I’m guessing those three words were NOT “Bless you, bishop.”
Seriously, when I lived in California in the 1980’s I too stopped attending mass.
Roger Mahoney was the cardinal in Southern California then, and he appeared on TV urging people to vote for democrats. He supported every liberal cause he could find....gun control, open borders, high taxes, etc. I finally had enough.
Later, he helped cover up the priest sex scandal.
The church has only drifted further left since then. Sad, pathetic and outrageous.