Andrew M. Greeley, a Roman Catholic priest and a prolific writer whose outpouring of sociological research, contemporary theology, controversial novels and no-holds-barred newspaper columns regularly challenged reigning assumptions about American Catholicism, was found dead on his Thursday at his home in Chicago. He was 85. ...
Father Greeley was exuberantly combative. He could be scathing about the nation's Roman Catholic bishops; at one point he described them as "morally, intellectually and religiously bankrupt" and called for the retirement of "a considerable number of mitered birdbrains" if the church wanted "to salvage American Catholicism."
But he could be equally critical of secular intellectuals, whom he accused of being prejudiced against religion, and reform-minded Catholics, who he said had a weakness for political or cultural fads. ...
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