I tried to quit the Catholic church, but the Catholic church wouldn't quit me. Now what?
But where would I start? Who would I speak to? As Irish comedian Dara Ó Briain once joked, “You can’t cut up your membership card in front of a priest and go ‘feck you! I’m out of here’.” If you Google “How do I quit the Catholic church?”, you’ll find a lot of chatter, mostly posted by angry, disaffected former Catholics. And it seems that most of them regard excommunication as the way to go. A reasonable assumption, given that excommunication is an incredibly ancient and dramatic concept, going right back to the start of the church, and evoking medieval trials, the Inquisi...
Source: theguardian.com