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www.suntimes.com Back to regular viewhttp://www.suntimes.com/output/greeley/cst-edt-greel21.html Zero tolerance also should apply to bishops June 21, 2002BY ANDREW GREELEY American Catholics are not likely to be convinced that the reforms the bishops voted for in Dallas last week mean anything unless there are resignations in the hierarchy. Surveys by both Gallup and the Wall Street Journal indicate that Catholics want the pope to remove bishops who have reassigned pedophile priests to parish work. The position is logical: If there is to be zero tolerance for offending priests, then there should be zero tolerance for offending bishops. There apparently weren't enough votes for...

Criticism of pope no cause to quit church August 16, 2002 BY ANDREW GREELEY Why are you still a Catholic, many people demanded of Northwestern University Professor Garry Wills after the publication in 2000 of his controversial best-seller Papal Sin. If you don't like the Catholic Church, why don't you leave, asked reviewers, pious Catholics and pious secularists alike. In his new book Why I Am a Catholic, Wills responds. In effect, he says that, like many of the rest of us, he likes being a Catholic and has no intention of leaving. That the reviewers refuse to understand what...

After the Bay of Pigs disaster when the CIA tried to invade Cuba, President John F. Kennedy took personal responsibility and ordered an independent investigation. In fact, the invasion had been planned during the Eisenhower administration, and JFK could easily have blamed the mess on his predecessor. After the Pearl Harbor attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established an investigative commission chaired by Supreme Court Justice Owen D. Roberts, a Republican who had been the prosecutor for the notorious Teapot Dome scandal. Patently, President Bush is not going to assume responsibility for the World Trade Center catastrophe. His political allies blame...

Fr. Andrew Greeley continues to chastise the Catholic Church for its handling of the clergy sex abuse scandal. The soft-porn novel-writing priest has always been part of the solution, you see. Not that he doesn't have some valid points. After all, no reasonable Catholic can deny that certain bishops have been, at the very least, grossly negligent in their duties. And this doesn't even take into account the widespread dissent and lack of orthodoxy in the American church. But, alas, Greeley is a liberal. He's quick to point out the "hypocrisy" of the "right-wing" whenever it makes an assertion, whether...

The priests in Wisconsin who recently voted for a married priesthood to respond to the shortage of priests won for themselves what our Protestant brothers and sisters would call cheap grace. They did something that addressed a serious problem, which made them feel good, and earned for them a lot of public attention. Hence they earned ''grace.'' However, it accomplished nothing, and required no effort. Hence it was ''cheap grace'' -- grace that was easy to earn but had no impact on anything or anybody. I wonder how many of the priests really thought that the Roman Curia, which is...

HOME | ABOUT US | PRESS | EVENTS | PEOPLE | ISSUES | NEWSLETTER | CONTACT US | SEARCH The Apostasy of Andrew Greeley 3/7/2004 10:40:00 PM By Joseph Wemhoff In the March 5, 2004, issue of The Chicago Sun-Times, Andrew Greeley attacks Mel Gibson personally and Gibson’s movie, The Passion of the Christ. The real objects of Greeley’s attacks are the Catholic Faith and Holy Scripture. Greeley rejects as a “metaphor” Mel Gibson’s clear presentation of the idea contained in Article 457 of The Catechism of the Catholic Church (quoting I John 4:10): “The Word became flesh for...

This was a worthy thread. --aragona

Few are swayed by a candidate's pro-choice policy. "Will Catholics vote against Gov. Carter, Mr. Mayor, because of his abortion stand?" The mayor of Chicago stared at the reporter with the bemused frown he reserved for silly questions. "They don't vote that way." Twenty-eight years later, they still don't vote that way. Nevertheless, in the run-up to the last seven presidential elections, experts on both sides have predicted that the "Catholic anti-abortion" vote would cause trouble for the Democrats, especially given the drift of Catholics from Democratic alignment. Both these "theories" — a Catholic anti-abortion vote and a Catholic realignment...