I've heard this term used many times - any ideas?
2007-02-13 06:55:38 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Same as an ex-catholic. The connotation being given is that you have to "recover" from it, like alcohol or drug addiction. The guilt, etc...
2007-02-13 06:58:36 · answer #1 · answered by Laptop Jesus 2.0 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Someone who was raised a Catholic and no longer a Catholic. But since Catholicism runs so deep with culture and lifestyle, the "recovering Catholic" is a clever take on the term "recovering alcoholic" or whatnot.
2007-02-13 14:59:33 · answer #2 · answered by Contemplative Monkey 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sorry bud no such a thing as a recovering catholic, once you are baptized a catholic, you are catholic for the rest of your life, you can leave start your own religion or join another you will still be catholic, only God can nullify your baptism.
2007-02-13 15:08:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ha! Ha! Someone that has come to their senses! Hahaha! That's great. Sorry, I don't know the real answer, but it baffles me that there's not more recovering Catholics in the world.
2007-02-13 15:00:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a person who used to be a strict adherent to the catholic church and its archaic practices and beliefs...generally someone who was forced into catholic school as a child, escaped to the real world and realized the truth about living in the US....someone who has turned their back on the church because of all the funny business...you know what i'm talkin' about...someone who decided that an unexamined life is not worth living...
2007-02-13 15:00:40 · answer #5 · answered by techteach03 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Me! Well, I'm pretty much recovered now.
There's another religion which I won't name, whose members (particularly the mothers) are known for laying guilt trips on their kids. Well, they have NOTHING on catholic mothers - they're just as bad!
So anyone leaving the catholic church can have quite the battle on their hands.
2007-02-13 15:16:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Someone that has seen the "other ways" of the Catholic church: praying to the Virgin Mary, asking a Priest for forgivness, and all of that. This term refers to someone believing all of that is wrong and turning Protestant
2007-02-13 14:59:31 · answer #7 · answered by Ecclesiastes 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That is what people who are not happy about being brought up Catholic call themselves.
2007-02-13 14:59:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A Catholic who has strayed from the church for another religion, no religion, or been absent from it for a long time.
2007-02-13 14:59:25 · answer #9 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
ooohhhhh, good answer, Meg Michaels!
i, on the other hand, am a 'recovering Protestant'.
2007-02-13 15:03:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋