working with the young people I was able to accomplish pretty much what I wanted to.
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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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The role of Mary the Mother of Jesus is to reflect the woman and the love of God.
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Thirty years ago, before the Vatican Council, Catholics didn't know what liturgy was.
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One could say at a dinner party that most Americans are faithful to their spouses, and a loud mouth, semi-inebriated jerk can respond that the conclusion cannot be true because look at all the academics who sleep around at professional meetings.
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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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One Hispanic woman... was telling me about her religion, and all she was talking about were the parties, the festivals.
war taken agency
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.
responsibility writing world
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.