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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.

Andrew Greeley

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Andrew Greeley
Age: 85 †
Born: 1928
Born: February 5
Died: 2013
Died: May 29
Catholic Priest
Journalist
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Priest
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University Teacher
Writer
Oak Park
Illinois
Andrew M. Greeley
Andrew Moran Greeley
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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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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.
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Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.
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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.
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We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.
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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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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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God draws straight with crooked lines.
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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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Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
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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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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.
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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.
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Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three small wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.
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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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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.
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When I can go just where I want to go, There is a copse of birch trees that I know And, as in Eden Adam walked with God, When in that quiet aisle my feet have trod I have found peace among the silver trees, Known comfort in the cool kiss of the breeze Heard music in its whisper, and have known Most certainly that I was not alone!
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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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