As the cab began to pull away, the 80-year-old priest fell to the ground and hit his head, fracturing his skull. He was taken to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, where he was in critical condition, friends and family said Saturday afternoon.Greeley was in the news most recently when he compared then vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin to South Pacific’s racist Nellie Forbush. From Greeley’s column:
“Right now he’s critical but stable, very stable,” niece Laura Durkin said. “Doctors are hopeful and pleased with his progress from [Friday] to [Saturday].”
Greeley, who was wearing a Barack Obama baseball cap when he fell, suffered bleeding on the brain.
“South Pacific” is a morality play for our time. Sarah Palin is the Ensign Nellie Forbush--an All-American girl as racist, this time a racist with her eye on the White House. She can stir up crowds to shout “Kill him!” at the mention of the presidential candidate of the other party a couple of weeks before the national election.Greeley’s accident happens just as his 17th Bishop Blackie Ryan novel, The Archbishop in Andalusia (Forge), heads into bookstores to meet its November 11 publication date. According to Publishers Weekly, Greeley hasn’t lost his touch. “Greeley’s breezy 17th Blackie Ryan novel ... takes Ryan to the south of Spain for a conference, where the local cardinal requests his help preventing the murder of a beautiful and wealthy widow ... whose many relatives envy her money, title and power in the community ... some readers may feel the travelogue aspects overshadow the mystery untangling, but all will enjoy Greeley’s wit and good humor.”
Greeley’s Webmaster is posting regular health updates here.
2 comments:
Sorry to hear this. Hope he has a speedy recovery.
Father Greeley wrote a wonderful article on Josephine Tey and Nuala Anne McGrail for the Irish Mysteries Issue of Mystery Readers Journal (article online at: http://www.mysteryreaders.org/Issues/Irish.html#greeley
I also consider Father Greeley a very decent man, as well as a fine writer -
Speedy recovery
Ali
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