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Catholic Church confirms you can no longer leave/defect

ceret · 2011-01-09 12:42:36

Hi all, Just thought I'd share my defection process. I went to Count Me Out, fillled in all the forms and sent them off. However I got a letter back saying you can't defect anymore. read more: Leaving the Catholic Church no longer possible Whether or not that makes one still a Catholic is an ecumenical matter. :P However…

09-01-2011 12:42pm

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ceret

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Hi all,

Just thought I'd share my defection process. I went to Count Me Out, fillled in all the forms and sent them off. However I got a letter back saying you can't defect anymore.

Archdiocese of Dublin wrote:

the Canon Law of the Catholic Church was recently change on this matter and it now no longer possible, as it was for some years, to make a formal act of defection from the Church.

read more: Leaving the Catholic Church no longer possible

Whether or not that makes one still a Catholic is an ecumenical matter. :P

However you can be put on a formal register of 'de facto' defections.

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#2 09-01-2011 12:55pm

hiorta

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Simply walk away.
I did it 63 years ago and never looked back. YOU are responsible for YOU - not some mickey-mouse mind-benders.

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#3 09-01-2011 2:58pm

krudler

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Its like the Mafia, once you're in you're in.

Just another example of the churches bullshit rules being changed to save face when it suits them.

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#4 09-01-2011 3:12pm

Zillah

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Right. That's it. Gonna have to make my movie now. And by now I mean later when I have time.

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#5 09-01-2011 3:31pm

Bottle_of_Smoke

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how pathetic.

I always wondered if I'd consider baptising my kids for school purposes.

not a chance now

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#6 09-01-2011 4:37pm

Paparazzo

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Just tick the right box on the census form. Would be funny seeing the church claim 90% of us as theirs, but only 50% tick it on the census form

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#7 09-01-2011 10:11pm

Dades

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Big thread here about those, well, muppets and their canon law.

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