Not in USA. The numbers on the rolls may have gone up, but the attendance is less than half what it was, and when the dioceses started paying out 10s of millions of the parishioners hard earned tithes to victims of the pedophile "priests" everything went to hell in a bucket. So that's what I'm saying. The numbers were so much larger that the RCIA could lose 10-15 ECUSAs and still have 80 million members. But they still lost all those members. And don't kid yourself, they weren't all liberals. Just cuz you don't remember the Archbishops with one hand out for your money and paying off lawyers and victims with the other, and reassigning and stonewalling all the while, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
I didn't take offense. I love the Roman Catholic Church, and I loved John Paul and I loved Paul before him and I love Benedict now, which I really didn't expect to do.
There are still some things I prefer about the EC, one of which is I don't have to place myself under obedience to these eminently fallible people who have been dumbed down to the point of irrespectability, the priests. To wit: I like having a vestry of my peers, and a rector we can fire if it becomes necessary.
Hey, I follow these things closely. Despite the US Catholic Church's problems, the numbers grew by 10% in the US. Some of the big urban parishes have lost people. Lotsa the suburban parishes are bursting at the seems. See the trend?
I do not know a single conservative catholic who has left in the last 10 years. But lotsa liberals have. There are many crummy priests, but there are many more excellent ones. In my hometown, I've gone to most of the dozen or so parishes. All but a couple have good to very good pastors.