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I'd like to hear from you again, explaining where your objection is, because I'm a little unclear.

If it's a matter of "sinners in the Church"? That's been a headache from the very days when the Gospels were still wet ink. You will never find a single year or era in which the Catholic Church hasn't been rife with sinners. But if you're an adult equipped with the normal degree of critical sense, you'll know that that's true of all churches, faiths, and non-faiths: it's part of the human condition.

(I use this opportunity for an old chestnut):

Joe: I refuse to go to your church, Rosemary, it's full of hypocrites."
Rosemary: "Heck, Joe, there's always room for one more."

Now if your objection is about mediocrity amongst the clergy, that's harder to take because we look to them for leadership and are so often disappointed. However, we need to keep in mind that the really important, and really interesting people in the Catholic Church, are not the priests, nor even the popes, but the saints.

And with that I say: will you not stay in he Church --- in the Communion of Saints --- with (OK, I'll name my favorites)

the jaw-droppingly totally-self-giving Maximilian Kolbe,
the burningly courageous Isaac Jogues,
the simple, small and spiritually huge Therese of Lisieux,
the faithful, homespun Elizabeth Seton,
the reformer of popes, Catherine of Siena,
the singular and obstinate Athanasius,
the "Dumb Ox" Thomas Aquinas,
the existentially honest, laughing Thomas More,
the slaves who were free in Christ, Josephine Bakhita and Pierre Toussaint,
the mighty-hearted and manly Edmund Campion,
the tireless, zealous Junipero Serra,
the lover and troubador Francis of Assisi,
the fierce and tender Mother of the poor, Mother Teresa of Calcutta
the indispensible, God-chronicling Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,
the brilliant, driven and inimitable Paul,
the great Mother of God, Mary Most Holy?

Do you think the "situations," including the religious milieux, in which these radiant people lived, were any less troubled? The Church less conflicted? The times less dangerous? The clergy less compromised? The Powers that Be less menacing? The World, the Flesh, and the Devil less crafty and seductive?

Come on, Yossarian. Even if this Noah's Ark of a Church is full of a thousand aggravating squawks and stinks, even if we have to shovel sh*t off the deck every day of our lives, it's The Ark. We're afloat. Jesus is seemingly asleep on the foredeck, but He knows everything, guides everyone, and can calm he wind and waves any time He wants to.

Buck up. You're here for a reason. Maybe just to pray for us all.

Bedtime for me now. Pray for me. G'Night, Yossarian.