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GABRIEL LANE, 20; GREELEY, COLORADO; high school senior...
...survey by the Los Angeles Times shows that priests and sisters are comparably satisfied. Skeptics might argue that Catholics who were not content have left the church, thus eluding the pollsters. But the ranks of those defectors have not been growing in recent years. Father Andrew M. Greeley is popularly known as the author of steamy best-selling novels, but he is also a sociologist who has spent more than 30 years analyzing his fellow American Catholics. He finds "practically no increase in those born Catholic who no longer identify as Catholic--the defection rate." How does Greeley account...
...decline in the priesthood. It was never an easy cross to bear, they point out. Why should it be harder now than it has been throughout much of the church's 2,000-year history? "People say the sexual revolution has made sex more attractive for young men," Greeley observes. "I say, Give me a break...
...last few pages of Andrew Greeley's 1981 best seller, The Cardinal Sins, there is a scene in which a crowd of reporters has gathered in St. Peter's Square in Rome to await the wisp of white smoke that will signal the election of a new Pope. One of those journalists, Greeley writes, is Jordan Bonfante, TIME's Rome bureau chief, who vanishes "to dash off his story" the moment the smoke appears...
...largely intact? Our polling shows the usual wide disagreement with church teachings on hot-button issues, but the news here is the unshakable lay devotion at parish level." Ostling saw that devotion close up, interviewing would-be priests in Missouri and parishioners in Maryland, and even chatting with Father Greeley in Michigan. Might he pop up in a future Greeley novel? "No, it will not happen," says Ostling modestly, with a laugh. "At least I hope it doesn...