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...What is Andrew Greeley, anyway?" asked bewildered Theologian Tom Driver in a recent issue of America. "It might be a syndicate," he suggested. Dan Herr, president of Chicago's Thomas More Press, says, "I used to think there were four Greeleys. I was wrong. There are more than that...
There indeed seem to be. The Rev. Andrew Greeley is, among other people, a Roman Catholic priest, a sociologist, a theologian, a weekly columnist (50 U.S. Catholic newspapers), the author of 40-odd books and, of late, a celibate sex expert. He is an informational machine gun who can fire off an article on Jesus to the New York Times Magazine, on ethnic groups to the Antioch Review, and on war to Dissent. This year he will write his first novel-about Chicago's Irish. "He's obsessive, compulsive, a workaholic," says Psychologist-Priest Eugene Kennedy, a close...
...also happens to be, as Kennedy puts it, "the Howard Cosell of the Catholic Church,"-referring to Greeley's capacity for stirring up both tempers and controversy. Greeley concedes that he wields a "kinky Irish tongue" against all sorts of holy cows and causes. He has put down Radical Jesuit Daniel Berrigan ("As a political strategist, he's a great poet"), and he has told Roman Catholic prelates that "the present leadership of the church is morally, intellectually and religiously bankrupt...
Surprised Husband. Greeley has solid credentials as a scholar. Program director of the National Opinion Research Center of the University of Chicago, he has written numerous books and articles based on its surveys. Perhaps his best sociological work is a 1966 study called The Education of Catholic Americans, co-authored by Sociologist Peter H. Rossi, which compares the effects of religious v. public schooling on students' future lives as Catholics...
Died. Charles Greeley Abbot, 101, astrophysicist, inventor and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1928-44; in Riverdale, Md. In 1972, a crater on the moon's dark side was named for Abbot, who spent more than 70 years studying the effects of solar radiation on terrestrial weather patterns and patented numerous devices for converting the sun's heat into energy...