Switching Churches

The_Conductor

First of all- this is not a trolling- its a serious question.

How would one go about switching from e.g. the Catholic church to e.g. The Church of Ireland?

I am not interested in info on leaving the Catholic Church- I have that already.

A slightly peripheral question- if someone has denounced their membership of the Catholic Church officially (and had it acknowledged as thus- with their baptismal and confirmation certificates so noted), how would that person subsequently go about joining the Church of Ireland.

Minor reformation at work here.

There is a letter on this in the Sunday Independent of 3 weeks ago- which one or two of you may remember.

Shane

The Brigadier

I was allways of the impression that the catholic church was the one religion in the world that would not let you become an ex-....

You could be a non-practicing catholic or you could be excomunnicated but you were allways a catholic?

watty

Go sumplace long enough and they probabily count you when reporting to head office.

I wouldn't make a big deal about it unless ith was the Brethern, Baptists or a small Pentecostal/Charsimatic Church. etc (They might want to baptise you again), The CofI would probabily reguard the original baptism as valid since you want to remain a Christian. You could I suppose do "Confirmation". In CofI and Methodist, this is publically becomming a member of the Church and common enough for Adults. Again though some Anglican's would regard your Confirmation in the Roman Church as perfectly valid, since you are not rejecting your faith in God.

(You don't have to get baptised or confirmed when changing Denominiation, unless the church you are joining doesn't recognise the previous ceremony .. it is NOT to do with how much YOU recognised it, for example from a Roman Church OR Anglican or Presbyterian to Baptist Church they would NOT recognise Infant Baptisim, even if you were happy with it, you would HAVE to have Adult baptism).

The_Conductor

Hi James,

Yes- you most certainly can become an official Ex-Catholic- that said the books are still going to have your name in it- nothing is ever deleted- not even sure what the ammended entry is like.

Have come to the conclusion that its not worth the while giving them the satisfaction of fighting with them. Sure you could try to make a public issue of it- but its not going to achieve anything.

My latest opinion- all organised religion is evil, all of it.

Back to drawing board.

Shane