Millions of people in Spain expected white smoking, every gesture or every word for several days. Millions of people also witnessed Elections of Leo XIVBut interest caused by contrast with a clear decrease in Catholics in Spain.
In 2015, 68.8% of the population was CatholicThe field is now almost 15 percentage points less (52.8%) and only 17% are a practical Catholic. The crisis of the parishioner, who is represented by Javier Roma, the apostate, who resigned from the Catholic Church: “Enjoy the Church of a series of privileges, with which I in no way sympathized.”
Therefore, he decided to mark the distance with the church. “Since he was never a practical Catholic, it was quite indifferent, but this indifference became the need to celebrate the opposition,” he adds. And the way to make this was a retreat, leaving the institution, but when he decided, information about how to do it.
He found on the website, which was created by Juan Vera from Apostatar.org, a few years ago, when he also decided to retreat. “I wanted to make a process, and it was difficult for me to find information”He explains. It shows the steps that need to follow the documents that are necessary. A simple process, which is enough to fill out a form of resignation and present it in the diocese next to the game of baptism and photocopy of the identifier.
“There are dioceses where they facilitate the dates or hours that you can pass, others put you more glue …” says Javier Roma. Actually, Apostatar is a right collected by law since 1980The field but even in this case, the church sometimes tries to stop the process: “A person could not understand how I left the church, that for him it was, for me it was nothing.”
Although there are no official numbers, since the church does not facilitate them, on the web, the Juan Vera visits do not stop growing: “There are more than 1 million visits on the Internet, and almost 100,000 people, which are also few, were downloaded.”
Catholics who want to “unsubscribe” from an institution with which they do not share anything.
