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Parish consolidation: Quick fixes won’t fill pews

Re: “Parish consolidation is a failure of Seattle Archdiocese’s leadership” [Nov. 9, Opinion]: Nicholas O’Connell blames the decline in Church attendance on the Catholic clergy, even singling out Seattle Archbishop Paul Etienne. O’Connell and the group of which he’s a member, Heal Our Church, provide the same old fast fixes: ordination of girls and married males, an enormous lay administration,…