Shudder! Whatever the problems may be in the Catholic Church, I crossed the Tiber just in the nick of time, it seems! It isn't the church that C.S. Lewis knew, that is for sure; he is probably turning over in his grave at all this stuff! I don't call 'em "episcopagan" for nothing!
So we became part of the legislative structure early on to try and make a difference. But it was exhausting work--difficult to hold on to orthodoxy and fight for it. We kept losing resolution after resolution. Via Media kept slamming us right and left, that middle way that Anglicans are so attached to (not the least, the 3-legged stool--Scripture, Reason, and Tradition, good ol' Hooker). In the middle of one convention, I thought what insanity this was that we voted on what is Truth. It was our 16-year-old son who looked at us and said, "Via Media doesn't work. Either Truth is or it isn't." (This was after a parish meeting to discuss the Windsor Report where the self-congratulations abounded...whatever you believe is your truth, and what I believe is my truth...let's all embrace each other because that is the true gospel...how can we turn away from each other at the Lord's table?)
Out of the mouths of babes. How could we stay after that? We couldn't go back to our Southern Baptist roots, didn't particularly want to go to a breakaway Anglican church 50 miles away that was dwindling. What's an Anglo-Catholic to do but to go down the same path trod by Newman himself.