Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.
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If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.Andrew Greeley
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Andrew Greeley
The storyteller is like God, the storyteller creates these characters. Falls in love with them, and then they won't act right.
Andrew Greeley
The Catholic imagination is metaphorical or sacramental. It sees God as present in the world. The Protestant imagination, the dialectical imagination, wants to preserve God from the possibility of idolatry by identifying with His creatures. Catholicism has no problem with that.
Andrew Greeley
Thirty years ago, before the Vatican Council, Catholics didn't know what liturgy was.
Andrew Greeley
I was never a teenager. I became a teenager in Christ the King and I never grew out of it. More seriously... as I'm always serious as you know, there weren't teenagers in the late 1930s and early 1940s. There were adolescents. But by the time I was ordained and was dumped into Beverly, there were teenagers.
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