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Summary: With all due respect...?
Review: On reading this book -- as part of my exploration of modern Catholicism -- I was thankful that it was chock FULL of the "nonsense" I have come to expect from the good Father. Chock full of his insight into the "why" of modern Catholicism. Chock full of his refusal to pander to the status quo just because "we've always done things that way." Chock full of his obvious and joyful love for God, Jesus, and his fellow Catholics around the world...these are the things he has stood for throughout his long and colourful career. I'd have been disappointed if they were absent from this, his exciting and moving memoir. After finishing this book, my only wish is that this isn't the end of Father Greeley's long career of theological troublemaking. In the traditional Jewish expression, "biz a hundert und tzvantzig yohrn" -- [may he live to] "a hundred and twenty years!"
Rating:
Summary: With all due respect...?
Review: On reading this book -- as part of my exploration of modern Catholicism -- I was thankful that it was chock FULL of the "nonsense" I have come to expect from the good Father. Chock full of his insight into the "why" of modern Catholicism. Chock full of his refusal to pander to the status quo just because "we've always done things that way." Chock full of his obvious and joyful love for God, Jesus, and his fellow Catholics around the world...these are the things he has stood for throughout his long and colourful career. I'd have been disappointed if they were absent from this, his exciting and moving memoir. After finishing this book, my only wish is that this isn't the end of Father Greeley's long career of theological troublemaking. In the traditional Jewish expression, "biz a hundert und tzvantzig yohrn" -- [may he live to] "a hundred and twenty years!"
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Summary: Fr. Greeley's best book to date.
Review: Very pleasant reading. This autobiography is devoid of the nonsense usually associated with Fr. Greeley. It presents his academic prowess and lively Irish intellect in their natural perspective. I'm at odds with some of his liberal theology, but have to say that he's a very honest man who obviously loves his priestly vocation. More power to him in his hazardous fight against pedophile priests and religious and the hierarchy that conceals them. Fr. Greeley's courageous efforts to eradicate these vile predators are what turned diocesan authorities and the institutional Church against him.
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