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Apr 14, 2020 · How do you become, formally, not-a-Catholic? You take the law into your own hands. Sebastian Tesoriero. The church has tried to make it so it can’t be divorced. Yet people do want to...
Recently, I too tried to formally split from the church. Between the Pennsylvania grand jury investigation and much of Catholic America’s apparent comfort with Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, I...
Jul 9, 2015 · You cannot leave the Catholic Church because the Catholic Church is not a building you can depart or an idea you can disagree with. The Catholic Church is a communion.
- Are you sure members of the Church hierarchy are worse than anyone else? When people cite the pedophilia scandals as a key reason for abandoning the Church, I worry that they're setting themselves up for deep disappointment.
- Are you sure your faith life would be better outside of the Church? Keep in mind that leaving the Catholic Church means leaving the sacraments — sacraments with real power, which are not available outside of the Church that Jesus founded.
- Are you sure the Church's teachings are wrong? There is a pervasive sense in modern culture that whatever spiritual tradition places the fewest moral restrictions on its adherents is most likely to be right.
- Are you sure the Church's doctrines aren't divinely inspired? In my own conversion to Catholicism I faced serious challenges, including the fact that I was diagnosed with a Deep Vein Thrombosis (blood clot in a major vein) which was caused by a genetic clotting disorder that's exacerbated by pregnancy.
Jul 15, 2021 · 06.24.21. But the question of how to leave the church, formally, a process called “apostasy,” is more complicated than one might think. Because the church doesn’t operate as an organization...
When you leave the Church by a formal act. In Canon Law, this is known as "defection from the Catholic Church by a formal act" (in Latin: actus formalis defectionis ab Ecclesia catholica ). The details of how you do this practically were recently clarified by the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts (on 13 March 2006).
