[pepsi_junkie]

I was raised a catholic. I don't say "I go to a catholic church" or "I'm a member of the roman catholic church". I say I am a Catholic. It's part of my identity. The Church has always been far from perfect but it was MY Church and I would stick with it come what may. Not blindly, certainly, where it needed to do better I would raise my voice but from within the Church. Always within.

It was pretty easy under John Paul II, frankly. But these leftists who have now taken over the church are breaking me. I feel like the leadership doesn't have any faith, that it's all about politics to them. And it leaves me feeling adrift.

[Buckeye McFrog]

What scares me is that I truly believe that economics are driving them to the Left.

The average active Catholic who attends Mass regularly and financially supports his Church is over 50. Millenials have pretty much stopped going. For every baptism there are ten funerals.

The panic over shrinking collections is palpable.

I have seen some panicky things in my Church’s bulletin about the need to lure young people back to the Church. And while I don’t disagree, there is a right way and a wrong way to do that.

My fear is that they are going to choose the wrong way. Like caving to the Millenial belief that not giving gays everything they demand is analogous to bullying.