[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.

[Arthur McGowan]

Before you allowed this one priest to drive you out of the Church, did you ever take the time to find out if what he told your mother was actually TRUE?

There are millions of people who have given up limbs, eyes, ears, and their lives, rather than give up the Catholic Faith and the Eucharist. You allowed one stupid remark by one stupid priest to do what torture and death has failed to do to millions of people.