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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Two studies from the year 2000, however, indicate that Catholics give lower ratings to their clergy's ministerial activities across the board than do Protestants.
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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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I think Catholic Americans had better believe there's truth in all religions, because the Second Vatican Council said that. We don't believe that we have a monopoly on truth. We believe what we have is true, but it's not the whole truth. And we can learn a lot from the other religions if we listen to them respectfully.
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Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.
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Thirty years ago, before the Vatican Council, Catholics didn't know what liturgy was.
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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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The role of Mary the Mother of Jesus is to reflect the woman and the love of God.
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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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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.