Friday, December 1, 2006

The Limits of Tolerance

Naomi Schaefer Riley in Opinion Journal on an appearance by Father Andrew Greeley in Washington, DC last week. In Q&A from the audience.
The greatest growth in the world-wide Catholic population, she noted, has been coming for some years from new believers in South America and Africa, and the trend shows no signs of abating. What effect would this have on the church?

"We will depend on them for vitality," Father Greeley predicted. "But they will continue to depend on us for the ideas."


Here's the web site of Fr. Greeley, Author, Sociologist It includes a link to an interview in October 2001 with John Callaway of WTTW, Chicago's Public Television station.
Regarding Women

CALLAWAY: Why do you love women so much?

GREELEY: Because they're neat.

In context, Fr. Greeley means Annie Hall neat, not Felix Unger neat. I understand Fr. Greeley has written some really neat novels.

(via Diogenes at Off the Record)

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