Andrew Greeley Quotes


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


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? - Andrew Greeley


Why does God permit us whom he loves to die? And you know what I say, where was God at the World Trade Center? He was there weeping for his fractured children. That's not a direct answer to the question but it's the best I could do. God suffers with us. - Andrew Greeley


Well, the Irish aren't much into showing affection. There was crisis when we were wiped out in the Depression and my father went into the gloom. But surely in the years when I was an adolescent during the war years, there was, I would say, a rebirth of affection there. - Andrew Greeley


Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits. - 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. - Andrew Greeley


Thirty years ago, before the Vatican Council, Catholics didn't know what liturgy was. - Andrew Greeley


There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation. - Andrew Greeley


The storyteller is like God, the storyteller creates these characters. Falls in love with them, and then they won't act right. - Andrew Greeley


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. - Andrew Greeley


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