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.
Andrew Greeley Quotes
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.
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| Birth: | 5th February, 1928 |
| Death: | 29th May, 2013 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Journalist, Novelist, Priest, Professor, Sociologist |
About
Andrew M. Greeley was born into a large Irish Catholic family in Oak Park, Illinois. He was an Irish-American Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and popular novelist. Father Greeley was a Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona and the University of Chicago, and a Research Associate with the National Opinion Research Center For many years, he wrote a weekly column for the Chicago Sun-Times and contributed regularly to The New York Times, the National Catholic Reporter, America, and Commonweal.
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