Word: priests
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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...
...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...
...sure, Berrigan was harsh with Arab leadership as well ("Their capacity for deception, remarkable even for our world ... their contempt for their own poor"). He also tried to soften his criticism by asserting that as "a priest in resistance against Rome" and as "an American in resistance against Nixon," he was "very like a Jew." Berrigan's remarks, his choice of audience, and his pose as an archetypal Jew infuriated Jewish leaders. Historian Arthur Hertzberg, noting that the Jesuit has never been to Israel, ticked off a number of factual errors made by Berrigan in an angry reply...
...longstanding disagreement, for instance, has been whether the priest is principally an authorized minister of the sacraments (the traditional high-church and Catholic view) or a preacher of the Gospel. The new agreement notes that "the ministry of the word and the sacraments" is one, and stresses neither aspect over the other. That allows low-church Anglicans to emphasize a preaching role-and also leaves a door open to other evangelical Protestants...
...west to Ethiopia in the east In Ethiopia, more than 50,000 have died of starvation. Many mothers have had to sacrifice their weakest children by drawing emergency food rations for them and then using the food to feed the others. So great is the catastrophe, says one local priest, that the traditional public weeping and wailing for the dead has been abandoned; the people have lost the will...