One of those core beliefs is that Christ established ONE Church. His Body. The fact that there are humans who are in that Church and who are charged with stewarding that Church doesn't change that. Look at the example of Christ and St. Peter. When Christ gave him the keys, He knew that Peter would deny Him not that long afterward. What greater evil could there be than that? But look: the same Simon Peter who denied Christ was the same Peter who gave that preached so powerfully on the day of Pentecost, as recorded in the Acts Chapter 2!
You can take a look through the Acts and throughout St. Paul's writings and see the effects of human frailty throughout. In fact, you can see in one of St Paul's letters that some of the particular churches that make up the Church were not without their own problems. Especially 1 Corinthians. Especially chapter 5. But it's also in that same letter where Paul calls to unity (1 Cor 3) and teaches on the Body of Christ in great detail (1 Cor 12). What he didn't write about was people separating themselves, despite the fact that there was grave evil going on in the Church in Corinth.
Like I said earlier, I'm not trying to suggest you come back. Better for you to be docile to the Holy Spirit. But your prayers for the health of the Church are appreciated *AND NEEDED*, whether you wish to be in communion with her or not.
A church that allows **corrupt** leaders to lead people down to spiritual and temporal destruction can not be a true church.
If I were to participate in the Catholic Church, I would be teaching my children to support a Pope and bishops who turn a blind eye to evil. I would also be teaching them to tolerate evil within a system in which it is **impossible** to remove these people.
Supporting evil that has no mechanism for reform is simply not God's will.
Ok...The above are the rational reasons not to return to the Catholic Church. There are spiritual ones as well.
In my heart I **knew** that there was a fundamental conflict with the Catholic Church and God's will for us that we not support evil. Thankfully though prayer and the Holy Spirit I was led to the denomination that my husband and I have attended for 26 years.
The Body of Christ that you speak of is not confined to the Catholic Church. It includes all those who accept Christ and his sacrifice on the cross, and are willing to follow Him.
As for Catholics I support their **true** belief system. I wish we had a nation full to the brim with Catholic bishops and faithful Catholic followers of Christ who would practiced **all** of their religion and worshiped God instead of Karl Marx.