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Basque dislike of outside control is also reflected in the Roman Catholic Church. Nationalistic Basque priests, who rarely rise much in the hierarchy, are often at odds with the Franco-approved bishops and oppose the close identification of the church leadership with the regime...
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...
...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...
...popular topic in America. It is even an academic specialty: the University of Minnesota boasts a Center for Thanatological Studies, while U.C.L.A. has a Laboratory for the Study of Life-Threatening Behavior. On the lecture circuit, "the subject of death is now outdrawing the perennials-sex and politics," writes Roman Catholic Theologian Daniel C. Maguire in the current issue of the Atlantic. Maguire's essay describes a new genre he calls "the thanatology book...
...ungimmicked plots, creates cleanly drawn characters and scrupulously avoids explicit sex and sadism. He places his mysteries in the context of the busy, stable life of a Conservative Jew. The rabbi's liturgical calendar, the duties and derelictions of his flock, their relations with the town's Roman Catholics-represented by Chief Lanigan and Father Ahern-are all taken with wry, judicious seriousness. There are few such solid series around. Chesterton and Father Brown would bless Kemelman and his rabbi...