What I recently read is that those exiting mainline Protestant churches and the Catholic Church have moved on to independent/non-denominational churches. This also jives with my own observations and experience.
Requirements:
1. Weekly communion ("This is my body, this is my blood" refers to unleavened bread and wine, not vanilla wafers and grape juice.)
2. Tolerance for belief in theistic evolution.
3. No ordination or enabling of pedophiles or sodomites.
4. No use of parishioner donations to pay court settlements against clergy. Let the hierarchy pay out of their retirement funds.
6. No Arianism.
7. No Adventist/End Times preaching.
8. NO SNAKES.
Meanwhile, I've read more of the bible in the past two years than I did in the previous 20. While I'd really like to find a community of believers to share my faith with, I think I'm OK.
Interesting because in WNY there are Evangelical Christian churches that are full of former Catholics.
It’s rare to find someone who has accepted Christ as an adult who doesn’t have a Catholic background or upbringing.
A sailor was shipwrecked on a desert island for a number of years. Finally, he got a signal to a passing ship which sent a launch to investigate. The sailor met the launch and brought the rescue party up to his living area, which consisted of 3 huts.
“What’s this hut for?” the visitors asked.
That’s my house where I sleep & prepare my food.
“And the 2nd hut?”
Oh, that’s my church where I set up an alter and say my prayers.
“And what’s the 3rd hut for?” they asked.
Oh, that’s where I USED to go to church.
;^)
To Sunday lunch?
I went from Catholic church to Christ Himself and salvation.