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Kate’s 2¢: “Angels of September” by Andrew M. Greenley
“Angels of September” by Andrew M. Greenley
I was happy to find out that the author, The Reverend Dr. Andrew Greeley, was an insider and knew of what he wrote.
“The four principal angels of September are priest, lover, psychiatrist, and patrol officer representing the church at its most caring best.”
I enjoyed this story read by Pam Ward.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Reverend Dr. Andrew Greeley (February 5, 1928 – May 29, 2013) was an American Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and popular novelist. He was a professor of sociology at the University of Arizona and the University of Chicago, and a research associate with the National Opinion Research Center (NORC).
For many years, Greeley wrote a weekly column for the Chicago Sun-Times and contributed regularly to The New York Times, the National Catholic Reporter, America, and Commonweal.
Life and career[edit]
Greeley was born into a large Irish Catholic family in Oak Park, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago) in 1928.[1] He grew up during the Great Depression in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood, where he attended St. Angela Elementary School,[2] and by the second grade, he knew that he wanted to be a priest.[3][4] After studying at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago, Greeley received an AB degree from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Chicago in 1950, a Bachelor of Sacred Theology (STB) in 1952, and a Licentiate of Sacred Theology (STL) in 1954, when he was ordained for the Archdiocese of Chicago.
From 1954 to 1964, Greeley served as an assistant pastor at Christ the King parish in Chicago, during which time he studied sociology at the University of Chicago. His first book, The Church in the Suburbs (1958), was drawn from notes a sociology professor had encouraged him to take describing his experiences.[4] He received a Master of Arts in 1961 and a PhD in 1962. His doctoral dissertation dealt with the influence of religion on the career plans of 1961 college graduates. At various times, Greeley was a professor at the University of Arizona, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago. He was denied tenure by the University of Chicago in 1973, despite having been a faculty member there for a decade and having published dozens of books; he attributed the denial to anti-Catholic prejudice, although a colleague said his cantankerous temperament was more to blame.[4] In 1991, he was granted a professorship in social science at the University.
Sociology[edit]
As a sociologist, he published a large number of influential academic works during the 1960s and 1970s, including Unsecular Man: The Persistence of Religion (1972) and The American Catholic: A Social Portrait (1977).[1] Over the course of his career, he authored more than 70 scholarly books,[1][4] largely focusing on the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. His early work challenged the widespread assumption that Catholics had low college attendance rates, showing that white Catholics were in fact more successful than other whites in obtaining college undergraduate and graduate degrees, which he attributed to what he called the high-quality education Catholics received in parochial schools.[4] He also studied how religion influenced the political behavior of ethnic Catholics, and he was one of the first scholars to document the sociological effects of the Second Vatican Council’s reforms on American Catholics.[1][4]
In the early 1970s, the U.S. bishops commissioned him to write a profile of the American priesthood.[1] He completed a two-year survey in 1972, reporting that dissatisfaction among the priests was widespread; but the bishops rejected his findings.[4] Greeley said, “Honesty compels me to say that I believe the present leadership in the church to be morally, intellectually and religiously bankrupt.”[4]
Greeley’s sociological work was also viewed with suspicion by some of his fellow clerics, and his archbishop (later cardinal), John Cody, denied Greeley’s request for a parish ministry.[4] Greeley criticized Cody, calling him a “madcap tyrant” when Cody closed a number of inner-city schools.
Interpreting American Catholicism[edit]
Greeley’s biographer summarizes his interpretation:
He argued for the continued salience of ethnicity in American life and the distinctiveness of the Catholic religious imagination. Catholics differed from other Americans, he explained in a variety of publications, by their tendency to think in “sacramental” terms, imagining God as present in a world that was revelatory rather than bleak. The poetic elements in the Catholic tradition–its stories, imagery, and rituals–kept most Catholics in the fold, according to Greeley, whatever their disagreements with particular aspects of church discipline or doctrine. But Greeley also insisted on the disastrous impact of Humanae Vitae, the 1968 papal encyclical upholding the Catholic ban on contraception, holding it almost solely responsible for a sharp decline in weekly Mass attendance between 1968 and 1975. He believed that lay Catholics understood far better than their bishops that sex in marriage was intended by God to be joyous and playful, a true means of grace.[5]
As described by John L. Allen Jr. of the National Catholic Reporter, Greeley became fascinated with what has been called the Catholic “analogical imagination”, the idea that “visible, tangible things in the created order serve as metaphors for the divine, as opposed to the more textual and literal religious sensibility of Protestants and others.”[1] Greeley believed that it was this viewpoint that had led the church to be a pre-eminent patron of the arts through the centuries, allowing it to communicate through artistic imagery spiritual concepts that doctrinal texts alone could not.[1] Greeley’s appreciation for the spiritual power of art inspired him to begin writing works of fiction.[1]
Fiction[edit]
Greeley’s literary output was such it was said that he “never had an unpublished thought”.[3][6] He said, “The only way I can write fiction is to keep those hours from 6:00 to 9:00 A.M. sacred.”[7] He published his first novel, The Magic Cup, in 1975,[1] a fantasy tale about a young king who would lead Ireland from paganism to Christianity. A second novel, Death in April, followed in 1980.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Angels of September DB23008
Greeley, Andrew M. Reading time: 15 hours, 2 minutes.
Read by Pam Ward.
Mystery and Detective Stories
Psychological Fiction
Bestsellers
Ann Reilly, an attractive, superficially successful career woman plagued by many insecurities, reluctantly seeks professional counsel. During the course of her therapy, she unleashes a host of painful memories and repressed emotions triggering a series of bizarre telekinetic episodes. A policeman, a priest, and a psychiatrist join forces to prevent Ann from succumbing to her dark side. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1986.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Night Watch” by Jayne Anne Phillips
“Night Watch” by Jayne Anne Phillips
Once I got used to the synthesized speech, cadence, and inclusion of page numbers, I enjoyed this book. I’m not sure I like the ending, but it is what it is.
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In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn’t spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital’s entrance by a war veteran who has forced himself into their world. There, far from family, a beloved neighbor, and the mountain home they knew, they try to reclaim their lives.
The omnipresent vagaries of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their story: their flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia; the disappearance of ConaLee’s father, who left for the War and never returned. Meanwhile, in the asylum, they begin to find a new path. ConaLee pretends to be her mother’s maid; Eliza responds slowly to treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility—the mysterious man they call the Night Watch; the orphan child called Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution.
Epic, enthralling, and meticulously crafted, Night Watch is a stunning chronicle of surviving war and its aftermath.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Vision: a memoir of blindness and justice” by David Tatel
“Vision: a memoir of blindness and justice” by David Tatel
Granted, this is a book written by the author of his long career as a lawyer and judge; his memories, his experiences, so, they are personal. While I enjoyed learning how the feceral court system functioned during his term, I would have preferred to learn about his blind journey without the political bias.
David S. Tatel – Wikipedia
David Stephen Tatel (born March 16, 1942) is an American lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Education and career
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David S. Tatel is a senior counsel with the Litigation, Arbitration and Employment practice. Prior to returning to Hogan Lovells, Judge Tatel spent nearly 30 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where he was appointed by President Clinton in 1994 to fill the seat previously held by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Jun 11, 2024 · David Tatel was a superstar trial lawyer in two of the world’s best law firms. He gave that up to advance the cause of civil rights at the highest level. He then distinguished himself as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
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Vision: a memoir of blindness and justice. DB122023
Tatel, David S. Reading time: 10 hours, 22 minutes.
Read by John Lescault; David S. Tatel.
Biography of Persons with Disabilities
Disability
U.S. History
“A memoir by one of America’s most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers—who spent years denying and working around his blindness, before finally embracing it as an essential part of his identity. David Tatel has served nearly 30 years on America’s second highest court, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where many of our most crucial cases are resolved—or teed up for the Supreme Court. He has championed equal justice for his entire adult life; decided landmark environmental and voting cases; and embodied the ideal of what a great judge should be. Yet he has been blind for the past 50 of his 80-plus years. Initially, he depended upon aides to read texts to him, and more recently, a suite of hi-tech solutions has allowed him to listen to reams of documents at high speeds. At first, he tried to hide his deteriorating vision, and for years, he denied that it had any impact on his career. Only recently, partly thanks to his first-ever guide dog, Vixen, has he come to fully accept his blindness and the role it’s played in his personal and professional lives. His story of fighting for justice over many decades, with and without eyesight, is an inspiration to us all.”– Goodreads. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
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