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
people choices catholic
People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so good to pagans, too. High-pressure evangelization strikes me as an attempt to deprive people of their freedom of choice.
love-is hands friendly
The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our families, in our friends, in our neighborhood, and forgiveness in the touch of a friendly hand, in a rediscovered love God is there.
catholic lines draws
God draws straight with crooked lines.
talking stories
Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.
mass-destruction mushrooms clouds
Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.
glowing data support
There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.
years catholic stories
If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.
engagement behavior surveys
Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.
teenage joy sorrow
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
constraints
Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.
patience country long
Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
second-chance romantic-love give-me-a-chance
We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.
teaching men opposites
In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.
leadership ice church
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.