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If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.

~Andrew Greeley

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Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?

~Andrew Greeley

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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

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As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.

~Andrew Greeley

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I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.

~Andrew Greeley

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I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

~Andrew Greeley

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I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

~Andrew Greeley

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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.

~Andrew Greeley

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Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

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It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.

~Andrew Greeley

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: February 5th, 1928

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