Or the desire to remarry while still married.
Or a desire to use the Pill.
Many famous converts to Catholicism have given up secure jobs—like pastor of a Protestant church.
I think one could count on two fingers the converts to Catholicism who have devoted their time to writing against their former churches, while those who have left the Catholic Church and devoted their lives to bashing the Catholic Church in print number in the hundreds, or thousands.
There is an objectively verifiable asymmetry.
Why is it so common for those who have left the Catholic Church to exhibit all the symptoms of a guilty conscience, while those who join the Catholic Church do not?
After the recent run of Pope Francis articles, a poll found 58% of American Roman Catholics support a women’s “right” to “choose.” So please don’t pull the high and mighty card. Shall we discuss the reason many alter boys leave the RC church? Or why there are thousands of RC schools closing across the country. It is called endemic problems not just doctrinal.
Projection. People see what they want to see.
Since it is clearly beyond the comprehension of some Catholics that someone would want to or choose to leave the Catholic church for any valid reason, they must make up reasons for Catholics leaving.
However, since average lay Catholics engage in those behaviors which some Catholics claim are reasons for leaving, then they cannot be the valid reasons for leaving.
I left because of doctrinal issues. The teachings of the Catholic church did not line up with Scripture.