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...trouble with all this worldly success is that its recipient, Father Andrew M. (for Moran) Greeley, 54, is a Roman Catholic priest. It is not so much the money that disturbs his critics: diocesan priests do not take a vow of poverty. The sticking point is the novels themselves, in which Greeley seems bent upon airing the dirtier linen of the church he professes to love and serve. Not only do Greeley's Cardinals sin, but lower prelates, priests and parishioners are awash in anger and avarice, deceit and envy, pride and lust-especially lust. Greeley pleads that...
...much getting even. Perhaps this is less a reflection of Greeley's art than of his anger. There are many Andrew Greeleys, and there are clearly two working at cross-purposes here: Greeley the romantic, wishing that life could be full of grace, and Greeley the realistic priest, who knows how dark human souls can be. The priest keeps trying to explain, but it is the bitter romantic who keeps getting even. -By Mayo Mohs. Reported by J. Madeleine Nash/Chicago...
...entry steps. Miraculously, I woke up at 10, took a shower, and went to church. I was still drunk. It wasn't until the middle of the sermon that I sobered up...I was able to control myself; I wasn't wobbling. It's just like the buzz any priest would have if he chugged a glass of communion wine...
...blood." But last month the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a series of frosty "observations" on the all-important commission report, faulting the Anglicans for refusing to accept "transubstantiation." (This dogma means that while appearances remain the same, the words of consecration by a priest at Mass transform the entire substance of the bread and wine into Christ's literal body and blood.) However, Eastern Orthodoxy does not require any such formulation either, and Rome nevertheless recognizes its sacraments as "true...
...Priesthood. Catholics believe a priest must be ordained by a bishop historically tied to bishops who are linked all the way back to Peter and the Apostles: the apostolic succession. Anglicans have a special problem that the international dialogue must soon face directly. The reason: in 1896 Pope Leo XIII declared that Anglican orders are, and always have been, "absolutely null and utterly void," mainly because the 16th century ordination rite omitted the power of priests to offer a sacrifice of Christ in the Mass. Therefore Anglican Primate Runcie and other bishops are technically, in papal eyes, not ordained priests...