I read, "Confessions of a Parish Priest" last year and found it very egotistic. Sad, that because Fr. Greeley came from a very devout Irish Catholic family. < it just came to me that most of the liberal priests are Irish and had the same background... >
Sometimes it seems as though the Church in Ireland is just a couple of levels above the druids. The priests, but especially the NUNS must have taught variations on Church teachings that folks in the Northeast are still believing and thus find it hard when told what the Church TRULY teaches. It may explain why the Northeastern Catholics are overwhelming liberal. The Church teachings up here seemed to have been filtered through Democrat party politics.