Andrew Greeley

Andrew M. Greeley (born February 5, 1928, in Oak Park, Illinois) is a Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, and prolific author.

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February 5 - 1928 - Oak Park, Illinois

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He teaches at the University of Chicago and the University of Arizona.

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University of Chicago - University of Arizona

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His many books include both non-fiction and fiction. He is perhaps best known for his best-selling novels, many of these being love stories, mystery stories, or both, with a theological underpinning. Greeley's major characters tend to be Irish-American Catholics from Chicago, including a mystery-solving clergyman (first priest, then bishop) named Blackie Ryan who appears in many of Greeley's novels. Bishop Ryan, apparently one of Greeley's alter-egos, is sometimes compared, not always favorably, with G. K. Chesterton's Fr. Brown. Ostensibly because of the exent of his writing, some of Greeley's critics have accused him of "never having had an unpublished thought."

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Chicago - G. K. Chesterton - Fr. Brown

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His column on political, church and social issues appears each Sunday in the Daily Southtown, a Chicago newspaper.

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Additional Biographical Source: Andrew M. Greeley. "On Studying Religion." Pp. 197-212 in The Craft of Religious Studies, edited by Jon R. Stone. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

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