Does this mean I am Roman Catholic?

[hawkeye]

Oh ! how horrible for you, I can’t re-call worse news in 50 years, your definitely gonna need an exorcism.

 

[LeonBloy]

Have you read the Graham Greene novel After the Affair?

You may always be Catholic. Good for you!

 

[tobinatorstark]

I am an Episcopalian, confirmed and active in the church, but I recently found out to my horror that I was baptized as a Roman Catholic.
Does this mean that I am still a Roman Catholic?

Does the Episcopal confirmation cancel it?

If not, is there some sort of way to get formally removed from the Roman Catholic Church?

Why would it be such a horror that you were baptized Catholic? Why would you want to be removed from the Catholic Church?? Isn’t the Catholic religion good enough???

 

[Wyatt]

Umm…guys…I think we’ve just been trolled.

 

[rick43235]

BTW, you were baptised a Catholic in the Catholic Church. The moniker “Roman Catholic” as you use it was brewed-up by Anglican Protestants back when they thought they could still pass as Catholic and they attempted to keep a seat at the table so to speak. Given the absurdity of that claim you should begin to use the correct verbiage.

Well, I guess I’m going to have to tell Father that the new sign in front of our church has to come down…the one that says “Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church.” He’s not going to be happy.

 

[Wyatt]

Well, I guess I’m going to have to tell Father that the new sign in front of our church has to come down…the one that says “Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church.” He’s not going to be happy.

Roman Catholic is correct in the sense that we are Roman, or Latin Rite, Catholics, but it does have a derogatory connotation when Protestants say it.

 

[promethius]

I am an Episcopalian, confirmed and active in the church, but I recently found out to my horror that I was baptized as a Roman Catholic.
Does this mean that I am still a Roman Catholic?

All christians are catholic in the degree that their respective traditions have maintained the truth which they received handed down from the catholic church. You are baptised catholic, and even if you weren’t you would still be catholic to the degree that ALL anglicans are our seperated catholic bretherin

Does the Episcopal confirmation cancel it?

no. nothing can “cancel” catholic membership. Even formal defection only releases you from sacramental obligations (which aren’t tracked these days anyway, so it won’t make a difference to you), but it does not remove “catholicism” of the member. The only way to completely leave the catholic church would be to declare yourself not christian in any fashion: ie, you declare you no longer believe Christ is God, that He died for our sins, that heaven and hell exist, etc.

ALL Christians are seperated catholic bretheren.

If not, is there some sort of way to get formally removed from the Roman Catholic Church?

formal defection. But that only removes sacramental obligation. Not catholicity as conferred by your participation in any form of christian worship.

 

[YoGoRCC]

I’ve heard a lot of Catholics use the phrase “Roman Catholic Church.” Priests and laity alike, and no one has objected to it.

That depends how it is used.

If they are using “Roman Catholic Church” specifically to mean the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church then that’s fine.

It’s wrong however to use “Roman Catholic Church” to describe the entire Catholic Church as it also has many Eastern rites/churches that comprise it and in no way are they “Roman.”

Some Anglican Protestants most especially like to use “Roman Catholic Church” to describe the entire Catholic Church because they like to think of themselves as “Anglo Catholics.”

 

[YoGoRCC]

Well, I guess I’m going to have to tell Father that the new sign in front of our church has to come down…the one that says “Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church.” He’s not going to be happy.

Is that supposed to be funny?

 

[DixitDominus]

The fact that you are now an Episcopalian means that you are latae sententiae excommunicated from the Catholic Church in virtue of Canon 1364 of the Code of Canon Law.

 

[Miserissima]

I second the logic of this, which I have ehard on Catholic Answers Radio:

If you don’t want to be a Catholic, then just don’t practice or acknowledge yourself one. Sure, you can write to the Bishop, but if you don’t believe that Bishop has any authority, why would you bother?

Please do not say in a Catholic forum that you found out “to your horror” that you were baptized Catholic.

Promethius is correct, too, in pointing out that:

The only way to completely leave the catholic church would be to declare yourself not christian in any fashion: ie, you declare you no longer believe…

because all Christians have their history in the Catholic Church.

But I’ll take Wyatt’s suggestion now…