I left the church some years ago. I have very personal, scarring, and legitimate reasons for doing so, but even still, I harbor no ill will towards the good clergy, nuns, priests, and lay Catholics, because I know they are there.
It is the combination of my personal experiences and lately, buttressed by this terrible, Marxist scum of a Pope.
Not the individual clergy or Catholics.
And Notre Dame? It turns my stomach.
I left the church some years ago.
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I’m sorry to hear of your traumatic experience, and I agree with all of your comments. I too left the church when the Holy Tridentine Mass was destroyed and replaced by the Protestant-inspired Novus Ordo. Eventually I discovered the existence of so-called Latin Mass communities and immediately returned to Mass and the sacraments in Washington and Baltimore. After retirement I moved out to the Allegheny mountains where there is no Tridentine Mass closer than 100 miles from home. I check all the locations of the Latin Mass and attend same whenever I’m traveling close to where they are located.
And Notre Dame? It turns my stomach.
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Same here, as does my alma mater, Georgetown.