{"id":35032,"date":"2012-10-10T21:18:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T21:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/plain-dealer_regina_brett-the_roman_catholic_church_needs_a_true_renewal\/"},"modified":"2012-10-10T21:18:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T21:18:06","slug":"plain-dealer_regina_brett-the_roman_catholic_church_needs_a_true_renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35032","title":{"rendered":"(Plain-Dealer) Regina Brett&#8211;the Roman Catholic Church needs a true renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The invitation&#8230;[came in] an open letter from the Freedom from Religion Foundation to liberal and nominal Catholics, or as some would call us, cafeteria Catholics, secular Catholics or people pretending to be Catholic. I&#8217;ve been called all of the above.<\/p>\n<p>The handout urged me to quit because my staying is &#8220;aiding and abetting&#8221; a church that wants to ban birth control and abortion. It asked me to choose between reproductive freedom or the Dark Ages, between &#8220;women and their rights or bishops and their wrongs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It asked me to stop deluding myself that I can change the church from within. It asked me to vote with my feet and leave &#8220;an institution that discriminates against half of humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/brett\/blog\/index.ssf\/2012\/10\/catholic_church_needs_a_true_r.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The invitation&#8230;[came in] an open letter from the Freedom from Religion Foundation to liberal and nominal Catholics, or as some would call us, cafeteria Catholics, secular Catholics or people pretending to be Catholic. I&#8217;ve been called all of the above.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35032\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,154,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}