Andrew Greeley Quotes

The Catholic Men Are More Upset About Women Not Being Able To Be Priests Than Are Catholic Women.

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.

I Have Terrible Handwriting. I Now Say It's A Learning Disability... But A Nun Who Was A Very Troubled Woman Hit Me Over The Fingers With A Ruler Because My Writing Was So Bad.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Survey Data Suggest That War Has Become More Unpopular. The Majority Of The American People Now Think It Was A Mistake, In A Shift Away From The 51 Percent That Endorsed It On Election Day. Admittedly This Is Only A Small Change In The Population, From A Majority To A Minority. Nor Do The Changers Earn Grace For Their New Opinions. They Still Endorsed The War On Election Day And Are Still Responsible For It.