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...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...
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...
...study was compiled by Chicago's National Opinion Research Center under Father Andrew M. Greeley, a priest who is a prominent sociologist. His researchers took a "composite sample" of 18,000 households, put together from twelve national surveys of ethnic and religious groups. (Nonwhites and Spanish-speaking Americans were not included because they have already been extensively studied...
...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...
...that has tangled with the cardinal before. The association's leaders declared, "In the ultimate analysis, we are not working for Cardinal Cody. We work for the Lord and for his people, especially for the poor." The protest was joined by acid-penned Sociologist and Journalist Father Andrew Greeley, who wrote in the July-August issue of the association's newsletter that Cody is a "madcap tyrant who has been imposed upon us ... Manly, forthright and honest dialogue" has failed, he said, and all that can be hoped for now is Cody's removal by higher...