One of my primary criteria for what makes a church right for me is its rules. I want my church to help me be a better person, not just accept me the way I am as long I keep showing up and putting money in the plate.
I’m not a Catholic, but I do respect them when they stick to their rules.
If religion is just about putting people in the seats, then they should sponsor NFL teams.
I became a Catholic convert 25 years ago because they have hard and fast rules and don’t sway with popular opinion like most of the others. Religion and religious people have faith in God and themselves. This puts them at direct odds of the control freaks who are running the government and populate the media. They constantly harrass the Catholic church and other churches because they are seen as a threat to their control over all of us. What they never take into consideration is that the harder they push, the harder we push back.