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Lapsed Catholic
A lapsed Catholic is a baptised Catholic who is non-practising. Such a person may still identify as a Catholic〔 and remains a Catholic according to canon law.〔
== Interpretations ==
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of "lapsed" in relation to "lapsed Catholic" is "no longer believing or following the teachings of a religion".〔(Merriam-Webster: "lapsed" )〕 Lapsing is thus not necessarily connected with a lack of belief.〔(Leslie John Francis, William K. Kay, William S. Campbell (editors), ''Research in Religious Education'' (Gracewing Publishing 1996 ISBN 978-0-85244342-2), p. 378 )〕 However, Daniel Ford links being a lapsed Catholic with rejection of Catholic teaching, either totally or by being an "à la carte Catholic".〔Quotes from Daniel F. Ford, ''The Lapsed Catholic Catechism'': "Lapsees are ''à la carte'' Catholics who pick and choose what suits them, if anything does, from the long menu of past teachings from Rome and/or other religious traditions. Some even continue to participate in orthodox Catholic rituals – e.g., getting married in church and attending the church funeral rites intended to honor the departed and comfort the family and friends left behind." "Some Lapsed Catholics are out and out atheists or agnostics. They look at arguments about God’s existence as W.H. Auden did: 'All proofs or disproofs that we tender … are returned Unopened to the sender.' Some, who do not believe in any top-tier gods like Jupiter or the God of the Old Testament, are still devotees of second-tier gods like Bacchus, the god of wine, or Venus, the goddess of carnal love. The actor Martin Sheen has described himself as 'one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.'"〕 Other sources associate the term with abandonment of practice of the Catholic religion rather than with rejection of its doctrine. Thus the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary defines "lapsed", again in relation to "lapsed Catholic", as "no longer involved in an activity or organization",〔(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, "lapsed" )〕 and the Oxford Dictionary speaks only of "no longer following the rules and practices of a religion or doctrine".〔(Oxford Dictionaries: "lapsed" )〕 Richard John Neuhaus, quoting G.K. Chesterton's remark that a Protestant typically says he is a good Protestant, while a Catholic typically says he is a bad Catholic, says that, for many, being a lapsed Catholic is just another way of being a Catholic.〔(Richard John Neuhaus, ''Catholic Matters'' (Basic Books 2007 ISBN 9780465049363), p. 10 )〕
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