You wrote:
“And that’s why so many Catholics have turned to protestant churches, to get out from under the bondages Catholics have been under for centuries.”
Not at all. If you look at easily over 90% of former Catholics who became Protestants it’s clear that they were never catechized well and rarely if ever practiced their faith. That is a terrible indictment about Church officials over the last 40 years, but not an indictment of the faith or the Church herself. As a former Protestant minister once remarked to me: the Catholic Church is getting Protestant minsiters to join her and they were well catechized in their former faith and risked everything to become Catholics. The Protestant sects, however, are getting former Catholics who usually had little knowledge of their former faith and risk absolutely nothing n joining Protestant sects. Their lives, in fact, become easier because of the lower Protestant standards (e.g. acceptance of birth control, divorce, etc) and their consciences are more easily assuaged because of false doctrines like lack of free will and once-saved-always-saved that removes a feeling of responsibility for sinful decisions.
That’s what you all say when people leave the church. The ones who came to our church were not looking for some easy way out. They were tired of the lies and heresies of the church and some of the other foolishness that went on, like pedophilia, which was never addressed properly. No, my friend, there are many reasons why people leave churches. Being poorly catechized is not one of them.