How to tell my mom I want to leave Catholic church?

I am very sorry that you lost your dad at such a young age. I am sure that was a very traumatic experience. In such situations it is natural to blame God for what happened to your Dad because it is so hard to understand why you have to suffer in this way while others still have their fathers. I would guess that you and your father were close and that you loved each other very much. Sometimes it is hard to understand why these things happen when God is in control. Truthfully I do not have an answer either as to why you are suffering this loss but it can be comforting to know that your father is in a better place where we all hope to be someday in God's presence. We must remember that we are in a place that is just a very temporary existence and not more than a blink of the eye in view of eternity. Your dad is where it is our destiny to go if we are in Christ. I am sure that your dad desires to be reunited with you someday in heaven and spend eternity with you.

It is now up to you, If you abandon the faith of your mother and your father you may not receive the grace to spend eternity with them and those that love you the most. Your dad is looking down upon you and now is one of the great cloud of witnesses that surround us. He is in a place where he can encourage you in your faith and help to guide you if you are just sensitive to his presence. What I am saying is instead of wallowing in your sorrow which you are certainly entitled to direct your life so that you may some day be reunited with him and spend not a blink of an eye which is this life but an eternity full of God's love and the presence of those souls you have and will love and those souls that love you and desire you to share with them the beatific vision that is the hope for your parents and hopefully will be yours. You dad is waiting for all those he loved and left behind to join him. Please do your best not to disappoint him and God who created you to worship Him. God bless!

With love in Christ

Fr. Joseph

Do you love your parents? If you do respect their religion. If you are going to be confirmed or have already been confirmed you can decide for yourself to leave the Catholic Church, but until that happens if you have not yet been confirmed you are under your parents' faith as they had taken a vow before the Catholic Church when you were baptized.

Now the thing is with Catholics when you leave the Church you are also going to hurt people in the process in fact Catholic parents are disappointed with their children that leave their faith. They may or may not ever tell you this because you are their child it varies between different parents. I never heard of Catholic parents ever disowning their children from leaving their faith because like I said you are still their child.

Maybe you built a wall around yourself which stopped the effects of the Church from reaching you. Just go to the Church without any notion and I am sure you will find some solace,

I'm 16 have been an atheist for 6+ years and still haven't told my parents, they don't make me go to church every week but they've sent me to catholic schools, the reason I haven't told them yet is because it's one less conflict, though I also am planning on speaking up soon.

If you are planning on sitting down and having a chat with her, just have all your reasons ready, explain your views, then answer her questions, respect her views and hope she respects yours. Tell her you want to be honest, and mostly try to have answers ready.

Good Luck :D

Careful!

When parent put religion before love it can quickly turn to hatred!

There have been many posts from children punished, persecuted and a few even claiming to have been thrown out of the family home!

Try and explain to her that if she loved you she should respect your right to beleive what you wish and respect your right under the constitution!

I left the Catholic Church as an adult. As long as you live under her care and guidance, you are pretty much stuck .My suggestion is keep going to the Catholic mass, but go to the Saturday mass, try to leave your Sundays open to try a different Christian church. In the mean time buy a Bible, read it, maybe check out some sermons on tape, Christian Radio, Christian TV. Some Protestant Churches, also, have wednesday night services. There is a God, Pray to God that He reveal Himself to you.

does your mother get up early for you each day, does your washing, feed you, cleans your room /

god looks over you 168 hours a week , why not give him an hour . and say a few prayers to help yourself .

Once again, just read her Revelation 18:4. It's necessary to get out of "Babylon the Great" (origin of today's false religious teachings is ancient Babylon, this fact is even proven securlarly- a fitting name in the book of Revelation), which is the world empire of false religion. Christendom is the most reprehensible part of what the Bible speaks of as a "great harlot Babylon", sitting on the back of the wild beast (world governments of today). Her demise is soon to come, with the United Nations taking the lead in her destruction, at the behest of it's member nations, and ultimately at God's prodding.

Also, notice these words of Revelation 17:15-18 "And he says to me: “The waters that you saw, where the harlot is sitting, mean peoples and crowds and nations and tongues. 16 And the ten horns that you saw, and the wild beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her devastated and naked, and will eat up her fleshy parts and will completely burn her with fire. 17 For God put [it] into their hearts to carry out his thought, even to carry out [their] one thought by giving their kingdom to the wild beast, until the words of God will have been accomplished. 18 And the woman whom you saw means the great city that has a kingdom over the kings of the earth.”

You certainly don't want to be part of false religion. All those who are willingly a part of her will share the same fate.

Honestly, hang in there till you move out. or you could sit her down and all hell could break loose. or she could understand. i'm sure you know how your mom is. Goodluck.

Read The God Delusion then give it to her