Reply #11: Hate to tell you this... [View All]

but most people with liberal sentiments left the Catholic Church a long time ago.

I left when the Church told my sister, who was in an abusive relationship with her first psychotic husband, that she couldn't get an annulment without spending a lot of money and going through the Church's convoluted legal system. And that she'd be better just shutting up and taking the welts and the blasts of tear gas in the face. She walked out of the confessional that day, and I followed.

Interesting note: in the "Powers" comic book, a superhero gone out of control set fire to the Vatican and burned the Pope alive, because of the Church's hypocrisy about children (sexual abuse of altar boys) and abortions (they buy 'em under the table if their priests get women pregnant).

I certainly wouldn't advocate anything like that, but it certainly shows how the Catholic Church has severely angered many of its members.