I support the 41 young people who have decided to leave the Catholic Church. My advice to them is to leave on their own terms and not on the terms of the Curia’s “Grand Inquisitor”.

A male correspondent in The Times wrote that he felt “saddened” that so many young people have decided to leave the Church. The real reason why he’s saddened, I suspect, is not because he feels any sympathy for the defectors but because his Church’s image is tarnished by the mass exodus. Long ago, I too quit the Roman Catholic Church in which I had been relentlessly indoctrinated – and brainwashed – since childhood.

After I left the Church, not only did I not feel any regret but I actually felt better.

I experienced an integration of personality and I felt whole. This new direction in my life took place 45 years ago and I never looked back.

Nowadays, only those who are credulous or conformist feel the need to belong to the scandal-ridden Catholic Church.

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