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...rare occasions, the past can be not only recalled but recaptured. Exactly 100 years ago next week, the elder daughter of Horace Greeley, 19th century journalistic war horse and founder-publisher of the New York Tribune, filled a ten-inch-square brass box with quaint mementos of her era and saw the box sealed within the cornerstone of the Tribune's new headquarters in Lower Manhattan. When that building was demolished in 1968, the time capsule was found and kept by the wrecker until late last year, when he brought it to a dealer to sell. The solid brass...
...Greeley also produces a flood of popular works. In the past three months, he has published three new books. Building Coalition: American Politics in the 70s (New Viewpoints) is what Greeley calls "unsolicited advice to the Democratic Party on how to put itself back together." Sexual Intimacy (Thomas More Press) is a priest's enthusiastic endorsement of inventive marital sex play. A chapter on "How to Be Sexy" envisages a wife surprising her husband "in the library . . . wearing only panties and a martini pitcher." One right-wing Catholic columnist declared that even discussing the book would be an occasion...
...Greeley's writing nevertheless has given him some problems lately. Last year, after ten years as lecturer in sociology at the University of Chicago and eight futile attempts to win faculty appointment, Greeley left the university, charging it with anticlericalism. Critics counter that Greeley has simply spread himself too thin as a popular writer to warrant professorial tenure...
...priest's most painful trouble comes to a head this month in a face-off with Chicago's lordly John Cardinal Cody. When Greeley tried recently to return part-time to parish work ("I am still very much a neighborhood type of priest"), the cardinal blocked a routine request for his transfer to a parish until Greeley comes to see him. Greeley has not done so, claiming that Cody might use his request for parish duties as a pretext for calling him entirely away from his scholarship and journalism...
...lifelong Chicagoan, Greeley, at 45, feels like an outcast from the city's academia and his diocese. Perhaps too melodramatically, given his loyal circle of friends, he sees himself as a "lonely" and "marginal" priest. But he hardly seems forlorn. In warm months, he shuttles in his Volkswagen between his gloomy Victorian room in the city and a rambling old beach house in Grand Beach, Mich., where he keeps a small sailboat, scuba gear and water skis. Beyond that, there is the puckish Greeley to cheer the melancholy Greeley up: "The only time I really feel lonely is when...