How To Save The Catholic Church
GREELEY, ANDREW
Excerpts from HOW TO SAVE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH by Greeley and Ducken:
“The foes of the Church no longer knew where to shoot for the once immovable target kept moving.
“Peter Rossi said, `I left the Church when I was 12. At 42, I woke up and discovered I was a Catholic again. I didn’t change, but they modified the boundaries without warning me.’
“A sacrament is a created reality that discloses to us the Uncreated Reality.
“Cardinal Casoria, who may be the biggest damn fool to sit in a key position in the Roman Catholic Curia, saaid, `Dance might remind the people, of love.’
“The pagan goddess Brigid was replaced by Christian St. Brigid and assigned the same shrine at Kildare with the same responsibilities – spring, poetry, new life, storytelling.
“That pagan custom were baptized and made Christian. . . is without question.”
RELIGIOUS PERIODICALS From CHRISTIAN CENTURY, 10/7/87. “Andrew Greeley and associates at National Opinion Research Center, ‘Humanae Vitae (1968) seems to have been the reason for massive apostasy and for a notable decline in religious devotion and belief.'”
SECULAR PERIODICALS From Greenville, SC NEWS, 1/28/89. Greeley, “I suppose the elitists will ridicule the idea of finding God in science fiction, mystery stories, pop singers and comic strips. That’s their problem, not mine. But God lurks everywhere.” He described Bill Cosby as an evangelist, the most influential religion teacher in America. Woody Allen is “the most explicitely theological filmmaker in America today.” Madonna’s hit song “Like a Virgin” describes “the timeless cry of the human heart for renewal.” Bruce Springsteen, whose rock music is “deeply religious” is “a major religious prophet.” His “Tunnel of Love” album may be “more important” than a papal visit. (Copied from WHAT IN THE WORLD, BJU,Vol. 5, No. 8)