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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.

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This is from our friends over at Revolution of Love

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electricdisk

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.

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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.

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IcePrincessKRS

Yeah, thumbs way down.... aside from the article Blazer provided, doesn't Andrew Greeley write icky "romance" novels?

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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

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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...

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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...

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[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.

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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.

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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.

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cmotherofpirl

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.

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