Do you regret becoming Catholic?

[Heather777]

Heather, I think your priest for whatever reason is not properly seeing your needs. He may be overwhelmed with work, have issues of his own, or simply not realize that you are ready for some “next steps”. I think you do need to raise the issue to him of why he is only spending 5 minutes with you vs. 1 hour with other people and why he has not arranged for you to be confirmed. If you are naturally kind of shy and quiet and reserved, he may not realize anything is amiss. Or he may sense that you are uncomfortable and therefore rushing through your confession is his way of trying to help by getting it over quickly - but it’s not helping and is making it worse.
If you are very uncomfortable with this priest - which can happen - then please before you make any decisions about staying or leaving the church, at least try seeing another priest if you possibly can. Go to the next parish over for example, or the diocesan cathedral. It often happens that a particular priest just doesn’t ring the bell for a particular Catholic. In the old days when there were four priests at a parish, you had options…nowadays with fewer priests, there may not be so many others available. But don’t let one priest be your reason for leaving. God bless you.

I didn’t realise I could speak with another Priest. Perhaps that might be the answer and hopefully I might be able to make a proper confession.
I will look into that this coming week.Thank you very much for your help.

 

[Heather777]

I understand you may not have had the greatest experience, but one can’t flee from something they know (or even simply feel) is correct and expect that it will all work out for them in the end. If you feel the Catholic Church taught the truth, there was no reason to leave. Complain to the priest (again). If that doesn’t work, complain about the priest, to the bishop, if necessary. You can hope and pray for God’s mercy, but you can’t do something you believe God may have a problem with and say, “God will understand”. You need to take further action, not just give up.

Someone has suggested I speak to another priest. I will try and get that arranged this week.I will ask if he minds hearing my confesssion.
I will speak to my priest again, but I don’t want to complain to the Bishop, that doesn’t seem a very nice thing to do.Perhaps my priest finds it irritating to lisren to me stumbling over my words in confession .It must be tedious to sit through. I do try to be as quick as possible but even so it must be very boring.
It would not seem right to make a complaint over such things.I will speak with another Priest, and see how it goes.
Thank you for replying, I appreciate it.

 

[crenfro]

Thank you for this comment. Is how I feel about being Catholic.

I now realize that if I left the catholic I would have nowhere else to go.

 

[peter26]

I converted from the Church of England about 18 months ago though the Ordinariate. I do in some senses regret doing so. I used to attend an Evangelical Anglican parish and was looking for something more reverent and consistent. I think the truth that I now realise is that Catholicism was just the first alternative that I stumbled across and that mostly made a kind of loose sense. I might just as well have moved to a high Anglican church or another protestant group. Finding a priest who has similar interests and who I quickly became friendly with also helped. But I can see now that I rushed into something because I wanted to fit in, because it was expected of me, and because I wanted to belong. There are fundamental things the RC teaches that I simply do not believe and probably never will. Recent controversies have not helped this. Where this has left me really is sort of lukewarm and apathetic.