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	The Catholic Press (UK and USA)
		In so far as a lapsed Catholic who becomes a liberal Catholic can be said to have returned to the faith (which is self-evidently problematic), the Tablet’s current editor returned to the Catholic faith, having been through the Landings program at Ealing Abbey.
		Liberal “Catholics” appear to be aware in some obscure way of the irrationality in their creed and are consequently forced to resort to all sorts of painful mental gymnastics and self-deception to paper over the cracks.
		No well instructed Catholic could possibly be taken in by such patently deceitful gobbledygook, and it is doubtful to be honest that many liberals are so cerebrally challenged that they actually fully succeed in conning themselves with this line.
	www.cathud.com /LINKS/pages_AF/catholic_press.htm (1528 words)

	Bring Them Home (This Rock: March 2005)
		We all know inactive Catholics: an uncle who has not been to Mass in decades because he hates the new liturgy; a sister who left because she is mad at God after the death of her husband; a friend who left after professors persuaded her that the Church is misogynist because women are not ordained.
		This is a question being asked by many Catholics today, especially in the wake of the sex-abuse scandal, the crisis over pro-abortion politicians, and the pervasive culture of death that are driving so many men and women into the darkness of doubt and apathy.
		First, a commitment to evangelizing lapsed Catholics means engaging the entire parish in the effort, and no program is going to work without the support and leadership of the pastor, associates, and staff.
	www.catholic.com /thisrock/2005/0503fea1.asp (1959 words)

	Back in the Fold, by Mitch Finley, Spring 2004, Notre Dame Magazine Online - University of Notre Dame
		Catholics who are already on the fringes of the church often choose to distance themselves entirely when a priest or parish lay minister responds in what strikes them as a legalistic manner.
		Invariably, when alienated Catholics return, their coming home requires the realization that an adult faith includes the ability to distinguish between the church as an imperfect human institution and the living Catholic tradition, one that mediates the healing and liberating presence of the risen Christ in time and space.
		Alienated Catholics are invited to join a group of active parish members for six to eight evening sessions, and laity, rather than a priest, lead the two-hour sessions, each of which follows a pre-designed format.
	www.nd.edu /~ndmag/sp2004/finley.html (3412 words)

	Catholic Culture : Commentary : Highlights & Comentary
		These things can be inviting to wandering Catholic souls fed up with the world’s egocentrism, but who feel that their own faith is, by contrast, considerably more bulky and complex.
		There is a feeling among many Catholics that to be truly Catholic in every action necessitates extensive time for research, and that you have to be an intellectual to practice spiritual meditation.
		Catholics pursue this for the purpose of elevating their soul by offering it back to Christ.
	beta1.catholicculture.org /commentary/articles.cfm?id=121 (1623 words)

	Catholic Church Teaching--Beliefnet.com
		We are happily married, but my wife does not feel that the Catholic church is "right for her" as she grew up and remains a liberal protestant.
		Certainly the Catholic Church would welcome you back, but you would not be able to receive Holy Communion, unless your marriage could be recognized by the Catholic Church.
		She's not Catholic, and shouldn't be expected to be interested in it if she doesn't want to go.
	www.beliefnet.com /boards/message_list.asp?boardID=5601&discussionID=523252 (705 words)

	OPERATION INFORMATION (This Rock: March 1997)
		It is the mobilization of all the priests, nuns, brothers, and laity of a province, diocese, or parish, under the direction of the proper Church authority, supported by a campaign of prayer, to fire practicing Catholics with apostolic zeal, win back lapsed Catholics, and try to share the faith with non-Catholics.
		Every Catholic is a member of the Mystical Body of Christ, a living cell in a supernatural organism which carries on Christ’s life and work in the world.
		The popes have summoned all Catholics to the apostolate.
	www.catholic.com /thisrock/1997/9703clas.asp (1241 words)

	Rebuilding Our Church Part I - Catholic Online
		I mentioned in my homily this week of a "Catholic" television writer with whom I spoke several years ago who defended her collaboration with The Media Project as a place to get ideas.
		Further, it is essential for Catholics to investigate which media companies participate in The Media Project and to build their family?s television viewing decisions based upon their findings.
		A self-proclaimed lapsed Catholic is not repentant of anything and is, therefore, engaged in the obstinate act of rejecting the grace of the Holy Spirit.
	www.catholic.org /featured/headline.php?ID=2420 (1515 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Let My People Go: the Catholic Church and Slavery
		My zealous Catholic classmate's argument only served to provoke our European history professor, a middle-aged lapsed Catholic, who now lobbed at my friend what even I—a fellow Catholic and therefore a sympathetic observer—took to be the obvious, crushing rejoinder.
		The Catholic Church's record on slavery is not the wicked thing the professor suggested.
		The Catholic appreciation of natural law—as opposed to the Protestant principle of sola scriptura (when Scripture tells slaves to obey their masters)—has always made slavery less reconcilable with Catholicism than Protestantism.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=1201 (2399 words)

	Fr. Hardon Archives - How Should Catholics Be Retrieved?
		In other words, if we are to retrieve those who have lapsed from the faith, it must be by reversing the causes which caused their lapse from the faith.
		In the Sudan alone, the Catholic Church, since 1950, has had two million martyrs for the faith, who were starved to death because they refused to deny that the Son of Mary, Ibm Mariam, is the Son of God, Ibm Abba.
		If you want to retrieve anyone, including your loved ones back to the Catholic Church, to live the heroic Catholic life, that is the primary condition for retrieving lapsed Catholics, we must be willing to practice our faith in spite our not being accepted by others.
	www.therealpresence.org /archives/Media/Media_006.htm (3934 words)

	Changing Religious Affiliations: A census perspective - Desmond A Gilmor
		Christian denominations other than Roman Catholic increased their number of adherents by 48.3% (to 196,675 persons or 5% of our total population), and non-Christian religions increased by 285% (to 31,034 persons).
		As regards immigrants: of the 1991-to-2002 total, 71.2% were Catholics (while in 1991, 91.6% of the Republic’s total population had been Catholic).
		Even in households where both parents were returned as Catholics, the number of such children had risen sevenfold.
	www.jesuit.ie /studies/articles/2006/Gilmor.htm (528 words)

	Catholic-Pages.com \| Discussion Forum - Lapsed Catholic can't come back
		Your spouse does not need to become a Catholic in order for you to be able to practice your faith fully and receive the Sacraments.
		You might find it helpful to ask a few practicing Catholics that you know to give you the name or names of priests that are not only faithful but approachable.
		To give a little background, my mom was a lapsed Catholic who was married to a non-Catholic.
	catholic-pages.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10089 (1244 words)

	(Lapsed) Catholic filmmaker finds suspicion about her faith among evangelicals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		That seems to be the extent of her Catholic practice.
		Evangelicals are known for their ability to get lukewarm and lapsed Catholics excited about faith.
		I don't have a problem with the lack of "lapsed" in the headline--you can't cram everything into the headline--but the line from Haggard is so damned innocuous that this is a case of much ado about nothing.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-religion/1718989/posts (1437 words)

	Catholic Apologetics International - Robert Sungenis
		Tell him that you yourself are convinced that the Catholic Church is true, that it is the Church Jesus founded, and that if he wishes you will be happy to share with him the evidence for this.
		What I am asking is that if we as Catholics are going to stand up for the truth, no matter what, then this overly-sensitive back-pedaling in the realm of theology has got to stop.
		The sad fact is, by and large, Catholics are hardly known for being over-zealous in the area of evangelization.
	www.catholicintl.com /epologetics/articles/pastoral/uncatholic.htm (942 words)

	1994 Report on Anti-Catholicism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Catholic Tastes" was a scatological exhibit designed to offend Catholics.
		Local papers described it as a farce filled with "a scathing attack on the Catholic Churcha satire on priests and elements of the Catholic religion." It was scheduled as the season-opening play for the radio station.
		He recreates images of the martyrdom of St. Sebastian, the crown of thorns and Michaelangelo’s Pieta, and reporters have made note of the proliferation of images of bloody Catholic martyrs found in Athey’s home.
	www.catholicleague.org /1994report/94arts.htm (674 words)

	Fr. Hardon Archives - Prodigal Sons and Daughters
		Catholics schools are down to a fraction of what they had been even twenty years ago.
		And then, how to retrieve, that’s the verb I was given, how to retrieve lapsed Catholics, especially, as most of us so well know, our own flesh and blood who no longer to profess or even admit to believing to the Catholic Church.
		How widespread in the Catholic Church, what word do I use, are errors on the most fundamental truths, hear it, on the most fundamental truths of our faith and the fundamental principles of our Catholic morality.
	www.therealpresence.org /archives/Family/Family_006.htm (2232 words)

	Automatic Excommunication for Those Who Procure Abortion
		After many years as a lapsed Catholic, I returned to the Church and to confession.
		Any Catholic accomplice in the act of procuring an abortion, even though not specifically mentioned in Canon #1398, receives the same penalty of automatic excommunication.
		Here an accomplice is one who assists in such a way that the heinous act would not have been committed without his assistance.
	catholiceducation.org /articles/religion/re0143.html (635 words)

	The Florida Catholic - Lapsed Catholic prepares to return with rite of election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Erick Almasi does not fit the image of what most consider a "lapsed Catholic." Nevertheless, that's the way the 21-year-old Tallahassee native describes himself as he prepares to rejoin the church this Easter season.
		His mother, Maria, is a Colombian-born "cradle Catholic." Almasi said that because neither parent was actively engaged in a church, it was easy for him to fall away.
		The bishop assured the elect that rather than wonder why they are in certain places at certain times, they should be aware that, in God's plan, they are exactly where they ought to be.
	www.thefloridacatholic.org /articles/2006/060331/060331-pt-catechumens.htm (673 words)

	Joseph René Vilatte
		Educated for the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church, he found himself unable to receive the recent Vatican Decrees, and for a short time associated himself with the Presbyterian communion, but at last, by the mercy of God, was led into contact with this branch of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.
		Gauthier, a Catholic schoolmaster was sent by Bishop Brown to Switzerland and raised to the diaconate and priesthood.
		After the Old Catholic Congress held in Cologne in September of 1890, the bishops had decided that it was not expedient to carry out the consecration of Vilatte as their only official representative in the United States.
	www.concentric.net /~Cosmas/vilatte.htm (8946 words)

	The religion of Havok (Alex Summers) of the X-Men
		Alex Summers was raised as a Catholic, but he was not born into Catholicism.
		Alex and his older brother Scott Summers (who would become the X-Man known as Cyclops) were with their parents in a small airplane being flown by their father, test pilot Christopher Summers, when the aircraft was attacked by a Shi'ar spaceship.
		Havok became a Catholic, but as an adult he has apparently been lapsed in this faith and has not been portrayed as an active churchgoer.
	www.adherents.com /lit/comics/Havok.html (551 words)

	Domestic-Church.Com: Essays: How to Become a Lapsed Catholic
		This is the quickest and most effective way to become a lapsed Catholic.
		Insist that you have no intention of raising your kids Catholic, but that they're going to be able to make up their own minds "when they get old enough".
		Then, tell the priests you intend to go at it like rabbits every chance you get, and that the only reason you want to get married in the Church in the first place is to please your mother.
	www.domestic-church.com /CONTENT.DCC/19980901/ESSAY/AGNOSTIC.HTM (563 words)

	Reply to an Eastern Orthodox Critic
		It is not difficult to trace the origin of Orthodox polemics directed against Catholic teaching on original sin, mortal and venial sin, grace, purgatory, indulgences, and Transubstantiation to such influences.
		Whatever the doctrinal and pedagogical opposition of the Catholic Church to Protestantism and the Byzantine Greco-Russian schism, the lasting bitterness and hatred jointly registered toward the Papacy and the Catholic Church by its avowed enemies, i.e., the most intransigent Protestant and Orthodox polemicists, remains an utterly extraordinary historical phenomenon.
		Whatever positive elements there are in Eastern Orthodox ecclesiology lead directly to a Catholic profession of faith in the divine prerogatives of the Successor of Peter as visible head of the Church Militant and the Rock of the entire visible Episcopate which succeeds to the place of the Apostles.
	credo.stormloader.com /Ecumenic/eocritic.htm (2858 words)

	Catholic Apostolic National Church
		Joseph Rene Vilatte was a lapsed Catholic of the Latin Rite.
		That, here in deed was an opportunity to organize a purified Catholic church which would present the Gospel to the people as did the primitive Church, and exercise authority according to the spirit of free America.
		The Old Catholics, for a brief time appointed a Polish priest/bishop to represent the Church, but that was not long termed and it certainly showed Vilatte that he was not their representative.
	www.oldcatholic.com /vilatte.html (8254 words)

	Living Catholicism: A Plan for Life: Excerpt from Scripture and Catholic Tradition
		Catholic blog focused on developing an authentic Catholic culture within the family.
		He recently posted correspondence between himself and a lapsed Catholic.
		By the way, Scripture and Catholic Tradition is an excellent blog, particularly for those who engage in apologetic activities.
	www.livingcatholicism.com /archives/2004/12/a_plan_for_life.html (759 words)

	Let My People Go: The Catholic Church and Slavery
		My zealous Catholic classmate’s argument only served to provoke our European history professor, a middle-aged lapsed Catholic, who now lobbed at my friend what even I — a fellow Catholic and therefore a sympathetic observer — took to be the obvious, crushing rejoinder.
		The Catholic appreciation of natural law — as opposed to the Protestant principle of sola scriptura (when Scripture tells slaves to obey their masters) — has always made slavery less reconcilable with Catholicism than Protestantism.
		A former staff apologist with Catholic Answers, Mark is the author of How Not To Share Your Faith (Catholic Answers) and contributor to The Five Issues That Matter Most.
	catholiceducation.org /articles/facts/fm0006.html (2427 words)

	Timothy McVeigh: Where Is He Now?
		According to news reports, Timothy McVeigh, a lapsed Catholic, received the anointing of the sick, a Catholic sacrament, just minutes before his execution.
		Presumably he had a minimal knowledge of his faith, as do so many Catholics of his age and background, and had received the initial sacraments of baptism, confirmation, and holy communion.
		If he was indeed in a state of grace, he would be received into heaven or sent to an intermediate state called purgatory for a period of purification.
	www.catholicity.com /mccloskey/mcveigh.html (668 words)

	The Action Principles® at Success.org : Catholic Edition
		You may never know the lapsed Catholic who finds reasons to return to the Church.
		We, the laity, comprise 98% of the Catholic Church.
		As a Catholic evangelist, you are planting the seeds of faith that may blossom into a conversion or help an individual become reborn.
	www.catholicactionprinciples.com /Catholic/How_to_Evangelize.shtml (549 words)

	Restoring Faith Through the Internet - Catholic Way
		Call them “inactive,” call them “lapsed,” but many Catholics stay away from the Church, and consider themselves to be outside the faith, looking in.
		When Catholics become inactive, McKee added, about 40 percent migrate to Protestant churches, and 60 percent remain with the Church – they just do nothing.
		When lapsed Catholics approach priests—on foot or online—with questions about the Church, not enough priests ask them to return, McKee said.
	www.byfaithonline.com /partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID5339\|CHID23\|CIID142437,00.html (822 words)

	FINDING MY RELIGION / Valerie Sammons, a lapsed Catholic, is finding her religion later in life
		Valerie Sammons, a lapsed Catholic, is finding her religion later in life
		Sammons, a retired nurse who lives in Seattle, grew up in a strict Catholic family in Vancouver, British Columbia, but she abandoned her family's faith as a young woman after deciding that believing in God just didn't make sense to her.
		Anyway, I was going through a lot of turmoil, and a friend of mine who is Catholic suggested I talk to a priest she knew.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2006/08/28/findrelig.DTL (2019 words)

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