The Church is now realizing the error of their ways in regards to this. So you might be glad, even as an ex-Catholic, to know that. Every time I look the Church is fixing itself in various ways (click here, for example).
I can only say Hooray! and Praise God!
As a practicing catholic, I have never been able to understand how a catholic could walk away from the Sacraments. Perhaps you can explain that to me.
My thoughts precisely. They've added things and taken things back over the past couple of thousand years. Just think how much some people suffered emotionally all those years ago that lost a baby before baptism and actually believed in this ridiculous notion. The name alone should conjure up the idea of a joke. In fact, my nephew, who is now 16, was not baptized and my mother-in-law who is R. Catholic, upon her very first visit to see him after his birth (grandson was in Texas; grandma in Ohio), she went into the bathroom and secretly baptized him in the tub. His mom still doesn't know but I do! Anyway, I don't blame my mother-in-law one bit and it surely didn't hurt. It's just that she did it out of fear for his soul going to Limbo.
Now if Benedict XVI will do some material repairs to the Church, ie kick out the gays and undo the liturgical reforms of VC II.