[Magdalen] Piazza Martin Lutero.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I think he talks about it in _Confessions of a Parish Priest_, which is
autobiographical.

He loved a parish he was at named Christ the King, and he answers an
imaginary interview question

"Would you do it [stop writing] for Christ the King?"

"No.  But I'd be tempted."

I had identified one passage that to me summed up the best comment of God,
and he said in an interview that he thinks this passage is one of his best.
He believed that the Spirit spoke through him, and it did in this case, I
believe.

https://books.google.com/books?id=eIVuWhp-GRcC&lpg=PP1&dq=cardinal%20sins&pg=PA287#v=onepage&q=cardinal%20sins&f=false

or, the tinyurl:
http://tinyurl.com/q3xc45v



James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> 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.
>
>
>> Get a copy of his delightful short stories in the volume entitled _All
>> About Women_.
>>
>
> Love the one about Mrs. Mary Carpenter and the Bishop.
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>