The Pope is not the Church. He holds a particular job in the hierarchy of the Church. He may be shallow, or a leftist, or an adulterer, or a camera-hound—whatever. And the laity have the right to clamor about his faults.
But the Church has a history, and hundreds of thousands of saints, and millions of martyrs, and great theologians, and a developed body of dogma, and the liturgy, and the sacraments, and an artistic and musical patrimony.
When it comes to “reasons” for leaving the Church, the faults of a particular Pope don’t amount to a hill of beans.
I know you’re both right, and that I just need be reigned in a little.
The funny thing is I’m Noachide. But I studied Catholicism in my youth, and do care about it, and Christianity overall. The United States could not have been founded without it.