Richard Garcia's "Why I Left the Church" is a poem in which the speaker
reflects on the ways he felt incompatible with the Catholic Church as a child. This could
connect with current attitudes towards religion because many people see the Church as out of
touch and think that the Church's strict rules limit them in ways they do not want to be
limited.
Certainly, the speaker in the poem feels limited by the Church, as
seen through his interaction with Sister Mary Bernadette. The speaker wears a "space helmet
/ to catechism," and the nun orders him out of the room and says he can return "when
[he's] ready." This dismissal leads the speaker to ponder whether he has ever become
"ready" to...
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