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 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.
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.
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.
creativity creative elements
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.
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.
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.
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.
perfect church realizing
Search for the perfect church if you will; when you find it, join it, and realize that on that day it becomes something less than perfect.
rip men law
It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us.
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.
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.