Leaving Catholicism

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It’s very difficult for anyone to give you an answer to your questions because:
  1. You start by stating you are becoming a Protestants but you do not give a reason of any kind for becoming a protestant.
  2. You state lower in the thread that you don’t consider yourself to be any religion including protestant. Which is it?
My advice is that you edit your question so we can get more information. Leaving a faith due to wanting better church music would be very different than leaving because of questions of faith.

If you are not religious at all I sincerely hope you remember that christians believe in a heaven and a hell. We all want to go to heaven but it is no guarantee. We must strive for holiness. We also do not have a list of anyone who is going to hell. But this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try our best.
 
You have to understand, for many of us, this sounds like the question, “if I take this weaker cure, will I still live?”
 
dgamboau518 said:
People I’m not trying to argue or to degrade the Catholic church. Am I not a brother in christ? I just have questions.

I’m still linked to the Catholic church and I just want answers about what the Catholic church teaches about these things.
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Indeed yes, you are our brother in Christ by virtue of your baptism. I do not think you are here to degrade the Catholic Church. There is no way for you to know that your statements ar degrading because you clearly do not understand the faith into which you were baptized. Yes, you will be forever linked to the Church founded by Christ, even if you choose to throw away your birthright.

If you just wanted answers, I think you might have posted “need answers to questions” rather than “leaving the church”. You are right to get the answers for why the Church teaches what she does before you abandon the Bride of Christ for a protestant community.
 
dgamboau518 said:
Well I don’t consider myself a protestant or follower of any religion. I learned that most Catholics would consider me that just for leaving the Catholic church so I just wanted to make it simple to understand.
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No, I would consider you a lapsed, poorly catechized Catholic. Unfortunely there are many Catholics, some might even say most, that have not been well formed in their faith. You don’t seem to know what the Catholic faith teaches and believes, so leaving out of ignorance is a problem. If you abandon the faith into which you were baptized, you should do so with full knowledge and consent. AT this point, it seems tha your decision has nothing to do with the teachings of the Church.
 
I’m surprised of how judgemental some of you are without knowing about what I’ve gone through. Thank you for those who answered in a loving and constructive way. I have read everything you said and I appreciate it. Ill read those books and different articles y’all gave me 😉
 
English is not my first language so I apologize if i wasn’t clear about the question. I never said Catholics aren’t Christians, I don’t know why y all thought I meant that. I go to a non denominational church, but the friends that I have in the Catholic church told me I was considered “Christian/protestant” so I thought y all were going to understand that as what my “tittle” is.
Unfortunately I’m a poorly caechized catholic as one of you called me. I was blessed in receiving a athletic scholarship here in the U.S in a Christian university. I ran into an amazing church where I have seen amazing things and grown very much in my faith. I just want to understand more about the church that I grew up in since I wasn’t properly taught I guess. I have read many books and talk to different people about this.
 
dgamboau518 said:
Unfortunately I’m a poorly caechized catholic as one of you called me. I was blessed in receiving a athletic scholarship here in the U.S in a Christian university. I ran into an amazing church where I have seen amazing things and grown very much in my faith. I just want to understand more about the church that I grew up in since I wasn’t properly taught I guess. I have read many books and talk to different people about this.
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You are not alone, I did have for a year or so a nun visit me at home to teach me when I was young. I was not a child who liked to sit for long periods of time and did not really listen (bored and itching to go out and play) to any teachings given to me by this lovely nun.

Alas, when I returned back to the faith many years ago I had a lot to learn, some self teaching but some also from spiritual leaders. I wish you well in your Spiritual Journey. 😃
 
dgamboau518 said:
what implies to leave the Catholic church I’m terms of salvation?
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are you guilty of willful disobedience to God’s commands. can you claim ignorance? do you qualify?
But of those who die without visible communion with the Church, not all are guilty of willful disobedience to God’s commands. Many are kept from the Church by ignorance. Such may be the case of numbers among those who have been brought up in heresy. To others the external means of grace may be unattainable. Thus an excommunicated person may have no opportunity of seeking reconciliation at the last, and yet may repair his faults by inward acts of contrition and charity. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03744a.htm
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dgamboau518 said:
I ran into an amazing church where I have seen amazing things and grown very much in my faith.
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the reason you are leaving will determine the fate of your salvation.

if the real church has a rule that you don’t like and you go to a church just because they ignore it. i would think twice.

do they believe in baptism? do they have the “Real Presence” of Christ in their Eucharist? do you know why the sacraments are important and are you ready to do without them?

i’ll pray for you.
 
As a Catholic, we are not to celebrate mass at other “Churches.” It is a rule we abide by as you have clearly demonstrated the reason we do not… because of the “allure.”
 
Anyone who leaves the Catholic Faith is not doing him or herself any favours.
 
dgamboau518 said:
I wanted to ask you guys what implies to leave the Catholic church I’m terms of salvation
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Jesus, knowing He would not always be with us, designated Peter to be head of the Church. Peter “stands-in” for Jesus, after Jesus’ Ascension. Peter is the “Vicar of Christ” and Peter’s successors, the Popes, are still the “Vicar of Christ”. Vicar comes from “vicarious” which here means a “substitute” or “stand-in” for another person (Christ).

“Vicarious” comes from the Latin “vicis” which means “alternation”, “change” or “stead”. The Pope is the “substitute/in-stead-of” Jesus. When you reject Christ’s Vicar, you are rejecting Christ. It’s that simple. This is why “Outside the Church there is no salvation”.
 
Dgamboau518,
It looks like there’s a variety of replies to your very interesting question. It’s actually such an extremely important question that it would be good if you could see your Priest (former Priest) and ask him about it.
My mother was a Protestant, and my Father’s family was Italian Catholic. I was raised apart from my Father by my mom who didn’t approve of me being a Catholic.
So, I was Baptist to begin with.
In my late teens, early 20s, I had many church friends who described themselves as “recovering Catholics”.
They had left the Catholic Church in order to feel more free and easy and spontaneous in worship. Ironically these former Catholics knew Christian Doctrine to a depth and breadth that far exceeded their raised-Protestant brethren.
I view it as the Catholic Faith , Mother Church, is like an entire set of Encyclopedias - all the information, all those big books, A to Z. The Protestants in their various denominations pull out the Volumes of the Encyclopedia that they LIKE best, and believe and teach only those books. But they lack the knowledge from the entire set, A to Z . Hence you attend a Methodist meeting and get some nice truth, but much much is lacking.
So, Dear, please take your simple but deep question about salvation to your Priest when you are ready.
God bless you.
 
You aren’t alone in this. There are lots of former Catholics in other denominations these days. Try to gain a better understanding of what you could be leaving because you probably weren’t catechised well, few are. Also try to separate your experience of other Catholics from your understanding of the Catholic faith.
 
I would say he needs to take it very seriously. There is a minority of Catholic theologians who would say he might not be Hellbound with this decision. The majority of Catholic theologians throughout history would say he is almost certainly comitting mortal sin, and doing so by specifically rejecting the Sacrament that wipes away mortal sin.

I know of no Catholic theologian that would not say he is, at minimum, putting himself at great risk of losing his soul. So I think he should take this decision more seriously than any decision he has ever made or ever will make. Will you stand before God and answer for his soul if he is lost?

I won’t.
 
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