[Magdalen] Piazza Martin Lutero.

[Roger Stokes]

On 25/08/2015 06:14, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> On 8/24/15 11:32 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
>> And then there's Andy Greeley, God be good to him. I'm sure he 
>> approved of
>> some of Luther's work. Paul Moore said he was sure Greeley was 
>> actually an
>> Episcopalian. I would LOVE to have had a chance to hear what Greeley 
>> would
>> have said about that.  I wrote to him once, and got a thoughtful 
>> reply. The
>> poor apparatchiks in the RCC had no clue what to do with Andy. Maybe 
>> it's
>> not such a bad thing; his books are some of the best spiritual 
>> writing I've
>> ever read.
>
> When we had our OC Convention at Techny, at the former Seminary, now a 
> Convention Center, one of the people who worked there, an old Chicago 
> Catholic, told me just in conversation that she'd heard that he wanted 
> to be a parish priest, and he'd been offered a parish in Chicago on 
> the condition that he stop writing books. As we know, he didn't stop 
> writing until he was in no shape to write, and at that point he wasn't 
> in shape to wrestle a parish, either.  Of course, the story may be 
> apocryphal.

I can believe that.  Of course through his novels he reached far more 
people than he could have done in a parish.  There is also the third 
string to his bow, that of sociologist.  Some of his research findings 
probably weren't too popular in the RC hierarchy either.

Roger