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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date
March 7, 2004
Pages
225
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780226306445
ISBN-10
0226306445
Dimensions
0.75 by 6 by 8.75 in.
Weight
0.75 lbs.
Original list price
$21.00
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
The best-selling novelist and author of Confessions of a Parish Priest and The Catholic Imagination challenges analysts and the media on images of a deprived, immature and frustrated priesthood, and offers a portrait of the priesthood today based on real problems and solutions.
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For several years now, the Roman Catholic Church and the institution of the priesthood itself have been at the center of a firestorm of controversy. While many of the criticisms lodged against the recent actions of the Churchâand a small number of its priestsâare justified, the majority of these criticisms are not. Hyperbolic and misleading coverage of recent scandals has created a public image of American priests that bears little relation to reality, and Andrew Greeley's Priests skewers this image with a systematic inside look at American priests today.
No stranger to controversy himself, Greeley here challenges those analysts and the media who parrot them in placing the blame for recent Church scandals on the mandate of celibacy or a clerical culture that supports homosexuality. Drawing upon reliable national survey samples of priests, Greeley demolishes current stereotypes about the percentage of homosexual priests, the level of personal and professional happiness among priests, the role of celibacy in their lives, and many other issues. His findings are more than surprising: they reveal, among other things, that priests report higher levels of personal and professional satisfaction than doctors, lawyers, or faculty members; that they would overwhelmingly choose to become priests again; and that younger priests are far more conservative than their older brethren.
While the picture Greeley paints should radically reorient the public perception of priests, he does not hesitate to criticize the Church's significant shortcomings. Most priests, for example, do not think the sexual abuse problems are serious, and they do not think that poor preaching or liturgy is a problem, though the laity give them very low marks on their ministerial skills. Priests do not listen to the laity, bishops do not listen to priests, and the Vatican does not listen to any of them. With Greeley's statistical evidence and provocative recommendations for changeâincluding a national "Priest Corps" that would offer young men a limited term of service in the ChurchâPriests offers a new vision for American Catholics, one based on real problems and solutions rather than on images of a depraved, immature, and frustrated priesthood.
No stranger to controversy himself, Greeley here challenges those analysts and the media who parrot them in placing the blame for recent Church scandals on the mandate of celibacy or a clerical culture that supports homosexuality. Drawing upon reliable national survey samples of priests, Greeley demolishes current stereotypes about the percentage of homosexual priests, the level of personal and professional happiness among priests, the role of celibacy in their lives, and many other issues. His findings are more than surprising: they reveal, among other things, that priests report higher levels of personal and professional satisfaction than doctors, lawyers, or faculty members; that they would overwhelmingly choose to become priests again; and that younger priests are far more conservative than their older brethren.
While the picture Greeley paints should radically reorient the public perception of priests, he does not hesitate to criticize the Church's significant shortcomings. Most priests, for example, do not think the sexual abuse problems are serious, and they do not think that poor preaching or liturgy is a problem, though the laity give them very low marks on their ministerial skills. Priests do not listen to the laity, bishops do not listen to priests, and the Vatican does not listen to any of them. With Greeley's statistical evidence and provocative recommendations for changeâincluding a national "Priest Corps" that would offer young men a limited term of service in the ChurchâPriests offers a new vision for American Catholics, one based on real problems and solutions rather than on images of a depraved, immature, and frustrated priesthood.
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from Univ of Chicago Pr (March 7, 2004)
9780226306445 | details & prices | 225 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $21.00
About: The best-selling novelist and author of Confessions of a Parish Priest and The Catholic Imagination challenges analysts and the media on images of a deprived, immature and frustrated priesthood, and offers a portrait of the priesthood today based on real problems and solutions.
About: The best-selling novelist and author of Confessions of a Parish Priest and The Catholic Imagination challenges analysts and the media on images of a deprived, immature and frustrated priesthood, and offers a portrait of the priesthood today based on real problems and solutions.
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from Univ of Chicago Pr (May 2, 2005)
9780226306452 | details & prices | 156 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $12.00
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