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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Alonzo has never fought anyone of my caliber. His over confidence is going to find him tasting the canvas early and often. His prospect days are over.
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The Catholic imagination is metaphorical or sacramental. It sees God as present in the world. The Protestant imagination, the dialectical imagination, wants to preserve God from the possibility of idolatry by identifying with His creatures. Catholicism has no problem with that.
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(The Catholic Church must) clean out the pedophiles, break up the gay cliques, tighten up the seminary, and restore the good name of the priesthood
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The Church just has not been able to cope with the demands for fairness and equality from women, so they're very angry.
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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.
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.
real thinking political
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.
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.
country organization membership
Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.
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As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.
running men years
The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The relatively modest changes of those years thawed the ice in which Catholicism had been frozen since the French Revolution.