For the past three decades, Andrew Greeley, priest, sociologist, and bestselling author, has researched the behavior and beliefs of American Catholics. Here he translates his works into hard data as he describes "the fascinating, wonderful, and slightly daffy story of American Catholicism since the end of the Second Vatican Council. " A powerful argument, this survey dispels many myths, ans gives new meaning to the word "Catholic."

The Catholic Myth: The Behavior and Beliefs of American Catholics

GREELEY, ANDREW M.

Religion & Spirituality

Scribner

Religion, a Secular Theory

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Free Pr

Religion: A Secular Theory

Free Press

This book is a collection of readings about sociology and religion.

Sociology of Religion: A Collection of Readings

Harpercollins College Div

A Quest for the Holy GrailIn this novel of legendary Ireland, Andrew Greeley takes you back into a long-ago time of mists and magic, faith and love. Here you will meet Cormac MacDermot, the young king destined to lead Ireland out of paganism to Christianity; his aged father, now on the throne, and the seductive witch-queen who holds the country in thrall. Here also is the lovely slave girl Brigid. As light-footed as an Irish pixie, she will help Cormac seek the magic cup that will confirm his right to be High King of Ireland.Over mountain and river they will journey, beset by perils. But when their enemies capture Brigid, and Cormac strives to save her, he will see that the little slave girl is a great deal more than she seems.

The magic cup: An Irish legend

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

McGraw=Hill

Death in April

While on a stopover in Chicago, James O'Neill encounters Lynnie Slattery, his first love, and becomes enmeshed in political intrigue when he learns that she is about to be victimized by an ambitious public prosecutor

Literature & Fiction

United States

God Game

Arrow Books

One dogeared corner, small amount of shelf wear, the rest of the book is very good condition. Paperback.

Ecstasy;: A way of knowing (A Spectrum book)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

PRENTICE/HALL

Education of Catholic Americans (Norc Monographs in Social Research Ser. : No.6)

Rossi, Peter H.

Religious Studies

Natl Opinion Research Center

For several years now, the Roman Catholic Church and the institution of the priesthood itself have been at the center of a firestorm of controversy. While many of the criticisms lodged against the recent actions of the Church—and a small number of its priests—are justified, the majority of these criticisms are not. Hyperbolic and misleading coverage of recent scandals has created a public image of American priests that bears little relation to reality, and Andrew Greeley's Priests skewers this image with a systematic inside look at American priests today. No stranger to controversy himself, Greeley here challenges those analysts and the media who parrot them in placing the blame for recent Church scandals on the mandate of celibacy or a clerical culture that supports homosexuality. Drawing upon reliable national survey samples of priests, Greeley demolishes current stereotypes about the percentage of homosexual priests, the level of personal and professional happiness among priests, the role of celibacy in their lives, and many other issues. His findings are more than surprising: they reveal, among other things, that priests report higher levels of personal and professional satisfaction than doctors, lawyers, or faculty members; that they would overwhelmingly choose to become priests again; and that younger priests are far more conservative than their older brethren. While the picture Greeley paints should radically reorient the public perception of priests, he does not hesitate to criticize the Church's significant shortcomings. Most priests, for example, do not think the sexual abuse problems are serious, and they do not think that poor preaching or liturgy is a problem, though the laity give them very low marks on their ministerial skills. Priests do not listen to the laity, bishops do not listen to priests, and the Vatican does not listen to any of them. With Greeley's statistical evidence and provocative recommendations for change—including a national "Priest Corps" that would offer young men a limited term of service in the Church—Priests offers a new vision for American Catholics, one based on real problems and solutions rather than on images of a depraved, immature, and frustrated priesthood.

Priests: A Calling in Crisis

History

World

University of Chicago Press

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