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...CARDINAL SINS by Andrew M. Greeley Warner; 350 pages...
During the late 1960s-the most turbulent years of America's Roman Catholic Church-few commentators were quoted more often than two priests, Fathers Eugene Kennedy and Andrew Greeley. Kennedy has since dropped his clerical title and is happily married. Greeley, a defender of both sensuality and celibacy, has kept his Roman collar, and his insider's anger at his church...
...both men have published major novels. Kennedy's crept in like Chicago fog; Greeley's was announced with a Mayor Daley-style fanfare: a $75,000 promotion budget that included a cassette of Greeley explaining his work. The quality of the two novels varies in inverse proportion to their publicity...
...Cardinal Sins is about as good a novel as it is a pun. The lives of its four leading characters, Greeley explains in a foreword, are shaded by one or more of the traditional seven cardinal sins (pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth). Greeley follows Patrick Donahue, his friend Kevin Brennan, and the two women in their lives, Ellen Foley and Maureen Cunningham, from a pre-seminary adolescent summer to the slopes of middle age. As a priest, Kevin is a controversial writer and social scientist who bears an unflattering resemblance to the author. Donahue, clearly more fictional...
...Cardinal Sins, Greeley...