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A friend forwarded a column written by Regina Brett of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. I include the text: How far can church downsize?Sunday, February 11, 2007Regina BrettPlain Dealer Columnist Regionalism has hit the Catholic Church. You've heard of cities sharing fire trucks, water and taxes? How do you share Midnight Mass, choirs and church bulletins? Alternate years for Midnight Mass? Borrow the choir every other Sunday? Print one side of the bulletin for St. Malachi and the flip side for St. Patrick's? Like it or not, full-service parishes will soon perish. All 231 parishes in the Cleveland Diocese will...

This important pro-life e-mail alert was sent to me today. Please read it and share it with others: The Jesuit Retreat House in Cleveland is having a fundraiser on February 2, 2003. The featured speaker is Regina Brett, a columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Here are a few quotes excerpted from a recent Regina Brett column, where Ms. Brett discussed her ambivalence over the abortion issue: * Don't tell us to oppose sex education. We should try everything to prevent unplanned pregnancies, including teaching abstinence and birth control. * Don't lump pregnancies from rape and incest with those who...

REGINA BRETT DOES THEOLOGYBy James CsankMichNews.comJun 2, 2006 Regina who? Well might you ask. Here is a clue: (1) Regina Brett is a columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and a Catholic.  Here is another clue, which seems to be, but is not, in conflict with the first: (2) The Cleveland Plain Dealer is a liberal, secularist, and anti-Catholic newspaper.  The clues are reconciled in the answer: Brett is the PD’s token Catholic, the kind of Catholic it likes: liberal, feminist, pro-abortion, and pro-gay agenda. She flaunts her Catholicism because it gives her the standing to criticize the Church for not being...