Fr Andrew Greeley has the Goods on the Monsters

Someone once said, "even a novel by Andrew Greeley is worth 25 cents", but few of us may have considered the possibillity that he would win the chagrin of his liberal confreres. Unfortunately, liberal though he is, Father Greeley knows who the abusers, not just the abusees, but he's not telling anything. Isn't that irresponsible, cowardly, dishonest or does it also shine a light on the true nature of this issue that those who run the presses are unwilling to discuss?

It's not so terribly hard to surmise. The indictment doesn't just ring against the Church, but against the entire society. Either enforce the existing laws and root these monsters out where they are and stop protecting them or not.

By Matt C. Abbott

As Father Andrew Greeley continues to recover from a serious head injury suffered earlier this month, I thought I'd feature images from two of his (out-of-print) non-fiction books — Confessions of a Parish Priest (paperback edition), from 1986 and 1987; and Furthermore! Memories of a Parish Priest, from 1999 and 2000.

Interestingly, in Confessions (page 131), Father Greeley made some rather keen observations about a certain segment of the clergy — observations that proved all too accurate a decade-and-a-half later.

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