How come when I say that I am no longer a Roman Catholic I get people telling me that if I was baptized a Catholic (as an infant), I will always be a Catholic? I am a born again Christian and I serve and worship the Lord Jesus Christ just not in a Catholic church. I wonder if the next time I get the same insistence that, "you were born a Catholic, you will die a Catholic", I can point them to a place in the Catechism that says it ain't so?
Just tell them you’ve decided to travel around a bit for now, but you always come home to Mother.
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Or..
If you wanted to wow them you could say:
I’m not in communion, or I’m excommunicated Latae sententiae.
You could pick either heresy, being the lesser, or schism, and continue:
“As you’re aware, in Roman Catholic Church canon law, an act of schism, like an act of apostasy or heresy, automatically brings the penalty of excommunication. As stated in canon 1312 §1 1° of the Code of Canon Law.”
Personally, I was baptized Lutheran and excommunicated from Lutheranism similarly.
I was, however, pleased to learn, my baptism was still valid when I converted.
When you are finally tired of searching and looking for that right faith, exactly like I was........chances are you’ll find yourself right where you started. God bless you on your journey.
http://www.catholicscomehome.org/