I suggest that your post is true because there is an actual standard of Truth which the Church represents, therefore when that standard is violated by members of its preeminent protector and defender the breach is more strongly felt.
In the case of the politicians and other prominent Catholics, it is Catholics demanding they live the faith more fully and truthfully, not the secular or protestant communities. Just as it is Catholics demanding that the clergy live and preach more faithfully.
That thousands come into the Church or return to the Church every year belies your confidence in her pending demise. One could point out the transitory nature of many protestant sects, with people coming in and out of them all the time. But, if one switches from one protestant sect to another, where is the newsworthiness of that?
Ghandi saw the hypocrisy in all Christians, otherwise he would have been a protestant.:)
The Catholic laity should not be the only ones making those demands, nor should they have to be making those demands of their own clergy.
And it should be the Catholic clergy making the demands of the Catholic politicians, not merely the laity.
And obviously, not even a majority of Catholic laity are making those demands, as the majority of Catholic laity are showing - in the voting booths - the liberal politicians just where they stand.
In reality, Catholic politicians ARE listening to the Catholic laity.
Ghandi saw the hypocrisy in all Christians, otherwise he would have been a protestant.:)
He didn't become a Catholic either.