Who Is to Blame When Catholics Leave the Church?

Why I Left Calvary Chapel - Real Clear Catholic

Who can blame them? A tremendous number of West Coast Catholics have left the Church as a direct result of Calvary Chapel's ministry. To be ...

The French Revolution and the Catholic Church | History Today

The Assembly suppressed all remaining religious orders, including those staffing schools and hospitals, and ordered remaining non-jurors to leave or be arrested ...

The Catholic Church - Jewish Virtual Library

Rohling held the Jews responsible for the ideology of liberal economy current in his time, accused them of preventing the coming of the messianic millennium of ...

The Catholics who refuse to leave

In a way, this isn't surprising to me. I see the flaws of the Catholic Church—the sexism and homophobia, the failure to own its sins and ...

J.D. Vance Used to Be an Atheist. What He Believes Now Is Telling.

... left, such as paid parental leave ... Setting aside political debates among Catholic intellectuals, the Catholic Church itself is technically ...

Why so many Protestants do not consider Catholics Christian

... left the Catholic church for a nomdenomalnational church….they have ... However you dont hear Catholics slandering your people and blaming your ...

I Stood Up in Mass and Confronted My Priest. You Should, Too.

It was the church's own teachings that made me stand up on Sunday and question the priest. Catholics are taught that it's imperative to help ...

Can Our Pastor Kick Us Out of the Parish? - Canon Law Made Easy

Strictly speaking, the only way for a Catholic to change parishes under canon law is to move. To be fair, it doesn't really sound like Heather's ...

Catholicism held my family in its sway for decades – but it hid from ...

But to blame my ambivalence about religion entirely on my mum's choices would be too easy. ... church wouldn't quit me. Now what? | Monica Dux.

The Jesuits: What Went Wrong - The Catholic Thing

7. “Pope Francis has imposed the Jesuit top-down authority structure on the present Church. The pope – like the Jesuit superior general – makes ...

How Pope Francis brought me back to the Catholic Church - Vox

The shift away from the church happened around 2007, a few years into the papacy of Benedict XVI, as we watched the church retreat into itself ...

FAQ about the Catechism | USCCB

" The Catechism of the Catholic Church was titled the Catechism of the Universal Church ... How can the Catechism be effectively used by all others responsible ...

Vanishing Catholics - Homiletic & Pastoral Review

Not a few have left the Church because of real or perceived mistreatment by bishops or pastors. Reactions have a way of becoming overreactions.

Some Catholics are at a crossroad about the church and religion

People are leaving Catholicism because of the church abuse scandal among other reasons ... Others are sticking with it, ...

America's Changing Religious Landscape | Pew Research Center

The drop in the Christian share of the population has been driven mainly by declines among mainline Protestants and Catholics. Each of those ...

Tim Padgett: Why We're Still Catholics | TIME.com

I understand why the abuse scandal has moved many Catholics to leave the church ... responsible for the 5% decline in U.S. Catholic ...

Roman Catholicism - Reformation, Counter-Reformation, Church

Despite, or because of, the rampant abuses of the hierarchy, there were efforts to reform the church. The most notable reformers were the Christian humanists, ...

St. Catherine of Siena and leaving the Church - Catholic World Report

What can this 14th-century mystic teach us today about fidelity to Christ and to a Church in crisis? ... In the wake of so many clerical sex abuse ...

Dealing with Corruption and Scandal - The Coming Home Network

... Church), and Catholics should not attend their services. On the ... responsibility and could not just leave them hanging. But all the ...

Six Types of Fallen Away Catholics - Ascension Press Media

Religious Switchers– Those who switch to other Christian churches because they want to keep their faith in Jesus but see the sacraments, liturgy, and other ...