Father Greeley's doctrine

[MarcoPolo]

Two questions:

On what Church dogma does Father Greeley dissent? I found this article but it is scant on source material.

Also, has he been forbidden from saying mass in public? I have seen some folks on the web state this but see no source material.

 

[JamestheOlder]

I believe he was a product of his times, and the confusion that reigned in the Church in those times after V2. I understand he was involved in a horrific accident some time ago, and he may still be under the care of members of his family.

I found a notable reference in the wikipedia entry about him. I know little of the author, but the reading gives a place and time for many confusing thangs which happened. Click on:
usao.edu/~facshaferi/SALIERI.HTM

Peace.

 

[MarcoPolo]

I didn’t see an answer to either of my questions in that link (which didn’t work, here is the correct link, FYI). Did I miss it?

 

[Seamus_L]

I don’t know what to make of Fr Greeley. He’s made mention in two of his books that he knows the identities of the alleged ring of pedophile priests known as “The Boys Club” and despite the suspicious brutal murder of his friend Francis Pellegrini in 1984, he has refused to name names.

 

[manualman]

He has many time defied the commandment “Thout Shalt Not Write Mediocre Novels.”

 

[rwoehmke]

He has many time defied the commandment “Thout Shalt Not Write Mediocre Novels.”

I would agree that a lot of his later stuff is pretty poor, but have always felt that the earliest novels captured well the lives and attitudes of the Chicago area Catholics that I knew and went to school with. The characters always struck me as being like real people.

I have a retired priest friend of Italian extraction who seems to me to share many of Greely’s attitudes about the Church, particularly the hierarchy. My opinion is that they feel that their role as a priest was rarely appreciated and that rules and some of our theology always seemed to come before sympathy for the human condition. I also think that some of these older retired priests feel lonely.

 

[manualman]

I think I’m probably just too young to appreciate them then. As a GenX, I didn’t relate to the characters I saw (admittedly from one of his bigger novels that I can’t remember the name of).

 

[Seamus_L]

He touches on some really fascinating topics and seems to make some very serious implications regarding Cody, Bernardin and others, but then he never quite let’s you know everything.