How “Catholic” were you before leaving the Catholic Church? Which one of these bests describes you?

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**How “Catholic” were you before leaving the Catholic Church? **

**Which one of these bests describes you? **
  • Infant Baptism only?
  • Infant Baptism and first Communion as a child?
  • Infant Baptism, first Communion as a child and Conformation as a teenager.
  • Never really understood my Catholic Faith.
  • Never really, “practice” my Catholic Faith.
  • Have been gone for many years now.
  • None of the above
 
Jimmy_B said:
**How “Catholic” were you before leaving the Catholic Church? **

**Which one of these bests describes you? **
  • Infant Baptism only?
  • Infant Baptism and first Communion as a child?
  • Infant Baptism, first Communion as a child and Conformation as a teenager.
  • Never really understood my Catholic Faith.
  • Never really, “practice” my Catholic Faith.
  • Have been gone for many years now.
  • None of the above
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Jimmy you mean confirmation correct 🙂 Not conformation.
 
Elaborating on why I left in 1989 would require a book. But I really was trying to do what I thought God wanted. I was a seminarian and it was a lack of pastoral car that caused me to stumble so hard. It’s just a fact. The more isolated you are combined with length of time and the intensity of the proselytizers along with personal family issues because of your Catholic faith…the more at risk you are of falling away. But thankfully, God called me home with my entire family. I left as one and returned as 5.
 
Jimmy_B said:
**How “Catholic” were you before leaving the Catholic Church? **

**Which one of these bests describes you? **
  • Infant Baptism only?
  • Infant Baptism and first Communion as a child?
  • Infant Baptism, first Communion as a child and Conformation as a teenager.
  • Never really understood my Catholic Faith.
  • Never really, “practice” my Catholic Faith.
  • Have been gone for many years now.
  • None of the above
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None of them. I was a Convert from Protestantism the reverted back to it and reconverted a lot now.
 
NDfan said:
Jimmy you mean confirmation correct 🙂 Not conformation.
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I was a very disciplined Catholic going to Eucharistic Adoration a couple times a year at least, confession at least once per month and mass at least two or three times per week. I left Catholicism for the Angican church and felt the renewal of the Holy Spirit in my life like a fresh drink of ice cold water on a very hot day. I hadn’t felt the Holy Spirit like this in years and it kind of scared me. I have a great loving parish with a wonderful spirit filled priest and I couldn’t imagine leaving what I have now. Thank God my son is being raised in this loving place of God learning about the Sacrements, receiving Holy Communiuon every Sunday and learning about the Scriptures and the Traditions of the Early Church.
 
NDfan said:
Jimmy you mean confirmation correct 🙂 Not conformation.
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Yep…typo…sorry about that… I just wanted to see if you were paying attention…😃

I hate it when that happens, especially when it’s too late to edit…oh well…

Thanks… 🙂
 
I was in discussion with the nuns who ran my high school (Franciscan) about becoming a nun.

I spent my lunch breaks in chapel in adoration in high school.

Had received all the sacraments of initiation.

Yet, looking back, and after talking with people who are deeply Catholic as adults, I know there was something in me that was never really Catholic. It was how I played out my very real and deep spirituality, but I never fully believed the doctrines.

I was good with the moral stuff, and spiritual disciplines, but not the theology.

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Jimmy_B said:
**How “Catholic” were you before leaving the Catholic Church? **

**Which one of these bests describes you? **
  • Infant Baptism only?
  • Infant Baptism and first Communion as a child?
  • Infant Baptism, first Communion as a child and Conformation as a teenager.
  • Never really understood my Catholic Faith.
  • Never really, “practice” my Catholic Faith.
  • Have been gone for many years now.
  • None of the above
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Wow, talk about slanted! You forgot one option, those who lived and defended the faith until seeing through the illusion.
 
I was baptized, received First Communion, and was confirmed, but I never understood my Catholic faith. I left for 5 years in my twenties. Then I read the Bible. After reading the Bible, I began to understand and returned. Then I studied in adult education classes at my parish and joined a Bible study at my parish. Reading the Bible showed me the truth of the Catholic Church.
 
lak611 said:
I was baptized, received First Communion, and was confirmed, but I never understood my Catholic faith. I left for 5 years in my twenties. Then I read the Bible. After reading the Bible, I began to understand and returned. Then I studied in adult education classes at my parish and joined a Bible study at my parish. Reading the Bible showed me the truth of the Catholic Church.
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Reading the Bible showed me why I should leave.
 
thecoach said:
The illusion of man-created teachings of control rather than the Word of God, as Jesus criticized.
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I don’t remember Jesus ever criticizing men forming an organization with unified teachings to spread the word of God.

Must have missed that part.
 
Meathead said:
I don’t remember Jesus ever criticizing men forming an organization with unified teachings to spread the word of God.

Must have missed that part.
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You must have…re-read His criticism of the Pharisees for such practices. And I am glad you said men formed the organization, not God. As far as being unified with the Word of God, that is open to much debate. And I am speaking from my heart and speaking directly, so you can do without the sarcasm.
 
I was not sarcastic. I haven’t seen Jesus criticize his own church. True he criticized the Pharisees, but did he criticize the ENTIRE faith? I don’t believe so. Just because leaders are corrupt at some points in time does not mean that they all are.

I think your just bitter because the church requires you to conform.
 
I have received all of the sacraments except for marriage, studied in a Catholic university, daily liturgy and communion for many years, even after leaving the priesthood I still keep up on what’s happening in the world of theology.
 
thecoach said:
Reading the Bible showed me why I should leave.
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The Bible version I read that brought me back was the KJV without Apocrypha. Even with the missing books, I saw the truth of the Catholic Church. It was a Baptist who gave me the first Bible I ever read. I reverted to Catholicism though. I never became Baptist.
 
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