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Article: Stories are Fr. Quixote's bread and wine. (author Father Andrew M. Greeley) (Interview)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- May 28, 1993
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Andrew Greeley, novelist, is a whiskey priest. So what if he doesn't write like Graham Greene. If the old man had lived long enough, he would have put Greeley in a novel called The Power and the Story. It's about a priest addicted not to what his all-too Irish-American characters would call the "Creature," but to God stories, "comedies of grace," as he calls them, something of an ecclesial reprobate, this fellow, but a priest nonetheless, first and always.
That may be the most remarkable thing about this remarkable man. At a time when the church sometimes appear like a mossy rubble on a moor, abandoned by so many of her priests and nuns, Greeley the reluctant ...