Because it's not Catholic enough.
Not serious about doctrine, not serious about discipline, not serious about being the Church Militant (while still having some of the characteristics of the Church Nurturant.)
If the Church made more demands at every level --- heroic truth, heroic service, the heroic attachment to Christ --- some slackers would leave but many men would be inspired and come back.
That's my take on it.
Rats, I like your answer better than mine. :)
I agree. My mother took me to a United Methodist Church when I was young and they believed in nothing and when we gradually stopped attending service it made no difference to us.
Even though the militant Catholics on FR will recoil at what I say, it’s the same militant Catholics who often bemoan the fact that the current pope is a spiritual brother to our current President. Neither really evidences a profound love for the organization that they lead and everyone knows it.
Don’t get me wrong. The pope is a nice guy but where is he when ‘Catholics’ like Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden promote perversion and deviancy? He’s silent.
I’m not a Catholic but if there was something that would attract my attention to considering the Catholic Church it would be if this current pope took a moral stand and excommunicated some of the key liberal Democrats and had them officially trespassed from church property.
That would tell me that he really believes in his faith. I bet it would also bring back a lot of that 14 million who’ve fallen away.