Word: greeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your article "Andrew Greeley, Inc." [Jan. 7] was a superb analysis of the man who has probably the best mind and the fin est writing talent in the post-Vatican II American Roman Catholic Church...
...your article pointed out, Greeley very successfully steers a well-balanced via media between the Berrigans on the left and the Catholic traditionalist movement on the right. He has the wisdom of a Cardinal Newman, the Irish wit of a Peter Finley Dunne, and the insight of an Americanized G.K. Chesterton...
...rare occasions, the past can be not only recalled but recaptured. Exactly 100 years ago next week, the elder daughter of Horace Greeley, 19th century journalistic war horse and founder-publisher of the New York Tribune, filled a ten-inch-square brass box with quaint mementos of her era and saw the box sealed within the cornerstone of the Tribune's new headquarters in Lower Manhattan. When that building was demolished in 1968, the time capsule was found and kept by the wrecker until late last year, when he brought it to a dealer to sell. The solid brass...
...priest's most painful trouble comes to a head this month in a face-off with Chicago's lordly John Cardinal Cody. When Greeley tried recently to return part-time to parish work ("I am still very much a neighborhood type of priest"), the cardinal blocked a routine request for his transfer to a parish until Greeley comes to see him. Greeley has not done so, claiming that Cody might use his request for parish duties as a pretext for calling him entirely away from his scholarship and journalism...
...lifelong Chicagoan, Greeley, at 45, feels like an outcast from the city's academia and his diocese. Perhaps too melodramatically, given his loyal circle of friends, he sees himself as a "lonely" and "marginal" priest. But he hardly seems forlorn. In warm months, he shuttles in his Volkswagen between his gloomy Victorian room in the city and a rambling old beach house in Grand Beach, Mich., where he keeps a small sailboat, scuba gear and water skis. Beyond that, there is the puckish Greeley to cheer the melancholy Greeley up: "The only time I really feel lonely is when...