Chicago-area Catholics mostly approve of the pope, their cardinal and their parish priest, but they don't like being told how to conduct their sex lives and they find the Sunday mass deadly dull, best-selling author and former Chicago Sun-Times columnist Andrew Greeley writes in his latest and final book.
"How can you become enthused about a ceremony that doesn't know how to end?" Greeley writes in Chicago Catholics and the Struggles within Their Church, released today, "but must extend itself through semi-literate or inarticulate comments from laity who add at least 10 more minutes to the agony of boredom?"
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