"The seminaries must face the fact that they……" — Andrew Greeley
"The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work and that some element of creativity should be required as a condition for ordination."
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Andrew Greeley
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46 Quotes by Andrew Greeley
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We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.
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Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of…
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Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.
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My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.
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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more…
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We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the…
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I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major…
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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…
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An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so…
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I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with…
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I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write…
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The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.
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There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only…
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The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the…
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By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.
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