Word: greeley
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Many Catholics believe the time has come for the hierarchy to consider ordaining married men, or perhaps even women. As the synod was concluding, an Italian newsmagazine poll reported that 53% of the country's Catholics favor a married priesthood. In the U.S., priest-sociologist Andrew Greeley, himself no opponent of celibacy, claims that a change in the requirement "would probably lead to the ordination of 1,500 more priests a year...
...Lillian Greeley, who was a leading proponent ofthe ban on Mt. Auburn St., said she could havesucceeded in having performances there banned too,if residents in her neighborhood had been betterorganized. While Stallone had presented a petitionsigned by 1078 people on behalf of performers,Greeley said, "I know we could get 1000 signatureshere...
...poll's findings will appear in Psychology Today's March issue, along with an analysis written by the magazine's editor in chief, T. George Harris, and the orchestrator of the survey, Father Andrew Greeley. Greeley, a professor of sociology at the University of Arizona, is probably best known as what Spy magazine might call an un-bosomy dirty-book writer; his lust-strewn pop novels (The Cardinal Sins; St. Valentine's Night) regularly make the best- seller charts. Considering the widespread publicity given to marital cheating, Greeley admits that the survey results were "something of a surprise." "People...
Harris and Greeley argue that the nation may be experiencing a negative backlash to the sexual revolution. They note, for example, that 51% of women under 35 regretted having had a premarital sexual encounter (though only 16% of men felt that way). Meanwhile, according to another poll, the percentage of Americans who disapproved of extramarital sex rose from...
...director of the Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Ind.: "We estimate that approximately 37% of married men and 29% of married women have at least one extramarital affair." A survey conducted by Lillian Rubin, a sociologist at Queens College in New York City, shows a 40% infidelity rate for spouses. Greeley and Harris have two explanations for the disparity between their poll's results and the conventional wisdom: 1) most sexual surveys are either obsolete or unscientific; 2) people are victims of what the authors call "pluralistic ignorance." Translation: erroneous beliefs shared by some individuals about other people. Even the enchanted...