[x1stcav]

I left the Catholic church in 1970 over Liberation Theology. I was just back from the war when I had to sit in mass and be sermonized by a priest, who is now quite high in the church, as to the immorality of our efforts in Vietnam. I got up, walked out, and have never gone back.

Looks like they're at it again.

[G Larry]

READ!!!!!!
It ain't THAT Catholic Church!!!!

[Conservababe]

I left the Church in the early sixties, as soon as I left home.

But, you know, they will never let you leave the Church, referring to call us 'fallen away Catholics'.

My Church left me when my mother had to obtain permission from the Bishop to have a medically needed hysterectomy.

My mother had finally left my alcoholic, physically abusive and cheating father and divorced him. She was a devout Catholic and lived her life as if still married as the Church required. She never even looked at another man and devoted her life to her four children.

Imagine my horror, at fifteen years of age, to find that my parish Priest informed my mother that she had to go to the Bishop for permission for the surgery because "your husband might want more children".

I left and never looked back.

[EverOnward]

I got up, walked out, and have never gone back.

I'm married to a catholic that will defend that church to the end, yet in every respect is quite conservative and pro-Bush. It didn't bother me until the last few years and now I truly don't understand that kind of blind faith. I used to respect that church, but now...

[aruanan]

This is the Romanian not Roman Catholic Church.

[MonroeDNA]

I left the Catholic church when my best friend shot himself in the forehead while cleaning a .22 rifle.

He was an alter boy.

The head priest was doing alter boys.

My friends name is William Morisette. Dead at 14.

[Taffini]

I left the Catholic church in 1970 over Liberation Theology. I was just back from the war when I had to sit in mass and be sermonized by a priest, who is now quite high in the church, as to the immorality of our efforts in Vietnam. I got up, walked out, and have never gone back.

Looks like they're at it again.




The church has been nuts since the 60's. The creeps have taken over. The are more political than religious. Forgetaboutit.

[rangerwife]

A similar thing happened at a mass my husband and I attended. The priest was talking about how evil the school of the Americas was at Ft. Benning, how the US Army trains soldiers who are sent back to Latin America to be killers of the innocent, etc...hubby knew some people who taught at the school since he was stationed a Benning for almost 10 years. Hubby and I got up and we left right in the middle of his speech.