Badpacifist -- you said it all....15 years of Catholic education, regular mass attendence, and an undying faith in Catholic teaching has been undone by the actions and moral relativism of the current American Catholic church, and the inability of the leaders of the Church at home and in Rome to stand for the principles they used to hold sacred.
If a New Catholic Church is formed, I'll be there in a heartbeat - but until then, I can not in good conscious remain in this Church.
To paraphrase a famous Anglican we all love: I didn't leave the Catholic Church, the Catholic Church left me!
See www.sspx.org
By the 300's it was so bad St. John Chrysostom said this: “The floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of bad bishops.”
--St. John Chrysostom
Bishop, Doctor of the Church, born at Antioch, c. 347
"If a New Catholic Church is formed, I'll be there in a heartbeat" But it is you and me who must stay so that the Church may be renewed. Without you and me who will rebuild. It has always been the laity who continues to carry on the life of the Church in the best as well as the worst of times.
If we believe that the Catholic Church was instituted by Christ Himself how can we "in good conscious" leave His Church. It is up to us to renew the Church. Consider the following:
"When there is an imminent danger for the Faith, Prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects." –St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica II, II, q. 33, a. 4