It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They werent going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed. – Andrew Greeley
I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion. – Andrew Greeley
Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear? – Andrew Greeley
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement… they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half. – Andrew Greeley