You know what... you're right.
MOST Catholics don't give a fig about Our Lord. MOST Catholics don't even attend Mass anymore and of those that do MOST don't believe what the Church teaches about much of anything.
It's very painful to see how everyone on the outside knows about it.
And non-Catholics take the heat for pointing out the obvious and are labeled as haters for it. You guys are in a world of hurt with your church, and even aside from the question of whether or not what Catholicism teaches lining up with Scripture, I don’t see *most* Catholics, laity OR CLERGY, even adhering to what the CCC states. I remember a young priest once, who was very popular with the young people, during his homily during mass, question the virgin birth. You could hear an audible gasp from the people. Never saw him again. I was 13 at the time, but still remember the event very clearly, it shocked me so much.
FWIW, I also see attention being diverted from Christ in the Pentecostal movement.
Everything is about the Holy Spirit, the gifts, the healing, the manifestation, the falling down, .....
If you’re sick it’s a lack of faith, you have sin in your life, you have generational curses, whatever.
All of this gets our eyes off Christ while they’re focused on figuring out what’s wrong and how to fix it, like if they get the right works or formula, God will do what they demand (or claim *in faith*).
Praying in Christ’s name is a phrase tacked on to prayers as if that makes them acceptable to God, even when praying out of His will.
Apostasy isn’t limited to ANY denomination. I think it’s a sign of the times we’re living it. Jesus warned us about it. The problem is, you can’t tell people who have experienced something that they think is from God that it isn’t because it doesn’t line up with Scripture. They know what they know and what they experienced and that’s all they’re going to hear about it.