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The NotMe.ie service has now registered more than one thousand symbolic defections, almost all from the Roman Catholic Church. In April 2011 the Catholic Church changed Canon Law to removed the option to record formal defections. This decision caused the CountMeOut.ie service to be closed. That service had been established ...
My name is John. For some of my childhood I was a Roman Catholic but from the age of 12, I have had no religious beliefs whatsoever. By age 13, I was a strong atheist and that is now over 22 years ago. I recently decided to officialy leave ...
There have been a couple of news stories recently, which are relevant to the Right To Defect. Firstly, The Irish Times has reported that the Dublin Archdiocese retains a register of those wishing to defect, even though Canon Law still prevents them from formally recognising those defections. Secondly, the ...
The purpose of this article is to give parents who are questioning whether or not to have their infant baptised information on what baptism into the Roman Catholic Church means for both the parents and the child who is being baptised and to offer suggestions for secular alternatives for celebrating ...