Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Cathergantz's Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

Today I want to talk about an article I read a few months ago called Why I Just Quit The

Catholic Church.

This is written back in May of 2022.

I remember reading it back then thinking, oh man, I really want to talk about this.

This really stands out to me as a bad reason to lead the Catholic faith.

But life happens.

I sometimes come across all kinds of articles and videos.

I want to talk about them here on the podcast and life happens.

I got a debate to prep for or I'm traveling or personal reasons.

Not able to get to it.

But today I thought, you know what?

I do want to talk about this.

This is something that's important.

And when I hear people say I'm leaving the Catholic faith, I try really hard to be empathetic.

I don't always succeed in that unfoulable human being.

I can be unempathetic and fail in that regard.

But I try.

I think we all should try.

If someone says I don't want to be Catholic anymore and they give a reason to try to understand

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