
Definition: "Apostasy from the Faith is the act by which a baptized person, after possessing the true Christian faith, totally rejects it.
The complete abandonment of the practice of the Faith is NOT apostasy, or even presumption of Apostasy.
A person is an apostate whether he joins a non-Christian religion, as Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, or falls into unbelief, atheism, materialism, agnosticism, rationalism, indifferentism, or "free-thought". Apostates from the Faith incur excommunication ipso facto, and other penalties"
(Definition from A Catholic Dictionary, 1951 )
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