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I’m Thinking About Leaving the Catholic Church
Three years ago, I wrote an essay about my experience with the Catholic Church, the institution I’ve assigned the lion’s share of credit for improving my mental health. This essay was plucked out of relative obscurity by an editor at LEVEL magazine, elevated to Editor’s Choice on medium.com, and distributed far and wide across the digital universe — Twitter, Facebook, etc. As of today, How My Catholic Faith Helped Me Cope, has garnered nearly four-thousand views, and remains my most trafficked piece of writing to date. You can check out the story by clicking on the link below:
The spread of the dastardly coronavirus closed off the physical church from me in 2020, creating a hole in my heart’s center. Of course, I could still read scripture and pray whenever I felt the need to. But I could do nothing to replace the high of being inside the church, occupying a section of the pews with my fellow parishioners on a Sunday morning, the sun’s rays pouring through the clerestory on the eastern side of the chapel, illuminating beatific parishioners as the priest read through the scripture. And I missed offering…
