Word: greeleys
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Those figures-and a theory to explain them-appeared this spring in a new book called Catholic Schools in a Declining Church (TIME, April 5) by Priest-Sociologist Andrew Greeley and his colleagues at Chicago's National Opinion Research Center, William C. McCready and Kathleen McCourt. Their conclusion: Humanae vitae created a massive crisis of authority in the church. An ethical mandate from the Pope, promulgated by his bishops, was quietly-if not without some qualms of conscience-rejected by Catholic families. In turn, there were empty pews in church, no more lines at the confessional...
...church's decline squarely on Pope Paul's 1968 encyclical against "artificial" birth control. Disillusion over the encyclical, in fact, may have cost the American church more than $1 billion a year in contributions. That contention is part of a book by Andrew M. Greeley, William C. McCready and Kathleen McCourt: Catholic Schools in a Declining Church (Sheed & Ward, 483 pages; $15). In it Father Greeley, 48, a sociologist and acidulous Catholic columnist, declares that the birth control decree was "a shattering blow" to the loyalty of U.S. Catholics. He predicts that future scholars will adjudge...
...Greeley has already briefed officials at the Vatican and the U.S. Catholic Conference on his findings, and he does not hesitate to propose radical solutions. It would be extraordinary but possible for the Pope to "repeal" the birth control encyclical, and Greeley thinks it must be done to halt U.S. church "deterioration." As for the schools, he expects further dwindling of enrollment unless the bishops let the laity take control of fund raising and administration. Says Greeley: "If I were a bishop and I saw this data, I'd call a panic meeting." Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin, head...
Crimson quarterback Jim Kubacki, who in his first varsity season led Harvard to its only undisputed Ivy League football championship in Saturday's win over Yale, last night was named the 27th recipient of the Frederick Greeley Crocker Award as the team's outstanding player...
...explanation: education. Jews had 14 years' schooling and Catholics 12.5 years, ahead of the national average of 11.1 years for all whites. "Overthrust" is what Father Greeley calls phenomenon, wondering whether striving groups do well "because of the sheer raw power of their elemental drive for respectability and success...