A close friend of mine stopped going to church b/c of the pontiff’s radical Marxism. He’s had enough of it.
If the sacraments required perfect people to be effective, they wouldn't exist. I agree with your friend in sentiment but removing yourself from the life of the Church because of the apparent failings of a cleric is spiritual suicide.
The Church has survived worse.
Seventy one percent favorable? That is way too high.
I would tell your friend to search out a parish that has a conservative priest and congregation as I’m guilty of the same mentality. Here in Milwaukee area that generally means areas with large percentages of immigrants...hell of a lot more old school. I’m not so worried about this lefty Pope as I am about the parishes in my immediate area of the burbs.
This last week I went to the local parish because they had a 7:30am mass and it was the only one I could make it to. Never look forward to going there but try to find the message I need when I go there. Here in the last week we had the Planned Parenthood videos come out and 5 servicemen killed in tennessee...the petitions this week?
A bunch of thank you God for our nice summer weather and hopefully we all get the chance to enjoy it. My 12 yo daughter caught me shaking my head and asked me why I did it afterwards and I explained I just couldn’t stand the moral cowardice of a parish that sticks to fluff when there is some much real evil going on around us.
There are still good priests and parishes out there but you have to look real hard...I know it is worth it.
I have left the Catholic Church too. The final tip over the edge was when I heard the new Pope was from Argentina and a Jesuit. I said to myself “Oh great. He’s a Jesuit which means he really isn’t Catholic anyway.”
I’m so out of the Church, and the fact that the Catholic Church is so wishy-washy and soft and feminized drove me out.
I swear the next time I see a feminized picture of Christ with flowers or bunny rabbits I’m going to fall on the ground in a fetal position and throw up.
A once great Church now a secular tool of the Left.
We are in year 100 of the thousand years of darkness.
No reason to stop going to church. Your friend may need to check his OWN faith in God.
Tell him to go to Lutheran Synod churches. Same thing only no pope and you can confess your sins and sorrow, asking forgiveness to Jesus directly. Same communion, baptism, confirmation and pretty much the same doctrines before Catholics went bonkers organizationally with corruption.