A lapsed Catholic, also known as a fallen away Catholic, backsliding Catholic, or inactive Catholic is a person who has fallen away from, or has ceased practising, the Catholic faith by attending Mass. Such a person may still identify as a Catholic.
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“That is the great end of empires before God, to be Catholic and draw nations into their Catholicism. But our empire is less and less Christian as it grows.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)