Greeley, Andrew (1928—)
A self-described "faintly comic Celtic Lancelot" and "perennial dissident priest," Catholic priest, sociologist, and writer Andrew Greeley ha...
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An American Catholic priest, Andrew M. Greeley (born 1928) wrote sociological studies of American religion and of ethnicity, popular presentations of the Catholic faith, and a number of novels.Andrew ...
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An American Catholic priest, Andrew M. Greeley (born 1928) wrote sociological studies of American religion and of ethnicity, popular presentations of the Catholic faith, and a number of novels. Andrew...
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Critical Essay by Robert M. Brooks
In this impressive study of the influence of religion upon the career and graduate school plans of the nation's college graduates of June, 1961 [Religion and ...
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Critical Essay by Choice
[In An Ugly Little Secret] Greeley has drawn upon decades of work in the sociological study of ethnics and Catholicism to present his interpretation of why anti-Catholic nativ...
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Critical Essay by Raymond A. Schroth, S.j.
["The Making of the Popes 1978" is Father Andrew Greeley's first venture] into the New Journalism.
His model, he says, is Theodore H. Wh...
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Critical Essay by Garry Wills
[In The Making of the Popes 1978 Greeley] rambles, tells bad jokes, blows his own horn, indulges in guess and gossip. He pretends to know what he obviously doesn't...
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Critical Essay by George W. Cornell
[The Making of the Popes 1978 is] a fascinating chronicle, marvelously candid, rippling with pointed anecdotes, revealing conversations, rumors and rivalries, the s...
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Critical Essay by Thomas P. Faase
With [Crisis in the Church: A Study of Religion in America], Greeley fulfilled his commission from the American Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Evangelization, to...
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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
Flying from his expatriate digs in Paris, famous novelist Jimmy O'Neill lands in his home city, Chicago, and literally bumps into Lynnie, the love of his you...
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Critical Essay by Hugh M. Crane
Novelists usually describe the Church's impact on childhood to explain the importance of adult faith. [In The Cardinal Sins] Father Greeley sins by omission, the...
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Critical Essay by Webster Schott
[In "Thy Brother's Wife"] Greeley proposes to show us how an American Catholic bishop … can love his brother's wife for most of a li...
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Critical Essay by Frank Mcconnell
[In] The Cardinal Sins and now Thy Brother's Wife, the politics is as corrupt, the priests as troubled, the sex as overwritten, and the malarkey as uncut as yo...
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Critical Essay by Mayo Mohs
The Cardinal Sins shocked many with its tortured, bisexual archbishop, whose encounters with women are invariably brutal. Thy Brother's Wife … is in fact a be...
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Critical Essay by Michael Morrison
The multi-talented Fr. Andrew Greeley has turned his energies to the interpretation of American Catholic history. In [The Catholic Experience] he gives a series of i...
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Critical Essay by People Weekly
[In Ascent Into Hell a] handsome Irish-American lad in Chicago is promised to the priesthood at birth as his mother's life hangs in the balance. When he grows up...
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Critical Essay by John B. Breslin
A decade ago in a capsule review of an early foray by Andrew Greeley into sexology, it was suggested that the prolific priest-sociologist had advanced from having no ...
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Critical Essay by John Guinn
Andrew Greeley is a priest-sociologist who often tangles with the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Since most of the worthwhile priests I have encountered tangle with the hierarc...
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Critical Essay by Naomi Bliven
["Why Can't They Be Like Us? America's White Ethnic Groups"] is a short, intelligent work that its author, Andrew M. Greeley …, announ...
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Critical Essay by Raymond A. Schroth
Frankly, I would like to suggest, knowing that Fr. Greeley's other great work cannot be diminished by my criticism, that [The Jesus Myth] need not have been...
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Critical Essay by Thomas H. Clancy
The Irish, according to George Bernard Shaw (himself a Gael), have only enough sex life to perpetuate their cantankerous species. Fr. Andrew Greeley's fleshin...
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Critical Essay by William L. O'neill
[That Most Distressful Nation: The Taming of the American Irish] will come as a great relief to Irish-Americans (hereinafter known as the Irish), intellectu...
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Critical Essay by Peter L. Berger
Andrew Greeley possesses what is probably the sharpest tongue in American sociology…. [He] has for several years been busy sending out books and articles, most...
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Critical Essay by Alan L. Mintz
In Unsecular Man and in an earlier volume, What Do We Believe?, [Greeley] demonstrates that in the past twenty years there have been very few changes in the high degree...
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Critical Essay by James Hitchcock
It is a compliment to a book to say that it should have been longer, which is my main criticism of Father Greeley's [An Ugly Little Secret: Anti-Catholicism in...
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Greeley, Andrew (1928—)
Andrew M. Greeley
Andrew M. Greeley
