Andrew M. Greeley Books In Order

Passover Books In Publication Order

  1. Thy Brother’s Wife (1982)
  2. Ascent Into Hell (1983)
  3. Lord of the Dance (1984)

Blackie Ryan Books In Publication Order

  1. Happy Are the Meek (1985)
  2. Happy Are the Clean of Heart (1986)
  3. Happy Are Those Who Thirst for Justice (1987)
  4. Happy Are the Merciful (1992)
  5. Happy Are the Peace Makers (1993)
  6. Happy Are the Poor in Spirit (1994)
  7. Happy Are Those Who Mourn (1995)
  8. Happy Are the Oppressed (1996)
  9. The Bishop at Sea (1997)
  10. The Bishop and the Three Kings (1998)
  11. The Bishop and the Missing L Train (2000)
  12. The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain (2001)
  13. The Bishop in the West Wing (2002)
  14. The Bishop Goes to the University (2003)
  15. The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood (2005)
  16. The Bishop at the Lake (2007)
  17. The Archbishop in Andalusia (2008)

Time Between The Stars Books In Publication Order

  1. Virgin and Martyr (1985)
  2. Angels of September (1986)
  3. Patience of a Saint (1987)
  4. Rite of Spring (1987)
  5. Love Song (1988)
  6. St. Valentine’s Night (1989)
  7. Wages of Sin (1992)

World Of Maggie Ward Books In Publication Order

  1. Michigan Avenue Saint (1989)
  2. The Cardinal Virtues (1990)
  3. An Occasion of Sin (1991)
  4. The Search for Maggie Ward (1991)

Nuala Anne McGrail Books In Publication Order

  1. Irish Gold (1994)
  2. Irish Lace (1996)
  3. Irish Whiskey (1998)
  4. Irish Mist (1999)
  5. Irish Eyes (2000)
  6. Irish Love (2001)
  7. Irish Stew! (2002)
  8. Irish Cream (2005)
  9. Irish Crystal (2006)
  10. Irish Linen (2007)
  11. Irish Tiger (2008)
  12. Irish Tweed (2009)

O’Malley’s (Family Saga) Books In Publication Order

  1. Summer at the Lake (1997)
  2. A Midwinter’s Tale (1998)
  3. Younger Than Springtime (1999)
  4. A Christmas Wedding (2000)
  5. September Song (2001)
  6. Second Spring (2003)
  7. Golden Years (2004)

Angel Fire Books In Publication Order

  1. Angel Fire (1988)
  2. Angel Light (1995)
  3. Contract with an Angel (1998)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Magic Cup (1979)
  2. Death in April (1980)
  3. The Cardinal Sins (1981)
  4. God Game (1986)
  5. The Final Planet (1987)
  6. All About Women (1989)
  7. Fall from Grace (1993)
  8. White Smoke (1996)
  9. Star Bright! (1997)
  10. The Priestly Sins (2004)
  11. The Senator and the Priest (2006)
  12. Home for Christmas (2009)

Poetry Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Sense of Love (1992)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Letters to Nancy (1967)
  2. The Jesus Myth (1971)
  3. The Making of the Popes 1978 (1979)
  4. Faithful Attraction (1991)
  5. Religion as Poetry (1995)
  6. When Life Hurts: Healing Themes from the Gospels (1995)
  7. Religion in Europe at the End of the Second Millenium (2002)
  8. The Book of Love (2002)
  9. The Great Mysteries: Experiencing the Catholic Faith from the Inside Out (2003)
  10. Furthermore!: Memories of a Parish Priest (2004)
  11. The Catholic Revolution: New Wine, Old Wineskins and the Second Vatican Council (2004)
  12. Priests: A Calling in Crisis (2004)
  13. The Making of the Pope 2005 (2005)
  14. Jesus: A Meditation on His Stories (2007)
  15. A Stupid, Unjust and Criminal War: Iraq 2001-2007 (2007)
  16. Chicago Catholics and the Struggles Within Their Church (2010)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Sacred Visions (1991)
  2. Emerald Magic (2000)

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Andrew M. Greeley Books Overview

Thy Brother’s Wife

The direction of Paul and Sean Cronin’s lives was shaped the day their father, a self made multimillionaire, decided that one of his boys would grow up to be a cardinal while the other would become president of the United States.

For his elder son, Paul, the father had even chosen a wife the beautiful Nora, who had come to the Cronin home as an orphan child years before. Obediently, and with a genuine vocation, the younger son, Sean, went into the priesthood. With a more cynical view, Paul went to Notre Dame to prepare for a life in politics until the Korean War intervened. Then came the news Paul Cronin was missing in action.

If he dies, Sean s father told him, you must leave the seminary and marry Nora. The words sang in Sean s head. Could he renounce his sacred calling and marry the girl he had always loved?

Long out of print, Thy Brother s Wife is a classic tale by one of America s most loved storytellers.

Happy Are the Merciful

The prosecutor who sent Clare Turner to jail for murdering her adoptive parents begins to doubt the conviction and confesses to Bishop ”Blackie” Ryan, who must find the real killer before he becomes the next victim.

Happy Are the Peace Makers

The first two husbands of a seductive woman died under very suspicious circumstances. Her current spouse, many years her senior, conveniently alters his will in her favor just days before a bomb goes off in his study. 2 cassettes.

Happy Are the Poor in Spirit

Responding to a call for an exorcist, Bishop Blackie Ryan learns about rich and famous Bart Cain’s three narrow escapes from attempted murders and the eerie phone calls that Cain received from a woman who is believed to be dead.

Happy Are Those Who Mourn

Investigating a suspicious series of paranormal occurrences that others have attributed to the ghost of the late Monsignor Charles McInerny, Bishop Blackie Ryan uncovers a conspiracy involving millions in missing church funds. PW.

Happy Are the Oppressed

In a riveting novel of sins and secrets, Bishop Blackie Ryan, the hero of Happy Are Those Who Mourn and Happy Are the Poor in Spirit, investigates the Cardin family heirs to an unmatched legacy of wealth, prestige and murder. Bishop Ryan must solve a murder from the past to prevent one in the near future.

The Bishop at Sea

Bishop Blackie Ryan is feeling more than a bit out of place on the USS Langley, an aircraft carrier on duty hundreds of miles from the nearest dry land. But the ship is in trouble several of her crew have disappeared without explanation, and one dead officer has seemingly reappeared. The captain is a relative of Blackie’s boss, Cardinal Cronin. So Blackie, troubleshooter and problem solver, has been dispatched to the Langley, where he soon finds a mystery as deep and dangerous as the ocean.

The Bishop and the Three Kings

It’s a cold Christmas season in Cologne, Germany, when the relic of the Three Kings is stolen from the cathedral! Only Bishop Blackie Ryan can solve the case. But as each lead brings greater danger, even Blackie could use a Christmas miracle to help him find Cologne’s most prized present.

The Bishop and the Missing L Train

Millions of Blackie Ryan fans will be thrilled with his return in this exciting novel of mystery and suspense. Bestselling novelist Andrew M. Greeley has captured the imagination of the mystery reading public with the improbable Bishop Blackie Ryan, who works for the aristocratic, haughty, sometimes arrogant but often slyly good humored Sean Cardinal Cronin, the Archbishop of Chicago. The Vatican has just assigned auxiliary Bishop Gus Quill to the Archdiocese of Chicago over the violent protests of Archbishop Sean Cronin, and the not so silent protests of Bishop Blackie. Bishop Quill is under the illusion, one might say delusion, that he has been sent from Rome to replace the good Cardinal when in fact Rome was dying to get rid of him because of his incompetence. Immediately on arriving in Chicago, he manages to disappear while riding the L Train and it is up to Blackie to find him. As the Cardinal says, The Vatican does not like to lose bishops, even auxiliaries. And thus begins the search for the missing bishop who no one really wants to find. Of course, none of this is too much for the intrepid little Bishop Ryan. He faces these problems squarely and, with the kind of deductive mind reminiscent of G.K Chestertons Father Brown, manages to find solutions to some of the most baffling mysteries he has ever encountered. Ryan is a most unlikely and unforgettable hero. Publishers Weekly Irish Whiskey is a brilliant, charming novel full of Irish wit and wisdom. The New Brunswick Telegraph Journal Hes maintained the high quality of his prose, which is economical and effective his pages are alive with characters. The Halifax Daily News

The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain

The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain is Andrew M. Greeley’s most beguiling lock room mystery yet, sure to please and delight his millions of fans. A priest has gone missing in Paris, and Bishop Blackie Ryan is sent to the rescue. The missing cleric is not just an ordinary Dominican friar, but the most popular priest in all of France. Popular because in a very short time Fr re Jean Claude a simple, pious priest of humble origins has become a television superstar, idolized by the people of France, a traditionally anticlerical country. Loved by everyone except, of course, the French hierarchy, the church, state, and television community. The Archbishop of Paris, familiar with Bishop Blackie’s impressive sleuthing skills, asks the Archbishop of Chicago and Blackie’s boss, Sean Cardinal Cronin, for help in finding this missing priest. As usual, Cardinal Cronin resolves the matter with a brusque ‘See to it, Blackie.’ To Blackie’s chagrin, Cardinal Cronin decides to accompany our hero to Paris. When he isn’t making snide remarks about the French, he’s dining in three star restaurants with Nora, his beautiful sister in law and the woman who keeps him on the straight and narrow. Blackie soon finds himself being used as a chaperon to avoid scandal. At the door of the church of St. Germain Des Pres, Blackie meets a young and beautiful woman begging for money. When he hires her as a translator, she turns out to be an excellent Dr. Watson and a brilliant musician as well. She is at his side for the entire investigation and the investigation Blackie conducts is worthy of Hercule Poirot. and Sherlock Holmes. He soon learns that the Church isn’t eager to have the young, innocent and saintly priest returned, nor are the police. Once the public discovers the disappearance of their beloved priest, the miracles start, and nothing scares the Church more than miracles. Undaunted, Blackie with the help of his beautiful, young, smart sidekick defies the cynical and uncooperative Paris police, an unbending church, and reluctant witnesses to find the bizarre solution to one of the most fascinating puzzles he has ever encountered. And as Cardinal Cronin says to him, ‘Blackie, I’m glad you’re on my side.’AUTHORBIO: Father Andrew M. Greeley has written numerous bestselling novels, including his Nuala Anne McGrail series, Irish Gold, Irish Lace, Irish Whiskey, Irish Eyes, and Irish Love; his O’Malley family saga series, A Midwinter’s Tale, Younger than Springtime, and A Christmas Wedding; his novel of the papal election, White Smoke; Contact with an Angel, Summer at the Lake, and Star Bright! More than fifteen million copies of his books are in print. He divides his time between teaching at the University of Chicago and the University of Arizona at Tucson.

The Bishop in the West Wing

Andrew M. Greeleys bestselling sleuth meets The West Wing…
Blackie Ryan in the White House?Yes! Sent there by his estimable but irascible boss, the Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, Sean Cronin. Blackie gets a call from his friend, the newly elected Democratic president, Jack Patrick McGurnwhom the media has seen fit to call Machine Gun McGurnbut of course the call is interrupted by the autocratic Cardinal Cronin. Cronin, without consulting Blackie, sends him off to the White House to solve a poltergeist problem. Ghosts in the White House? Of course. Blackie encounters a great deal more than ghosts; an evil spirit out to get the President, a right wing conspiracy, and four beautiful women, any one of whom could be contributing to the mischief in the West Wing. How Blackie solves the problem of the ghosts and the conspiracy, and perhaps even finds a beautiful wife for the lonely, recently widowed President makes The Bishop in the West Wing the best Blackie Ryan mystery yet.

The Bishop Goes to the University

The irrepressible Bishop Blackwood Ryan returns as his Cardinal dispatches Blackie to The University on the South Side of Chicago to investigate a baffling locked room mystery. Someone has assassinated a Russian Orthodox monk in his office at the Divinity School despite the fact that the door of his office was bolted shut from the inside and no killer was found within. Who shot Brother Semyon Ivanivich Popov? There were only four professors in the building on the night of the shooting: a feminist theologian, a distinguished scripture scholar, an expert on the Talmud, and a young tenure seeking professor whom Blackie compares to a silverback gorilla. It turns out that the mystery of the locked room is simple compared to the international intrigue that swiftly develops around the case. Intelligence agents from diverse nations seem to be involved, as well as both the Sicilian and Russian mobs. Blackie soon finds himself the target of threats and actual bullets as he seeks to unravel the deepening mystery surrounding the murdered monk whose murky secrets may stretch all the way to the Vatican itself!Murder is more than academic in yet another delightful whodunit by one of America’s most popular storytellers.

The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood

‘Blackwood, there’s trouble in the old neighborhood! Murder in the sanctuary of the Church!’The church in question is St. Lucy’s, a humble edifice at the heart of a venerable Chicago neighborhood now suffering the throes of gentrification. St. Lucy’s has long stood as a bulwark against evil and change, which some in the community have often seen as much the same thing. Now three dead bodies have been left in the sanctuary, stripped, mutilated, and shot through the head, execution style. A warning to those who would remake the neighborhood or to St. Lucy’s charismatic monsignor, who has made a few enemies of his own?Dispatched by his cardinal to investigate, Bishop ‘Blackie’ Ryan fears that the atrocious murders are only the beginning of a campaign of terror directed at this particular church. But to solve the mystery, and to banish the evil gathering over the community, Blackie will need an unexpected assist from his own long dead father, as well as the help of Declan O’Donnell, a savvy young cop with a touch of the second sight, and of Camilla Datilo, a radiant assistant state’s attorney of Sicilian origins. The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood is another charming and compelling page turner by bestselling author Andrew M. Greeley.

The Bishop at the Lake

Matters of succession lead to attempted murder in the latest of Greeley’s popular mysteries.

Archbishop Malachi Nolan has designs on the Diocese of Chicago despite the fact the Most Reverend Blackwood Ryan, himself recently appointed an archbishop, is currently in line for the post. Assigned to keep watch on his rival, Blackie travels to the Nolan family estate in Grand Banks, where he soon finds himself immersed in an entirely different dynastic struggle.

Spike Nolan, founder of Aviation Electronics, isn t even dead yet, but his children, grandchildren, and their respective spouses are already feuding over who will inherit control of the multimillion dollar company. The only family member who doesn t have a stake in the quarrel is the clerical Malachi…
so why is he the one targeted by an unknown killer?

To get to the bottom of the mystery, Blackie will have to sort through the tangled family dynamics of this highly dysfunctional clan, as well as figure how out his fellow archbishop was nearly stung to death by hornets inside a locked room!

The Archbishop in Andalusia

Taking leave of his usual Chicago haunts, Archbishop John Blackwood Ryan travels to the south of Spain in this latest mystery by bestselling author Andrew M. Greeley. Ostensibly Blackie is in the historic city of Seville to attend a conference on American philosophy, but a far more critical assignment also requires his attention. The local cardinal has summoned the wily archbishop to Spain in hopes that Blackie can avert a murder before it happens.

The threat of violence hangs ominously over the regal palace of a family of wealthy Spanish aristocrats. Dona Teresa, a pious widow whose exotic beauty unsettles even Blackie, finds herself beset by avaricious relatives determined to control her life and fortune. A tangled web of obligations, traditions, and frustrated sexual desires binds the family together even as they bitterly contend against one another. With three generations of passionate nobility sharing the same roof, it seems only a matter of time before pride, greed, and lust leads to bloodshed.

But while the archbishop attempts to forestall a modern day Spanish tragedy, dramatic events back in Chicago conspire to change his life forever…
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The Archbishop in Andalusia opens an exciting new chapter in the illustrious career of one of Andrew Greeley’s most beloved characters.

Rite of Spring

From Andrew M. Greeley, author of eight consecutive national bestsellers with more than 11 million copies in print, comes a riveting novel of romance and suspense in which a Chicago lawyer follows a deadly trail to find the mysterious woman he loves. ‘Greeley’s vivid imagination has spun a fine, gripping tale.’ United Press International. HC: Warner.

Wages of Sin

Tycoon, sculptor, war hero, poet Chicago entrepreneur Lorcan James Flynn cannot enjoy his wealth or talents until the return of his first love sparks a memory that causes him to face the truth about himself.

The Cardinal Virtues

Father Laurence O’Toole McAuliffe, the pastor of Saint Finian’s parish in Forest Springs, is weary and worn out, his priesthood and faith in tatters. Once literally a bomb throwing radical and then a Vatican Council liberal, Lar McAuliffe has grown old and cynical. To make matters worse, he’s smart enough to know what is happening to him. God, the cardinal, or some combination of the two plays a dirty trick on Lar by sending him Father James Stephen Michael Finbar Keenan, the ‘new priest.’ Lar expects a classic confrontation between young and old, between sardonic maturity and enthusiastic inexperience. But the new priest does not fit the stereotype and the two become friends. Together they face the conflicts and joys, the hopes and pains of the contemporary Catholic parish the old fashioned school principal; the broken family; the reactionary finance committee; frustrated young lovers; and the chancery office and a timid Cardinal, who interferes with the priests’ work on every possible occasion. Alternately sad and uproariously funny, The Cardinal Virtues is about the meaning of religion, the meaning of faith, and the meaning of life.

An Occasion of Sin

Playing the role of ‘devil’s advocate’ for the Church, Father Laurence McAuliffe investigates allegations that John Cardinal McGlynn a candidate for canonization led a less than saintly life. PW.

The Search for Maggie Ward

It is the summer after the Big War and, while most veterans are racing back to setup housekeeping, Jerry Keenan finds himself unattached, unable to settle down, and suffering nightmares form his wartime experiences. Enter Andrea King, an eighteen year old war widow. Finding her irresistible, Keenan embarks on a love affair so passionate that it re awakens him to life and to God. Then, just when life looks rosiest, Andrea disappears. In searching for her, he uncovers her miserable past and her real name, Maggie Ward as an abused child and an abused wife. When he finally locates her, his quest focuses on winning the beautiful Maggie as his wife.

Irish Gold

Bestselling novelist Andrew M. Greeley outdoes his previous triumphs with Irish Gold, a contemporary, fresh and exciting novel of suspense and love. Nuala Anne McGrail, a student at Dublin’s Trinity College, is beautiful the way a Celtic goddess is beautiful not that Dermot Michael Coyne of Chicago has ever seen one of those in his twenty five years unless you count his grandmother Nell, who left Ireland during the Troubles with her husband Liam O’Riada, and who would never tell why they left. Somebody else remembers, though or why is Dermot set upon by thugs?

Irish Lace

The beautiful and fey as they say in the Old Country Nuala Anne McGrail uses her psychic abilities to help solve mysteries. But even she will admit with a smile that she couldn’t do it without Dermot Michael Coyne, her devoted admirer and self proclaimed ‘spear carrier.’Now both living in Chicago, their unique courtship is once again interrupted by one of Nuala’s ‘spells.’ On a quiet street on the South Shore, she is overwhelmed by the screaming of thousands of dying men Confederate soldiers held as prisoners of war. Soon the pair are caught up in a Civil War controversy, and an all too present day mystery involving a sophisticated gang of art thieves, corrupt politicians, and international terrorists. But Dermot is cheerfully resigned, for as he well knows, life with Nuala will never be simple. After all, she’s like Irish Lace ‘thin and delicate and pretty, and just a little bit complicated.’

Irish Whiskey

Nuala Anne McGrail is almost more than any poor mortal man can handle without losing his sanity: her beauty causes shortness of breath in men of all ages, she’s strong, she’s smart, she’s witty, she sings like an angel, and to top it all off she’s psychic, or fey as they say in the Old Country.

But our man Dermot Michael Coyne, ‘accidental millionaire,’ part time writer, and full time worshiper of Nuala, seems to be bearing up pretty well in as much as Herself has consented to marry him.

Before that blissful day arrives, another one of Nuala’s ‘spells’ sends the pair on a hunt to find out what really happened to Al Capone’s famous rival, Jimmy ‘Sweet Rolls’ Sullivan. And as they’ve found in previous adventures, historic mysteries can often be too current for safety, and the dead should be left buried wherever they are.

Irish Mist

Dermot Michael Coyne isn’t sure what he’s gotten himself into. Nuala Anne McGrail, that beautiful and vivacious ‘Celtic witch’ has finally agreed to marry him. But they’ve barely tied the knot when Nuala’s psychic ‘spells’ begin again. Visions of a burning castle, the captain of the infamous ‘Black and Tan’ police force, a wild woman from Chicago, and bloodshed all somehow connected lead the two to the remnants of a mystery long buried in the mist of Ireland’s turbulent and violent past. How did Kevin O’Higgins, the murdered leader of the movement to free Ireland, die? And who among the living will do whatever it takes to keep Nuala and Dermot from finding out?

Irish Eyes

Nuala Anne McGrail, that beautiful Irish spitfire, now lives in Chicago with her husband, Dermot, and their new baby, Nellliecoyne. As Nuala fans may suspect, Nelliecoyne is no ordinary baby: she is fey like her mothers, and can see into the past as well as the future. Both Nuala and her daughter have had strange vibrations from a place on the lake where a shipload of Irish Americans lost their lives a hundred year ago. In the course of their investigation, Nuala and Dermot make some dangerous enemies, and eventually have to solve a murder and find a buried treasure. Will Nuala survive the attacks of a sleazy DJ, and a dangerous run in with the Balkan Mafia? And how does the diary of a young Irish woman at the turn of the century play into these events? Once again, Andrew M. Greeley that master of the human heart creates an engaging, charming story that will delight fans young and old.

Irish Love

Continuing the enchanting chronicles of the fabulous Nuala Anne McGrail and her spear carrying husband Dermot, bestselling author Andrew M. Greeley takes them once again to Ireland for another thrill packed adventure. Back on the Emerald Isle, Nuala and Dermot soon get the feeling that someone is out to get them. They find themselves dodging multiple explosions, and someone starts shooting at Nuala while she is water skiing in the cold Atlantic. Meanwhile, the handsome parish priest, Father Jack, has given Dermot the diary of a young Chicago newspaperman. Written in the year 1882, the diary tells in horrendous detail an intriguing story of a mass murder and a trumped up trial in which one of Ireland’s greatest heroes was accused of the murders without a shred of evidence. These two stories, ancient and modern, soon get mixed up, and they make for an utterly fascinating tale of murder, betrayal, and redemption with Nuala and her magical powers at the center of it all. Andrew Greeley not only tells us a riveting tale of adventure and derring do, he gives us a picture of modern day prosperous Ireland and the engaging and, of course, sometimes villainous people who live there.

Irish Stew!

And what a stew it is. Here are some of the ingredients: Our hero*ine, Nuala Anne McGrail, in her guise as international singing star, accompanied by her spear carrying husband, Dermot Coyne, is off to a major music festival in Milan, where they meet Seamus Costelloe, a Chicago Irish macher, and his family. Seamus is no better than he should be, and in fact the suspicion is that he’s very bad indeed, but softhearted Nuala sees the sign of death on him she hasn’t lost her ability to see into the future and decides to do something about it. She also sees something good in him. Which leads to a few hair raising conflicts with some of Chicago’s more desperate characters. Nuala and Dermot’s new baby is premature, and dark clouds hover over their sublimely happy marriage. Meanwhile, Dermot is trying to solve the mystery of Chicago’s Haymarket riot, which isn’t easy since it happened over a hundred years ago. Only bestselling author Andrew M. Greeley, with his knowledge of Ireland and Chicago’s unsavory politics, plus his uncanny ability to combine two stories one in the present and one in the past and his talent for building mystery and suspense to an almost unbearable degree, could have written this truly tantalizing novel.

Irish Cream

Countless readers have been delighted by Father Andrew M. Greeley’s bestselling tales of Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish speaking woman from Galway blessed with the gift of second sight and a knack for unraveling mysteries, and her hapless husband and accomplice, Dermot Michael Coyne. From Irish Gold through Irish Stew! this spirited couple has untangled many a knotty mystery, both at home in Chicago and back in Erin. Now they return in another captivating blend of romance, humor, and intrigueDamian ‘Day’ O’Sullivan is a troubled young man who blames himself for a tragic vehicular homicide he may not have committed. Trouble is, Day’s entire family seems to be conspiring to pin the crime on the poor lad, which only leads Nuala and Dermot to wonder who really ran over three times! Rodney Keefe in the parking lot of a ritzy Chicago country club. The O’Sullivans are a ruthlessly ambitious clan of South Side Irish, who consider themselves the cream of the Irish American community. The sensitive Day has always been something of a black sheep in the family and perhaps a scapegoat as well. But the twisted saga of the O’Sullivans isn’t the only mystery to be unraveled. Having stumbled onto the diary of Father Richard Lonigan, a nineteenth century parish priest assigned to a remote village in old Donegal, Dermot and Nuala find themselves caught up in the closely guarded secrets and scandals of that desolate time and place, where simmering resentment against the ruling English sometimes erupted into violence and murder…
. Irish Cream is another rich and satisfying concoction by one of America’s most popular storytellers.

Irish Crystal

There’s evil people around, Dermot love…
. I knew about them even before me dream. Really evil people. Won t we have to fight them!

This latest tale of Nuala Anne McGrail, the engagingly fey hero*ine of such irresistible books as Irish Cream and Irish Lace, begins with a foreboding dream of some terrible impending evil. Dermot Michael Coyne, Nuala s adoring husband and spear carrier, knows better than to ignore his wife s second sight, but from whence does this nameless peril originate? From the Homeland Security goons determined to deport the Irish born Nuala on the basis of nothing more than vague suspicions and accusations? From the spiteful neighbors campaigning against their family s beloved Irish wolfhounds? Or from the tangled dealings of the Currans, a prosperous clan of Irish American aristocrats, with whom Nuala and Dermot have recently become acquainted?
The true danger becomes shockingly apparent when a catastrophic car bombing rocks the Chicago riverfront. Uncovering the twisted minds behind the bombing is not easy; Dermot and Nuala soon find themselves enmeshed in a complicated tapestry of lies and secrets. Nuala s preternatural instincts also lead her to a forgotten manuscript revealing the treachery and deceit behind a tragic chapter in Irish history: the saga of bold Robert Emmet and the failed uprisings of 1798 and 1803.
Between the past and the present, our hero*ine and her devoted spouse have more than enough mysteries to contend with, but the two of them are bound to make the truth just as clear as…
Irish Crystal.

Irish Linen

The perils of wartime add special urgency to latest mysteries being investigated by Nuala Anne McGrail and her adoring husband, Dermot Coyne. More than a little fey, Nuala has a well deserved reputation for getting to the bottom of even the most tangled intrigues, even when they may be taking place on the other side of the world.

Desmond Doolin, an idealistic young man from their West Side Chicago neighborhood, has gone missing in Iraq. Having flown off to the Middle East in the name of peace, he hasn t been heard of since. The U.S. government denies any knowledge of his whereabouts, and his grieving family has all but written him off as dead, but Nuala is convinced that there’s more to the story…
and herself won t stop asking questions until she finds out what has really become of Desmond, one way or another.

Meanwhile, a parallel investigation uncovers the story of another young man abroad in dangerous times. Poking around in the past, Dermot and Nuala happen upon the memoirs of Timothy Patrick Clarke, the Irish ambassador to Na*zi Germany, who risked his life for the sake of a beautiful German widow…
and a secret plot to kill Adolf Hitler.

Working together as always, Nuala and her husband find themselves engrossed in the secrets of the past, the present, and two very different wars.

Irish Linen is another captivating installment in a series that Publishers Weekly calls immensely entertaining.

Irish Tiger

Wife, mother, lover, celebrated singer, and problem solver Nuala Anne McGrail has a tender side that she often shows to her devoted friends and family. But when those under her protection are in danger, she becomes a veritable Irish Tiger, akin to the fierce warrior women of ancient Erin. With Dermot, her loyal husband, in tow, there are few mysteries she can t untangle.

The couple will need all their resources when they come to the aid of two loving senior citizens, whose unexpected romance has been targeted by an unknown enemy. John Patrick Donlan and Maria Angelica Connors were both grandparents when they met, and their passionate connection took them each by surprise. But Donlan’s daughters and in laws bitterly oppose the match and someone will stop at nothing to destroy their marriage, their thriving careers, and maybe even their lives.

More than a touch fey, Nuala senses genuine evil at work here, and so do the keen senses of her ever present Irish wolfhounds. As the attacks grow ever more serious, it may be up to one gifted woman and a pair of retired police dogs to prevent a touching love story from ending in unspeakable tragedy.

Irish Tweed

Countless readers have been delighted by Father Andrew M. Greeley’s bestselling tales of Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish speaking woman blessed with the gift of second sight, and her husband and accomplice, Dermot Michael Coyne.

In Irish Tweed, Nuala Anne and her daughter have taken up karate to fight off schoolyard bullies who are harassing the family, while their incredibly shy nanny, Julie, is courted by a new fellow. Dermot pores over a memoir of a famine refugee whose family died of a mysterious fever, looking for clues into the illness’ real cause.

Father Greeley s many fans look forward to each installment, and Irish Tweed is another captivating tale in a series by one of America s best loved storytellers.

Summer at the Lake

For childhood friends Leo Kelly, Jane Devlin, and newly ordained ‘Packy’ Keenan, the summers they spent at the lake together were times of pure magic. And no summer was more enchanting than the summer of 1948 until a tragic car wreck killed two of their friends. The rich and prominent ‘Old House’ families of Chicago banded together to protect their own the driver, who was drunk, was the son of a local doctor. There was a cover up and a vicious scandal. Leo left for the Korean War, and the three friends’ summers at the lake were gone forever…
Until thirty years later when Leo, still obsessed by the memory of Jane and the need to solve the mystery of what really happened that fateful summer, comes back to Chicago and back to the lake. Jane is more beautiful than ever, but her life has been an unhappy one, trapped in a loveless marriage and haunted by the memory of Leo. She has returned to the lake to try to piece her life back together. Disillusioned with the priesthood, Packy realizes he’s in love with Jane, too. But as a best friend and confidant to Leo and Jane, he faces a difficult choice this summer: should he help his oldest friend win back the woman of his dreams or pursue what might be his own last chance for love?

A Midwinter’s Tale

With his unique blend of humor, Irish American charm, and solid family values, Father Andrew M. Greeley continues to attract a new generation of readers and delight. his legion of loyal fans. A Midwinters Tale is the charming story of Charles Cronin’s coming of age on the West Side of Chicago and post war Germany. The Second World War is over, but in Germany, the aftermath is a dangerous and heart rending time: the black market is booming, government agents hunt down suspected war criminals and refugees for ruthless Russians, and everywhere the streets are filled with human suffering. Charles ‘Chucky’ Cronin is a short, wisecracking clerk typist with flaming red hair in the First Constabulary Regiment in Bamberg. All Chucky wants out of life is to go to his beloved Notre Dame, become an accountant, and have a nice orderly life, but the Deity seems to have other plans for him. Again and again his courage and compassion get him into impossible scrapes with black marketeers, border patrols, his commanding officer, and the U.S. Army and only his trademark combination of quick wit and blind luck and maybe a little Heavenly intervention see him safely out of harm’s way. He may yet make it back home to a certain Rosemary Clancy in one piece after all, and wouldn’t that be grand, don’t ya know?

Younger Than Springtime

Bestselling novelist Andrew M. Greeley has captured the imagination of a worldwide audience with his trademark wit, charm, and sheer storytelling genius. Here he is once again at his very best, with his mesmerizing storytelling ability and keen eye for human detail that his readers have come to expect. With Younger Than Springtime, Father Greeley returns to the compelling and compassionate postwar chronicle of the incredible, inestimable, and, as some call them, ‘crazy O’Malley family’ from Chicago’s West Side. It’s 1949, a year that none of the O’Malleys or any of their legions of friends will ever forget.

Charles ‘Chucky’ O’Malley is back from his two year tour in Bamberg, Germany, but his carefully planned future of Notre Dame and accounting is not exactly proceeding as planned. But when has it ever? His hall rector, Father Pius, is determined to catch him in an expellable act, and Chucky’s interest in accounting is waning fast.

What he does best is take pictures. He’s not a Photographer he is a ‘picture taker,’ plain and simple. Only there’s nothing plain or simple about his pictures. They’re elegant, insightful, and penetrating. He has real talent. But is it possible to support a wife and family doing that?

Not that he has any intention of marrying anytime soon, mind you. Things are as complicated as ever between him and the lovely and lively Rosemarie Helen Clancy. There’s also the matter of the intoxicatingly beautiful blonde also talented and rich Cordelia Lennon, with whom he’s become semi involved.

Marriage is in the cards for other people: his dear sister Margaret Mary ‘call me Peg!’ and many of his friends who, like everyone else in America, are enjoying the post war boom. Even the O’Malleys have a big new house in Oak Park and spend summer weekends at the lake house.

With pluck, humor, and a very good ear for listening, Chucky has advice for all of his friends and family. It’s only his own life and feelings that he can’t quite get a grip on.

It is the sound of Chucky’s voice, self deprecating, lilting, and humorous that permeates this triumphant story of love. For the history of every family really is a love story in a way a series of love stories but perhaps few are quite as remarkable as that of the O’Malleys.

A Christmas Wedding

‘Happy families are all alike,’ said Tolstoy, and the O’Malley’s are one of the happiest, if slightly crazy, families in current fiction. A Christmas Wedding continues the saga of Chucky, the youngest son who wants to live the quiet life of an accountant and raise a nice Catholic family. Fate, of course, has other plans for Chucky, in the person of the beautiful Rosemarie, his off again on again nemesis from the time he saved her life when he was a young man. Thrown out of Notre Dame on trumped up charges, Chucky ends up going to the University of Chicago. The only problem: his lifelong enemy Rosemarie is a fellow student. They decide to be ‘just friends,’ and while they battle with each other, ‘just friends’ turns into something neither of them expected.

September Song

Narrated by the ravishing Rosemarie, dedicated wife of our intrepid and trouble prone hero, Chucky Cronin OMalley, September Song follows the OMalley saga from Chuckys appointment as Ambassador to Germany by President Kennedy the youngest Ambassador in history, to his resignation after a serious disagreement with President Johnson, to his in your face involvement in Selma, Alabama, the Chicago Democratic Convention, and the Vietnam War. Chucky cant stay out of trouble, and his wife Rosemarie is often, if not always, by his side.

Second Spring

Father Andrew M. Greeley, one of America’s best loved and most widely read novelists, has delighted readers with his ongoing chronicles of the crazy O’Malleys, a rambunctious but resourceful Irish American family caught up in the sweep of modern American history. The previous novels in the saga A Midwinter’s Tale, Younger than Springtime, A Christmas Wedding, and September Song have taken the O’Malleys of Chicago from the aftermath of World War II through the tumultuous upheavals of the sixties. Now, in Second Spring, Charles ‘Chucky’ O’Malley and his growing clan face the promise and pitfalls of the late seventies. It’s 1978 and the whole country, exhausted from the twin traumas of Vietnam and Watergate, seems to be suffering from a massive hangover. Chucky O’Malley knows how the country feels; approaching fifty, he finds himself in the grip of a debilitating midlife crisis. Although he has much to be thankful for, including a loving wife and a thriving career as a professional photographer, he does not feel like a success. He hasn’t lost his faith, exactly, but he does feel disillusioned and depressed. As he travels the world, from the Vatican, where a new pope is to be selected, to Jimmy Carter’s White House, where an overwhelmed president struggles to find a cure for his nation’s malaise, Chucky searches for a way to renew his weary spirit. Fortunately, he doesn’t have to face this challenge alone. With the loving support of his family, and especially his irrepressible and adoring wife, Rosemarie, he just might rediscover his lost hope and optimism in time for a Second Spring
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Golden Years

Father Andrew M. Greeley, one of America’s most popular and trusted storytellers, has long charmed readers with his continuing chronicles of the crazy O’Malleys, an irrepressible and resilient Irish American family caught up in the rush of modern American history. The previous novels in the O’Malley saga, including A Midwinter’s Tale and Second Spring, have taken the longtime Chicago residents from the early postwar era through the turmoil and malaise of the 1970s. Now, in Golden Years, Chucky O’Malley and his ever growing clan enter the Reagan years even as a series of painful shocks tests the family’s strength as never before.

The death of Chucky’s elderly father brings the entire brood together to mourn, but what should be a time of unity is disrupted by the increasingly erratic behavior of Chucky’s unhappy and emotionally unstable older sister, igniting a family crisis that ultimately threatens the lives of both young and old O’Malleys. Furthermore, as if their own struggles are not enough to cope with, Chucky and his wife, Rosemarie, also find themselves called upon to help an old high school friend whose beloved wife and daughter have disappeared inexplicably. To find Brigid ‘Bride’ O’Brien and her innocent child, Chucky and Rosemarie must untangle a shadowy mystery that stretches from the bogs of Old Erin to the darkest chapters of the cold war…
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There will hard days ahead but, with love and more than a bit of faith, the O’Malleys will bury their dead, dry their tears, and try to make the best of their…
Golden Years.

Angel Fire

Someone to watch over me? Sean Seamus Desmond, newly announced Nobel Prize winnter, relishes the unknowns of science, but a real life mystery of love and passion…
in the form of a beautiful woman who says she’s his guardian angel? Impossible. Yet there in his New York hotel room is an enchanting creature named Gabriella Light, who inexplicably and dramatically has just saved his life. Voluptuous and exquisitely dressed, sexy Gabriella, angel or not, is determined to keep him alive as a terrifying web of intrigue closes around him. Pursued by a very real and present danger, Sean Desmond will question his own sanity and his deepest beliefs, as he experiences what cannot be rationalized away as anything other than a powerful, radiant, and transcendent love…
one that will test him as a man too long afraid of human and divine fires within himself!A wonderful, electrifying novel, Angel Fire, will delight readers with the storytelling magic that Andrew Greeley does best. Again he has created a tale rich with suspense, breathless entertainment, compelling ideas and fascinating charaters we love, cherish, and never forget.

Angel Light

‘I do not want ten million dollars. I do not want to visit Ireland. I do not want to end a Tobin family feud. And, above all, I do not want to court my eighth cousin, once removed.’ Even as he says the words, ‘Toby’ Tobin, Irish American computer hacker, knows it’s useless to resist. His late great uncle’s will must be obeyed, and his family is determined to make him respectable by his twenty fifth birthday. Encouraged by a photo of his cousin, Sara Anne Elizabeth Tobin, with her gorgeous black hair, blue eyes, and pale skin, Toby checks his computer for travel arrangements to Ireland. He finds himself chatting with an unusual travel agent, Raphaella, a very modern angel, who’s been surfing the net for someone to look after. Raphaella gives him a new passport and first class plane tickets out of O’Hare, and the encouragement and good humor he’ll need on his quest for a living grail the beautiful, mysterious, troubled, young Sara Tobin. He must marry Sara within the month and solve an ancient mystery and elude a threatening thug in order to claim his inheritance. Angel Light is based on the Book of Tobis in the Old Testament, one of the sweetest love stories ever told.

Contract with an Angel

Millionaire media mogul Raymond Neenan can’t believe his ears or his eyes. the seat next to him, empty for the whole flight, now barely contains a huge man who looks a lot like Chicago Bulls superstar Michael Jordan. In fact, the ‘man’ is the Archangel Michael ‘Not Mike, not Mikey, but Michael. you got a problem with that?, and he’s looking to make a deal for Neenan’s immortal soul. Neenan isn’t interested in his soul or anyone else’s unless there is money in it, but a little well timed turbulence that sends the plane hurtling earthward caused him to reconsider. If he doesn’t believe in it, what could it hurt to sign?But for a man like Neenan,making amends is no easy task. Though he never knew it, he’s damaged a lot of lives, including his own. He’s hated or feared by his parents, his ex wife, his children, and practically everyone he’s ever met.

The Magic Cup

A Quest for the Holy GrailIn this novel of legendary Ireland, Andrew Greeley takes you back into a long ago time of mists and magic, faith and love. Here you will meet Cormac MacDermot, the young king destined to lead Ireland out of paganism to Christianity; his aged father, now on the throne, and the seductive witch queen who holds the country in thrall. Here also is the lovely slave girl Brigid. As light footed as an Irish pixie, she will help Cormac seek The Magic Cup that will confirm his right to be High King of Ireland. Over mountain and river they will journey, beset by perils. But when their enemies capture Brigid, and Cormac strives to save her, he will see that the little slave girl is a great deal more than she seems.

The Cardinal Sins

The Cardinal Sins ignited a worldwide sensation when it first appeared nearly thirty years ago. Selling more than three million copies, it launched Andrew M. Greeley’s career as one of America s most popular storytellers. Back in print at last, this powerful saga of ambition, temptation, and love both spiritual and carnal is as timely and provocative as ever.

Lifelong friends and occasional rivals, Kevin Brennan and Patrick Donahue enter seminary together, but their lives soon diverge dramatically. Intellectual and independent, Kevin achieves success as a scholar but often finds himself at odds with his superiors in the Church. And his unwavering principles threaten to cut him off from those closest to him including the former sweetheart he has never forgotten.

By contrast, the ambitious Patrick rises steadily through the Church hierarchy, only to fall prey to the temptations of lust and power. As hidden scandals and Patrick s inner demons threaten to destroy the lives of everyone around him, it s up to his oldest friend to save him from himself and foil a conspiracy that could change the very future of the Papacy!

God Game

Andrew M. Greeley, the phenomenally popular novelist and priest, is best known and loved for his understated Catholic morality and compassionate understanding of human foibles. In The God Game, now available in a brand new trade paperback edition, Father Greeley takes a new and fascinating twist on an old cliche: What if by using a sophisticated computer game with a healthy dose of heavenly intervention you really could play God? What if you actually had the power to control other people’s lives?This is the dilemma that faces our hero, who quickly finds that being given the kingdom, the power, and the glory is dangerous but addictive. The troubles of the people he sees flashing on his computer screen are all too real and his troubles are just beginning…

The Final Planet

For the men and women of the battered pilgrim vessel Iona, members of the Holy Order of St. Brigid and St. Brendan, it was the last chance. Even with survival at stake, they must obey their holy order’s rule: they cannot invade, they must be invited to land. And they don’t know enough to be sure of wangling a welcome. The Holy Captain Abbess Dierdre Cardinal Fitzgerald sends Seamus O’Neil as a spy. A spy? Seamus is a crack soldier, a second rate bard, and a young man looking for love, but a diplomat he isn’t. The land is beautiful, and the women are lovely and loving except for gorgeous, chilly Marjetta but a paradise it isn’t. In fact, the land is more dangerous than Seamus could have imagined. It will be a miracle if he and Marjetta keep their skins intact much less pull off a landing for the Iona.

All About Women

The bestselling author of Virgin and Martyr, Angel Fire, and many more novels populates the stage in All About Women with women of al kinds: the young and the aging, the rich and the poor, the beautiful and the not so beautiful. National promotion to include a 24 city satellite tour scheduled to coincide with the hardcover release of Faithful Attraction. HC: Tor.

Fall from Grace

Kathleen Leary Donahue lives the perfect life in Chicago with her husband, Brian, a senatorial candidate, her three beautiful children, and her own successful career, until a phone call from her husband’s male lover brings her face to face with an unpleasant reality.

White Smoke

The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church have gathered in Rome for the papal election following the death of the incumbent pope. Torn by internal conflict and with many of its members alienated, the Church faces one of the most serious crises in its history. A coalition of cardinals favors a more moderate and pluralistic style of papal governance, but must contend with shadowy Vatican forces that oppose change and loss of their own power. These forces are determined to destory the coalition’s candidate, a gentle and brilliant Spanish scholar. The leader of the coalition is Chicago’s wily Sean Cardinal Cronin, aided by his patently indispensable sidekick, Bishop John Blackwood ‘Blackie’ Ryan. A lone assassin stalks the Vatican, his crazed mission: to destroy the next pope as soon as the traditional White Smoke issues from the cardinals’ meeting room the Sistine Chapel followed by the ancient words Habemus papam. Can politics Chicago style turn the Catholic Church around? What will happen when the next pope must be chosen? Only Andrew M. Greeley, priest, bestselling novelist, and respected sociologist could have written this blockbuster tale of the forces actually ripping the Church apart, and of the next papal election, when the fate of the entire Catholic Church itself may well hang in the balance.

Star Bright!

Father Andrew M. Greeley, the priest who is also a bestselling novelist, here tells a Christmas story as warm as a loving heart a book to cherish. It’s beginning to look a lot like an American Christmas: irritable, unpleasant relatives; horrible weather, miserable travel; a slobbering dog and one Jack Flanigan, ‘a harmless American of Irish origins,’ who is reluctantly but totally falling in love with one Odessa Tatiana Alekseevna Shuskulya, a young woman from Russia who’s studying at Harvard. Jack, of course, is attending Boston College, the Jesuits’ hangout in Chestnut Hill. One Tuesday, Jack picks her up in Harvard Square, showing off the Russian language he’s been studying. It’s not the urge to talk Russian that moves him, through; it’s her spectacular, dark eyed beauty. How is he to know that he’s getting mixed up with a mystic who makes Alyosha Karamazov look like an earthbound nerd? So, of course, he feels sorry for her, spending Christmas alone in a country not her own. He makes a big mistake: he invites her home to Chicago for the holiday, thought it isn’t even Christmas in the Russian Orthodox calendar, and gorgeous Odessa is never alone except when she wants to be. So? So she accepts! And what happens when she gets to Chicago, caught in the American maelstrom of commercialized Yuletide? Ah, now, that would be telling, wouldn’t it? Enough to say, there’s a tree, and a feast, and midnight Mass, and a gaggle of contentious Flanigans of all ages who have the merriest Christmas ever and nothing will ever again be quite the same for any of them. Especially lucky Jack Flanigan.

The Priestly Sins

Not since his runaway bestseller, The Cardinal Sins, has Father Andrew Greeley written such a searing and topical novel about the state of the Catholic Church. The Priestly Sins tells the story of Father Herman Hoffman, a gifted and innocent young man from the distant prairies of the Great Plains. In the summer of his first parish appointment, Hoffman is swept up in the Crisis after witnessing child abuse in the parish rectory. He tells the pastor, the father of the victim, and the local police but is rebuffed by the archbishop. Soon he is vilified for denouncing a priest who has been ‘cleared’ by the police and learns the harsh fate of the whistleblower in the contemporary Catholic church: he is locked up in a mental health center and then sent into exile to do graduate study. In Chicago to study immigrant history, he encounters the local ‘Vicar for Extern Priests,’ the legendary monsignor Blackie Ryan, who helps him regain his confidence. Hoffman returns home to demand a parish of his own from the archbishop. Reluctantly, the church hierarchy assigns him to a dying parish, but by his zeal and charm he revives the local church. His brief idyll is shattered by a subpoena to testify in a court hearing. If he speaks, he will have to take on the ‘downtown’ establishment that is determined to destroy him and many of his fellow priests who want to be rid of this painful reminder of a sinful past. He faces exile not only from his parish but from the priesthood itself. Written from the author’s fifty years of experience as a priest, The Priestly Sins will be criticized by some but embraced by most for this all too candid story of all too human priests. The Priestly Sins is Father Greeley’s most electrifying novel in three decades.

The Senator and the Priest

One of America’s most beloved storytellers, Father Andrew Greeley returns with an explosive novel about the corrosive political culture tearing apart America and one man s family.

Tommy Moran, an Irish Catholic kid from the West Side of Chicago, fights for the underprivileged on the floor of the United States Senate. Swearing off negative attack ads, Moran is determined to restore civility and compassion to American politics. But his opponents don t share his scruples. Almost from the beginning, Tommy and his family find themselves besieged by vicious personal attacks, false rumors and attempts at assassination!

As a freshman senator, Tommy must also cope with the temptations both political and carnal regularly thrown his way. The job takes its toll on him, but at least he has the support and love of his devoted wife, a daughter of Chicago s raucous O Malley family.

But the opposition that hits home the hardest comes from an unlikely source: his own brother.

Father Tony Moran, a conservative Catholic priest, has never approved of Tommy s senatorial career, much to Tommy s dismay. So when Father Tony sides with Tommy s political enemies, it may be more than one man can bear.

Can anything heal the rift between The Senator and the Priest?

Home for Christmas

Petey Pat Kane and Mariana Pia Pelligrino have been in love with each other their whole lives. But on a night that is supposed to be one of the best of their lives, Peter makes a choice that forces him to leave Chicago and Mariana behind. Guilt leads him into the Army, where he becomes Captain Kane, war hero. But nothing can make him forget his love for Mariana. On his third deployment in Iraq, Peter is injured and finds himself both alive and dead on a wondrous spiritual journey where he is given a second chance at life from God Himself. With Christmas approaching, time is running out for Peter to complete the most important mission of his life: convincing himself that he and Mariana were meant to share a special message of love with the world.

The Sense of Love

Andrew M. Greeley, a priest ordained in the diocese of Chicago nearly four decades ago, has been a noted scholar for many years a professor of social science at the University of Chicago and the author of scores of books in sociology and has been a constant best selling fiction writer since the publication of his first novel, The Cardinal Sins. He has also extended his fiction to include science fiction and detective stories. His mystery solver, Father Blacky, is reminiscent of G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown. With his first major collection of poetry, Andrew M. Greeley takes his place among the priest poets of the Anglo/Roman tradition. Herein Father Greeley examines The Sense of Love on all levels sexual, social, and spiritual from a variety of perspectives. He is satirical, spiritual, whimsical, surreal, tender with a capacity for love and friendship in the most profound sense of the Christian tradition, and at times even priestly. Above all, he is an Irish wit out of the tradition of the City of Big Shoulders. Essentially a formalist in style, he most often works in the sonnet form as did many of his priest poet forebears e.g., John Donne, George Herbert, and Gerard Manley Hopkins, though he is sometimes given to more open forms and even the haiku on occasion. Readers of these poems will find most particularly a celebration of the joy and absurdity of life, the gifts and quirks given to men and women, and the gifts they give to one another and to God. Above all, he celebrates the love relationship between God and his creatures on the levels of eros, philos, and agape.

Religion as Poetry

‘While drawing upon Weber, Durkheim, Eliade, and others, Greeley offers a theory of religion genesis’ that deserves to take its place alongside the seminal works of the aforementioned giants. An altogether remarkable volume.’ Doug McAdam, University of Ariona ‘Father Greeley’s study and the impressive data he has assembled may help us understand and begin to solve some of humankind’s most pressing problems.’ Reverend Michael P. Orsi, Philadelphia Inquirer

Religion in Europe at the End of the Second Millenium

Most sociologists of religion describe a general decline in religious faith and practice in Europe over the last two centuries. The seculariing forces of the Enlightenment, science, industrialiation, the influence of Freud and Marx, and urbaniation are all felt to have diminished the power of the churches and demystified the human condition. In Andrew Greeleys view, such overarching theories and frameworks do not begin to accommodate a wide variety of contrasting and contrary social phenomena. Religion at the End of the Second Millennium engages the complexities of contemporary Europe to present a nuanced picture of religious faith rising, declining, or remaining stable.

The Book of Love

Love. Of all the virtues that have been passed on to us through the ages, from the great poets to the saints and scholars, throughout history and literature, love is the one virtue that we as a society cannot live without. The ability to love well and to love wisely is the most important trait that parents can pass on to their children. As children grow, the longing to share this love as well as receive it will remain strong throughout their lives. Bestselling author Andrew M. Greeley and his sister, Dr. Mary G. Durkin have complied a beautiful and inspiring anthology that will help us comprehend this the most important of virtues and also help us express and understand what it means to love, and how to love wisely. The Book of Love is a perfect gift for a parent to give to a child, for relatives or friends to share, or for those who are coming to know this virtue in all its glory. People of all nations, creeds, colors, and denominations will appreciate this treasury of essays, poems, stories, and songs reflecting the one human need that has remained constant: Love. It has been written about in the Bible, and it was passed down orally in myth and legend. It was discussed by the Chinese philosopher Confucius and in the Koran, and it inspired great works of literature and the pages of popular fiction. The Book of Love is a testament to the enduring nature of our own good, a good expressed through the human bond. In the tradition of William J. Bennett’s The Book of Virtue, The Book of Love is a collection to be treasured, and shared, but most of all, it will guide us to express and to pass on the greatest of life’s virtues: Love.

The Great Mysteries: Experiencing the Catholic Faith from the Inside Out

The Great Mysteries responds with passion and skill to the growing concerns of spiritual seekers and teachers of the Catholic faith. In radical, refreshing fashion, Greeley explores 12 essential questions of faith and grounds them in human experience. With the skill of a master storyteller and the passion of a deep believer, Greeley contemplates questions at the heart of human life is there any purpose in my life? Are there any grounds for hope? Why is there evil in the world? and reveals how the symbols, rituals, teachings and mysteries of Catholicism both shape and respond to these profound uncertainties.

Furthermore!: Memories of a Parish Priest

Father Greeley, who for more than half a century has been a successful journalist, novelist, sociologist, and priest, puts his thoughts to paper in this surprising and always intriguing memoir. Picking up where his acclaimed Confessions of a Parish Priest left off, Furthermore! has something for everyone. Always on the side of compassion, understanding, and honesty, Father Greeley admits that sometimes he finds himself unable to not speak out. Father Greeleys charismatic personality shines through in all of its many facets as he examines his life and times.

The Catholic Revolution: New Wine, Old Wineskins and the Second Vatican Council

How, a mere generation after Vatican Council II initiated the biggest reform since the Reformation, can the Catholic Church be in such deep trouble? The question resonates through this new book by Andrew Greeley, the most recognized, respected, and influential commentator on American Catholic life. A timely and much needed review of forty years of Church history, The Catholic Revolution offers a genuinely new interpretation of the complex and radical shift in American Catholic attitudes since the second Vatican Council 1962 1965. Drawing on a wealth of data collected over the last thirty years, Greeley points to a rift between the higher and lower orders in the Church that began in the wake of Vatican Council II when bishops, euphoric in their temporary freedom from the obstructions of the Roman Curia, introduced modest changes that nonetheless proved too much for still rigid structures of Catholicism: the ‘new wine’ burst the ‘old wineskins.’ As the Church leadership tried to reimpose the old order, clergy and the laity, newly persuaded that ‘unchangeable’ Catholicism could in fact change, began to make their own reforms, sweeping away the old ‘rules’ that no longer made sense. The revolution that Greeley describes brought about changes that continue to reverberate in a chasm between leadership and laity, and in a whole generation of Catholics who have become Catholic on their own terms. Coming at a time of crisis and doubt for the Catholic Church, this richly detailed, deeply thoughtful analysis brings light and clarity to the years of turmoil that have shaken the foundations, if not the faith, of American Catholics.

Priests: A Calling in Crisis

For several years now, the Roman Catholic Church and the institution of the priesthood itself have been at the center of a firestorm of controversy. While many of the criticisms lodged against the recent actions of the Church and a small number of its priests are justified, the majority of these criticisms are not. Hyperbolic and misleading coverage of recent scandals has created a public image of American priests that bears little relation to reality, and Andrew Greeley’s Priests skewers this image with a systematic inside look at American priests today. No stranger to controversy himself, Greeley here challenges those analysts and the media who parrot them in placing the blame for recent Church scandals on the mandate of celibacy or a clerical culture that supports homosexuality. Drawing upon reliable national survey samples of priests, Greeley demolishes current stereotypes about the percentage of homosexual priests, the level of personal and professional happiness among priests, the role of celibacy in their lives, and many other issues. His findings are more than surprising: they reveal, among other things, that priests report higher levels of personal and professional satisfaction than doctors, lawyers, or faculty members; that they would overwhelmingly choose to become priests again; and that younger priests are far more conservative than their older brethren. While the picture Greeley paints should radically reorient the public perception of priests, he does not hesitate to criticize the Church’s significant shortcomings. Most priests, for example, do not think the sexual abuse problems are serious, and they do not think that poor preaching or liturgy is a problem, though the laity give them very low marks on their ministerial skills. Priests do not listen to the laity, bishops do not listen to priests, and the Vatican does not listen to any of them. With Greeley’s statistical evidence and provocative recommendations for change including a national ‘Priest Corps’ that would offer young men a limited term of service in the Church Priests offers a new vision for American Catholics, one based on real problems and solutions rather than on images of a depraved, immature, and frustrated priesthood.

The Making of the Pope 2005

Father Andrew Greeley recounts the dramatic unfolding of the centuries old conclave of cardinals in this firstshand account of the papal election of 2005. 16 page insert.

Jesus: A Meditation on His Stories

We must begin our story of Jesus by granting him permission to surprise us endlessly…
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Jesus of Galilee taught through stories, which even today contain the power to startle us out of our prejudices and preconceptions. Now Father Andrew M. Greeley, one of America’s most beloved storytellers, examines the parables told by Jesus in search of a fuller understanding of the man and his message.
This engaging and informal collection of homilies reveals a Jesus whose simple parables carry profound lessons about the Kingdom of Heaven. Along the way, Father Greeley touches on such provocative topics as the significance of Jesus s Jewish roots, his deep and revolutionary relationship with women, The Da Vinci Code, and The Passion of the Christ. He also singles out the four greatest parables, which best illustrate the infinite love and mercy of the God whose kingdom began with Jesus and continues even today.
As a storyteller, Jesus often surprised his listeners with unexpected twists that challenged them to see the world in a whole new light. Father Greeley s insightful tour of the Gospels provides a fresh look at the parables that strips away centuries of false and mistaken interpretations to get at the essential truth of who Jesus really was and what he believed.

Chicago Catholics and the Struggles Within Their Church

What might one expect to learn from a probability sample study of the Archdiocese of Chicago? Can one form a national portrait of Catholics in the United States from data about Chicago? Certainly, Chicago is unique in its judgments about its clergy. As the eminent Catholic sociologist Andrew M. Greeley argues, it is this very difference that makes rigorous comparisons between Chicago Catholics and other Catholic subpopulations possible. He suggests that history and geography provide a basis for understanding the development of the Catholic Church not just in this specific area, but also in the entire United States. The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago it composed of two counties, Lake and Cook. At the same time the Catholic population has been pushed up against the boundary of DuPage County by racial change in the city, so that much of the west and south side Catholic population of the city has moved into the southern and western suburbs. In this research area, half of the Catholics have attended college and half of those have attended graduate school. Thus, the conventional image of Chicago as a mix of ethnic immigrant neighborhoods has to be modified although there are still many new immigrants attending special immigrant parishes. Greeley argues that the official church in Chicago, and by inference elsewhere, has not recognied the community structures that permeate the neighborhoods, that it does not grasp the religious stories that shape its peoples identity, and it does not understand the intense, if selective, loyalty of the archdiocese to its leadership. As part of this argument, Greeley includes transcriptions of in depth interviews with former Catholics. This study provides a fascinating window into the world of Catholicism in twenty first century urban America. Andrew M. Greeley is a Catholic priest and best selling novelist. He is professor of social science at the University of Chicago and member of its National Opinion Research Center NORC. Among his books are Faithful Attraction, The Denominational Society, Unsecular Man, Death and Beyond, and The Church and the Suburbs.

Emerald Magic

Mythology and magic come alive in this collection of Irish fantasy stories by some of today’s finest authors. Ireland is a nation that holds fast to its history and heritage, and nowhere is that more true than in its folktales and legends. From the great Celtic myths featuring the bard Taliesin, the terrible Morrigan, the heroic Cuchulain, or the noble and cunning Sidhe to strange and mysterious tales of today, the stories and traditions of the Emerald Isle hold a strong attraction for many. Stories are told in cottage hearths from Galway to Dublin, and from the windblown rocky Cliffs of Mohr to the seaside villages where fishing boats still roam the oceans. Tall tales and town stories are as much a way of life as a pint and good conversation at the local pub. Emerald Magic brings together today’s best fantasy authors to explore the myths of the Irish, telling their own versions of these ancient tales of luck, love, and honor, or drawing upon centuries of Irish myths and folktales and updating them into brand new stories. Edited and with an introduction by bestselling author Father Andrew M. Greeley, Emerald Magic contains fourteen wonderful stories of legend and lore, including:’A Woman Is a Fast Moving Picnic’ by Ray Bradbury. A group of pub regulars set out to discover the truth behind a local song and answer that age old question: Just how fast does a person sink in a bog?’The Isle of Women’ by Jacqueline Carey. In an age long ago, a warrior sailing for vengeance happens upon an island ruled by a woman like no other. But if he is to continue his quest, he must choose between her and his duty. ‘Speir Bhan’ by Tanith Lee. A woman who finds and reads her grandfather’s diary unleashes the specter of an old debt that, even in today’s modern age, must be paid one way or the other.’A Drop of Something Special in the Blood’ by Fred Saberhagen. In the late eighteenth century, an Irish author encounters a being that he will turn into his greatest literary creation.’The Cat with No Name’ by Morgan Llywelyn. A lonely girl neglected by her parents finds an unexpected friend in the alley behind her home one that may be more than it first seems.’The Butter Spirit’s Tithe’ by Charles de Lint. Even in twenty first century America, it is still not wise to anger the spirits of the world, as a young musician discovers when a butter spirit who had cursed him nine years earlier comes to claim his soul. ‘Land of Heart’s Desire’ by Elizabeth Haydon. A young man discovers the magical truth about his parents’ marriage, and sets a chain of events in motion that will force him to choose between the life he has always known and another life he could have.’The Swan Pilot’ by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. In the far future, spaceship pilots travel through interdimensional portals from planet to planet and the only thing more important than knowing how to fly is knowing how to handle the strange hallucinations that appear during the journey. Filled with the spirit and magic of the stories of Ireland, Emerald Magic is a collection of fantasy stories that will delight and captivate from the first page to the last.

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