Our Catholic “religion” has not changed. The problem is clerics in high places, like Gomez and his predecessor Mahony,-— and their middle-management accomplices -— who are promoting bizarre mutant ideologies not recognizable as Catholicism.
The solution is for Catholics to live Catholicism, and to demand this of the false or cowardly shepherds.
“Our Catholic “religion” has not changed.”
But without a Catholic Hierarchy to support the laity, Catholicism is difficult (if not impossible) to practice. When the hierarchy begins to implement pastoral changes that reject 2000 years of prior Papal and Magisterial teaching, the cognitive dissonance becomes too great to avoid.
It would be different of Bergoglio and the Cardinals were merely whoring around and living immoral lives without tinkering with doctrine (and stealthily tampering with dogma), but it is just the opposite. The are Modernist Populists who are transforming the Faith through what they sand and do (and DON’T say and do).
I commend you on your attempt to remain true to the Church. I tried, but I ended up concluding that “The Body of Christ” must be greater than the RCC (perhaps even largely different), since “The Gates of Hell” have obviously prevailed against the Roman Leadership (both Pope and Magisterium).
“The solution is for Catholics to live Catholicism”
You say to live Catholicism, but with the changes listed below seems to me that no one really knows what “Catholicism” really is. For a church that claims beginnings and traditions from Peter I would have to say that your first pope must have forgot to tell you a few really important things.
1 . Prayers for the dead . …………-—————————……300 A.D.
2. Making the sign of the cross ………………………… …300 A.D.
3. Veneration of angels & dead saints …………-————…….375 A.D.
4. Use of images in worship………………………………… . 375 A.D.
5. The Mass as a daily celebration……………………………… 394 A.D.
6 Beginning of the exaltation of Mary; the term, “Mother of God” applied a Council of Ephesus……………. .-———————————————————— 431 A.D.
7 Extreme Unction (Last Rites)……………………………… ..526 A.D.
8. Doctrine of Purgatory-Gregory 1…………………………… .593 A.D..
9. Prayers to Mary & dead saints ……………………………… .600 A.D.
10. Worship of cross, images & relics ……………………… … 786 A.D.
11 Canonization of dead saints ………………………………… ..995 A.D.
12. Celibacy of priesthood …………………………………… …1079 A.D.
13. The Rosary ……………………………………………… … 1090 A.D.
14. Indulgences ……………………………………………… …..1190 A.D.
15. Transubstantiation-Innocent III …………………………… 1215 A.D.
16. Auricular Confession of sins to a priest …………………… 1215 A.D.
17. Adoration of the wafer (Host)…………………………… .. 1220 A.D.
18. Cup forbidden to the people at communion …………………..1414 A.D.
19. Purgatory proclaimed as a dogma……………………………..1439 A.D.
20. The doctrine of the Seven Sacraments confirmed …………….1439 A.D.
21 Tradition declared of equal authority with Bible by Council of Trent…………………………………………————————… 1545 A.D.
22. Apocryphal books added to Bible ………——————……….1546 A.D.
23. Immaculate Conception of Mary……………………………….1854 A.D.
24, Infallibility of the pope in matters of faith and morals, proclaimed by the Vatican Council ……………… 1870 A.D.
25. Assumption of the Virgin Mary (bodily ascension into heaven shortly after her death) ……………………………-—————————————————……1950 A.D.
26. Mary proclaimed Mother of the Church……………………… 1965 A.D.