Where are the "EX"-Catholic priests?

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*it seemed like the tribulation of celibacy was just too much for him. *

Don’t you mean vow of celibacy?
 
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it seemed like the tribulation of celibacy was just too much for him.

Don’t you mean vow of celibacy?
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No, I meant the tribulation of celibacy. The vow was taken, apparently without reservation, but the stuggle to maintain the vow is what seems to have clouded his brain.

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I know of a nasty old redemptorist priest that was very ill and hustled church for web page design and than subed the work out. He died this year. So My guess would be there all dead.
 
I wonder why it is that some priests lose their faith in the first place? Is it perhaps because there is something about our Church that one day comes to stand in the way of their faith? Or are they perhaps too much tempted by the flesh and turn their listening ear away from God towards their own lustful cravings?

What could be the reason of their disbelief (often after so many years of pious service for God)?
 
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Malachi4U:
Thanks for all the replies so far.

Excpet for Jack Chicks gang/mob, it appears that nobody knows of any living “EX”-Catholic priests that are avid protestant evangilists?

. . . Roberto, he is a living example of self/pre-ordination.
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Bart Brewer, a former Carmelite, has some sort of anti-catholic ministry. The “former priest” angle is his trump card and he plays it for all its worth. It is beyond me how anybody who was EVER seriously trained as a priest could peddle his line.

There is a ‘ministry’ called Berean Beacon run by an ex priest who received a head injury, and when he woke up, he saw the light and left the Church. I think his name is Bennett. I Googled it but none of the links to bereanbeacon.org were working.

Jack Chick’s poster boy, Alberto Rivera, died in 1997. Poor guy.

In my experience, most men who left the priesthood remained in the Church; many of them, even though productive and happy, with good families and firm in their Catholic faith, still feel an ache for what they have lost.
 
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I wonder why it is that some priests lose their faith in the first place? Is it perhaps because there is something about our Church that one day comes to stand in the way of their faith? Or are they perhaps too much tempted by the flesh and turn their listening ear away from God towards their own lustful cravings?

What could be the reason of their disbelief (often after so many years of pious service for God)?
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I think that Satan works extra hard at tempting anyone who has the potential of having a positive impact on the souls of others. This means priests are doubly tempted. This is why our prayers are needed.

Oh, and I also know an ex-nun who’s ex-priest husband passed away after they’d had a long, and by her account, relatively happy marriage with one child (they married late and were thrilled with even one late child). She told me he never really came to grips with the sorrow of leaving the Priesthood, even though he loved his family. They remained Catholic and she’s been dabbling with participation in a Third Order.

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The former Father Jordon Vajda who once was a priest at my old parish in Tempe, AZ, is now a mormon. He was baptized as such in 2003.
 
My husband is a laicized priest. He’s a good Catholic, good husband, good father - not so good priest! He keeps saying if he had known then what he know now, he’d have been a better priest & most likely stayed an active priest.

Of the laicized priests we know, most have remained Catholic.
 
I do know of one ex-Catholic priest. I don’t know everything of what happened, but about two years ago he took a sabbatical to teach at another school and decided to leave the priesthood then. He married and left the Catholic faith for a Protestant church; I’m not sure which one. It was my understanding that his wife was a Protestant so that may have had something to do with it. It was shocking to me any many others who knew him as a priest. He was also fairly well-known as a priest in certain circles.I’m not sure if he’s against the Catholic Church now and actively talks/writes against it. It’s just been a really sad situation in general.
 
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