Posted on 10/14/2010 9:03:26 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
A service offering Irish Catholics assistance from renouncing their membership of the Catholic church has been suspended.
CountMeOut.ie had been offering Irish Catholics a “simple 3-step process” in defecting from the Catholic church. Since their website went live in July 2009 there have been over 12,000 downloads of the declaration of defection.
Earlier this year the Catholic Church modified Canon Law removing all references to the act of formal defection. In response to this CountMeOut.ie has been contacted in recent weeks by several people who were concerned about delays concerning their defection request. Most received notice from the Dublin Catholic Archdiocese stating that they are unable to process their application until the Archdiocese decides how to implement canon law changes.
Despite writing to the Catholic Church seeking clarification on the matter, CountMeOut said in a statement on Wednesday that “the Church have yet to reach a firm position on how or whether they will continue to accept requests for the annotation of the baptismal register.”
The Dublin Archdiocese have confirmed that at the end of August changes were introduced to Canon Law and as a result it will no longer be possible for individuals to formally defect from the Catholic Church. However it added that the Archdiocese will maintain a register of names for those who have expressed the desire to defect.
According to the Dublin Archdiocese last year 229 people formally defected through their diocese and over 300 have done so far this year.
In a statement CountMeOut.ie said that “The service will remain suspended until such time as the Church clarifies in full what changes will be introduced to defections.”
....Earlier this year the Catholic Church modified Canon Law removing all references to the act of formal defection. In response to this CountMeOut.ie has been contacted in recent weeks by several people who were concerned about delays concerning their defection request. Most received notice from the Dublin Catholic Archdiocese stating that they are unable to process their application until the Archdiocese decides how to implement canon law changes....
....The Dublin Archdiocese have confirmed that at the end of August changes were introduced to Canon Law and as a result it will no longer be possible for individuals to formally defect from the Catholic Church. However it added that the Archdiocese will maintain a register of names for those who have expressed the desire to defect.
You can check in but you can never check out...
Since when do you “defect” from a religion? You just stop showing up at services and perhaps attend a church of a different denomination. Defect? Naa.
If you want to “Defect” from the Catholic Church you need no help. God knows what you have done.
The defectors are pretty much all atheists.
From the ‘Book of Dons’:
“You can check out any time yoou like, but you can never leave...”
From the ‘Book of Dons’:
“You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave...”
I don't think that's quite accurate. I believe what the change does is to tighten up the definition of "formal defection," by excluding a mere declaration of such before a third party (which "countmeout.ie" obviously is).
Soooooooooo, when will the eeeeeeeeeeeevil Catholics start beheading apostates?
Exactly! These are the drama queens and kings who have to have the attention of doing this.*eyeroll*
“Since when do you “defect” from a religion?”
Maybe they were tired of the junk mail. I still get crap from a shul I went to about 10 times before I figured out they were idiots.
Now that the Irish economy is in the toilet I’ll bet they’ll all be running back to the church, scared witless as to what happened.
Just as long as those creeps don’t come back to New York City looking for bartender jobs.
You wrote:
“Why do they want to keep people who don’t want to be there?”
They don’t. The article is very poorly researched and written. There was no formal method of “defection” the way a secularist would think of it in the first place.
“I’m assuming most of these people have become Evangelical Christians.”
Actually, no. Most are homosexuals, liberals, divorced-and-remarried, birth control users, etc.
Hmmmmmm
Sounds like . . . once one is buried up to one’s pointed head in white hankys, there’s no digging out.
When you wish to make a statement.
This is the formal, bureaucratic equivalent of standing up in the middle of a service, hollering profanities at the priest and the rest of the congregation, tossing your hymn book on the floor, flipping the bird at the ushers at the back of the church and slamming the door behind you on the way out.
Perhaps as soon as their globalist & Jihadi buddies and cohorts can arrange the details and figure out how to schedule the mass arrivals of the trains.
ping
to my just above.
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