What Happens To Catholics Who Convert To Another Religion?

[KarenJoanna]

Do they go to hell or what? I mostly mean those who know the catholic church to be the true one and change religion?

[CatherineM]

We can never know who ends up in Hell. We can never know their last thoughts, or their desire for reconciliation. If they have left the Church, we can assume that their consciences are leading them the wrong way. We all have friends or family members who have fallen away. All we can do is pray, set a good example, and encourage them when we find an opening.

[Theoketos]

There is some urgency however in the praying and setting a good example.

[quote][color=#000000]This Sacred Council wishes to turn its attention firstly to the Catholic faithful. Basing itself upon Sacred Scripture and Tradition, it teaches that the Church, now sojourning on earth as an exile, is necessary for salvation. Christ, present to us in His Body, which is the Church, is the one Mediator and the unique way of salvation. In explicit terms He Himself affirmed the necessity of faith and baptism and thereby affirmed also the necessity of the Church, for through baptism as through a door men enter the Church. [b][u]Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved[/u][/b].[/color][/quote]

~Lumen Gentium 14