Word: greeley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...What is Andrew Greeley, anyway?" asked bewildered Theologian Tom Driver in a recent issue of America. "It might be a syndicate," he suggested. Dan Herr, president of Chicago's Thomas More Press, says, "I used to think there were four Greeleys. I was wrong. There are more than that...
Died. Charles Greeley Abbot, 101, astrophysicist, inventor and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1928-44; in Riverdale, Md. In 1972, a crater on the moon's dark side was named for Abbot, who spent more than 70 years studying the effects of solar radiation on terrestrial weather patterns and patented numerous devices for converting the sun's heat into energy...
...other football honors announced yesterday, senior quarterback Jim Stoeckel, who holds all of Harvard's passing records, became the 25th recipient of the Frederick Greeley Crocker Award. The award is given annually to the most valuable player on Harvard's varsity football team...
...only have priests been fleeing their flocks, but the flocks have been fleeing the church. According to a survey released last week by Father Andrew Greeley and William McCready of the National Opinion Research Center, a sharp decline in Catholic church attendance has occurred between 1972 and 1973-not among youth, but among communicants over...
...extraordinarily technical question: whether priests should now be permitted to place the Communion wafer in the recipient's crossed hands instead of directly on the tongue. Some Catholic congregations in fact quietly practice the hand-to-hand form of Communion already. Yet the bishops voted down the proposal. Greeley and McCready denounced the bishops' sense of priority. "How people receive Communion is obviously more important than whether they receive it," the two wrote. "It is business as usual while the institution comes apart at the seams...