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If you were a Catholic and received all of your sacraments in the Catholic church and then you converted to another religion, how can you be Catholic again? Do you have to go through RCIA? Can you just come back, go to confession and start taking communion as if you never left? Does it matter what denomination you converted to and whether it was Christian or not? If you return and register at a Catholic parish without disclosing that you left Catholicism can they find out? If so, can you get in trouble or excommunicated?

I think you go to confession

2008-12-08 16:47:20 by Osfon225

A friend of mine considers his denomination to be the Church of England, as considers himself to be very protestant. Consequently, he doesn't like Catholocism, but isn't the Church of England basically Catholic anyway? It's as Catholic as it is Protestant.

If he feels he is so Protestant and doesn't want anything to do with Catholicism, is the Church of England the wrong church for him?

Not necessarily. The Church of England is certainly Protestant in many of its doctrines, but it is the closest to Catholicism of all the Protestant denominations. Also, keep in mind that there are two visible types of Anglicanism:
1)High Church - They usually celebrate very similarly to the Catholics, and hold onto more Catholic traditions.
2)Low Church - They typically celebrate in the same manner as your modern-day Protestants, and tend to be very distant from Catholicism and its traditions.

Your friend is probably of the "Low Church" type. Also, no matter which form of worship and tradition an Anglican may prefer, Anglicanism still denies many important Catholic doctrines, including:
-Transubstantiation
-Purgatory
-Celibate male clergy
-Papal supremacy
-traditional apostolic succession (they changed the formula for Holy Orders)

They also subscribe to something very similar to Sola Scriptura, in that they believe the Bible contains all that is necessary for Christian truth and salvation.

So really, the Church of England is in many ways different from Catholicism, though it is a lot of times the closest of all the Protestant denominations. This is why reconciliation between the Catholic Church and the Church of England are likely possible. But it still holds to many Protestant doctrines.

PS: As for the Catholic Charismatic thing, I consider it to be very irreverent, extremely protestantised (fundie style), and they often hold abusive Masses. It's the sort of thing that causes religious vocations to drop drastically.

2009-05-05 01:17:08 by BlackCup

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Catholicism which has recently captivated the UK which founded the largest break away group from the Roman Catholic church attracts and keeps far more than any other group. Despite all the rumors about priests etc... they are still the largest and largest growers so why is that? What does it have that seems to attract so many and possess such a staying power?

Seniority, threats like excommunication, self perpetuation like marrying another Catholic and sanctioned or unsanctioned reading as evidenced by an imprimature by the church in a book.
Matthew 7: 13 & 14. ' broad and wide is the road leading leading off to destruction and many are on it; but narrow and cramped the road leading to life and few are the ones finding it.' So how popular and how numerous are the professed followers is no indication of truthfulness.

2008-11-16 07:48:26 by Thristy Kirsty

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what is the good church in the protestantism? there are many of them some are closer to the catholicism.. some pastors or fathers for them dress like a catholic and wear a cross and use images.. and the others don't use nothing except they believe in instant miracles like Pentecosts and others pastors scream too much.

Lutheran, it's fantastic and really neat!

2008-10-22 09:25:17 by VOICES

I was a bit curious as to a bit of Irish history...so in ancient times, Ireland wasn't yet a part of the Church in Rome, and had its own Celtic Catholic Church? Or was Celtic Catholicism always a part of Roman Catholicism in general?

Could someone please help clear this bit of history up?

Early Irish Christians had some practices that were not in line with the teachings of the church, among them would have been baptising children in milk, there were multiple bishoprics were set up in line with tribal boundaries, high positions in the church were passed throught he family rather then through normal lines of succession as well as the buying & selling of positions and of course there was good old fashioned thieving of assets from monasteries. The monasteries also tended to have a bigger say over how things were run then the Church.

Starting with Synod of Rathbreasil in 1118 they started to bring Ireland into line with the rest of the Church. Starting with re-drawing the diocisean map & reducing the number of bishoprics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathbreasail

It was followed by 3 other Synods.

As Orla C has pointed out Pope Adrian made Henry II 'Lord of Ireland' and he promised to make us behave ourselves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudabiliter

2008-12-10 23:11:07 by Samian's Sixth Account