"St. Mary of the Woods Parish in Edgebrook is my regular place of working. Our Mother of Sorrows in Tucson and then some Sundays I go out to Christ the King in Beverly."

Rating:

  rate this quote
Topic: none  help us select a topic for this quote

More quotes from: Andrew Greeley

• "An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind ..."
• "As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to ..."
• "European Catholics tend to be somewhat grim and dour and straightlaced. We shouldn't have been, ..."
• "Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey ..."
• "God lurks everywhere. That's the fundamental Catholic instinct on the imaginative and poetic level-that God ..."
• "However, during my 48 years as a priest, I have learned that in times of ..."
• "I don't know what the next Pope is going to be like. I do know ..."
• "I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is ..."
• "I guess I'm a good story teller. What makes me a prolific writer is two ..."
• "I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who ..."
• "I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a ..."
• "I mean, I'm a Chicago Irishman, I know how to finesse things. So at least, ..."
• "I think Catholic Americans had better believe there's truth in all religions, because the Second ..."
• "I think one of the conclusions that many Catholics drew from the Second Vatican Council ..."
• "I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after ..."
• "I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example. "
• "I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try ..."
• "I was never a teenager. I became a teenager in Christ the King and I ..."
• "I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And ..."
• "I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters ..."
• "I'd say that Catholicism in the United States has the distinct advantage of being in ..."

• "If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your ..."
• "In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women ..."
• "Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left ..."
• "It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the ..."
• "It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. ..."
• "Most people who are born Catholic are still Catholic, unless they've had a divorce and ..."
• "Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it. "
• "Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find ..."
• "One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very ..."
• "One could say at a dinner party that most Americans are faithful to their spouses, ..."
• "One Hispanic woman... was telling me about her religion, and all she was talking about ..."
• "People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics ..."
• "Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life. "
• "Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has ..."
• "The Catholic imagination is metaphorical or sacramental. It sees God as present in the world. ..."
• "The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than ..."
• "The Catholics we lose-it's almost always over divorce and remarriage, of which problem we have ..."
• "The Church just has not been able to cope with the demands for fairness and ..."
• "The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is ..."
• "The laity, who pay the bills, have a right to high quality priestly service, in ..."

• "The leadership blighted the hopes of my generation of priests, a small fact doubtless from ..."
• "The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they ..."
• "The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when ..."
• "The radical feminists include their sisters and their nieces and their mothers and all the ..."
• "The role of Mary the Mother of Jesus is to reflect the woman and the ..."
• "The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. ..."
• "The storyteller is like God, the storyteller creates these characters. Falls in love with them, ..."
• "There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues ..."
• "There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be ..."
• "Thirty years ago, before the Vatican Council, Catholics didn't know what liturgy was. "
• "Two studies from the year 2000, however, indicate that Catholics give lower ratings to their ..."
• "Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the ..."
• "Well, the Irish aren't much into showing affection. There was crisis when we were wiped ..."
• "What's more important? Life after death or birth control? What is more important? God's forgiving ..."
• "Why does God permit us whom he loves to die? And you know what I ..."
• "Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the ..."
• "Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married ..."
• "You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You ..."