Sojourner Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 So I was in my car briefly and caught a snippet of an interview on NPR with Fr. Andrew Greeley. I didn't hear enough to really form an opinion of this guy, but I'm wondering what y'all think of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLAZEr Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 down down way down . . . in fact, so down, I can't even see them anymore . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLAZEr Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 This is from our friends over at Revolution of Love [url="http://revolutionoflove.stblogs.org/archives/013357.html"]http://revolutionoflove.stblogs.org/archives/013357.html[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electricdisk Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 NPR should have been your first clue. Nutcase Propaganda Radio. Way, way, way out in left field of the political spectrum. Should also be known as "Liberal Radio" paid for by taxpayers, disguised as a public service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted April 15, 2004 Author Share Posted April 15, 2004 Thanks for the heads up ... You're right that NPR usually doesn't do that great a job with anything remotely religious, but I do enjoy some of their programming and listen occasionally. So anyway, thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcePrincessKRS Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 Yeah, thumbs way down.... aside from the article Blazer provided, doesn't Andrew Greeley write icky "romance" novels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
friarMatt Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 they have said that his is the dirtiest mind ever ordained, as a priest and a theologian i will leave it to god to judge, though IMHO he is rather liberal and wishywashy....he is a very good sociologist...his work is insightful...jsut my two cents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traichuoi Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 i've met him and heard a lecture from him...THUMBS DOWN! he called the Eucharist a wafer...i hate when the Eucharist is called a wafer or cracker...ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i think he believes in liberation theology too...no orthodox priest likes him... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PedroX Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 Fr. Greeley styles himself as a novelist and sociologist. He is currently dismayed because his most recent survey showed that younger priests are more conservative than older ones. According to him this is worriesome because it shows that the Church is headed in the wrong direction. His romance novels are icky, and his general interest novels are a little like reading a Thomas Kincaide painting...pretty colors, but no style. Now, he has written several detective novels that are pretty good, if you can stomach the questionable theology. NPR is unfortunatley highly suspect on all matters religious, but is pretty decent otherwise. peace... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iacobus Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 [quote name='electricdisk' date='Apr 15 2004, 12:37 PM'] NPR should have been your first clue. Nutcase Propaganda Radio. Way, way, way out in left field of the political spectrum. Should also be known as "Liberal Radio" paid for by taxpayers, disguised as a public service. [/quote] FYI NPR gets NO tax money at all. It is a privite company and recives no help from the goverment at all. They tend to bash or maginlize religious issues but have really good coverage of most other aspects of the news. Is it a point of view problem? If the media we see is right leaning (FOX!) than when we see something centerist or slightly left does it become, from our exprince, far left? Fr. Greeley, I have only read his scological works and not his fiction. So I won't comment on his fiction but his social studies of Catholics and others have been very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLAZEr Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 Ummm, Iacobus, you are wrong. National Public Radio does in fact get tax money, as well as non-profit status. You can tell it get's tax money because much of its programming states 'Brought to you by a grant from . . . " and much of it is Federal Funding from the Endowment for the Arts. Not only that, but NPR doesn't pay licensing fees. Your info on NPR not receiving tax money is just plain wrong. On the side note, Fr. Greeley does have some excellent sociological studies. But they do not escape his slanted leftist perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iacobus Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 Well maybe they do. I never really conneted that with tax money, probly becuase it is indirect. But it is still far from being 100% tax paid for or goverement run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_rev Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 I have one of his books, "Confessions of a Parish Priest" Completely boring! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 NPR is a funded by the taxpayer. It is liberal and anti-catholic. His novels can be described as close to soft porn. They always trash the Church. Why the man is still a catholic priest is beyond my understanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_rev Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 He went to Mundelien seminary correct? He's a priest in Minnesota correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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