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Article: Still telling stories of sin, sex and redemption.(Catholic author Andrew Greeley)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- March 19, 1999
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Despite scorn from Catholic elites, Greeley says readers understand
Fr. Andrew Greeley's beef with the intelligentsia of the American Catholic church boils down to this: They still don't get it.
After 20-plus years of writing novels, after selling approximately 20 million books -- making him arguably the best-selling priest/novelist in the history of the planet -- Greeley believes his fiction still hasn't gotten a fair day in court from what he once called the "murmurantes," the church's chattering classes.
That's except for one -- many would say surprising -- prelate who had more than a few nice things to say about Greeley in an interview with ...