But where would I start? Who would I speak to? As Irish comedian Dara Ó Briain once joked, “You can’t cut up your membership card in front of a priest and go ‘feck you! I’m out of here’.”
If you Google “How do I quit the Catholic church?”, you’ll find a lot of chatter, mostly posted by angry, disaffected former Catholics. And it seems that most of them regard excommunication as the way to go. A reasonable assumption, given that excommunication is an incredibly ancient and dramatic concept, going right back to the start of the church, and evoking medieval trials, the Inquisition, and crimes that are an insult to God Himself.