I did not leave the church, the church left me with the wholesale cover-up of the endemic pedophilia running rampant through the priestly ranks. Rather than doing the right thing, they chose evil instead.
Calling that pedophilia has been misdirection, too. It’s actually been homosexual priests abusing teenage boys. Pretty bad when pedophilia sounds better to them than what they are.
No matter how corrupt the Vatican is, no matter how much the pope hates Catholics!—you don’t accomplidh anything by depriving yourself of the sacraments.
Many people have the false notion that money goes from their local parish to the pope. Not a penny does.