I'm Leaving Catholicism & CAF

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Friends I’ve had an amazing time here on CAF. I’ve made many friends and have met some of you in person.

Many of you know that I converted to the Roman Catholic Church from Islam over a year ago. The experiences that I have had within the church have been amazing. I’ve enjoyed every minute of my time.

After some reflection this evening, the doctrines I thought I believed…it turns out that I do not. This evening it’s like a shelf collapsing.

It’s with sorrow my friends that I say Goodbye & I wish you all the best. Happy New year! 🎉☺️
 
Fix the shelf and put your big boy pants back on.

Look, after I converted, for a while I fell away and wasn’t the best Catholic in the world. I started thinking it was just another Christian church. I was even drawn to some of the old messed up theology I would hear in the church my parents and their friends created.

Believe me, there is not a better Church than the one Jesus created. No way.

What is your conversion story?
 
What about those minority views? Do you agree with them or something? Think that they shouldn’t be priests if they have those views?

-Kindest regards, James.

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“Questionnaires were originally sent out in 1996 to all 3,581 secular and regular Catholic priests serving in parochial appointments in England and Wales”

What the heck is a secular Catholic Priest?
 
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AlNg said:
From other threads, it appears that there is a notable minority of Roman Catholic priests who reject some Catholic teachings such as the teaching on artificial birth control and ordination of women.

Telegraph.co.uk

Most Catholic priests ‘do not support Rome over contraception’​

Largest poll reveals increasingly liberal views among younger clergy over homosexuality, chastity and women’s ordination
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That’s a startling article, but it’s also old. From 2003! I bet if you conducted the survey today, the results would be skewed comparatively more conservative, especially among young priests.
 
It is tempting to leave the church, but I will not. Some wolves have entered in as Christ forewarned.

These wolves have been able to make themselves comfortable within the fold for some time.

God’s people must stick together. Many of the faithful are already sending messages to Church leadership to do something - to do more than talk.

A powerful message needs to be sent to the world. Something great needs to happen to prove we truly are God’s people.

I pray that the Pope and all others who are aware of the damnable and atrocious acts (scandals) that go on in the Church…I pray that they will repent and offer heart-felt apologies publicly, and then go away and hold no positions of authority as long as they live. The guilty will go to prison.

I also pray that our brothers and sisters who were driven away will return.

The above may not be a reason for why you are leaving. I am sorry that you have been driven out for any reason - very sorry.

God’s peace be with you. May He give comfort to you and all in our family who are in such a crisis as yours.
 
CatholicDetroit said:
After some reflection this evening, the doctrines I thought I believed…it turns out that I do not. This evening it’s like a shelf collapsing.

It’s with sorrow my friends that I say Goodbye & I wish you all the best. Happy New year! 🎉☺️
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Don’t worry, there are many people in the Church that have trouble with or simply don’t believe certain doctrines. The solution is to learn the Church’s reasoning for those and to pray for acceptance, maybe with time. Leaving the Church will only take you further away from God, not closer. It might be an easier route, but it won’t take you where you want to go, which presumably is toward God. On the other hand, struggling with the doctrines in an attempt to understand will make your faith stronger at the end.
 
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I’m sorry to hear about your spiritual struggles. Five or so years ago, I couldn’t understand what God wants of the human race. Nothing made sense. I never rejected God or the faith. I wasn’t angry at God. All I could do was ask the Blessed Mother to pray for me. Finally, a friend invited me to Mass. I went. I sat. I listened. Things fell back into place. Sometimes, you just have to ride these things out. Becoming a Catholic takes a lot of effort. The sacraments of baptism and confirmation mark us as Catholics forever. I pray you find peace. 🙏
 
Do not fall into this trap of Satan and make another error to come back to false religion. Just continue a good Christian and offer all your sufferings to Jesus Christ. Pray and pray.

God love You. 😄
 
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@CatholicDetroit , I don’t know you , but God will be with you wherever you go .

God bless .

Love and peace to you and your loved ones .
 
Dear @catholicdetroit , as I also come from a partly Muslim background, I’d be interested if you are leaving for Islam or another religion or if you struggle in general.
If you don’t like to answer, I simply wish you all the best and God bless you wherever you go!
 
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Please do not leave the Catholic Church which is the true Church on earth,your leaving the church because of people[s opinions, come on, you got to be kidding! your looking at the wrong example’s of weak humans, rather than Christ himself.

Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely,and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

3 Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners,so that you may not grow weary or lose heart. 4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as children—

“My child, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
or lose heart when you are punished by him;
6 for the Lord disciplines those whom he loves,
and chastises every child whom he accepts.”

7 Endure trials for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as children; for what child is there whom a parent does not discipline? 8 If you do not have that discipline in which all children share, then you are illegitimate and not his children. 9 Moreover, we had human parents to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not be even more willing to be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share his holiness. 11 Now, discipline always seems painful rather than pleasant at the time, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

12 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.
 
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I have chosen to leave because I no longer believe that the church is true. Doctrine: Eucharist.

Take care.
 
GladTidings said:
Believe me, there is not a better Church than the one Jesus created. No way.

What is your conversion story?
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I’m not convinced that the Roman Catholic Church was created by Jesus. My conversion story is pretty awesome i’ll have to give you the gist via pm.
 
LisaB said:
Leaving the Church will only take you further away from God, not closer.
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Hmm maybe or maybe not. But it will be better than having to do mental gymnastics to make myself believe. Thank you for a thoughtful response, friend.
 
Personally I wouldn’t make any big decisions straight after Christmas and the new year. It’s been exciting and stressful and the new year can be a big anti climax, if you are feeling like that then everything else you think about will be clouded by the same kind of thought and feelings.

I think results speak for themselves as far as the Church is concerned. Look back at the lives of the saints, the mystics and martyrs, and the wonders they witnessed as well as Gods power they saw or even sometimes seemed to channel. And that without talking about Jesus at all.

No, it’s the right religion but like my engine, it needs the right oil to run smoothly.

God never leaves us.
 
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alice24 said:
I’d be interested if you are leaving for Islam or another religion or if you struggle in general.
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Aww, I wish you all the best too! And no I won’t be going to another religion. Once you leave Catholicism there really isn’t another Church to attend. When you stop believing in the mother of all the Churches all the others fall flat. I don’t see myself going back to Islam. I’ll just be mourning the loss of my Catholic faith.
 
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