What isn’t said is what “Catholics” are leaving the church.
In the vast majority of the cases, I suspect that those leaving the church had not been religious for many years, even decades, and were thoroughly CINOs.
And the reason they are now leaving the church is because the church has decided to once again embrace its core values, in the face of those who would destroy the church by compromising its values.
Like garlic to a vampire, if they could not make the church change its beliefs to those of vampiric leftist liberalism, they want nothing to do with the church.
Buh-bye.
And the reason they are now leaving the church is because the church has decided to once again embrace its core values, in the face of those who would destroy the church by compromising its values. Like garlic to a vampire, if they could not make the church change its beliefs to those of vampiric leftist liberalism, they want nothing to do with the church.
IMO what you describe is no doubt happening. But if that is so, then that means the Catholic church has been far, far smaller than the US bishops have been reporting for decades. Perhaps as small as five million Catholics total.