At least the people who stay in the Catholic Church know what sin is even if they're as guilty as anyone else of divorce, remarriage, and even contraception.
The people who leave do so because they want to go along to get along without hearing the Truth about sin and how Jesus Christ expects us to follow Him rather than society. The people who stay and defy Church Doctrine are just your run of the mill hypocrite you can find anywhere in any group but at least they still hear the Truth from time to time rather than hearing, "I was sinking deep in sin, Wheeeeeeeeee, what fun and I'm forgiven in advance".
The vast majority of those who leave the Catholic Church leave because they can't stand the heat of the Truth.
They can make up all sorts if excuses, blame individuals in he Church who fail to do as they should, or even repeat the lies about Catholicism and claim the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church Jesus Christ Himself founded is wrong but the fact remains; they won't be bothered with the whole Truth in any other Church. They join the non-Catholics who claim to be Christian because with rare exceptions those non-Catholic folks and their tens of thousands of churches all gradually adapt to whatever is socially acceptable.
I can’t believe this, on a rare thread which happens not to be Roman Catholic, here comes the Catholics pushing their advantage (advantage being they know they’ve got their backside covered, FR a Roman Catholic website), they are “the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church,” and such like. We’ve heard it a thousand times here.
For heaven’s sake, can any subject be discussed around here without Catholics using it to push their anti-Protestant agenda?
We agree.