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They should call themselves "We are Congregationalists!" Then they could get out the phone book, find a Congregational church, and leave Catholicism alone.

Exactly. I left the interdenominational Protestant church when I realized that there had to be some purification after death (because I sure was not Holy as your Father in Heaven is Holy and I could die any day) as well as there being too many literal parallels between Jesus as the Passover Lamb for His words "This is My Body" not to be literally true. I became a Roman Catholic because I agreed with the, to use a Protestant term, Statement of Faith of the Roman Catholic Church.

Now these people who want women priests, no trasubstaniation, and greater democracy in their "Church Life" should find a Protestant Church who's Statement of Faith matches up with their beliefs. They can then use their considerable energy and talent to building up that church - and thereby the entire Body of Christ. Everyone wins -- we Roman Catholics are happy with a male priesthood, transubstantiation, and the governance of the Pope; while they are happy with a male and female priesthood, symbolism in bread and wine, and a much more democratic congregation.