What's wrong with Greeley?

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After an embarrasingly angst-y blog entry, someone commented that I should read Andrew Greeley’s work.

Now, I’ve heard that his work should be avoided, but what I don’t know is why.

Could someone give me the cliff notes version of Greeley and his agenda?

Thanks!

~Jess
 
Do you mean his novels, his non-fiction, or his columns? His novels are kind of trashy, but no worse than any other popular literature. Kind of a good vacation read, if you’ve got a lot of time to kill.
 
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JessicaCeleste:
After an embarrasingly angst-y blog entry, someone commented that I should read Andrew Greeley’s work.

Now, I’ve heard that his work should be avoided, but what I don’t know is why.

Could someone give me the cliff notes version of Greeley and his agenda?

Thanks!

~Jess
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Personally, I wouldn’t give him or anything he has written the time of day.
 
He’s a top notch sociologist, an outstanding priest, and a fine author of both non-fiction and fiction IMHO.

“Father Greeley has given great attention to the role of imagination in the life of faith. What he is doing is re-evangelizing the imagination, using fiction to express the mysteries of the faith.”— Francis Cardinal George, Archbishop of Chicago

John
 
When Fr Greeley stated that Cardinal Ratzinger said that Catholics could vote for Presidential candidate John Kerry( who promotes procured abortion), Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz had this to say about Fr Greeley: “No Catholics of any sense will take any pastoral advice from Father Andrew Greeley, a superficial writer who appears to spend his time promoting himself to various elements in the secular media.

“It is often said by priests and people in his native region of Chicago that he long ago published all his thoughts, and in the last decades has been publishing his fantasies.

“In his article in the New York Daily news, fostering a pro-abortion vote (‘so long as it is not merely for that…’), he seems to strongly indicate not only a tragic indifference to abortion, which the Second Vatican Council called ‘an abominable crime,’ but a shallowness of mind akin to a harlequin.

“In his self-important buffoonery, he has appointed himself as instructor to Bishops and to Catholics nationwide. In doing this, he merely announces to every thoughtful Catholic that his views are totally self serving and undeserving of any serious consideration.

“Father Greeley even appointed himself to be an interpreter and spokesman for Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, to the great amusement of all who really know the Cardinal.

“My advice to any Catholics who would ask me about that Greeley article would be to give it the same view as you would the words and acts of a clown.”
 
Our Mayor Daley (the first) used to say of opponents, “What trees do they plant?” So, okay, Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, D.D., S.T.D, Father Greeley’s a superficial writer-- what have you written that can compare with the non-fiction of Reverend Andrew Moran Greeley, PhD? He reaches far more people in his ministry than the bishop of an obscure midwestern diocese ever could.

John
 
Actually, a bishop’s duty is not to write sociology or any other “comparable” subject, but to shepherd his flock to the truth of the Faith, and to guard them against false ideas. It’s the only real standard to hold a bishop to.

And some bishops from small sees do well. There seems to have been one once in a little town called Hippo.
 
I know you’re not comparing Bishop Bruskewitz to St. Augustine, but it does seem to me that the bishop of Hippo wrote a little bit as well.

John
 
I personally find Fr. Greeley a fine writer whose theological sense informs his fictional writing.

His non-fiction is excellent as well.
 
John Higgins:
Our Mayor Daley (the first) used to say of opponents, “What trees do they plant?” So, okay, Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, D.D., S.T.D, Father Greeley’s a superficial writer-- what have you written that can compare with the non-fiction of Reverend Andrew Moran Greeley, PhD? He reaches far more people in his ministry than the bishop of an obscure midwestern diocese ever could.

John
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So if 99% of the population used birth-control does that make it alright? Your post is full of straw man arguments.
 
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