May 1, 2019
I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.
Andrew Greeley
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I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.
Andrew Greeley
The most obvious and powerful evidence of the goodness of erotic desire is the presence in Scripture of the Song of Songs.
Andrew Greeley, The Catholic Imagination.
Like the beloved in the Song of Songs, God leaves all kinds of hints of Her presence, but slips away just at the moment we think we might have caught a glimpse of Her. At the same time, like the lover in the Song of Songs, God flits around the garden and peers in the latticework, hoping to catch sight of His beloved in all her naked beauty.
Andrew Greeley, The Catholic Imagination.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them. --Andrew Greeley
I recently bought this gem. It was first published in 1989. Apparently Ben Bova was a reincarnation of Nostradamus. A version of the Internet did exist in 1989 (I was using it at university), but it would be a number of years before what's described on the back cover started to become real.
The 1986 novel God Game by Andrew Greeley was also pretty prescient when it came to predicting online communities and roleplaying systems like Second Life:
The Catholic imagination at its best senses that God is, to use Richard Wilber's phrase, the "Cheshire smile which sets us fearfully free."
Andrew Greeley, The Catholic Imagination
Non-Catholic Ndanga Lambaste Catholic Priests' Celibacy, Says It's Abominable in the Bible for a Man Not to Marry!
Non-Catholic Ndanga Lambaste Catholic Priests’ Celibacy, Says It’s Abominable in the Bible for a Man Not to Marry!
Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) President Johannes Ndanga reportedly called upon Catholic priests to get married saying God only consider married people as holy.
The much-cherished and sometimes loathed Ndanga told 263Chat that priests should get married so that they receive blessings from God.
“A Catholic priest seeks to bless a marriage when he himself does not believe in…
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