My mother's best friend was an old-fashioned Methodist, born in 1903. No better Christian has ever crossed my path. She was a pillar of her church. No dancing, caffeine, tobacco, liquor but did not push that on anyone else. No kinder person ever came my way.
Hilda's religious activity was centered on Scripture reading for hours every day. Eventually, Hilda was unable, in the area of New Haven, Connecticut, to attend the UMC churches because the clergy had turned their backs on Scripture and were running a trend of the week club. The last straw was when the Summerfield Methodist Church in New Haven welcomed to its parsonage (as a part time assistant) a New Hampshire communist minister (I would know the name if I heard it) who had just been released from New Hampshire prison after twenty years or more for running a communist training camp. The prosecutor who sent him to jail was then future Congressman Louis Wyman.
In any event, you are in my prayers. I ask the Lord to provide for you whatever He knows is best for you. God bless you and yours.
Thank you for your kind words, BlackElk. There is no church that has more aggressively stood for life than the RCC. It is something that would make any Christian proud, and I would not be embarrassed to be aligned with you.
If I were to draw up a list of places to which I could go, the RCC would be there because of that stand for life that is second to none. I admire your determination to trace your lineage back through the apostles. I admire the dogged determination to organize your witness world-wide in a manner that makes great sense. And I admire your unity of purpose.
There are other denominations on my list: none of them are mainline Protestant churches. They have all gone away from the gospel.
Independent, evangelical, orthodox, bible, and other churches are on my list. They each have some wonderful strengths. None, though, have so consistently stood for life as has yours.