Common Reasons Why People Leave the Church
Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)
Ascension
4.9 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
What are the common reasons Catholics are leaving the Church? Today, I share part two of a talk I recently gave at my parish about bringing your loved ones back to Christ. I discuss the main reasons people are leaving the Catholic Church according to a new survey, and what we can do in response to this crisis in the Church.
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When Christianity is reduced to simply a moral system, we forget that good people don't go to heaven, forgiven people go to heaven.
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| 0:00.0 | Trustful surrender to divine providence. |
| 0:02.8 | That's what holiness is. |
| 0:05.0 | He must increase, I must decrease. Welcome to Every Knees shall bow, your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization. This is Mike Gomer Gormley, and I'm not joined by Dave Van Vickles. I did a Stubenville conference, which is why my voice |
| 0:38.1 | is pretty hoarse and awful. What you're going to hear is a talk that I gave based on Brandon Vott's book |
| 0:44.2 | published by Word on Fire called Return, How to Draw Your Child Back to Church. It is a wonderful book. |
| 0:50.8 | We interviewed Brandon Vott a few weeks ago. And if you remember in that episode, |
| 0:54.8 | I said to Brandon that we were going to do a series in my church for adult faith formation |
| 1:00.1 | on his book. And so this is the first of six classes that we are doing. And I've chopped up the |
| 1:08.1 | talk to try to fit it in our EKSB time limit. |
| 1:11.3 | But I really want to encourage you to get the book and to go through it and maybe go through |
| 1:15.5 | it with a group of people, especially if you've experienced friends or loved ones who have |
| 1:19.5 | left the church. |
| 1:20.7 | Most people in that room are there because of their children, but not everyone. |
| 1:23.6 | Some it's neighbors, some it's parents, some its siblings or nieces and nephews. |
| 1:28.1 | But I can tell you this, everyone in that room of 35, 45 people at one point or another was |
| 1:33.9 | choked up because of how much they long to bring these people home to the church. |
| 1:39.3 | Once again, I want to thank Ascension Press for being so patient with us trying to create these podcasts with our |
| 1:45.7 | crazy lives. Part one is to understand why they're leaving, which is what we're going to go through |
| 1:50.8 | today. We actually don't have to wonder. We don't have to wonder at all. There have been |
| 1:55.8 | multiple universities and dioceses that have sponsored multiple surveys, sociological reviews, all this |
| 2:03.6 | stuff to ask the question, why did you leave the Catholic Church? So we're going to go over |
| 2:06.5 | these. The problem is we often don't hear why they leave and we come up with our own reasons to kind |
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