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...Thanks for your article devoted to Andrew Greeley, Inc. I consider my two years working for Andrew Greeley as one of the outstanding privileges of my life. Catholic theology tells us that part of a priest's job is to "make the bishop present" in the community. When there is no true friendship between a priest and his bishop, both of them suffer...
...irrelevant authority. "What bullshit!" the mother explodes at their diagnosis. So they suggest exorcism. But what doctor, what authority of objective science, however frustrated, would turn to sorcery? How thin, after all, can you stretch convenience and still have people believe that a Harvard-Johns Hopkins-trained psychiatrist-turned-priest just happens to have done research on witchcraft? Since when has superstition invaded the sciences? Since The Exorcist, where superstition is the sense of the world. This is the alchemist's vision resurrected in a historical vacuum...
...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 of sin. (Greeley promptly...
...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...