The church has left me not I the church. Pope Francis is an abomination to the teachings of "The Church."
Odd is it not, the greatest pope in a thousand years, Pope John Paul and the worst, Pope Francis, are sepaerated by just 13 years. Pope Francis is a result of the corruption in the college or cardinals. The cardinals have become political and have abandoned the church also.
We as baptized are the Body of Christ through the Catholic Church as founded by Jesus and protected by the Holy Spirit until the end of time.
I am with Jesus Christ and His Church with the Sacraments. We are all sinners, even the Pope and Cardinals. Many Catholics are saints and we should try to follow their example and the example of Jesus and the Blessed Mother. We need each other and we need to help all grow towards loving God and neighbor.
So you leave the Church because of a few individuals, look at what Jesus endured for your salvation, you can certainly endure His Church?
No one is capable of doing it alone without God, and his best help is in His church.
Someone need s a church history refresher course!!
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.