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Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal concern.
Andrew Greeley
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Andrew Greeley
Age: 85 †
Born: 1928
Born: February 5
Died: 2013
Died: May 29
Catholic Priest
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Oak Park
Illinois
Andrew M. Greeley
Andrew Moran Greeley
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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.
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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 highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.
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Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.
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There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.
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I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.
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Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
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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.
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I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
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God draws straight with crooked lines.
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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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Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?
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It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.
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I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.
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My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.
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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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