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Excellent commentary by a poster to CWR

Maybe Mr. Allam should do something to help solve these issues and not chicken-out by just abandoning the Church and the faith. Others are knowingly enduring these same evils and trying to fight them. They are trying to persevere. Couldn't he, as a journalist do more good by exposing particular instances of these evils rather than giving up?
There are always other issues that play into decisions like this. His open letter makes some seriously noteworthy points, many of which are the result of even worse problems but are they the only reason he has left the Church?
A last remark: the test of a religion first comes from the soundness of its doctrine and only afterward from the practice of its members. If I could address him myself I would say, "Don't be so rash to abandon the Church. There have always been those who want to change it, and our day and age simply confirms this by the very real relativism you decry. If the intention of your conversion of five years ago was pure, you would now be doing research and trying help the Church to again achieve the simplicity and purity of its doctrine and worship. Instead, you're abandoning it to those errors, from which you rationalize and justify your open and public defection. Think this over ... and if you say 'it's too late to change', well, you know of one or two who said the same thing in Scripture."

Catholic ping!

His first reason is based on the “dictatorship of relativism” as masterfully decried by Benedict XVI, the first and foremost consequence of which is, according to Allam, “religious relativism, and specifically [equating] Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, conceived as the ‘the three great monotheistic, revealed, Abrahamic religions of the book,’ resulting in the legitimization of Islam and consequently the de-legitimization of Christianity.”

"Allah" is NOT the god of Abraham. To allow "Allah" to be placed next to the Lord God is to violate the first commandment.

With the exception of the final 'reason', nothing is different from when he joined the Church five years ago. And much of what he says bothers him is created, and pushed by people in the Church, NOT official teachings or doctrine of the Church itself, with the exception of favoring the poor, which the Church has done for years. But even Pope Francis has stated that the poverty he most wants to deal with is the 'poverty of spirit' from which many Christians, not just Catholics, suffer.

I hope he finds his way back.