disaffiliate
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Regular Catholic Mass attendance is reportedly near 6%, and hundreds of thousands have formally disaffiliated from the church in recent years.
One outcome is that many people are disaffiliating from their churches, their belief systems, and their communities.
From Salon
One group of African delegates protested outside the General Conference and said their members would discuss whether to disaffiliate.
From Seattle Times
Some are proposing that African and other churches be given the same chance that U.S. churches recently had to disaffiliate under favorable terms.
From Seattle Times
Most of its bishops favor staying, but other voices are calling for regional conferences to disaffiliate.
From Seattle Times
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