Editing Lapsed Catholic (section)

{{Short description|Catholic person who is non-practicing}}
A '''lapsed Catholic''' is a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] who is non-practicing.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Simoneau |first1=Alan G. |title=Metaphorically Speaking: Ethnic Analogies And The Construction of Gay Identify |date=5 January 1998 |publisher=[[Carleton University]] |page=80 |language=en |quote=Roman Catholicism provides another illustration: many Catholics who no longer actively express their religious affiliation will not hesitate to identify themselves as Catholic—some do feel the need to add qualifiers such as "lapsed Catholic".}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Story of Early Christianity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7wtAmMsI608C&pg=PP12|author=R. John Kinkel|date=29 September 2008| publisher=iUniverse |access-date=14 June 2012|quote=In the old days (1950s) these people would be called backsliders, apostates, lapsed Christians, and now this label has emerged: FARC, ie fallen away Roman Catholic.|isbn = 9780595624027}}</ref> Such a person may still identify as a Catholic,<ref name=Identification>{{cite book|publisher=[[Paulist Press]]|author=Patricia Barbernitz|title=Parish Ministry for Returning Catholics|url=https://archive.org/details/parishministryfo0000barb|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/parishministryfo0000barb/page/3 3]|year=1993|access-date=14 June 2012|quote='I'm Catholic' is also the statement frequently used by some other people — those whom others might have named 'inactive' Catholics, 'fallen-away' or 'lapsed' Catholics. For many of them, the statement remains, 'I'm Catholic'.|isbn=9780809134410}}</ref> and remains one according to [[Canon law (Catholic Church)|Catholic canon law]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110421154356/http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt2sect2.shtml Catechism of the Catholic Church - Section Two: The Seven Sacraments of the Church, THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Section 1272]  "Baptism seals the Christian with the indelible spiritual mark (character) of his belonging to Christ. No sin can erase this mark, even if sin prevents Baptism from bearing the fruits of salvation. Given once for all, baptism cannot be repeated." - Archived 21 April 2011, accessed online 19 February 2016</ref>