Leaving the Catholic Church no longer possible

I tried to quit the Catholic church, but the Catholic church wouldn't ...

The moral of this story is not that excommunication is widely misunderstood by the mainstream Catholic community (and Madonna). It's that ...

Formal act of defection from the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

A formal act of defection from the Catholic Church was an externally provable juridic act of departure from the Catholic Church that existed between 1983 ...

How can I leave the catholic church? : r/excatholic - Reddit

You have to be excommunicated to officially be considered not Catholic. I'm not sure how you go about doing that but it's probably more ...

What are the consequences of leaving the Catholic Church without ...

Even with permission, the church condemns you to be lost forever because salvation is only through the RCC, or so they claim. When you leave ...

Can You Stop Being Catholic?

There are no exceptions to this. There used to be a possible exception, but it has since been eliminated. So even if a person leaves the Church, Catholic canon ...

Leaving the Catholic Church no longer possible - Technomancy

It used to be possible to leave the Roman Catholic Church (called defection). However they've changed the rules so it's no longer possible.

Leaving Catholicism | Pew Research Center

A similar number (70%) say they left the Catholic Church because they found another religion they liked more. Having found a religion they liked ...

What is the main reason why people leave the Catholic Church?

Polling indicates that the Catholic Church is losing people for mainly two reasons: Catholics lose their faith in God and religion altogether or ...

Leaving Religion: Defection from the Catholic Church - Atheist Ireland

In Ireland there was a way to formally record that you were no longer a Catholic and require the church to record that fact. Over 12,000 people started this “ ...

Can you re-enter the catholic church after leaving?

But to know how to do this you have to contact your parish priest. Preferably the one at the parish where you got baptized. The rules change ...

The Worst Reason to Leave Catholicism | Catholic Answers Podcasts

You're going to leave the church because of Archbishop Cordileone? Even if he were wrong, let's say he were wrong in his decision, a bishop can ...

Want to leave the Catholic Church? Officially, you can't.

Mary Combs remembers her last Mass. It was about 15 years ago, when sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in Boston, her hometown, was global news ...

Wanna Quit the Catholic Church? It's Complicated. - VICE

But the question of how to leave the church, formally, a process called “apostasy,” is more complicated than one might think. Because the church ...

80% Catholic Youth Leave the Church (and how to fix it)

80% of Catholics are no longer Catholic by the time they turn 23. This is an American stat. I don't know what the numbers look like in Europe.

To Anyone Thinking About Leaving the Catholic Church - YouTube

... know someone who has left the Church, help them fall in love with ... MORE FROM ASCENSION — Ascension's main website: http ...

Why I'm not leaving the Catholic Church

What am I supposed to tell him?" This is a question and a haunting lament. About 5,000 Catholics, including theologians and scholars, have ...

Special report: Why Catholics leave; why Catholics stay - The Pillar

... Catholic but no longer considered themselves members of the Church. ... more likely to identify as Catholic or attend Mass as adults.

Why I cannot even think about leaving the Catholic Church

I still have Italian citizenship, but I no longer live ... The entire Catholic Church is my land, and no extraterritoriality is possible.

Why I Left the Roman Catholic Church - Holy Sojourners

She worships other gods before the Lord, denies the glorious gospel of Christ, and opposes the teachings of the Holy Scriptures. More importantly, I left the ...

I quit the Catholic church: I'm not giving up my faith, but I'm losing my ...

Revelations involving a thousand children, and likely so many more. So I am leaving the Catholic Church, because my heart tells me that is the ...