You’re a Catholic in Italy when you’re born, it’s unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.
Andrew Greeley Quotes
In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.
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| Birth: | 5th February, 1928 |
| Death: | 29th May, 2013 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Journalist, Novelist, Priest, Professor, Sociologist |
About
Andrew M. Greeley was born into a large Irish Catholic family in Oak Park, Illinois. He was an Irish-American Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and popular novelist. Father Greeley was a Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona and the University of Chicago, and a Research Associate with the National Opinion Research Center For many years, he wrote a weekly column for the Chicago Sun-Times and contributed regularly to The New York Times, the National Catholic Reporter, America, and Commonweal.
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