Andrew Greeley

摘要

Andrew greeley wrote that scene in his novel "The Cardinal Sins". It sold 3m copies, making him famous. The protagonist, a priest, was on his way to the red hat and many more occasions of sin. Preposterous, said some readers. Others wondered how Father Greeley knew, being a man of the cloth, whose closest encounter with women was presumably hugging his mother. He explained the episode, and countless others in his novels, as theology and sacrament, something that gave a small inkling of what the love of God was like. And it was not, by the way, Cardinal Cody of his home town of Chicago he was thinking of, he added in his defence.