cronos: -- the ones who I know NOW are all Catholics.
That's because you ARE Catholic. You don't experience Catholic *charity* from the being on the outside.
I realized that what I said previously could (and likely would) be twisted by some *charitable* Catholic and I just wanted to specify. Catholics treat each other much differently and much better than they treat the *heretics*. The *heretics* experience of being the recipient of Catholic charity is quite different than a Catholics experience of being the recipient of Catholic *charity*.
And I've noticed that RCs treat ex-RCs differently from the rest of us rabble.
If you think they denounce you now, you should realize most of them hedge their bets because they think you were "validly" baptized into the only true faith.
Most likely you will never be seen as the outright pagan all never-Catholics are to them; instead you are a "fallen away brethren" who will most likely return to the fold either in this life or in purgatory.
Remember, to them it's "once a Roman Catholic, always a Roman Catholic."
Hard to tell, no doubt, on some of these threads, but they talk to ex-RCs with some grudging concern, as if they know more about your own soul than you do. The rest of us who attend "defective gatherings" simply are headed for the furnaces.
Lucky you, eh? 8~)