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...working template of American experience and, on the whole, useful. The young man obeys Horace Greeley and goes West; in California, he runs out of America. It is the culmination and extinction of hope. The vision of plenty for everyone becomes a mockery--a process whose impact is amply documented by the 1930s social-realist segments of this show, with their dock strikers and Mexican migrant workers pitted against grasping Anglo bosses. Different cultures and immigrant races swirl around, not in a melting pot as some optimists have supposed but in unappeased opposition to one another...
...Center writes in the Ladd Report, are more than twice as likely to volunteer as people in Germany or France. And the percentage of Americans volunteering, unlike participating in government, is going not down but up; it more than doubled between 1977 and 1995, from 26% to 54%. Andrew Greeley, a Roman Catholic priest and professor of social science at the University of Chicago, argues that these high rates stem largely from America's religiosity. Americans who attend religious services weekly are twice as likely to volunteer their help as those who attend barely at all. One-third...
Using novelist Andrew Greeley as a commentator on the affairs of the Roman Catholic Church makes as much sense as naming Madonna as the spokesperson for Celibates of America. MAIA WOJCIECHOWSKA Garfield...
Still, Lehmann has revealed a latent concern. Says Greeley: "The church has a real problem in that there is no provision in church legislation for a Pope who becomes incapable of acting as Pope." While the Vatican can operate with an incapacitated Pope, important decisions (the naming of bishops) and documents would have to wait until he was well enough to approve of them--or until a new Pope came around. A mentally compromised Pope kept alive artificially would present the church with a constitutional crisis. If a Pope can see that coming, says Greeley, he should choose...
...abortion-counseling centers, and after five years of wrangling, its bishops bowed to pressure from the Pope last June and agreed to stop issuing certificates that permit women to terminate a pregnancy within the first 12 weeks. (Without the certificate, abortion is illegal.) Says historian and novelist Father Andrew Greeley: "Lehmann won't be made a cardinal as long as John Paul is Pope...