Best-selling novelist and Chicago Sun-Times columnist Father Andrew Greeley has passed away. He was 85. Father Andrew M. Greeley, a prolific priest, sociologist and long-time NBC analyst, wrote more than 60 novels, including international mystery thrillers that were translated into 12 languages. In a statement, his family said their lives “have been tremendously enriched by [...]

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Greeley was an inveterate jokester. He said he would have loved to join my wife and me in our North Shore Pun Club, but it was too far north. I invited him when he mockingly called himself “an Eminence Grease.” Here, he joked, was the doorway to Heaven. The backdoor, anyway.(Art Shay) (Legendary Chicago-based photographer [...]

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To the editor: In the history of the modern church, there has never been a more maligned priest than Father Andrew M. Greeley, who passed away May 29. He was condemned as a reactionary liberal, but he was a sound visionary and warned about church failings. He was the first to sound the alarm about [...]

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