I am sure an ex-Buddhist or ex-Muslim or ex-Methodist or ex-Episcopalian would say the same --- "free at last" -- to put their former co-religionists to shame, as it were, by the disclosure of his or her bravery, conscience factor, scheme of merriment, etc. But committed Muslims or Methodists (or in this case, Catholics) would see it differently -- that the disclosure is due to the ex-religionist's frailty, limitation. You take the limits of your own field of vision (of Catholicism) for the limits of committed Catholics. Or why come back on a Catholic post to "post" your "enlightenment"? I notice on a Buddhist site or Episcopal site, you rarely if ever see an ex-Buddhist or ex-Episcopalian, respectively, post his/her abandonment, his faith demission, her abjuration publicly. If one leaves a religious community, one moves on, with the light or daybreak of the window left behind filled by someone else, some convert. But move on, Karen. Enjoy your "freedom" on us, by remembrance. Bye, bye