Why I am no longer a Catholic | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:33:27 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg Why I am no longer a Catholic | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 Why I Am No Longer a Roman Catholic https://anitamathias.com/2014/01/26/longer-roman-catholic/ https://anitamathias.com/2014/01/26/longer-roman-catholic/#comments Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:39:51 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=56664 I was brought up Roman Catholic, was taught that missing Sunday Mass was a mortal sin, except when you were sick. (And a mortal sin meant you would burn in hell, for eternity, unless you confessed it, and were absolved.) How could I have believed that? Children believe what they are taught. It’s taken me […]

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