[Talisker]

Because I had the audacity to stand up to several women at a parish in Baldwinville, Massachusetts who were disrespecting Our Eucharistic Lord by talking loudly and laughing before the tabernacle as people attempted to prepare for Holy Mass, I was told by the priest that I am a "large man" who is scary and that I would be "ostracized."

There's the problem - the protection of abusive females by the church. American Catholicism is filled with some of the most abusive, caustic, aggressive, hypocritical feminists in this country. Yes, that's a generalization. IMO, however, it's also true. And so it's not hard to see why Catholic men who have to put up with these females in the rest of their lives choose to walk away from a Church that not only protects their arrogance, but empowers it as well.

Flame away, but that's my experience many times over.

[daniel1212]

American Catholicism is filled with some of the most abusive, caustic, aggressive, hypocritical feminists in this country. Yes, that's a generalization. IMO, however, it's also true.

Then you have the traditionalists here who excommunicate all such, even if leadership treats them as members in life and in death, and reject parts of V2, and scoff at the popes latest encyclical as requiring any assent, while criticizing us evangelicals for ascertaining the validity of teaching by examining the Scripture, and require us to submit to Rome.