Why We Came. Why We Left. Why We Stay.

A cradle Catholic with a boyhood in the church and parochial school, I rampaged into adolescence with an unignorable itch for sedition.

After reading news of the lawsuits brought against the Diocese of Fairbanks and the Oregon province of the Society of Jesus, I left the church for good.

Humanae vitae had the early effect of weakening my lifelong allegiance to the church itself. It set the exit in motion.