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Andrew Greeley Quotes
«I guess I'm a good story teller. What makes me a prolific writer is two factors at work. Celibacy; I don't have a family to distract me. And I'm glib. I reached facility with words.»
Author: Andrew Greeley
«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.»
Author: Andrew Greeley
«There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s.»
Author: Andrew Greeley
«Two studies from the year 2000, however, indicate that Catholics give lower ratings to their clergy's ministerial activities across the board than do Protestants.»
Author: Andrew Greeley
«The radical feminists include their sisters and their nieces and their mothers and all the women in their lives. They just don't like the way the Church treats them. And this includes lots of parish priests. They are just awfully sloppy in their respect and sensitivity toward women.»
Author: Andrew Greeley
«The Catholics we lose-it's almost always over divorce and remarriage, of which problem we have made a real mess.»
Author: Andrew Greeley
«The laity, who pay the bills, have a right to high quality priestly service, in strict commutative justice with the obligation of restitution. So too does the Lord Jesus, whom we purport to represent.»
Author: Andrew Greeley
«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.»
Author: Andrew Greeley
«I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.»
Author: Andrew Greeley
«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.»
Author: Andrew Greeley