Why would a person who walks away from the Catholic Church and becomes say a member of a Lutheran Church go through the effort to “formally” leave?I can’t imagine that many would bother. I know a number of Catholics who have become members of other Churches or denominations and I will say they are sincere people for the most part, but I don’t know of a single one who wrote the Bishop to even inform him let alone get an OK. Soundslike one of those rules to make the job of the tribunals less onerous.
