Raised Mormon now Catholic

[Thecourts]

You are the first mormon I have seen on the forums that admits shunning/alienation does happen.

We have had mormon posters on here flat out say they didn’t believe stories like that simply because the person left the mormon church.

I would have to agree. I have never met anyone who was shunned. For me, I would need to see a particular situation to come close in thinking this happens.

 

[xixxvmcm85]

I would have to agree. I have never met anyone who was shunned. For me, I would need to see a particular situation to come close in thinking this happens.

Explicit and overt shunning I doubt rarely occurs. This is more a practice of the JWs than the Mormons. I’ve known plenty who have been alienated though. My father, for example, hardly speaks to me, and what little he does I’m almost certain is at the behest of my mother. While I was LDS I knew of two former Catholics whose families began ignoring them once they converted to the LDS Church. I’m sure we can find examples of such among all faiths, and I’d suspect that its incidence in LDS circles will continue to diminish as Mormons spread out further and become a more cosmopolitan people.

 

[Thecourts]

Explicit and overt shunning I doubt rarely occurs. This is more a practice of the JWs than the Mormons. I’ve known plenty who have been alienated though. My father, for example, hardly speaks to me, and what little he does I’m almost certain is at the behest of my mother. While I was LDS I knew of two former Catholics whose families began ignoring them once they converted to the LDS Church. I’m sure we can find examples of such among all faiths, and I’d suspect that its incidence in LDS circles will continue to diminish as Mormons spread out further and become a more cosmopolitan people.

In the example you cited, it is sad that Catholics would ignore their relatives because they converted to the LDS church.

 

[xixxvmcm85]

In the example you cited, it is sad that Catholics would ignore their relatives because they converted to the LDS church.

To expand on what I said earlier, it used to be Catholic practice here to actually, literally shun excommunicated Catholics (they were to be avoided at all cost, even if they were family). This has since been removed from the Code of Canon Law. I’m sure there are still some old-school Catholics that either haven’t gotten the message, or are heavily set in their ways.

The LDS are not immune to this either (a very strange interpretation of Matthew 10:4, which to this day is standard practice among the Fundamentalist, non-LDS Mormons). Back in grandma’s day shunning did actually occur and was required by the hierarchy. While this isn’t the case now, the practice has been either slow to leave the general Mormon consciousness, or has taken on the more mild form of alienation.

 

[Thecourts]

To expand on what I said earlier, it used to be Catholic practice here to actually, literally shun excommunicated Catholics (they were to avoided at all cost, even if they were family). This has since been removed from the Code of Canon Law. I’m sure there are still some old-school Catholics that either haven’t gotten the message, or are heavily set in their ways.

The LDS are not immune to this either. Back in grandma’s day shunning did actually occur and was required by the hierarchy. While this isn’t the case now, the practice has been either slow to leave the general Mormon consciousness, or has taken on the more mild form of alienation.

I am happy that Catholicism changed according to Canon law, as you stated.

If some LDS have shunned others, shame on them. The notion that some LDS shunning is something that all of us active members such as myself do is false. I have never shunned anyone, regardless is their standing in the church.

 

[xixxvmcm85]

I am happy that Catholicism changed according to Canon law, as you stated.

As am I.

If some LDS have shunned others, shame on them. The notion that some LDS shunning is something that all of us active members such as myself do is false. I have never shunned anyone, regardless is their standing in the church.

I agree.