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Andrew M. Greeley (February 5, 1928 – May 29, 2013) was an American
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priest, sociologist, journalist and novelist. He was a professor of
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at the
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and the
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, and a
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with the
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(NORC). For many years, Greeley wrote a weekly column for the ''
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'' and contributed regularly to ''
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'', the ''
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'', ''
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'', and '' Commonweal''.


Life and career

Greeley was born into a large Irish Catholic family in
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(a suburb of Chicago) in 1928. He grew up during the
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in Chicago's Austin neighborhood, where he attended St. Angela Elementary School, and by the second grade, he knew that he wanted to be a priest. After studying at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago, Greeley received an AB degree from
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in Chicago in 1950, a
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(STB) in 1952, and a
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(STL) in 1954, when he was
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for the
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. From 1954 to 1964, Greeley served as an assistant pastor at
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parish in Chicago, during which time he studied sociology at the
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. His first book, ''The Church in the Suburbs (1958)'', was drawn from notes a sociology professor had encouraged him to take describing his experiences. He received a
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in 1961 and a PhD in 1962. His
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dealt with the influence of religion on the career plans of 1961 college graduates. At various times, Greeley was a professor at the
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, the
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and the University of Chicago. He was denied
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by the University of Chicago in 1973, despite having been a faculty member there for a decade and having published dozens of books; he attributed the denial to anti-Catholic prejudice, although a colleague said his cantankerous temperament was more to blame. In 1991, he was granted a professorship in social science at the University.


Sociology

As a sociologist, he published a large number of influential academic works during the 1960s and 1970s, including ''Unsecular Man: The Persistence of Religion'' (1972) and ''The American Catholic: A Social Portrait'' (1977). Over the course of his career, he authored more than 70 scholarly books, largely focusing on the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. His early work challenged the widespread assumption that Catholics had low college attendance rates, showing that white Catholics were in fact more successful than other whites in obtaining college undergraduate and graduate degrees, which he attributed to what he called the high-quality education Catholics received in parochial schools. He also studied how religion influenced the political behavior of ethnic Catholics, and he was one of the first scholars to document the sociological effects of the
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's reforms on American Catholics. In the early 1970s, the U.S. bishops commissioned him to write a profile of the American priesthood. He completed a two-year survey in 1972, reporting that dissatisfaction among the priests was widespread; but the bishops rejected his findings. Greeley said, "Honesty compels me to say that I believe the present leadership in the church to be morally, intellectually and religiously bankrupt." Greeley's sociological work was also viewed with suspicion by some of his fellow clerics, and his archbishop (later cardinal), John Cody, denied Greeley's request for a parish ministry. Greeley criticized Cody, calling him a "madcap tyrant" when Cody closed a number of inner-city schools.


Interpreting American Catholicism

Greeley's biographer summarizes his interpretation: As described by John L. Allen Jr. of the ''National Catholic Reporter'', Greeley became fascinated with what has been called the Catholic "analogical imagination", the idea that "visible, tangible things in the created order serve as metaphors for the divine, as opposed to the more textual and literal religious sensibility of Protestants and others." Greeley believed that it was this viewpoint that had led the church to be a pre-eminent patron of the arts through the centuries, allowing it to communicate through artistic imagery spiritual concepts that doctrinal texts alone could not. Greeley's appreciation for the spiritual power of art inspired him to begin writing works of fiction.


Fiction

Greeley's literary output was such it was said that he "never had an unpublished thought". He said, "The only way I can write fiction is to keep those hours from 6:00 to 9:00 A.M. sacred." He published his first novel, ''The Magic Cup'', in 1975, a fantasy tale about a young king who would lead Ireland from
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to Christianity. A second novel, ''Death in April'', followed in 1980. His third novel, '' The Cardinal Sins'' (1981), was his first work of fiction to become a major commercial success. As one reviewer put it, ''The Cardinal Sins'' "did for the Catholic Church what ''
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'' did for the mafia". The novel's principal characters were both priests—one a writer-sociologist (like Greeley), and the other a
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who had broken the
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. At the time of the book's release, Chicago's cardinal, John Cody, was the subject of allegations of having diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Church to a mistress. Church officials accused Greeley of using the novel to attack Cardinal Cody, although Greeley denied the charges and told the ''New York Times'' that Cody was "a much better bishop ... and a much better human being" than the character in the novel. ''The Cardinal Sins'' was followed by the
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trilogy: ''Thy Brother's Wife'' (1982), ''Ascent into Hell'' (1983), and '' Lord of the Dance'' (1984). Thereafter, he wrote a minimum of two novels per year, on average. In 1987 alone, he produced four novels and two works of non-fiction. He once said that he wrote an average of 5,000 words per day, and was known to quip, "Why should I practice contraception on my ideas?" The explicit treatment of sexuality in Greeley's novels was a source of controversy for some. The ''National Catholic Register'' said that Greeley had "the dirtiest mind ever ordained". Greeley responded to his critics by saying that "there is nothing wrong with sex" and that "at the most basic level, people learn from the novels that sex is good ... Then they get the notion that sexual love is a sacrament of God's love, that sexual love tells us something about God." He told one interviewer that his erotic writing was not pornography and that it was "less erotic than the ''
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'' in the scriptures". He insisted that from what they heard in confession from women, priests probably knew more about marriage than most married men; and he drew on this knowledge to write a marital advice book he called ''Sexual Intimacy'' (1988). At the height of the Catholic Church
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scandal, Greeley wrote ''The Priestly Sins'' (2004), a novel about a young priest who is exiled to an
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and then to an academic life because he reports abuse that he has witnessed. His book ''The Making of the Pope'' (2005) was intended as a follow-up to his ''The Making of the Popes 1978''. ''The Making of the Pope'' (2005) was a first-hand account of the coalition-building process by which the conservative Cardinal
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. Greeley also dabbled in science fiction, writing the novels ''God Game'' and ''The Final Planet''. Greeley wrote about the spiritual life in his prayer journals "that revealed a man who most of all wanted to love God and let people know that God was a Tremendous Lover who loved them as if He loved them alone and loved everyone as if all of them were one". "Love Affair" (1992) was his first prayer journal, a winner of the Catholic Association book award in the spiritual category, followed by "Sacraments of Love" (1994), "Windows" (1995), "I Hope You're Listening, God" (1997), and "Letters To A Loving God" (2002). The prayer journal was neither a book of prayers nor a book about prayer but rather an experience of praying, to dialogue with God. It is prayer as it happens. He said that writing out prayers on a computer screen for his journals "are the best way to pray I've yet discovered." Thus, paraphrasing a famous quote about him, it might be said he "never had an unpublished prayer". Leach said, "The prayer journals were among his favorite books." Greeley wrote his first major collection of poetry entitled ''The Sense of Love'' (1992), taking his place among the priest poets of the Anglo-Roman tradition, as he examined the love relationship between God and humanity on the levels of eros (sexual), philos (social), and agape (spiritual) (Robert McGovern, foreword, ''The Sense of Love'', 1992, pp. viii-xi).


Politics

Politically, Greeley was an outspoken critic of the
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and the
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, and a strong supporter of immigration reform. His book titled ''A Stupid, Unjust, and Criminal War: Iraq 2001–2007'' (2007) was critical of the rush by the Bush administration to start the Iraq War and the consequences of that war for the United States. Garry Wills wrote, "Andrew Greeley shows that Jesus is the Prince of Peace, not a Captain of War."


Priesthood

Reflecting on his life's work, Greeley told the ''Chicago Tribune'' in 1992, "I'm a priest, pure and simple ... The other things I do — sociological research, my newspaper columns, the novels I write — are just my way of being a priest. I decided I wanted to be one when I was a kid growing up on the West Side. I've never wavered or wanted to be anything but."


Philanthropy

Greeley was probably the best-selling priest in history, with an estimated 250,000 readers who would buy almost every novel he published, probably generating at least $110 million in gross income by 1999. He was able to live comfortably in Chicago's
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, but he donated most of his earnings to the Church and other charities. In 1984, he contributed $1 million to endow a
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in Roman Catholic Studies at the University of Chicago. In 1986, he established a $1 million private educational fund for scholarships and financial support to inner-city schools in the Chicago Archdiocese with a minority student body of more than 50%. He had originally offered the donation to the Archdiocese, but the then Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, had declined the gift without ever publicly offering an explanation. In 2003, the Archdiocese accepted the $420,000 that still remained in the fund to bolster a newly established Catholic Schools Endowment Fund, providing scholarships for low-income students and for raising teachers' salaries in the Archdiocese's schools. Greeley also funded an annual lecture series, "The Church in Society", at
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, Mundelein, Illinois, where he had earned his S.T.L. in 1954. In 2008, he donated several thousand dollars to the 2008 presidential campaign of
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, who was then serving as a U.S. Senator representing Illinois, although Greeley predicted that racism would lead to Obama's defeat.


Injury and death

Greeley suffered skull fractures in a fall in 2008 when his clothing got caught on the door of a taxi as it pulled away; he was hospitalized in critical condition. He remained in poor health for the rest of his life and died on May 29, 2013, at his Chicago home. He was 85.


Honors

Greeley was awarded
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from the
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,
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(New York State) and the
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. In 1981, he received the F. Sadlier Dinger Award, which is presented each year by educational publisher William H. Sadlier, Inc. in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the ministry of religious education in America.


Non-fiction

* ''The Social Effects of Catholic Education ''(1961) * ''Religion and Career: A Study of College Graduates'' (1963) * ''And Young Men Shall See Visions'' (1964) * ''Letters to Nancy'' (1964) * ''The Hesitant Pilgrim: American Catholicism After the Council'' (1966) * ''The Education of Catholic Americans'' (1966) * ''The Catholic Experience: A Sociologist's Interpretation of the History of American Catholicism'' (1967) * ''The Changing Catholic College'' (1967) * ''Uncertain Trumpet: The Priest in Modern America'' (1968) * ''The Crucible of Change: The Social Dynamics of Pastoral Practice'' (1968) * ''What Do We Believe? The Stance of Religion in America'' (1968) * ''The Student in Higher Education'' (1968) * ''From Backwater to Mainstream: A Profile of Catholic Higher Education'' (1969) * ''Religion in the Year 2000'' (1969) * ''A Future to Hope in: Socio-religious Speculations'' (1969) * ''Life for a Wanderer'' (1969) * ''The Friendship Game'' (1970) * ''Recent Alumni and Higher Education: A Survey of College Graduates'' (1970) * ''Can Catholic Schools Survive?'' (1970) * ''Why Can't They Be Like Us?'' (1971) * ''The Jesus Myth'' (1971) * ''American Priests. Chicago: National Opinion Research Center'' (1971) * ''The Denominational Society'' (1972) * ''Unsecular Man'' (1972) * ''Priests in the U.S.: Reflections on a Survey'' (1972) * ''That Most Distressful Nation: The Taming of the American Irish'' (1972) * ''The Catholic Priest in the U.S.: Sociological Investigations'' (1972) * ''Ethnicity in the U.S.: A Preliminary Reconnaissance'' (1974) * Ecstasy: A Way of Knowing (1974) * ''Building Coalitions'' (1974) * ''The Sociology of the Paranormal'' (1975) * ''The Sinai Myth'' (1975) * ''Love and Play'' (1975) * ''The Great Mysteries: An Essential Catechism'' (1976) * ''Ethnicity, Denomination and Inequality'' (1976) * ''The American Catholic: A Social Portrait'' (1977) * ''No Bigger Than Necessary'' (1977) * ''Neighborhood. New York'' (1977) * ''Ugly little secret : anti-Catholicism in North America'' (1977) * ''The Making of the Popes'' (1978) * ''Crisis in the Church: A Study of Religion in America'' (1979) * ''Ethnic Drinking Subcultures'' (1980) * ''The Young Catholic Family'' (1980) * ''The Religious Imagination'' (1981) * ''Young Catholics in the United States and Canada'' (1981) * ''The Irish Americans: The Rise to Money and Power'' (1981) * ''Parish, Priest and People'' (1981) * ''Catholic High Schools and Minority Students'' (1982) * ''The Bottom Line Catechism'' (1982) * ''Religion: A Secular Theory'' (1982) * ''The Catholic Why? Book'' (1983) * ''The Dilemma of American Immigration: Beyond the Golden Door'' (1983) * ''Angry Catholic Women'' (1984) * ''How to Save the Catholic Church'' (1984) * ''American Catholics Since the Council'' (1985) * ''Confessions of a Parish Priest'' (1986) * ''Catholic Contributions: Sociology & Policy'' (1987) * ''An Andrew Greeley Reader: Volume One'' (1987) * ''The Irish Americans: The Rise to Money and Power'' (1988) * ''When Life Hurts: Healing Themes from the Gospels'' (1988) * ''God in Popular Culture'' (1988) * ''Sexual Intimacy: Love and Play'' (1988) * ''Myths of Religion: An inspiring investigation into the nature of God and a journey to the boundaries of faith'' (1989); * ''Religious Change in America'' (1989) * ''The Catholic Myth: The Behavior and Beliefs of American Catholics'' (1990) * ''The Bible and Us'' (1990) * ''Year of Grace: A Spiritual Journal'' (1990) * ''Faithful Attraction: Discovering Intimacy, Love, and Fidelity in American Marriage'' (1991) * ''Love Affair: A Prayer Journal'' (1992) Winner of the Catholic Press Association Book Award in the spiritual category, among his favorites. * ''The Sense of Love'' (1992) * ''Sacraments of Love: A Prayer Journal'' (1994) * ''Windows: A Prayer Journal'' (1995) * ''Sex: The Catholic Experience'' (1995) * ''Religion as Poetry'' (1995) * ''Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings'' (1995) * ''Common Ground'' (1996) * ''Forging a Common Future'' (1997) * ''I Hope You're Listening God: A Prayer Journal'' (1997) * ''Furthermore!'' (1999) * ''The Mysteries of Grace'' * ''The Catholic Imagination'' (2000); * ''Book of Love'' (2002) * ''Letters To A Loving God: A Prayer Journal'' (2002) * ''The Great Mysteries: Experiencing Catholic Faith from the inside Out'' (2003) * ''God in the Movies'' (2003), with Albert J. Bergesen * ''The Catholic Revolution: New Wine, Old Wineskins, and the Second Vatican Council'' (2004); * ''Priests: A Calling in Crisis'' (2004) * ''The Making Of The Pope'' (2005) * ''The Truth about Conservative Christians: What They Think and What They Believe'' (2006) * ''Jesus: A Meditation on His Stories and His Relationships with Women'' (2007) * ''A Stupid, Unjust and Criminal War: Iraq 2001-2007'' (2007) He shows that "Jesus is the Prince of Peace, not a Captain of War." (Garry Wills)


Fiction

* '' The Magic Cup'' (1975) * '' Death in April'' (1980) * '' The Cardinal Sins'' (1981) * '' Thy Brother's Wife'' (1982) * '' Ascent Into Hell'' (1983) * '' Lord of the Dance'' (1984) * '' Virgin and Martyr'' (1985) * '' Angels of September'' (1985) * '' Happy are the Meek'' (1985) * ''
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'' (1986) * '' Happy are the Clean of Heart'' (1986) * '' Patience of a Saint'' (1987) * '' The Final Planet'' (1987) * '' Happy Are Those Who Thirst for Justice'' (1987) * '' Rite of Spring'' (1987) * '' Angel Fire'' (1988) * ''
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'' (1989) * '' St. Valentine's Night'' (1989) * '' Andrew Greeley's Chicago'' (1989) * '' All About Women'' (1989) * '' The Cardinal Virtues'' (1990) * '' The Irish'' (1990) * '' The Search for Maggie Ward'' (1991) * '' An Occasion of Sin'' (1991) * '' Happy Are the Merciful'' (1992) * '' Wages of Sin'' (1992) * '' Happy Are the Peace Makers'' (1993) * '' Fall from Grace'' (1993) * '' Irish Gold'' (1994) (first in the
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of mystery novels) * '' Happy Are the Poor in Spirit'' (1994) * '' Angel Light'' (1995) * '' Happy Are Those Who Mourn'' (1995) * '' White Smoke'' (1996) * '' Happy Are The Oppressed'' (1996) * '' Irish Lace'' (1996) * '' Summer at the Lake'' (1997) * '' Star Bright!'' (1997) * '' The Bishop at Sea'' (1997) * ''
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'' (1998) * '' Contract With an Angel'' (1998) * '' A Midwinter's Tale'' (1998) * '' The Bishop and the Three Kings'' (1998) * '' Irish Mist'' (1999) * '' Younger Than Springtime'' (1999) * '' Irish Eyes'' (2000) * '' The Bishop and the Missing L-Train'' (2000) * '' A Christmas Wedding'' (2000) * '' Irish Love'' (2001) * '' The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain'' (2001) * '' September Song'' (2001) * '' Irish Stew!'' (2002) * '' The Bishop in the West Wing'' (2002) * '' Second Spring'' (2003) * '' The Bishop Goes to the University'' (2003) * '' The Priestly Sins'' (2004) * '' Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy'' (2004) * '' Golden Years'' (2005) * '' The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood'' (2005) * '' Irish Cream'' (2005) * '' The Senator and the Priest'' (2006) * '' Irish Crystal'' (2006) * ''
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'' (2007) * '' The Bishop at the Lake'' (2007) * '' Irish Tiger'' (2008) * '' The Archbishop in Andalusia'' (2008) * '' Irish Tweed'' (2009) * '' Home for Christmas'' (2009)


Other work

Until his brain injury, Greeley's column on political, church and social issues appeared each Friday in the ''
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'' and each Sunday in th
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References


Further reading

* Kotre, John N. ''The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Andrew Greeley and American Catholicism, 1950-1975'' (1978). * * Tentler, Leslie Woodcock. "Greeley, Andrew Moran"


Autobiographical

* Greeley, Andrew M. ''Confessions of a Parish Priest'' (1986) * * Greeley, Andrew M. "On Studying Religion", pp. 197–212 in ''The Craft of Religious Studies'', edited by Jon R. Stone. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. * Greeley, Andrew M. ''Furthermore! Memories of a Parish Priest'' (1999)


External links

* Mario Perniola, On Andrew Greeley


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