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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“Carlyle is not a seer, but a brave looker-on and reviewer; not the most free and catholic observer of men and events, for they are likely to find him preoccupied, but unexpectedly free and catholic when they fall within the focus of his lens.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)