he's the embodiment of "I went to Catholic school for x years, therefore I know what I'm talking about"

Let’s say this bishop was wrong (which he isn’t), you don’t leave the Church because of the betrayal of Judas or the doubt of Thomas, or the denial of Peter.

We need to be saddened and aware of the loss of Bishop David O'Connell in California over the weekend. He was a very good, holy Bishop who spent 45 years in the worst parts of Southern California living and working among gang violence, poverty and the immigrants. He meet with a violent death in his own home. May God have mercy on his soul and the soul of the one who did this trouble deed. He was an example of why one should remain Catholic, truly seeing the face Jesus to all who he served.

So many Catholics do not even know the faith. They were raised Catholic but they were not catechized. It occurred to me, this is why the Synod on Synodality is such a bad idea. The Church should not be asking people what should change, but the Church needs to tell people how to change and be more like Christ.

I'm a simple man. I see a Trent Horn video; I click like.

I had a priest yell at me in Confession in a very echo-friendly church because I said I wasn't sure if I should go to my sister's wedding because she wasn't getting married in the Church. But I didn't leave Catholicism. I just avoided that priest like the plague. Also, that person knew exactly what they were doing in that article. He wanted to leave the Church anyway and saw an opening to do so while garnering sympathy from non-Catholics reading the article. That way, he can feel "better" about himself leaving.

This was one of the most painful videos of yours to watch. "Cutting someone off from the Sacrament is bad, therefore I'm going to cut myself off from the Sacrament." Pray for Craig's humble return to the Church.

If the Eucharist meant so much to him then how could he walk away from the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.

"The spirit of this age is one that is often driven by nice platitudes that cover wickedness." Yes, perfectly said. I used to not agree with church teaching on a lot of things. But it wasn't until I assented that I could be wrong that the Lord opened my heart to accept the Church's teachings. It takes an act of humility and submission to God but the Lord is waiting to give people this grace if they seek it.

From UK I left the Catholic church for a while about 6 months I had doubts but I went back to the Catholic church I did research and thank God I went back God bless the Catholic church and please pray for all the clergy

The person who wrote this article isn't actually catholic nor "leaving the church". The purpose of this article is to encourage others to leave the church as well as to threaten church leadership.

You're right Trent, we should do our best to be empathetic...but, I can't help but feel that individuals like this writer were already half-out the door already because they're prioritizing their secular politics which contradict their faith, over their faith. They want their religion to confirm to THEIR politics. They don't see how they should confirm their politics to their religion. It's a form of pride. I know, I used to think this way when I was younger.

No matter what a certain priest? does, no matter what scandals hit the church, despite whatever corruption or abuse of power might exist, and despite whatever mistakes the Church has made throughout history, to whom shall we go? for here is the body and blood of Christ given for a sinner as miserable as I. Of all the twelve Apostles, Jesus chose Judas as well to preach the Gospel, and by this we have a spiritual comprehension that not all who minister come from holiness nor may prevail in holiness. No divine promise of a perfect body of church leaders was ever made. From Peter’s thrice denial and taking up the sword, to Paul’s collaboration in murder of the first martyr…all are demonstrative of the fact that in every saint there is a past sinner, and in every sinner the potential for a future saint.🌹🌹

Well said Trent. On the right or left, when someone leaves the Catholic faith then they weren't properly catechised. Sean Hannity is a perfect example of a conservative not properly catechised. I pray more people listen to Catholic Answers and other Catholic radio shows to become better catechised. They helped a lot.

If you read "Pascendi Dominici gregis" by Pope St. Pius X You will see why this reason to leave Catholicism is more common among modernists For the Modernists, religious dogma or doctrine are not objective truths that we must assent to, but rather they are formed by the collective opinion of humans as time progresses This is why they identify the faith with people and not with objective truth And this is why most of them don't leave the Church and think it will transform based on the collective belief of modern man

I was not raised Catholic but I have attended the Catholic Church later in life. I appreciate the liturgy plus the fact that the Catholic Church adheres to Traditional Biblical teachings and does not bend to current cultural ideas.

Thank you for this treatment, Trent. It needs to be said and said very clearly as you've done. Your mind is a Church treasure! 🙏

I won't abandon my Lord Jesus' Church for any Judases.

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I'm going through the same thing now Trent, very good devout Catholic family friends are discerning to convert to EO. They were TLM goers and said they are spiritually/physically/emotionally exhausted by Pope Francis and the attacks on TLM. They are going to an EO Western Rite church which is a latin form of pre-VII mass. Wife and I are praying for them.

You don’t leave Jesus because of Judas!!! But, God bless this Bishop for FINALLY standing up for the Church!!! Too many bishops have become worldly and politically motivated… just my humble opinion 😁

I left the church because of its teaching on... so why did it take 40 years to leave then? I watched a video on "Mythvision" where a scientist, who was catholic, no longer believed. Listening to his reasons, you quickly realize that he had no knowledge of what the church actually teaches about God. If Craig has attended church as long as he has, its sad that he never spent time researching his faith. Craig would realize that being compassionate and forgiving, usually and always does at every level, bear with it, the hopes of repentance and change.

Loved this!

This guy probably never even went to church or lived as a Catholic, but the newspaper needed a Catholic to be outraged for a hitpiece so he stepped up because he went to a catholic school as a kid.

Don't mean to have the "good riddance" attitude, but if people are leaving the Church because a faithful bishop is finally acting on abortion, those who are leaving were likely never of us to begin with.

To be honest, as someone young, and for someone who tries their best to defend the faith, I have discovered that most people who leave the church never really understood the faith to begin with. It's crazy because I just recently spoke to someone (who claimed to be a former catholic) who claims their former faith practices witchcraft. Multiple of times did i (hate to use the word prove) prove that what she thought catholics believe or are is wrong, hence meaning she never understood the faith to begin with. It is tempting to think (just as Trent states towards to start of the video), "dont let the door hit you when leaving". Or "good. we dont need weak Catholics like you anyways". It is hypocritical to boast that we are the largest church when 75 percent of us dont believe in the real presence. Or half of us dont even attend weekly mass. I take this time to invite us all to humble ourselves and realize that we aren't as perfect as a church as we hope or think we are. Thats why i invite all of us to offer on the altar for the knowledge to be given to more catholics. To grow in our faith and understanding of the truth we have. As someone who became catholic 2 years ago, it saddens me when I was told in RCIA that 75 percent of us will become lazy and give up. That is why I thank God everyday that I was the 25 percent who dug deeper. Someone who wanted to learn more and defend his love. His church. That is afterall why most of us are here watching this vid. So offer a mass for the 75 percent.

I would never leave the Sacraments. Ever.

This person is lying; they are not leaving the church because of this Bishop; they are leaving because they don't believe in the Church's teachings. The goal of writing this garbage is to try to discourage other Catholics from holding each other accountable. As an aside, I find it interesting how easily people will (supposedly) abandon their faith, and yet when it comes to almost anything else, such as brand loyalty or sports teams, they are doggedly faithful. I mean, Cleveland Browns fans still exist. Square THAT circle.

"Fertilized embryo" is not a contradiction of terms. It is just extremely redundant.

Perfectly well reasoned. Good Trent.

I started my conversion in 2017. There have been a lot of teachings I don't understand and have questions about, and even some that I've had disagreements on. That said, I value my eternal life over my opinions. I'm proud to be Catholic and proud to live for Christ. I don't understand everything and I don't have an answer for everything, but I'm proud to be on this path with so many others.

I’m on the “conservative” side and I am seriously considering leaving the church because the priests and bishops and pope REFUSE to stand up for what the church supposedly believes in. Can you please explain to me how the official teaching of the church can be “X” and yet everyone in the church, from the pope and the bishops all the way down to the parish priest and the average parishioner will say and do “Y”? If your faith in not made manifest in word and deed, then can we say it is even faith at all? I go to the catechism to learn about church teaching and am shocked that it bears no resemblance to what I observed in church or among fellow Catholics. Please help me understand.

Excellent!

Why I left: the thing that first started pushing me away was the hypocrisy. It was during the civil rights movement in the 60s and I was surrounded by racists. I had one nun teacher who was active in the civil rights movement and she was horribly criticized and shunned by the rest of the nuns, priests, teachers, parents. She eventually not only left her order but the church completely. Following that: sexism. The straw that broke the camel’s back was when I went to a Mass con celebrated by 70 priests. I looked out at the congregation and it was mostly women, a large percentage of them nuns. I thought, what’s wrong with this picture? When I was a child I used to say Mass in the driveway. My sister and my girl friend were the “altar boys.” This was long before girls were allowed to do that. I had Latin Mass memorized. I was eight years old. In later years, I saw how ridiculous the Church’s discrimination against women was. Thanks but no thanks. The Church’s ridiculous teaching against birth control. Ridiculous. Over time, the realization that most of the beliefs are unsupportable. Virgin birth? Seriously? Let’s get real. People getting raised from the dead? No. We don’t owe anyone a reason why we are leaving the Church. We’re not married to you. Whatever reasons we give won’’t satisfy you. All these nonsense arguments that we were never really devout, never really catechized, are not only false but they are insulting. I have read theologians and writers from St. Augustine to Teresa of Avila to Thomas Merton to the Berrigan brothers and more. I was heavily involved in church from a young age, sang in the youth choir at Mass, played music for Mass during high school, read about the Lives of the Saints, loved religion class. In the end, it’s just a human institution, it has no direct line of communication to God, and I came to the realization that there is no evidence for God or an afterlife. My atheist friends are kinder and more compassionate than most church folks. My nephew is a Catholic priest who is judgmental and mean spirited, condescending towards family members (not just me) that he thinks aren’t good enough. He’s the kind of person who would go to Washington, D.C., for the March for Life but not do one single thing for his cousin who had an untimely pregnancy and chose to keep the baby. He’s the kind of priest who will preach sermons about the Holy Family and forgiveness yet refuses to have anything to do with family members who have never done him any harm because his mother holds grudges for reasons that no one is even sure about. You want to know why people leave the Church? Because after an absence of 10 years, going to confession and confessing to the priest that we struggle with hopelessness, the priest is more concerned about whether we’ve been attending Mass regularly. This is not surprising. The Church still isn’t fully dealing with the harm it has done with child abuse. The Inquisition, the Borgia Popes, the Church has been full of scandal and abuse of power. There are good reasons why the Church is losing people in droves. You have a choice. You can listen to why people say they are leaving - really listen. Or you can be part of the problem and dismiss their reasons as not being good enough. We don’t need to justify ourselves to you.

I'm happy to say that my late uncle, a diocesan priest and pastor in the DC area, refused Communion to several "pro-choice Catholic" politicians, and paid a price for it.

God bless you bro Trent horn, can I have a book from you,, watching here in the Philippines 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏I'm hoping you would read my message

I was not raised Catholic (or religious at all) and recently came to the church last year at age 23. The parish I attend is packed every week 🙏🏼 I am hopeful for the growth in orthodoxy and decline in “woke” Catholics. Thank you Trent for your videos and Catholic Answers, whenever I have doubts or any confusion you always clear things up without fail! God bless you please never stop making videos 🫶🏼

"Lord, to whom shall we go?" He'll come running back when the 'confusion' is over.

Trent, this comment is unrelated to this video. For that, I do apologize, however I know you are excellent with rebuttals. I have been looking into church history for the last couple of years, which has caused me to really look into the Catholic faith. There was a video by an Evangelical named Amir Tsarfal called the Rise of One World Religion where he believed the Catholic faith would lead into this. There were some disturbing comments he mentioned from Pope Francis as well as Vatican 2. I know you are extremely busy, however if the Catholic faith is truly the one faith, this video and others could be very misleading for Catholics, and cause non Catholics to completely reject the Catholic faith. This one would be a great video to use as a rebuttal. Just a thought. 😊

As a formerly angry ex-Catholic now reverted, you're spot on that this is a terrible reason to cease to be Catholic. The journalist's so called "reason" to leave the Church is nothing more than an excuse. And what's worse, it's an excuse wrapped up in the fluffy blanket of "I'm a good follower of Jesus and that's why I'm leaving".

tank you mister trent, for gracing us with such deligtful contenti, your the smartest eastern orthodoz her eon youtube, leaving catholicism is always a bad choice given the art, poeps, priest, philosofi, catedrals, that exist in protestantism

I think you need to take AI translations with a grain of salt. For my part I have never sought anything but communion with Peter since my reversion and conversion. You do great work Mr. Horn. I'm a big fan of you and the hilarious Mrs.

The way this guy is writing about the issue "something so precious" I have to believe he just researched it for writing and doesn't believe. You don't leave a church if you truly believe they have the Body and Blood of Christ.

Are confessionals really private after all. I would like to share a story regarding a confession. The priest was in a rush to get ready for confession. Although during my confession with the priest, I noticed a wire coming from under his Priest Vestment… Therefore I am beginning to think that our confessions are not necessarily entirely private. This is only one incident that I have had that makes me question whether confessions are actually private. I have had other indications including one in central New Jersey…

The Bishop was correct. Good video Trent.

Hey Trent it would be nice if you could review the interview with the abortion activist that Michael knowles did last year

What to think about papal texts in the style of "because of this when she joins (Mary) to the throne of her divine son, begs like an advocate, prays as a servant, but orders as a mother" (Pius VII, "Tanto Studio") or about these Prayers and songs in which he is called Mary "the only hope of a sinful man"? Is talking about "commanding her divine son" and as "the only hope of a sinful man" not simply blasphemy and idolatry? I am not asking now about the mere sense of asking Mary for prayer intercession or for her certain privileges, but I mean this particular formulas related to the Mother of God, which sound as if Mary was to be carried out above the Lord Jesus.

The question is how can I stay in a Church that intentionally (it seems) misleads or confuses people, and even from the top? (In regard to the Church's perennial teaching). How can I believe when teachings are changed with the excuse of a deepening understanding of the faith?

You're right about Cordileone and Strickland being episcopal outliers. Now it's down to Cordileone, so he's like Fisher when Henry VIIII formally separated the English Church from the Pope. Actually, there's lot of distressing irony in that metaphor...

1:17 What happens when someone wants to uphold traditional teaching which in _your_ Communion is changed?

He left because he is not Catholic- obviously. Nothing to do with the actions of a bishop. In this case we absolutely need these people out of the church. Today. Most in the pews don’t believe in the Eucharist, are pro choice. Etc. We need our church back

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🎵 Trent discusses an article about leaving Catholicism due to a controversial reason. 00:44 👥 Empathy is important when understanding reasons for leaving the Catholic faith. 01:53 😤 Dismissing someone leaving the Church lacks compassion. 03:16 📚 Spiritual growth is ongoing; even Saints acknowledge their need for mercy. 04:38 💔 Article criticizes a bishop's decision to prohibit communion for Pelosi over abortion stance. 08:08 📜 Misinterpretation of religious freedom in relation to abortion and beliefs. 09:58 🛑 Leaving the Church over disagreements with individual bishops lacks perspective. 12:00 🌍 Catholicism shouldn't be defined solely by specific bishops' actions. 14:04 🤝 Engaging with church teachings, not individual decisions, is crucial. 17:15 🙏 Don't sever from the church over minor reasons; maintain perspective and spiritual connection.

Would complete disagreement with NFP be a significant reason to leave the Catholic faith? Any answers are welcome. Also Trent, a video on the subject would be much appreciated.

I am an interdenominational/non-denominational Christian, and I can tel the writer of that article: there is no church that would let Nancy Pelosi partake of communion for the same reasons.

Yeah, Trent but you know why the dude wrote the article. Virtue signaling.

This is the very good Toppers. I was tap times when I was 22. When I was back at Catholic Church, I was really impressed when I went to a wedding of my classmate in high school. No open the years I drink fifty to the way cause I gotta involved in Street drugs Only wanted to try at once that I got hooked then I asked jesus Chris I need help get north drugs I feel the holy spirit fill me And I quit drugs cold turkey. Can I get married to a Catholic woman woman What's on american . We had a wedding in the Catholic church after we got married at the Civil wedding . We got married in the Catholic Church 2006 . Have for being married 8 or 9 years old. I left the church because I thought you turned on security on my salvation. What's the wind to go Cause I was brought up in the Baptist church. . God, go to the home screen. I started listening to Mr. Mike Thanks for he was saying I found out the Baptist church was lying to me . Because the pastor at the bench church started saying we worship mary and I found out that it's not true, we honor mary . Master of the p Said We've worshipped the idols. Do you not worship idols? This is honor To the saints. The same question to the pastor that was saying it was a stuff Do you have your family pictures on your walls? Do you worship them? Of course not. He also said mary is part of the Trinity, and that's not even true. If she was, she would have turned water into wine. And I thought taking the holy communion A symbol, and that's not even true . They explained to me it's actual jesus christ Body and blood, not a symbol. Before, I did not know what I believed was a Catholic . Online I took the Rica By one of the priest Recently I have learned so much because I didn't know the stuff before . So i've been back to the church. I did all my confessions. Take holy communion .going to mass every Sunday. I'm going to mass on holy days .me and my wife are still married . I am so grateful get a meeting back to the church All this could have been avoided If I known known what I believe yes I took the classes But I didn't you know . And I love the church with all my heart. Well also love version mary.

No body ever says "do no violence against animals and humans"by keeping animals first we become the first and hence the principle of selflesdnesd so to say by selflessnesd is the self realized which is the truth of all truths...

That person is pro-abortion, pro-secular other things, and the Church teachings don't cave to his desires, so he is leaving but want some publicity on his new Non-Catholic status, maybe for his carriere or something. May God touch his heart.

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By Lazaretti's logic, the scandal of the sexual abuse of minors by priests should have made me question my faith. As much as it pained and embarrassed me to admit that this happened, it didn't occur to me to leave the church.

Do people not remember when they were children and they were much more selfish and had similar blanket attitudes to what they now have toward the Church a propos clerical abuse? It's like how a child's level of neuroticism is more predictive of long term happiness than the objective conditions they are in. You can always say these incidents, even with the structural problems, are only from certain priests, but if you're neurotic with an axe to grind from your godless religion, you will erroneously see that as a reason to hate the Church rather than desire to reform it. Now it is obvious hypocrisy because they will gladly ignore the fact that abuse is more common from teachers or that left wing attitudes actually can cause such abuse and even crime more generally

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The Vatican 2 documents explained : Without understanding the following you will never be able to understand the documents. I will list here, what the documents consist of, by name and by title. But you will never find the list of these names inside the documents this is deliberate. For the purpose of concealment. But what you will find in every paragraph of every page the “definition” of the terms listed. Therefore the Vatican two documents consist of “definition” only: 1) Indifferentism 2) Syncretism and Synthesis 3) Immanent 4) Transcendentalism 5) Individualism 6) Existentialism, naturalism 7) Stoicism 8) Pantheism 9) Evolution 10) The Sciences such as historian sociology psychology critic… If you look up Saint Pope Pius 10 Encyclical “ Pascendi Dominici Gregis” you will find he new about Vatican 2 and wrote a detailed comprehensive explanation of Vatican 2, listing in detail more than half of the items above listed, and he even explains, in example, how it is meant to diminish Jesus Christ and the one true church and desecrate all seven sacraments and to leave the door open for more of modernism and Progressive changes in the future. He is not alone !!! Pius 10 on the Errors of Modernism, Pius 9 his Syllabus of Errors and Pope Gregory 16 in his Encyclical “Mirari Vos” see #19 on the waldensians,the Beghards,the Wycliffites, and all the popes condemned the documents of Vatican 2 and the Synod of Pistoia and warned the faithful with excommunication, anathema if you don't reject the Vatican two documents, and church, and embrace the one true traditional Catholic Church, the depository of faith, before the end of your life. As you examine these terms and then read the Vatican two documents you can clearly see the “definition” of all the above listed terms, but not the terms themselves, and the evil,and that it is no longer Catholic but a new religion that will lead you straight to hell !!! Then what are we to do you ask ? If you are a true Traditional Catholic then you are supposed to do what the Blessed Virgin Mary told us to do in these evil times, that she described at Fatima, in the third Secret. Not the fake phony Third Secret that John Paul II falsified and Rewritten, along with the fake Lucia !!! But the real true Third Secret of Fatima. You are also to do what the Blessed Virgin Mary told us to do at La Salette, France and again at Our Lady of Good Success, who described in great detail what is to happen to the Catholic church at the end of the 20th century and she was 100% right !!! What do we do then ? what did she say to do ? She said to say the Traditional Rosary, not the rosary of John Paul II, the Traditional Rosary 15 decades everyday or 5 decades on Monday, 5 decades on Tuesday, and 5 decades, on Wednesday. Since the Mass is the greatest prayer of all !!! you get the Saint Andrews missile (and no other missile) but the St Andrews missile, and you say Mass every Sunday (you're not able to consecrate) but you can still say the prayers of the Mass !!! From only the Saint Andrew's missile. You can say the rosary, the Seven Sorrows of Mary, the Stations of the Cross, all at home. Have nothing to do with today's fake Catholic Church!!! NOTHING !!! It will be a mortal sin and send you straight to hell. You say your prayers at home, you stay at home, and you say your prayers at home, the Traditional prayers of the church and you say them every day. You read the Bible the Catholic Bibleand no other since all other Bibles have been Rewritten with attacks againt Mary !!! and study the lives of the Saints of the church, and stay away from newly written or revised books on the market today !!! Don't buy any books on the market after 1960 !!!! What about confession and all that ? You confess your sins to God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost using the prayers in the St Andrews missile, in the confessional which is in the back of the book, or you say one of the seven penitential Psalms along with the act of contrition. That's your confession, at home where you are safe both in body and soul !! For baptism you do the same at home with the proper, Matter, Form and Intent !!! But whatever you do have nothing to do with the Vatican 2 Church even if it's empty do not go in it !!! P.S.- the Most Holy Family Monastery is a good resource me and my colleagues have kept a close eye on them for over 20 years I highly recommend them. God Love You Joseph The Vatican 2 documents explained : Without understanding the following you will never be able to understand the documents. I will list here, what the documents consist of, by name and by title. But you will never find the list of these names inside the documents this is deliberate. For the purpose of concealment. But what you will find in every paragraph of every page the “definition” of the terms listed. Therefore the Vatican two documents consist of “definition” only: 1) Indifferentism 2) Syncretism and Synthesis 3) Immanent 4) Transcendentalism 5) Individualism 6) Existentialism, naturalism 7) Stoicism 8) Pantheism 9) Evolution 10) The Sciences such as historian sociology psychology critic… If you look up Saint Pope Pius 10 Encyclical “ Pascendi Dominici Gregis” you will find he new about Vatican 2 and wrote a detailed comprehensive explanation of Vatican 2, listing in detail more than half of the items above listed, and he even explains, in example, how it is meant to diminish Jesus Christ and the one true church and desecrate all seven sacraments and to leave the door open for more of modernism and Progressive changes in the future. He is not alone !!! Pius 10 on the Errors of Modernism, Pius 9 his Syllabus of Errors and Pope Gregory 16 in his Encyclical “Mirari Vos” see #19 on the waldensians,the Beghards,the Wycliffites, and all the popes condemned the documents of Vatican 2 and the Synod of Pistoia and warned the faithful with excommunication, anathema if you don't reject the Vatican two documents, and church, and embrace the one true traditional Catholic Church, the depository of faith, before the end of your life. As you examine these terms and then read the Vatican two documents you can clearly see the “definition” of all the above listed terms, but not the terms themselves, and the evil,and that it is no longer Catholic but a new religion that will lead you straight to hell !!! Then what are we to do you ask ? If you are a true Traditional Catholic then you are supposed to do what the Blessed Virgin Mary told us to do in these evil times, that she described at Fatima, in the third Secret. Not the fake phony Third Secret that John Paul II falsified and Rewritten, along with the fake Lucia !!! But the real true Third Secret of Fatima. You are also to do what the Blessed Virgin Mary told us to do at La Salette, France and again at Our Lady of Good Success, who described in great detail what is to happen to the Catholic church at the end of the 20th century and she was 100% right !!! What do we do then ? what did she say to do ? She said to say the Traditional Rosary, not the rosary of John Paul II, the Traditional Rosary 15 decades everyday or 5 decades on Monday, 5 decades on Tuesday, and 5 decades, on Wednesday. Since the Mass is the greatest prayer of all !!! you get the Saint Andrews missile (and no other missile) but the St Andrews missile, and you say Mass every Sunday (you're not able to consecrate) but you can still say the prayers of the Mass !!! From only the Saint Andrew's missile. You can say the rosary, the Seven Sorrows of Mary, the Stations of the Cross, all at home. Have nothing to do with today's fake Catholic Church!!! NOTHING !!! It will be a mortal sin and send you straight to hell. You say your prayers at home, you stay at home, and you say your prayers at home, the Traditional prayers of the church and you say them every day. You read the Bible the Catholic Bibleand no other since all other Bibles have been Rewritten with attacks againt Mary !!! and study the lives of the Saints of the church, and stay away from newly written or revised books on the market today !!! Don't buy any books on the market after 1960 !!!! What about confession and all that ? You confess your sins to God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost using the prayers in the St Andrews missile, in the confessional which is in the back of the book, or you say one of the seven penitential Psalms along with the act of contrition. That's your confession, at home where you are safe both in body and soul !! For baptism you do the same at home with the proper, Matter, Form and Intent !!! But whatever you do have nothing to do with the Vatican 2 Church even if it's empty do not go in it !!! P.S.- the Most Holy Family Monastery is a good resource me and my colleagues have kept a close eye on them for over 20 years I highly recommend them. God Love You Joseph

Question @ my age, I have met many true faithful Christians of all churches of Yashua. Let’s not wage the finger at those of truly trust Christ.

Unfortunately, the writer is rebellious and disobedient. If a bishop denies me the Holy Eucharist, I'd better be obedient and examine my conscience, rather than accusing a bishop for "weaponizing" the Eucharist (which, it is blasphemous to describe Christ's body in this way)

It's very hard. I came in close contact with a famous child abusing priest. He was silky, smooth and entitled. He came after my very young, male assistant and utterly traumatized him. It's one thing for a priest to fail their vows and confess their sin. It's a whole other thing when a priest co-established a club whose motto is "before eight or it's too late". The Church has yet to admit to the enormity of the debauchery within the Vatican much less set about removing it.

I think Trent, it's important to consider individuals who are non-Christian may be watching, I think it could be good just to be a little gentler towards them personally.

He has given much more importance to the unborn than the millions of abused children. I have seen this time and again Thank you for making my decision to leave the Catholic Church easy.

I don’t understand Excommunication. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick wasn’t excommunicated, but why not? It’s as if his sin wasn’t bad enough. WTF?

8:18 timestamp for me

Imagine being so prideful and entitled that you say something like "I'm being denied the right to unite with Christ". This isn't your right. You're not entitled to this. The Creator of the universe humbles Himself constantly to even give you the chance of having the privilege of uniting with Him. None of us have any "right" to anything from God. Everything given to us is by grace and mercy. This "I have a right" nonsense is literally satanic, it's the pride of sin. You don't have the right to the sacraments or anything from God, you are given the privilege and are called to be eternally grateful and humbled by that. That statement is very telling, it's more of a confession than an indictment on the church.

Message of love and tolerance? Was he ever?

I don’t think we should say don’t let the door hit you on the way out BUT… i do think three comes a time when someone who does not agree with irreformable teaching should probably leave. At least if they are at the point of constantly agitating for a change in said irreformable teaching and harming the faith of others. No one puts a gun to your head and forces you to be Catholic. If it truly violates your conscience (but was your conscience well formed ?) then why would you want to stay ? Your true home is likely the Episcopal Church.

I honestly thought this would be about people leaving the church because of something pope Francis did that they don’t agree with. I refuse to listen to people who criticize clergy, I have my own sins to look after than to think about judging someone in the clergy. Jesus said the gates of hell would never prevail against his church. He built the church with a minimum of 12 apostles and could see until the end of time …. I’m going to believe Jesus. Meanwhile tens of thousands of Israelites turned from God during the exodus thinking they had it better as slaves and disagreeing with Moses. History repeats itself with people losing faith because things didn’t go their way instead of His way.

Best Reason, save your young boys.🙏🙏🙏

It calls to question what bible he was reading when he says Christ's message was one of tolerance. He loved, sure, but He sure as heck didn't tolerate sin. He called the Pharisees white washed tombs and hypocrites. He flipped tables in the temple calling it a den of thieves. He didn't condone the women caught in adultery but called her to something higher and says go and sin no more. Christ was never tolerant of these sins but called them out for it and challenges us to be better out of love and wanting us to grow and live life to the fullest. I don't know if banning Nancy Pelosi was the best choice or not but the good Archbishop was definitely correct to call Nancy out on her actions.

If the mystical body is full of rot, it means all faithful Catholics must be willing to suffer more in order to make up for what was lacking in the sufferings of Christ for the sake of the church. As St. John Vianney wrote, "It is only by sacrificing and suffering, offered as penance, that you will be able, by the grace of God, to convert sinners." We can either suffer now to diminish or avoid the coming chastisements or as in the days of Noah, we can embrace the evil agenda of this present world and await the cleansing by fire. Either way, prepare the way of the Lord.

I am Reformed (not Roman Catholic) but I agree that this is a bad reason to leave. If it was over what the Pope had said (even if it wasn't the Pope speaking "infallibly") then that would be more understandable. Excommunication is shown in the bible and probably not practiced well by any denomination. It should be done in the best interest of the person being Excommunicated to show the severity of their sin and bring them back to repentance.

Do these people not understand the Immaculate Conception?

Sin darkens the intellect. I know this well, and am rescued from sin only by the light of God. Oh my Jesus, save me from the fires of Hell, and lead all souls to heaven. Especially those in most need of thy mercy. Christ, have mercy on us. Mary, pray for us. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ and sing thy praises forever with thy saints. Amen. Ephesians 4:18-19 DRB "Having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts. Who despairing, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, unto the working of all uncleanness, unto covetousness."

I can completely understand, with a greal deal of sadness of course, why a Catholic might leave the Faith for intellectual reasons. For example, he or she might stop believing in God because he or she is no longer convinced by arguments for God's existence, or no longer accepts teachings like the virgin birth or original sin. But the ''argument'' this man has proposed has no logical merit. It is based on raw emotion. It is filled with non sequiturs. He says that he will leave the Church because of the Archbishop's stance on abortion. How does this argument follow? He would need to include other premises for the argument to follow; namely, that the Archbishop is somehow a mouthpiece for all bishops, and the entire Church hierarchy, none of which, In my view, are at all true or even remotely plausible. So, here we have another Catholic leaving the Faith for no real reason at all. It seems blatantly obvious to me that the Church in the West has catechized Catholics so poorly that they might think in the way this man has thought about the Faith. If I am right, the Church there is lost, and I mean really lost.

I left ROMAN CATHOLICS but not Catholic church as there is BIG DIFF between the two!!!

I'm happy that particular guy left the Church. From what I see in that article, he seems to have been forcing Christ to enter in him whenever he was in mortal sin. It's better that he does not follow Christ's One True Church than getting the communion in state of mortal sin. So he's better off now.

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Trent, is it the position of the Papacy that trying to convert Orthodox is a 'grave sin' and that there should be No mission to the Jews, but that your mission to try to convert Protestants is legitimate? On what basis is mission to rabbinic Jews rejected and the Eastern Orthodox rejected, but Protestants accepted?

What message of tolerance? Did the Lord not say "Repent"? I'm sick and tired of people preaching what they think Christ's teaching is, without reading the Gospels, or just even one of the four! Never confuse mercy with tolerance.

The author's motivation is obvious. Anyone who claims to be unable to see it is simply lying.

Any reason for leaving is a good one.

And what's the best reason?

What do you say to people who leave the Catholic faith to be Protestant through their understanding of biblical teachings? Do you think those are bad reasons as well? Because I’d say we’d all agree that this is a bad reason all around but what about a topic that isn’t as obvious such as this?

1:13 No, The Church does not uphold traditional teaching.

No cath theologian or apologist was willing to answer this question. Yes paul warned against receiving the eucharist in sin n the rcc has numerous pedophile n sodomite priests n even cardinals who are in this habitual sin. Why are they allowed to partake of the eucharist, the real presence, while they live in sin. If u say tht the hierarchy cannot identify such clergy, then when some of these hv been exposed, they are just transferrec out to another parish. Does the bishop doing the transfer advise these pedophiles not to partake of the real presence? I dont think so. Its all a game in the rcc. But the laity are not allowed to partake. This is more than a sacriledge. Amazing insanity

Any reason is a good reason

Religion is such a touchy subject, most people either stay what they were raised because of tradition or leave because of bad experiences in their youth. Wherever they end up they will rationalize why they are where they are. I know what I believe but suggest to you follow what you think is the best, nobody can make that choice for you. I don’t want to offend but I know that I can never be Catholic.

As Catholics we have to remember that even in the most intimate circle of Jesus Christ, came Judas who sold him to his persecutors in exchange of silver. What did Jesus even do to merit this? So, our fealty should always be to the Church and not to the erring men that surround it. Although they have done un-Christly things, these still doesn’t disprove that this is the one true church that Jesus gave to the world.

Do Catholics believe that Jesus is the only way to be reconciled with the Father?

"not everyone who says to me lord lord will enter the kingdom of heaven but only those who do the will of my father in heaven" its very bloody simple. Tolerance of your past once you renounce it and forgiveness when you ask him for it from then on. You are not a faithful Catholic if you live contrary to Catholic teaching. End of. Your conscience is not the will of God. Neither is mine. It was conscience, distorted by culture, that allowed every human atrocity throughout history, it was malformation of conscience that allowed the evil of abortion to begin with. The will of God was given to the apostles, preserved through the generations by the scriptures and the writings of the saints and is considered by qualified leaders in the magisterium.

Even a Christian cannot brush aside the worship of Jehovah as God. In Revelation 1:5 the Son of God called himself "Jesus Christ, 'The Faithful Witness.'" When on earth as a man he was a Jew, an Israelite, to whose nation the words of Isaiah 43:10 were written: "'You are my witnesses is the utterance of Jehovah, 'even my servant whom I have chosen.'" Jesus demonstrated that he was a faithful and true witness of Jehovah God. His genuine disciples today must be the same kind of witnesses Jehovah.

This bishop left because he wanted to leave. Leave him alone.

+ O throne of Grace, HOLY MARY, VIRGIN QUEEN MOTHER of GOD, conceived without sin, assumed into heaven, TRIUMPH and REIGN in every heart and home. Amen +