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Article: Greeley aims at the wrong target. (Editorials).(Fr. Andrew M. Greeley)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- February 21, 2003
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Fr. Andrew M. Greeley has enlivened and enriched the U.S. Catholic experience with cutting edge sociology and a spate of novels. His novels, though hardly high literature, can provide an unblinking look at the often hidden warts of the institutional church; his sociology has frequently cut to the quick.
His recent blast at reporting being done about the priest sex abuse scandal, however, came off as just one more shrill call to shoot the messenger. This in the face of mounting evidence that the Catholic church in the United States has suffered a system-wide failure of its pastors to care for some of its most vulnerable members. Greeley's attack on the media came ...