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Andrew Greeley
American Clergyman
Born: Feb 5, 1928
About God Me People Think War
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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. Andrew Greeley
Me Learning Woman Writing Nun Say Ruler Bad Fingers Troubled Disability Over Terrible Because Learning Disability Very Hit Handwriting Who Now
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. Andrew Greeley
Me Experience Somebody Living Enough Teenage Teenager Kind Hopes Adolescent Various Through Between Joys Sorrows Permanently Maturing Curiously In-Between Them Who Things
Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it. Andrew Greeley
God Constraints Puts Nobody Like She
Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love? Andrew Greeley
Love Best Sex Important Faithful Affection Married Between Most Partners Another Frequent Hint Might Aspect Who Apparently Even
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
You Culture Seriously Rules Born More Take Unthinkable Catholic Because Italy Lot Just Stop Being Your
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. Andrew Greeley
Work God World Believe Think Way Only He Said Representation Mean Unique Jesus
I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion. Andrew Greeley
Religion Problem Political Try Minority Think Those Identify Policies Real American Real Problem Who Fundamentalists
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. Andrew Greeley
Me World Responsibility Enjoy Say Parish Write Readers
I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me. Andrew Greeley
Me Way Say Easily Tell Characters Finish Write Take Put Over Particularly Doing Just Then Novel Third
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. Andrew Greeley
God Women Men Men And Women Opposites Characteristics Admire Combination Combined Catholic Traditional Been Women Are Teaching
Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country? Andrew Greeley
Patience Suffering People Long Country Outrage Left American American People
It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed. Andrew Greeley
War Election Matters Settled Torture Longer Also Dead Prisoners Issues Asserted Need
It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed. Andrew Greeley
Science Collapsed Generally Put Schools Catholics Test Were Intellectuals Graduate Going Arts Not Interested Interested Believed
Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud. Andrew Greeley
Destruction Better Three Important Cloud Mushroom Positions Find Weapons See Cabinet Mass Mass Destruction Most Said Than Note Rice
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. Andrew Greeley
Leadership Church Half Lost Tried Plug Nerve Previous Lead Instead Taking Return Dry Still Reform Trying Movement Ice Century Pulled
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. Andrew Greeley
People Church Sex Research Changed Back Proportion Since Always Leave Doing Issues Been Authority Certain Who Early Started
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
War People Intelligence Better Thought President Those Would Lied Deliberately He Taken Him Because Hear Dumb Intelligence Agencies Than Essential Wanted Agencies Much Who

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