Anonymous
05/18/2021 21:01
Subject: If you left Catholicism where did you go?
Baptized Catholic, but never went beyond that. Then in the Methodist church for several years, starting in college. Then years later back to Catholicism. This time, as an adult, not a child following my parents' wishes. It is comforting there, on my own terms. I never had to experience the crap in childhood. As an adult, not afraid to have real conversations with the priests. I call them by their first name, as they do me. None of that "father " stuff.
Anonymous
05/18/2021 20:56
Subject: If you left Catholicism where did you go?
I would like to hear more about Wicca also. I don't care for google. I would like to talk to people with actual experience. People. Not algorithms.
Anonymous
05/18/2021 13:07
Subject: If you left Catholicism where did you go?
Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised by so many people that have ended up at other churches.
For myself, and all the other recovering Catholics I know, it was like a snowball we couldn't stop.
Once we started to object to the little things in the Catholic church, it ultimately ended up in question Christianity as a whole.
But if I'm being brutally honest, I do miss the comfort of some of the traditions, especially around the holidays. But I think that's less to do with the church and more the associations of happiness from my childhood
I dropped Catholicism and then religion all together, but still do the holidays for, as you say "the comfort of some of the traditions". Why not? It's not a sin when you don't believe in sin anymore.
Anonymous
05/18/2021 12:16
Subject: If you left Catholicism where did you go?
I'm surprised by so many people that have ended up at other churches.
For myself, and all the other recovering Catholics I know, it was like a snowball we couldn't stop.
Once we started to object to the little things in the Catholic church, it ultimately ended up in question Christianity as a whole.
But if I'm being brutally honest, I do miss the comfort of some of the traditions, especially around the holidays. But I think that's less to do with the church and more the associations of happiness from my childhood
For myself, and all the other recovering Catholics I know, it was like a snowball we couldn't stop.
Once we started to object to the little things in the Catholic church, it ultimately ended up in question Christianity as a whole.
But if I'm being brutally honest, I do miss the comfort of some of the traditions, especially around the holidays. But I think that's less to do with the church and more the associations of happiness from my childhood
Anonymous
05/18/2021 11:35
Subject: If you left Catholicism where did you go?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am Episcopalian and I have a couple of dozen Episcopal friends who are former Catholics.
They’re still Catholic
But not in good standing and will definitely go to hell if they don't return to the Church.
Ha, not what I believe anymore. I'm now Episcopalian.
Anonymous
05/18/2021 10:24
Subject: If you left Catholicism where did you go?
Was raised Catholic and served as an altar boy but bailed on Catholicism in college. I consider myself an atheist but still believe there are useful teachings in religions. So I pick and choose, I discard the parts that I think are BS, like the concepts of heaven and hell, the afterlife, "born a sinner" et cetera. My wife was also Catholic but now prefers Episcopal and I sometimes go to service with her. I also occasionally go to a Buddhist temple.
Anonymous
05/18/2021 09:06
Subject: Re:If you left Catholicism where did you go?
Eastern Orthodoxy.
Anonymous
05/18/2021 08:36
Subject: If you left Catholicism where did you go?
Anonymous wrote:Yes, want to hear more about Wicca and other nature-based belief systems.
I read about it in a college women's studies class. I liked books written by Starhawk. I know people who identify as pagans - they are very creative people and are loyal to each other's creative projects.
I think I read that right now there are more pagans/wiccans than Presbytarians.
Anonymous
05/18/2021 08:06
Subject: If you left Catholicism where did you go?
Anonymous wrote:Yes, want to hear more about Wicca and other nature-based belief systems.
You can always look it up.
From what I know of Wicca - people simply know that's what they are. They feel it. It comes naturally to them. There's no dogma involved.
Anonymous
05/17/2021 21:54
Subject: If you left Catholicism where did you go?
Yes, want to hear more about Wicca and other nature-based belief systems.
Anonymous
05/15/2021 21:18
Subject: If you left Catholicism where did you go?
Super weird take. It's like saying America is a bad place because of the GOP.
Anonymous
05/05/2021 10:33
Subject: If you left Catholicism where did you go?
At first I went to a Methodist church, which was open and liberal and just my kinda church with a lot of Catholic elements, but then I just went nowhere.
Anonymous
05/05/2021 10:28
Subject: If you left Catholicism where did you go?
Anonymous wrote:Cradle Catholic, confirmed and everything. Got interested in women's spirituality, now a witch. No joke.
I'm a lapsed Catholic and interested. Are you Wiccan? Can you share more information?
Anonymous
05/05/2021 10:19
Subject: If you left Catholicism where did you go?
Cradle Catholic, confirmed and everything. Got interested in women's spirituality, now a witch. No joke.
Anonymous
05/05/2021 10:07
Subject: If you left Catholicism where did you go?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am Episcopalian and I have a couple of dozen Episcopal friends who are former Catholics.
They’re still Catholic
But not in good standing and will definitely go to hell if they don't return to the Church.