The term "recovering Catholic" is used by some former practicing Catholics to describe their religious status. The use of the term implies that the person considers their former Catholicism to have been a negative influence on their life,[1] one to be "recovered" from.[2] The term first came into use in the 1980s.[3]
The term is sometimes used with humorous intent,[4] with a conscious parallel being drawn to the 12-step recovery programs often used by those recovering from addictions,[5] although practicing Catholics often find the term offensive.[6]
^O'Gorman, Bob; O'Gorman, Robert; Faulkner, Mary (2003). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Catholicism. Alpha Books. p. 239. ISBN 978-1-59257-085-0.
^Flynn, Eileen Patricia (1992). Catholicism: Agenda for Renewal. University Press of America. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-8191-9722-1. Retrieved 2010-10-17. "These people call themselves Recovering Catholics and seek to put behind them the psychic scarring they endured as a result of their upbringing. They experienced the church as cult-like, programming them with rigid ways of thinking and robotlike ways of acting."
^Jenkins, Philip (2004). The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice. Oxford University Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-19-517604-9. Retrieved 2010-10-17.
^Nielsen, Stevan L.; Johnson, W. Brad; Ellis, Albert (2001). Counseling and psychotherapy with religious persons: a rational emotive behavior therapy approach. Psychology Press. p. 243. ISBN 978-0-8058-3916-6.
^Howell, Patrick J.; Chamberlain, Gary (1990). Empowering authority: the charisms of episcopacy and primacy in the church today. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-55612-360-3.
^Jenkins, Philip (April 17, 2003). The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice. Oxford University Press. p. 99. ISBN 0195154800.
and 22 Related for: Recovering Catholic information
The term "recoveringCatholic" is used by some former practicing Catholics to describe their religious status. The use of the term implies that the person...
Catholic Atheism Catholic guilt Spiritual but not religious Lapsi (Christianity) List of former Roman CatholicsRecoveringCatholic Sunday Christian Moralistic...
24 December 2008. Retrieved 11 August 2017. I'm what they call a recoveringCatholic. "Old Boy Gabriel's Starring Role in City School Reunion". Herald...
Nominal Christian RecoveringCatholic Criticism of the Catholic Church § Partial commitment Rathschmidt, Father Jack. Cafeteria Catholics. Our Faith: uscatholic...
September 28, 2010, ISBN 978-0062012982) Bad Habits: Confessions of a RecoveringCatholic (Hyperion, October 2, 2012, ISBN 0060392339), List of people in Playboy...
to stand-up comedy with his one-man show Naked Confessions of a RecoveringCatholic, which was well received. Since 2009 he has been a regular panellist...
actively practice in his adult life. He has described himself as a "recoveringCatholic". He wrote the song "Trina Magna" as an exploration of his religious...
project manager at a web development shop. He describes himself as a recoveringCatholic, and says that while he has many problems with the Church, Salvadoran...
the recovering liturgical practice of the Non-Jurors, the Oxford Movement, through the Ritualists, to modern Anglo-Catholicism." "Anglican Catholic Church"...
joining Alcoholics Anonymous for 13 years of sobriety. He is a recoveringCatholic and atheist, having joined Agnostics Anonymous. The style of which...
iuris) particular church within the Catholic Church, whose members constitute the vast majority of the 1.3 billion Catholics. The Latin Church is one of 24...
Christopher (May 2006), "Books and Culture: A Christian Review – RecoveringCatholic: A squandered heritage regained.", Christianity Today, retrieved...
producers. Kingwell describes himself as a social democrat and a "recoveringCatholic." According to the Canadian Who's Who, he enjoys baseball, football...
There are seven sacraments of the Catholic Church, which according to Catholic theology were instituted by Jesus Christ and entrusted to the Church. Sacraments...
The Catholic Church in England and Wales (Latin: Ecclesia Catholica in Anglia et Cambria; Welsh: Yr Eglwys Gatholig yng Nghymru a Lloegr) is part of the...
The Syriac Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Christian jurisdiction originating in the Levant that uses the West Syriac Rite liturgy and has many...
the baptism of infants. In certain Christian denominations, such as the Catholic Churches, Eastern Orthodox Churches, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Assyrian...
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest...
lost it totally. The 'recovered territories' thesis previously applied in almost equal measures by the communists and Catholic Church has been discarded...
of Judaism, Rowman & Littlefield, USA, 2015, p. 422 Anthony R. Cross, Recovering the Evangelical Sacrament: Baptisma Semper Reformandum, Wipf and Stock...
In the canon law of the Catholic Church, excommunication (Lat. ex, "out of", and communio or communicatio, "communion"; literally meaning "exclusion from...
Global Information