[LIConFem]

Left the Church? What Church? The Church is gone. There’s nothing to “leave”. My beliefs haven’t changed. But the Church no longer supports those beliefs.

[Mrs. Don-o]

It is untrue that the Church is "gone." There are still billions of us, counting from AD 33 to the end of time. Temember the "church Militant," the "Church Suffering" and the "Church Triumphant"?

Our Lord said the "Gates of Hell" would not prevail over His Church.

If you still believe in Him, you have to believe in that.

"Cut and run" is not a winning strategy.

Come back and be with us, the remnant.

[Mrs. Don-o]

You write as if "The Pope" = "The Church."

The defection of a bad Pope does not mean the invalidation of all of Catholicism. Buck up and be Catholic --- even if the pope is not.