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A native of Chicago, Father Andrew M. Greeley, is a priest, distinguished sociologist and bestselling author. He is professor of social sciences at the University of Chicago and the University of Arizona, as well as Research Associate at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. His current sociological research focuses on current issues facing the Catholic Church-including celibacy of priests, ordination of women, religious imagination, and sexual behavior of Catholics.Father Greeley received the S.T.L. in 1954 from St. Mary of Lake Seminary. His graduate work was done at the University of Chicago, where he received the M.A. Degree in 1961 and the Ph.D. in 1962.Father Greeley has written scores of books and hundreds of popular and scholarly articles on a variety of issues in sociology, education and religion. His column on political, church and social issues is carried by the Chicago Sun Times and many other newspapers. He stimulates discussion of neglected issues and often anticipates sociological trends. He is the author of more than thirty bestselling

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Andrew M. Greeley

"I'm a priest, pure and simple.... The other things I do — sociological research, my newspaper columns, the novels I write — are just my way of being a priest. I decided I wanted to be one when I was a kid growing up on the West Side. I've never wavered or wanted to be anything but."

Andrew Greeley
Chicago Tribune, 1992
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Andrew M. Greeley was born on February 5, 1928 in Oak Park, Illinois. His large Irish Catholic family lived in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago during the Great Depression, and Greeley attended nearby St. Angela Elementary School. At St. Angela's, he decided he wanted to be a priest by the second grade. Greeley then studied at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago prior to receiving his AB degree, a Bachelor of Sacred Theology (STB), and a Licentiate of Sacred Theology (STL) from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary. He was ordained as a priest for the Archdiocese of Chicago in 1954.

Greeley was assigned as an assistant pastor to Christ the King parish in the Beverly neighborhood. While cont

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Father Andrew Greeley, who died last week, embodied “public” concerns in religion and theology. Fittingly, the University of Chicago’s David Tracy who is the “Greeley” Professor of Catholic Studies (Emeritus)—a chair endowed by Andrew—provided what has become a classic statement of “publicness” in theology (see References, below). A line from one of Tracy’s articles captures the intentions: “As a discipline, theology has the peculiarity of being related to three distinct publics—academy, church and society.” Greeley was not technically a theologian, but in all other senses he was.

The "public” concerns embodied by Greeley also inspired the Center that issuesSightings. One week our two Sightings writers may address the various worlds of the “academy:” university, college, and seminary. The next week, “church” preoccupies the writers and their sources. And, in a typical third column, they might engage “society.”

Specialists of the academy, or of the church, or of society abound, and the public needs them, whether it always knows it or not. But generalists, which is