Word: greeley
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Seniors Neil Hurley and Jim Reynolds have been named as the recipients of the two post-season football awards, the William Paine LaCroix Trophy and the Frederick Greeley Crocker Award...
...Cover: Painted wax sculpture by Harry Jackson. A Chicagoan, Jackson, 45, followed Horace Greeley's advice not once but many times. At the age of 14, he ran away from home to seek his fortune in a romantic place called Cody, Wyoming. There he learned the hard realities of a cowpoke's life until World War II and service in the U.S. Marines (Purple Heart at Tarawa). After the war and art studies in Europe, he headed West again, where he still spends part of each year on a ranch near Lost Cabin, Wyo. His brilliant paintings...
...predicts the Rev. Andrew M. Greeley, a sociologist on the staff of the National Opinion Research Center. Father Greeley is one of the shrewdest observers of U.S. Catholic life. A book which he coauthored, The Education of Cat olic Americans (1966), is the most comprehensive study of the nation's parochial-school system. In Overview, a monthly newsletter published by the St. Thomas More Association of Chicago, he now argues that six "almost irreversible" trends will dominate American Catholicism during the next decade...
...Tension between priests and bishops will also grow. Greeley believes that "the present very moderate and sensible leadership of the priest organizations will be replaced by a much more radical leadership and that confrontations between bishops and clergy will be more frequent and more severe. In many parts of the country the bishops will find themselves isolated from their priests and people...
...Greeley foresees no mass defection of Catholics in the next decade, but he concludes that the longer-range picture for the organized church is clouded at best. "With the elite siphoned off into the underground, with a declining clergy and vanishing institutions, with no respect for the teaching of the leadership, with the hierarchy and people isolated from one another, American Catholicism by the end of the 1970s might well have begun the journey down the long road previously traveled by the Church in France, Italy and other European countries...